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 * 1tsp guar
 
 **7. a circular list in rust (as an excercise)
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 **8. a java bytecode interpreter (not necessarily written in java) that estimates runtime complexity (static analysis)
 
+**9. [blog] code as human communication. inspired by knuth I p. 195 zero based encoding of nr of chars. since zero repetitions would be meaningless, zero encodes one so n+1 in general, which makes total sense for efficiency and maybe mathematicians but it increases cognitive load for the human decoder. So is readability at odds with efficiency? also YouTube video about clean code (actually polymorphism) not being performant.
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+**10. [blog] give back my monolith. daily life in microservice 'hell'. ie. dependency hell
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