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Re:Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized test... by umanwizard on Sunday January 08, 2017 @01:37PM (#13351172)
Huh? how is ARM more "industry standard" than anything else?
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Re:Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized test... by robotjosh on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:07PM (#13351322)
Most of the microcontrollers being used in new designs today are arm-cortex. Everybody who does microcontroller work except some pic weirdos is familiar with arm-cortex.
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Re:Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized test... by umanwizard on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:54PM (#13351593)
Are you under the impression the only reason anyone would need to know assembly language is to work with microcontrollers?
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Re:Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized test... by robotjosh on Sunday January 08, 2017 @03:44PM (#13351896)
Yes. Every firmware engineer works with assembly but barely any x86 devs ever touch assembly.
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Re:Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized test... by umanwizard on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:52PM (#13352259)
This is the base rate fallacy.
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