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Contents

00:00 Sponsor disclaimer
00:04 Intro
01:01 The size of locals
02:15 Just boxing it
03:20 Dynamic dispatch
05:00 dyn-compatibility
07:24 Associated types
08:31 A refreshed Service trait
09:03 Unnameable types
09:51 Sponsored segment
10:52 Lifetimes: a refresher
11:58 Hidden captures
13:42 Relaxing lifetime bounds
14:24 Sendness
16:06 Closing words
16:38 Promoting sdr-podcast.com
17:24 Outro song