Re: Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability

On 14/03/2024 10:47 am, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2024 9:29 AM, Peter wrote:

  Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote

On 3/12/2024 6:10 AM, Peter wrote:

   RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

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

Medical doctors have to cope with a flood of new knowledge.
The peer-reviewed literature where most of it comes out isn't as well regulated in medicine as it is in most sciences - medical professors still have the god-professor status that all professor had in Germany in 1920s. and they get to publish a lot of half-baked papers.
This means that a lot of what is touted as new knowledge is pretentious nonsense.
The regular literature contains a lot of stuff that wasn't worth publishing, but it tends to be more unhelpful than actively wrong.
Of course medical doctors are dealing with the same old problems that human beings have always had, while engineers have invented new problems to solve.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney