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@lore That's just how Embedded Systems work in general. If you want good documentation and clear instructions, look into Mr. Lee's publications. I don't recall him working with the ST series but his work with competing hardware is legendary. There are too many to list. I know that he worked with Nordic Semi hardware as part of the PineTime effort.

https://github.com/lupyuen

As for the ST hardware, I just used it to make a BMP. I would recommend using an existing project to get it mostly functional and go from there. Maybe look at some of Mr. Lee's work with MCUs to find some useful tools and perhaps some MCUs that you can use in the future.

I've seen non functional hardware go from nothing to functional when he was involved. Open Source tools emerged on previously closed source platforms and obscure products were documented and made to be functional.

@lore If you have a spare STM32 blue or black, make it a Black Magic Probe. This is a proper way to use the board and it's incredibly capable. I keep a board flashed with it ready at all times.

https://github.com/blackmagic-debug/blackmagic/releases

https://hackaday.com/2016/12/02/black-magic-probe-the-best-arm-jtag-debugger/

So this is definitely worth putting on one of these MCU boards.

@trinsec @freemo It also beats a Peacekeeper helmet because people won't subsequently question your intentions.

@freemo @trinsec Perhaps say that it's a toxic work environment and you need that gear to make others feel more confident in themselves. Sometimes it's hard to be this good but other people need to feel confident too. It actually takes that much gear to level the field which is more of a testament to their insecurities than anything else.

It really would look like you woke up and somehow thought you were a CNN reporter. Maybe mention some baggage from the past bringing you down and pull the Toughbook out. There are so many jokes about the Toughbook. A Marine once asked me if my Toughbook was a Toughbook so I tossed it down some stairs with the power on. I opened it up and continued what I was doing and responded, "Yes it's a Toughbook." Someone told me I shouldn't do that to a laptop and I told them this is nothing compared to what they are expected to endure. The best way to kill a Toughbook is with time. It's like buyers remorse with useful legacy ports and it doesn't break. I drop tested it frequently out of respect and admiration.

@thor A more accurate scene in the US would be the homeless man being arrested as a result of the awareness. They would also magically be cured.

@thor I immediately thought that's a lot of alcohol and (insert something here). Yeah that's probably not what was being referred to. That's absurdly expensive.

@lore I love it. I've never looked at Z mod 2 equivalency classes in binary. The 2n class would have binary ending in zero and the 2n + 1 class would have the binary end in one. That's pretty damn interesting.

Superficially it's not that impressive but it does a lot more than it seems to. That's a very good dive into the code and explanation. It's textbook worthy, really.

@lore Embarrassingly enough I seem to have mostly used something closer to ANSI C or C89. I do recall conditionals being used extensively. Well I guess I'll have to check out Fatboy Slim You've come a long way, Baby.
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@lore That's likely where I got confused. In Mathematics the tilde (~) is used to negate. For a Boolean value we used T or F instead of 0 and 1. This is because they are True or False and the 0 or 1 could imply that they are integers. While {0,1} are a subset of Integers, they are merely place holders and not subject to operations.

Perhaps what confused me the most was that there was no mod 2 operation visible. I do assume at first that it would return two values but I couldn't understand why it would do so.
(See nearly every example of C with return 0 ie it worked or the other numbers from where code failed.)

The more I looked at it, it started to appear to be a weird Comp Sci thing and it did turn into more weird Comp Sci things. I've used C for a while and Cpp until around 4 years ago when Cpp++ really made me hate it.

I'm stumped, it seemingly returns bit flipped X (or negation X) And 1. I don't see what it does and I'm not cheating and compiling it. Assuming that X has the value of 0 it could bit flip to 1 and that's what the result is but I really don't get what the & 1 is doing. Very humbling.

@freemo @Pat @TruthSandwich Zebra F-701 if you can find one. It's nearly all steel and loved by officers working in a jail. It's a bit heavy with a knurled steel grip but it writes very well. It takes the standard Zebra refills or a Fisher Space Pen refill with some modifications.

The ink is very black so I use the very fine point. The ink dries fast enough with the fine point to where I haven't had any issues with smearing.

It's just something about the F-701 that makes it feel well balanced and precise. I believe it was discontinued but came back as a pen for use in medical environments. It's not like the F-301 pens where the plastic grip breaks and the pen is done. Most of the pen is steel with the exception of the click mechanism and interior where it holds the ink.

A refined writing instrument that is durable enough to stab something and go back to writing.

@lucifargundam @freemo If you start to display PTSD symptoms don't hesitate to seek help.

@freemo @trinsec You should be receiving hazard pay so hopefully that will increase the amount of money from the contract. If it doesn't get better I'd highly recommend a vest and NATO helmet. The helmet won't stop bullets but the webbing system instead has great protection against the pressure wave. The vest should help with the pressure wave and possible shrapnel.

Time to swap to a Toughbook and carry a boo-boo kit. In a fucked up way, that sounds very exciting.

@lore Zallen {0,1}.
Seemingly the negation of X and 1. Negation of X being the bit flip of the binary number. So it's going to be swapping to truth value and adding a 1 to it. It could return the same value or probably cause a compiler error. The bool is not bitwise but the operation occurs outside the bool.

It's not comfortable code to look at.