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Carbon monoxide. Not carbon monooxide: the doubled vowel gets collapsed and everyone writes and says it with one o. But the same collision happens in diiodine, with two i's in a row, and there the vowels stay. Nobody…
Fourteen months in. Last week I found myself genuinely dreading packing, and I have started picking places based on which flight is least annoying rather than where I want to be. Nothing is wrong. Work is fine, money is…
I moved it from a six inch to an eight inch pot nine days ago because it was drying out daily. Every afternoon it goes completely flat, and every morning after a drink it is back up. The soil is damp when I check it, so…
Roughly 45 minutes a day for 15 months: textbook chapters, kanji reviews, and a podcast on the commute. I passed a mock N4 easily nine months ago and I would probably still only just pass it today. Nothing feels like it…
I train four times a week in a spare room: doorway bar, rings on a beam, parallettes, one set of resistance bands. Upper body is objectively better than it was in the gym and I don't miss the commute at all. What I…
Across all differential equations, finding an analytical solution is the exception rather than the rule. Even innocuous looking equations built from elementary functions either have no closed form solution or have one…
Everything alive here uses the same basic machinery, the same genetic material, broadly the same amino acids, the same handedness. Popular science books discuss alternatives, and there are claims that other molecules…
I set up a machine from scratch and the installer required signing in with an online account and setting a PIN. Several things now depend on that PIN, so I cannot simply remove it. The problem is remote desktop.…
Eight months in on evenings and weekends, roughly £150 a month, which is less than I hoped and more than nothing. I keep oscillating between thinking it's about to click and thinking I should stop. I don't have a…
A widely reported vulnerability affected a well known Java logging library. That library has been ported to several other languages, with near identical names, and those ports are in use in plenty of places. My…
Three weeks into my first pair of raw jeans and my hands go blue, the inside of my white trainers has gone blue, and I sat on a cream sofa at a friend's and had a bad five minutes. I've read you're supposed to wait…
Fixed height desk at the standard 29 inches, one 24 inch monitor, and I type with my shoulders somewhere around my ears. If I raise the chair enough to fix my elbows my feet dangle, and if I lower it my wrists bend up…
First proper batch. Soy container wax, 8 percent fragrance added at 82C and stirred for two minutes, poured at 57C. Cold throw was decent on day one and now on day four the jars smell of almost nothing when I lift the…
We were told this week that a specific mainstream browser will be blocked on all managed devices, citing vulnerabilities and security risks. The browser in question is widely regarded as a reasonable choice and receives…
I am 42 and I have managed to hold a daily walking habit of around ten thousand steps for several months now. Energy and mood are noticeably better and it is a routine I can sustain, which matters more to me than…
I have used the same filter plate in my stovetop coffee pot for a year and it looks perfectly fine: none of the holes are blocked and there is no visible damage. The manufacturer sells gaskets in packs of three with one…
Working off a kitchen table and my neck has had enough. Budget tops out around $400 CAD for a 140 cm desk, which puts me on the single motor frames from the big marketplaces rather than the name brands. I don't need…
First full month where the numbers are big enough to notice. Dashboard says one thousand four hundred and eighteen collected. Bank statement for the same calendar month adds up to one thousand two hundred and forty…
First screen went well, and the follow up email ends with a request for my salary expectations before they book the next stage. I have a figure in mind based on two similar postings that published bands, and my current…
Some people avoid ice in drinks because it dilutes them, and use metal or stone cubes instead. Those seem to have much lower heat capacity than water ice, so they must cool far less effectively. Which made me wonder…
Building an application where users work across several pages at once and want to move between them quickly. There are two obvious designs. One: everything opens in ordinary browser tabs, and I do nothing. Two: I…
European cooking between roughly the fifth and fifteenth centuries produced a lot of dishes that have simply dropped out of the modern repertoire thick grain pottages, sweetened and spiced meat dishes, drinks somewhere…
Commuting 20 miles a day on surface streets, and I keep reading that a cheap certified helmet protects as well as an expensive one. I want to believe it because I'd rather put the difference toward a jacket. I'm…
I was overcharged at a restaurant: the tip I wrote and signed was one amount and the charge that appeared was substantially more. I filed a dispute with my card issuer and uploaded a photograph of the signed receipt.…
Upgraded a 60 post blog from Astro 4 to 5.3. Moved the collection to the content layer loader: Files are in . returns . No error, no warning. Build succeeds and produces an index page with zero entries, which is the…