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Subject: Re: Need Assistance -- Network Programming
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:10:03 -0000 (UTC)
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 23:58 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:59:41 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> On 6/25/2024 10:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On 19 Jun 2024 22:46:32 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Instead of handing you a fish, I'm teaching you to fish.
>>> 
>>> When I used a similar phrase in a reply on another group, this person
>>> said “something about the way you went about that rubbed me the wrong
>>> way”.
>> 
>> 
>> That's because it's an extremely smug, obnoxious, arrogant thing to say,
>> and in most cases whoever says it is full of shit.
>
> Being able to fish is useful. Paul McCraken has several video series.
>
> https://toptechboy.com/

I used to fish.

> He often goes into the math at length, probably frustrating many. For 
> example, while Python has a map() function the Arduino C/C++ library's 
> map() is completely different. 
>
> https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/functions/math/map/
>
> In the MicroPython series he goes into the math behind linear 
> interpolation. Similarly while Python has math.degrees() and 
> math.radians() he goes into the math rather than taking the easy way. 
> Which is more valuable in the long run?


Isn't lerp pretty simple to implement I think? I don't remember the
exact code, but it can be done in one line with clamp and basic math
ops.. been a while since I've had to use it like that tho.
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