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  • Code Running on Living Metal When Hardware Stops Playing by the Rules

    Code Running on Living Metal When Hardware Stops Playing by the Rules

    Software engineers love to believe their code runs in a clean, deterministic universe. But once you drop below the OS layer and step onto bare metal, that illusion collapses. Microcontrollers, avionics systems, and industrial controllers operate inside physics not logic and physics doesn’t care about your abstractions. 1. Hardware Is Not a Perfect Machine…