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10 > 64, in QR Codes
QR codes reverse the usual order: decimal works better than base64 for encoding binary data, despite it requiring many more digits.
Huon Wilson
I'm Huon Wilson , a mathematically and statistically inclined software engineer. I have been a long-term volunteer on Rust 's core team, a compiler engineer on the Swift team at Apple, and a senior software engineer at CSIRO's Data61, working on the StellarGraph graph machine learning library .
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SIMD in Rust
An overview of my work on improving SIMD in Rust.
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Myths about Integer Overflow in Rust
Integer overflow detection/handling in Rust is sometimes misunderstood.
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Rreverrse Debugging
rr is the debugger for Rust (et al.) that is is almost too good to be true.
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Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better
QR codes are now critical infrastructure here in NSW, Australia. Let's learn how to make them better.
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Finding Closure in Rust
Closures in Rust are powerful and flexible, building on traits, generics and ownership.
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Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO
Memory-mapping a file is convenient, but it's a hazard when used with async/await concurrent code: it means a "simple" memory index does blocking IO.