• mysteryname101@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Embedded. I’m currently writing software with 96 bytes of RAM. My next project I get to splurge and have 8kB of RAM and 32k of Flash.

    I’m more scared with how badly I’ll handle/manage the 8k of RAM.

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        Taking courses which involve subjects that you will likely never encounter in the workforce is a thing in every discipline. Most engineers don’t need to manually solve differential equations in their day jobs, they just need to know that they exist and will often require numerical solutions.

        Getting your hands dirty with the content provides a better understanding when dealing with higher level concepts.