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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: yes!
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:58:29 +1000
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On 20/08/2024 12:57 pm, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:31:53 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> "john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:4mt7cjdnqt4i601lvdsrtivbg4iucgfuj4@4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:48:36 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:r7m6cjtpei82u2kg6a7g40r07okju99v5n@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:21:55 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 19/08/2024 3:26 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:33:38 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 18/08/2024 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:14:51 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>>>>>>>>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:dta1cj1f3pudq93ard2o2ve4dadero917e@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 06:26:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On a sunny day (Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:07:52 -0700) it happened john larkin
>>>>>>>>>>>> <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <06jvbjp36khao0m5ot65a1o1krricoasre@4ax.com>:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I only got a couple of pages in AoE3,
>>>>
>>>> Which pages?
>>>
>>> Around 360.
>>>
>>
>> Ok since posting the question I discovered that you're mentioned on pages xxx, 294, 360, 524
>>
>> Bill Sloman should probably not read page 360.
>>
> 
> His whining centers on my inability to explain how I design
> electronics, or where ideas come from.

"Whining"? That isn't what I'm complaining about - John Larkin doesn't 
explain what his circuits are intended to do or what problems their - 
presumably unique - features are intended to deal with,

Design is all about using what you can get to do what you need to do, 
and a useful conversation about circuit design has to be specific about 
both the problems being dealt with and the way the approach adopted 
solves them.

> Sorry, I don't know. It just happens. If invention happened from
> definable algorithms, everything would be invented all at once.

So he just stumbles across his solutions, and doesn't know why they 
actually work. That isn't design.

I have put circuits together that worked better than I expected, but I 
then put a lot of effort into finding out what was actually going on, so 
it didn't stop working in the middle of demonstration.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney