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This is my experience. I worked for over 10 years doing Linux Kernel driver implementation. At Intel. When I quit last year my base was $120k (150 TC). I coul

This is my experience. I worked for over 10 years doing Linux Kernel driver implementation. At Intel. When I quit last year my base was $120k (150 TC). I couldn’t afford a house in the HCOLA I’m in. Remote wasn’t an option. For me a house is a prerequisite to starting a family. So I left to get housing. Either making more or going remote and moving to a less expensive area. Embedded is really fun for me, but it just can’t keep up in times of such inflation- especially WRT housing.

Xeoncross 4y ago
After working on bloated systems at all my day jobs (pick any company) I go home at night and try to figure out how to use delta compression and trees to reduce storage costs on large datasets so I can fit them on $5 VPS or raspberry pi attached storage. It's so satisfying to use 10,000x less resources to do something like full text search or handle 1,000 tps.