On Friday 07 March 2025 04:32:38 pm Dave McGuire via groups.io wrote:
?Ugh, the number of times that has happened to me. ?It's one of the
reasons I left corporate work years ago and vowed never to return. ?They
take a good design with carefully-chosen components and send it to "cost
engineering"...Reliable gold pins turn into cheap tinned ones causing
overheating connectors, nice low-ESR capacitors get turned into cheap
garbage causing switching regulators to not work, etc...then my design
work gets maligned as a result!
? ?Suits.
I think of that as a swear word...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
