Fresh Windows machine. I followed the documented steps to set up the Linux subsystem and then tried to install a distribution, and it fails with error code 0x80370114 and nothing else useful. The subsystem itself…
I picked up the second remote role last March, both W 2, roughly $94k and $61k, US. I never touched the W 4 on either one and it turns out each payroll withheld as if it was the only income I had, so April was a…
27 inch 1440p monitor, about 6.5 kg with the VESA plate, sitting on a 25 mm particleboard desk. The generic arm I bought last year has started drooping about 4 cm overnight and the tilt knob strips if I look at it…
I record short product walkthroughs at my own desk, always in the same seat, always alone, and the camera is about a metre away. The wireless kit keeps getting recommended to me and I cannot see what it does for someone…
Same 8km loop I have run since March, same pace, same time of morning. In April my average heart rate was around 148. This week it is 160 to 163 for a pace that feels a bit harder but not dramatically. Sleeping fine,…
Our design system's primary colour is green. It is on the buttons, the links, the active states, the logo, everything. It is simply what our product looks like. I realised this week that we also use green for success…
Fixed price branding job, quoted for two rounds of revisions, no signed scope beyond an emailed quote. We are at eleven rounds because every request is tiny — move this, try it in blue, what about the other font.…
The theorem itself follows immediately from the definition of conditional probability. Write the joint probability two ways, divide, done. As a piece of mathematics it is about as deep as rearranging a fraction. Yet it…
Two of them yellowed from the bottom up over about a month, one went crispy, and one just collapsed. I water everything every Sunday because that is when I remember, and the brightest spot is a windowsill that gets no…
I was writing something and wanted an adjective for a man with very firm moral principles, and could not find one. I ended up rewriting the sentence to avoid the gap. I know the obvious candidates and none of them quite…
12:01 PT lands at 9am for me, which is fine. What I am trying to work out is whether the first hours genuinely matter enough to clear my whole day, or whether I schedule it, do normal work, and show up around noon…
Something on this machine has broken the trusted certificate store. Every package manager operation over HTTPS now fails certificate validation. The obvious fix is to reinstall the CA certificates package. The obvious…
Node app and Postgres on the same $6 instance, nginx in front, no cache headers on anything. Sat around 3 req/s normally. Post went up, traffic climbed, and at roughly 40 req/s the box pegged, nginx started returning…
The usual account is that red, green and blue are additive primaries and cyan, magenta and yellow are subtractive ones. Several things about this bother me. If red, green and blue are the colours that cannot be made…
Three bed rented semi, so nothing that involves rewiring or touching the consumer unit. I already have Home Assistant running on a spare mini PC, and I want lights in four rooms, heating control, and door sensors on two…
Ran my resume through two of the free scoring sites and got 42 and 61 on essentially the same document, with contradictory advice about bullet length. In the same period that document produced four screens from about…
Small clinic adjacent business, not storing health records but the client is nervous about data leaving the country and I'd rather not argue the point. I need a VPS or managed plan with a Canadian location, roughly 2…
Courgettes and cucumbers go white and dusty by mid July every single year, and someone on the allotment told me flatly that it is because I water in the dark. I leave the house at half six in the morning so mornings are…
Two months into the first thing I've had actually online. I ssh into a $5 box, , , and it works. Every tutorial past this point is CI pipelines, blue green, staging environments, terraform. Is what I'm doing an…
The standard claim is that weeds steal nutrients and water from your vegetables and that a weedy bed produces less. That is repeated everywhere as though it were settled. Meanwhile I keep reading approaches that…
I accept that exercise is good for you and I would like to understand the mechanism, because on the face of it, it seems to work against how things usually behave. A pair of shoes worn every day wears out; the same pair…
About 40 km a week in one pair, and my log says they're at roughly 620 km. The outsole rubber honestly looks fine and the upper is intact, but the last three weeks my calves and knees feel beaten up after easy runs that…
Every guide about cold email says the same setup: buy secondary domains, three mailboxes each, warm them for two or three weeks, rotate. That's real money and real setup time before a single email goes out. I want to…
Mid level data analyst, US, sixty applications out, three recruiter screens, no onsites yet. I know the honest answer is it depends, but I need a rough distribution so I can decide when to widen the search, when to…
Take the curve y = a x², and a point on it at some positive x, so that the arc from the origin to that point has some length L. Now change the coefficient to a different value. I want the point on the new parabola such…