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Dear all,

Today LinkedIn is showing a good post about SystemVerilog. LinkedIn is claiming that that post is 1 week old.

"and differeneces in some details of execution are to be expected between different simulators"
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I wrote on
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:12:58 +0100
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|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Dear all, |
| |
|Today LinkedIn is showing a good post about SystemVerilog. LinkedIn is| |claiming that that post is 1 week old." | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

Dear all,

I should had written that Frans Skarman started that LinkedIn
thread. Sorry!

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------| |""and differeneces in some details of execution are to be expected between| |different simulators""" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

I confess that I introduced this misspelling "differeneces". Sorry again!

LinkedIn does not run a satisfactory search engine. So LinkedIn forced me
to scroll for too many minutes to find that thread by Frans Skarman.

"!

This page is having a problem

Try coming back to it later.


You could also:

* Open a new tab

* Refresh this page

Error code: Out of Memory

Refresh"
said Microsoft Edge after tens of minutes of scrolling when scrolling
through 4 months of LinkedIn reactions with Task Manager showing the top
four memory users being:
"msedge.exe [. . .] 462,168 K [. . .]
msedge.exe [. . .] 246,280 K [. . .]
msedge.exe [. . .] 66,248 K [. . .]
explorer.exe [. . .] 61,628 K [. . .]"
in a computer with 8 gigabytes while Resource Monitor said "39% Used
Physical Memory". Waiting minutes and clicking refresh lost what I
scrolled through by reverting to today's reactions.

(So I closed Microsoft Edge and rebooted Windows. Then I saw that
Microsoft Edge lost months of browsing history. Another reboot seemed to
get this browsing history back.)

"Why do people do this?!
Honestly, I don't really know. This is one of those mysteries that might
never get solved. Oh, there is one lead: it seems to be generated mostly (exclusively?) by Windows systems. Really, who would have thought?"
says
HTTPS://WWW.ueber.net/who/mjl/projects/bomstrip
by Mechiel Lukkien.

Search engines failed to find that LinkedIn thread. LinkedIn does not
forbid me from republishing to USENET what I say therein:
"Dear Doctor Saptarshi Sarkar, PhD: Read the news:comp.lang.vhdl and news:comp.arch.fpga USENET newsgroups and "VHDL Answers to Frequently
Asked Questions" be Ben Cohen - HTTPS://ACCU.org/bookreviews/2004/gloster_1292/
"
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Happy New Year!

This post is about more misadventures of LinkedIn ineptness. I
(incompletely) archived LinkedIn comments by me from October 2025 downto a time which LinkedIn professes to be 2 years (ago). This unsatisfactorily incomplete archiving took excessively long: i.e. 5 days! Namely December
6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; and 10th, 2025.

This incomplete archive consists of circa 470 comments in circa 387
kilobytes. By contrast, it took me fewer than one day in November 2025 to download 77 megabytes (34,889 posts) from news:alt.video.dvd.authoring

Many LinkedIn problems of
"!

This page is having a problem

Try coming back to it later.


You could also:

* Open a new tab

* Refresh this page"
happened during this December misadventure.

LinkedIn is so lame!

On New Year's Day 2026, LinkedIn repeatedly refused to show me comments by
me from more than 4 weeks previously.
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I myself wrote: |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Happy New Year! |
| | |This post is about more misadventures of LinkedIn ineptness. I | |(incompletely) archived LinkedIn comments by me from October 2025 downto a | |time which LinkedIn professes to be 2 years (ago). This unsatisfactorily | |incomplete archiving took excessively long: i.e. 5 days! Namely December | |6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; and 10th, 2025. |
| | |This incomplete archive consists of circa 470 comments in circa 387 | |kilobytes. By contrast, it took me fewer than one day in November 2025 to | |download 77 megabytes (34,889 posts) from news:alt.video.dvd.authoring |
| | |Many LinkedIn problems of | |"! |
| | |This page is having a problem |
| | |Try coming back to it later. |
| |
| | |You could also: |
| | |* Open a new tab |
| | |* Refresh this page" | |happened during this December misadventure. |
| | |LinkedIn is so lame! |
| | |On New Year's Day 2026, LinkedIn repeatedly refused to show me comments by | |me from more than 4 weeks previously." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

LinkedIn made me lose circa 566 megabytes and many tens of minutes to
download circa the last 4 weeks of LinkedIn comments by myself
(excluding comments in this timeframe which LinkedIn stopped showing
to me), and almost 2 hours to upload these downloaded backups. These
four weeks of comments are not many comments but LinkedIn forces an
author to lose excessive amounts of megabytes and time to save such
personal data, or to lose such personal data. LinkedIn is
unsatisfactory.

I uploaded them to HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/Scholastica_or_LinkedIn_connivance/LinkedIn_comments_by_myself/

I also noticed on 01/01/2026 that LinkedIn restricted Microsoft Edge's
feature of Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF to print to a single
piece of paper (i.e. a tiny excerpt of weeks of comments) but LinkedIn
used to let Microsoft Edge make big PDF files even as recently as
Tuesday 30th December 2025. E.g. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/Scholastica_or_LinkedIn_connivance/2025-12-30g_Thanks_to_Paul_Colin_Gloster_for_flagging_said_Barrister_Ben_Keith.pdf
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I myself wrote on
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:40:07
- |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"I myself wrote: | ||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||"Happy New Year! || || || ||This post is about more misadventures of LinkedIn ineptness. I || ||(incompletely) archived LinkedIn comments by me from October 2025 downto a || ||time which LinkedIn professes to be 2 years (ago). This unsatisfactorily || ||incomplete archiving took excessively long: i.e. 5 days! Namely December || ||6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; and 10th, 2025. || || || ||This incomplete archive consists of circa 470 comments in circa 387 || ||kilobytes. By contrast, it took me fewer than one day in November 2025 to || ||download 77 megabytes (34,889 posts) from news:alt.video.dvd.authoring || || || ||Many LinkedIn problems of || ||"! || || || ||This page is having a problem || || || ||Try coming back to it later. || || || || || ||You could also: || || || ||* Open a new tab || || || ||* Refresh this page" || ||happened during this December misadventure. || || || ||LinkedIn is so lame! || || || ||On New Year's Day 2026, LinkedIn repeatedly refused to show me comments by || ||me from more than 4 weeks previously." || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|| | | |LinkedIn made me lose circa 566 megabytes and many tens of minutes to | |download circa the last 4 weeks of LinkedIn comments by myself | |(excluding comments in this timeframe which LinkedIn stopped showing | |to me), and almost 2 hours to upload these downloaded backups. These | |four weeks of comments are not many comments but LinkedIn forces an | |author to lose excessive amounts of megabytes and time to save such | |personal data, or to lose such personal data. LinkedIn is | |unsatisfactory. | | | |[. . .] | | | |I also noticed on 01/01/2026 that LinkedIn restricted Microsoft Edge's | |feature of Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF to print to a single | |piece of paper (i.e. a tiny excerpt of weeks of comments) but LinkedIn | |used to let Microsoft Edge make big PDF files even as recently as | |Tuesday 30th December 2025. E.g. | |[. . .]" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Since 23/01/2026 I notice 2 new LinkedIn bugs which are not the same
as the LinkedIn bugs which I detect over many years.

So I thought such a bug might be temporary and might prevent LinkedIn
from refusing to scroll through more than a month of comments, so
this morning I managed to scroll down through circa 3 months of
comments.

LinkedIn is legally obligated to provide copies of comments, but
LinkedIn acts illegally. If you want to back up comments which you
uploaded to LinkedIn, then now might be the time to back them up.

LinkedIn forced me to spend tens of minutes to scroll through circa 3
months of comments. I used Microsoft Edge to
"Save as type: Webpage, complete", producing an 86-megabytes copy. I
used Microsoft Egde to produce an unsatisfactory 249-page,
238-megabytes PDF copy (Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF). Sic. 238
megabytes versus 86 megabytes for only the same comments.

