Readit News- I know where the buttons are without looking.
- It has functions my Android calculator does not have (directly or that I know of).
- It has a strange satisfying tactile feedback.
- It never interrupts me. Ever.
- It never distracts me. Ever.
I reach for it frequently.
N. Benjamin Murphy and Kenneth M. Golden* (golden@math.utah.edu), University of Utah, Department of Mathematics, 155 S 1400 E, Rm. 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090. Random Matrices, Spectral Measures, and Composite Media.
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> but it’s rather difficult to build a good analog oscillator from scratch. The most common category of oscillators you can find on the internet are circuits that simply don’t work. This is followed by approaches that require exotic components, such as center-tapped inductors or incandescent lightbulbs.
It is not hard to build a good analog oscillator from scratch, we have been doing this for decades. Secondly, while an incandescent _might_ be considered exotic, and completely unnecessary for an oscillator, a center tapped inductor is totally not exotic, and also, not really necessary for an oscillator.
As others have noted, it is simple to build a really good analog oscillator. This article is blah, and "meh" at best.
If you think $124k a year is high compensation for someone with 17 years of experience in Portland, your compensation expectations are way off.
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I'll summarize it:
$107k in 2017 and $124k in 2023. I don't know about you, but someone with 17 years experience could easily be making 2-5x that depending on the company and role.
How the heck do these people secure these high paying jobs? There is some club, and I am not in it. Sorry to rant, but that 1FTE salary is huge.
Yes, designing chips is hard, it takes a lot of knowledge. This is why medical doctors need to go through all that schooling... designing a tiny chip with more transistors running software that does amazing things is very difficult.
My Ph.D. is in computer engineering, specifically VLSI and chip design. This was from a few years ago. I _probably_ should have gone into industry, I mean, after all, it is what I went to school for and wanted to do. However, the starting salary for a chip designer (Intel / AMD / HP / IBM) was literally less than I was making at a side job (I worked my way through my Ph.D) as an IT sysadmin. Not only that, people that I knew well that graduated before me would call me up and tell me it was worse than hell itself. 80 hour weeks? Completely normal, outside of the 2 hours of commute time. Barely make rent because you live in California? Check. Pages / Calls all hours of the day outside of work? Check. 80 hours? You mean 100 hours a week leading up to a release, right? Check.
Looking back on it, it seems this was "the challenging" and if you made it past this (something like 5 years on) things calmed down for a chip designer and you moved into a more "modest" 60-80 hours a week role with less pressure and somewhat of a pay increase.
Yes, how do you attract talent under those conditions? It is not flashy work, takes a lot of schooling and the rewards are low. At least medical doctors can kind of look forward to "well, I can make _real_ money doing this", and have the satisfaction of "I helped a lot of people".
function generateColors(difficulty, blacklist) {
...
let sample = Math.floor(Math.min(Math.max(0, 1-Math.pow(1-difficulty, 1.5)), .99)*5);
let distance = (5 - sample)/5;
...
}
function setupRound(blacklist) {
...
const data = generateColors(currentRound/totalRounds, blacklist);
...
}
round# difference
0-- 2 5
3-- 5 4
6-- 9 3
10--13 2
14--20 1
Granted, I worked in STEM fields. Maybe this author does not realize what it is like in the physical sciences or engineering?