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hexreader:

--- Quote from: Siwastaja on January 23, 2022, 04:01:14 pm ---(Psst hexreader, I heard that bridge is falling down.)

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London Bridge was falling down - a long, long time ago
London Bridge was sold to America, if memory serves, and appears to have been replaced.
Myth says it was a mistake, and the buyers thought they were buying Tower Bridge.
My understanding is that this was just a myth, not reality. The buyers knew that they were buying London Bridge, not Tower Bridge
Both bridges have been fraudulently fail-sold by scammer non-owners many times.
Do not confuse London Bridge (boring) with Tower Bridge (still ultra-cool after all these years)
I think confusion comes from "London Bridge" name being mis-used for many bridges - possibly including Tower Bridge.
The bridge that was falling down was definitely not the Tower Bridge as shown in the picture

I don't think that I have enough money to buy even a small stake in either bridge, let alone Brooklyn Bridge.

Disclaimer - Going by memory - there may be inaccuracies above.
No doubt Google will give better facts than mine.

Cerebus:
I'd hardly call a bunch of children dancing in a playground singing a surveyor's report. Anyway, that song is about the next river upstream; although as luck would have it we can talk terms about that bridge too, if anyone's interested.

BradC:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on January 23, 2022, 04:18:02 pm ---I'd hardly call a bunch of children dancing in a playground singing a surveyor's report.

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You obviously haven’t worked around some of the local government in Western Australia. Over here it’d not only pass as a surveyors report, but it’d be raised in council for the overspend.

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: barycentric on January 23, 2022, 09:27:11 am ---Not really sure why the OP needed to be b&.

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In one word: history.

However as a relative newcomer perhaps you're owed a few more words of explanation. Treez (which is the user name that this user was most active for the longest under) has for years plagued this and many other electronics fora with question after question about power supply design, often spamming the same question across multiple fora simultaneously. From their quality you would assume that they were made by a beginner rather than someone with a degree in EE (He has claimed a "BEng(I) Hons Electronics  from Birmingham university"*). Despite these conspicuous failings, he has had the chutzpah to write his own course on SMPS design and promote it, sock-puppet style, as worthy of government sponsorship and promotion.

When his posts don't reveal bafflement at how to design something commonplace and well understood, they appear to be worded to garner 'evidence' that some hair-brained design or theory he has come up with is also supported by other people, "Would you not agree?" being the stereotypical signature for these posts.

He also promotes a political agenda, in the past sock-puppeting for his one man campaign's manifesto for curing the ills of British industry which weirdly calls for setting up lots of courses teaching SMPS design to a particular syllabus with government money. He seems to have given this one up, I think he finally realised that everyone who encountered it could see straight through it.

Over the last few months to a year or so back he's come up with several schemes that involve various levels of deception or misdirection concerning the origin of electronics goods.

So, given the levels of self deception he's apparently been partial to over the years, I'm not so sure that this latest post was sarcasm but rather evidence of a further decline in his grasp on reality. Sarcasm has never been one of his traits. Whereas getting the government to pay for his plans is a consistent theme since I was first aware of him.

So either Treez has been one of the most successful trolls of all time, and we all fell for it, or he's progressed over the years from merely having odd personality traits, through the "annoys everyone with his shit" stage  to "There's a psychiatric diagnosis waiting to happen over there".

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--- Quote from: opampsmoker on December 08, 2020, 10:07:59 pm ---Hi,
I am electronics engineer with BEng(I) Hons Electronics  from Birmingham university and have experience of 30 UK based electronics companies over 20 years.
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Siwastaja:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on January 23, 2022, 04:29:13 pm ---From their quality you would assume that they were made by a beginner rather than someone with a degree in EE
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No, you are wrong in this one. The posts show significant theoretical knowledge on switch mode topologies and converters, exactly something that could be seen from someone with the MS of EE degree, but not very much practical experience. What treez is capable of doing, is create some colossally convoluted circuitry which he is able to simulate in Spice, and get it "work" in simulation. Then he fixates on some stupid detail like the existence or nonexistence of a certain type of capacitor in the circuit and makes 57 threads about it during a year or two.

This non-beginnerism is also what makes treez an interesting case to follow, exactly because sometimes the technical questions spark interesting discussions.

If he could fix his issues with fixations, he could become an actually capable engineer, because he's neither a beginner, nor stupid. But fixations are endless time sinks.

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