Uploading this PDF version to Insomnia 24/7 took circa twenty minutes.

Microsoft Edge took circa 12 minutes to produce this PDF file.

Much worse problems related to Microsoft are alleged by e.g. HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/LinkedIn
and
HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/Microsoft

(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:26:04 -0000 (UTC), Niocl�s P�l Caile�n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

I myself wrote on
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:40:07
- >|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"I myself wrote: |
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
||"Happy New Year! ||
|| ||
||This post is about more misadventures of LinkedIn ineptness. I ||
||(incompletely) archived LinkedIn comments by me from October 2025 downto a ||
||time which LinkedIn professes to be 2 years (ago). This unsatisfactorily ||
||incomplete archiving took excessively long: i.e. 5 days! Namely December ||
||6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; and 10th, 2025. ||
|| ||
||This incomplete archive consists of circa 470 comments in circa 387 ||
||kilobytes. By contrast, it took me fewer than one day in November 2025 to ||
||download 77 megabytes (34,889 posts) from news:alt.video.dvd.authoring ||
|| ||
||Many LinkedIn problems of ||
||"! ||
|| ||
||This page is having a problem ||
|| ||
||Try coming back to it later. ||
|| ||
|| ||
||You could also: ||
|| ||
||* Open a new tab ||
|| ||
||* Refresh this page" ||
||happened during this December misadventure. ||
|| ||
||LinkedIn is so lame! ||
|| ||
||On New Year's Day 2026, LinkedIn repeatedly refused to show me comments by ||
||me from more than 4 weeks previously." ||
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
| |
|LinkedIn made me lose circa 566 megabytes and many tens of minutes to |
|download circa the last 4 weeks of LinkedIn comments by myself |
|(excluding comments in this timeframe which LinkedIn stopped showing |
|to me), and almost 2 hours to upload these downloaded backups. These |
|four weeks of comments are not many comments but LinkedIn forces an |
|author to lose excessive amounts of megabytes and time to save such |
|personal data, or to lose such personal data. LinkedIn is |
|unsatisfactory. |
| |
|[. . .] |
| |
|I also noticed on 01/01/2026 that LinkedIn restricted Microsoft Edge's |
|feature of Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF to print to a single |
|piece of paper (i.e. a tiny excerpt of weeks of comments) but LinkedIn |
|used to let Microsoft Edge make big PDF files even as recently as |
|Tuesday 30th December 2025. E.g. |
|[. . .]" |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Since 23/01/2026 I notice 2 new LinkedIn bugs which are not the same
as the LinkedIn bugs which I detect over many years.

So I thought such a bug might be temporary and might prevent LinkedIn
from refusing to scroll through more than a month of comments, so
this morning I managed to scroll down through circa 3 months of
comments.

LinkedIn is legally obligated to provide copies of comments, but
LinkedIn acts illegally. If you want to back up comments which you
uploaded to LinkedIn, then now might be the time to back them up.

LinkedIn forced me to spend tens of minutes to scroll through circa 3
months of comments. I used Microsoft Edge to
"Save as type: Webpage, complete", producing an 86-megabytes copy. I
used Microsoft Egde to produce an unsatisfactory 249-page,
238-megabytes PDF copy (Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF). Sic. 238 >megabytes versus 86 megabytes for only the same comments.

Uploading this PDF version to Insomnia 24/7 took circa twenty minutes.

Microsoft Edge took circa 12 minutes to produce this PDF file.

Much worse problems related to Microsoft are alleged by e.g. >HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/LinkedIn
and
HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/Microsoft

(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

LinkedIn is 99% trash, so it's a great way to waste time and not
design electronics.

I have used it to find talent, which works fairly well. One cheap ad
can spin up hundreds of applicants and the presentation makes them
fast to evaluate.






John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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In sci.electronics.design John Larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote: |--------------------------------------------------------------------| |"LinkedIn is 99% trash, so it's a great way to waste time and not |
|design electronics." | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

David Bishop had recommended me to create a LinkedIn account to try to
find a job which actually pays money. This is why I created an account
on LinkedIn. Mister Bishop means well, but LinkedIn fails at the only
task which I created this account for.

A person who used to contribute more than 700 articles to
comp.lang.vhdl who promotes VHDL a lot on LinkedIn likes a recent
LinkedIn comment by me that comp.lang.vhdl is for works, but the
newest comp.lang.vhdl article by him that I detect is dated 2021.

Alas persons use LinkedIn instead of the USENET. LinkedIn is not good
at threads. LinkedIn is not good at archiving reliably.

LinkedIn is not good for detailed discussions.

I do not find it to be a complete waste of time though, as
non-engineers who are important to me find it convenient to use.

A purported electronic engineer follows me on LinkedIn since the Year
2020 but I did not log onto LinkedIn even once in that year. I do not
know why he follows me. All the HDL users and all the purported
electronic engineers who connect with me on LinkedIn after he started
following me are persons whom I never detect contributing to the
USENET. Many of the persons with whom I am never connected with on
LinkedIn who follow me on LinkedIn work only in professions which are completely unrelated to mine. Maybe some day I will become a client of
some of these persons, but I have found using LinkedIn to be useless
for getting a job and not useless for communications with unsimilar
persons who insist on using that limited medium.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"I have used it to find talent, which works fairly well. One cheap ad|
|can spin up hundreds of applicants and the presentation makes them |
|fast to evaluate." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

If I would be hiring then I would want to see that a candidate
contributes to the USENET.
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:57:54 -0000 (UTC), Niocl�s P�l Caile�n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design John Larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote: >|--------------------------------------------------------------------| >|"LinkedIn is 99% trash, so it's a great way to waste time and not | >|design electronics." | >|--------------------------------------------------------------------|

David Bishop had recommended me to create a LinkedIn account to try to
find a job which actually pays money. This is why I created an account
on LinkedIn. Mister Bishop means well, but LinkedIn fails at the only
task which I created this account for.

A person who used to contribute more than 700 articles to
comp.lang.vhdl who promotes VHDL a lot on LinkedIn likes a recent
LinkedIn comment by me that comp.lang.vhdl is for works, but the
newest comp.lang.vhdl article by him that I detect is dated 2021.

Alas persons use LinkedIn instead of the USENET. LinkedIn is not good
at threads. LinkedIn is not good at archiving reliably.

LinkedIn is not good for detailed discussions.

I do not find it to be a complete waste of time though, as
non-engineers who are important to me find it convenient to use.

A purported electronic engineer follows me on LinkedIn since the Year
2020 but I did not log onto LinkedIn even once in that year. I do not
know why he follows me. All the HDL users and all the purported
electronic engineers who connect with me on LinkedIn after he started >following me are persons whom I never detect contributing to the
USENET. Many of the persons with whom I am never connected with on
LinkedIn who follow me on LinkedIn work only in professions which are >completely unrelated to mine. Maybe some day I will become a client of
some of these persons, but I have found using LinkedIn to be useless
for getting a job and not useless for communications with unsimilar
persons who insist on using that limited medium.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"I have used it to find talent, which works fairly well. One cheap ad|
|can spin up hundreds of applicants and the presentation makes them |
|fast to evaluate." | >|---------------------------------------------------------------------|

If I would be hiring then I would want to see that a candidate
contributes to the USENET.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

What do you want to do?

I've been going to some maker-type events and ran some ads on
linkedin. What I'm seeing is mobs of unemployed CE/EE grads who don't
know much about electricity and are terrified of AI replacing coders.

Imagine an EE grad who doesn't know about AoE or LT Spice. Or what an
FPGA config file is. Who didn't take Signals+Systems or Control
Theory.

The nice lady who visited us yesterday has an ECE degree and wants to
learn hands-on electronics and not just type. I wonder if one has to
have some natural inclinitions for doing electronics, sort of mechanical/visual/dynamic instincts. And whether one has to play with electronics when just a kid, before its too late.


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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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.

I do want ethical workplaces and employees' welfare to exist.

