Re: Power supplies and reliability

On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 11:54:00 -0400
duh <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/2/26 15:47, Joe wrote:

> > Einstein allegedly said:
> >
> >   "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
> > expecting different results"
> >
> > He had obviously never encountered the Intermittent Fault.
> >  
> I may be al ittle slow upstairs, but how does this differ from
> 
> persistence??????? Just asking!      :-)
> 
> 

He seems to be implying that the universe is completely deterministic,
whereas at the scale which humans can deal with, it isn't. He was
implying that persistence in trying to locate an intermittent fault was
akin to insanity.

Which was particularly silly because he was also alleged to have said
'God does not play dice', showing that he was aware of the existence of
a device invented for the specific purpose of obtaining different
results while doing the same (at a human level) thing.

-- 
Joe