thomaslord

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by thomaslord 4y ago
Yeah, I have a project that I've been wanting to add a status page to for a while. I haven't done it yet because I want to display accurate information about the inner workings of the system, which will take actual time and effort
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Have you had any luck with picking and choosing what gets backed up? I have a bunch of smaller personal files I'd love to sync to B2 (photos, backups, etc.) but I also have 7TB+ of linux ISOs that don't really need to be backed up
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by thomaslord 4y ago
As a G Suite user, my "favorite" (/s) M365 feature is those "WARNING: EXTERNAL EMAIL" banners. Whenever I'm in an email thread with someone whose company adds those banners, it breaks Gmail's ability to co
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by thomaslord 4y ago
This reminds me of the good old days of Mac OS X theming with Shapeshifter. There were a ton of crazy themes out there, most of which now seem to be lost to the ages (or at least difficult to Google). Some screenshots can be found here: ht
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Disclaimer: This project isn't currently publicly available. I was using Simple as my primary bank, and their Goals feature made it possible to do envelope-style budgeting really conveniently. Unfortunately the bank that backed them, B
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Firefox is a particularly interesting case because it has a bunch of issues that only exist when it's installed via snap. I just recently ripped out the default snap version and installed via the official PPA, and Firefox seems to be r
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by thomaslord 4y ago
From what I've heard, modification is both the strong point and the weak point of the Ender 3. There are tons of community-designed modifications, many of which you can print yourself without having to but a lot of parts off the shel
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by thomaslord 4y ago
IIRC they changed something about sleep states on newer CPUs. Most people who report issues are on Linux, but I've heard about issues on Windows as well. I have a modern-but-not-new laptop (a Lenovo Yoga 720 from ~2012) and when I was
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Can you provide any sources on Texas having grid issues because of renewables? The biggest publicized issue I'm familiar with was caused by inadequate maintenance of fossil-fuel-based generation facilities - during that period of time
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Are you putting react there because you consider it to have the largest learning curve? If not, I'd probably substitute Vue. When I was first getting into reactive frontend frameworks it was part of a time-sensitive project, and we cho
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by thomaslord 4y ago
The tiger / housecat analogy is great for this context! Even if a tiger fit in the housecat's cage it could easily rip it apart, while a housecat could slip between the bars of a tiger's cage easily.
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by thomaslord 4y ago
There are documented cases of Tesla selling a pre-owned vehicle that was purchased with an optional feature, listing that optional feature in the sale ad, and then disabling the feature after the person they sold the car to has taken posses
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by thomaslord 4y ago
I was in a situation where I was managing a junior developer and felt like I didn't have time to properly train him, so instead I was leaving tons of comments on merge requests in GitLab with explicit instructions on what to change (of
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Wireless internet always has tradeoffs, and satellite internet is inherently less reliable than wired internet. Calling 25/3 "broadband" was laughable even in 2015, and since the pandemic created more remote positions (or at
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by thomaslord 4y ago
TIL the original author of GNU arch shared my name and was born in the same state as me!
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Even better, a very similar system is currently being implemented by Tesla (under the name Tesla Virtual Power Plant). It's for their Powerwall product rather than the cars, but I think it's safe to assume they'd design a sim
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by thomaslord 4y ago
This issue is that this affects private servers. Since Microsoft is trying to make Minecraft a kid-friendly environment, their chat moderation is going to be aimed at protecting 10 year olds from profanity. Imagine you have a private server
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Even with zero customization, just using it for a Kanban board is incredibly slow and frustrating. My 2-person team was using the free version of Target Process and needed to migrate to something else since we hit the entity limit, so we we
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by thomaslord 4y ago
Yeah, they didn't even put the fan next to the heatsink on their later Intel laptops. I've seen some speculation that it might have been an attempt to make M1 look better by comparison, since the Intel chips weren't able to h
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by thomaslord 4y ago
I can't point you toward a specific part, but I think something like this must exist for the 3rd gen Moto 360 to exist. I wouldn't be surprised if it was substantially more expensive than the ones with the tab, though.
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by thomaslord 4y ago
I've seen dongles you can buy (I think in the $30-$50 range) that sit between your normal non-QMK keyboard and your computer. Then when you press a key, the dongle takes the keycodes from your keyboard, runs them through QMK, and every
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by thomaslord 4y ago
It's interesting to see everyone's different views on Docker. Here you (at least to my reading) suggest that people who need simplicity should just chuck their app in a Docker container, but elsewhere I've seen it portrayed a
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by thomaslord 4y ago
I haven't used the slightly older models, but it may be worth sticking with them because it's possible to adapt them to use a standard 20v tool battery (I've specifically seen this done for the V8). Meanwhile on the V10 I hav
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by thomaslord 4y ago
When I read the headline, I assumed that this was going to be a negative review from a user. We got a Nest thermostat for free as part of a SolarCity solar panel installation, and I spent months fighting with it to try and make it do what I
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by thomaslord 4y ago
I have a project that uses Heroku Postgres because they handle high-availability and backups, and because they have some fancy metrics that help find areas for potential optimization[1]. Does anyone have recommendations for an alternative w
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by thomaslord 4y ago
PHP is the only language I've set up production environments for, but I can't see any reason why it would be more complicated than other languages. I have a PHP project that handles atomic deployments by pointing the web server at
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by thomaslord 4y ago
It sounds like the issue noted above is less the actual pricing, and more that it's difficult to find out what the pricing is. This matches up with my personal experience - I had to get in touch with an actual human and ask them for th
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by thomaslord 5y ago
To be fair, other hand dryers only do better on this metric because they don't actually remove the water from your hands.
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by thomaslord 5y ago
Solve the first two points (make city living vastly less expensive and increase the quality of the housing) and a lot of other problems go away. Bothered by homeless people sitting on the street? A lot of them would rather be in a living ro
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by thomaslord 5y ago
30 GPIO pins broken out vs. 13 is a good start. I also see no mention of the battery charging stuff on either of the boards you linked.

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