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And yet here I sit, writing ring buffers, and never thinking about this idea. Probably because of the power of two issue. Which isn't actually a problem because as he points out, who would do that? But it makes me think that it's a restriction that it just isn't.

But in all honesty, look for more embedded jobs, then. We can certainly use the help.

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What do you work with (if you don't mind answering)? I'm looking for a change and like low-level stuff about as much as I like any other level. I've done some cycle-accurate NES emulation and VM implementation stuff - I'm not much of a DSA guy but performance and efficiency appeal to me.

I work with pretty much everything (except GPUs I guess). Embedded is extremely relative. To some, embedded means a rack mount server that's idk embedded in a vehicle instead of a datacenter. That's not me. To others, embedded means a 4-bit low power, mask-rom fed micro inside a sensor IC. That's also not me.

So I work with microcontrollers of various vendors, I do FPGA with hard and soft processors, recently did just past the smoke test through embedded Linux on a SoC, and I've done plenty of desktop code on Linux and Windows for interfacing. I get to work with a wide range of devices and a wide range of tasks for them. Might not pay as much but my goodness is it fun

For some unexplainable reason, CRUD job’s pay is better than embedded, on average.

I mean idk, I'm living comfortably and as the adage says, not working a day in my life. But if you're at a spot where you need the pay more than you want to write ring buffers, I understand.

Probably there are less people excited to make another CRUD app than to write embedded code.

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