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…
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…