honestly there's something just kind of soothing about reading specifications, like... the intel sdm or the pci spec or whatnot. i've made this comparison before but it really does twiddle the parts of my brain that likes fanfiction—you read canon, you're like "wait doesn't the existence of (A) and (B) imply weird things about the implementation of (C)", and you dig around and, yeah, turns out they were only able to implement (C) due to some horrendous retcon job that's got all these sharp edges, and maybe if you twiddle things just right you can make it do things it wasn't supposed to do...
this is ironic given that i focus more on software security nowadays, which rarely has nice things like "specs" or "any design whatsoever" lmao. but it's definitely something i love when i'm actually working at the hardware interface
(2) oh gosh, uhhhh.... i'm an awful person to ask this, lol. i love the FE games a ton for what they are but it's not the kind of canon that leaves me plotting/daydreaming much for next entries in the series, yaknow? (unlike e.g. stuff with more continuity for characters between new entries or w/e)
first thing that comes to mind is just redoing the general idea from Awakening but with some decent goddamn character writing. i really liked the kids in that game, and the time-travel-to-fix-your-errors setup was deliciously potent, but there just wasn't any real vibing between the cast, so like, nowadays i can't remember a damn thing about the story, lol
(3) yesterday i saw a WOOD THRUSH while out and about??? which is not a rare bird per se, but, it's a very skulky bird. you'll always hear it way more than you see it, and if you do see it, it'll skitter to hide in some leaf litter right off
so imagine my shock when i'm tromping through some forest and the thrush is just there? three feet in front of me? fully in the open?
and naturally i opted to not move or breathe or blink whatsoever for twenty entire minutes while i watched him just CHILLIN and it was so GOOD and i was only a little dizzy from lack of oxygen afterwards lol
(4) omg i searched everywhere and i couldn't find this one D: but i can describe it lol
it's the WHO WOULD WIN format
on the left is "a billion lines of microcode and carefully-crafted silicon by the best engineers on the planet", with a photo of some Intel CPU
on the right is a photo of this lil function with the label "one jumpy boi"
(the joke here is, setjmp/longjmp are commands that can change the control flow in your program at a very low level; the means you use to exploit the Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities is, y'know, tricking the CPU into doing a "jump" when it shouldn't, and hence... one jumpy boi :P
in general something about "boi" just sends me, absolutely one of my favorite internet words, and the thing with just calling `setjmp` a "jumpy" thing sends me even harder, and, yeah, there's my niche favorite meme ever. good meme format too :P)
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Date: 2022-05-09 08:47 pm (UTC)honestly there's something just kind of soothing about reading specifications, like... the intel sdm or the pci spec or whatnot. i've made this comparison before but it really does twiddle the parts of my brain that likes fanfiction—you read canon, you're like "wait doesn't the existence of (A) and (B) imply weird things about the implementation of (C)", and you dig around and, yeah, turns out they were only able to implement (C) due to some horrendous retcon job that's got all these sharp edges, and maybe if you twiddle things just right you can make it do things it wasn't supposed to do...
this is ironic given that i focus more on software security nowadays, which rarely has nice things like "specs" or "any design whatsoever" lmao. but it's definitely something i love when i'm actually working at the hardware interface
(2) oh gosh, uhhhh.... i'm an awful person to ask this, lol. i love the FE games a ton for what they are but it's not the kind of canon that leaves me plotting/daydreaming much for next entries in the series, yaknow? (unlike e.g. stuff with more continuity for characters between new entries or w/e)
first thing that comes to mind is just redoing the general idea from Awakening but with some decent goddamn character writing. i really liked the kids in that game, and the time-travel-to-fix-your-errors setup was deliciously potent, but there just wasn't any real vibing between the cast, so like, nowadays i can't remember a damn thing about the story, lol
(3) yesterday i saw a WOOD THRUSH while out and about??? which is not a rare bird per se, but, it's a very skulky bird. you'll always hear it way more than you see it, and if you do see it, it'll skitter to hide in some leaf litter right off
so imagine my shock when i'm tromping through some forest and the thrush is just there? three feet in front of me? fully in the open?
and naturally i opted to not move or breathe or blink whatsoever for twenty entire minutes while i watched him just CHILLIN and it was so GOOD and i was only a little dizzy from lack of oxygen afterwards lol
(4) omg i searched everywhere and i couldn't find this one D: but i can describe it lol
it's the WHO WOULD WIN format
on the left is "a billion lines of microcode and carefully-crafted silicon by the best engineers on the planet", with a photo of some Intel CPU
on the right is a photo of this lil function with the label "one jumpy boi"
(the joke here is, setjmp/longjmp are commands that can change the control flow in your program at a very low level; the means you use to exploit the Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities is, y'know, tricking the CPU into doing a "jump" when it shouldn't, and hence... one jumpy boi :P
in general something about "boi" just sends me, absolutely one of my favorite internet words, and the thing with just calling `setjmp` a "jumpy" thing sends me even harder, and, yeah, there's my niche favorite meme ever. good meme format too :P)