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Optionals handle this in zig:

  var value: ?T = null;

  value = 10;

  if (value) |x| x+=1

A few more details + map on Aviation Herald:

https://avherald.com/h?article=5345bfac&opt=0

Autogenic training [1] is exactly a relaxation technique focussing on the progressive relaxation of body regions. It is very easy to learn and a body-first approch to approach meditative states, which can then be used for auto-suggestion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogenic_training

The Aviation Herald has more technical details:

https://avherald.com/h?article=52f1ffc3&opt=0

Asianomics released a video on how withdrawing groundwater can dramatically lower the elevation of entire cities — I was surprised by how large an effect just a couple of years of human activity can have.

China's sinking land problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu_Y4hJmqGE

Zig - https://ziglang.org/zsf/

Around 10-15 years ago I read that Intel had a large somewhat secretive department working on exactly this idea, I believe the article described it as self-assembling sand or goo.

Anyone know what became of it?

Perhaps also interesting, an approach for bicycle tires that optimizes the thread pattern to cancel out road noise:

https://www.renehersecycles.com/fleecer-ridge-introduces-noi...

.ONG was new to me:

"The PIR simultaneously applied for the top-level domain .ong, which is a similarly recognisable initialism for "organisation non gouvernementale" in French, and equivalent terms in many other Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian." [1]

So similar to e.g. NATO and OTAN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NGO_and_.ONG

I am building an on-premise annotation platform for medical image data (MVA.ai) where it is used for both backend and frontend (WASM). Really enjoy the language, with the key aspects being the low level control and performance, the build system and cross-compilation, comptime for generics, the easy integration of existing C libraries and the support for WASM. Manual memory management is sometimes a bit tedious, but you get used to it quite quickly. On the other hand, being able to use different allocators can even give you something like 'lifetimes'.

Very happy with kagi. As good as google in its best days, if not better.

In 19 out of 20 cases the first link is what I need, for both private and work related searches. Very fast, no ads.

If you enjoy reading about other people's bike travels, take a look at [1].

The site allows long distance cyclists to write journals of their trips while they are on tour, some of which had me binge-read them for entire weekends.

Also, the site carries a lovely craigslist vibe :)

Focussing on the match-made-in-heaven which are cycling & food, [2] chronicles the experiences of a bloke in his mid-20s, who ditches his job at an ad agency (as well as his girlfriend) after becoming enamored with cycle touring, and travels through North and South America in search of the perfect meal.

[1] https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/

[2] The Hungry Cyclist, https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Cyclist-Tom-Kevill-Davies/dp/0...