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Eleven speed road groupset, about 6000km on the chain. Shifting is crisp everywhere except the 11 and 12 tooth cogs, where it jumps forward under pressure. Fine when spinning lightly, skips when I stand up. New cable…
Skillet is a modern one, about a year old. I've built up seasoning with thin oil coats in the oven at 230C, maybe eight rounds total. Looks great, then I sear a steak at high heat and afterwards there are black flakes…
Client has booked 9am to 1pm, one background, one room, and retouching is billed separately afterwards. I have done individual sessions but never a queue of twelve, and I do not want to be the reason their morning…
I want the vault format to be something I can inspect and export, my partner wants it to work on an iPhone without her having to think about it once. Budget is up to about USD 40 a year for both of us and we need a…
I sent chapter three (about 40 pages, methods heavy) on 12 March. Two follow up emails, plus one in person ask after a seminar where he said it was on his list. Nothing since. My committee meeting is booked for…
Our step reports a cache hit and restores in about 8 seconds, but the right after it still takes 2m40s and clearly unpacks everything again. The lockfile hasn't changed between the two runs I compared. Node 20, npm 10,…
I looked up a slang term I've heard my whole life and the dictionary gave a first citation in the 1920s, which is clearly much later than it must have existed. Then I noticed the same gap on several other entries. Is…
Two nights out last weekend, low was 38F by my thermometer, and I was cold enough by 3am that I sat up and put on my puffy inside the quilt. It's a 20F rated 850fp quilt, less than a year old, stored uncompressed in the…
About 14 months into French. I can follow a 30 minute podcast at normal speed and get maybe 80 percent of it, and I read news articles without a dictionary. But the second a real person asks me something in a shop my…
For about six months now, roughly every second Saturday, I wake up already in it. Weekdays I am fine. I wake at 6:20 on workdays and sleep until 9 or 10 at weekends, and I drink three coffees a day at work and usually…
Measure is . For most months it lines up with last year fine, but four or five months come back completely blank even though there are definitely sales rows in those months a year earlier. The date table is a query off…
Vacuum sealed a brisket flat, dropped it in at 155F, and by hour five it is bobbing with a good inch of meat above the waterline. I push it back down and it comes up again within the hour. The seal looks intact, no…
Room is about 3m square, desk against the short wall, monitors sitting on the desk surface either side of the screen, my ears maybe 30cm from the tweeters. Mixes keep coming out thin in the low mids and I have read that…
Same result on three different patterns now, all wovens, all cut on grain, all stay stitched within minutes of cutting. The front V stands away from my chest by roughly 2cm on each side and folds outward when I move. I…
She is eleven, comfortable with powers of ten as a phrase but not really as an idea, and she immediately followed up with why some of them have a minus. I said it means very big and she correctly identified that as an…
Spent three months building a reporting module. 140 customers at 29 a month, mostly small teams. The two options in front of me are a 10 add on that existing customers can buy, or folding it in, keeping everyone where…
The product is a small scheduling tool for music teachers. It has worked well enough for me and two friends for about five months. In that time I have redesigned the landing page four times, twice switching frameworks,…
We got the deprecation notice for the version four of our features are built on, with a suggested replacement and a date. Spot checks look fine, and then it does something subtly different with a long input and our…
1:1:1 feeds with supermarket plain flour, kitchen is 19 to 20C through the winter, and it rises maybe 30% before it stalls and slowly sinks. It smells pleasantly yoghurty, no hooch, no funny colours, so I don't think…
I have two full bags of pulled bindweed with roots and a barrow of grass that flowered before I got to it. My pile is a two bay pallet setup that gets hot for a week after a big build and then coasts. I would rather not…
Shooting street and travel, currently on the kit zoom which I find slow and honestly boring. 600 to spend, used market is fine. Torn between a fast 35mm prime, which everyone calls the classic street focal length, and a…
Large diaphragm condenser, treated with two foam panels behind the mic, singer about 20cm away. Every take has a honky midrange thing around what sounds like 300 500Hz that I end up carving out with a big EQ cut, and…
It runs all day on my laptop, prints a line when something changes, and occasionally it just stops doing anything without an error until I kill it and restart. Ctrl+C also produces an ugly traceback which makes me think…
About 6000km a year, wet winters, roads get salted from December to March, and I currently pay a shop for everything including punctures. I am trying to decide whether buying tools and learning is worth it or whether I…
1920s house, lath and plaster ceiling in the front bedroom. Three separate hairline cracks running roughly parallel, each about a metre long. I've filled them with flexible filler and repainted twice over two years and…