Re: kids these days

On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:53:49 -0700, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:45:37 +0100, Clive Arthur
<clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
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On 30/09/2024 19:11, john larkin wrote:
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If they get the DC part about right, I ask them for any other
comments. All sorts of things could be mentioned.
 
With the base looking at 5K, it's unlikley to oscillate. It would be a
miracle if any kid even mentioned emitter follower oscillation. Or
noise, or tempcos, or anything else.
 

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Along with a colleague, I interviewed someone for a repair technician's
job a few years back.  Among the questions was a simple common emitter
single transistor stage which we asked him to explain.
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He blew us away.  He knew *far* more detail than either of us.  Turned
out he was a shit-hot analog designer looking for a less stressful job
as he wound down to retirement.  He turned out to be brilliant at his
new job, and mentored a lot of younger people.  He left when the company
was bought by a large US corporation with the concomitant mind-numbing
treacle-wading bullshit. [Me too!]

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I see the trend, good circuit designers retiring and not being
replaced.

Maybe not yet, but pretty soon AI will do it better than humans.