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Cheap stainless santoku, the tip and middle raise a burr in a couple of minutes but the last 3cm toward the heel gives me nothing no matter how long I grind. I can feel the stone contacting there. Marker test shows the…
Hit the spend requirement with about three weeks to spare, confirmed by adding up the statements, and two full statement cycles have now closed with no bonus. Nothing in the account messages, no email. Before I ring…
Sole trader, outside the EU. Everything so far has been individuals paying by card. A company in Germany just signed up on the $49 plan and emailed asking for a proper invoice with their VAT number on it and, quote, the…
Alloy frame, external bearing bottom bracket, about two years old. A dry creak once per pedal stroke, only out of the saddle, only under load. I have already pulled the cranks, cleaned and regreased the BB threads, and…
I do small bookkeeping cleanups for sole traders. Nine clients so far, and eight of them trace back to one friend who keeps referring me. She's not going to have infinite contacts. I've tried posting in local business…
Commute is about two hours a day and I'm out of the house 7:30 to 18:30. The gym is a twelve minute walk and opens at six, so a morning session means a 5:20 alarm. The home option is bodyweight plus two kettlebells,…
Inherited a workbook with one sheet per month going back three and a half years, identical layout, about 800 rows each. I need totals by category by month and eventually a chart. Do I keep the structure and write SUMIFS…
I have cut the stock in recipes by half and it still ends up soupy, and the flavour is thin along with it. Last night was chicken thighs, onions, peppers and a tin of tomatoes with no added liquid at all, and after six…
Planning to live in it through winter somewhere that gets to about minus 10C at night. Diesel heater is more up front and needs a tank tap or a separate tank, propane is simpler to install but I'd be swapping bottles…
Big monstera in a 30cm plastic pot, standard bagged houseplant compost, sits about a metre from an east window. Over the last two months the edges of the larger leaves have gone brown and papery, and a couple of the…
Chest to wall handstands, can hold about 25 seconds there. Freestanding I get maybe eight seconds and then drift consistently left, every single time, never right. I've tried gripping harder with my fingers which delays…
The route I need shows every departure as sold out for the date I want, three weeks out, on the booking site I have been using. It is a popular intercity route in a country where reservations are compulsory on the fast…
Five days early starting at 0600, two off, five days late finishing at 2300, two off, then five nights. The early and late blocks are survivable. The transition into nights destroys me: the first two nights I get maybe…
New to commuting, about six weeks in, 40 minutes each way. Around the half hour mark my ring and little fingers on both hands go pins and needles and it takes a while to clear after I get off. Shaking them out while…
Moved on Saturday, so we are four days in. Our three year old cat has been under the spare bed almost the whole time. She comes out at night: the litter tray is being used and some food is going but I have barely seen…
Phillips head holding a bracket to a door frame, painted over at some point. The rubber band trick worked for maybe a quarter turn and then the band shredded and the head is now noticeably rounder than when I started.…
I have about 4,200 mature cards and I can read a B2 graded reader comfortably. Then I put on a normal Spanish YouTube video and it is a wall of noise — I catch maybe one word in twelve, and words I definitely know go…
Everything I own is Apple and I keep seeing the iOS exclusive one recommended for its design. I'm suspicious that beautiful is doing a lot of work in those recommendations and that I'd be paying about $95 a year for…
I get about forty minutes of kitchen time a week and 3kg of chillies from the allotment sitting in the fridge. I can do a two week brine ferment and then blend, or blend now with vinegar and refrigerate. I don't own a…
Board worked perfectly for four months. Swapped all 68 switches for linears, and now the entire bottom row registers nothing, spacebar included. Everything else is fine. One switch had a slightly bent pin which I…
Every cup has a layer of sludge in the last inch and it gets in my teeth. I am at the coarsest setting the grinder goes to, four minute steep, plunging slowly. Coffee itself tastes good until the last few sips. Is this…
Fourth year, social science. At every committee meeting one member asks for an additional robustness check. First it was clustering standard errors differently, then a subsample split, now he wants the whole thing…
Recording a fairly loud singer through a condenser into a USB interface. The red clip LED on the front flashes on loud phrases, but the track in my DAW peaks around 12dBFS and sounds clean when I solo it. Am I actually…
Dynamic broadcast mic into a budget 2 in interface, gain at about 3 o'clock to get peaks around 6dBFS on spoken word. The take is fine but there's a constant hiss under everything that becomes obvious once I compress.…
The capture habit stuck brilliantly. Voice notes in the car, quick text on the phone, scribbles in a notebook, all of it lands in one inbox. The problem is the inbox has 180 odd items going back three weeks and I have…