I want to convince persons that coding should be done in a strongly
typed language.
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:48:56 -0000 (UTC), Niocl�s P�l Caile�n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> 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!

I do want ethical workplaces and employees' welfare to exist.

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.


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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In sci.electronics.design John Larkin wrote: |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|">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!" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

Thanks for agreeing!

|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"So you are a coder?" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

Why else would I care so much about comp.lang.vhdl?

|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"When I program (which I avoid) I do it in PowerBasic. It lets you do|
|most anything." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I did not detect a reference to PowerBasic on your website, whereas I
did detect references to 3 languages (including VHDL) on your website.

I am reminded about a bizarre job interview which I was once the
candidate in. That job advertisement very prominently shows that that
job is a C# job, but that company's owner moaned to me during that
interview about C#. "A language without pointers is not a language!"
said he himself incorrectly.

Actually I detected references to 4 languages on your website if we
count English. Cf.
HTTPS://theDailyWTF.com/articles/You-Get-What-You-Ask-For

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On 30/01/2026 5:59 am, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:57:54 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design John Larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:

<snip>

The nice lady who visited us yesterday has an ECE degree and wants to
learn hands-on electronics and not just type. I wonder if one has to
have some natural inclinitions for doing electronics, sort of mechanical/visual/dynamic instincts. And whether one has to play with electronics when just a kid, before its too late.

The only electronics I did as a kid was to build a completely passive
crystal set - the only non-linear element was a diode.

I didn't get into electronics until I was a graduate student - and I got
into Fortran first. It doesn't seem to have been too late.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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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 <thanks-to@Taf.com> 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

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Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

[...]

The only electronics I did as a kid was to build a completely passive
crystal set

[...]

I think we may quote that in replies to some of your future posts.
--
~ Liz Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk
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On 30/01/2026 9:15 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

[...]

The only electronics I did as a kid was to build a completely passive
crystal set

[...]

I think we may quote that in replies to some of your future posts.

It didn't include any parts with gain, or any power source. What's your preferred description of the classic crystal set?
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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Am 30.01.26 um 14:06 schrieb Bill Sloman:

On 30/01/2026 9:15 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

[...]

The only electronics I did as a kid was to build a completely passive
crystal set

[...]

I think we may quote that in replies to some of your future posts.

It didn't include any parts with gain, or any power source.

I built one, too. First thing that worked for me, apart of
lamps and batteries.

We had Europawelle Saar on 1422 KHz maybe 10 miles away, pumping
1.6 Megawatts carrier into the air. Impossible to miss.


What's your

preferred description of the classic crystal set?

That was my guide:
< https://www.ukwfm.de/antiquariat/rbfj.html >

Gerhard

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On 1/29/26 09:04, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:26:04 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

I myself wrote on
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:40:07
-
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"I myself wrote: |
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
||"Happy New Year! ||
|| ||
||This post is about more misadventures of LinkedIn ineptness. I ||
||(incompletely) archived LinkedIn comments by me from October 2025 downto a ||
||time which LinkedIn professes to be 2 years (ago). This unsatisfactorily ||
||incomplete archiving took excessively long: i.e. 5 days! Namely December ||
||6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; and 10th, 2025. ||
|| ||
||This incomplete archive consists of circa 470 comments in circa 387 ||
||kilobytes. By contrast, it took me fewer than one day in November 2025 to ||
||download 77 megabytes (34,889 posts) from news:alt.video.dvd.authoring ||
|| ||
||Many LinkedIn problems of ||
||"! ||
|| ||
||This page is having a problem ||
|| ||
||Try coming back to it later. ||
|| ||
|| ||
||You could also: ||
|| ||
||* Open a new tab ||
|| ||
||* Refresh this page" ||
||happened during this December misadventure. ||
|| ||
||LinkedIn is so lame! ||
|| ||
||On New Year's Day 2026, LinkedIn repeatedly refused to show me comments by ||
||me from more than 4 weeks previously." ||
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
| |
|LinkedIn made me lose circa 566 megabytes and many tens of minutes to |
|download circa the last 4 weeks of LinkedIn comments by myself |
|(excluding comments in this timeframe which LinkedIn stopped showing |
|to me), and almost 2 hours to upload these downloaded backups. These |
|four weeks of comments are not many comments but LinkedIn forces an |
|author to lose excessive amounts of megabytes and time to save such |
|personal data, or to lose such personal data. LinkedIn is |
|unsatisfactory. |
| |
|[. . .] |
| |
|I also noticed on 01/01/2026 that LinkedIn restricted Microsoft Edge's |
|feature of Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF to print to a single |
|piece of paper (i.e. a tiny excerpt of weeks of comments) but LinkedIn |
|used to let Microsoft Edge make big PDF files even as recently as |
|Tuesday 30th December 2025. E.g. |
|[. . .]" |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Since 23/01/2026 I notice 2 new LinkedIn bugs which are not the same
as the LinkedIn bugs which I detect over many years.

So I thought such a bug might be temporary and might prevent LinkedIn
from refusing to scroll through more than a month of comments, so
this morning I managed to scroll down through circa 3 months of
comments.

LinkedIn is legally obligated to provide copies of comments, but
LinkedIn acts illegally. If you want to back up comments which you
uploaded to LinkedIn, then now might be the time to back them up.

LinkedIn forced me to spend tens of minutes to scroll through circa 3
months of comments. I used Microsoft Edge to
"Save as type: Webpage, complete", producing an 86-megabytes copy. I
used Microsoft Egde to produce an unsatisfactory 249-page,
238-megabytes PDF copy (Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF). Sic. 238
megabytes versus 86 megabytes for only the same comments.

Uploading this PDF version to Insomnia 24/7 took circa twenty minutes.

Microsoft Edge took circa 12 minutes to produce this PDF file.

Much worse problems related to Microsoft are alleged by e.g.
HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/LinkedIn
and
HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/Microsoft

(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

LinkedIn is 99% trash, so it's a great way to waste time and not
design electronics.

I have used it to find talent, which works fairly well. One cheap ad
can spin up hundreds of applicants and the presentation makes them
fast to evaluate.

Not so sure about that...I seem to be getting far more hits/interest
since I retired than I ever did when I wanted a job..!

John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics

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On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:14:11 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

On 30/01/2026 12:01 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:48:56 -0000 (UTC), Niocl�s P�l Caile�n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> 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

One observation is that when you use Excel, your IQ drops in half.

It's OK if you are an accountant, I guess.


John Larkin
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Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:06:16 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
wrote:

Am 30.01.26 um 14:06 schrieb Bill Sloman:

On 30/01/2026 9:15 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

[...]

The only electronics I did as a kid was to build a completely passive
crystal set

[...]

I think we may quote that in replies to some of your future posts.

It didn't include any parts with gain, or any power source.

I built one, too. First thing that worked for me, apart of
lamps and batteries.

We had Europawelle Saar on 1422 KHz maybe 10 miles away, pumping
1.6 Megawatts carrier into the air. Impossible to miss.

What's your

preferred description of the classic crystal set?

That was my guide:
< https://www.ukwfm.de/antiquariat/rbfj.html >

Gerhard

I think that you could a bunch of light from an antenna and a good
LED, in a city with a lot of transmitters. The design would be
interesting.




