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I know how you feel. Dealing with hardware issues can be _extremely_ frustrating. It's very easy to dig yourself in a hole wherein you stop thinking clearly. In this situation, if you haven't completely given up on it yet, maybe take a day or two off and work on something else? I find that helps. Otherwise I would contact the manufacturer or post to their forums.

Feel free to email me if you want a second pair of eyes. sean at [myusername].com

Have you successfully configured the ADC on this chip model before? I've been through the ADC docs for the PIC32MX/MZ many times and they're quite dense. It would be very easy to miss some required configuration bits.

In my experience, it's never a problem with the hardware itself, but you never know. I spent 3 weeks last summer debugging a problem with the MRF24WG0MA, and was almost convinced the chip was defective, until I realized that Harmony configured a few things incorrectly (the interrupt polarity being one of them). But yeah, for a show stopper issue that I'm not making any progress with, I would just get in contact with the manufacturer.

I have noticed this exact same behavior in one of my friends. It is indeed annoying as fuck. It's impossible to have any kind of intellectual conversation with him. When he claims to know why something is the way it is, and then I question him about it, and he just changes the subject, or uses some kind of blanket statement and walks away.

I decided to verify that I am not making things up ;)

Starting Strength, 2nd edition:

- There is a whole section on barbell rows in the "Useful Assistance Exercises" chapter. See page 263.

- Barbell row substitution is mentioned in the "Programming" chapter. Page 289, start of 5th paragraph: "People without access to bumper plates may choose to use the barbell row instead of the power clean. This is not a terrible substitution, but be aware of what you're giving up if you do..."

I guess Rip changed his mind?

Fitness and nutrition are those kinds of topics that no one ever agrees on. Everyone thinks their way is the "right" way, as exemplified by the enormous number of unique replies to this thread. This could be attributed to the ignorance of the commenters, or that everyone just finds different things work for them. It is probably a combination of both, with an emphasis on the former.

Deadlift is not one of the most complex weightlifting movements. As far as weightlifting movements, it's quite simple--the only trick being keeping your spine neutral. A proper squat is harder to execute than a proper deadlift.

Also, starting people with deadlifts is fine, as long as you keep the weight low. Not to mention that if you had to choose, deadlifts would do a lot more for you than turkish get ups (which I've honestly never even heard of until now, and I've been a serious weightlifter for years).

The new MacBook 11 years ago

Fully agree. I just got a new MacBook pro in January, and I'm completely blown away by the UX.

There seems to be a lot of hype around this device, but I personally just could not get it to work very well, nor could the 3 or 4 people I showed it to. I understand that the gesture recognition is based on statistical data and there will be people with issues, so perhaps I am just one of the outliers. That being said, I have not tried their new firmware (I will in the next couple days), so maybe that will help.

You realize that once you are dead it makes no difference how long you were alive right? When you are dead there is no inherent regret that you didn't live longer. Whether you were 67 or 3, you're still dead--the end result is the same. No one life is more valuable than the next. Think about that before you make any more short sighted comments.

I started coding in grade 9, but I went to university for medical science, got good grades, did some research, and intended to go to medical school. But, the closer I got to graduation, more and more I started to realize there was no way I was ever going back to school--I just wanted to code and make things. No regrets.