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natbennett

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    Comment #49103677

    In the case of a newly committed file you can add just the file with git add . -N And then review the text itself as part of the git add -p workflow

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    Comment #49078346

    The issue here isn’t that this guy shared something about his personal life it’s the particular personal details. It’s possible to share information about your personal life withou…

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    Comment #49048734

    If you haven’t interacted much with people raised by conservative Christians in the United States, they often have strong feelings about how they were raised.

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    Comment #49036976

    Firefox is an interesting choice as a company that wasn’t affected by identity politics given how Brendan Eich left the company

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    Comment #49036040

    They are not a “pure middle man.” You should talk to someone who works at Patreon. Or a larger creator on their platform.

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    Comment #49036006

    They provide a lot of services and support to their bigger creators. Last I heard they also do their own payment processing, which is a substantial technical problem.

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    Comment #49035379

    Patreon just does this every few years. At least Jack Conte didn’t post a video of himself crying about it this time.

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    Comment #48882656

    I do this a lot but I use “TK:” with the colon to make it unambiguously grep-able (stands out better visually too)

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    Comment #48881266

    Headlines and articles are typically written by different people with different goals.

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    Comment #48821641

    I’ve got a test that checks to see if “Logger” has been imported anywhere in my Elixir project, and if it finds one it prints out an explanation of why this project shouldn’t use L…

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    Comment #48821607

    The phenomenon this describes is the most important effect of LLM coding tools, and this is my favorite description of it.

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    Comment #48821569

    This was posted in March 2026.

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    Comment #48798160

    Oh yeah that’s how you’re supposed to do it. But it’s entirely possible to set up a system that uses RFID key fobs that uh, doesn’t. In the case where it was most useful to make co…

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    Comment #48798102

    Nope! Only occasionally. But it’s handy on those occasions.

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    Comment #48796780

    Flipper Zero is one of the handiest little pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Being able to copy RFID keys is occasionally fantastically useful.

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    Comment #48796759

    This article is at least the sixth restatement of a single Reuters article that has been posted here.

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    Comment #48794652

    Because no one wants to “turn startups into content.” The point of posting on social media isn’t to post. You need to explain an outcome that someone would actually care about.

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    Comment #48777637

    Specifically for his private social media that’s a benefit for his paid subscribers. 5 or 6 days of a few hours a day, with Claude.

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    Comment #48211774

    The category is “Platform as a Service” Alternative to Fly or Heroku Here is my source code Run it on the cloud for me I do not care how In this case it looks like they also bundle…

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    Comment #48123948

    Article and comments are underrating the impact of reputational risk on payment processors and on Kickstarter itself, for hosting/facilitating sexual content. Some amount of adult …

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    Comment #47934701

    Like most data entry software there’s nothing that unstructured notes (or paper) can’t handle. The main useful feature of the apps (or Apple Health’s tracker which is entirely adeq…

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    Comment #47925942

    A clause like this is pretty standard in software company employment contracts, at least in the California/Silicon Valley zone. There’s sometimes an exception for explicitly named …