Pulled about 400 contacts out of a public directory in my niche, wrote one template with a merge field for company name, and ran it over eight days with four follow ups. Two replies, one of them telling me to stop. The…
We're viewing flats next month. He earns roughly double what I do and has quietly covered more than half of everything for a year, which I've never asked about and he's never mentioned. I can afford a 50/50 split on…
I build a dict outside the loop, update two keys on each pass, then append it to a list. At the end every entry in the list is identical and equal to the last row. If I print inside the loop the values are correct on…
Three weeks in and my heart rate spikes every time a message notification comes in, because my first thought is always which one is this and what did I miss. The work itself is fine, both roles are well within what I…
I have an offer for a 12 week paid internship at a research group outside the university, roughly the same money as a semester of TA work, and I have to answer in three weeks. The alternative is the guaranteed fifth…
Two boneless breasts, about an inch and a half thick, bagged with a little oil and salt, held at 145F for four hours because I was out and could not pull them earlier. They were not undercooked at all, but the texture…
Field service app. Two of us, about 40 screens, and technicians work in places with no signal, so edits have to survive being made offline and sync later. Right now everything server shaped lives in TanStack Query and…
Every test in the file dies with . The part I cannot get my head around: the const already is above the mock. Moving it further up changes nothing. Vitest 3, TS, alias resolved through the vite tsconfig paths plugin.
Someone at work is giving away an upright from about 1920 that has been in a garage for two years. Alternatively I have 900 saved for a weighted digital. Second floor flat, neighbours on both sides and below, and I will…
It sat directly beside a south facing window for two years and looked great. We rearranged the living room and it is now on the other side of the sofa, same room, maybe four feet back and slightly off to the side.…
Down quilt rated 30F, pad is R4.5, sleeping in a base layer and socks. Two trips now where the low was around 40F and I was cold enough at 3am to put my puffy on and still shiver. Straps are on and clipped under the…
Twenty gallon low tech, set up 22 days ago, inert gravel with root tabs and a cheap clip light on eight hours. Everything is covered in a soft brown film, glass, plant leaves, even the heater cable. It wipes off with a…
Three different hotels in a row, same pattern. The call runs fine for eight to twelve minutes, then video freezes and audio robots out for thirty seconds, then it recovers. Speed tests look fine, 40 down, so it is not…
Two sweaters, different brands, both around 70% merino. Both developed dense pilling under the arms and along the sides where my bag strap sits, within about four wears. Rest of the sweater is smooth. I hand wash cold…
Sewing a lined jacket in a mid weight twill. I pin every 5cm and match the notches, but by the end of a 60cm side seam the upper layer has travelled forward and I am left with a 2cm overhang. It happens on both sides…
Moved it from beside a south window to the other side of the same room, about two metres further in, because the leaves were getting scorched in the afternoon. That was six weeks ago. Since then it has dropped one lower…
Redesign job. Every time I ask what they want the answer is a version of we will know when we see it, and the examples they send contradict each other. Budget is real, around 5k, and they are pleasant people. Fixed…
Writing this up because it was entirely preventable and I want to know how other people structure against it. One dashboard query was slow. Someone swapped the client in for one built with the service role key because…
Postgres 16, about 120k rows in the child table. The call is . pg stat statements shows four separate statements, and the slow one is a select on items with an list of 50 ids doing a sequential scan. The equivalent…
Overhead fluorescents plus a window behind my monitor, and by mid afternoon three or four days a week I am in trouble. I have a supportive manager and an HR process that wants specifics rather than 'the lights are bad'.…
Document question answering over long PDFs. A typical document is 200 pages, roughly 120k tokens. About 400 questions a day across all users, and users tend to ask several questions about the same document in one…
180 pages of 120gsm, sewn on three tapes. It opens to about 90 degrees and then the text block springs shut, and if I push it flat there's an audible crack from the middle of the spine. Straight PVA on the spine, dried…
First long solo trip and the only affordable flight gets in just before midnight. The hostel is about 35 minutes out and the reviews mention the street being quiet at night. I've read enough about airport taxi scams to…
I'm about 18 months from pulling the trigger and the thing I can't get comfortable with is a bad first three years. Everything I read says sequence risk matters most early, but the advice stops at 'have a bond tent' or…
Column D has order references like 4471 and A 4472 mixed together. returns the numeric ones fine and leaves blanks where the text ones should be. If I sort the sheet so text is at the top it flips and drops the numbers…