friends, I am in a six hour call that’s supposed to be a high level overview of a certain embedded software runtime. The current slide contains a discussion of the garbage collection subsystem and heap management, and also a diagram of how an individual cell of static ram works with the electrons shuffling around between the 0 and 1 states. There are several hundred words in a tiny font talking about voltage and whatnot.
engineers please learn to value soft skills like “expressing your expertise clearly and concisely” a little more 😭 this is like trying to share your grandma’s cake recipe through the medium of a textbook on organic chemistry
@0xabad1dea if I was the only person in the audience and could ask questions I would love this presentation. Alas, then it wouldn't have to be a presentation.
@CppGuy @0xabad1dea @robryk the engineer thinks how the chips work is neat and interesting and they want to share when everyone because it's tangentially related and everyone having a deep understanding will assist in them seeing why the engineer wants to do the thing.
I guarantee.
Unless the GC somehow takes into account memory refresh cycle? (Though I'd expect that to be unlikely.)
@robryk yeah it’s not that I don’t think “how this ram chip works” is interesting, it’s just that my job, that I’m getting paid for and graded on with a deadline, is to bake the damn cake