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Passed my test in May, commuting 18 miles each way on a 400 in Manchester, so rain most of the year and about six weeks where I will cook. I have the helmet sorted already and nothing else. I would rather buy once than…
Six to eight calls a day split across three different video platforms depending on whose client it is, and I'm typing notes badly through all of them. The free tiers I've looked at cap you at a few hundred minutes a…
Internal agent for our ops team. It has grown to 40 tools across four domains deploys, tickets, the data warehouse, and a pile of one off scripts. Counting the definitions alone, that is about 11,400 tokens attached to…
First paid product job and I said a day without thinking hard about it. It is 40 small items, mostly rings and pendants, two angles each, client wants a clean white background and files sized for their shop. I have one…
New to waterstones. Flattened my 1000 with a lapping plate on Sunday, sharpened four kitchen knives over the week, and a straight edge already rocks on it. Is that normal wear or am I doing something that eats stone…
Genuinely asking rather than complaining. A washing machine has a motor, a pump, a heater, a drum, a control board and a door that has to survive twenty years of being slammed, and it costs less than a mid range…
Eight months in with a single client who now sets my hours, asks me to clear holiday with their delivery manager, and has posted me a company laptop with their device management on it. I invoice monthly and handle my…
Life happened, then the momentum went. Eleven weeks since I touched the code. It has been running fine the whole time, which is either reassuring or an indictment. Six people still pay, $78 a month total. Nobody has…
First time doing this. The page says "join the waitlist", there is a pricing table with three tiers, and there is a screenshot I made in Figma. None of it is real. There is not a single line of code. Everyone says this…
The headache itself lasts most of a day, then the next day I have no pain at all but I am foggy, clumsy, and words come out wrong. I feel like I am moving through porridge. It is almost as disruptive as the headache but…
Team of four, we merge roughly 15 PRs a week and maybe 70% of the code in them is model written. Test suite is decent, 1,100 tests, about 6 minutes in CI, covers the money paths well. Two camps internally. One says…
Day job went from occasionally paged to a formal rotation: one week on, two off. The on call week is a write off. I am tired, I cannot start anything that needs more than twenty minutes of head space, and twice now I…
The tool I want to build sits on top of a scheduling API. Section 4 of their developer terms says I can't build anything that competes with or is substantially similar to their own features. They shipped a thin version…
I built a scheduling thing for small heating and cooling firms after doing the books for one for two years. I know the problem is real. I have no idea where these people are. They are not on the developer sites, they…
Judge prompt asks for a 1 to 5 rating on helpfulness and accuracy given the question, the retrieved context and the answer. As a sanity check I fed it answers with fabricated citations, answers truncated mid sentence,…
Frameless 40L, about 9kg loaded. Whatever I do with the load lifters and hip belt, by hour two all the pressure is on a narrow line across my collarbones and I'm shrugging constantly. Torso length is measured and…
Undergrad was a big campus and friends came free with the timetable. Now it is a small department where everyone is thirty plus, married or gone by five, and the two bars near campus are wall to wall undergrads. I am…
Big five bank plus a credit union, and roughly every six weeks one of the connections drops and needs re authenticating, sometimes losing a few days of transactions on the way. I'm already on a paid app so this isn't a…
a runaway job ran overnight and the 80% budget alert landed in my inbox the next morning, by which point it had been going for nine hours. the budget alerting is clearly not built for detecting things fast, it's built…
Single process, twelve goroutines all incrementing one int64, and a metrics endpoint that reads it once a second. I keep going back and forth between a around the field and a dedicated goroutine owning the value with an…
Electric resistance tank, twelve years old, sitting in an attached garage that hovers around 5 10°C for most of the winter. Family of four, showers are basically the whole load. The heat pump models cost meaningfully…
Mostly a hobby, maybe ten paid days a year, and one venue recently asked me for a liability certificate which is what started this. My home contents policy has a single item limit well below what the longest lens is…
Budget 18000 used. Commute is 60km round trip, almost all motorway, five days a week. Two children in high back boosters, one dog in the boot, and a very tight parallel parking space at home that measures 5.1 metres. I…
Roughly ninety guests, and the plan is two cameras on a table with a guestbook so people can stick prints in with a message. I have set aside about USD 250 for cameras plus film and I would rather spend it on film than…
Twelve async workers fetching pages, all consulting a map of about 50k domain to rate limit entries. Reads are maybe 95% of accesses, writes happen when a new domain appears or a limit updates. I can either wrap it in…