Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:01:41 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Students go after the hypocrites Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 09:01:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <35ab3jdrch3u0ph0u996vc0l0advdc07m1@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 41 X-Trace: sv3-RywNWYyN/S5C/OOEVdsmJXzIxeiWUITJTMPd48W7I74vE5kjgDXkykLXGRPLDVuRRLLzVjfGjtIpvyw!ruUJt0C/zKKCJICS35WRA9xZjDJpGPCt/Dqj1HGeBO+FgrJi4ztmnNIFhXD04h3Yn3faovThHJIs!HPSx7g== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2644 On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 12:27:52 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom wrote: >On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 19:54:06 -0500, John S wrote: > >> On 5/31/2024 5:46 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote: >>> On Fri, 31 May 2024 14:59:03 -0500, John S wrote: >>> >>>> Welcome to s.e.design.politics. Go to some other group for electronics >>>> design discussions. >>> >>> Just you wait for the run-up to November 5th! >>> >>> >> I don't do politics. So...what is your point in terms of electronics >> designs? > >My point is that every time there's been a presidential election, this >group becomes us.talk.politics and any discussion of electronic design >becomes off-topic and deprecated. It was declining anyhow. I think that people who can actually do component-level electronic design are becoming rare. Kids in college type more than they solder. I've had interns who are afraid of electricity and panic when I ask them to analyze a 2-resistor voltage divider. 10 volt battery feeding series 9K and 1K resistors. What's the voltage across the 1K? They stutter and it's hilarious. I took a tour of the Cornell EE school, and I counted screens. I saw 23 computer screens and one oscilloscope. If EE grads are any good, the semiconductor outfits scoop up the best. It takes no skill to rant endlessly about politics. The thing I like about circuit design is that it has to work and it doesn't take long to find out if it does.