It's not a matter of practical experience, it's a matter of gatekeeping.
The way an apprenticeship works is that the apprentice does the work, then the contractor signs off on it, then the government inspector signs off on it.
This obviously makes no sense, right? If the apprentice does work that won't pass inspection then it won't pass inspection regardless of whether an existing contractor looks at it first, so no one is being protected from anything by that. If they do work that will pass inspection then what non-protectionist purpose is there in forcing them to have a competing existing contractor sign off on it before they can have it inspected for real?
In theory the competing contractor could be supervising the apprentice while they're doing the work instead of giving them some work to do and then leaving them to it while they do some other work themselves or take a long lunch, but there is nothing to enforce that happening and therefore the expectation that it reliably does is a fictional academic reality inconsistent with real incentives.
Precisely. As someone who has done work in my home that has passed inspection, there’s a lot more to it than just taking a test. It’s the “how things are supposed to work” meets “how am I going to actually make this work” X factor that takes time and ultimately what people pay for.
>I can see exactly where the practical experience would be invaluable.
Who do you think has more practical experience that will be relevant to spotting an error in a plan for some circuits that will bring power to some chillers?
Some guy who's spent 5yr installing outlets and light fixtures in luxury 5-over-1 apartment buildings for FANNG-twats and has the license to go with or some guy who's spent 5yr doing the machinery wiring and controls (i.e. "after the outlet" stuff you don't need a license for) in an cardboard manufacturing facility?
I'm not saying these people should be unlicensed. Frankly I don't care. If they're gonna be licensed though then the license should be accessible to those with the relevant skill and knowledge and not be a protectionist gate keeping exercise at the expense of everyone in society that needs access to this kind of labor.
The comments in here speak volumes. Talk about being blinded by ideology.
> To produce a watt of electricity using natural gas actually produces less CO2 than a watt from solar that far north
What about the watt after that? I still got the solar panel for that next watt, and with natural gas I have... well I don't have anything, I need more natural gas!
Hmm it says my ASN has 512 IPv4 addresses, as the guy who filled out the paperwork for that from ARIN and got a /24 (256 addresses) afterwards, I think this has some major bugs.
Oh and it doesn't even properly consume the geofeed information I have published.
The collectors seem to be overloaded so made a temporary mirror of the one for AMS In AMS. [1] I only mirrored the latest files. Feel free to beat it up. The .gz files decompress to just under 4GB
