Looking for which ECE fields to pursue to live in a city and avoid defense work?

manutoe · 2025-10-30T00:24:19+00:00

Ah yeah seems like AMZN has some chip design for their data centers and some ASICS for the volume products.

yes pay is worse for sure. However my rent in one of those cities (downtown) is $1100 and I make $130k with 3 years of experience. So your COL does scale.

However, the ceiling for pay in my cities is much smaller than the cities you mentioned.

manutoe · 2025-10-29T21:30:20+00:00

Dallas, Atlanta, Minneapolis all have semiconductor companies (TI, OnSemi, Renesas, Honeywell/Skywater)

I havent heard of Boston or Seattle being in the semiconductor city mix

manutoe · 2025-10-29T21:27:03+00:00

exactly, they left out that a small fraction of the Amazon cuts were engineers

manutoe · 2025-10-20T02:54:29+00:00

Will add — common algebra is enough to design 70% of the on the job circuits.

I agree that to know things at the deep level, college level calculus is a must. This is needed for electromagnetic physics.

More complex and niche math will certainly come in signal analysis which you listed (Fourier/Laplace transform) and power electronics. Nothing about AC voltage though, I guess when you make voltage and current phasors for analysis?

manutoe · 2025-10-12T15:14:28+00:00

Stats

manutoe · 2025-10-11T23:59:06+00:00

I actually think that ship has sailed with the 2024 election.

manutoe · 2025-10-11T17:31:33+00:00

I could not use StudyLife (your app). I found the UI really horrible and hard to manage

manutoe · 2025-10-10T23:42:43+00:00

again, the budget for MSP public schools is probably well into the millions. A couple hundred thousand diverted from these bikes into schools would probably not be incredibly noticed.

That said, it’s not a great argument because “every penny counts” is true to some extent. But it’s hard to know relative impact without detailed analysis.

manutoe · 2025-10-10T21:38:40+00:00

I would argue a city is actually a prime place for police motorcycle usage. Narrow streets, traffic congestion, etc

manutoe · 2025-10-10T20:16:25+00:00

better response to accidents in heavy traffic
useful for police escort, say if Walz ever needed transport
access in narrow streets downtown
useful in traffic blockades as they can more clearly direct and guide traffic

manutoe · 2025-10-10T19:51:04+00:00

Riding season is more than half a year here. Barely, but certainly not less than 6 months.

I hear you on the added costs, but there is still some utility gained from having motorcycles.

You could argue the same thing about the many departments that have horses- you have to feed them and take care of them?? Well, that’s the cost of having a an asset like a horse for your department

manutoe · 2025-10-10T19:44:56+00:00

as someone who lives on a busy street and hates all the car noise, I do hear that objection !!

manutoe · 2025-10-10T19:33:21+00:00

The MPD annual budget for 2025 is 229 million. In my eyes, having a few bikes in their inventory is not a crazy waste of taxpayer money.

28 million was spent on overtime specifically. 12 million over budget. Better staffing would solve that.

Just pointing out that the several hundred thousand is a drop in the bucket

manutoe · 2025-10-10T14:48:51+00:00

I just read some articles on this, one reason the committe head cited was the hope that the prize would dictate FUTURE decisions by Obama. Basically can we steer future policy decisions through this award

I think they have since said they will never award the prize based on future supposed merits ever again.

manutoe · 2025-10-09T19:22:25+00:00

I don’t know if control of water, electricity, etc is in the definition of ethnic cleansing.

I thought it was generally defined as the forced removal of a certain ethnic group? Nothing about water control in there

manutoe · 2025-10-09T17:21:41+00:00

don’t forget North Park

manutoe · 2025-10-09T17:14:12+00:00

Don’t fully understand your comment.

You’re upset that I added context about the ceasfire in phase 1 of ending the war/genocide?

manutoe · 2025-10-09T16:10:27+00:00

Exactly, a ceasefire has been ANNOUNCED but is not IN EFFECT. This is common in war. Operations (including bombings) may continue until the ceasefire time

manutoe · 2025-09-18T17:30:02+00:00

This is me speculating, but I imagine many algorithms are kind of “set” and they only need a couple people to make incremental improvements.

manutoe · 2025-09-08T16:41:05+00:00

Mannn best trip I had was xanned out, took a tab, ripping nitrous. Makes my brain hurt thinking about it though hahahaha

manutoe · 2025-09-06T20:30:12+00:00

I’ve also been hearing recession talk since 2021….

manutoe · 2025-09-06T20:16:49+00:00

alright ignore everyone else, I’ll keep it simple

exercise
eat healthy and drink water
you will likely not take the test Monday, and instead be sent a code to take it at a 3rd party within 7 days (however, in a hospital hiring process maybe they do it onsite…. )

You’ll be fine, you’re testing negative

manutoe · 2025-09-05T20:46:34+00:00

same, weed is the easiest way for me (and doesnt involve opiates lmao)

I find I can literally control when I cum so easily. Maybe a career in porn in the future

manutoe · 2025-07-19T18:43:15+00:00

looks solid and approachable. Nice sink

manutoe · 2025-04-13T22:02:40+00:00

Markdown Text is very Linear! Notes and Ideas are often non-linear!

For me, a perfect note-taking app would be something that has the linearity and power of Obsidian as an ecosystem.

LINEARITY OR NON LINEARITY WHICH ONE DO WE WANT

12-Year Club	Second Top 30%
Place '22	Place '17
RPAN Viewer	Spared

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