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Moved to Android last month and discovered the watch I'd worn for three years does essentially nothing now, which I should obviously have researched first. Budget $200 400 and I mostly want notifications, decent sleep…
Suppose I register a domain with a name nobody would guess, and only a friend and I ever use it. No links to it anywhere, no search engine submission. My assumption was that it would be effectively invisible. But I…
A server with unattended updates enabled started failing to refresh its package lists. The errors are not found responses from the mirror, not connection failures, and the mirror hostname resolves and responds to a ping…
Four months in, ten minutes of scales at the start of every session, mostly C, G and D major, hands together, two octaves. I can play them and they are getting smoother, but I cannot point at a single thing in the…
I simulated data from a normal distribution and then computed the likelihood of that data under the very distribution that generated it. The number came out astronomically small. That is what confuses me. This is the…
Eight plants, all in the same room. I have been bottom watering only for three weeks, yellow sticky cards above every pot, and I let the top of the soil dry out properly between waterings. I catch maybe 20 gnats a week…
Masters student, three two hour lectures a week, and I have been typing something close to a transcript because I am afraid of missing things. It takes the whole lecture plus about four hours a week tidying afterwards,…
Three months of evenings. When something breaks I still feel a small drop in my stomach, scroll to the bottom, read the last line and start guessing. People around me seem to read the whole thing and go straight to the…
I have been riding for years and only just learned what a balance bike is: no pedals, seat low enough that the rider's feet reach the ground, so they learn balance and steering without having to coordinate pedalling at…
I'm 34, eight months of feeling completely flat, can't start tasks I care about, and I forgot two meetings last week that were in my calendar. I took two weeks off in April and felt human for about ten days before it…
I would like to reduce the mosquito and fly population in my garden without spraying anything. We have a reasonable amount of planted space, a bird feeder and a recirculating water feature, which brings in plenty of…
Did my first real lower body session on Monday, squats and lunges and some hamstring work, nothing heavy but a lot more than I'm used to. Tuesday I was fine, Wednesday I could barely sit down on a chair, and it's now…
Column of dates from an exported report. In the pivot, right click, Group is greyed out for the date field, and the rows show every single day as its own line. If I type a date manually into a blank cell it looks…
Personal budget tracker, 8000 rows, maybe 15 columns. Every edit hangs for 15 20 seconds before the cell updates. I assumed 8000 rows was tiny. There are a few VLOOKUPs, some SUMIFS pulling from other tabs, and about…
Several junctions in my area have been converted to roundabouts over the past decade, and this seems to be happening in a lot of places. Locally the reaction is close to universally negative: people find them confusing…
Six years backend at the same company. The lead role is about 8 percent more money and six reports, the lateral is the same pay on a stack I have never touched. I have to answer in two weeks and my manager has made it…
Wired gaming headset that has worked for two years, and since an update last month the mic cuts out after roughly ten minutes on a call and only comes back if I unplug and replug. It happens on two different…
I am planning to lead a song for a mixed group and I want as many people as possible to actually join in rather than listen. The song as written spans roughly an octave, from D below middle C to the D above. I do not…
I need a material that melts somewhere in the 500 to 590 Celsius band, for a temperature reference. It is turning out to be a surprisingly empty gap. Plastics are gone long before that. Tin and lead melt far lower.…
I uninstalled a database server, updated my package manager and reinstalled it. Starting the service now fails with a bootstrap error mentioning an input/output problem, and the message from the service manager is not…
We pay 1450 for a two bed and the quote on a similar two bed comes to about 1260 a month with ten percent down. Right now the landlord fixes everything and we have never spent a penny on the building itself. We plan to…
There is a permanent tension between names that are descriptive and names that are short enough to read in an expression. A name carrying the unit, the source, the constraint and the meaning becomes unreadable inside…
I have built a small tool for a narrow professional niche. It works, three friends use it, one of them would pay. I have no audience anywhere. I have never posted on any platform and I am not going to start making short…
Two chequing accounts, one credit card, and one joint account with my partner. Every free app I've tried either caps the number of connections or turns the credit card into double counted spending. I'm not against…
Quoted a flat 3,000 for a five page site based on a brief. Three weeks in we're at fourteen pages, two of which need a filterable listing, plus a newsletter integration nobody mentioned. Client is pleasant and seems to…