The Weekly Weird - 2019-06-07
- The NYC subway now has a modern-ish payment system! I particularly enjoyed the tidbit that it was the MTA pushing that led to the upswing in adoption for contactless and not, as you'd be forgiven for assuming, the MTA being The Worst as usual.
- Build your own 4G network.
- You know what the problem with most whisky is? Not enough sheep dung.
- RIP Spruce Goose II.
- Pop quiz, what's the name of the spikes on the Stegosaurus' tail? Yep.
- I'll take Royal perverts for 100, Alex (sfw).
- A little bit politics, a lot of practical endpoint security: Take a swing at the piñata of futility that is securing a political campaign.
- Rust Tidbits:
- The Ferrous Systems folks are hard at work building lock-free ringbuffers and aiming to certify a subset of rust for safety-critical domains.
- Need a lazily-initialized value but don't want a macro? OnceCell to the rescue.
- Need to sort a list of floats but NaN got you down? NotNan to the rescue.
- A nice little wrapper to make semantic type aliases a bit more ergonomic: shrinkwraprs.