The Weekly Weird - 2016-06-03
- Vim golf. :wq
- Cephalopods are coming to get you and there are a lot of them. Also their eyes are awesome. It's pretty clear that had octopi not lost the lifespan- and socialization lotteries, they'd be running things.
- "participatory cybernetic finance"
- Andl is some fancy new SQL-replacing language which is now in postgres. I'm not entirely seeing the draw here but it seems neat. The hn comments led me to this neat research on Concurrent Revisions, so I've got that going for me.
- YESSS.
- "What's the most surprising mathematical fact you know?" The usual suspects are well-represented but there are a few (to me) new and neat ones.
- Rust!
- Non Lexical Lifetimes: introduction, part 1 and part 2.
- Better synchronization primitives.
- Firmware!