Could you explain stigma? I don't understand why skilled workers would be looked down upon for business decisions out of their hands, being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Aren't there smaller fabs that would appreciate their skills?
In addition smaller fabs tend to have broader/less specialized roles. For example an integration engineer at an analog fab would have much broader scope than their counterparts at Intel and thus the Intel engineers would/could struggle to adapt.
What kind of work do you do with those specs? I have a machine from around the same period with similar upgrades and I feel that it really is good enough, especially if you don't play video games.
It's actually the machine I use when working from home and it works fine.
PyCharm IDE on a moderately big project. We've recently focused on moving towards fully type hinted code base, using pyright as the checker/LSP. Which means I use a good-enough-but-not-great plugin which makes pycharm use pyright instead of the buggy heuristic based built in type "engine". And this is noticeable slower, which is part of my motivation for upgrading.
Other part is to be able to play a few games. I could probably just upgrade my GPU, but I'm not sure if it's even possible (outdated PCI port on my MB I think) without getting something second hand.
Third part is that I want to play more with the new NLP technology which is rapidly reaching a point where it should be possible to do a lot of cool stuff. And I want as much as possible to run locally.
I had a similar CPU (i5 4690k) and it would have been good for a few more years, if not the 3080 I once bought after a fight with my wife. Old CPU was just slowing it too much.
Just random musings, I have a somewhat visual imagination when it comes to math stuff so it is quite intriguing to see if I can get Claude to reproduce what I see in my 'mind's eye'. Here's an example w/o really getting into what it's about lol: https://codebeautify.org/svg-viewer/y241266c9
Note: this one is actually just un-edited directly from Claude, I made this when I just had discovered Claude is reasonably decent at svg, and before I figured out the whole editable pipeline workflow.
