• Fafner@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    How else am I going to learn the finer points of the ISO standard on floating point data?

    • EmperorHenryOP
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      1 year ago

      That’s not really an obscure or weird thing to research…depending on what you do for a living.

  • Globeparasite@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    "why are you almost an hour late to practice ?

    • well do you know if NCOs of the Marching Batallion n°24 of the French 1st Motorized Infantry Division used british revolver holster after the Sicily landing in 1943 ?"
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      1 year ago

      It seemed to me that only more neurodivergent types are the ones that would be inclined to start studying some random thing like this instead of going out to socialize.

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        1 year ago

        Oh so it’s to avoid socializing? Makes sense, I’ve at some point happily learned Arabic, bandweaving, archaeology, electrotechnics, botany to name just a few …

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          I don’t know if they do it to avoid socializing. I think it’s just a weird obsessive thing.