Re: kids these days

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 14:56:37 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 20:20:21 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:03:24 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:53:49 -0700, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:45:37 +0100, Clive Arthur
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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.
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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.

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

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Don't see how a simple quesion has enough information to generate a
complex design.

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Take a modular approach until such time as the algos improve.
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https://www.flux.ai/
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Why do we have garbage like Windows and Outlook if AI is available?

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I haven't used either for very many years. Linux is *way* better in so
many ways.

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Outlook was always garbage. I currently set up emclient for anyone who wants an installable client which can handle many different
email addresses.
A Linux version of emclient would be nice but not likely to happen.
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I use Windows 10 for daily work but Hyper-V has Windows xp and two debian servers.
I don't use a Linux desktop, just putty for command line and winscp for file access.
Just log in as root over SCP and use notepad++ to edit any file on the Linux system.
I also have linux boxes running proxmox.
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Because garbage made money and closed source meant no-one else could laugh at the code.

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Ha! ha! Well said, Edward; spot on!
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If Windows is ever rewritten by AI then it's likely to be in a way which does whatever is necessary to make more money.

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We could get AI to come up with something a little better than just
another version of Windows, I'd imagine. ;-)

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Depends on who trains it, and what they train it to do, and what they train it to be.
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Well, so long as Bill Gates doesn't train it, it'll do just fine.