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repelsteeltje on May 23, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: vu128: Efficient variable-length integers

:-) fair enough.

And panicing is exactly the kind of mitigation I had in mind initially; just don't silently do the unexpected.

> I think you may be failing to comprehend just how large numbers like this get

On the other hand, us programmers are also notorious for failing to comprehend just how long our software will live on...

vlovich123 on May 23, 2024 [–]

Honestly if any code I’ve written survives 100 years to cause problems I’ll be impressed. 1000 years I’ll be ecstatic.

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