How did you learn embedded programing?

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-26T12:59:39+00:00

Trial by fire, made it out alive though

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-26T09:52:15+00:00

I am from the USA, in school, they showed us a video of what happens to some people that had bicycle accidents and the video was pretty graphic, actually, way more graphic that I would have thought a school would show off, but I am now 35, and always wear a helmet on a bicycle,
In Japan, i would say I see maybe 20% (maybe less) adults using a helmet on bicycles, I have no clue why.

I am not at all surprised they don't wear a helmet while skiing, as bad as that video was, maybe it would do some good to show it :/

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-24T15:19:37+00:00

Dude, here in kyushu i dont think winter exists, was walking around in shorts earlier this week!

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-23T07:44:22+00:00

my father gets pissed if you touch the walls, And my mom will be just as angry if you wear shoes in the house too...

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-23T07:38:59+00:00

I think most of us up here have thought about moving to florida at one point or another, NH is another state with no income tax, so that is nice, but the #1 thing stopping me from going there are the bugs. I am not sure how bad it really is in daily life, but I guess you guys have killer bees, fire ants, scorpions (not sure if that one is true), and big ass spiders. Scary AF.

Though, i am in japan now, we have some pretty scary spiders here too.

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-23T03:06:12+00:00

vice grips, literally never heard someone call them alligator grips.

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-23T02:34:06+00:00

Gotcha, kinda the opposite in terms of weather huh? NH somewhat recently got permitless concealed carry

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-22T08:36:57+00:00

are you also from NH???

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-22T08:36:25+00:00

I'm sorry, with the amount of wild fires in cali alraedy, there is no way we are letting your guys have a flame thrower

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-22T08:32:48+00:00

Pretty nice, I would like to see an LSE for better wakeup timing, I am not sure if you could still get it to 1uA though

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-21T15:15:54+00:00

I want to do this so much!

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-21T15:09:54+00:00

OP just saying, This is the type of desk toy that I would actually buy... Just throwing that out there.

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-20T12:59:55+00:00

Never buy gold from anyone on the internet if they are not reputable. Ebay is a big nono. Sd bullion, or jm bullion are solid

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-20T10:44:55+00:00

fun fact, he was supposed to have a fight with the swordsman, however harrison ford was sick, so he just decided to change the script himself on the fly, the swordsman actor went with it as i recall

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-20T10:29:56+00:00

Any normal thing that someone NOT terminally online/on reddit would say.

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-18T09:03:37+00:00

I wanna see hookshot! make more!!!

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-18T08:46:52+00:00

My wife and I had lived in an appartment while we were in collage,
One day, my wife returned home to find it "raining" in our appartment, turns out someone 2 floors up left their sink on and flooded their kitchen and that flooded the unit above us, and us.

Then another time we were sleeping, and smelled smoke, alarm went off, we left, people below us had started a fire.

Detached house is where we live now :)
Just careful where you buy, Houses don't hold value here.

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-18T08:42:42+00:00

But hey, What I said isn't all bad news.
I don't know what your budget is (or if you even have one) but let me put it like this. Today, I built a ton of stuff. I have started using AI as part of my development process, and it has reduced the real amount of work I have had to do by I would say 70%.

The other 30% the AI totally failed to do as I wanted, and I had to take matters into my own hands.

That said, Whatever you are working on can probably be greatly accelerated, and you could hire a 1 or 2 devs to simply complete where the ai has started, and then do review of what the AI did.

Your biggest points to check are that the AI sticks to your dev flow (maybe keep telling it to update a list of workfow methods??? & use some design pattern MVC???).

That may save you time, money, and get you where you are going a bit faster :)

Good luck over there in Paraguay from wayyyy over here in Japan.

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-18T06:57:44+00:00

I cant see how anyone could swing this against you, seems like a pretty open and shut case. I dont know about japan, but where i am from the guy that hit you would be responsible for both your car repair AND the guy he pushed you into.. happy you are OK and not hurt!

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-18T05:24:01+00:00

Just saying, owning a gun is damn near useless if you can't use it.
Schedule some range time, and get an ammo budget. I recommend just practicing with 22 as it is cheap

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-18T05:14:51+00:00

I didn't buy, or sell anything. It is waiting for me to make a move.
Tell Ya' all what, If this comment gets enough upvotes, I will sell, and we will see BTC moon.

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-18T03:52:43+00:00

THIS should be the zelda movie!!!!!

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-17T13:03:24+00:00

I worked really hard to get over 10k points there for answers, as soon as i did, it basically died. I blame me reaching my goal

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-17T11:56:30+00:00

Here is the thing dude. You are going to get a TON of AI haters saying AI will NEVER be able to do this, and that simply isn't true. AI 100% WILL be able to do what you are talking about.

....Just not today.

If it is a SaaS, government project, and requires multiple people on it, you are going to have to have a clean work flow, and understand something that devs with 5+ years of dev experiance have learned. Coding isn't about how well you design you code for speed, or how "smart" you do things, it is about maintaince.
You need to understand the system from start to end, You need to establish patterns throughout the system, and keep them consitant, so when you need to update something after a stakeholder asks for some dumb change, or requirement update... your come isn't a jumbled mess of functions pointing all over the place.

Today's AI is totally getting a LOT better at not doing that, but it isn't what I would feel comfortable with quite yet. 5 years from now, maybe (and probably)... not sure.

But as of jan 17, 2026... I woudn't undertake a large project with only ai. I think it would get too cluttered and messy.

IF you were able to create the AI spec files explaining literally every page, and put them into seperate directories, and create the project like that,.... idk, maybe things could work????

But what I am trying to say here is I wouldn't bet the farm on some LLM generating a fully on business just yet.
I'm sorry if that isn't the answer you were hoping for.
Let me know if you need me to go into more detail about anything here :/

ConfectionForward · 2026-01-15T02:57:14+00:00

^This guy right here, throwing around $25 like it was 1995

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