Notices by Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED] (espectalll@mstdn.io), page 4

@ilovecomputers wow I wish I could do gifts like that

@lucidiot @vaartis oh come on don't flatter me like this

or really don't flatter me, like I did nothing to deserve it :blobderpy:

is this movie real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JAG1bK30Tc

@cwebber computers are great at being shit and I love them

@rye @vaartis no u :cookieqt:

@vaartis @rye oh is it

woomy birthday rye~ 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

even though we've never really talked I guess lol

@sathariel oh hi yo!

@veer66 oooh sugoi ne

...somehow managed to learned it in 15 minutes. In the last 15 minutes before the exam.

Truly, I must be an unique kind of retarded.

And I mean, converting stuff like 2'5675*10¹⁵ to 1'23E415A*2⁵¹ to 1'0010001111100100000101011010 * 2⁵¹. It's just assumed. Never explained where the exponent comes from or how are you supposed to do this in an exam without an expensive calculator (and even then I still don't know how would you convert the exponent's base).

It's 1 am. I have to wake up at 7 am. Tomorrow's my last chance to pass this. Thanks to this, I don't know if I'll be able to do 2nd year. I can't do this.

I'm angry at how confusing this is, yet I feel like I've learned way harder things with much less effort. Five hours straight trying to figure this out, but my university's resources assume a shitton of stuff like "haha, you silly student, you're supposed to convert long numbers from base 10 to hexadecimal to binary in a blink of an eye! Why would I explain this to you? Pay more attention at classroom and get a brain that's not the size of a fly's!"

I don't even know why I want to know this.

I'm absolutely angry at how confusing yet. I've been five hours straight trying to figure this out... but my university's resources assume a shitton of calculations like "haha, you silly student, you're supposed to convert long numbers from base 10 to hexadecimal to binary in less than a blink of an eye! Why would I explain this to you??? Pay more attention at classroom next time and get a brain that's not the size of a fly's!"

And I don't even know why I want to know this.

Why the hell is it needed to know by heart how to convert from and to IEEE 754... at first university year.

Nobody ever manually calculates floating point numbers without using a computer which does the job.

There's no chance ever that you find yourself in a situation when you need to calculate a floating number in binary and there's no tools whatsoever which can help you out.

Understanding how to compute IEEE 754 numbers won't teach you barely shit about how computers work.

WHY.

@SarcasmKid what if I didn't

@mike fashion for the gaming girls

@angristan Amazon sounds like a shitty boss and Google like... uhm... Google?

Oh, so floating point means that the decimal point can be moved anywhere. And that's why its precision can get shit.

ok

Oh, so floating point means that the decimal point can be moved anywhwere. And that's why its precision can get shit.

ok

@angristan ok so yeah, the reform was announced and they campaigned in 2016 to ask for improvements

but the proposal made things worse instead

lmao

@angristan this was known already for months if not years

in fact both the Wikipedia and Mozilla campaigned against it a long time ago I think

...and you notice NOW?