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A friend claims there are whole classes of question science is structurally unable to touch, and I claim almost every example is something we simply have not got to. Neither of us can produce a test that settles it.…
Planning a launch and every guide contradicts the last one. What I have confirmed is that the daily cycle resets at 12:01am Pacific and a launch runs until 11:59pm Pacific, so the whole thing is one 24 hour window with…
I've decided to leave, and I have roughly 3,000 pages including a lot of nested pages, a few databases used as simple tables, and about 400 images. The export gives me markdown plus a folder of files, which sounds great…
A customer on the 49 plan asked to move to invoicing, then handed me to procurement, and now I have: a supplier portal registration with about 40 fields a request for a W 9 a certificate of insurance a security…
Two engineers, about 200 daily active users, one LLM feature that matters. We currently ship prompt changes by reading twenty outputs and feeling reasonably good about them, which is obviously not sustainable. We need…
Steel nib demonstrator with a piston, carried nib up in a jacket pocket for a forty minute train, and about twice a week I uncap at the office to a cap full of ink and a wet nib. At my desk the same pen with the same…
A scheduled task pulls from an API, writes to staging, then merges into the warehouse. If the task dies halfway through the write and the retry runs, we get duplicate rows for the records that landed before the crash.…
I've been using a free budgeting app for four months, linked through one of the bank connection services, and there are no ads and no upsell I can find. I'm not paranoid enough to think it's malicious, but nothing is…
I need a camera for work calls and the occasional recorded demo, in a room with one window and a desk lamp. The range runs from about thirty to three hundred and the spec sheets all say 1080p or 4K, which tells me…
I placed into Calc 1 for the autumn but I last did algebra properly about seven years ago. I have roughly six weeks and can give it 45 minutes a day, not more, because I am working full time. Do I spend that on a…
Second year, humanities adjacent, and every senior student I have asked is on some combination of teaching, adjuncting at another institution, or a partner's income after year five. None of this appears anywhere…
Third attempt on a 10 inch skillet. I scrub it back, warm it, rub in a thin layer of oil, then bake it at about 180C for an hour and let it cool in the oven. Every time it comes out tacky, like a fingerprint sticks to…
Two apps on my phone, points in three schemes, and I plan the week's shopping around whichever has the better member prices. Honest estimate is an extra 45 minutes of driving and about the same again in planning each…
Delhi, car parked outside at work for eight hours a day, and summer cabin temperatures are brutal enough that my phone refuses to charge in there. My last camera lasted fourteen months before the mount adhesive let go…
Never done one of these. Someone replied to my email and booked 30 minutes tomorrow morning. I'm an engineer, I have never sold anything to anyone. My instinct is to show them the product because that's the thing I…
Never run before, starting a couch to 5k next month, 95 kg. I have about $130 and a running store 40 minutes away that offers gait analysis, plus every online shop imaginable. My actual worry is buying something…
Twenty five minute commute, mostly a plowed highway plus one residential street that is often unplowed until the afternoon. No garage, so it sits outside all winter. I have budget for winter tyres on a second set of…
Built a cubic metre pile in one go, mixed leaves and grass and some horse manure. It climbed to about 140F within 48 hours, held for three days, and then dropped to ambient over the next week. I've turned it twice since…
Starter doubles in about four hours at 24C, smells sharp and yeasty, passes the float test. But loaves take seven hours to rise 50% and bake dense with a tight crumb. 500g strong white, 350g water, 100g starter, 10g…
Every seven to ten days I find the same white fluff in the leaf axils and where the petioles meet the stem. I wipe every one I can find with a cotton bud dipped in 70 percent isopropyl and they visibly dry up. A week…
Day five of my first proper solo trip and I've had a good time all day and then felt genuinely low every evening around 8pm. Nothing has gone wrong. The days are great. It's specifically the gap between dinner and sleep…
Inherited a B2B site with 40 service pages of 250 400 words each, all written from the same template, most getting under 20 sessions a month. I have five hours a week and no writer budget. Option A is rewriting them one…
Winter means we get through a lot of oranges and I end up with a bowl of peel most days. The outdoor heap takes it without complaint, if slowly, but the last time I put a decent amount in the worm bin the worms went to…
I am happy to pay three times the price for something that lasts three times as long, but I keep getting burned by premium versions of the same disposable object. Extended warranties are already ruled out, I have never…
Second year of an evening course, one deck of about 3000 cards, currently 30 new a day and roughly 200 reviews. I have 45 minutes on weeknights and nothing on Fridays. Splitting by chapter would let me focus on what is…