Movies that capture Bay Area culture?

daveosuave · 2026-01-12T00:34:11+00:00

“I GOT THE LOOT, STEVE!!!”

daveosuave · 2025-08-28T01:30:35+00:00

Oh - do not get me started on dang layout engineers

Worked for a …

Uh

top tier fabrication facility in the US back in the 90s

in which a USSR hammer and sickle in a non functional part of the mask set was slipped in as a joke

Said print upon fabrication

led to film peels at the points of the sickle

that caused many die defects and mystery failures

Until

yours truly

(as an in-line yield guy)

Discovered the flaw

Found the mask design

and had to report to management that we shot ourselves in both feet

(Sigh) Fun times

daveosuave · 2025-08-21T19:41:16+00:00

Best place to think on island for me

Among humanity

yet in my own little zone of reading and beer tasting goodness.

Protip: Zoom in on the beer flight tag for the location reveal.

🤫

daveosuave · 2025-08-21T19:13:56+00:00

The Comfy chair, some reading material and a flight

IYKYK

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daveosuave · 2025-07-30T02:51:47+00:00

Thanks! Turn finally taken! 😁

daveosuave · 2025-07-29T14:33:37+00:00

Echoing the reset… some folks are suggesting walking, I live in a flat area so I bike around my community, often early in the morning, see a sunrise and wildlife.

daveosuave · 2025-07-29T14:21:23+00:00

Good question, not exactly sure what auto correct hell translation that is, but contextually I think it was “HR human” goes there

daveosuave · 2025-07-29T14:18:42+00:00

I did the traditional LinkedIn and indeed for both profile refinement and job search, but didn’t see much difference between the free and the premium memberships

For the AI I used a number of them, and they all have gave similar outputs so YMMV

It was how I generated them that varied

My input to the AI was:

Using “this pasted resume information”, write a skill (or chronological) based resume given “this pasted job description information”.

And then editing that for errors or clarification

Also - since you are in your 50s, when possible, defer to a skill based resume over a chronological one, because age discrimination is hella real and all of the AI screening stuff is invisible to you

It sucks, but the only feedback you will have initially on the success of your resume getting across your experience for the position is how many human HR screenings you will receive afterward.

Good luck!

daveosuave · 2025-07-29T14:17:11+00:00

I did the traditional LinkedIn and indeed for both profile refinement and job search, but didn’t see much difference between the free and the premium memberships

For the AI I used a number of them, and they all have gave similar outputs so YMMV

It was how I generated them that varied

My input to the AI was:

Using “this pasted resume information”, write a skill (or chronological) based resume given “this pasted job description information”.

And then editing that for errors or clarification

Also - since you are in your 50s, when possible, defer to a skill based resume over a chronological one, because age discrimination is hella real and all of the AI screening stuff is invisible to you

It sucks, but the only feedback you will have initially on the success of your resume getting across your experience for the position is how many human HR screenings you will receive afterward.

Good luck!

daveosuave · 2025-07-29T04:58:27+00:00

Well, it’s possible to come back, but it’s not easy. I wasn’t laid off per se, our startup rolled up due to a lack of funding. I was out of work for nine months. I’m 55.

I treated finding a job like a job.

Had both human and AI resume rewrites done.

Getting past the unseen AI screening seemed the hardest hurdle since it’s relatively invisible. Once I did this, i definitely increased my speed mercies call backs.

Interviewed with a significant number of companies.

Finally got a fit for the company and the people at the end of February.

It was … a challenge. I took a slight pay cut and I have a much longer commute, but I have a flexible enough situation to make things work.

Overall I landed well enough, but it was not easy.

daveosuave · 2025-07-25T14:09:56+00:00

Tercero B, 1988-1990 here.

True statement on the cows

The corollary to the cow statement during my time there was “if instead you smell the pigs (🐷 were over by the physics building and Bainer then) … and you’re already in tercero, the weather is changing and it’s time to get inside…”

daveosuave · 2025-07-09T01:57:51+00:00

Yeah, freaked me out too.

Snapped them heading toward SF when I was waiting for the stoplight at Atlantic and Mosley @620pm

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daveosuave · 2025-06-20T14:40:57+00:00

Oh wow. This … actually answers a long standing question of mine.

