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I’ve had never really come into contact with hardware programming, working mostly in python or C#, until a friend of mine asked me for some help with programming a simple controller for RGB strips using Arduino Nanos. It's hard?
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What? It takes a different set of skills to do something different than what you are used to? Who'd a thunk. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Seems like basically the same process to me
Quote from TLDR: Read your specification
Read the right specification
Check connections logic thoroughly
Plan your stuff
Split your hardsoftware into parts
Don’t hardwirecode everything
Prototype and test on breadboard
Ever heard of fuses? Handle exceptions so you don't get garbage input into the wrong parts of your code
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At a high level sure, most problems in general could be addressed with that list, at a lower level it's a largely different mindset, well at least for me it is anyway.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Personal details of nearly everyone recognised were freely available to download Party at Elton's house!
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This just in: 99.9% of people don't give a bugger.
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Report it to the Information commissioner. He / She / They can fine them up to 25% of their annual global income for a GDPR breach.
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“With this interface, our manipulators were able to mind control a rat cyborg to smoothly complete maze navigation tasks,” the authors write. Grocery stores: explained
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What a wonderful accomplishment by the team, in a field of study that can only benefit mankind, and which could never be used for anything other than to do good and improve society and the lives of their fellow men.
I seriously cannot see this technology ever being used for good or noble purposes. Those who invest in it will not have "doing good deeds" in their minds.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I seriously cannot see this technology ever being used for good or noble purposes.
I don't see how any nation would allow something worse than slavery, and agree to making cyborg-humans just to control them - there's easier and cheaper ways to do that already.
I think that people reacted the same way on the first rockets, while research for the space-race gave us a lot more than fast-travelling bombs.
The research gives insight in how the brain works; may not just help with diseases of the brain, but may also help with building brains from scratch.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The research gives insight in how the brain works; may not just help with diseases of the brain, but may also help with building brains from scratch.
I very much doubt that funding for this will come from institutions interested in either of those things.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I very much doubt that funding for this will come from institutions interested in either of those things.
Those interested in mind-control have far cheaper ways at their disposal. Most funding is not by benign companies and investors, but from tax-payers and donations.
Investors only arrive if 95% of the research is done and there's a sure sign of profit to be had.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Quote: I don't see how any nation would allow something worse than slavery
Fat lot you know about nations. Slavery? Sure. More importantly, suppressing dissent if you can control minds.
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Greg Utas wrote: More importantly, suppressing dissent if you can control minds.
Like I already explained, there's cheaper and easier ways to do that. There's hardly any need for direct mindcontrol if you own the narrative or can decide what is acceptable to be learned and what not in schools.
Greg Utas wrote: Fat lot you know about nations.
Ha, as if you can determine what I do and do not know 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The internet has made it easier for people to rise above controlled narratives and schools, so I don't buy that argument.
My "fat lot" comment was uncalled for. But nations definitely "allow" worse things than slavery. In the 20th century, nations killed hundreds of millions of people, often their own citizens.
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Greg Utas wrote: The internet has made it easier for people to rise above controlled narratives and schools, so I don't buy that argument.
You don't have to; but similar to how the newspaper and tv is controlled, so the internet. People do not seek out news, but confirmation of what their neighbours tell them.
Greg Utas wrote: In the 20th century, nations killed hundreds of millions of people, often their own citizens.
This city is paved with reminders of exactly that. As for slavery, it still exists.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Greg Utas wrote: The internet has made it easier for some people to rise above controlled narratives and schools and even easier for many others to be fooled by controlled narratives and schools
FTFY
Internet is two side sharped sword
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Greg Utas wrote: The internet has made it easier for some people to rise above controlled narratives and schools and even easier for many others to be fooled by controlled narratives and schools the unschooled
FTFY
Internet is two side sharped sword
You missed a bit.
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fair enough
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, when a certain-coloured person living in a certain-coloured house finds out that the research was carried out by Zhang Shaomin, Yuan Sheng, Huang Lipeng, Zheng Xiaoxiang, Wu Zhaohui, Xu Kedi, and Pan Gang, take a wild guess at which budget such research will be funded by in the US.
[edit] Hmm. I replied to the wrong person. Someone in China must have pressed the wrong button. [/edit]
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modified 1-Jan-20 8:13am.
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Good code needs to meets two key requirements. First, it should be correct: when executing, it should produce the result that is expected. Second, it should be easy to read for other developers. So I should stop encrypting my source?
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I don't understand how it's possible for so many people to repeat things that have already been said by millions of other people, but still think they're being original and creative.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I don't understand how it's possible for so many people to repeat things that have already been said by millions of other people, but still think they're being original and creative.
And how many times has this been sarcastically observed about filler articles on slow news days? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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What will we see from product teams creating new software for the enterprise and how will they prioritize what to build? Meet the new code, same as the old code
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Good God!
I'm pretty sure that that wasn't written by a dev, because a dev would have put at least some substance and a few specifics into it.
It's what, about 30 inches of column that says absolutely nothing. If his father's a politician, he'll be so proud of his son.
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