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cpeterso

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    Comment #49263679

    > LLVM is still involved, but they are using it differently than say, Rust or Zig. Chris Lattner said in a Developer Voices podcast interview: "Swift in a way was syntactic sugar f…

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    Comment #49251430

    I wish I could see Google Maps labels like this during a real flight!

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    Comment #48994558

    Here is a Firefox bug report about the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944219 . Mozilla has a User-Agent override intervention for Zoom on Android, but it's cu…

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    Comment #48994556

    Here is a Firefox bug report about the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944219 . Mozilla has a User-Agent override intervention for Zoom on Android, but it's cu…

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    Comment #48988893

    Which Firefox version and OS version are using using? Android 10 or later? Do you have any Firefox extensions installed? If you test in Chrome, does the zoom.us/test page connect t…

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    Comment #48923731

    Default cooldown for everyone is basically introducing a beta period for all packages.

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    Comment #48838513

    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 con…

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    Comment #48578972

    Why was SVN preferable over git for finished assets?

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    Comment #48576207

    SPOILER: > 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, t…

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    Comment #48507105

    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…

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    Comment #48479963

    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…

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    Comment #48451726

    And Apple already has a $20B search partnership with Google they can build on.

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    Comment #48441577

    It should be, unless there are new issues. This code change landed in Firefox 153 Nightly and 153 will become the next ESR version (July 21). https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?…

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    Comment #48403892

    more like the "Obama Awards Obama a Medal" meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/obama-awards-obama-a-medal

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    Comment #48360196

    You can also include other md files like AGENTS.md in CLAUDE.md: @AGENTS.md

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    Comment #48320411

    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 …

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    Comment #48262890

    I name my branches for the overall task. The description of the branch’s head commit in jj status doesn’t tell the whole story.

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    Comment #48262872

    Having to list all the bookmarks you would list to auto-advance in your jj config.toml is a hassle and easy to forget.

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    Comment #48255155

    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, r…

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    Comment #48248248

    Restarting Windows is actually “cleaner” than shutting down on modern PCs because shutdown saves some kernel state for Windows Fast Startup.

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    Comment #48247694

    I’ve read (but haven’t tested yet) that you can still enable Opus 4.6 with: /model claude-opus-4-6[1M]