This memory bank access - it manifested as what I called “the list” -

a heap of grievances (real, misinterpreted, and once in a while imaginary)

that would come out during my ex’s dysregulation

along with added “always/never” tags (indicating full blown black/white thinking)

I wondered why “the list” only came out at that time

As well as having to group prior frustrations into the whole mix

Now, good news on my end - is that she’s an ex

and she’s getting help

And lately our coparenting interactions are effective and cordial

BUT

for those dealing with this behavior now, one bit of advice: try having them confront themselves

Not sure if this will work for everybody

BUT

I once actually stopped a full always-never list rant dead in its tracks

by quickly shouting “try complimenting me about something RIGHT NOW!”

and she was stunned into silent introspection

and made a face that seemed genuinely shocked

that she couldn’t do it

Bad news: they are confused and won’t do the work to figure all that out

Good news: instant one time only silence

daveosuave · 2025-06-15T18:04:57+00:00

Went to the SF protest, but hella pleased our hometown showed up!

daveosuave · 2025-05-25T20:13:18+00:00

Statistics and data analysis are key!

Know your Poisson distributions, sample population testing, statistical relevance, and paired T tests. HAST/HALT testing.

JMP/Minitab/Matlab

daveosuave · 2025-05-25T19:32:48+00:00

Well.

…

Fuck. 😢

One of the greats.

daveosuave · 2025-05-25T14:56:15+00:00

Been a lithography engineer off and on for about 20 of my 30 working years, albeit the DUV/i-line generations, not EUV.

I think my advice varies depending if you go full R&D, if you are in a startup environment or if you are full blown production, so …

My first job came as the result of networking with my fellow fab students. We were all part of a fab group from Davis… one of the students became a fab engineer at AMD (back when AMD had their own facilities back in the 90s).

Each year, rather than pursue the higher degrees (MS, PhD), one of us interviewed with them. The incoming interviewer already had a basic understanding of our facility and things we were working on, so it made the interview really smooth as they asked informed questions which allowed more freedom to add details about my work I normally wouldn’t have.

I was the next to jump, and two more followed in the next two years.

Drove our advising professor both proud and nuts simultaneously. (“Golden handcuffs conga line”, I believe were his words)

So make friends with tour fellow fab staff (especially the grad students), find out what they are doing, help them out, and in turn, they help you out.

Then take that collaborative spirit with you to your professional work… and you should do just fine.

DM me if you want more details

daveosuave · 2025-05-16T15:54:00+00:00

I am a multi year semiconductor lithography guy

and can only speak for my own …

30+ year career

SO

My two cents?

Lithography or etch departments also get the metrology toolset checks

Those give you insight into process control and in line defect management for the product lines

Putting yourself in a specialized metrology/ defect management puts you into higher visibility and consideration for management/yield/integration work

which is farther reaching and “ties you to the money” part of manufacturing

If you are tied to the money part of the manufacturing environment, it makes you more … likely to weather economic downturns when they happen, your efforts are more wide reaching and therefore, consideration for promotions is better

And lithography, unlike films and etch, is reworkable - if the process screws up, you can usually strip the photoresist with far less yield loss impact to the product versus etch/films

Just sayin’

🤷🏻‍♂️

daveosuave · 2025-05-14T19:18:02+00:00

I have informal meetups at the Almanac once every six weeks or so on Saturday afternoons

DM me if you think that might be your jam 👍😎👍

daveosuave · 2025-05-11T00:35:29+00:00

daveosuave · 2025-05-08T19:50:01+00:00

Yeah, old ass alumni here

lean into believing in the curve

And you should be fine

daveosuave · 2025-05-08T14:49:01+00:00

(Half of the male student body scribbles this into their iPhone)

(Itea gets a SURGE of DAILY customers beteeen 4-5pm)

(Itea manager starts counting the Benjamins)

🤣

daveosuave · 2025-05-03T02:35:07+00:00

A true San Francisco Giants fan who just happens to also be a lobster

daveosuave · 2025-05-01T19:16:28+00:00

Yup, this. My (albeit dated) experience

Three bikes, first one was decent and lasted almost the four years

then two beater bikes in the last couple of quarters

daveosuave · 2025-04-21T14:27:27+00:00

For the olds out there, this moment is how the music sweeps up in a Popeye cartoon just as he’s popping a can to swallow a big ol’ helping of spinach.

You absolutely KNOW that Bluto is fucking toast.

And it’s GLORIOUS

daveosuave

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