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Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:27:14 -0800, wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:

On 1/29/26 09:04, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:26:04 -0000 (UTC), Niocl�s P�l Caile�n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

I myself wrote on
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:40:07
-
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"I myself wrote: |
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
||"Happy New Year! ||
|| ||
||This post is about more misadventures of LinkedIn ineptness. I ||
||(incompletely) archived LinkedIn comments by me from October 2025 downto a ||
||time which LinkedIn professes to be 2 years (ago). This unsatisfactorily ||
||incomplete archiving took excessively long: i.e. 5 days! Namely December ||
||6th; 7th; 8th; 9th; and 10th, 2025. ||
|| ||
||This incomplete archive consists of circa 470 comments in circa 387 ||
||kilobytes. By contrast, it took me fewer than one day in November 2025 to ||
||download 77 megabytes (34,889 posts) from news:alt.video.dvd.authoring ||
|| ||
||Many LinkedIn problems of ||
||"! ||
|| ||
||This page is having a problem ||
|| ||
||Try coming back to it later. ||
|| ||
|| ||
||You could also: ||
|| ||
||* Open a new tab ||
|| ||
||* Refresh this page" ||
||happened during this December misadventure. ||
|| ||
||LinkedIn is so lame! ||
|| ||
||On New Year's Day 2026, LinkedIn repeatedly refused to show me comments by ||
||me from more than 4 weeks previously." ||
||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
| |
|LinkedIn made me lose circa 566 megabytes and many tens of minutes to |
|download circa the last 4 weeks of LinkedIn comments by myself |
|(excluding comments in this timeframe which LinkedIn stopped showing |
|to me), and almost 2 hours to upload these downloaded backups. These |
|four weeks of comments are not many comments but LinkedIn forces an |
|author to lose excessive amounts of megabytes and time to save such |
|personal data, or to lose such personal data. LinkedIn is |
|unsatisfactory. |
| |
|[. . .] |
| |
|I also noticed on 01/01/2026 that LinkedIn restricted Microsoft Edge's |
|feature of Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF to print to a single |
|piece of paper (i.e. a tiny excerpt of weeks of comments) but LinkedIn |
|used to let Microsoft Edge make big PDF files even as recently as |
|Tuesday 30th December 2025. E.g. |
|[. . .]" |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Since 23/01/2026 I notice 2 new LinkedIn bugs which are not the same
as the LinkedIn bugs which I detect over many years.

So I thought such a bug might be temporary and might prevent LinkedIn >>>from refusing to scroll through more than a month of comments, so
this morning I managed to scroll down through circa 3 months of
comments.

LinkedIn is legally obligated to provide copies of comments, but
LinkedIn acts illegally. If you want to back up comments which you
uploaded to LinkedIn, then now might be the time to back them up.

LinkedIn forced me to spend tens of minutes to scroll through circa 3
months of comments. I used Microsoft Edge to
"Save as type: Webpage, complete", producing an 86-megabytes copy. I
used Microsoft Egde to produce an unsatisfactory 249-page,
238-megabytes PDF copy (Print --> Printer --> Save as PDF). Sic. 238
megabytes versus 86 megabytes for only the same comments.

Uploading this PDF version to Insomnia 24/7 took circa twenty minutes.

Microsoft Edge took circa 12 minutes to produce this PDF file.

Much worse problems related to Microsoft are alleged by e.g.
HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/LinkedIn
and
HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/Microsoft

(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

LinkedIn is 99% trash, so it's a great way to waste time and not
design electronics.

I have used it to find talent, which works fairly well. One cheap ad
can spin up hundreds of applicants and the presentation makes them
fast to evaluate.

Not so sure about that...I seem to be getting far more hits/interest
since I retired than I ever did when I wanted a job..!

If you actually understand electronics, you are in demand.


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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In case this post is too long: I do not recommend any of you to bother
to create an account on LinkedIn. The USENET is much better, but I
interact on LinkedIn with important non-engineers who insist on using
LinkedIn. One of the most important thereof even almost does not use
emails!

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:36:44 - |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"On 1/29/2026 7:26 AM, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote: |

LinkedIn is legally obligated to provide copies of comments, but |
LinkedIn acts illegally. If you want to back up comments which you|
uploaded to LinkedIn, then now might be the time to back them up. |

| |
|Why not just scrape the site" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

How?

"User Agreement
Effective on November 3, 2025
[. . .]
8.2. Don’ts
You agree that you will not:
[. . .]
Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any
other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and
add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Services"
says
HTTPS://WWW.LinkedIn.com/legal/user-agreement

|--------------------------------------------------|
|" -- instead |
|of trying to encapsulate it in a single document."| |--------------------------------------------------|

I saved hundreds of comments from years into a single document because
LinkedIn does not even pretnd to offer a less laborious way of backing
them up. I do not want this lame method. LinkedIn forces me.

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:36:44 - |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"> Microsoft Edge took circa 12 minutes to produce this PDF file. |
| | |None of hose metrics mean anything. It takes me an hour to get to the post| |office (on foot!)." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:54 - |------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Another way to waste resources (in this case, your time!)."| |------------------------------------------------------------|

Sorry, Don Y contradicts himself at 12:36:44 and 17:56:54. Time is
measured as a value more than no second. These metrics are meaningful.

It took me many tens of minutes to use a webbrowser to download circa
352 comments from LinkedIn (after it took me 5 DAYS to download almost
the same quantity (circa 470 comments) as I complain in
Message-ID: <a466fba3-4f96-5968-faef-db94f1e721a5@insomnia247.nl>
).

Instead, it took me circa 18 MINUTES to use a USENET client to
download 289 articles from alt.comp.periphs.cdr.mac

I.e. LinkedIn is slow and the USENET is fast.

N.B. that USENET client was invoked as a background process via
setsid &
so I myself could concurrently do something interesting and useful,
whereas to archive from LinkedIn I used a tedious webbrowser with a
PgDn key in a manner less pleasurable than watching paint dry, while
hoping that Microsoft Egde would not again emit:
"!

This page is having a problem

Try coming back to it later.


You could also:

* Open a new tab

* Refresh this page"

These circa 352 LinkedIn comments take up circa 86 MEGAbytes or 238
MEGAbytes.

Instead these 289 alt.comp.periphs.cdr.mac articles take up 772
KILObytes.

I.e. LinkedIn is excessively inefficient. As Don Y is lucky enough to
not use LinkedIn, he does not know that all LinkedIn comments are
small because LinkedIn imposes an excessive limitation.

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:36:44 - |------------------------------------------------------------|
|"I can't comment on LinkedIn as no one that I know uses it. |
|My understanding (?) is that it is a networking site -- a |
|way to "get jobs". |
| |
|Most of my colleagues have more than enough work without |
|any sort of "advertising" or "job mining". Makes you wonder|
|what the folks using it are lacking... (REAL contacts??)" | |------------------------------------------------------------|

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:54 - |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"On 1/30/2026 7:24 AM, legg wrote: |
|[. . .] |
| |
|[...] LinkedIn. AFAICT, it just lets folks advertise other people |
|that they know/endorse. The practical effect of that is referrals|
|(which is another way of saying "get jobs")." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Don Y sent these paragraphs to the UseNET as a NETWORKING exercise,
whether or not he has "more than enough work".

LinkedIn is a networking website.

LinkedIn is MARKETED as "a
way to "get jobs""
which is VERY DIFFERENT FROM ACTUALLY BEING "a
way to "get jobs"".

I repost many job advertisements on LinkedIn. (This is a signifcant
reason for a person (and apparently persons) following me on LinkedIn,
even though said person owns his own (probably profitable) company and
probably does not need such a job and probably shall not apply for
such a job and if he does, then he really does not need LinkedIn for
it anyway.) I warn in many of these reposts that this employer is
evil.

One student was interested in one of these jobs but it is an unpaid
internship in a continent which he would have to move to in an
extortionately expensive neighborhood, so I warned him and I gave him
a tip on a way to find an apartment if he really would go thru with
it.

Precisely no LinkedIn post and no LinkedIn comment by me is a job
application. I use LinkedIn to communicate with real contacts, like
the USENET, except that one USENET article by me is an application for
a job.

No one who ever follows me on LinkedIn or who connected with me on
LinkedIn or who invited me to connect with him or her on LinkedIn ever
applies to me for a job.

Indeed, overworked professionals invited me to connect with them on
LinkedIn in 2025. I offered to contract them. One replied declining
explaining that he is not competent for this would-be contract, so he
contacted a colleague for me. I did not get a response from a
different one, but he is busy with even more significant
projects. ("Newsweek" began publishing an article by him during
January 2026. He also publishes articles in major international
newspapers. He is not "lacking... (REAL contacts"! I did not receive
a response from him to contract him, but he did thank me for detecting
that LinkedIn suppressed an exposé by him.

