There was a golang proposal to change Go's default int type to arbitrary precision big int. It would avoid overflow bugs, but the proposal was closed (after eight years) due to concerns about compatibility reading serialized data and performance.
> According to the new proof, that ceiling is roughly 14 riffle shuffles for a 52-card deck, if you cut your deck in a random place with each shuffle. Beyond that point, the cards will be fully mixed.
Great article and worth reading even though you now know the answer. :)
The Claude (and ChatGPT) web UI supports incognito/temporary chats that are discarded when you close the tab. Click the ghost or dotted speech bubble icon in the upper right corner of the page.
I use this as my default mode so I don't clutter my chat history with random, one-off questions I ask. Unfortunately, there is no way to change your mind and save a productive incognito chat after you've started chatting.
You can report websites that don't work, or block Firefox, to Mozilla at https://webcompat.com/. Mozilla engineers try to reach out to the website developers or ship site-specific workarounds in Firefox.
The company could also test the bots in their employees’ homes for no cost. If employees aren’t comfortable with the bots in their own homes, then they shouldn’t let them loose in others’.
I see people asking LLMs to omit comments, but comments like PDL (Program Design Language) could be helpful for interactive development: ask the LLM to write pseudocode comments, review them, and then ask the LLM to expand them to actual code. People say comments should explain why, not how. That seems useful for both human reviewers and LLMs.
Dennis E. Taylor’s “Bobiverse” series is goofy, yet hard, SF about a guy (Bob) whose uploaded mind gets sold when the cryogenic hosting company goes out of business. Given a job piloting a deep space probe, he starts replicating and exploring the galaxy.
That’s why they suggested one developer use Firefox and another one use Safari.
Ideally websites should also test with the beta versions of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome to find and report regressions (browser bugs or web spec changes) so they can get fixed before the release breaks your website.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623