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nick’s adventures among the onions


Stopping by Mordor

Whose rings these are, I think I know.
They've all come back to Mordor, though,
Except the Elvish Three—and Mine,
Whose whereabouts I'd like to know!

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You Are Old, Giovanni

“You are old, Giovanni, the richest of men,
Also old, as I’m forced to repeat,
Since your arch-nemesis is a child of ten,
Whom you never can seem to defeat.”

 “In my youth,” said the villain, “A child of that age
 Beat my pidgey, which still makes me wince:
 And my infamous schemes have been driven by rage
 Against children of ten ever since.”

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With Apologies to Billy Joel

She can smell burning cities when people tell lies
Yeah she eats steel nails, shits 'em out galvanized
Now she's not safe for people with nut allergies
And she runs on the cloud, but she's always a woman to me

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Learning The Alphabet

A for Paper.

B for Dam.

C for Explosive.

D for a Station.

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I'm getting vaccinated

20-20-24 hours to go,
I'm getting vaccinated,
Nothing to do, nowhere to go
Till I get vaccinated

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Implementing Rust futures when you only have async functions

Rust doesn't yet support asynchronous functions in traits, but several important async-related traits (like AsyncRead and Stream ) define their interface using functions that return Poll. So, what can you do when you have a function that is async, and you need to use it to implement one of these traits?

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Lorax Ipsum

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