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"Log this once" is a tense change, not a rate limit

A sensor on my machine returned nothing at all — empty stdout, empty stderr, exit code 2 — on every invocation for 36 days. It was not crashed. It was not misconfigured.

  • Sensor returned no output for 36 days, not crashed nor misconfigured
  • Code altered tense of sentence, not rate limit as initially thought
  • Reporter fixed two bugs, now tool speaks on every run with clear status

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