Re: US Election Year!

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:50:18 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:44:10 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:09:09 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:49:42 -0700, John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com>
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:26:34 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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Every four years, this group becomes a discussion forum exclusively
for US politics, where heated opinions and insults are freely
exchanged. And this year it should be an absolute hum-dinger! May I
suggest we all get plenty of popcorn in before it's all sold out?

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There's a simple explanation for why people who care about politics
are bad electronic designers.
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Think about it.

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Okay. I've thought about it and I'm none the wiser. What's the reason?

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They are tribal and social, so are hostile to new, unauthorized ideas.
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Academic training can have the same effect, making people shy away
from anything original.

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I don't follow. Everything in electronic design has already been done
- and much of it more than 60 years ago. What are these new ideas of
which you speak. Can you provide an example or two?

So we have no need of electrical engineers any more?

I know people who think that anything they need can be found in a book
or an appnote or on an eval board. No tiresome thinking or inventing
required. Nobody needs to design electronics any more.

Fine with me. Less competition.