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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And within 12 hours, have forgotten 90%

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if I don't I'm just going to be thinking about it all night anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And talk about it enough to annoy people, then get upset about that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to have this now im mostly depressed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

☹️ I’m sorry buddy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not really. I'd probably just play a videogame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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 ?"
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)