thomaslord

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by thomaslord 2mo ago
This is the big pain-point for me with self-hosted budgeting software. The corporate players in the space can jump through the security hoops and integrate with Plaid, but if I wanted to automatically pull my own data into the single-user b
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by thomaslord 2mo ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Keychron has legitimately published the source for their QMK branches. The real issue is that people buying a keyboard that advertises QMK support reasonably expect that they can install the upstream generic QMK,
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by thomaslord 2mo ago
This doesn't seem to be relevant to the comment you replied to. They didn't mention anything about paying less to pharmaceutical companies, they argued that the administrative overhead of providing the insurance itself is lower. A
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by thomaslord 6mo ago
This is extra rough because Codex defaults to letting the model be MUCH more autonomous than Claude Code. The first time I tried it out, it ended up running a test suite without permission which wiped out some data I was using for local tes
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by thomaslord 1y ago
Honestly I think React DX kinda sucks, at least in some areas. Performance is one of the worst (`useMemo` and `componentShouldUpdate` are way to easy to ignore, constant re-renders are the norm and writing performant React code requires con
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by thomaslord 2y ago
It's been interesting seeing several comments like this in the comments, since Laravel's docs may be one of the most highly-praised aspects of the framework. I suspect the divide may be that newer developers get everything they ne
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by thomaslord 2y ago
I disagree, at least in this specific context. With Laravel Cloud you build a standard Laravel application which can be deployed anywhere, then use the service to handle DevOps for you. Because it doesn't include any unique services of
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by thomaslord 2y ago
This is true, if you're billing your hypothesis as a hypothesis. The problem is that prominent Republicans billed their "election was stolen" hypothesis as a fact, claimed to have boatloads of evidence in order to convince th
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by thomaslord 2y ago
It's well established that adults who read incorrect information frequently don't find out it was wrong and become more skeptical of the source. Some people operate that way, but it's a small minority unfortunately. In part
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by thomaslord 2y ago
Moderated media leans left. At least some of the reason it ends up that way is that many of the people who violate incredibly reasonable rules are conservative. Certain groups of hard-right people will say some incredibly bigoted shit tha
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by thomaslord 2y ago
Assuming that random factors like "it rained" or "voters got in car accidents and couldn't make it to the polls" aren't a significant factor, there's always a 100% probability of one specific candidate win
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by thomaslord 2y ago
Serious question - what do you think will happen to AI that currently relies on human reporters if everyone switches to getting their news from AI and the reporters lose their jobs? Morals aside, AI will run into serious problems in 10-20 y
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by thomaslord 2y ago
I'll confess - I have a project that uses Heroku's managed Postgres and my preferred upgrade method is to set the maintenance window to the middle of the night, create a backup, and be awake at 1am to make sure that nothing is bro
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by thomaslord 2y ago
Proposal: Apply a ceiling function to your pizza-counting algorithm and always leave the last slice in the freezer. Then simply throw out that slice when you want a new pizza!
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by thomaslord 2y ago
Depends how you define "a lot" - rural areas make up 20% of the population of the US, so you might need some rural voters but not necessarily a lot (percentage of actual voters may vary, but I don't have those numbers handy).
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by thomaslord 2y ago
I think it's easy to say that as someone who wouldn't vote for them, but the Republican party faces the same problem as the Democratic party there. Many Republican and Democratic voters only choose their party because they think i
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by thomaslord 2y ago
I think what Tauri is getting blamed for is the decision to always use the native web renderer, which IMO is fair because that was a design choice they made. Personally I think the ideal scenario would be allowing developers a choice betw
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by thomaslord 2y ago
Yeah, the anxiety with serious food allergies is real. I haven't had a reaction in nearly 22 years and I don't even remember what it feels like, but religiously avoiding a dangerous food from a young age you can have some long-ter
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by thomaslord 2y ago
The question is whether children who are already in school are likely to develop an allergy due to lack of exposure at that point in their lives. If the answer is no, the only downside is parents having to make a different sandwich for lunc
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by thomaslord 2y ago
A while back I was using Simple as my bank because their app was the best budgeting tool I'd been able to find. Once it shut down I moved to a spreadsheet, and by comparison it was super painful. I basically replicated the app's f
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by thomaslord 2y ago
I wonder what the definition of "developer portal" is here exactly... It's definitely possible to make a bad one by requiring an onboarding process to access it and hiding information from the public, but I think there's
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by thomaslord 2y ago
Yeah, I think the education system's expectations for reading comprehension went down the drain a while ago. When I was in middle school I scored well enough on the reading comprehension section of my state's standardized test tha
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by thomaslord 2y ago
I'd like to propose an alternative: it’s the equivalent of banning bananas to prevent burglaries.
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by thomaslord 2y ago
It might also have something to do with acquired taste - maybe people who can tolerate artificial sweeteners have simply gotten used to the weird flavors they add and don't taste them anymore?
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by thomaslord 3y ago
We are in a sad state of bloat. 99% of what people do on their computers now goes through a web browser, and opening lots of tabs chews through RAM like nothing else.
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by thomaslord 3y ago
I don't like MacOS these days, I like the idea of being able to repair my computer if something breaks, and I want the option to at least attempt data recovery if I have a drive failure.
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by thomaslord 3y ago
These days I want Apple's hardware (the M chips specifically, but the trackpads/screens/cases are nice too) but can't stand their software. While I'm not a big fan of Windows either, it at least provides basic windo
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by thomaslord 3y ago
Honestly if I'm doing quick dirty prototyping I want to have as many tools provided for me as possible. I probably won't use most of them, but spinning up a quick Laravel project gives me built-in shortcuts for stuff that's j
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by thomaslord 3y ago
I also think the Safari is just a very cool looking pen. I haven't really gotten into writing with fountain pens much as of yet, but I saw a Safari in a store and bought it based on looks alone.
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by thomaslord 3y ago
If you're building one API endpoint per frontend view to avoid doing multiple API requests, your frontend and backend aren't decoupled anymore. I personally wouldn't say it's a bad thing, but if the best way to solve the

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