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Developer | Student | Compiler Nerd 🤓 University of Arizona '2024 Math/Computer Science Java, Rust, C, Python | Semi-Retired Minecraft Dev

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Techcable
@Techcable2
Aug 31
After Linus wrote his own OS, he asked "What if saving files required graph theory?" and wrote git. #git #linux #math #graphtheory
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@Techcable2
Aug 8
Today I learned that the duration of first-generation compact disks was fixed at seventy-five minutes so that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony could unfurl without interruption. #beethoven #symphony #music #audio #cd #wikipedia #til
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@Techcable2
Jan 9
git blame is an alias for whoami
Techcable
@Techcable2
Dec 5, 2025
TIL you can selectively move values into a Rust closure by inserting dummy moves, avoiding the "move" keyword.
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Selectively move values into a closure
Closures try to automatically infer the least restrictive capture kind which can be used with their bodies. If something inside of the closure requires the value to be moved, it will be captured by...
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@Techcable2
Dec 16, 2022
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Avid Halaby
@AvidHalaby
Dec 12, 2022
The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.