@JohnLincoln THX for going to the trouble.
tl;dr not a rant
I can understand someone posting wrong, even dangerously or stupidly wrong information.
Something you "learned", something that has always worked for you, something you see other ppl doing alla time.
Perhaps that can be excused.
But there is no excuse for doubling down, digging deeper the whole you've been told you were in, in some cases adding more bogus reasoning and "facts" when…
...in (I estimate) about eleven minutes you could just get out a stupid UNO board, write a twenty line program and demonstrate the correctness of your POV or show yourself your own ignorance.
And even less of an excuse these days, when you can shave minjtes off such an effort by using the wokwi simulator…
There are things I am so very sure about I can just post on the matter at hand. If someone sez "nah huh, you wrong", I don't respond "am not am not" until I have googled and maybe also done a little tiny test, takes eleven minutes or less.
When I am wrong, I don't mind saying so, and I appreciate the opportunity to learn something, which I can freely say I do here in these fora with some good regularity. I don't think I'd participate if I wasn't also learning something. About C/C++, about coding, about what ppl get up to with these little toys, about myself.
This is the nice thing about engineering and science. Experiments can test theories, and participants agree to abide by the results.
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