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Some things are prepaid on my card, some will be cash, and one of the three has a card with no foreign transaction fee so he will end up paying for a lot of the meals. We are all fine about money but I have seen this go…
The flow, as it exists: 1. Signup with email, 90 people got this far 2. Connect Google so we can read a folder of sheets, 27 completed it 3. Pick the folder, 19 4. First report generated, 11 So two thirds die on the…
TypeScript 5.8. I have the standard recursive path type over a config object: Worked fine while the config was four levels deep. I added one more level and now gives me: The config has 9 top level keys and nothing…
A freshly installed distribution inside the Linux subsystem cannot update its package lists everything fails with signature verification errors saying the repository is not signed. The usual advice is a key management…
Bought it from a market stall in spring and kept it in a kitchen cupboard above the kettle. Last week the lid popped when I opened it, there is a pale foam on top, and it tastes faintly sour with a cidery smell. No…
Nine days of exact match search ads on three keywords. 41,300 impressions, 1,142 clicks at $0.21, and 3 email addresses. Scroll tracking says 402 people made it past the hero, 31 clicked "get early access", 3 finished.…
In SQL Server, a non max variable length column can hold up to 8000 characters for the single byte type and 4000 for the double byte type. A page is 8 kilobytes, which is 8192 bytes. The correspondence is close enough…
Same list of 2,140 subscribers, same weekly issue, same ESP, no change to the copy. I moved the From address off the ESP subdomain onto [email protected] because owning it felt like the grown up thing to do. Next send:…
29 gallon planted tank, moderately stocked, currently running a hang on back that hums fine during the day and then becomes the loudest object in the room at 2am. It is not the water noise, I already raised the level so…
The phrase has a comma before the last word, and I have seen it read two ways. One reading takes it as a form of address the instruction is "keep it simple" and the person being instructed is being called stupid. The…
Put a scroll depth event on the page a fortnight ago. Of about 1,100 visitors, 6% reach the section under the hero. Average time on page is 9 seconds. The hero says what the product is in six words, with a screenshot…
Two trees in my garden have a constant stream of ants going up and down the trunk. One is an established ornamental, the other a young rowan about a metre tall. I cannot see what they are going up for. There is no…
Five budget legs in September, mostly low cost carriers, and I keep flip flopping between a 40L and a 26L. The EU deal that Parliament approved in July guarantees a free personal item up to 40x30x15cm, but everything I…
I have been building polyhedra out of corrugated cardboard cut from boxes, joining the edges with ordinary plastic packing tape. Structurally that works well. The problem is finishing. Paint does not take on the tape it…
Trying to hit around 130 g of protein a day at about 80 kg. I currently get maybe 90 g from food, and the entire gap is breakfast, which I skip because I leave the house at 6:40. Chicken and dairy are cheap where I…
Package operations on an older server started failing, and the cause turned out to be DNS: the mirror list hostname configured in the repository files no longer resolves at all. The main project domain resolves fine,…
On this laptop the menu bar is interrupted by the camera housing in the middle. Items fill in from the right, and once they reach that point any further items are simply not shown: no overflow, no way to scroll,…
Every deploy produces a Sentry spike: Between 30 and 60 of them, then it stops on its own. It is an internal dashboard so people leave a tab open from 09:00 and click save at 15:00. Nothing in our code changed between…
Public access computers get used by hundreds of unrelated people, many of whom will do careless things, some of whom will do deliberate ones. There is no way to vet who sits down. By any reasonable expectation these…
The product is useless until you connect an account, and roughly two thirds of signups never do it. They land in an empty dashboard, click around for a couple of minutes, and leave. I have rewritten the connect screen…
340 tests, 6.2 seconds of actual test time, all passing. Then the process sits there doing nothing, eventually complains that closing timed out and that something is probably keeping the process alive, and exits. In CI…
Local shop has a Dyson tower at about EUR 650 and a boring tower HEPA unit at about EUR 190 that claims the same coverage on paper. Room is a 30m2 open plan kitchen and living space with one cat and a gas hob, so I care…
I have seen classical guitarists produce vibrato with a rolling motion of the left hand finger, very similar to what a violinist does. On a violin that makes sense to me: the finger stops the string, so moving it along…
Reading an aviation incident report, the list of investigated trigger types included software bugs and software corruption as two distinct categories, alongside hardware faults and interference. I would have assumed…
Around 20 emails a week now across support, sales questions and refund requests, all landing in one gmail address that forwards to my personal inbox. It is starting to leak into work hours and I answered a customer at…