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First year of college. We had to write a program in assembly to let lights go on and off slowly but I couldn't get it to work and googled the shit out of it trying to get it to work to no avail. So I go to the teacher as I expected him to have a bit more documentation/knowledge on how the shit worked. He literally said oh let me google that for you. Which made me go 🤦‍♂️. In the end I never figured out how to get the lights on or off but luckily my team mates did a good enough job to get us passed in the class.

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    I had to do that as well. It was shit.
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    And now image that Hans Moravec created a self driving cart that could defeat uneven terrain using assembly. He had a team of him and 2 undergrads.

    Must have been wild.
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    Yeah I don't envy him and his team. It did make me appreciate higher level languages so much more and it's good to know what lies underneath those but man if anyone would ever say I had to write something in assembly again, I would slap them silly
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    seems like a waste of assembly code. you could do the same with a couple resistors and caps with a 555.
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