Real questions, real answers. Join the rooms that match your curiosity, vote the best answers up, and ask anything: with your name or anonymously.
Been using an agent in the editor for about four weeks. Asked it to add a field to a form and wire it to the API. It read 14 files, ran the test suite twice, grepped for four different things and made six edits: roughly…
She will read a 200 page graphic novel in two days and reread it four times. Give her a chapter book of the same length and she gets three chapters in and drifts away, even when she picked it herself. Her teacher has…
Flatshare, one room, and my possessions amount to a laptop, a bike and clothes. Maybe £2,000 if I'm generous with the clothes. The landlord insures the building and I'd been assuming that was the end of my…
Design portfolio, maybe 30 images, no backend, and I'd like not to pay for it while I'm between contracts. I know free tiers are loss leaders and I'm fine with that. I want to know which limit I'll hit first: bandwidth,…
We are two adults who cook once a week and eat leftovers for four or five days, so I want capacity, but the cupboard it has to live in is 35cm deep and I am not leaving it on the counter. I keep going back and forth…
Started a 10% azelaic acid three weeks ago. I usually only get spots on my chin, and now I have small closed bumps across both cheeks and along my jaw. Everything online says purging happens where you normally break…
Every pair of straight leg trousers I buy in my waist size does this: the waistband sits fine, no gaping at the back, but there are visible horizontal creases fanning out from the front hip toward the crotch when I…
Building a small always on box for file storage and a handful of containers. I want to stay near 40W at idle because it runs 24/7 and electricity here is expensive. Both options give me 8TB usable and cost about the…
Built our first real scheduled pipeline about six weeks ago. It has needed manual intervention four times: an API rate limit, an upstream schema change, a disk filling up, and one thing I still cannot explain. I…
Hollow fibre squeeze filter, maybe 60 litres through it, mostly from clear mountain streams. Flow has gone from a fast stream to a slow drip. I have backflushed with the syringe several times, hard, and it barely…
Looking at a nine day guided walking trip and the solo price is about 40 percent above the per person double. The operator says they can pair me with a roommate but can't guarantee it until two weeks out, and if they…
First proper carrot attempt. Raised bed 30cm deep, filled with bagged topsoil mixed with about a third compost, plus a scattering of a general 10 10 10 before sowing. Nantes type, thinned to 4cm. Germination was great…
Parts list is settled apart from one decision. I have $150 of slack and can either step the GPU up one tier, or go from 16GB to 32GB and swap a mid range NVMe for a much faster one. Mostly 1440p gaming, plus a lot of…
I have a 2021 post called something like beginner guide to X and a 2024 post called X mistakes to avoid. For the head term they trade places every three to five weeks, and neither one gets above position 6. Combined…
Total budget is 400 dollars for both, buying used is fine, and I only make espresso and the occasional flat white. Everything I read says grinder first, but a 350 dollar grinder leaves me with a 50 dollar machine which…
Monthly CSV export from our booking system. The date column looks like 03/11/2025 in every cell, left aligned. Sorting puts 12/01 before 03/11. DATEVALUE works on some rows and throws VALUE on others with no pattern I…
Working tuck front lever on rings, holding maybe 12 seconds. Around the eighth second I get a distinct pinch right at the front of the shoulder joint, sharper than muscle burn and it lingers for an hour afterwards. It's…
Six weeks in, coming from ten years of Python and some C. I can write code that works but I spend maybe half my time restructuring things to make the compiler happy, and I never predict in advance which design will be…
Split board, three layers. The nav layer is on a hold of the key that types semicolon on tap. Other two layers are on dedicated thumb keys and they never fail. When I type quickly, roughly one time in five I get a…
Three pairs of wool trousers from charity shops, all needing the waist taken in about 4cm and the length shortened. A local tailor quoted 45 pounds a pair. I own a machine, I can sew a straight seam, and I have maybe…
US, buying at around $420,000 with 20% down, and the 15 year quote is meaningfully below the 30 year rate but the payment is roughly $700 a month higher. Two incomes now, but we would like one of us to go part time in…
Bought a sit stand desk specifically because of low back ache from sitting. I stand about four hours a day now, spread across the day. Three weeks in the ache is worse, and it is now a specific band across the low back…
Currently using a 20 litre backpack and arriving with a completely soaked back, which is fine in December and grim in July. Panniers mean buying a rack and bags for something like 150, and my building has no lift so I'd…
Nine nights total, three cities roughly two hours apart by train, first proper trip with my partner who gets tired of packing quickly. Option one is three nights in each. Option two is picking two bases and doing the…
Running 40km a week, first half marathon in about four months, and I have 150 to spend on shoes for the whole build. Option one is a single well reviewed daily trainer at around 130. Option two is a clearance daily…