Re: US Election Year!

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:20:38 -0700, John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com>
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:10:11 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:49:10 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
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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?

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So we have no need of electrical engineers any more?
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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.
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Fine with me. Less competition.

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OK., that's settled then. Anyway, we should not be talking about
electronic design in a thread about US politics. It's off-topic!

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Politics is boring, and your tiny little vote will have on effect on
anything.

You find it boring. Others clearly don't! And I don't vote.

But you can design something that works.

I'm just a hobbyist. Okay, I've had many decades of experience with
electronics, but I'm no designer. I don't think that way.