On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 11:29:48 AM UTC+11, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:02:41 +0000, Fakir Neejit <
f.ne...@aol.com wrote:
> >On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 06:52:43 -0800, John Larkin <j...@997PotHill.com> wrote:
> >>On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:15:14 +0000, Fakit Neejit <
fakir....@aol.com> wrote:
> >>>On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 11:12:50 -0800, John Larkin <j...@997PotHill.com> wrote:
> >>>>On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:24:27 +0000, Fakir Neejit <
f.ne...@aol.com> wrote:
> >>>>>On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:58:25 +0000, Cursitor Doom <
c...@notformail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> >>>>>Did you try hard to become an obnoxious gammon halfwit, or did it come
> >>>>>naturally?
> >>>>
> >>>>Lame insults take no skill at all.
> >>>
> >>>That wasn't an insult for the simple reason that it's impossible to
> >>>insult Doom.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Still childish and lame. Design something. Show us.
> >
> >There you go again, deploying your well used attack line of claiming
> >that people you don't approve of can't design electronics.
> >
> >For what it's worth, I've been designing electronics and embedded
> >software since 1972. But unlike you I don't feel the need to
> >constantly post stuff on SED just to show how clever I am. So no, I
> >won't rise to your bait and post anything.
> >
> I didn't expect that you would post anything on-topic.
>
> I'm not trying to look clever; I'm autistic enough to not care much what other people think.
But you still try to look clever, and don't.
> I just like to talk about electronics. And I sort of design in public.
John Larkin doesn't know what "design" means. He boasts here about stuff he has put together, but he doesn't talk about the - non-existent - design process, and he won't get involved in any discussions about how it could be improved, because he imagines that he has achieved perfection and any suggestion that he hasn't is perceived as a "tedious droning insult".
> Why have an electronics design discussion group where nobody posts about electronic design? But just post insults?
Since John Larkin doesn't do electronic design, he doesn't recognise what does get posted about the process.
The insults are the mechanism that gets the attention of people who think they are posting about design when they don't know what they are talking about.
They have to be pointed enough to get the attention of complacent people who are perfectly (but incorrectly) confident that they know what they are talking about. Getting windbags and bores to shut up takes fairly heavy-handed responses - if you are wedded to the idea that you know what you are talking about it takes a ferocious response to get you attention. Windbags and bores have been carrying on like that for most of their lives. If they could pick up subtle signals they'd have changed their behaviour years ago.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney