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I shoot most weekends, I know the exposure triangle cold, and my images are technically fine and completely forgettable. I can look at work I admire and see that it is different without being able to say what the…
Third pair I've darned and every time the patch ends up as a stiff coin about the size of a 10p that rubs a blister after a couple of hours of walking. I'm using a darning egg, standard darning yarn, weaving over and…
8B model, Q4 K M, so everything should be on the GPU. says 6.9GB on the card, which matches what I expect. But the process RSS is 5.4GB. On a 16GB box running two other things, that is the difference between fine and…
I checked about forty phrases around the problem I want to solve. Almost all of them come back in the 10 100 band, a handful say zero, and the only high volume terms are generic ones that big software companies already…
About to move four sites off a shared plan onto a small Hetzner cloud instance, mostly because the renewal went silly and I want to stop being repriced every year. I'm comfortable in a terminal but I have never run a…
Regulated utility. Payout ratio against earnings is 62 percent, which looks comfortable. But operating cash flow minus capex is negative most years and the dividend is being paid alongside new debt issuance and share…
Clutch is slipping badly on hills. Quote is 1400 including a dual mass flywheel. The car is otherwise sound: no rust, tyres are six months old, timing belt done at 150k, brakes fine, passed its last inspection with no…
Falling asleep is easy, usually within ten minutes. Then almost every night I am fully awake somewhere between 3 and 3:30, not anxious exactly, just completely alert. I lie there, eventually start thinking about work,…
It runs a camera timelapse script and I only reach it over SSH. It stays reachable for three to six hours, then vanishes: ping fails, the mDNS name is gone, nothing. The script keeps writing image files the entire time,…
Front loader, roughly 600 cycles by my count, throws a drain error and then trips out mid cycle. Drain pump and filter are clear, I checked both. Tech says main control board, 240 for the part and about 90 for the…
The ring first appeared at about 15cm across and is now maybe 22cm over roughly two months. It is directly below the bath, dry to the touch, and there is no smell. Nobody has taken a bath in that tub since we moved in…
Agreed £600 flat for what was described as a five page site. Three weeks in it's eleven pages, two rounds of copy rewrites I didn't quote for, and now they want a booking form. I've done roughly half the work. I don't…
I made about 400 cloze cards straight out of my lecture notes, one deletion per sentence. I pass them in review at maybe 92 percent but I completely blanked on the same material in a practice exam. It feels like I am…
Never lifted anything in my life, joined a gym, and I have been on the treadmill for a fortnight because the free weight area at 6pm looks like a place where people know what they are doing. Three days a week is…
It's the same three jokes about me being the spreadsheet one, and they only come out when we're with other people. Individually each one is nothing, which is why I've never said anything, and now it's been about a year.…
I am 34, working full time in retail management, and can put in about twelve hours a week without wrecking my family life. I do not want the median of some bootcamp marketing page, I want the real number from people in…
Six years of application development, mostly TypeScript and Python, and I had planned to spend the autumn properly learning a lower level language because I have always felt the gap. Now I am not sure that is where the…
Solo operator, I own one body, two lights and a lav, and I would shoot this in a half day and expect eight to ten hours in the edit plus two rounds of changes. This is my third paid job so I have no rate card and no…
Two dogs, about 55 kg of dog between them, and food is the line item that keeps growing. A membership store bag is roughly half what I pay now per kilo, which over a year is real money I would rather put toward the…
Side project, $340 MRR, 22 customers, built entirely on weekends. My employment contract has the usual invention assignment clause but the product is nowhere near what the company does and I cleared it in writing with…
32, Pune, buying my own policy for the first time because my employer cover is thin and I'm going freelance in September. Every comparison site ranks on premium and sum insured, and I suspect those are the two least…
Two coffees a day currently and the afternoon one is wrecking my sleep. I brew gongfu style, so a session is around 4g of leaf and six or seven short infusions over an hour, which is a lot of water and I have no idea…
3060 12GB, and RAM is cheap enough that going to 96GB costs a fraction of what a bigger card would. I want to run 32b class models and I can tolerate slow, but not two tokens a second slow. Everyone says VRAM is what…
I already have a sheet of float glass and a pile of 400 through 2000 grit wet and dry left over from a guitar refinish. Kitchen drawer is two German knives and a paring knife, nothing exotic and nothing I am scared of…
2% salt by weight, cabbage fully submerged under a glass weight, 20C in a cupboard. Day five there's a thin white film across the whole surface, wrinkled like the skin on cooling custard, no fuzz and no colour. Smells…