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And someone next to them saying there's a chip that already does that, with someone standing next to them holding a commercial product that does the thing, and someone next to them tell everybody it's all a waste of time.

Someone's going to judge what you do regardless. As long as you're not hurting someone else, go build what you want to build, others be damned.



Totally agree. As creator of a lot of projects where people have asked "Why would you even do that". I wholly encourage build and be damned.

I've done

    Pacman in DCPU-16 asm
    A HTML/JS desktop environment
    8-bit AVR assembler in JavaScript
    An 8-bit fantasy console with web IDE.
and whatever the hell https://c50.fingswotidun.com/ is

plus a bunch of other things that really make people wonder if I have any sort of life plan at all.




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