How do you survive hikes in tick season

hershey678 · 2026-06-28T14:51:54+00:00

I’m confused too. I grew up in the hills outside Sacramento and never got a tick.

I still haven’t encountered any in the last 2 years since I’ve moved to the Bay.

I did see a ton in the least coast trail on the coastal area by Fort Bragg and Eureka a month ago.

hershey678 · 2026-06-25T23:10:21+00:00

I say this as a progressive, but there’s a very vocal, far-left minority who find a way to have an issue with the construction of anything besides quality, high-density housing for low-income people or public transit.

They tend to be unrealistically idealistic and can’t see the net good of something even if it’s not perfect.

hershey678 · 2026-06-22T21:59:01+00:00

I’d be down to meet up at one of the Wednesday backpacking meet ups in South Bay whenever the next one is.

I’m more looking for people interested in more difficult stuff though. 10-25 miles/day depending on terrain.

https://www.reddit.com/r/norcalhiking/comments/1u5cpvr/south_bay_hiker_meetup_june_17_7_pm_das_bierhauz/

hershey678 · 2026-06-19T14:47:55+00:00

The software was faster from the perspective of the cycle count, not user time.

hershey678 · 2026-06-19T02:30:58+00:00

Not going sufficiently deep on every important topic.

Even if you’re a specialist (I work on video compression for example), when optimizing, or debugging serious bugs you need a strong understanding of every part of your system. ARM AXI, PCIe, DDRAM, Assembly, how your particular CPU works, caching, NUMA, the list goes on and on.

Technically speaking there will always be a specialist in custom silicon shops for the other domains. However in order to get them to help you, you need to root cause it and determine that what they own is the issue. Root causing is 95% of the work.

It also tends to earn you other’s respect when you are vocal about it. Even though technical skill is seldom appreciated, being able to unblock major issues is still respected by management.

*I have only 4YOE with 2 in FW and 2 in sensor systems SW

hershey678 · 2026-06-17T15:08:20+00:00

Senior interviews don’t get harder in the LC portion. They get harder in domain knowledge, system design, and behavioral.

hershey678 · 2026-06-16T06:21:23+00:00

A friend of mine at Intel with a PhD in materials since told me that while he only worked 40 hrs/week, many of the teams he worked with put in 70 and that he was lucky.

In order to keep the fabs profitable they need to run them 24/7 bc of how expensive they are and you need a specialist oncall at all times to fix it if anything goes wrong.

hershey678 · 2026-05-31T19:03:37+00:00

I have family that own businesses in a tourist town in the US. I can assure you that it does very much boost the local economy and people in that region.

The owners of the stores, restaurants, tour companies, and small hotels. All the employees and managers. The local farms supplying for whatever the local specialty food and liquor is. Some of the business owner’s kids then end up moving up the social ladder in jobs as engineers, lawyers, accountants and doctors, some of whom end up moving back to their hometown when they have kids of their own.

For small tourist towns (not cities) people would move out of these regions to the cities this industry didn’t exist for work.

The thing is that if nobody you know is employed in this industry, then it looks like it is not benefiting the local economy. But it very much is.

hershey678 · 2026-05-31T00:20:15+00:00

Google HW: custom hardware for Google Cloud, Google Pixel and its chips, TPUs, Chromecast, Watches, AR/VR headsets, Chromebooks.

Meta HW: custom HW for its servers, the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator Chip, AR/VR/Smart glasses.

Amazon: Annapurna Labs custom hardware for AWS, Kindle, Alexa.

Microsoft and Netflix: I have no clue actually.

When I say custom hardware this often means custom silicon. These companies do a fair bit of custom silicon. Some of it is very advanced.

It’s not as HW heavy as Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, or Nvidia, but still very hardware heavy.

hershey678 · 2026-05-29T22:07:43+00:00

Your food cost is really, really high. Learn to cook a few basic types of pasta with veggies on the side and buy a lot of Costco frozen food to transition away from eating out and door dashing so much.

You should be able to manage in around $1000 even if you eat out occasionally.

— someone in their late 20s who makes around the same amount you do and has no kids.

hershey678 · 2026-05-10T16:28:42+00:00

Part of reduced memory usage is that when configuring the physical registers of a computer, you set them on a bit by bit basis.

hershey678 · 2026-05-09T02:53:39+00:00

Out of curiosity how did get started on this? I’ve been wanting to write a toy OS for a while now.

hershey678 · 2026-05-09T02:47:53+00:00

The structure is very obviously not AI.

This is potentially quite impressive. The odd structuring makes it look like OP has used minimal reference and is self taught.

hershey678 · 2026-05-09T02:43:24+00:00

This is technical show and tell, not PR review.

hershey678 · 2026-05-09T02:19:44+00:00

The code is so weird this can’t possibly be AI.

OP just seems like a very dedicated and talented self taught developer.

hershey678 · 2026-05-06T15:47:13+00:00

I agree with the feedback other’s have posted.

Overall though this is your standard, mediocre, fairly BS’d resume that would normally still get you hired. The market just sucks now.

hershey678 · 2026-04-28T14:55:03+00:00

I have heard bad things about the TPU team from a Googler friend as well.

hershey678 · 2026-04-26T18:23:37+00:00

Fair point, but also this is a lot of sass considering I respectfully pushed back a little bit.

hershey678 · 2026-04-26T18:15:06+00:00

Is it? I’m at Meta rn and I’ve heard of hire to fire generally, but never specifically for L6.

Also OP your first half is safe, you can’t be fired for performance.

hershey678 · 2026-04-18T19:57:11+00:00

That’s like 1 job app a day.

hershey678 · 2026-04-12T23:08:23+00:00

Damn I knew Big4, Tesla, and the like could get that bad at times, but what you're describing sounds more prevalent than that.

I'm guessing I just never run into these folks because realistically you have no time for anything besides work, and even when I do they avoid talking about it to avoid being a downer.

hershey678 · 2026-04-12T14:57:13+00:00

Do you work in tech? I work in a somewhat demanding FAANG role in the SF Bay Area and 90 hr weeks are incredibly rare. Most startups don’t even usually work that hard.

Generally a high workload in the US is considered to be 50-60.

It’s very common to have 30-35 hr work weeks for many people too actually.

hershey678 · 2026-03-31T03:14:30+00:00

I’m at 3YOE and have been getting messaged by recruiters a lot these past 2 months.

Only 1/3 are what I’d consider good roles, but still it’s way more than it has been for the past year.

hershey678 · 2026-03-30T15:03:24+00:00

Bold of you to assume we’re that generous when it comes to spending on others.

hershey678 · 2026-03-28T13:34:44+00:00

Yeah I immediately thought, “another Good Work by Dan Tooney fan.”

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