[SystemSafety] Collected stopgap measures

[Olwen Morgan]

On 03/11/2018 23:11, Paul Sherwood wrote:

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 >>> Certainly your reply comes across as ad-hominem, to me, with no wit 
at all.

Try "ad homunculum".


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 >>> From my POV I'm just doing my best.

If, on a list devoted to safety critical systems, your best is to 
suggest that we need neither documented requirements nor documented 
designs, then you may have to acquiesce in having some people think that 
your best is a long way short of good enough.

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>> ... and heaven forfend that anyone make the contrapositive inference.
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> I'm not going to bother attempting to parse that.
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.... engineers and language again ... and if you think this is trolling, 
let me point out that, just as there is a distinction between irony and 
sarcasm, so also is there a distinction between trolling and sublimated 
ennui.

I reserve the right to express irritation at being confronted by patent 
incompetence on a list like this.


Olwen