It’s a perfect storm of supply SNAFU. Even before this, I was seeing a 6-month lead time for wafer starts for decades-old process nodes.

They are, they just don’t learn the lesson.

^This. And it’s significantly worsened over my lifetime.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with pouring time and money into one’s passions, in my book, and I’m relieved that he can afford them. But he definitely makes enormous investments into quixotic vehicles, and I feel a little guilty enjoying his journeys.

Are we excluding a certain Jeep enthusiast?

I’d expect a lot of options trading, to be honest.

“What’s a cubit?”

Agreed. As an engineer, it’s *usually* in my blood to let the salesman know that I’m going to be using their product in an off-label fashion, and that IDGaF about the warranty, but I just want to see if this idea works or not.

Take your damned star.

Add egg and flour, and make gnocchi.

They DO have the best Twitter account, I’ll give them that.

Yikes.  That’s hideous.

Philistine that I am, I horrified my first girlfriend by offering to brush that bit off her forehead on our date. That was very eye-opening to a secular kind of teen, and would have been a sign to a wiser me.

ND, still.

> I went to the military because I wanted money to go back to school.

I have a daschund. I’ve never seen a dog go from zero to sixty in half a second like he did when he saw his first groundhog (keeping it Jalop-topical). XD

Yikes.

This is the Way.

And they were properly and *immediately* dismissed as not in order.

It’s a very lonely feeling running out of wiper fluid in a snowstorm.