I already had "more than enough work" when I created an account on
LinkedIn. I had not a job which actually pays money when I created an
account on LinkedIn - and LinkedIn alas did not change this. Cf. HTTPS://PHDComics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=937

LinkedIn is not just to
"advertise other people
that they know/endorse."
LinkedIn also lets discussions, but LinkedIn does not do so well.

Legg wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:24:48 - #---------------------------------------------------------------#
#"[. . .] #
#It has groups, similar to Facebook, [. . .] #
#[. . .] #
# #
#20yrs ago it was pretty useful. [. . .] #
#[. . .] #
# #
#Tapping into 20 year old threads (where all the good references#
#and articles were being discussed)in such a group is well-night#
#impossible." # #---------------------------------------------------------------#

True. Accessing such old USENET threads is easy. Scrolling thru a few
years of LinkedIn comments results in Microsoft Edge screwing up with:

"!

This page is having a problem

Try coming back to it later.


You could also:

* Open a new tab

* Refresh this page"

Legg wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:24:48 - #-----------------------------------------------------------------#
#"Like Facebook, it is heavily dependent on your machines' RAM and#
#is unfriendly to non-google, non-chrome browsers. This may be #
#why Edge is having issues: it would serve MS right. #
# #
#RL" # #-----------------------------------------------------------------#

LinkedIn is limited whatever way one accesses it. This is not specific
to Microsoft Edge. Microsoft owns LinkedIn.

HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/LinkedIn

HTTPS://wiki.ICEList.Is/index.php/Meta_Platforms

Legg posted via
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118
which is not a "google," "chrome browser".

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:54 - |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"On 1/30/2026 7:24 AM, legg wrote: |
|[. . .] |

Networking is just keeping track of co-workers and professional| acquaintances - but there's no real controls on spam. |

| |
|And, you need a third-party "site" to do that?" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

Yes, because they insist on using LinkedIn.

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:54 - |------------------------------------------------------------|
|"If I'm contacted about a potential job, I think about the |
|people that I know who might be appropriate (because anyone |
|that I refer for a position is a reflection on me!). |
|Who (if anyone) I contact is based on my knowledge of where |
|their interests lie and what they might be doing, presently.|
| |
|I know those things because of communications with them |
| directly -- not by "reading about them" on a site." | |------------------------------------------------------------|

Good. Exactly as the aforementioned person who contacted a colleague
for me for a project which I propose.

Don Y wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:05:31 - |-----------------------------------------------------------|
|"Similarly, if I am contacted about a particular employer, |
|client or potential employee, I can give a candid appraisal|
|without fear of reprisals or running afoul of legalities." | |-----------------------------------------------------------|

Good unlike LinkedIn. LinkedIn offers a thumb-up icon without a
thumb-down icon. LinkedIn wants you to say that a person is
good. LinkedIn does not want you to say that a person is bad.

Legg wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:22:45 - #-----------------------------------------------------------#
#"It used to be a discussion of work-related issues and news#
#between people you knew, or were introduced to on-site. #
#Jobs or contracts seldom came up, as I recall. Participants#
#were just too disparate in specialized fields. #
# #
#[. . .] #
# #
#Supplying references to articles and publications was the #
#primary benefit, as well as keeping in touch." # #-----------------------------------------------------------#

Yes.
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In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"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 <thanks-to@Taf.com> 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." | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

Do not forget the editors and the IEEE!

@online{dieHimmelistschoen,
author = {{Schlangemann (pseudonym)}, Herbert},
title = {{The Official Herbert Schlangemann Blog}},
url = {HTTP://dieHimmelistschoen.BlogSpot.com},
year = {2008--2010}
}

@article{fulltext6.pdf,
author = {Labb\'{e}, Cyril and Labb\'{e}, Dominique},
pages={379--396},
year={2013},
volume={94},
issue={1},
title = {{Duplicate and fake publications in the scientific
literature: how many SCIgen papers in computer science?}},
journal = {Scientometrics},
abstract = {Two kinds of bibliographic tools are used to retrieve
scientific publications and make them available online. For one
kind, access is free as they store information made publicly
available online. For the other kind, access fees are required as
they are compiled on information provided by the major publishers
of scientific literature. The former can easily be interfered with,
but it is generally assumed that the latter guarantee the integrity
of the data they sell. Unfortunately, duplicate and fake
publications are appearing in scientific conferences and, as a
result, in the bibliographic services. We demonstrate a software
method of detecting these duplicate and fake publications. Both the
free services (such as Google Scholar and DBLP) and the charged-for
services (such as IEEE Xplore) accept and index these
publications.}
}
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On 31/01/2026 2:56 pm, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:

(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"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 <thanks-to@Taf.com> 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." | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

Do not forget the editors and the IEEE!

The editors have to find the referees. The IEEE does publish a lot of peer-reviewed scientific journal - some of them quite good - but the
quality of a publication depends on the quality of the papers submitted
to it for publication. A good editor can fish for papers from promising potential contributors, but if the community of researcher's being
served isn't up to much, the journal serving them won't be either.

My wife could be quite eloquent on the topic.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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On 31/01/2026 6:52 am, john larkin wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:14:11 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

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 <thanks-to@Taf.com> 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.

One observation is that when you use Excel, your IQ drops in half.

Since the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure,
nobody sensible would bother to quibble

It's OK if you are an accountant, I guess.

Accountants have to explain what they are doing to other accountants,
and Excel won't let you do anything that is hard to explain. I could
have done the job much faster in Fortran - in which I got fluent around
1965 - or any other higher level language if I'd ever gone to the
trouble of learning to program properly in any of them.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure"| |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

True.
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Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"> N.B. Bill Sloman misused "learned" instead of "learnt". |
| |
|It's not a misuse, merely a regional variant." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Dear Doctor Sloman,

A use of "learned" instead of "learnt" is a regional misuse.

|--------------------------------------------------------|
|"Many Dutch kids learn French[. . .] from an early age."| |--------------------------------------------------------|

I used to be employed in the Netherlands by an employer whose
languages are French and English. The Anglophones who used to be
employed by this then employer then vastly outnumber the Francophones
who used to be employed by this employer then.

A then Anglophone neigbour used to persecute a then workmate who
natively speaks French and who at that time used to work in French and
English, by repeatedly saying to him in English (not French) that he
must speak Dutch.

A friend of Belgian nationality told me that persons of Dutch
nationality say things to her like "Wow! You can speak French!"

I detected noone in the Netherlands using French when I used to reside
there, except for coworkers.

All then employees then in this section of this then employer are
Anglophones. A majority (55%) are Francophones, an unusually high
proportion. This then chief is natively a Francophone. English is this project's language.

A Dutch then company (before it went bust) on this project tried to
apply for money to a French centre for an unrelated project. This
Dutch ex-company's ex-chiefs are of Dutch nationality. They wanted to
know if a tender must show a proposed price including tax or excluding
tax. So they telephoned this French centre to ask. They did try
asking in broken French, but they rapidly reverted to English while
they frantically reached for their French dictionary to find a French
word for tax. Given this lack of preparation and given this
anti-engineering belief, this ex-company deservedly went bust.

|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Many Dutch kids learn [. . .] German [. . .] from an early age."| |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

I bought German magazines from a person of Dutch nationality who used
to be raised in the Netherlands near the German border. He used to buy
them by short travels into Germmany. He did not have a good grasp of
German when I bought them, so he declined to use German.

|----------------------------------------------------------|
|"Many Dutch kids learn [. . .] English from an early age."| |----------------------------------------------------------|

Yes. "Langenscheidt Expresskurs Niederländisch" alleges that persons
who speak Dutch are less good at English than they believe. I do not
detect so.

|---------------------------------------------------------|
|"Lots of Belgians are raised as French/Dutch bilinguals."| |---------------------------------------------------------|

Of course. "Wow! You can speak French!" said an aforementioned friend
of Belgian nationality acting like persons of Dutch
nationality. "Yeah. [She can speak ]A little[ French]." said she
herself as a response to downplay these amazements.
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Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"The comment is |
| | |Sloman A.W. “Comment on ‘Modular digital box-car for applications in | |pulsed laser spectroscopy” Review of Scientific Instruments, 67 3763-4 | |(1996)" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Thanks.

