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I am replacing a five year old machine that failed on a moulded plastic assembly nobody sells separately, and I am angry about it in a way that is disproportionate but instructive. Budget up to about $1,600 and I would…
First marathon, target somewhere around 4:15, currently 55 km a week in one daily trainer with about 400 km on it. A plated racer is roughly EUR 250 here and that is most of my remaining budget for the block. I'd rather…
Tingling in the last two fingers of my mousing hand, mostly late in the day, going on about a month now. I have a flat cloth pad and I rest the heel of my hand on the desk edge, which is a fairly sharp laminate lip.…
Two weeks into RLS. My current workflow for checking a policy is: one psql tab as the postgres role to alter the policy, one tab where I paste a JWT claims blob and pretend to be user A, one tab for user B. Then I run…
I watered thoroughly until it ran out of the bottom and tipped out the saucer. Twelve days later a chopstick pushed into the middle comes out visibly wet and cool. It is in a plastic nursery pot in standard bagged…
Equipment manuals, roughly 300 pages each, 40 of them. Numbered sections and subsections, plenty of tables, some two column pages. Answers need to be precise because people are following procedures. Is heading based…
One colony going into its first winter with me. Local low is around minus 20C for a couple of weeks in January and we get a lot of freeze thaw either side. I have enough material to build a quilt box with wood shavings,…
Full time employed remote, not freelance, so 40 real hours every week with meetings. Planning to be out for around two years. I want to be able to train properly, see the same faces more than once, and not spend every…
Events can arrive up to four days after the event timestamp. My daily rollups are built once at 2am for the previous day, so anything late is simply missing until somebody notices and asks for a backfill, which…
42, aiming to stop at 52, with everything after 59 well covered by retirement accounts. The gap years are the problem and my taxable account currently covers about four of the seven. Mortgage has 11 years left at 3.9%…
Document classification and short summarisation, nothing creative. Steady 2.4M tokens a day, roughly 80% input 20% output. Latency requirement is loose, everything is queued and nothing is user facing in real time.…
I am not in the EU. Four of my customers are, on a 29 a month plan, so about 1,400 a year from them in total. Two of the four gave me a company VAT number when they signed up, mostly because my form asked for one and I…
Been reconciling properly for the first time and the numbers do not match my mental model. I assumed I was paying somewhere around 3% plus a fixed fee. Averaged across last month my $19 subscriptions netted $17.42,…
We've been in the flat eight months. His mum has a key from before we moved in together and uses it, usually mid morning, sometimes when I'm working from home in pyjamas. He genuinely doesn't understand why it bothers…
Making a shift dress in rayon challis. The zipper tape sits flat but the fabric either side ripples along the whole 40cm. I have basted first, used the invisible zipper foot, and stitched both sides from the top down.…
Japanese sencha, 4g to 250ml. The first steep at 75C for 60 seconds is lovely. The second steep at the same temperature comes out sharp and drying whether I go 30 seconds or 90. Straining faster does not seem to matter.…
Small website build, quoted a flat 1200 because a similar one took me about 25 hours last year. This one took 60 because of content delays, an extra language nobody mentioned, and a plugin that broke everything. That is…
I wear roughly the same thing to an office four days a week and my current shoes are done. I can spend about 300 total. The resoleable Goodyear welted option is right at the top of that, which means one pair worn every…
The joint nearest the fingertip buckles inward on the fourth and fifth fingers, only in the right hand, and only once I am ten or so minutes into practice. Cold, at the start of a session, everything holds fine. There…
Original 1890s sash, both cords intact and running smoothly, glass sound, frame solid. Problem is it rattles in any real wind and there's a noticeable cold stream along the meeting rail in the middle. I don't want to…
I need one attribute in the manifest for an SDK I am integrating. Their docs say "add this line to AndroidManifest.xml". Everything I read says do not edit the file directly in a managed project, write a config plugin…
Lab results came back at 3.1 ppm iron, 18 grains per gallon hardness, pH 7.4, no detectable manganese or sulphide. Orange staining in every fixture and the laundry is suffering. I have about $1,600 to spend and space…
Six months into TypeScript, coming from JS. I parse a request body with zod and then write because the hover tooltip on the parse result is an unreadable wall of and I already have a interface defined for the rest of…
The version I've heard three times now is that Roman sculptors filled cracks in marble with wax, so honest work was sine cera, without wax, and that gave us sincere. It's a lovely story and it has the shape of something…
Six months into freehand sharpening. On the 1000 I can raise a burr along the whole edge and feel it easily with a thumb. Move to the 6000 and I feel nothing on either side no matter how many passes I do, so I never…