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If you think you need this you're doing it wrong. Nobody should be writing bash scripts more than a few lines long. Use a more sane language. Deno is pretty nice for scripting.

This has been the norm for literally decades. Doxygen was doing it in 1997 and I'm sure it wasn't the first.

Uhm, ship both. Most type systems are not expressive enough to 100% explain the correct use of an API.

In my experience unless you are pretty much immediately popping the stash it's much better just to make a branch and do a normal commit. I would recommend avoiding git stash in general.

To be fair they are definitely improving. It feels pretty incremental at this point though. I think we need one or two fundamental breakthroughs before we're going to see programmers actually out of jobs. E.g. if they find a way to do real on-line learning, or a way to stop the hallucinations.

Why? MATLAB is pretty dense normally, and most MATLAB code is hacky scripts that wouldn't bother with "boilerplate" anyway.

Oh that reminds me. I wouldn't recommend PIC in the 21st century but there's a really cool project called BIO that is an open source alternative to Raspberry's PIO (programmable IO). It's RV32-E with custom x16-31 registers that control the pins directly. Very neat idea.

It's by Bunnies Huang and he talks about it in this talk about Xous.

The hardware is (or will be) here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip

May be a bit hardcore for a beginner though.

Sounds like you know plenty to learn Rust.

Yes it has definitely changed. Before AI, writing code strongly indicated that the author had thought about the problem and put effort into solving it. Of course they could have still done it wrong but a) the chances are much higher with AI, and b) they're using up your time without spending any of theirs which breaks the social contract.

Yeah I think just counting fully unique lines is going to really capture the repetitiveness of a language. I think you'd get more accurate results just asking people using pairwise ranking.

They wanted me to make some changes and with the normal workflow that's just git commit and git push. With git send-email I have no fucking idea and it got beyond the point where I had enough cared enough to fight the process.

For bare metal definitely get a microcontroller and do some fun electronics project.

Easiest to get into is Arduino, but don't stick with that because its only redeeming feature is that it's easy to get into. The IDE sucks, the build system sucks, the APIs really suck, and the code quality is very low (probably because it's easy to get into so you get a lot of inexperienced people doing stuff).

After Arduino I would recommend either going to the Nordic nRF5x series - you can do some cool Bluetooth stuff, or even make you your own radio protocol since the radio peripheral is fully documented... Or ESP32 with Rust and Embassy is probably the most modern and slick way to do microcontrollers.

It does require learning Rust but Rust is really really good so you should do that anyway.

There are some extremely good videos on YouTube about that: https://youtube.com/@therustybits

I would probably still start with Arduino though since you know C. Just don't stay there for too long.