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Freehand on a 1000 and 6000 combination stone, and I have been eyeballing roughly twenty degrees for everything because that is what I was taught. The German knives hold up fine but the gyuto dulls noticeably faster…
Half life describes the statistics of a large number of atoms. But an individual nucleus decays at an unpredictable moment, and nothing prevents any particular one from decaying at any particular time. So it seems to…
I've used Korean sunscreens for four years mainly because the textures beat anything I can buy locally, and I'm now unsure what to trust after the run of testing stories. I'm not trying to relitigate the whole thing. I…
I am five months into a self taught curriculum, about ten hours a week, changing careers from warehouse logistics at 31. Every time I stall I paste the error into a chat window and get working code back, and I have…
I'm somewhere around B1 in Spanish and I've been doing 30 minutes of voice conversation with an AI assistant every morning at 6am, mostly because no other human is awake then. Six weeks in I feel completely fluent…
Short business trip, visa valid for exactly the days I planned to be there, and I used all of them. My outbound flight was via another airport in the same area and the first leg was delayed enough that I missed the…
First build, 1440p gaming plus some Blender on evenings and weekends. I priced a list at $1,290 and there is a prebuilt with the same CPU and GPU for $1,400 with a three year warranty and one phone number to shout at. I…
A digital image is captured and stored in terms of red, green and blue. A printer then converts it to cyan, magenta, yellow and black to put ink on white paper. That conversion loses information and is a source of…
Migrated a screen from ObservableObject to the @Observable macro. Most of it works. One case does not and I cannot see the rule I am breaking. View reads . Setting redraws fine. Setting changes the value I can print it…
Someone disputed a twenty nine dollar charge as unrecognised. I spent about an hour assembling evidence: signup timestamp, IP, their usage over six weeks, the terms they accepted, the receipt email. Lost anyway, and on…
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…