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nathankleyn

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About nathankleyn

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    Personally I think Markdown got _really_ popular not because it is easier to write but because it is easier to read. It’s kind of a huge deal that I can give a Markdown file of pla…

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    Comment #40181964

    We had the same reticence about Dependabot missing before we made the switch, but realised Renovate works with Bun and is a good enough stand in for now until support arrives. Abso…

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    Comment #33096519

    Actions and Codespaces are listed as having "degraded performance" now too - seeing a lot of action builds disappear into the ether and never get added to the queue to run.

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    Comment #31216503

    Thanks to the ULEZ (ultra-low emission zone) in London, this is very much already happening — anecdotally (because I can't find any easy numbers right now, everything I can find is…

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    Comment #27422411

    It's what they call the releases of Chrome — M91 is version 91.

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    Comment #27089455

    Propagating "noalias" metadata for LLVM has actually finally been enabled again recently in nightly [0]. However it has already caused some regressions so it is not clear whether w…

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    Comment #20860596

    GDPR applies to any company that handles the data of EU citizens, regardless of whether that company is located in the EU or not.

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    Comment #20541485

    Sadly Nashorn, the JS engine that was built into the JVM, has been deprecated as of Java 11: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335 It had so many compatibility issues with real JS that…

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    Hey! I'm one of the co-maintainers of the project here. I've posted a very similar reply to a very similar comment below at [1], but to replay the main points: We absolutely agree …

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    Comment #17144702

    Hey! I'm one of the co-maintainers of the project here. What you see today in this project is really a means to scratch an itch we had - mainly to quickly and easily sample/obfusca…

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    Comment #14677427

    I think it was less that Amazon wouldn't provide support for Chromecast with their services and more that they refused to stock and sell Chromecast devices at all. I suppose the di…

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    Comment #14672510

    I could not agree more As a vinyl collector myself, another thing that interests me is the feeling of quality you get when you buy vinyl. I love looking through the lyric booklets …

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    Comment #13985318

    It's extremely impressive how many of these bugs were found by Google's Project Zero team.

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    Comment #13898007

    I've confirmed fisherman is safe on my machine.

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    Comment #12659279

    Compared to Rust enumerations, they are one and the same. In fact, looking at the documentation for Swift Enumerations yields this little nugget: You can define Swift enumerations …

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    Comment #12558753

    They mention in the post that they will be open-sourcing this code over the coming weeks.

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    Comment #12346422

    It's particularly aggravating playing it in a large city (for us London) where, without the maps as a guide, you're stuck wasting balls on common Pokémon incessantly because that's…

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    Comment #11916074

    This is true only if you use SMS for 2FA. For either method, you can audit the activity of your account on the GitHub security page: https://github.com/settings/security . For exam…

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    Comment #11291979

    Some similar option for enabling patience diffing as well would be amazing. Those two options in combination would certainly make a not insignificant amount of PRs much more readab…

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