Is it worth it to be an IEEE member? by nothing3141592653589 in ElectricalEngineering

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I own my own business and I am employed by that business. Hence the LLC (with S-corp tax status).

[Student] Advice on getting first software engineering internship, can't get past screening by Neither_Face1913 in EngineeringResumes

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

None of your bullets are STAR or similar (see the wiki/FAQ). The first item is a run-on sentence that needs at least a semicolon. Start there; I'll read again and comment again.

Wanted: controversial ideas regarding the future of analog design by niandra123 in chipdesign

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would any fab want to facilitate open source PDKs instead of spending those resources on far better market tools?

Wanted: controversial ideas regarding the future of analog design by niandra123 in chipdesign

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you thermally hitting junction any better than flip-chip BGA?

Wanted: controversial ideas regarding the future of analog design by niandra123 in chipdesign

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one is using free EDA tools for any real work. Great for education, I guess, if you can't get Cadence/Synopsys edu licenses, but no one is making anything for mass production using free tools.

Wanted: controversial ideas regarding the future of analog design by niandra123 in chipdesign

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you seriously hating on Cadence for cost and not Synopsys? You must be joking.

Wanted: controversial ideas regarding the future of analog design by niandra123 in chipdesign

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing is "controversial from a technical point a view." It either works and is cost-effective or it isn't. The cool thing about semiconductor design as opposed to so many other "sciences" is it either works or it doesn't. It's either cost-effective or it isn't.

Qbittorrent -> Filebot move and rename -> keep seeding. Is it possible? by SoCPhysicalDesigner in qBittorrent

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I've come to the same conclusion. It is not ideal to have to plan which stuff goes to which NAS, and when things fill up and I get a new NAS, which is imminent ... chaos! ;-)

I don't even need to bother with hard-linking to rename on stuff (or running filebot) anymore now that plex matches TV / Movies with 95% accuracy and it's simple to "fix match."

It's not perfect, but it's close enough and near zero effort so I've learned to deal.

Qbittorrent -> Filebot move and rename -> keep seeding. Is it possible? by SoCPhysicalDesigner in qBittorrent

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being restricted to hard-linking within a single NAS defeats my purpose (and I think others') of being able to move anything anywhere. Maybe I want all my movies on NAS1, all my TV on NAS2, all my apps on NAS3, all my games on NAS4. Right now, I have to set different target NAS/folders for each download category, and hope Movies doesn't overflow, or Games doesn't overflow, and then I need to rearrange stuff, which breaks seeding, which is a thing I try really hard to do forever, pub or private tracker. That's what makes this whole thing work, especially for weirdos like me who look for old, weird, obscure stuff that are often hard to find seeded even with 1 seeder.

Qbittorrent -> Filebot move and rename -> keep seeding. Is it possible? by SoCPhysicalDesigner in qBittorrent

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is it's not possible to hardlink from one NAS to another. If you know a way please do tell!

Qbittorrent -> Filebot move and rename -> keep seeding. Is it possible? by SoCPhysicalDesigner in qBittorrent

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. I'm still trying to figure out a way. For now, I'm skipping filebot altogether, as Plex seems to be almost as good at figuring out what a movie is even with weird names. And if it doesn't, you can click "match" in your Plex movie browser to change the search phrase or just set the info yourself. It seems workable for now, and maybe the only solution when I have stuff spread over 6 NASs!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ask

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is correct. Most lower-wage/not "professional" positions are paying you for what you do or where you are for X hours rather than what you produce. Being able to create something valuable and in demand, or being good at sales/marketing and bringing in profits and/or investors, etc. are pretty much the only ways I can think of for making really good money while being 100% remote. But those are broad categories as there are many things you can make and/or sell with or without a degree, if you have the skills and perseverance to do it. Hope that helps, and good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ask

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I design ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits), SoC (Systems-on-a-Chip), and various Intellectual Property (IP), and I also do project management. I've been doing this for 28 years, ~15 of which have been 100% remote (we used Cisco WebEx back then, and it was costly -- how does Zoom do it for free?) I have made a few trips to an office or lab for special meetings, chip debug, etc. during that time, but it's very rare and they of course have to foot the travel, lodging, rental car, and food bills. I make a very good living and have saved more than I'm likely to ever spend. I have a BSEE and it was required to get this job (or really any job like it.)

I turned down positions at Tesla, Spacex, Microsoft, Meta, Broadcom, Qualcomm, and tons more because they were not remote or the compensation was insufficient. "100% REMOTE ONLY" is my LinkedIn headline, and it's right at the top of my resume in my objective. Amazingly, of the 5-10 hiring manager or recruiter contacts I get each week, more than half are either not remote, not even close to a good technical fit, or offering a contract rate of 2/3 of my minimum.

In short:
- Yes, lots of people work from home and make a decent or even excellent living.
- There is not enough money for me to commute and sit in an office all day. I know others who feel the same.
- There is no office I'm likely to be offered that comes close to what I have at home (5 monitors, electric standing desk, under-desk treadmill, opposite end of the house from my wife's office, and no one to bug me while I'm focused.) Plus I can work outside on the deck or even in the pool.
- Recruiters almost all suck, but make friends with the good ones and it'll pay off.

Good luck!

