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from my link log —
Garbage collectors are scary.
https://www.enyo.de/fw/notes/garbage-collectors-are-scary.html
saved 2024-05-12 https:…

from my link log —
Watching Golang's new garbage collector move through the heap.
https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html
saved 2026-07-25

Impressive real-world numbers of EDF 🇫🇷 (with its smart charging subsidiary DREEV) for charging a fleet of electric waste collection trucks:
10 MWh of charging for 10 trucks, at a cost of minus €129, by collecting otherwise wasted energy and providing grid support
#EV #Flexibility

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Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/friendship-ended-with-the-garbage-collector/
saved 2021-08-26

"From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon"
#AmazonRainforest #Mangroves #Plastic

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon
MANAUS, Brazil — On June 20, a 50-member team led by NGO Asas de Socorro and Rede Reviva walked about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) along the shoreline of the Puraquequara Lake in eastern Manaus during a garbage-collection effort. When the activity finished covering a stretch of beach on a lake with a water surface estimated at 20-25 km2, […]

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/from-rivers-to-mangroves-microplastics-are-contaminating-the-amazon/

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon
MANAUS, Brazil — On June 20, a 50-member team led by NGO Asas de Socorro and Rede Reviva walked about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) along the shoreline of the Puraquequara Lake in eastern Manaus during a garbage-collection effort. When the activity finished covering a stretch of beach on a lake with a water surface estimated at 20-25 km2, […]

from my link log —
Meta garbage collection: using OCaml's GC to GC Rust tree borrows.
https://soteria-tools.com/blog/meta-garbage-collection
saved 2026-07-20

@… Oh yes! Only the second one ensures that ./file-path is actually put into the nix store and recognised as a dependency, so it is not garbage collected eventually. Has caused me quite some headache until I understood that.

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Linn Rekursiv: The computer at the bottom of a canal.
https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/
saved 2026-07-19

The computer at the bottom of a canal
Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory access in hardware, garbage-collected its own heap in silicon, […]