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I grew up around forest and spent enormous amounts of time off trail, in dense undergrowth, in and around creeks. As an adult I still hike the same kind of country. In all that time I have seen a handful of snakes.…
I shoot raw on a crop sensor body, mostly landscapes and the occasional portrait, and I currently sit in a trial that is about to end. What I need is proper raw development with lens corrections and a catalogue that…
I have a few months of inconsistent training behind me and I have decided to commit properly. My plan was six sessions a week, splitting body parts across days, because I have the time and the motivation. Everything I…
Nightly job that reads about 9GB of gzipped CSV, parses it, dedupes on a composite key, and writes Parquet. It is pandas, it takes roughly 40 minutes, and it is now blocking a morning report. I have one week I can spend…
I have now been corrected at three separate dinners on posh, on golf, and on the whole nine yards, and I am starting to suspect the good stories are false at a rate close to a hundred percent. There seems to be a…
Every recommendation I get is a knowledge management system with databases and relations, and what I want is to write 'call the plumber back Tuesday' on my phone and see it on my laptop. Android plus Windows. Free or a…
We ended it in March, mutually, no betrayal, just the same argument for two years. I moved flats, I see friends twice a week, I am fine at work. Then I look at her account most nights and lose the evening. For people…
We use JWT sessions with a 30 minute expiry, no database read on normal requests. Banned an account for obvious reasons and watched them keep posting until their token expired. I know why this happened. What I do not…
Managed to bond two fingers together with a fast setting cyanoacrylate adhesive. So far I have tried rubbing alcohol, butter and warm soapy water, and none of them has done anything useful. The bond is not painful and…
Freehand on a 1000 and 6000 combination stone, and I have been eyeballing roughly twenty degrees for everything because that is what I was taught. The German knives hold up fine but the gyuto dulls noticeably faster…
Half life describes the statistics of a large number of atoms. But an individual nucleus decays at an unpredictable moment, and nothing prevents any particular one from decaying at any particular time. So it seems to…
I've used Korean sunscreens for four years mainly because the textures beat anything I can buy locally, and I'm now unsure what to trust after the run of testing stories. I'm not trying to relitigate the whole thing. I…
I am five months into a self taught curriculum, about ten hours a week, changing careers from warehouse logistics at 31. Every time I stall I paste the error into a chat window and get working code back, and I have…
I'm somewhere around B1 in Spanish and I've been doing 30 minutes of voice conversation with an AI assistant every morning at 6am, mostly because no other human is awake then. Six weeks in I feel completely fluent…
Short business trip, visa valid for exactly the days I planned to be there, and I used all of them. My outbound flight was via another airport in the same area and the first leg was delayed enough that I missed the…
First build, 1440p gaming plus some Blender on evenings and weekends. I priced a list at $1,290 and there is a prebuilt with the same CPU and GPU for $1,400 with a three year warranty and one phone number to shout at. I…
A digital image is captured and stored in terms of red, green and blue. A printer then converts it to cyan, magenta, yellow and black to put ink on white paper. That conversion loses information and is a source of…
Migrated a screen from ObservableObject to the @Observable macro. Most of it works. One case does not and I cannot see the rule I am breaking. View reads . Setting redraws fine. Setting changes the value I can print it…
Someone disputed a twenty nine dollar charge as unrecognised. I spent about an hour assembling evidence: signup timestamp, IP, their usage over six weeks, the terms they accepted, the receipt email. Lost anyway, and on…
Some things are prepaid on my card, some will be cash, and one of the three has a card with no foreign transaction fee so he will end up paying for a lot of the meals. We are all fine about money but I have seen this go…
The flow, as it exists: 1. Signup with email, 90 people got this far 2. Connect Google so we can read a folder of sheets, 27 completed it 3. Pick the folder, 19 4. First report generated, 11 So two thirds die on the…
TypeScript 5.8. I have the standard recursive path type over a config object: Worked fine while the config was four levels deep. I added one more level and now gives me: The config has 9 top level keys and nothing…
A freshly installed distribution inside the Linux subsystem cannot update its package lists everything fails with signature verification errors saying the repository is not signed. The usual advice is a key management…
Bought it from a market stall in spring and kept it in a kitchen cupboard above the kettle. Last week the lid popped when I opened it, there is a pale foam on top, and it tastes faintly sour with a cidery smell. No…
Nine days of exact match search ads on three keywords. 41,300 impressions, 1,142 clicks at $0.21, and 3 email addresses. Scroll tracking says 402 people made it past the hero, 31 clicked "get early access", 3 finished.…
