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I get the zigzag visual thing for roughly twenty minutes before the pain arrives, three or four times a month. Right now I mostly panic and try to finish whatever I am doing. I would rather use that window well. What…
Two years of waiting, deposit sitting in a savings account, and in that time our rent has gone up twice. Every time it looks like the moment, someone at work explains why next year will be better. I am not asking for a…
A cut about a fifth of the team in March and the surviving work got redistributed onto four of us. I went from roughly 22 real hours a week there to something like 38, and B has not got any smaller. Last week I missed a…
Partner moved in in February. They sprawl, they turn over about ten times a night, and they come to bed at 1am while I'm up at 6. I now wake three or four times a night and I'm getting short with people at work. I don't…
Day job plus family means I realistically have about ten hours a week, mostly evenings. I've got an offer to do ongoing work for one client at roughly £45/hour that would eat all ten, or I can keep juggling three…
is clean on my laptop every single time. On CI it fails maybe one run in five, always in the same cache package, always the same two stacks. I have run the package alone locally about fifty times with no hit. I'd rather…
Saw two award seats, transferred 60000 points out of my flexible currency to the airline programme, and by the time the transfer landed about 20 hours later the seats had gone. Points are now stuck in a programme I…
First product I have ever charged for. I keep reading that the free tier should be generous and also that it should be limited and both sound like advice. What I actually want to know is how people decide the number. Do…
Bought a 200 page A5 notebook advertised as 100gsm, and every ink I own spreads into little hairy lines, worst with a medium nib. The same pens on 80gsm printer paper are crisp. I assumed heavier paper meant better…
Paid very little for it, the geometry is thin and it took a scary edge on my stones in about ten minutes. Problems: it rusts if I look at it wrong, the handle is a loose piece of wood on a rat tail tang, and I have no…
Second season, one colony, and all the capital items are bought and paid for. I want to build a realistic annual budget rather than being surprised each spring. Specifically I am after the recurring items: mite…
About $1,100/month across 48 subscriptions, roughly half of them European. Hosting and everything else is $46/month. When I finally read the fee breakdown properly there is a separate conversion line that was bigger…
Diagnosed at 34, and looking back this is my fourth crash rather than my first. The usual burnout advice, take a break, do something you enjoy, see friends: makes it worse, because socialising is one of the things…
Cluster autoscaler adds nodes during our morning ramp and for about 30 60 seconds afterwards we get a burst of resolution failures for in cluster service names, mostly from pods that were just scheduled onto the new…
Solid brick 1905 house. There's a patch about 60cm across on an internal wall, on the side that backs onto the kitchen, that darkens from November and is completely gone by April. No visible plumbing on that wall. Wall…
Someone at work stated flatly that rule of thumb comes from an old law permitting a man to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, and that everyone should stop using the phrase. It gets repeated a lot but…
Insulated the roof with 25mm polyiso cut between the ribs, foil tape on the seams, ply ceiling over the top. Every cold morning there's condensation running down the ribs and pooling on the ledges, and I can see damp…
I spend about five hours a week turning scrappy lecture notes into a clean, linked, colour coded second set. It feels productive, the finished pages are lovely, and my exam results have not moved in two years. I keep…
Nothing in the routine changed, but since about the middle of October I have been tight and flaky by lunchtime with small closed bumps along my jaw that were never there before. Same cleanser, same moisturiser, same…
Every mix I finish sounds balanced on my monitors and then in the car the bass disappears almost entirely and the cymbals are painfully bright. On phone speakers it's tolerable. I've been compensating by boosting bass…
Six years managing this place, and the owner wants to retire and sell to me at roughly 2.2 times owner earnings including all the equipment. I have £70k and the lease has four years left on it. The alternative is an…
Managed cluster, three nodes of 4 vCPU and 16 GB, and I am trying to size the next pool honestly rather than by guessing. Between what the provider reserves and the DaemonSets we run for logging, metrics and CSI, a…
Three minute promo, about 40 minutes of interview and maybe 25 b roll clips. Fourteen hours of actual editing, not counting two rounds of revisions. I quoted a flat 400. Is that normal for a first paid job or am I much…
Spare room, hardwood, one bookcase, no curtains yet, and a dog who barks at the postman roughly during every recording I have ever attempted. Budget is USD 150 for the mic and I have an interface already with what I…
Two developers, one strong on Android and one who can find their way around Swift. Four months of runway to get something in front of paying users on both platforms. The app is not exotic: auth, a list of records, a…