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I can measure how long a new account takes to reach the thing the product is actually for (median about 26 minutes), and I can measure the gap between someone's first and second session. I do not have the volume to…
Six kitchen knives, two of which I actually use, nothing exotic. Locally I can pay per knife at a cutlery shop, post them to a mail in service and pay postage both ways, or use the hardware place round the corner that…
The ads follow me everywhere now, bands that go round your head, something you strap to your upper arm, cooling wraps at every price point. I get about four attacks a month and I'd happily spend real money on something…
Flat with no outdoor drying space and a vented dryer that turns the kitchen into a sauna. Four loads a week, two adults, and the heat pump models are roughly double the price of a condenser where I am. The cycle times…
700g of diced braising steak, straight from the freezer into the pot with hot stock, nine hours on low. It tasted normal and nobody was ill, but I want to know whether I got away with something or whether it is…
I have the boards, three 5V supplies and a couple of cards, and no budget to buy a Pi 5 just to have something to do. I would like something actually useful rather than a demo I look at twice, and it needs to sit on a…
Built it to 2000 three separate times over two years. Gone on two new tyres, a flight for a family thing, and a laptop when mine died. All of those were real and I do not regret any of them, but I am now two years in…
Two kilos of cabbage at 2 percent salt, glass weight, jar with a loose lid, sitting at about 21C. Day five there is a thin white film across the whole surface of the brine, flat and slightly wrinkled, no fuzz that I can…
Rolling update in Kubernetes, new replicas go Ready quickly, but for roughly 40 seconds after the rollout reports complete we still see responses from the old version, confirmed by a version header we stamp on every…
Trail runners half a size up, thin merino liner plus a cushioned sock, changed at lunch. Day one is fine. Day two both heels have hot spots by mid morning and blisters by camp. 15 18km days with about 12kg. I have tried…
Converting a single tenant app to multi tenant. 40 tables, 3 developers, a customer who wants it in Q3. Only our Node server talks to Postgres no browser client, no mobile app hitting the database directly. Given that,…
Two of us, new B2B app, Workers in front of Postgres. Neither of us has strong feelings, we both know Prisma from previous jobs and neither has shipped drizzle. Deciding now so we do not rewrite the data layer in three…
Water pressure is fine, no staining, and the previous owners left a folder with the original driller's log and nothing since. I have never lived on a well and I would rather set money aside now than find out on a…
I know the reuse argument and I know I am the weak link with my four variations on one password. But the idea of one file holding my bank, my email and my work accounts makes my stomach drop, especially since one of the…
Switched brands on the recommendation of a friend, bought the big bag because it was on offer, and she ate two mouthfuls and walked away. That was a week ago and she has not touched it since. The bag is open, obviously,…
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…