ADSAbs.Harvard.edu
and Google Scholar do show it but it was surprisingly tricky to get
them to show it. It does not have a hyphen in its title. Cf. HTTPS://pubs.AIP.org/aip/rsi/article/67/10/3763/455876/Comment-on-Modular-digital-boxcar-for-applications

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On 1/02/2026 12:33 am, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"> N.B. Bill Sloman misused "learned" instead of "learnt". |
| |
|It's not a misuse, merely a regional variant." | |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Dear Doctor Sloman,

A use of "learned" instead of "learnt" is a regional misuse.

A language is defined by what people say. I was brought up speaking
English in Australia, and worked in England for 22 years, and in the Netherlands for 19 years. My wife was a psycholinguist, and I do know
about regional variation. Anybody who labels regional variants as
regional misuse is simply ignorant.

|--------------------------------------------------------|
|"Many Dutch kids learn French[. . .] from an early age."| |--------------------------------------------------------|

I used to be employed in the Netherlands by an employer whose
languages are French and English. The Anglophones who used to be
employed by this then employer then vastly outnumber the Francophones
who used to be employed by this employer then.

And I was employed in the Netherlands - in Venlo - by Haffmans BV, where
I talked Dutch unless I needed technical vocabulary, when I tended to
switch to English. German was used from time to time, and I could mostly follow it

A then Anglophone neigbour used to persecute a then workmate who
natively speaks French and who at that time used to work in French and English, by repeatedly saying to him in English (not French) that he
must speak Dutch.

My biggest problem with learning Dutch was people who wanted to practice
their English on me.

A friend of Belgian nationality told me that persons of Dutch
nationality say things to her like "Wow! You can speak French!"

I detected no-one in the Netherlands using French when I used to reside there, except for coworkers.

I got taught French in school in Tasmania - not all that well. I was
good enough to let me read the Nouveau Traite de Chemie Minerale, which
I needed to be able to do as a chemist. My German was a bit better, but definitely not fluent.

All then employees then in this section of this then employer are Anglophones. A majority (55%) are Francophones, an unusually high
proportion. This then chief is natively a Francophone. English is this project's language.

A Dutch then company (before it went bust) on this project tried to
apply for money to a French centre for an unrelated project. This
Dutch ex-company's ex-chiefs are of Dutch nationality. They wanted to
know if a tender must show a proposed price including tax or excluding
tax. So they telephoned this French centre to ask. They did try
asking in broken French, but they rapidly reverted to English while
they frantically reached for their French dictionary to find a French
word for tax. Given this lack of preparation and given this
anti-engineering belief, this ex-company deservedly went bust.

When I was working in England, several of the companies I worked for had dealings with the their French equivalents, and I spent about six months spending my working week in Paris with a small team of other engineers,
flying back to England every weekend. I knew enough French to know that
the first translation of an operating manual we had been given was total rubbish, but we'd co-opted a French engineer who normally lived and
worked in Bristol, and he cleaned it up.

|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Many Dutch kids learn [. . .] German [. . .] from an early age."| |-----------------------------------------------------------------|

I bought German magazines from a person of Dutch nationality who used
to be raised in the Netherlands near the German border. He used to buy
them by short travels into Germmany. He did not have a good grasp of
German when I bought them, so he declined to use German.

The Plattdeutch spoken just across the border from the Netherlands is
very close to Dutch.

|----------------------------------------------------------|
|"Many Dutch kids learn [. . .] English from an early age."| |----------------------------------------------------------|

Yes. "Langenscheidt Expresskurs Niederländisch" alleges that persons
who speak Dutch are less good at English than they believe. I do not
detect so.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steenkolenengels

is famous in the Netherlands. I never ran into an actual example in my
19 years in the country.

|---------------------------------------------------------|
|"Lots of Belgians are raised as French/Dutch bilinguals."| |---------------------------------------------------------|

Of course. "Wow! You can speak French!" said an aforementioned friend
of Belgian nationality acting like persons of Dutch
nationality. "Yeah. [She can speak ]A little[ French]." said she
herself as a response to downplay these amazements.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"The editors have to find the referees. The IEEE does publish a lot of | |peer-reviewed scientific journal - some of them quite good - but the | |quality of a publication depends on the quality of the papers submitted |
|to it for publication. A good editor can fish for papers from promising | |potential contributors, but if the community of researcher's being | |served isn't up to much, the journal serving them won't be either." | |------------------------------------------------------------------------|

The editors do not have to find the referees. Editors choose to use
referees. It is clear that IEEE editors and referees do not even read
what they accept for publications.

I submitted a good rebuttal about IEEE publications to the IEEE. The
IEEE refuses to publish a rebuttal unsurprisingly so the IEEE
contravenes its own code of ethics.
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Dear Don Y:

LinkedIn lies. LinkedIn violates legal duties. Laws permit reactions
to illegalities, where such reactions would be otherwise illegal, if
such reactions would be unprovoked actions (not reactions).

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote: |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Your USE of linkedin coerces you. That is your choice." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I choose to communicate with persons with whom I must
communicate. They insist on using LinkedIn. I prefer non-LinkedIn
media.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"Do you imagine spending an hour walking to the post office to |
|be of no value?" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

No, as well demonstrated by you.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"I can drive and do the trip in 20 minutes -- assuming I am not | |impeded by any accidents or "road work" along the way. |
| |
|I can walk and do it in 60 minutes. The first 20 of those would have|
|been required had I driven. So, I've "wasted" 40 minutes for the |
|"same result". |
| |
|Yet, in the walking case, I've exercised for 60 minutes at a "cost" |
|of only *40* minutes. The "wasteful" option is, in fact, the more | |efficient (given the need for daily exercise). [. . .]" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I do not walk when I use LinkedIn. I do actually walk when I use
setsid & to download a newsgroup.

|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|"How does 1 minute of USENET compare (content wise) to 1 minute |
|of LinkedIn? |
| | |Apples/Oranges." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

USENET discussions related to my profession are technically much more
advanced than LinkedIn discussions. They are the other way around when
they are discussions with professionals of more important
professions.

LinkedIn is very limited. E.g. it uses buggy text fields restricted to
a size of circa 1250 characters (maybe octets).

Many more persons detect LinkedIn publications, before LinkedIn
secretly, illegally hides them or destroys them. Thus attempts by me
to archive.

LinkedIn does not even offer a way to search thru comments.

Almost all the job advertisements which I post to the USENET are via
LinkedIn.
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:34:35 -0000 (UTC), Niocl�s P�l Caile�n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: >|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure"| >|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

True.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

It's an integer that results from a standard IQ test. That is very
well defined.

And the integer correlates highly with many measures of productivity
and success.

The SAT tests are even better, because they have separate math and
verbal scores.


John Larkin
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:40:38 -0000 (UTC), Niocl�s P�l Caile�n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

In case this post is too long: I do not recommend any of you to bother
to create an account on LinkedIn. The USENET is much better, but I
interact on LinkedIn with important non-engineers who insist on using >LinkedIn. One of the most important thereof even almost does not use
emails!

Most youngsters have never heard of usenet, and certainly don't
participate. Most ng's are dead.

I posted an ad for an intern on LinkedIn, for something like $45 per
day, and got maybe 50 responses per day. It only took a few minutes
per day to look at them and reject the 99% that were unsuitable.

LinkedIn looks like a giant waste of time if you use it as a social
network and have a couple hundred connections. Like X and Facebook.

The local Maker space is interesting. We have 500 people events with
free food and beer. It's much better to meet people physically than
remotely.


