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i like all the weird satellite and space poo poo thats still sort of there, like the radio telescopes around yahoo and moffet field and stuff, but yeah generally SV is just a wasteland of industrial parks and strip malls. Basically Chatsworth North.
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i had a gf once who thought silicon valley was a plastic surgery/large bewb mecca
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git apologist posted:i had a gf once let’s try to keep these stories believable
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git apologist posted:i had a gf once who thought silicon valley was a plastic surgery/large bewb mecca half right
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The Management posted:let’s try to keep these stories believable lol
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git apologist posted:i had a gf once who thought silicon valley was a plastic surgery/large bewb mecca no thats Canoga Park
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post hole digger posted:half right lol
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Sagebrush posted:silicon valley sucks. it's all ugly suburbs and lovely malls and everyone there is the worst person you've ever met. why would anywhere want to be silicon valley This is a moot point because "Silicon Valley" has been San Francisco since the dot com bust. So you need to insult SF instead. rotor posted:san jose is just LA but farther north and without the good parts of LA San Jose calls itself "capital of Silicon Valley" but all of the FAANG companies are in Cupertino and northwards on! SJ and Santa Clara have companies like Intel, Nvidia, and uh, eBay Maximo Roboto fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Jun 26, 2023 |
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there’s tech companies from San Jose up to San Francisco in pretty much every city. though the centers of gravity are “Silicon Valley” (triangle between Santa Clara, Cupertino, and Palo Alto), and San Francisco. San Jose is definitely not the center of anything.
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git apologist posted:i had a gf once who thought silicon valley was a plastic surgery/large bewb mecca silicone valley is LA Maximo Roboto posted:This is a moot point because "Silicon Valley" has been San Francisco since the dot com bust. So you need to insult SF instead. apple is the only one in FAANG who has a claim to making silicon, anyway the name, and san jose's participation in it, is just legacy from when there was actual manufacturing still here. i guess broadcom is still in SJ
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nobody on the whole drat planet seems to know the difference between silicon and silicone, both in writing and in speaking, and it drives me nuts.
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Raluek posted:apple is the only one in FAANG who has a claim to making silicon, anyway google does some chip design, but i think it’s all for datacenters ignoring the arbitrary faang thing, iiuc qualcomm has a pretty substantial contingent in santa clara intel used to do a lot of chip design in santa clara but i think they canned most of that division and consolidated in oregon there are also a bunch of startups doing poo poo like ml and network accelerators
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Sagebrush posted:nobody on the whole drat planet seems to know the difference between silicon and silicone, both in writing and in speaking, and it drives me nuts. silicone deez nutz
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rjmccall posted:google does some chip design, but i think it’s all for datacenters aren’t they also doing their own phone chips now or whatever
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Maximo Roboto posted:This is a moot point because "Silicon Valley" has been San Francisco since the dot com bust. So you need to insult SF instead. Uh I would argue it’s the opposite, i haven’t lived there in nearly a decade now but it seemed like most of the big companies (Apple, Facebook, Google) were in all of the little towns south of SF while SF itself was mostly fart sound apps and hip adtech garbage and other smaller company stuff. A lot of my coworkers lived in SF and commuted down to Mountain View (where we worked) because the Bay Area was so boring, but I never got the impression it lacked jobs
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bssoil posted:silicone deez nutz the technical term is "titty gently caress"
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all of that region, sf, silicon valley, and surrounding towns, is all the same thing to anyone who doesn’t live there aside from nerds who actually think it matters
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same with kitchener-waterloo, really
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infernal machines posted:same with kitchener-waterloo, really all of southern Ontario runs together despite it being what a 6 hour drive?
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a disturbingly homogeneous region
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infernal machines posted:same with kitchener-waterloo, really well. the equivalent city here is toronto, i bet half of canada barely knows where kw even is hobbesmaster posted:all of southern Ontario infernal machines posted:a disturbingly homogeneous region i think you mean northern ohio
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mediaphage posted:i think you mean northern ohio pfft, toledo wishes it had a river of fire
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packing maximum Canadians south of the 49th parallel
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mediaphage posted:well. the equivalent city here is toronto, i bet half of canada barely knows where kw even is Right thanks for reminding me to check that, got an interview for a job in kw this week and all I know is it's down somewhere in the not quite Toronto part of Ontario
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bssoil posted:Right thanks for reminding me to check that, got an interview for a job in kw this week and all I know is it's down somewhere in the not quite Toronto part of Ontario haha. do you know which burb offhand
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mediaphage posted:haha. do you know which burb offhand
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bssoil posted:UoW oh i missed you even said kw in your post. i lived there for a few years and honestly it was nice. close enough to take the go bud to toronto for the weekend, far enough that it’s not super crowded. decent beer, at least one good coffee shop, fun vegan punk cafe and indie cinemas, etc.
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mediaphage posted:oh i missed you even said kw in your post. i lived there for a few years and honestly it was nice. close enough to take the go bud to toronto for the weekend, far enough that it’s not super crowded. decent beer, at least one good coffee shop, fun vegan punk cafe and indie cinemas, etc. there's a train! it doesn't run all the way to kw on weekends though, so you still have to bus it to brampton, because lol
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infernal machines posted:there's a train! yeah the go bud is just easier to get to though i took the go train occasionally too
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rjmccall posted:ignoring the arbitrary faang thing, iiuc qualcomm has a pretty substantial contingent in santa Clara Yeah but they're a San Diego shop, which is good for the ol' whale's vagina mediaphage posted:all of that region, sf, silicon valley, and surrounding towns, is all the same thing to anyone who doesn’t live there aside from nerds who actually think it matters SF actually has density so it gets insulted as a bonafide city for 1) homelessness, 2) property crime, 3) more dogs than kids, 4) wantrepreneur tech bros rather than the Office Space set, 5) rampant unaffordability leading to the previous, oh and 6) libs that turn ultra-reactionary at the slightest hint of 1) and 2)
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Maximo Roboto posted:Yeah but they're a San Diego shop, which is good for the ol' whale's vagina yeah i dont care that whole region is sf from this far away
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Sagebrush posted:nobody on the whole drat planet seems to know the difference between silicon and silicone, both in writing and in speaking, and it drives me nuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsycWRQrc8&t=83s (tagged at 1:23)
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Sagebrush posted:nobody on the whole drat planet seems to know the difference between silicon and silicone, both in writing and in speaking, and it drives me nuts. silicone: big tits silicon: big nerds
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