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Right? Why are we worried about the computer scientist who answered the question, instead of the guy that asked a stupid question to begin with?

"How would you put a microcontroller in this?" is a stupid question without knowing why you'd want it there in the first place. It's an answer in search of a question.

Dump the king in the moat and they'd all live happily ever after, too.



> Dump the king in the moat and they'd all live happily ever after, too.

But you said "instead". If you dumped only the king in the moat, then the computer scientist would still be running around loose!




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