• henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    501·
    9 months ago

    This is something my wife just had to learn to accept. I’ll find something cool and realize I don’t want to go through life not understanding this topic. Most recently: floating point emulation.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        14·
        9 months ago

        I’m particularly interested in how emulators deal with the mismatch between the FPU of the target hardware versus the host.

        It’s a fascinating and frustrating topic when you’re trying to emulate floating point in a specific way using hardware that doesn’t exactly do what you need. But almost. For example, maybe your host rounds differently or uses different status flags so the challenge is to find as many cases as possible where you can still exploit your host FPU without generating incorrect results.

    • Swim@lemmy.ca
      11·
      9 months ago

      no idea what this is but i am now furiously looking floating point up.

  • Rekonok@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    9 months ago

    There is no reason needed in the pursuit of knowledge.

    Also the Vectis Prime have a higher critical base chance of 30% (25 for the non prime variation)

      • LukeMedia@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        I have autism? That’s crazy, let me learn way too much about it, and recite the information to random unsuspecting people

        • whofearsthenight@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          I consider myself pretty neurotypical, but my family also calls the thing I do “dad talks” which basically means “whoops we asked dad something that should take 3 seconds to answer like but it looks like we stumbled into a 35 minute explanation of roman aqueducts for some reason” so maybe I am just a bad at judging myself.

          • LukeMedia@lemmy.world
            3·
            9 months ago

            Maybe all your dads are autistic, or maybe even all Dad’s. Maybe we are all autistic. Who knows, I’m just having fun lol

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    9 months ago

    It makes me so mad that I’m like this. I used to be ao sociable and I’d be able to pace myself. Do a little obsessing, go out and tell people. No info dumps, just including interesting stuff a little bit into each conversation. It’s not my autism failing me, it’s society that’s creating this loneliness that lets my desire for new information run rampant.

  • Transcriptionist@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

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    X/Twitter post by user grace @brainsoupp_ reading “hey sorry I can’t come out tonight I need to research an incredibly specific and random topic alone and in silence for hours on end for no reason at all”

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