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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Don Y wrote:
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|"If you are reliant on those interactions, then you have to|
|accept them on THEIR terms." | |-----------------------------------------------------------|

Exactly.
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In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |----------------------------------------------------------------|
|">> A use of "learned" instead of "learnt" is a regional misuse.|

|
A language is defined by what people say. [. . .]" |

|----------------------------------------------------------------|

Dear Doctor Sloman,

Thanks for informing me about Steenkolenengels.

I want to quote an old comp.compilers post by its moderator about how
FORTRAN programmers are not bothered to consult the FORTRAN standard
(circa FORTRAN-66) so they insist that they know FORTRAN when they do
not, so a new FORTRAN standard (circa FORTRAN-77) made a
backwards-incompatible change to accept this wrong belief of what
FORTRAN really is. Alas searching for it takes too long (the 3 search
options offered by
HTTPS://compilers.IECC.com
and the search option offered by
HTTPS://groups.Google.com/g/comp.compilers
are inconsistent and FTP.IECC.com is not still available).

Many years ago I downloaded a file by a student claiming that
centuries ago English peasants invented "gelded" because they do not
know "gelt". I failed to find it for this post, so instead I
downloaded files about children who perform overregularisation.

"Old English had
many more irregular verbs than Modern English[. . .]
[. . .]
[. . .] Most of the grammatical structure of English develops rapidly
in the third year of life (31). One conspicuous development is the
appearance of overregularizations like comed. Such errors [. . .]"
says
Steven Pinker, "Rules of Language", "Science", Volume 253, 530, 1991.

"However, children also face a problem: if they generalise the
patterns too far, they’ll say something ungrammatical. If you’ve ever
heard a young child talking, it’s likely you’ll have heard them say
things like We goed to the park or I sitted down. In these examples,
the child has ‘overgeneralised’ the regular –ed ending pattern for
making the past tense in English."
says HTTPS://news.Liverpool.ac.UK/2014/06/30/becoming-an-expert-amy-bidgood-on-helping-children-learn-what-not-to-say/?

"This paper is concerned with the formation of past tense in child
English. Commissive errors within the realm of English past tense
marking are also known under
the terms overregularization errors (Kuczaj, 1977, 1978; Stemberger,
1982; Marcus
et al., 1992; Maratsos, 2000), doubling errors (Hattori, 2003) or
overtensing errors
(Stemberger, 2007). Overregularization occurs when an irregular verb’s
stem is suffixed with the regular past tense marker -ed. The stem can
either take the form that
also appears in present tense, as shown in (6a), or it can appear in
the portmanteau
past tense form, which is often a suppletive or ab-/umlauted stem, as
shown in (6b).
In the latter case, as in the causative domain, a feature, here past
tense, is marked
twice, once by the stem allomorph and once by -ed, thereby
constituting a case of
multiple exponence.
(6) Overregularization errors
a. I eated my breakfast.
b. I ated my breakfast."
says
Johannes Hein, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis
Alexiadou, "Errors of multiple exponence in child English: a study of
past tense formation", "Morphology", 2024.

A new rule is made by breaking an old rule. Breaking an old rule does
not make a new rule right.

Regards.

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According to Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>:

It's OK if you are an accountant, I guess.

Accountants have to explain what they are doing to other accountants,
and Excel won't let you do anything that is hard to explain. ...

It's hard to belive that anyone who has used Excel would say that. In my experience, any Excel spreadsheet large enough to be interesting has bugs.

Back in the 1980s I worked on a financial modeling package called Javelin.
You could use it for a lot of the financial stuff people do in spreadsheets (Lotus 1-2-3 at the time.) The models were a lot more structured and it
was far easier to audit them and check that they did what you expected.

Users didn't care, they loved their spreadsheets. Best quote: "It's up to my boss to check if my speadsheets are right."
--
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:21:28 -0000 (UTC), John Levine
<johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

According to Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>:

It's OK if you are an accountant, I guess.

Accountants have to explain what they are doing to other accountants,
and Excel won't let you do anything that is hard to explain. ...

It's hard to belive that anyone who has used Excel would say that. In my >experience, any Excel spreadsheet large enough to be interesting has bugs.

Back in the 1980s I worked on a financial modeling package called Javelin. >You could use it for a lot of the financial stuff people do in spreadsheets >(Lotus 1-2-3 at the time.) The models were a lot more structured and it
was far easier to audit them and check that they did what you expected.

Users didn't care, they loved their spreadsheets. Best quote: "It's up to my >boss to check if my speadsheets are right."

Forbes estimates that 88% of spreadsheets contain errors.




John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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In sci.electronics.design John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] In my | |experience, any Excel spreadsheet large enough to be interesting has bugs. | | | |Back in the 1980s I worked on a financial modeling package called Javelin. | |You could use it for a lot of the financial stuff people do in spreadsheets | |(Lotus 1-2-3 at the time.) The models were a lot more structured and it | |was far easier to audit them and check that they did what you expected. | | | |Users didn't care, they loved their spreadsheets. Best quote: "It's up to my| |boss to check if my speadsheets are right."" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Oh dear, another example of ineptness triumphing over technical
goodness.

I repeatedly complain to an R user which is an Excel user via
quotations like so: "languages like PHP and Mathematica are still
heedless to variable misspellings; [. . .] reversing bad design
decisions, is often impossible once there is a community of users. The shortcomings of Perl, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, etc, are going to persist
[. . .] JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Excel [. . .] having little type
safety" says
Harold Thimbleby, "Heedless programming: ignoring detectable error is
a widespread hazard", "Software: Practice and Experience"
and
"R crashes" says
HTTPS://CRAN.R-Project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Lexical-scoping
"missing or incorrect code in R" says HTTPS://CRAN.R-Project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Others
"errors later in the code" says HTTPS://CRAN.R-Project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-do-my-matrices-lose-dimensions_003f
"About 148,000,000 results" says
HTTPS://RSeek.org
concerning crash
"I find that my R session crashes very often, at random times for
random reasons" says HTTPS://StackOverFlow.com/questions/35318760/how-to-recover-rstudio-session-after-crash
"Session is abruptly aborted as soon as a data.frame is defined with
no error code being printed, except of course; "R encountered a fatal
error. The session was terminated"." says HTTPS://community.RStudio.com/t/rstudio-crashes-when-defining-data-frame-in-version-2023-09-1-or-newer/179120
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On 1/02/2026 2:29 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:34:35 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure"|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

True.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

It's an integer that results from a standard IQ test. That is very
well defined.

What it tests isn't.

And the integer correlates highly with many measures of productivity
and success.

For a rather low value of "highly". The correlation between IQ and post-employment success of university graduates is pretty close to zero.

You used to need an IQ score of about 115 to get into university - the
average IQ if American university students is now 102. Your chances of actually getting a university degree don't correlated strongly with with
you IQ score at university entry.

Difficult courses - mostly STEM subjects do show a stronger correlation,
but about 40% students drop out without getting a degree, and it takes a
IQ of 130 or better to get this down to 5%.

The SAT tests are even better, because they have separate math and
verbal scores.

But they still aren't all that good.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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On 1/02/2026 1:36 am, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"The editors have to find the referees. The IEEE does publish a lot of | |peer-reviewed scientific journal - some of them quite good - but the | |quality of a publication depends on the quality of the papers submitted | |to it for publication. A good editor can fish for papers from promising | |potential contributors, but if the community of researcher's being | |served isn't up to much, the journal serving them won't be either." | |------------------------------------------------------------------------|

The editors do not have to find the referees. Editors choose to use
referees. It is clear that IEEE editors and referees do not even read
what they accept for publications.

Refereeing is at the core of peer-reviewed publication. I've certainly
run into referees who didn't know what they were talking about, and once
got a paper published after pointing this out to the editor of the
journal, but that was just the referee's human error.

I submitted a good rebuttal about IEEE publications to the IEEE. The
IEEE refuses to publish a rebuttal unsurprisingly so the IEEE
contravenes its own code of ethics.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

No surprise there. Self-preservation is an integral part of any
organisation that is going to survive, even when it compromises the long
term viability of the organisation.

