Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

I find it funny. I'm not active in either Fosstodon or There's Life, but I feel like I interact with users from those servers a lot. I love how the Fediverse can make you have a sense of location, where some servers feel like local neighborhoods.

@hypercombogamer Not that ad ... D:

Switched from #Firefox to the Zen browser #ZenBrowser 👀

Realizing just how bad the Gnome Software app is. Memory leaks in the background to multi-GiB usage, only closes the window when you do Ctrl+Q (Ctrl+Q is supposed to stop it in the background too), randomly says that it is loading application details when you are viewing an application whose details are already onscreen (I think this has to do with checking for updates in the background), and browsing a category overloads Gnome Software instead of loading them one by one.

#GnomeDE

Lol, I posted this then immediately went to share things I found on YouTube....

@ossobuffo The equals sign gets my attention. We must never forget, even for a day.

"Now we're back to how we were for most of human history: without reliance on photos/video to show us what is true." https://youtu.be/KxzWBqLn6dY

#AI #deadInternetTheory #ComputerRenderedArtificialPictures

I don't really spend much time on YouTube anymore. Probably for the better :)
#YouTube

OK -- I finished a prototype for my custom mono-field floating-point format, in Golang. I haven't done extensive testing, but it works fine so far -- addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of it is that the amount of bits *available* for the significand varies based on the exponent. You get between 0 (yes) and 32 (yes) bits for the significand.

I think I'll put this up on #GitLab at some point.
#computerScience #computing #IEEE #IEEE754

Random #computerScience observation that is quite useful sometimes: X - Y < 0 is the same as X < Y.
Not sure if something wonky could happen with overflow to prevent that from being true, though

Ah OK, from `go doc -all math`:
MinInt32 = -1 << 31 // -2147483648
OK. Annoying that I can't just enter what I want, but oh well.
(I still love this programming language :) )

golemwire@dr-topcue:~/Projects/CPUs/SubSky/Tests
: go run monofieldfloat.go
# command-line-arguments
./monofieldfloat.go:92:17: 0x8000000F (untyped int constant 2147483663) overflows int32

#Golang isn't letting me type in constants that are supposed to be "negative", and it's getting really annoying. I'll type in 0x8000000F (in this case) for an int32, and it is like MaN tHis is JUst tOo LarGe and I'm like :|
#programming