miniblog.

Rust has a lot of integer types, but I kinda like distinguishing u64 from usize. It communicates intent. A usize is probably going to be used as an index, whereas a u64 is probably just a measurement of something.

The Turing Test focuses on distinguishing between humans and computers in a text chat. There are lots of other domains where it's interesting to compare styles. Do we make different mistakes in speech recognition? How easy is it to spot a chess AI masquerading as human?

I miss the usize type when I'm not coding in Rust. I find distinguishing between 'an integer representing a quantity' and 'an integer representing an array index' to be very helpful sometimes.