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Started a job I worked hard to get, better pay, nicer people, shorter commute. Three months in and I feel completely flat about it. Not unhappy, just no spark at all. I keep waiting for the part where I'm excited to be…
Shortening a pair of raw ish denim jeans by four inches for a friend. The original hem has that chain stitch roping which she likes. Keeping it means folding a lot of bulk up inside, and four inches is enough that the…
Two wheel drive half ton, empty bed nine months of the year, and the back end is light enough that it steps out on packed snow at embarrassingly low speeds. Budget about USD 1,200 fitted for a set of four in a common…
Picked up an unmarked skillet, probably 10 inch, for six quid. Cooking surface has orange rust over most of it and there are small pits, I can catch a fingernail in maybe a dozen spots across the middle. No cracks, sits…
I walk the same route at the same time and I have a little thermometer on my bag. At 2C last Tuesday my breath came out in big clouds, and at 1C on Thursday there was basically nothing. Same jacket, same pace, same me.…
I write four or five pages of meeting notes a day and have about 120 pounds to spend, once. I keep flip flopping between a single nicer pen with a gold nib and a handful of solid steel nibbed ones so I can keep…
Bone in short ribs, seared, then braised in a covered dutch oven at 160C for four hours with liquid coming about halfway up. They were fork tender in the sense that they fell apart, but eating them was dry and stringy…
Two stroke string trimmer, maybe six years old. New plug, and I have confirmed a fat blue spark against the head. Fuel is fresh 50:1 and I can see it moving in the primer bulb. It will not fire even once, not even a…
I can follow epsilon delta proofs when I read them but I cannot produce one. The step where the proof says let delta equal epsilon over five feels like it came from nowhere. How do people actually find that number, and…
I have 12 test cases. Every prompt change I make moves the pass rate by 8 or 16 points, which even I can tell is just one or two cases flipping rather than a real signal. So how many do people actually run with? Is 500…
One frozen fruit and oats smoothie every morning, soup occasionally in winter, that's the entire use case. I've killed two cheap blenders in four years and both times it was the plastic drive coupling stripping, not the…
We passed an npm auth token as a for months. We've since moved to BuildKit secrets, but images built during that window are still in our registry and shows the value in plain text. How bad is this in practice, and is…
Twelve year old collie cross. We moved him from wet to a dry senior food about three weeks ago and he is now emptying a 1.5 litre bowl most days when it used to last two. He is also asking to go out once in the night,…
I get three lunch breaks a week and 45 minutes each including changing, so realistically 35 minutes under the bar. I want to get visibly stronger and I'd also like to put on some muscle, and every programme I look at…
First time buying, and the estimate has an origination charge, prepaid interest, and something called an escrow or impound reserve. When I ask, I get told they are standard. I understand they are standard, I want to…
Pouring a soy container wax into 8oz straight sided jars. They come out clean and fully adhered, then 48 hours later there are patches where the wax has pulled away from the glass. Room stays about 20C, pour temperature…
Verbal agreement to sell a small tool. Their draft asks for three months of transition support, described as reasonable assistance with handover, technical questions and customer migration. No hours specified anywhere.…
Work schedule is out the door at 6am, home at 6pm, and I want bread on weekdays rather than just weekends. Option one is mixing when I get home, bulking in the evening, shaping around 10pm and retarding in the fridge to…
Coming from XML layouts and view binding. I have read the state hoisting guidance and I think I have followed it, but the result feels wrong and I cannot tell if that is because it is wrong or because it is unfamiliar.…
Spare room about 3.5 by 4.5 metres, monitors on a desk against the short wall, currently nothing on the walls. I have around 200 and can build or buy. Everything I read says corners first, but the reflections off the…
Same underlying tool, two possible markets. The narrow one is around 900 companies in a specific regulated niche who would plausibly pay $200/month. The wide one is maybe 40,000 individuals who would pay $9. I have 10…
Small tool, about eleven hundred a month, customers spread over fourteen states and a few outside the country. I am a one person LLC. I have now read enough about economic nexus to be frightened and not enough to act.…
Recipe was 60% olive, 20% coconut, 20% shea, 5% superfat, water at 38% of oils. Cut cleanly at 24 hours. Five weeks on the rack in a dry room and they still dent easily under a thumbnail and feel slightly waxy. They…
Internal tool, about 40 users, three screens: a filterable table, a detail view, and a form that kicks off a job. Two weeks of my time, and I'm on my own. My instinct is to server render it and add a bit of JS where…
Late afternoon, sun behind the subject. Expose for the face and the sky is a white blob. Expose for the sky and I get a silhouette. Raising shadows in the edit goes noisy and grey. I know people get glowy backlit shots…