• @[email protected]
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    501 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            She needs alone, stimulation-free time for one. It might look like nothing, but that time is like sleep to her, and without it she’s not functional.

        • @uis
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          61 year ago

          Double-precisely

      • @kalkulat
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        131 year ago

        When I first tried swimming, it took me quite a while to get to the floating point.

        • @uis
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          71 year ago

          When you lie on your back on water you go from floating point to floating plane

          • @kalkulat
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            11 year ago

            Gotta have those pontoons

      • @uis
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        61 year ago

        Binary rational number

      • Flying SquidM
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        51 year ago

        Whereas I find the phrase alone so complicated that I can’t even bring myself to find out how even more complicated the concept is.