Haha!!! I am on a few other message boards that cater to electronics and technical crap. The other day, on one of those boards (they cater to the Arduino microcontroller boards), I called a moderator a "smart-a$$" (I used the dollar signs!) and I guess he got butt-hurt and banned me for a whole week.
Now my life is ruined... just RUINED I say!!!
The short story: The Arduino software normally doesn't include programming code to print floating point numbers. That is, if I want to print an INTEGER like 1 or 2 or 3, it's fine but a number like 123.456 only displays a question mark, UNLESS a special extra piece of software is included in the program.
The developers did this because microcontrollers usually have a very small amount of memory (like 32K or so) and the code to print "decimal point" numbers uses about 1.5K extra.
So, I had posted the method for including the special, extra code and I got a reply from that moderator that my method "needlessly increases the footprint" (the code size) of a program.
But, no program that I know of ever even comes close to using up all the memory, so in essence he said something like "don't carry a bowling ball in your car because it's weight will decrease your gas mileage".
A true statement, but completely irrelevant!
Since the guy posted his "complaint" solely to derail the thread and (God-knows whatever other reason), I said something like "this [example] will show that the smart-a$$ (his name) is wrong and I'll await his apology".
Instead of an apology, he got butt-hurt and banned me for 7 days.
He must be a 14 year old kid or something........ ?
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