Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: good post on LinkedIn Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:14:11 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: <10lhb6v$1qjs6$2@dont-email.me> References: <2983bc07-a132-6dc9-aef3-523789a027c1@Strand_in_London.Gov.UK> <5e0a38da-0e01-3cfa-3eec-cf3b29a5bb41@insomnia247.nl> <10j77ll$12g8$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10lfqlq$3ji9g$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10lg730$3keb0$1@paganini.bofh.team> <10lgv5m$3r3gp$1@paganini.bofh.team> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ea1c24559f45e4e8c485a7499c28e531"; logging-data="1920902"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZVRiPYs0ClFnVewC0xdE0u/+6aRJbpQg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vz7S0hjVNkVJMPKYvKxuHn9F7m0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 260129-4, 30/1/2026), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:32490 sci.electronics.design:739874 On 30/01/2026 12:01 pm, john larkin wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:48:56 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de > Ghloucester wrote: > >> In sci.electronics.design John Larkin wrote: >> |-------------------------| >> |"What do you want to do?"| >> |-------------------------| >> >> Thanks for asking. >> >> I am a space engineer who wants to read reliability in scientific >> publications but instead real publications are overrun by lies by >> subventions fraudsters. > > Absolutely! That depends on the journal, and the referees they can find to peer-review the papers that get submitted for publication. My wife edited a couple of psycholinguistic journals for a while, and finding good referees took a lot of work (and she was good at it). Review Scientific Instruments couldn't find good referees for papers with electronic content for many years, and I've published rude comments about it there from time to time. >> I do want ethical workplaces and employees' welfare to exist. That usually means becoming active in a trade union, which employers don't like. >> I want to convince persons that coding should be done in a strongly >> typed language. >> (S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!) > > So you are a coder? > > When I program (which I avoid) I do it in PowerBasic. It lets you do > most anything. But not elegantly. It's one small step up from assembler, which lets you do absolutely everything. Basic was Fortran dumbed down for small processors. At one job the computer manager was terrified of hackers, so I couldn't run any kind of compiled program, and had to do my number crunching in Excel. Our sub-contractor didn't have any trouble translating the procedures into executable code, but it did waste a lot of my time. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney -- Bill Sloman, Sydney