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You realize embedded systems engineers are real, right?

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This makes me feel so much better after spending a morning banging my head against some wild pointer arithmetic, thank you much much! (Ultimately the pointer incantations were successful, praise be!)

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Three things in CS meet the qualifications for arcane runes: complex regular expressions, pointer arithmetic, and bit shifting.

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And if anything qualifies as esoteric, arcane knowledge, it’s embedded systems programming

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I’d say OS and driver programming is also in that category. It is the deep magic.

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True, true. I have a vague idea how embedded systems work. I have no idea how you even get started with driver development.

OS development isn’t terrible though. There are numerous books to help you make your own kernel and OS

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