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So many new friends, how do I be normal?? (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/hexbear@hexbear.net
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Aaaaaaaaaa hi everyone I wasn't expecting so many new friends so fast and I should sleep hyperflush

I don't know what I'm doing
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

how do I be normal?

Don't.

(I don't think there's any point in attempting to be normal. Don't know about you, but personally I always fail at it anyway, even if I try. So why bother? That energy can be used for more interesting things.)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I legit didn't know x87 was a real thing until you made that ama post a few days ago lol

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Happy to have increased your computer history knowledge! meow-floppy
    If you mostly touch modern computers, it's not surprising that you didn't know, because Intel's x87 floating-point co-processor is mostly a thing of the past. Since the i486, the floating-point has been integrated into the CPU rather than being a separate chip. You can still issue x87 floating-point instructions to the i486, or even to a modern Intel CPU, though! Nowadays, if you want floating-point stuff, you (or the compiler that compiles your program) will probably use SSE instructions instead. But I heard that some applications where the precision is very important still use x87 because it internally represents the numbers as 80 bit instead of 64 bit.

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