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Masters student, three two hour lectures a week, and I have been typing something close to a transcript because I am afraid of missing things. It takes the whole lecture plus about four hours a week tidying afterwards,…
Three months of evenings. When something breaks I still feel a small drop in my stomach, scroll to the bottom, read the last line and start guessing. People around me seem to read the whole thing and go straight to the…
I have been riding for years and only just learned what a balance bike is: no pedals, seat low enough that the rider's feet reach the ground, so they learn balance and steering without having to coordinate pedalling at…
I'm 34, eight months of feeling completely flat, can't start tasks I care about, and I forgot two meetings last week that were in my calendar. I took two weeks off in April and felt human for about ten days before it…
I would like to reduce the mosquito and fly population in my garden without spraying anything. We have a reasonable amount of planted space, a bird feeder and a recirculating water feature, which brings in plenty of…
Did my first real lower body session on Monday, squats and lunges and some hamstring work, nothing heavy but a lot more than I'm used to. Tuesday I was fine, Wednesday I could barely sit down on a chair, and it's now…
Column of dates from an exported report. In the pivot, right click, Group is greyed out for the date field, and the rows show every single day as its own line. If I type a date manually into a blank cell it looks…
Personal budget tracker, 8000 rows, maybe 15 columns. Every edit hangs for 15 20 seconds before the cell updates. I assumed 8000 rows was tiny. There are a few VLOOKUPs, some SUMIFS pulling from other tabs, and about…
Several junctions in my area have been converted to roundabouts over the past decade, and this seems to be happening in a lot of places. Locally the reaction is close to universally negative: people find them confusing…
Six years backend at the same company. The lead role is about 8 percent more money and six reports, the lateral is the same pay on a stack I have never touched. I have to answer in two weeks and my manager has made it…
Wired gaming headset that has worked for two years, and since an update last month the mic cuts out after roughly ten minutes on a call and only comes back if I unplug and replug. It happens on two different…
I am planning to lead a song for a mixed group and I want as many people as possible to actually join in rather than listen. The song as written spans roughly an octave, from D below middle C to the D above. I do not…
I need a material that melts somewhere in the 500 to 590 Celsius band, for a temperature reference. It is turning out to be a surprisingly empty gap. Plastics are gone long before that. Tin and lead melt far lower.…
I uninstalled a database server, updated my package manager and reinstalled it. Starting the service now fails with a bootstrap error mentioning an input/output problem, and the message from the service manager is not…
We pay 1450 for a two bed and the quote on a similar two bed comes to about 1260 a month with ten percent down. Right now the landlord fixes everything and we have never spent a penny on the building itself. We plan to…
There is a permanent tension between names that are descriptive and names that are short enough to read in an expression. A name carrying the unit, the source, the constraint and the meaning becomes unreadable inside…
I have built a small tool for a narrow professional niche. It works, three friends use it, one of them would pay. I have no audience anywhere. I have never posted on any platform and I am not going to start making short…
Two chequing accounts, one credit card, and one joint account with my partner. Every free app I've tried either caps the number of connections or turns the credit card into double counted spending. I'm not against…
Quoted a flat 3,000 for a five page site based on a brief. Three weeks in we're at fourteen pages, two of which need a filterable listing, plus a newsletter integration nobody mentioned. Client is pleasant and seems to…
Coming from Rails, where migrations are a solved and slightly boring thing. Getting started on Workers and D1 and I cannot tell what the normal workflow is. Is what people genuinely use in production, or is that the…
Many languages assign a gender to every noun, which affects the noun and the words agreeing with it. English mostly does not, aside from a few paired forms like actor and actress. I have always wondered what that…
14 day trial, no card required. Over three weeks one person created roughly 60 accounts from what is clearly the same mailbox same name with dots moved around, and a batch with plus suffixes. Same browser fingerprint,…
A stellar mass black hole would tear anything apart well before it reached the horizon. I am curious about the opposite extreme. Suppose a black hole with the mass of an apple existed and sat on a table. Its…
Sanity checking before I build on this. "How do I reset my password" against a paragraph about our office move scores 0.86. A genuinely relevant paragraph scores 0.89. That is a three point gap between right and…
crawler on a worker saves the rendered html for each page it visits, roughly 40k snapshots a month, and each one is 1 to 3 mb of text. i need to query by url and date and occasionally diff two versions. putting the blob…