My Boss: "So Moose, Can You Use The Release Toolchain To Generate Me A .hex File To Run Tests On?"

My boss: "So Moose, can you use the release toolchain to generate me a .hex file to run tests on?"

Moose, after several hours of trying: "No.

I mean it is theoretically possible... I JUST need to change the correct variables... but since our toolchain is an excel spreadsheet with buttons that activates visual basic macroes that calls chains of .bat scripts, which works with Rensas compilers and... Ruby... for some reason... and have 0 documentation...I have no freaking clue what anything does or where I need to change what..."

I am so fucking sorry :c

One thing I keep bringing up at work is "There are basically NO female software or electrical engineers working here. It is 100%. Not a singe one amongst the ~100 people working in this building as software and electrical engineers... why do we think that is?"

Like... it is for a reason lads!

I hate the god damn sudden loss of problem solving and good design sense that happens to engineers as soon as working on this starts

"Why do women not want to work her"?

Here is a idea: ASK SOME WOMEN!

All the people working here clearly DO NOT know OR are deliberately malicious, so we should get information from outside!

Females exist. I am telling you. We can find companies with a high percentage of female programmers and ASK them what to do.

Fucks sake! Basic freaking stuff

Being a woman in a stem course is so isolating and I feel like no one talks about how casual the sexism is, me and some of the other boys from class will be sitting together and they’ll just ogle at women and objectify them right in front of me or make sexist “jokes” that i have to take or ill be deemed too sensitive. No wonder so many women leave stem i can’t blame them, there was 10 other girls and they’ve all left now so i have to deal with this alone now. I HATE MEN‼️‼️‼️

Your posts are erratic and behaviour most unsettling

"programmers and computer scientists are all trans women" is not true. the truth, from experience, is that if you go into a coding or computer science class there will be maybe one closeted or stealth trans woman surrounded by the worst men you will ever possibly meet.

Fun fact, those two methods are NOT just different syntax for the same thing.

"If" Checks a condition. It compares it with something else. If you have a chain of many if/if else/if else /if else statments, the last one will only check its condition AFTER all the others have done so and failed. The if statements further down will be run with a delay compared to the ones further up. Only small, but real.

A switchcase runs every option with the same delay. No matter how many there are.

Because it uses its input, together with a constant, to get the correct memory place where the instructions are stored for the case, and jumps there.

It works by the compiler placing all the options in predictable memory so this method work.

So the swirch case does not compare its input to anything, it turns it into an address and goes there.

So the delay on every case is the same.

This can be important, if you are using the current time to measure time down to the micro or nanosecond, which is quite normal to want when you work with embedded systems :D

But rarely when working with higher level languages!

Its neat!

You know you wanna use it… So why don’t you?