Engineer parenting meme: skip the crimping tool, get your kid a flip-chip bonder
jwt0625 · x · 2026-09-05
A semiconductor-industry joke riffing on parenting advice: instead of letting kids stare at screens, one suggestion went, give them a wire crimper, a few RJ45 connectors, and their first switch to build fine motor skills. The author escalates the bit: don't cheap out on kids' toys — stimulate the copper-vs-fiber fight in their heads, put their little hands on advanced packaging, and equip them with a flip-chip bonder, a few form-factor probe stations, and their first pluggable XPO/NPO/CPO all-in-one switch.
Pure absurdist engineer humor pushing "networking gear as educational toys" to its logical extreme.
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