Bench chisel, 25 degree primary with a 30 degree micro bevel on a 1000 then 6000 waterstone. It comes off the stones sharp enough to pare end grain cleanly, but after roughly two mortises in dry white oak the edge has a…
One new model, runs hourly, reads from a large event table and writes about 400k rows a day. The bill went from roughly $900 to $2700 a month and this is the only change we made. The model looks cheap when I run it once…
Different people, months apart, so I am taking it seriously. My internal experience is that I get excited and I am agreeing with them, or I have thought of the thing they are about to say and I want them to know I got…
Small bedroom, 3.2 by 2.7 metres, monitors on stands about 40cm from the wall behind them. Every mix I do sounds balanced in the room and then has boomy, wooly low end in the car and on a laptop. It's consistently the…
Practising at home three times a week, mostly general vinyasa plus some yin on rest days. I have no props and I am currently using books and a dressing gown belt. Forty to spend. Is it two cork blocks and a strap, or…
Blended red jalapenos and a bit of garlic, weighed the mash and added 3 percent salt by weight, airlock lid, ambient 20C. It bubbled hard on days two and three and by day four it has gone completely still. pH strip…
My outdoor lights come on at sunset minus 15 minutes, and it worked perfectly for eight months. Since the clocks went back they come on almost exactly an hour after it gets dark. The controller shows the right local…
Submersible pump, 20 gallon bladder tank, 30/50 switch. Since about a week ago the pump kicks on and off roughly every 20 seconds during a shower and the pressure noticeably surges. Tapping the tank sounds solid most of…
The towels smell fine dry and then go sour within about ninety seconds of being used, which is apparently a classic. I've done three washes now with half a cup of white vinegar in the fabric softener dispenser, on a…
Small cafe, four part timers plus me. Two called in sick within an hour of each other on our busiest Saturday. I opened alone, could not keep up, served maybe a third of what we normally would and had a queue walk out…
Same pattern three times, three fabrics, and every version has creases running from the front armhole down toward the bust apex, worse when I raise my arms. I cut the size matching my full bust measurement and the…
Ten speed drivetrain, about 4000km on the chain and cassette. Shifting is perfect across the big half of the cassette but in the three smallest cogs it skips under pedalling load, roughly once every few pedal strokes,…
Small B2B tool, 14 day free trial with no card required, 40 signups over two months and not one has paid. About half never came back after day one. I have no idea whether the product is wrong, the price is wrong, or the…
Running about 50km a week, target easy pace should be somewhere near 6:20 based on my recent 10K. Every single easy run I start at 6:15 and by kilometre three I look down and I am at 5:35 without feeling like I sped up.…
I've been on 40kg for five weeks. 3x5 at 40 is hard but doable, and 45 is a wall, I get one rep and the second stapled me last Tuesday. That's a 12% jump and it's obviously too much, but the smallest plates in this gym…
Third pair I've darned and every time the patch ends up as a stiff coin about the size of a 10p that rubs a blister after a couple of hours of walking. I'm using a darning egg, standard darning yarn, weaving over and…
Regulated utility. Payout ratio against earnings is 62 percent, which looks comfortable. But operating cash flow minus capex is negative most years and the dividend is being paid alongside new debt issuance and share…
Clutch is slipping badly on hills. Quote is 1400 including a dual mass flywheel. The car is otherwise sound: no rust, tyres are six months old, timing belt done at 150k, brakes fine, passed its last inspection with no…
Falling asleep is easy, usually within ten minutes. Then almost every night I am fully awake somewhere between 3 and 3:30, not anxious exactly, just completely alert. I lie there, eventually start thinking about work,…
It runs a camera timelapse script and I only reach it over SSH. It stays reachable for three to six hours, then vanishes: ping fails, the mDNS name is gone, nothing. The script keeps writing image files the entire time,…
Front loader, roughly 600 cycles by my count, throws a drain error and then trips out mid cycle. Drain pump and filter are clear, I checked both. Tech says main control board, 240 for the part and about 90 for the…
The ring first appeared at about 15cm across and is now maybe 22cm over roughly two months. It is directly below the bath, dry to the touch, and there is no smell. Nobody has taken a bath in that tub since we moved in…
Agreed £600 flat for what was described as a five page site. Three weeks in it's eleven pages, two rounds of copy rewrites I didn't quote for, and now they want a booking form. I've done roughly half the work. I don't…
I made about 400 cloze cards straight out of my lecture notes, one deletion per sentence. I pass them in review at maybe 92 percent but I completely blanked on the same material in a practice exam. It feels like I am…
It's the same three jokes about me being the spreadsheet one, and they only come out when we're with other people. Individually each one is nothing, which is why I've never said anything, and now it's been about a year.…