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A lot about beer and snowboarding. They are very "tech savvy" which means they can accurately poke buttons on their smart phones. They also apparently know a lot about music, since their earbuds are plugged in all the time.

They can multitask! One guy texted all through his interview. He must be very important. We wish him well.

I did finally find two people with good personalities who have great instincts for electronics. One is a young woman with no work experience, a recent EE grad from a school in Mexico.

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John Larkin                  Highland Technology Inc 
www.highlandtechnology.com   jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com    

Precision electronic instrumentation
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John Larkin
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Ok, either you are serious or you are not. We accept that electrons are the same because we have no observation that shows otherwise. When measuring properties of electrons we can explain all errors observed by the analyzed errors inherent in the observation and the vagaries of experimentation.

If there were a difference in the properties of electrons we would be able to separate electrons into groups based on that difference. If the difference is too small to be observed, we don't really care about the differences, do we?

But then electrons are not the same are they? We can separate electrons based on spin, velocity, etc. So they have properties that set them apart. Those properties don't include mass, charge or a few others.

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Rick
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rickman

Why does everyone assume the entire brain has to be involved in consciousness?

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Rick
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rickman

maybe, maybe not.

I do know a programmer that wrote flight control software for honeywell or allied signal or whatever they're called. I was told that foreign aircraft makers with little clue would repeatedly request impossible or stupid specifications. They're try to talk them out of it, but if that's what the customer wanted, that's what they would get. My favorites were record or trigger an alarm if the landing gear brake temperature hit 5000 degrees (not sure if this was C of F, but it doesn't matter) and the other was something along the lines of "you must store the position of the landing gear with only 1 bit". FWIW, landing gear can be fully up, fully down or somewhere in between, which is 3 states if you don't count other factors like is it moving, or supposed to be moving, or having problems moving.

It is truly amazing planes work at all, and as reliable as they do, but this was all learned by lots of trial and error.

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Cydrome Leader

Still, one would have to wonder what kind of examinations are being used at the educational establishments. I did computer science, not EE, and it was a long while ago, so maybe I'm out of touch when it comes to engineering qualifications. All the same...

Sylvia.

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Sylvia Else

Electromagnetics and Signals&Systems are electives in most EE programs now, and people don't take them because they are hard.

So, we have people with EE degrees who know almost nothing about electricity.

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John Larkin                  Highland Technology Inc 
www.highlandtechnology.com   jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com    

Precision electronic instrumentation
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John Larkin

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