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handstitched

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    Comment #48512310

    It's a small difference, but if you had a choice between "more efficient AND less maintenance" and "less efficient and more maintenance" then it's easy to see why the permanent-mag…

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    Comment #47256880

    It's been possible since Big Sur at least, the method for enabling it just changed woth Sonoma

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    Comment #47216553

    > You don't have to trust us. Git itself verifies every object by hash on the client side. If we flip a byte, git fsck rejects the entire pack. If I were to run 'git clone https://…

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    Comment #46911121

    Look at the wikipedia page for any given country, and I guarantee you that it cites the CIA World Factbook at least once (and probably several times [1] ). Saying "we don't need th…

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    Comment #46727591

    This was a great read. I've used the naive approach shown in the first example before and its always felt a bit clunky, but I wasnt aware of most of these language features. I'm de…

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    Comment #46245942

    > secular culture is literally dying Can you elaborate on this? It doesn't match my experience at all.

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    Comment #46140901

    > To me, any software engineer who tries an LLM, shrugs and says “huh, that’s interesting” and then “gets back to work” is completely failing at their actual job, which is using te…

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    Comment #45196610

    OP is the developer & maintainer of the affected packages, so the attacker was able to use their phished credentials to upload compromised versions to NPM.