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I am building an application where a lot of the content is not rendered, long lists, virtualised tables, data that lives on the server. The browser's find in page can only search what is currently in the DOM, so it…
I am having a large outdoor bin enclosure made from treated pine with stainless fixings. The quote includes finishing the timber with four or five coats of used car engine oil, presumably as a cheap and long lasting…
Two cucumber plants in 40 litre containers of bagged potting mix, six weeks in, growing fast up a trellis. The older leaves have gone yellow between the veins while the veins themselves stay green, and it is spreading…
First toile I have ever made, plain calico, no hem, no closures, back is held together with three pins because the pattern wants an invisible zip. It looks like a sack with wrinkles radiating in about four directions. I…
I've started and abandoned four apps in three years and the pattern is identical every time. Two great weeks of categorising everything, then a missed week, then 300 uncategorised transactions and I never open it again.…
There are two ways to hang a roll: with the free end coming over the front, or down the back against the wall. Setting aside the aesthetic argument, there is a mechanical difference I cannot explain. Tearing a sheet off…
New to me car, and after filling up the needle doesn't move at all for what feels like ages, then it starts dropping normally, then the last quarter disappears alarmingly fast. First car I've had that does this so…
Same 30 day window, three tools, three answers. GA4 and Plausible disagree by about 26% on visitors, which I can live with, but I cannot work out what I am supposed to do with the discrepancy when I calculate a…
Postgres error 42501, message . Reads are perfect the user sees exactly their org's tasks. Inserts from a server action fail every time. The policy: I thought covered insert. What am I misreading?
Six months in. Hiragana and katakana are solid, I know maybe 400 words, grammar is going fine from a textbook. Kanji is where it falls apart I'll learn twenty, come back a week later, and half are gone. About 40 minutes…
Retrieval is pgvector, top 40 candidates, then a cross encoder reranking down to 8, running on CPU in the same container. Answer quality went up noticeably people stopped complaining about the wrong section being cited.…
I have been on the browser one for about three years, it syncs everywhere I care about, it is free, and it fills things without me thinking. Every thread I read tells me to move to a dedicated app and I cannot tell if…
R2 was supposed to be the cheap part. 90GB stored, zero egress charges, I was budgeting maybe $2 a month for it. Invoice came in at $214 and almost all of it is Class A operations. Working backwards from the per million…
I tipped the mower onto its side to scrape the deck and clear a blockage. When I restarted it there was a lot of blue smoke for about a minute, then it cleared and it has run normally since. I did not pay attention to…
We are on a well, water tests around 250 ppm hardness with visible iron staining in the sink. My hair feels rough and my blonde is going brassy. I can either clarify weekly with a normal clarifying shampoo or use a…
Four months of self teaching and I still look up how to write a for loop over a dictionary, or the exact argument order for a slice. It feels like I am not learning, just getting faster at searching. Does this stop at…
I have been building a family tree and had a commercial DNA test done. I am now in contact with a number of documented distant relatives, and several of them show no genetic match with me at all. The paper trail is…
Somebody sent me a flat metal card, roughly the size of a bank card, with a set of small shapes stamped into it that can be snapped out. Most look fishing related to me, there are things that could be hooks and…
Working through isothermal processes and the definition I was given for the universal gas constant was that it is the work done by a gas, per mole, per kelvin. I wrote it down and it has not meant anything to me since.…
I ride about 6 km each way through a busy city, and I try hard to avoid conflict quiet roads, protected lanes, defensive positioning. It still happens several times a week that a driver turns across me, pulls out, or…
Small town site, landlord is doing the fit out, and I am forecasting 60 to 80 drinks a day to start. I have a number in my head for machine and grinder and I am fairly sure it is wrong, mainly because I keep finding…
My building has four lifts in one lobby. All four serve every residential floor, they are identical, and there is a single call panel between them. What happens in practice is that they bunch. Two or three of them end…
The documentation says one configures the server to fetch documents from the back end and the other rewrites redirects originating there so they point at the right place on the front end server. I can read that and I…
Fine wavy hair past my shoulders, and I've got a band of breakage through the mid lengths that's getting worse. Current routine: blow dry on high three times a week, rough dry with a normal bath towel first, and I brush…
Two machines, both behind NAT, both running a recent kernel with the module built in, both listening on the same port. One side updates a DNS record with its current address and the other uses that name as the endpoint.…