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You realize embedded systems engineers are real, right?
And if anything qualifies as esoteric, arcane knowledge, it’s embedded systems programming
I’d say OS and driver programming is also in that category. It is the deep magic.
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
For linux driver development you can start by reading “Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition” pdf.
It is free and give you an idea about how everything works.
The real learning is by reading and using the linux kernel api doc or directly the source code of the api you want to call.
Source : i did this for a school project where i had to implement multiple kernel modules.Neat! I’ll add it to my long list of things ADHD will never let me finish!
I think the real issue with driver development is that almost nobody ever has a reason to do it. It’s a much more constrained way of programming compared to normal programs, and isn’t necessary unless you need to talk to hardware or something. So, nobody has an excuse to learn it.
… Unless you want to talk to hardware. Or something.
Yes… as I said. But, most people use hardware provided by other people, which means other people write the drivers.
Or giant megacorporations each hire 200,000+ of them to create products for the non-magic folk to consume.
After a few decades, the idea of being a wizard is synonymous with working 8+ hours a day on magic that no wizard really wants and there is so little new spells and magic being created in the world that everyone wishes there wasn’t any.
Then leaks come out that the products these megacorporations create have been slowly killing the planet and they’ve known for decades. But since they have so much power and money, nothing can stop them until the world dies.
Chemists are wizards?
I mean chemistry direct predecessor, alchemy, was basically in large part magical practice attempt.
True. They didn’t make gold, but they discovered phosphorus…I think? The reducing urine one experiment.
Yep. You wouldn’t have adventurous magicians going out and casting spells against dragons. The variety of spells known by D&D type wizards wouldn’t even be a thing. You’d have a guy who was a specialist in ritual-casting flame spells whose job consisted of continuously heating up cauldrons of metal ore so it could be smelted. If he was jumped on his commute home, he couldn’t fight the attackers off with “fireball” or something. Maybe that was covered in school decades ago, but he’s spent his entire career doing nothing but that one smelting spell Or, you’d have the “Gate” wizard whose entire job was to keep up a portal for their entire 8 hour shift, so that tourists could pass back and forth.
Stop, I can only get so depressed!
Bro made fantasy stuff into a capitalist dystopia
Discworld wizards represent!
Ponder Stibbons inserts another punch card into Hex. Ants flow through tubes and gears begin turning.
There’d be hair restoration & ED specialized wizards within a year.
Oh great wizards finasteride and dutasteride, give me back my hair!
Haha, look, it’s my career!
🫠
Now that’s just academica.
Grasshopper mind sorcery
We have this now. Scientists and big pharma.
That’s the joke
Hey now, boner pills aren’t useless!
Could the same scientists have been working on cancer treatments? Maybe, but it’s not nearly as fun to test.
Gonna need to divert the entire US defense budget for two years to researching how to make my PP bigger.
Vote for me for president and I’ll make it happen.
I’d certainly vote if I was a citizen. Let’s maybe see about that again in say 20 years?
Just commit voter fraud. All 7 of my supporters so far are from other countries. Seriously my PP is so smol I need the military budget to gain a centimeter
