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NostraDavid

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  • The coreutils Rust rewrite story

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  • Canonical should have a look at https://antithesis.com/ - They'll basically run your application in a deterministic VM, where hardware errors are simulated, so you can re-play certain scenarios, not just the happy-path. It should be able to surface bugs way faster than just running into them.

    Deterministic simulation testing is what they should be doing.

    edit: If you want a demo from the CEO, where he shows off how he tested Super Mario (yes, the NES game): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc4cqtibTzs

    Note: These are some guys from FoundationDB, if that means something to you.

  • Do you use speckit? What are your thoughts and experiences on speckit and other such frameworks?

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  • I used it back at version 0.0.23 (around September 2025), and I just noticed I burned through a LOT of tokens, with relatively little work being done.

    SOTA (state of the art) LLMs are now smart enough you can just ask it to track ADRs (Architect Decision Records - track why you did the things you did, architecture-wise).

    I don't see much worth in them any more, unless you're using a local model that would still need speckit as a framework.

  • Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?

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  • Netherlands

    Good, I'd pay my "eigen risico" of a few hundred EUR - presuming I didn't already spend it before then - but it's slowly getting worse due to mass-migration (3x the historic percentage-points of the total population; that's over 100k added on a population of 18 mil, even when that should be closer to 30k instead, historically speaking).

  • People who use apps like "Notion", are you not worried about lock-in due to complex files/data structures?

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  • I'm a sucker for GitJournal because it's just a git repo, and the files are just text/markdown. Whenever you make an edit, it'll autocommit for you - no commit message, but you at least have a history of changes.

    And I can just git pull the repo onto my desktop. It's simple, robust, and I love it!

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • NostraDavid's Warcraft Credit Visualizer

    I wanted to check who worked on what World of Warcraft game, so I've vibe-coded this together, over the years. Not the data though - I didn't want hallucinated data.

    Anyway, turns that one person worked on all the games: Glenn Stafford - the absolutely musical legend!

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • IIRC, they'll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.

    Also, for those that don't get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).

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  • The club isn’t allowing women to be present at all

    So you're saying women should be allowed, we should ask them not to speak while at the club... Are you sure you're not Republican or something?

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  • It’s like the discussion about if you can be racist toward white people.

    Depends on whether you're using the common definition, or intersectional feminist jargon. That is literally the distinction.

    Common definitions:

    prejudice, discrimination, or hostility directed at people because of their race or ethnicity.

    Intersectional feminist jargon:

    Racism is racial oppression embedded in social structures and power relations, often operating together with patriarchy and other systems of domination.

    PS: Race isn't real. Not even a social construct: it's straight up an arbitrary line drawn by a bunch of ignorant assholes, for the sake of being assholes. Ethnicities are real though.

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  • I really can’t figure out a cohesive statement.

    "Fragile men are fragile" seems to be the statement.

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  • Power dynamics may affect the scale and context of harm, but they do not make group-based contempt morally sound. If you object to demeaning people for belonging to a group, that standard must be general. Otherwise, you are not opposing prejudice, but are rationing sympathy instead.

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  • I HATE tight pants.

    Just buy bigger pants? Issue solved, right?

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  • due to the hundreds of pissed off dudes crying in the comments

    Huh, almost like the comic is sexist. Who'd had thunk?

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  • just “don’t be a dick, leave other human beings in peace” kind of common sense.

    I would, but feminists didn't leave atheism (2012) and then gaming (2014) alone. Probably other things before 2012 when I wasn't aware, and now we are here.

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  • TERFs just accelerated what was already there.

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  • I’d tell them “we’ll start a men’s shelter”.

    Never forget Earl Silverman

    Earl died by suicide on April 26, 2013, shortly after selling the shelter due to bankruptcy and ridicule.[5][6][7]

    "Feminism is for Everybody" is a lie, and Earl's life proves it.

    This shit still pisses me the fuck off.

  • Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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  • I was thinking along the line of them yoinking the guac right from under your nose, even if you weren't finished yet.

  • Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

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  • Always has been - most people (me likely included) will just who whatever is cheaper.

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  • and by “women only” they mean “no

    <t-slur>

    s”

    Why would TERFs not allow TERFs? That makes no sense!?

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  • Because whoever made it is misandrist.