> Is this money not understood by the tech giants taking on the debt?
There's a game-theoretic way of modelling this situation called, from memory, a modified Dutch auction. The way it works is that the winner pays the difference between their bid and the next highest bid, and so on all the way down. It models the way in which players are motivated to extend themselves almost infinitely in an attempt to win something unwinnable (what are the success criteria for "winning the AI race", in other words how do you know when you've "won"? And what do you get for "winning"?).
It's not just cars. Our house alarm had two clocks, one in the alarm itself, one in the display/control panel, and the two didn't talk to each other, not just for that but everything else as well, for example motion sensor names.
It's now in an e-cycling waste bin somewhere, replaced by an ESP32 I/O board and Alarmo in Home Assistant, at 1/20th the cost of the original PoS alarm.
> However, there hasn't been too much of an issue with transition to VoIP here, apart from
... providers bricking huge numbers of perfectly-good phones, in some cases brand new devices, because ACMA decided they weren't worthy of making emergency calls.
Given that the broadsheet looks like it was printed in Augsburg in Bavaria and Jülich is up near the Dutch border you're probably right, far enough away that no-one was able to question it.
An awareness campaign won't help. The problem is that people get some shitty router/AP provided for free by their ISP which they set up at the far end of the house on the same channel as fifty other shitty ISP-provided routers in range and then complain about their TikTok videos stalling. Once they switch to 4G all their problems go away, so they stay with 4G because that "works" and WiFi "doesn't work".
I've always assumed it was to calibrate the PWM sensor for fan speed, so it starts with no sensing active, runs up to max, and then the sensor kicks in and settles it down. You don't need to run a fan at max speed to get it to start, most will start with very little power applied.
A 5/32" flat-blade screwdriver makes an excellent fast-blow fuse when dropped across exposed bus bars. And you can re-use the remains of the handle to stir your coffee once you've retrieved it from across the room.
Soft-start is in theory the way to go, but it's very dependent on the motor type, there's a whole pile of different methods required for induction motors depending on whether they're capacitor-start, permanent split capacitor, shaded-pole, etc, so you can do it in some cases by lowering the voltage, or with a VFD, or a VSD, or the old-fashioned way with a centrifugal switch but that requires very careful handling. If as the OP said it's running million-dollar equipment you probably don't want to monkey with it at that level.
You do the same as you do with Ren Faires and whatnot, by definition you're the lord or lady or knight and someone else is the peasant with a fascinating collection of skin diseases in soiled rags who gets to eat warm mud for dinner.
There's a game-theoretic way of modelling this situation called, from memory, a modified Dutch auction. The way it works is that the winner pays the difference between their bid and the next highest bid, and so on all the way down. It models the way in which players are motivated to extend themselves almost infinitely in an attempt to win something unwinnable (what are the success criteria for "winning the AI race", in other words how do you know when you've "won"? And what do you get for "winning"?).
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