Let’s face reality. The first time that Trump was elected, everyone was surprised, sure.

Now that he will be elected again, there is no more surprise. A lot of Americans still chose Trump after everything he’s said and done and he’s won the popular vote.

The US have been toeing the line of fascism for a while now and a good proportion of their citizens just told us they embraced it, regardless of if they know what that entails or not.

Donald Trump is just a symptom, not the cause. If there wasn’t any fascists, he wouldn’t even be in the race yet here we are.

With that said, if the polls are really close between the Libs and Cons for a majority government, I for sure will vote for the Libs. The Cons are the worst possible majority government we can have.

Otherwise, I am free to choose NPD, as I did in every elections before.

Yeah sounds familiar and I’ll vote Trudeau if it is needed to stop conservatives from getting in power.

Lots of people care because it creates e-waste.

If the culture changes so that all consumers act like that and forces the companies to change their production cycle, that would be a big boon for the environment.

I mean, even as a sexual person, when you stop and think about it, it is indeed gross.

But my reptilian brain craves it. And my logical brain just doesn’t give a fuck anymore about how it looks like. I mean, I change diapers full of shit and piss every day and I’ve seen my two children be born in an ungodly amount of juices. My threshold for being grossed out has become a lot higher.

The issue isn’t you doing your hobby projects however you want, it’s people being paid and produce LLM generated code.

And the biggest issue is managers/c-suites thinking that LLMs can replace senior devs.

And the biggest biggest issue is that the LLMs in their current mainstream form are terribly bad for the environment.

What I like about embedded is that it’s between software and hardware, where you have to know both to a certain extent. It kinda feels like being a mad scientist bringing a monster to life. Seeing that my code makes physical actions (lighting a LED or controlling a motor) never seems to get old, even when trivial.

I am confronted everyday about the things I don’t know because I work in a startup and I am the only one that does what I do. Any issue that I have tells me what I need to learn to fix the issue.

You are right that for a lot of people, what I do seems like magic and we often forget the extent of our knowledge because it has become innate.

Thanks for the insight, I appreciate it.

Through the different replies, I reflected on what I know and what I do for work and I feel like my skillset is more akin to a generalist/integrator, which is needed. But I also feel like everyone in my domain does that. Which might or might not be true.

I guess knowing our strengths and weaknesses is also a skill in itself and a little bit of self doubt here and there can help us grow and direct our knowledge in a certain direction.

Thanks for the insight.

It’s funny because I often have to look for the prototype of a function because I often forget all the arguments a standard C function uses, but otherwise, i feel like I am proficient enough to know where to look for, which in my case is normal because I won’t memorize all the details of how each peripheral of the mcu works.

I work in a small start-up where I am the only one doing what I do, so my epiphanies come from the struggles I have.

Other people I work with often have a blank look in their eyes when I try to explain some issues or what the code does because they don’t have the skillset to comprehend what I am doing. So this isn’t a path for me (yet, hopefully we can grow enough where we need more people in my field).

But I appreciate your experience. I will certainly think about a way to play in the innards of my language so that I can understand it better.

Thanks for the input, it will make me think about how to approach how to get the skills I need.

I’d say I am decent with FreeRTOS which is pretty much just a scheduler with a few bells and whistles.

I haven’t used assembly in a long while, so I know where to look to understand all the instructions, but I can’t tell right off the bat what a chunk of assembly code does.

Algorithms, I am terrible at these because I rarely use them. I haven’t worked in a big enough project where an algorithm is needed. I tend to work in finite state machine which is close to algorithms, but it’s not quite it. And a big part of my job is interfacing peripheral chips for other to use.

The blogposts are the example I had because this is usually where I find my solutions.

I do understand that I don’t need an in depth knowledge of everything about my language, but I sometime feel like I should know more. But again, this is the imposter syndrome talking.

I am thinking about blogging once my kids are older and I have more time because I am grateful when someone else does and I want to contribute as well.

It’s a strong typed language with a minimal set of guard rails, so there is certainly some considerations to take into account, but the compiler are pretty good and give more leeway to the dev.

I think I’ll never not make & &&, | || or = == operators mistakes. It’s so easy to go over it fast and not notice the mistakes.

I like developing MCU firmwares because there is limited amout of resources and you usually have direct control of what is running when.

I feel the better than many, but mediocre in my soul. I mean, I get paid to code, so I certainly have a good enough knowledge to do so. But I have the tendancy to undersell myself.

I really like brain twisters. It can get frustrating at times, but it’s the most fun out of the profession to me.

You realize that liberals are center-right, right?

I’ll be ecstatic if that happens, but I won’t hold my breath. It should have been done a long time ago for so many mega corpos, but here we are.

It’s exactly that. Detect where there are ads in a scene ( a panel for example) and replace the space with their own ads.

Over a 100 years old, you can do whatever the fuck you want. You’re gonna throw him in jail? He doesn’t even know if he’ll live for another hour.

Corpos are spending countless resources to infiltrate anything with as much as a iota of traction so that they can bleed the cow cash dry and sell its carcass for money.

Even if you distrust the corpos and want them to die, the majority of the population has so much trouble just surviving that its hard to raise up against that bullshit

In an ideal world yes, but we’ve learned nothing from the Dotcom bubble, or the 2008 housing bubble.

If there is money to be made, history will repeat itself.