Great, let the global market sort out the actual value of engineers, who generate those $B for these companies. Europe, where ASML/Zeiss are headquartered, has ridiculously low engineering pay; US is already 3x for many of these roles. Laughable that an entry level engineer at these companies make what a McDonalds manager does in the US.

Frankly, this is a good match. Two companies that heavily rely on their marketing and "reputation" to sell products that are either completely outperformed by something else, or completely overpriced.

No you do not need a McIntosh to get a high end amp. I doubt any of you can pick out a McIntosh amp vs. a $500 amp in a true blind test. They even use Hypex amps in some of their products and upcharge the hell out of it (you could just get the Hypex amps for 1/8 the cost).

The truth is - you do not need to be spending $$ to get a high end sound system. So much marketing and gatekeeping in the audio world, trying to convince you that you need to spend a ton. Nope, you don't. Also completely missed are two factors that contribute a huge amount to sound quality: (1) the room itself and its acoustics, probably more important than the speakers themselves, and (2) on the receiving end, human perception - learning how to listen to music with full concertation, and develop your ability to actually hear all those details and nuances in sound.

Also mindless spinning prayer wheels is *exactly* what the Buddha didn't want you to do. Totally missed the original point of his teachings, which is to actually experience life in more depth and awareness.

You know that cursive isn't taught anymore right?

Global Foundries (the former manufacturing division of AMD) is part of the CHIPS act.

Not quite accurate. Intel's yield problems for their 10 nm node were due to challenging patterning processes and not committing to EUV (which TSMC did); not specifically by their transistor design (which by that time everyone moved to some kind of finfet architecture). AMD "solved" their yield problem by divesting their manufacturing entirely (Global Foundries) and then moving to TSMC for production.

Intel is roughly on par with Samsung and about a half node-node behind TSMC currently. Yes they had lithography challenges on their 10 nm node, but that is old news; they have since moved to utilizing EUV on their current 4/3 nm node and are successfully producing high volume products with it (Meteor Lake, Sierra Forest). If they are in the middle of failing a process, as you claim, then we will learn of that if Intel delays their Arrow Lake i5 sku or Panther Lake, which is the next set of products on their new process nodes. Thus far there is no indication of that.

"Let the specialists handle the process". That makes no sense, Intel is one of the three companies left that has leading edge tech (TSMC/Intel/Samsung). Intel IS a specialist in this area. Also Intel design already outsources to TSMC/Samsung; Lunar Lake/Arrow Lake makes lots of use of non-Intel Silicon, and early performance figures look very good (as they are using the TSMC tech like AMD/Apple). With that in mind, Intel is already planning on moving Panther Lake back to Intel process - which should tell you something about what they expect of their future process (otherwise they could just continue stick with TSMC).

Long ago AMD split into AMD-design and Global Foundries. GloFo failed to keep up with the leading process edge, leading to lower competition and choice. It does the world no good if there are fewer and fewer players in the leading edge semiconductor space; competition is good for consumers. TSMC alone cannot fulfil the total demand for leading edge process.

No, they are functionally technical executives/leaders/directors. Technical ladder goes to job titles like Principal/Fellow/Distinguished engineer. They may not have direct reports, but functionally they're acting like executives. They're not sitting in front of their computers all day writing/checking in code, as you'd expect the regular SWE sitting in the trenches does.

Agile is why my damn calculator app is 100 MB.

Long ago my University used these paper-like tickets for laundry. It was quite easy to pull them out and get free laundry, but if you didn't do it right, you'd jam the machine, disabling it. They finally got rid of those systems and just made laundry free, fixed the problem, no more laundry issues after. Just take it from our tuition.

Oral phenylephrine doesn't work, but nasal definitely does... for like 30 mins at least. Oxymetazoline is far superior though, and way more effective than pseudoephedrine. Can only use it for a few days though otherwise you get addicted to it (usually is sufficient for me for a small cold's duration).

Declining and aging population, unfriendly immigration, and ridiculous work hours. It's inevitable that Japan's technological status and economy is going to be going downhill.

Sure you don't mean 100 nm, which was the gate dimension in the mid-late 90s? 100 um would be like 1960-1970s technology; about the width of a human hair.

Diamagnetic materials also show similar behavior, i.e. pyrolytic graphite:
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