The early history of peer-reviewed publications saw most of them getting
taken over by some faction or other and refusing to publish anything
that wasn't written by a member of their faction.

The people excluded would then start their own journal, After a while
people noticed, and stopped tolerating that kind of take-over, at least
of the more important journals.

In recent decades we've seen a climate science journal infiltrated by a
rogue editor from the climate change denial propaganda machine.

Pearce, Fred (2010). The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about
Global Warming. London: Guardian Books. ISBN 978-0-85265-229-9. OCLC 651155245.

does talk about that, but Fred Pearce is a journalist, not a scientist,
and didn't understand why the rogue editor got kicked out, let alone
that this was a virtuous act.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney



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On 1/02/2026 6:16 am, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: |----------------------------------------------------------------|
|">> A use of "learned" instead of "learnt" is a regional misuse.|

|
A language is defined by what people say. [. . .]" |

|----------------------------------------------------------------|

Dear Doctor Sloman,

Thanks for informing me about Steenkolenengels.

I want to quote an old comp.compilers post by its moderator about how
FORTRAN programmers are not bothered to consult the FORTRAN standard
(circa FORTRAN-66) so they insist that they know FORTRAN when they do
not, so a new FORTRAN standard (circa FORTRAN-77) made a backwards-incompatible change to accept this wrong belief of what
FORTRAN really is. Alas searching for it takes too long (the 3 search
options offered by
HTTPS://compilers.IECC.com
and the search option offered by
HTTPS://groups.Google.com/g/comp.compilers
are inconsistent and FTP.IECC.com is not still available).

Many years ago I downloaded a file by a student claiming that
centuries ago English peasants invented "gelded" because they do not
know "gelt". I failed to find it for this post, so instead I
downloaded files about children who perform overregularisation.

"Old English had
many more irregular verbs than Modern English[. . .]
[. . .]
[. . .] Most of the grammatical structure of English develops rapidly
in the third year of life (31). One conspicuous development is the
appearance of overregularizations like comed. Such errors [. . .]"
says
Steven Pinker, "Rules of Language", "Science", Volume 253, 530, 1991.

"However, children also face a problem: if they generalise the
patterns too far, they’ll say something ungrammatical. If you’ve ever heard a young child talking, it’s likely you’ll have heard them say things like We goed to the park or I sitted down. In these examples,
the child has ‘overgeneralised’ the regular –ed ending pattern for making the past tense in English."
says HTTPS://news.Liverpool.ac.UK/2014/06/30/becoming-an-expert-amy-bidgood-on-helping-children-learn-what-not-to-say/?

"This paper is concerned with the formation of past tense in child
English. Commissive errors within the realm of English past tense
marking are also known under
the terms overregularization errors (Kuczaj, 1977, 1978; Stemberger,
1982; Marcus
et al., 1992; Maratsos, 2000), doubling errors (Hattori, 2003) or
overtensing errors
(Stemberger, 2007). Overregularization occurs when an irregular verb’s
stem is suffixed with the regular past tense marker -ed. The stem can
either take the form that
also appears in present tense, as shown in (6a), or it can appear in
the portmanteau
past tense form, which is often a suppletive or ab-/umlauted stem, as
shown in (6b).
In the latter case, as in the causative domain, a feature, here past
tense, is marked
twice, once by the stem allomorph and once by -ed, thereby
constituting a case of
multiple exponence.
(6) Overregularization errors
a. I eated my breakfast.
b. I ated my breakfast."
says
Johannes Hein, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis
Alexiadou, "Errors of multiple exponence in child English: a study of
past tense formation", "Morphology", 2024.

A new rule is made by breaking an old rule. Breaking an old rule does
not make a new rule right.

Regards.

(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

For a linguist, the rule is what people do. When entire populations
chose to a use the more regular mode of tense formation, that's language evolution, rather than misuse.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 20:59:19 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

On 1/02/2026 2:29 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:34:35 -0000 (UTC), Niocl�s P�l Caile�n de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure"|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

True.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

It's an integer that results from a standard IQ test. That is very
well defined.

What it tests isn't.

And the integer correlates highly with many measures of productivity
and success.

For a rather low value of "highly". The correlation between IQ and >post-employment success of university graduates is pretty close to zero.

You used to need an IQ score of about 115 to get into university - the >average IQ if American university students is now 102. Your chances of >actually getting a university degree don't correlated strongly with with
you IQ score at university entry.

Difficult courses - mostly STEM subjects do show a stronger correlation,
but about 40% students drop out without getting a degree, and it takes a
IQ of 130 or better to get this down to 5%.

The SAT tests are even better, because they have separate math and
verbal scores.

But they still aren't all that good.

"productivity and success" and "actually getting a university degree"
are entirely different things.


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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On 1/02/2026 10:06 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 20:59:19 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

On 1/02/2026 2:29 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:34:35 -0000 (UTC), Nioclás Pól Caileán de
Ghloucester <thanks-to@Taf.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|"the "Intelligence Quotient" is a remarkably ill-defined measure"|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

True.
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

It's an integer that results from a standard IQ test. That is very
well defined.

What it tests isn't.

And the integer correlates highly with many measures of productivity
and success.

For a rather low value of "highly". The correlation between IQ and
post-employment success of university graduates is pretty close to zero.

You used to need an IQ score of about 115 to get into university - the
average IQ if American university students is now 102. Your chances of
actually getting a university degree don't correlated strongly with with
you IQ score at university entry.

Difficult courses - mostly STEM subjects do show a stronger correlation,
but about 40% students drop out without getting a degree, and it takes a
IQ of 130 or better to get this down to 5%.

The SAT tests are even better, because they have separate math and
verbal scores.

But they still aren't all that good.

"productivity and success" and "actually getting a university degree"
are entirely different things.

True, but they correlate tolerably strongly. Neither has much to do with
doing well on an IQ test, but the IQ test is remarkably cheap to
administer and correlates well enough with the other two to be worth the effort. In a more rational society we'd put rather more effort into
evaluating people than just getting them to sit an IQ test, and in fact
we do - conventional education and regular examinations are more
influential than scores on IQ tests - but still not all that good.

Rich people like to be able to buy their kids an unfair advantage by
paying for expensive extra education, and have corresponding little
interest in setting up a system that's less easy for them to game, or
paying for better education for other people's kids.

Australia is surprisingly bad in this respect. About 30% of the
population is Roman Catholic, and the Catholic church in Australia has a
long history of setting up parochial schools where they can teach the
Catholic children to read and write and to believe in Catholic doctrine.

They didn't pay the teachers much, and most of the schools didn't work
too well. The obvious solution - to close them down - wasn't politically feasible, so the government subsidised them, and other religious
schools, so we've now got a whole bunch of different sorts of schools
with different levels of funding, and it is remarkably easy for the well
off to buy better education for their kids, and it is less easy for
bright kids from regular families to get the kind of education that lets
them fully exploit their skills.

I suffered from this (but not much). My first year of secondary
education was in a state funded local high school which happened to be
pretty good, then I got sent away to a Presbyterian boarding school
where the teaching was dire. Not bad enough to stop me passing all the
exams I needed to, but still dire.

Three of us from my year at the local high school ended up with Ph.D.s
in Chemistry. If anybody from the boarding school ever got any kind of
higher degree I've yet to hear about it.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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(In LinkedIn terminology, a "post" is the beginning of a thread,
whereas LinkedIn calls a follow-up article a "comment".)

I rarely post on LinkedIn (not counting many reposts). LinkedIn
frustratingly failed thrice today (before succeeding on this 4th
attempt) by making webbrowser tabs say that those webpages were
havings problems and to try to refresh or to return later.

All of these lame-LinkedIn failures happened when few programs ran and
RAM had free gigabytes and an SSD drive had free gigabytes.

I do not know if this type of LinkedIn lameness is normal.

I do find that LinkedIn is buggy when trying to compose a post (and in
other situations).
(S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
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