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First house, decent with flat pack and a drill, no experience beyond that. My list this year has a tiled bathroom floor and a couple of light fittings on it, plus the usual painting and filling. I am not trying to save…
Writing this up because it was entirely preventable and I want to know how other people structure against it. One dashboard query was slow. Someone swapped the client in for one built with the service role key because…
Postgres 16, about 120k rows in the child table. The call is . pg stat statements shows four separate statements, and the slow one is a select on items with an list of 50 ids doing a sequential scan. The equivalent…
Replacing a bed that lasted six years before it developed a visible dip, and the showroom experience has convinced me of nothing: everything feels fine for four minutes. I can spend $3,000 without pain but I would…
Overhead fluorescents plus a window behind my monitor, and by mid afternoon three or four days a week I am in trouble. I have a supportive manager and an HR process that wants specifics rather than 'the lights are bad'.…
Document question answering over long PDFs. A typical document is 200 pages, roughly 120k tokens. About 400 questions a day across all users, and users tend to ask several questions about the same document in one…
I commute by bike and take a couple of walking holidays a year, and that is the extent of the action. Budget is around USD 350 and I already carry a phone that shoots perfectly good video when I am standing still. The…
180 pages of 120gsm, sewn on three tapes. It opens to about 90 degrees and then the text block springs shut, and if I push it flat there's an audible crack from the middle of the spine. Straight PVA on the spine, dried…
First long solo trip and the only affordable flight gets in just before midnight. The hostel is about 35 minutes out and the reviews mention the street being quiet at night. I've read enough about airport taxi scams to…
Eight hours a day at a screen. I've set everything up to match the textbook diagram, feet flat, knees and elbows around ninety degrees, monitor top at eye level, wrists neutral and by three in the afternoon my upper…
I'm about 18 months from pulling the trigger and the thing I can't get comfortable with is a bad first three years. Everything I read says sequence risk matters most early, but the advice stops at 'have a bond tent' or…
Column D has order references like 4471 and A 4472 mixed together. returns the numeric ones fine and leaves blanks where the text ones should be. If I sort the sheet so text is at the top it flips and drops the numbers…
Feed screen, of about 2,000 rows. Each row has a 60x60 remote thumbnail via AsyncImage, a title, a subtitle and a timestamp. On recent hardware it is fine. On an iPhone 12 it hitches noticeably on fast scrolls and…
Login returns 200 and the header is definitely in the response, I can see it in the network tab. The very next request goes out with no cookie at all and the API returns 401. On my machine everything works, because the…
Every discovery call ends with send us a proposal and we will see. I quote, they go quiet, and I never find out whether I was double their number or half of it. Asking directly gets me we do not really have a fixed…
I wrote something like def add row(row, rows=[]) which appends the row and returns rows. Called once it is correct, called a second time it comes back with the first call's row still in it, and I am not storing anything…
I have an ageing smartwatch and I hate wearing it in bed, so I take it off most nights and then have no sleep data, which is the only data I care about. Rings look appealing until I see the subscription. I lift three…
I did it properly, nothing on the list for twelve weeks, logged everything, and my attack count went from about six a month to about six a month. I feel slightly cheated, because the food trigger list is the first thing…
Three backend developers, all comfortable in Python and nothing else. The service takes roughly 3k JSON messages a second off a broker, validates them and writes batches to Postgres, and it currently needs four boxes to…
Five developers, everyone using agents, and our PR count went from about 12 a week to just over 40. Nothing else changed, so review is now the constraint and two of the five are visibly burning out on 900 line diffs…
I braise maybe twice a month, October to March, and I want one 5 6 litre pot that goes hob to oven and back. The supermarket own brand enamelled ones are about a fifth of the price. What I actually care about is whether…
Put the charger in the hallway three weeks ago and evening phone time genuinely dropped from about two hours to twenty minutes. But now I watch three or four episodes of whatever's on instead and go to bed at the same…
b2b scheduling tool, no audience, and i spent three weeks getting twelve signups for a thirty minute live walkthrough from cold outreach and two niche communities. one person joined, stayed nine minutes, and has not…
Opened a card with a 4000 dollar spend requirement in three months and I miscounted, I am at 3200 with nine days on the clock. My normal spending is groceries and petrol and there is nothing big coming up. What do…
Put six pepper seedlings out about three weeks ago, hardened off over a week, nights have been 11 to 13C and days around 20C. They have not died, leaves are dark green, but they have not grown a single centimetre…