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1978 two storey, upstairs is freezing in winter and the top of the stairs is a wind tunnel. Our utility offers a free walkthrough audit and there is a local firm quoting about 400 for a blower door test, thermal imaging…
He does 25 to 30km days in the Cairngorms with a 14kg pack and has done for a decade, and he watched me weighing tent pegs with genuine pity. My days are 15 to 20km and I am at 7.8kg base. I cannot tell whether he is…
Second remote job nets me about $1,900 a month after withholding. I expected to be sitting on ten grand by now and the balance has gone from $4,100 to $4,700. I don't feel like I'm splurging, no new car, no holiday so…
I have been burned twice by cheerful word origin books that repeat the acronym stories with a straight face. Someone recommended Anatoly Liberman's Word Origins and How We Know Them and I cannot tell from the blurb…
Backend role, six years of experience, offer landed at the very bottom of a band that spans about twenty two percent from floor to ceiling. I have no competing offer, I like the team, and my current job is fine but…
I want something that looks like a watch at a dinner table and still counts steps and sleep. Budget to about $400, iPhone. What worries me is that every hybrid I've looked at has a tiny sub dial or a hidden display, and…
We had family staying and clearly used more water than the well could keep up with, because the taps sputtered and then gave nothing for about an hour. It recovered on its own by evening. Since then the water has an…
Same product underneath, forked eighteen months ago for the first client and again twice since. Every bug now gets fixed between one and three times depending on whether I remember. I want one codebase and eventually a…
Very one sided. After about an hour of heavy mouse use, spreadsheets and CAD, there is a burning between the shoulder blade and the spine on the right. The left side never complains. Same chair, same desk, same…
Solo, product is live, about 90 free users and 6 paying. I have roughly 3 hours a week that could go to writing and I keep flip flopping. A newsletter feels like the thing that builds an audience but it is a weekly…
9km each way, and it will live locked to a rack at a train station five days a week, outdoors, in all weather. I want mudguards and a rack, and I am open to used. I keep reading that you should not buy the cheapest…
Three tiers at 19, 49 and 99, solo B2B tool, and about 90 percent of customers sit on the middle one. The top tier currently has two features I built because a prospect asked and nobody has ever bought it. I cannot work…
I have a Lodge skillet and a De Buyer carbon steel and they feel like different materials in use. The carbon steel is hot in three minutes and loses it the instant a cold steak goes in; the skillet takes forever and…
I am willing to put real work into this and I have the reps available: a barista every morning, colleagues at lunch, a gym desk, neighbours. What I do not have is any idea what I am supposed to be practising, because…
I used to draft 1500 words in a morning during coursework. Now on a good day I write two paragraphs and spend the rest of the time rereading three papers and moving a figure around. It has been like this for about five…
Same rear wheel, three punctures in fourteen days, all slow leaks near the valve side of the tube. I've run my fingers around the inside of the casing twice and pulled out nothing. Tyre has maybe 2500km on it. I ride…
Sent about 200 individually researched cold emails over three weeks to operations managers at mid sized companies. Opens are somewhere near 45 percent, three replies total and two of those were polite declines. The…
Set the alarm for 6:30 every single day including weekends, as everything I read suggested. Twenty two days in. I still fall asleep somewhere between midnight and 1:30, still feel wrecked at 6:30, and now I am also…
Integrated three 18 week pullets with my existing four hens three weeks ago. Did the see but not touch thing through wire for two weeks first. Everything is fine in the run during the day, but at the feeder there's real…
I have read the official book once end to end and I can write code that compiles, but I am pattern matching on error messages rather than understanding what I am doing. Cloning things until the compiler stops…
$700 total. Motherboard has one PCIe x16 slot and one x4, 750W PSU, and I would rather not replace either. Two 3060 12GB cards gets me 24GB for around $500 with room left over. One used 3090 is 24GB for roughly $650 700…
Five year old drip machine, hard ish tap water through a jug filter, 60 g of coffee to a litre, medium grind on a burr grinder. It used to finish a full carafe in about six minutes and now it takes eleven, and the…
I own one camera and a small LED panel, and the job pays enough that either route works on paper. I have never used a rental house and I do not know what they will ask for, and part of me wants to just buy the light…
Linen shift dress, fitted through the waist. I got enthusiastic and took a full centimetre off each side seam more than the toile said, then trimmed and pressed the allowances flat before trying it on. It now pulls…
First real e2e suite I have written. Every tutorial says reset the database between tests and then shows a that truncates everything, which obviously explodes the moment I run more than one worker. 40 specs, 4 workers,…