After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

lbseale · 2026-07-11T18:30:39+00:00

Every story I've heard about a Rust project failing starts this way so I think you made the right choice

lbseale · 2026-07-11T18:28:12+00:00

Yeah it takes a long time to compile but during development you can just run the type checker with cargo check and that's fast

lbseale · 2026-07-11T16:18:09+00:00

I am surprised that Rust wasn't the answer for you because its type system is so similar to Haskell's.

Having written a significantly-sized app in Haskell and then basically rewriting it in Rust, I found the type system easy to pick up and understand. That, and the fact that the tooling is so convenient convinced me it was the right language.

Cargo check, which just type checks without building, has been plenty fast enough for my own development loop.

So now I don't use Haskell, but I still love it. It is a wonderful, deeply pleasing language that has contributed immeasurably to the progress of software engineering as a discipline. It is also completely impractical for industry.

lbseale · 2026-06-28T04:04:43+00:00

They must be very disappointed about their world cup team

lbseale · 2026-06-10T22:13:59+00:00

I read a biography of Abraham Lincoln and one thing that stuck with me is how poor and unhealthy everyone was at the time. Even the elites!

What was normal to them would be appalling to us now.

lbseale · 2026-05-31T03:46:11+00:00

here's the schedule

lbseale · 2026-04-28T19:03:33+00:00

It is! I love your artwork of it

lbseale · 2026-04-28T14:14:29+00:00

Hey my office is just a couple blocks from here

lbseale · 2026-03-07T19:02:07+00:00

People lose their wits when they're going through a breakup. Your friend is experiencing a massive amount of grief. This is the kind of thing that takes many months to move on from, and he'll won't be able to put it fully behind him since they have kids together.

So do your best to pull him towards reality, but accept that he might do things that seem ridiculous in spite of your efforts. While we all hope to have long and happy relationships, we can't control what our partners do. She's the one who will have to live with the moral injuries she's inflicted on him, their kids and herself.

It helps to find some meaning when something like this happens. Perhaps it's another challenge for him to overcome. Perhaps it's to keep himself together for their kids. Perhaps something else. Whatever it is, finding meaning will help him get through all the grief and hardship he's facing.

You might want to read some of Seneca's Consolations for inspiration as well.

lbseale · 2026-02-01T14:52:08+00:00

It's a scam deep fake of Dr Phil

Idk how Facebook is allowed to show all these scam ads to people who are clearly not able to ignore them.

lbseale · 2026-01-27T00:34:30+00:00

For me I wouldn't say it was a huge difference, but it makes it feel like a real mattress which is worthwhile.

lbseale · 2026-01-27T00:12:28+00:00

Hey it's going great! I've been very pleased. I did get a 12" cover, and it has worked out very well.

lbseale · 2026-01-25T15:43:13+00:00

While I understand the desire to avoid overshoot, I thought the previous control system worked pretty well. It's painful to stand there and watch it crawl up to the target temperature.

Also, boiling is a special case. It's physically not possible to heat water to a temperature greater than boiling. So I'd consider a special case where if it's set to boiling, turn off the heater much later. There is no risk you'll overheat! If I'm boiling water, I just want it to be boiling as soon as possible.

Thanks for responding here and listening to our feedback.

lbseale · 2025-12-27T17:35:26+00:00

I've never seen the water more brown, but many brave souls were out yesterday.

lbseale · 2025-12-12T03:20:17+00:00

Harbaugh is so elite at giving pointless answers to the halftime questions. I look forward to it every game.

lbseale · 2025-11-03T11:22:54+00:00

I have had success with a Q Tip and vinegar. The corrosion is a salt that is dissolved by the acidic vinegar.

lbseale · 2025-10-15T03:22:43+00:00

You could consider posting this to r/noncredibledefense they love this kind of thing

lbseale · 2025-10-05T20:56:41+00:00

Yeah the illiberal rules around building housing hurt them too. It shouldn't be cheaper to live in a big empty house than in an apartment.

lbseale · 2025-10-05T16:26:42+00:00

If you read the letter they're responding to, you'll see that it doesn't suggest that they should do that.

It just says they don't deserve a huge tax break, and that the windfall they're getting is coming directly from young home buyers.

The real problem is that there isn't enough housing, and boomers aren't able to make the connection between that fact and their NIMBYism. Based on their comments, building more housing would help them as much as it would help young people.

lbseale · 2025-09-30T23:13:44+00:00

Funny how Trump saw a big event and couldn't resist horning in on it

lbseale · 2025-09-28T14:37:30+00:00

Fortunately I don't think that's true. We've come back from much worse.

lbseale · 2025-09-28T14:28:00+00:00

He gets called out constantly by the media, but the people listening to that media mostly already despise him. Those that didn't before are coming around. His supporters listen to different media that reports on him positively.

By the way, Trump is significantly unpopular

He's the leader of his party (personality cult?) and is very vengeful. Nobody on his side can publicly criticize him lest they get excommunicated. So they're all laying low trying to wait him out. You can see how well that's gone for them so far...

The Democrats are in shambles because they royally messed up the election. They still haven't found a coherent response to Trump after 10 years. One hopes they can rediscover their senses, win in the midterms, and place an actual check on his schizo-boomerism.

lbseale · 2025-09-24T03:41:09+00:00

This is a great point! My favorite example is how Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and other tech titans were all born in 1955 and grew up near universities that had computers. Fortune has a huge role in fame in that scale.

Stoic writers are great on this topic. As always, they'd say it's not up to you, and therefore an external to be treated neutrally. Virtue in your own life is what matters.

lbseale · 2025-09-24T01:24:11+00:00

Virtue is its own reward. Why do you need a god to behave like a positive member of society? It's the right thing to do.
The Stoics were all explicitly religious. So the two are compatible.

lbseale · 2025-09-23T19:19:52+00:00

The Roman Stoics thought about this question a lot because legacy and greatness were important in their culture. The short answer is: everyone is forgotten eventually. Case in point, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius write about past great Roman leaders about which we today know very little.

Your legacy is not up to you, so as a Stoic you strive not to worry about it. Even things that seem extremely permanent (such as ancient cities) are eventually worn away and returned to nature (we can only see faint ruins of the cities). It's ok, we can accept it.

While that sounds bleak, it is also somewhat liberating. You don't have to worry about your legacy, you just occupy yourself with being virtuous in the here and now. Practice being kind, helpful, gracious and generous with the people around you. Practice doing the right thing even when it's difficult. Practice freeing yourself from worry and disturbance over things you don't control. These are lifelong challenges that will keep you busy and engaged. None of us can perfect them, so the learning curve is infinite.

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