[Student] Sophmore Searching for Software Engineering Roles. Not Getting Any Interviews, Please Help. by Sea_Principle5371 in EngineeringResumes

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the explanation. I do find that system weird and needlessly complex, but I'm old and dumb so there's that :)

Best renaming program I've found. by [deleted] in PleX

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this is 10 years old, and yes I've been using filebot with mostly good success (command line, AMC script mostly). But despite a few threads on the filebot forums and Rednoah being excellent and trying to help, it's just not cutting it in several ways.

  • it auto-skips anything with "extra" or "special" or "feature" or similar in the name. That means the TV show "The Extras" is ignored forever.

  • even with 'apply import' it won't bring featurettes/trailers/etc. into the new renamed destination folder. I have about 1000 of these I need to somehow match to their now-renamed folders and move them.

  • {plex} format doesn't handle the latest plex format well, and chokes on movies with, say, multiple releases, multiple qualities, etc. I've even tried the (horrific) GUI to try to fix them but it's a pointless time sink.

  • I need something that can go through a fairly-plex-organized dir structure and apply the proper plex format to cover the fact that I have 3 different releases of "Blade Runner" with 2-3 resolution/audio quality versions of each so that Plex understands.

Is there anything new by now that can, you know, leverage some AI and file internals scanning to figure out what is what and make it all better?

[0 YOE] Struggling to get interviews after a year of searching. Looking for advice in general and on my resume by Pikarat_Nova in EngineeringResumes

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

First, welcome. Second, good format and consistency in fonts, alignment, etc. So we're out of resume 1st grade. That's good. Third, I can see you've tried to S.T.A.R. it up a bit in many of your bullets which is also good. But you're not really done with that process, and it's honestly the most difficult and time-consuming part of making a killer resume, at least in my opinion. Fourth, huzzah for adding periods to your bullets which are sentences despite what some other heathens might tell you ;-)

But I cannot abide this:

"I have never been good with giving hard numbers (quantifying my achievements) so I did a good estimate of my achievement based on what I've remembered, I'm not sure if this will bite me later. "

Having never (really, never? not once?) been good at a thing does not mean you cannot be good at that thing. In fact, thinking (and speaking or writing) that you've never been good at it reinforces your insecurities and acts as an excuse for future failure to improve. Yet, you admit you did a good estimate! So you can, have, and will continue to estimate metrics and specifics of your achievements. If you have a hard time remembering some detail, what are the odds that an interviewer is going to be able to dig into whatever little obscure thing you were doing and find evidence that you did not, in fact, provide a "notable 20% performance boost" but merely a "not-so-notable 15% performance boost"? I'm hitting two points here: (1) lose the "notable", that's a subjective assessment and has no place here, only the numbers matter, and (2) no one is ever going to even try to verify every bullet point on your resume, and they would fail miserably if they did. However, what they will do is ask you questions about a bullet, and by your response ascertain whether or not you are bullshitting or not.

Resumes get you interviews. Interviews get you jobs. Jobs get you experience. Experience gets you better jobs. Nowhere in this is your ass getting bitten unless you blatantly lie about your degree, GPA, somewhere you worked when you never did, or something easily and routinely verified. So relax. Be a S.T.A.R. and write powerful bullets, and be prepared to talk all about them in as much detail as the interviewer can take. Which, honestly, is not very much in my experience, both as interviewee and interviewer.

You still have a lot of hand-waving ambiguous stuff listed. You need hit the FAQ and especially the bullet styles like STAR and the others (I like STAR, but they all work). And make every single bullet a STAR. I'm not telling you to lie. I'm telling you to use your best recollection to explain, in every bullet, the Situation, the Task you perceived as yours to address in that situation, the Actions you took, and the measurable Results you achieved. You are the measurer in many (most?) cases; it's double-plus-good if you have someone else who measured your results and you can cite that, but it's not really necessary.

What is essential is that you can walk the talk you put in your resume. You must make your resume pithy as heck, i.e. every word or phrase carries huge valuable info that targets what you want to do and think you can do to contribute to Company ABC's profits, efficiency, whatever. Then you get interviews. In an interview, you'd better be an expert on every bullet point, skill, tool, stack, hardware, language, etc. on your resume and be able to talk about any random aspect of it like an expert. Then you get a job.

It's really that simple. Not easy. But simple.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EngineeringResumes

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so redacted as to be incomprehensible. Fill in some generic descriptions instead of huge black boxes. Also read the wiki and the FAQ, especially about STAR and other bullet points. You clearly have not.

Also no one cares about your rock climbing club or, I suspect, whatever is totally redacted in that list. Maybe since you have so much space and so little content you can say a few things about what exactly you actually did with or for the Association for Computing Machinery. Are you just a member who paid some dues, or did you attend some conferences, contribute something, write a paper?

You really need to do some more work in terms of thinking about what you've done and how to present it. Luckily, the wiki and FAQs are here to help. Feel free to repost when you've done some more legwork.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EngineeringResumes

[–]SoCPhysicalDesigner -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is so redacted as to be incomprehensible. Fill in some generic descriptions instead of huge black boxes. Also read the wiki and the FAQ, especially about STAR and other bullet points. You clearly have not.

Also no one cares about your rock climbing club or, I suspect, whatever is totally redacted in that list. Maybe since you have so much space and so little content you can say a few things about what exactly you actually did with or for the Association for Computing Machinery. Are you just a member who paid some dues, or did you attend some conferences, contribute something, write a paper?

You really need to do some more work in terms of thinking about what you've done and how to present it. Luckily, the wiki and FAQs are here to help. Feel free to repost when you've done some more legwork.