If there is a shortage, and engineers are trainable, are there apprenticeships available? I’d gladly move to this field.

In the UK, yes there are apprenticeships available (generally at the bigger companies like Arm) but not a huge number of them.

The new UK Semiconductor Centre has recently been asking (among many other questions) why the industry hasn't taken up the govt apprenticeship schemes more given the lack of engineers. The answers as to why are ultimately "it's complicated".

Your view on the salary during an apprenticeship will depend a lot on where you're coming from and expectations. They're generally lower than UK Median Salary (for any type of job; April 2025 it was £39k) at around £30kpa, but you're being paid to learn (rather than university studies, where you spend to money to learn). Also, god knows why, but the apprenticeships aren't always in the most in-demand areas (though if I had to guess, it would be because there already aren't enough employees to do the in-demand work, let alone spend some of that time training new people... which in the long-term is a disaster but we're in a short-term-thinking kind of world).

Im coming from an ok paid job in the us, but like you said, any pay is better than paying a school, and you get real on the job experience, not some textbook version of reality.

Nah, we don't do that here, instead ideal entry level applicant should have 5y of experience when applying.

Our ideal apprenticeship applicant must have:

- 5 years of experience in the proprietary, unique-to-our-company tech stack

- a PhD in semiconductor physics (MSc with 10+ years of experience is also acceptable)

- Taiwanese and US citizenship

- a desire to work 16+ hours a day for 6 days a week

I rather hope the mods detach this and the other asinine comments you’ve left across these threads…

Asinine? What I don't want is for potential undergrads to waste their time and money futilely chasing a mirage formed by propaganda.

You can sue me for this, but I don't think lying to starry-eyed teenagers to compete like starved beasts for an ultra long shot at some semblance of a career is a good thing.

When the dust settles, all that they will have learned will be completely and utterly useless and they will have to reskill immediately. How about doing the right thing from the start?

I think they are talking about git force push, not 3D push, but yeah, I liked the concept of 3D Touch too

I just want 2 lanes on the highway of interconnected cars talking to each other so they can do 100mph at 5in from each other all in sync and 1 or 2 other lanes of human driven cars.

Failures happen. That sounds like a death trap (literally, since EVs are challenging to escape after a failure).

You should look up how hard it is to escape a plane after a failure

Have you cashed a claim from them?

Yup! Two or three times at this point, and haven't had an issue.

When I've filed they just process it straight through, and then one of their actual reps emails within x hours to just check in, give an update or clarifications, etc, but that's it really.

IIRC their whole approach to competitive pricing is doing away with manual claims investigations below a certain threshold, so this tracks.

Shampoo? Hand cream? Marinara?

You really think that the majority of taggers are thinking this deep? It’s mostly teenagers in high school that are mimicking others thinking “I’m so cool”. It fights nothing regardless. We can assign it value out of our asses all day and take some documentary as the truth, but if you think a kid writing a random scribble on the bart window or a bar bathroom, or a small business’s door deserves to take any of that back from the “caste” what are we talking about? The city is everyone’s, the tagger claiming a wall is as selective as what you claim the city is doing. Why do they think some random surface is more theirs than everyone else’s? I find tagging more selfish than what the city is doing.

> You really think that the majority of taggers are thinking this deep?

Nope, not something I thought up at all, this is what I discovered after talking to a lot of taggers and street artists as a result of my photography obsession leading me into the skater scene. I used to think tagging was just gangs marking territory (in reality only a small portion of it is).

What I have noticed is that a certain class of people have formed an immutable idea of taggers, skaters, and street artists, and that idea includes that for whatever reason all these sorts of folks are stupid. I've found that to be not the case at all.

I was a skater myself and many of the people I used to hang with would be into tagging. None of us were rich, if anything the taggers around me had more privileges than the not taggers. I couldn’t afford the expensive markers or spray cans for example. I don’t know what you mean by certain class of people.

What data do you extract from interactions?

Ourguide only takes a screenshot when the user asks for the next step. We run a PII filter first, then process the image via Tinfoil.sh in secure hardware enclaves (TEEs). This ensures the data remains private from everyone, including us. Tinfoil is open-source and fully verifiable.

Thank you for this!

I’d love to eventually break into the simulation business. I have a family friend that does this for Ferrari and BMW actually. They started a long time ago, but now build the systems that stress test parts for them. I’m sure there is an opportunity in the upcoming electric vehicle world. Maybe I’m delusional, but would be super.

This looks like an account created just to answer in this post with whatever garbage content

On my experience, every time I’ve been in the situation of looking for more capacity because the software requirements have gone up, I’m 1-2 generations of DDR behind and it doesn’t really make sense to do the upgrade anyway.