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New comment by arthurbrown in "How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going"

arthurbrown — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:24:19 +0000

I appreciate the insight, and on closer reading the post clearly states that realistically only Zig and Rust were ever considered anyway.

Since you're here, could you comment on the approach Rust took in their rewrite? Was it more of a straight translation like Go did when they self hosted -- similar to the recent Bun transliteration? Or were there architectural changes made along the way like this article describes with Roc?

New comment by arthurbrown in "How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going"

arthurbrown — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:26:04 +0000

Interesting that OCaml was flexible and expressive enough to be used as a prototype testbed but not chosen as the implementation language, especially given the maturity of both. I would be surprised if Zigs incremental builds could be meaningfully faster than dune's.

Cross compilation is great, but not mentioned in the "why Zig" section. Is memory control that crucial for a compiler?

Rust itself was originally written in OCaml, same with WASM. I'm curious about what milestone gets reached where the maintainers collectively decide to transition away.

New comment by arthurbrown in "Road to Elm 1.0"

arthurbrown — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:34:33 +0000

One form of JavaScript interop. Instead of being able to write bindings directly to native code, you had to pass messages through "ports" instead.

https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/native-code-in-0-19/826

Personally, I was sad to see signals and FRP go in 0.17

https://elm-lang.org/news/farewell-to-frp

Daniel Smith watercolour – full range

arthurbrown — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:48:49 +0000

Article URL: https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2017/04/daniel-smith-watercolour-full-range.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708431

Points: 2

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Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls

arthurbrown — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:15:06 +0000

Article URL: https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48655025

Points: 3

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New comment by arthurbrown in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"

arthurbrown — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:13:42 +0000

That chart stops in 2023.

New comment by arthurbrown in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

arthurbrown — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:30:41 +0000

The article doesn't really discuss education outcomes at all, that is something you brought up. It sounds like we agree that there is an issue here. I'm suggesting that there are other reasons that explain the performance drop.

My reading of the article is that it criticizes the implementation of this policy and the methodology behind it, which I agree with.

Living in a country that moved quickly from a "social media ban" to an "adult content ban" in the space of 3 months, I feel that these policies are overreach due to how they must be implemented. As in, they require all users to provide verification, not just the targeted cohort.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy92qpv424o

New comment by arthurbrown in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

arthurbrown — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:29:15 +0000

Nationalized social media bans and restricted device usage while in a classroom are different things. Why would TikTok ever belong in the classroom?

Of course if even educational use of laptops is restricted then personal mobile devices would also be. They are already banned in my country.

New comment by arthurbrown in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

arthurbrown — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:22 +0000

There is growing acknowledgement that this is related to laptop usage in classroom. Countries are recognizing this and rolling back policies, citing PISA rankings.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly0vk77vdko https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/15/educa...

New comment by arthurbrown in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

arthurbrown — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:51:22 +0000

I'm not a farmer, but you are welcome to ask a no-till farmer for their experience, or do some reading. Heck, you could read the article that we're commenting on where scientists have dedicated their career to understanding this stuff.

New comment by arthurbrown in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

arthurbrown — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:56:41 +0000

What's the point of this? You are saying that you will not accept any new information that goes against your belief system.

The evidence is there. Read something. Watch a video. The resources are readily available and abundant.

Make a garden patch and experiment for yourself if you refuse to accept any outside information.

This video is 15 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1aR5OLgcc0

New comment by arthurbrown in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

arthurbrown — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:50:03 +0000

What an odd response. We have centuries of evidence for minimal disturbance agriculture supporting civilizations.

What evidently does NOT work is the quite new practice of industrial tilling and fertilizer, which is causing rapid breakdown of our natural environment and future potential for food production.

New comment by arthurbrown in "Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs"

arthurbrown — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:16:37 +0000

As someone who's been observing how the media treats cycling in this city closely since the dark days of Ducan Gay, this is absolutely what is happening.

Thank you for posting this and for taking the time to document it in detail.

New comment by arthurbrown in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

arthurbrown — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:04:57 +0000

Bought any RAM lately? Phone? GPU in the last decade?

New comment by arthurbrown in "Poison, Poison Everywhere"

arthurbrown — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 23:17:25 +0000

My understanding is that the high calcium content in their water supply formed a lining on the inside of the pipes which largely prevented any exposure.

New comment by arthurbrown in "Do not download the app, use the website"

arthurbrown — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:01:09 +0000

Monopoly, network effect

New comment by arthurbrown in "The Rise of Whatever"

arthurbrown — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:50:56 +0000

So just misquoting the author intentionally then?

You should pick some of the substance of the article to take issue with instead of jumping to be a victim. They clearly read it if they wrote it.

New comment by arthurbrown in "The Rise of Whatever"

arthurbrown — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:39:22 +0000

You've read that paragraph backwards. They are talking about LLM enthusiasts dunking on people who aren't using.

New comment by arthurbrown in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

arthurbrown — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:59:57 +0000

What modifications to infrastructure are you anticipating needing?

New comment by arthurbrown in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

arthurbrown — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:16:51 +0000

Can you speak more to the difference between the two experiences?