Andreas Gerlach

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Jon Gjengset on Rust, Controlled Vibe Coding and Teaching by Streaming 🦀

#rust #rustlang #programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8gASzqqOs

Jon Gjengset on Rust Internals, Vibe Coding, and Teaching by Streaming

YouTube

In January, Anish, Jose, and I returned to MIT CSAIL to teach Missing Semester, a class on topics we've found missing from most CS programs—tools and techniques that everyone should know, like Bash, Git, CI/CD, and AI tools. Today, just like in previous years, we’re releasing the course for free online!

https://missing.csail.mit.edu

Kaufprämien für „klimafreundliche“ Plug-in-Hybride – obwohl sie laut Fraunhofer-Institut ISI deutlich mehr Kraftstoff verbrauchen als Hersteller angeben. Weckt ungute Erinnerungen an Dieselgate. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/plug-in-hybride-verbrauchen-laut-studie-deutlich-mehr-sprit-als-angegeben-100.html
Fraunhofer-Institut - Plug-in Hybride verbrauchen laut Studie deutlich mehr Sprit als angegeben

Fahrzeuge mit Plug-in-Hybrid-Antrieb verbrauchen deutlich mehr Kraftstoff als von den Herstellern angegeben. Das geht aus einer Untersuchung des Fraunhofer-Instituts für System- und Innovationsforschung in Karlsruhe hervor.

Die Nachrichten

A German biathlete says if she could give her younger self one piece of advice, it would be: "Always take a mask with you."

"FFP2 masks have become standard equipment for winter sports athletes – because they protect not only against coronavirus, but also against other infections."

"For us athletes, health is the most important thing of all, and anyone who doesn't protect themselves would simply be stupid."

You're not stupid, are you?

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/olympische-winterspiele/deutsches-team/olympia-2026-warum-die-deutschen-biathleten-maske-tragen-accg-110835355.html

Olympia 2026: Warum die deutschen Biathleten Maske tragen

Weil sie oft Maske tragen, haben die deutschen Biathleten Spott über sich ergehen lassen müssen. Dabei kann der kleinste Infekt die größten Olympiaträume zunichte machen.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

LocalSend: A alternativa gratuita ao AirDrop para ligar todos os teus equipamentos
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t78468-localsend-a-alternativa-gratuita-ao-airdrop-para-ligar-todos-os-teus-equipamentos

#os 

LocalSend: A alternativa gratuita ao AirDrop para ligar todos os teus equipamentos

Partilhar ficheiros entre um iPhone, um iPad e um Mac é incrivelmente simples graças ao AirDrop. Mas o que acontece quando tentas enviar esse mesmo documento ou

TugaTech
Morgen sind wieder PRÜF Demos. Ich lese in Berlin Geschichten aus der Känguru-Rebellion vor. Kommt rum! 14 Uhr am Brandenburger Tor. Gibt auch Demos in München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart #pruef
From last week's Linux Update newsletter: Paul Nixer shows you how to use the Affinity graphics suite on Linux
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/300/Affinity-Suite?utm_source=mlm
#Affinity #graphics #OpenSource #Linux #Wine

"With AI, I can replace 20 software engineers with 1 'prompt engineer'"

A few months later: "plain text editor that was rewritten by AI to be more than that with RCE vulnerability".

(but congratulations to Microsoft for managing to put a remote execution vuln in something that should never have anything 'remote', like notepad)

This Week's Project Spotlight 🦀

BoxLite
BoxLite is an embedded micro-VM runtime for AI agents running OCI containers with hardware-level isolation, and no daemon required.

#rust #rustlang #programming

„Why E cores make Apple silicon fast“

I still haven’t found any explicit documentation explaining how Swift concurrency handles scheduling and distribution compared to GCD.

I would guess that Task Priority is mapped to GCD QoS?
#swift #AppleSilicon

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/08/last-week-on-my-mac-why-e-cores-make-apple-silicon-fast/

Last Week on My Mac: Why E cores make Apple silicon fast

Apple silicon architecture is designed to get background processes out of the way of our apps running in the foreground, by using the E cores.

The Eclectic Light Company