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sent this image to my short friend and they responded with:

"*5'2""

I must know what you meant by "Necromancy" 😅

Some quality shitposts

https://i.redd.it/5dzz1vz6vwre1.gif

Generally, it's programmers using https://butplug.io integrations in their IDEs.

Ultrakill has native support for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If memory serves there is a bit near the start of the book that is pretty gross, I think it does a good job of making you feel uncomfortable and grossed out by the person causing the event. With that said I would put Snow Crash in my top 5 books of all time, like the OP said, it's a bit dated, but it's influence on tech culture is undeniable. It's not just Meta/Facebook that took influence from it, but for xBox and xBox Live where it was mandatory reading for the development team.

No problem! If you want something a little simpler to start on, the Arduino environment is pretty robust and easy to work with. While the RP2040 is compatible, it has a few quirks that can make it a bit annoying to work with.

Now with that said, the Arduino environment is a good place to start learning, but it does come with a fair amount of magic

Ah, the duality of man

Another major factor in the slow progress of railguns is beral ablation, basically, each shot takes an amount of material away from the gun. This happens on conventional guns as well, but on a railgun, once enough material gets removed for arcs to form, you pretty much can't fire it anymore without serious risk of jamming the gun.

While I agree with your point for the most, in my experience that doesn't entirely hold true for embedded systems. I work on flight software in support of US DoE civilian space missions. Most of my code is embedded C written for the SAMRH707 which is a 50MHz ARM Cortex-M7 with 128 kBytes of RAM. For the most part the folks doing the physics design of the instruments are the ones doing the high level math and and physics sims. In the actual embedded code, it's mostly a matter of counting stuff and/or building histograms. My math basically ends at Calc 1 and in highschool I was in what they politely called the "decelerated" math courses.

Now, don't get me wrong, I use a fair number of damn dirty bit hacky stuff like the FIS, but for the most part we stay firmly in the domain of integer math as even voltage readings from the ADC are expressed as integers by the hardware and it really doesn't make sense to convert them to a floating point value until they are on the ground. On orbit, the integer the ADC returns is totally fine to bin an event into a histogram or do peak detection on a waveform.

There are totally domains of programming, graphics comes to mind in particular, where an understanding of the linear algebra and trig behind it all is important, I would argue that embedded, by and large, is not characterized by needing an advanced understanding of the math, but rather an advanced understanding of your hardware, processor, and enough EE knowlage to get by.

Best of luck! I'm interested in seeing what you come up with!

Ah! That makes sense!

I would look into the Wireshark Dissector API, it's a way to describe the contents of a pkt to Wireshark. There are both C and Lua APIs, most of the tutorials you'll find focus on the Lua one and unless you need really advanced/fast disection the Lua one is the way to go.

I'm sure you can find your own tutorials, but this series of guides is pretty okay. Most of the concepts should cary over, you will just need to register your disector under the BLE layer insetead of the TCP one like the guide describes.

Good luck!

At a high level, there is GATT, which is a standardized way to describe the functionality of your device. There is also a list of assigned numbers that describes the devices and their fields. Those are often helpful for working with a BLE device.

The analog pins are basically the same, except they can be used to sense values between 0 and 5 volts as they are connected to the ADC

I think you'll find that's actually the holy bible, not the holy grail ;)

okay, but like what if I am a cis guy and like to play medic...

Get an RP2040, they are ~$5 and are a good platform to learn on!

Looks neat! I've written a fair (a lot) of Python, because of institutional restrictions it is generally not the most up to date Python at work. I haven't seen keyword params used in class declarations like this before and if anyone is willing to explain exactly how it works I would appreciate it.

I see it used here so it looks like it a way to pass arguments to __init_subclass__(), is that just it or is there something else it can do? Any info would be appreciated :D

Type 1 Diabetic, this is the needle portion of a pen needle. They generally come with a cap portion but they should be disposed of in a sharps container.

I always love Ken Shirriff's stuff! If you haven't seen the work He, CurriousMarc, and Mike Stewart did on the Apollo Guidance Computer it is some truly legendary stuff!

LFG!!! I'm pretty excited for this game :D

I mean int i = (int)f; works, but this... this is not correct :P

I will agree that this is... not very funny :P