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I spend about twenty minutes on a Sunday typing transactions into a sheet I built, and it has worked for eleven months, which is longer than either app lasted. The part I dislike is that I only find out I've overspent…
I have become fascinated by statements that would be clean theorems if not for a single stubborn exception. Not families of exceptions, not "except for small cases": exactly one counterexample, and then the pattern…
I want to cook a single egg with minimal effort and no dedicated gadget, and without watching a pan. The idea I keep coming back to is putting the egg in a vacuum flask with boiling water and leaving it. My attempt…
Rim brakes work better and pads last longer on a clean braking surface, which everybody agrees on. The grime sits in the machining grooves and does not want to leave. What I am after is a method that is genuinely…
Both files are mine, one is shared with four colleagues, and the link worked fine yesterday. This morning every cell in the destination shows REF and hovering offers the connect button, which I click, and nothing…
Reading through a repository I do not contribute to, I noticed a few small spelling mistakes in the README. Nothing that causes confusion, just typos. I can see three options: open a pull request, open an issue…
I want steps, heart rate, sleep and a two week battery, on Android, and I want to open the app and see the numbers without a monthly fee gating the interesting half. What I keep finding at this price is a cheap band…
14 packages, pnpm workspaces, with remote caching enabled. On my machine the second run is 100% cache hit in about 400ms. On CI it is 0/14 every single time, 6m41s, on a commit that changed one README. Things I have…
I generated correlated test data, fitted an ordinary least squares line and plotted both. The line does not look like it goes through the middle of the cloud. It looks rotated, sitting shallower than the long axis of…
SDK 54, managed workflow. On EAS the Android release job dies with and a duplicate resource message naming a drawable that two of my dependencies both appear to ship. The exact same commit builds green locally with and…
CSV import Worker on the paid plan. Files are anywhere from 200 to 3,000 rows. The loop is the obvious thing: Small files import fine. Anything over about a thousand rows and I get partway through, with some rows…
I have run into a few desktop sites where moving the pointer onto a top level navigation item loads that section, without clicking. It saves a click and it is undeniably fast once you know it is happening. My reaction…
My sister sent me a video about coatings and acrylamide and now I'm looking at my two year old basket, which has a few scratches near the handle after a metal tongs incident. I use it about four times a week, mostly…
Currently a static screenshot of the main screen. I have a 40 second walkthrough recorded and I could also cut a short loop out of it. Before I spend a weekend on this: does the media above the fold move anything, and…
I have a project where I want epoxy resin in a solid opaque white rather than clear or tinted. The obvious thing to hand is white acrylic paint, and I wondered whether stirring some into the resin before it cures would…
Monday to Thursday I hit my targets almost exactly, and then Friday dinner out and Saturday with friends put me a long way over on calories and well under on protein. I am now deciding between averaging across seven…
There are documented cases of an invasive population starting from a tiny founding group, sometimes fewer than five individuals: and growing into hundreds over a few decades. My understanding is that such a small…
Here is the argument that is bothering me. Any file is a string of bits, so any file is a number. A lossless compressor maps each input to an output that is supposed to be shorter, and the decompressor maps it back, so…
Adopted a two year old cat three weeks ago and she has worked through a golden pothos, one monstera leaf and most of the spider plant, in that order. I have about fifteen plants including a peace lily, a ZZ, two…
Plain docker build on an Apple Silicon laptop, pushed to a registry, then compose pull on an amd64 vps and the container exits immediately with exec format error. I have seen platform, buildx and just build on the…
I wrote 30 questions with expected answers, I score them myself, and every change I make lands somewhere between 20 and 24 correct. Chunk size, reranker on or off, a different prompt: all within that range. Either…
I am cutting small supports for shelves and wondering which grain orientation is better for holding a screw under a downward load. I understand this is probably negligible at the scale I am working, but I would like to…
I have one drawer of storage, an electric coil hob and a nonstick that's visibly peeling, so that one is going in the bin this week. Budget is about £60 and I can genuinely only keep one pan. Realistically I cook eggs…
I wake at any change in noise, which is the whole constraint here. Room is about 11m2, budget roughly USD 200, and I want it for pollen season more than anything since I sleep with the window cracked otherwise. I tried…
pnpm workspace, and . The block with my brand colours lives in and everything in the app renders correctly. A Button in uses . The class is in the DOM. There is no matching rule anywhere in the emitted stylesheet.…
