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I am 34, everything tax sheltered is already full, and the rest goes into one broad market index fund in a plain taxable account. I am tempted to move maybe 30 percent into individual dividend payers, honestly for…
I portion ribeyes at about 1.5 inches, seal them, and freeze them flat. I would like to drop one in the water at 6pm with no thawing step. Everything I read says add some time, which is not a number. Does anyone have a…
Stood in a queue behind someone ordering at Panda Express and noticed the shrimp dish carries a surcharge over the standard entrees even though the box is the same size. Same thing happens at burrito places with the…
34, leaving an ops role for data analytics, nine months of expenses saved, no dependants. I am not looking for encouragement, I am looking for the signal people wish they had read earlier and ignored. If you switched…
I used MyFitnessPal for years and drifted away when barcode scanning went behind the subscription, and everything I have tried since seems to want a monthly fee and a personality. Android, and honestly I only need…
US, system was switched on in November 2025 and I filed the 2025 return this spring. I expected the credit to arrive as a refund and instead the software applied a chunk of it and carried the rest to next year, and I…
Started about a week ago. With one shower going the pump cuts in and out roughly three times a minute and you can hear the pressure switch clacking from the kitchen. Pressure at the tap swings noticeably while it does…
Cabin bag only, two adults, fourteen days, and we are the kind of pale that gets through a lot of it. The 100ml liquid limit means I can maybe carry 300ml between us if I give up the entire liquids bag to sunscreen.…
Serverless Postgres, picked specifically because my traffic is bursty and I liked the idea of paying nothing overnight. Autosuspend is on with a 5 minute timeout. Bill went from about $19 to $61. Compute hours for the…
Fieldwork done, data analysed, and I have written 4,000 words in five months. I open the file, read one paragraph, feel physically sick, and close it. My supervisor is kind but busy and I've been telling him it's going…
One key at about 45 degrees, a bounce on the fill side, backdrop roughly 2 metres behind the subject. Exposure is correct, white balance is correct, shooting a standard picture profile rather than log. It still looks…
I want the database file to live on machines I own and nowhere else, mostly because I do not want to be a line item in someone else's breach notification. That is easy on two laptops and impossible on a phone, which is…
Fitted new organic pads and new rotors on a hydraulic setup. Braking power is fine but there is a loud howl on the front, especially at low speed and when damp. I bedded them in with about twenty hard stops from 25 km/h…
Six weeks ago I put up a form that dumps into a spreadsheet, and every morning I spend about 40 minutes doing by hand what the app is supposed to do (take a client's inventory export, dedupe it, mail back a clean csv).…
Single VPS, docker compose, caddy in front. Deploy is . Compose stops the old api container, starts the new one, and for roughly 30 45 seconds caddy returns 502 while the new one boots. It's an internal tool so nobody…
My storage package has . The repo layer returns and the handler checks to decide 404 vs 500. It works on the direct path but returns false whenever the call goes through a small retry helper I wrote. Go 1.22, no build…
I did and then appended to , and grew too. Then I read about so I used and that worked for a flat list, but my actual data is a list of dictionaries and modifying a dictionary inside the copy still changes the original.…
Six packages in a pnpm workspace, roughly 1,400 files, no project references yet everything resolves through path aliases into source. is already on. Full is 96 seconds and tsserver climbs to about 4 GB and restarts…
Small furniture shop, about 400 products, migrated to a new platform in April. Search Console shows 92 indexed and 300 sitting in Crawled currently not indexed, and manual inspection says the live URL is indexable with…
Two German chef's knives, one Japanese gyuto I saved up for, and three cheap knives that live in a drawer. Realistically I would sharpen maybe four times a year and I genuinely do not want a new hobby. The options seem…
Everything currently goes to a single address that forwards to me. I answer from my own account, I star anything unfinished, and I have three saved replies in a text file I copy from. It works. It also feels like it…
Capped overnight nib up, and the first stroke is dry for about a centimetre before it flows normally. Happens with a particular blue black, never with the standard blue in the same pen. Flushed thoroughly with a bulb…
Bench chisel, 25 degree primary with a 30 degree micro bevel on a 1000 then 6000 waterstone. It comes off the stones sharp enough to pare end grain cleanly, but after roughly two mortises in dry white oak the edge has a…
He is not selling me a course and he genuinely seems to believe it, which is why I am asking rather than laughing. I have about $6,000 that is not my emergency fund and I am the sort of person who would take this…
One new model, runs hourly, reads from a large event table and writes about 400k rows a day. The bill went from roughly $900 to $2700 a month and this is the only change we made. The model looks cheap when I run it once…