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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:04:50 +1100
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On 2/04/2025 6:38 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 10:58:43 -0700, KevinJ93 <kevin_es@whitedigs.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/31/25 7:16 AM, john larkin wrote:
>> <...>
>>>> Sooner or later, there must be a casino that does not go broke?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The Trump/Musk/Edison technique is to try lots of different things
>>> fast, but don't bet the farm on any one of them.
>>>
>>
>> But surely you would have second thoughts about randomly removing
>> components from a live circuit controlling a 32,000 ship turbine?
> 
> There's no point in being deliberately stupid, when the outcome is
> predictable. It's not interesting either.

It's precisely what Trump and Musk are doing with DOGE, and if you are 
aren't interested you aren't into self-preservation.

> I did automate a 32,000 HP ship turbine.

So you claim. It seems to have been a long time ago.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney