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Push mower, single cylinder, about eight years old, sat over winter with fuel in it. It fires instantly on full choke, runs beautifully for maybe thirty seconds, then dies unless I keep the choke roughly halfway. There…
I buy two coffees a day at about £3.20 each, so roughly £1,500 a year, which is the argument everyone makes for buying a machine. The counter argument is that the café makes better coffee than I will, I walk past it…
Every morning the garage motion sensor shows as unavailable and I have to walk out and press the button to rejoin it. It works perfectly all day. The garage is about 12 metres from the coordinator with one brick wall in…
Six days into a three week trip and I've eaten in a restaurant by myself exactly once. Every evening I tell myself I'll go out, then it gets to 7pm and I buy bread and cheese and eat it on my bunk. It isn't fear…
says 1.42 GB for a fairly ordinary Express + Prisma API. I build locally and push to a private registry over home internet, so every deploy is a coffee break. Dockerfile is basically: I know this is bad. I don't know…
B550 board, 3070, 750W unit, all of it about eight months old. If the machine has been off overnight the fans spin up, the debug LED parks on VGA and there's no signal on any port. A restart from that state doesn't…
Three weeks of travel, a lot of it on trains and in places with no signal, and I am carrying one small bag so weight matters. I read maybe an hour a day normally but on trips it goes up to three or four. The appeal of a…
Hit a cap twice this week on two different assistants, and neither told me how long I had to wait or how many I had left before it happened. One let me back in after what felt like a couple of hours, the other seemed to…
0.025% cream, three nights a week, on dry skin twenty minutes after cleansing. The flaking never settles. By morning there are dry patches along both cheekbones that catch every foundation I own. Everything I read says…
PCB mount screw in stabs, 6.25u spacebar. I have dielectric grease on the wire ends and in the housings, band aid mod on the plate, and the wire is bent as evenly as I can get it by eye. Left side is silent. Right side…
Every candle I pour develops a cavity around the wick as it sets. I have tried a relief pour with wax at 60C, poking holes with a skewer before it sets, and going over the top with a heat gun. The top looks perfect and…
Linear ish program, three sessions a week. Squat has gone from 100 to 122kg in that time, deadlift is moving, and bench has been 80kg for five reps since March. I've tried adding a fourth bench day, then dropping to…
I have inside an async function and logging gives me a Promise object instead of the user. Inside I do and I am fairly sure the endpoint works because the network tab shows a 200 with JSON. Where is the extra promise…
Tomato and basil seedlings under a two tube shop light hung about 30cm above the tray, on 14 hours a day. They germinate well, then within four days the stems stretch to nearly 5cm before the first true leaves appear…
Video course platform, small. About 8TB/month goes out to viewers and growing maybe 15% a month. Total infrastructure budget is $400 and right now egress alone would eat all of it on the setup I have. Currently…
German kitchen knife, sharpened on 1000 and 3000 waterstones. Straight off the stones it pops hairs and slices paper cleanly. After dicing two onions and a butternut squash it will not bite a tomato skin. That is maybe…
Collaborative editor. Expect up to 500 rooms active at once, 2 to 20 people each, WebSockets, and the document state per room is small tens of kilobytes. I keep going back and forth. One DO per room feels like the…
I post a short update every Friday and about six weeks ago I put up a roadmap page with six things on it, in order, with rough months attached. Nine days later a competitor I had never heard of launched with four of…
My father in law left a biscuit tin with about forty packets in it, kept in a dry but unheated shed, so it has gone from freezing to properly warm and back every year. Onion, leek, parsnip, tomato, courgette, brassicas,…
I am at about £1,150 a month all in in a UK city, which is the number I would be replacing. The plan is a rotation of southeast Asia in the winter and southern Europe in the summer, working my normal job the whole time.…
Two cans plus two coffees a day for about three years. Saturdays I get a headache by mid morning, which I have finally connected to not having the first can. Sleep is poor and I want the afternoon habit gone, but I…
Internal knowledge base, 12k documents, pure vector search on pgvector. Answers are right maybe two thirds of the time and the failures are usually "it retrieved something adjacent". I have budget for one of these this…
Solo, budget is $40/month all in including the database. Currently doing about 300k requests a month, of which maybe 240k are cached HTML. ISR on roughly 900 pages that revalidate hourly, and image optimisation on user…
I inherited a working 35mm body with a 50mm lens, so the camera cost me nothing, which is the only reason I am considering this. Local lab is charging about GBP 12 a roll for develop and scan and a roll of colour film…
Two of us, three or four trips a year, mostly damp forested valleys. Budget tops out at $300 and I'd like to stay under about 2.5kg split between us. Our current tent is a cheap double wall where condensation drips off…