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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:04:52 +1100
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On 14/03/2024 10:47 am, Don Y wrote:
> On 3/13/2024 9:29 AM, Peter wrote:
>>   Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote
>>> On 3/12/2024 6:10 AM, Peter wrote:
>>>>    RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

> There are lots of ways to make money.  The joy of engineering is
> that you can have *fun* -- and learn stuff -- while doing so!
> (imagine being an *accountant*, lawyer, doctor, etc. -- fields where
> "new knowledge" drips out at a trickle...)
Medical doctors have to cope with a flood of new knowledge.

The peer-reviewed literature where most of it comes out isn't as well 
regulated in medicine as it is in most sciences - medical professors 
still have the god-professor status that all professor had in Germany in 
1920s. and they get to publish a lot of half-baked papers.


This means that a lot of what is touted as new knowledge is pretentious 
nonsense.

The regular literature contains a lot of stuff that wasn't worth 
publishing, but it tends to be more unhelpful than actively wrong.

Of course medical doctors are dealing with the same old problems that 
human beings have always had, while engineers have invented new problems 
to solve.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney