• henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    501·
    1 year 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
        13·
        1 year 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
      10·
      1 year ago

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

  • Rekonok@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    1 year 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)

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    1 year 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.