Arthur Carcano

@krtab
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Arthur @krtab Carcano's "Rust, Unicode gotchas, and the eight different string types" is on stage. He learned to stop worriying and trust UTF-8.
#RustLang #RustInParis
@olasd Coup dur pour Marine Tondelier...
J'ai fait ça https://ngr.yt/bonnestetes/ et j'y ai même inclus un pâques-œuf de saison.
Des bonnes têtes de

Playing in the Creek — LessWrong

When I was a really small kid, one of my favorite activities was to try and dam up the creek in my backyard. I would carefully move rocks into high w…

@Armavica @jastrow
I've discovered by complete coincidence that this is apparently a well studied phenomenon.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/apparently-magpies-and-crows-are-using-anti-bird-spikes-make-their-nests
Apparently Magpies and Crows Are Using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to Make Their Nests

Birds often incorporate human-made materials while nest building, but a new study shows European corvids are taking the idea to the extreme.

Audubon

Ok, I think making a nest out of anti-bird spikes is a level of punk which should inspire all of us.
Amazing picture by @jastrow

#CorneillesParis #crows

Scheduling Internals

Wait, but how does async even work? (Animated)

@krtab from the telecoms bubble through the dotcom bubble into the kim dotcom bubble

In a single day, I have seen articles explaining "for the younger ones" what a fax machine and megaupload were.

I am now officially old.

"Unfortunately, most people seem to have taken the wrong lesson from Rust. They see all of this business with lifetimes and ownership as a dirty mess that Rust has had to adopt because it wanted to avoid garbage collection. But this is completely backwards! Rust adopted rules around shared mutable state and this enabled it to avoid garbage collection. These rules are a good idea regardless."