Two questions in one, and I am not embarrassed about the first. One: what does bpw actually mean? I see it everywhere, 4bpw, 2.5bpw, "stay above 4bpw" and I have been nodding along for months. I assume it is bits per…
The product reads a user's calendar to build a weekly summary. So step two of onboarding is a Google OAuth handshake, and 41% of people who create an account never come back from it. My app is not verified yet, so users…
Support is one inbox, support@ forwarding into my personal Gmail, about thirty messages a week and growing slowly. It works right up until it does not: last week I found two emails from nine days ago that I had opened,…
I was cleaning up branches and repointed a channel. I understand now what that did. 812 installs of 1.4.2 are currently running JS from 1.5.0, which expects a native module that is not in their binary. Crash rate went…
I am setting up a machine with a comfortable amount of memory and the installer wants to allocate swap space. The advice I find ranges from making it twice the RAM, through a fixed small amount, to not bothering at all…
Small team, one warehouse, ingestion is a managed connector that lands on its own schedule, then about seventy dbt models on top. Airflow keeps getting suggested and from here it looks like a whole second system to…
Three years of lifting three times a week, 78 kg, diet is decent and I'm not in a deficit. I've never taken creatine because I assumed the effect was small and mostly water weight. A friend swears his bench went up 10…
I converted a private key into the PuTTY format using the key generator, and when I load it into the client I get a warning that the key format is too new. If I try to use the original unconverted key instead, I get a…
The check is right there. Nothing between them touches . What confuses me more is that the same pattern inside sometimes compiles fine and sometimes does not, so I clearly do not understand the rule at all.
UK, renting a two bed at £1,450 a month, and the equivalent flat two doors down sold last year at a price where the mortgage, service charge and ground rent alone would come to about £1,900 before any maintenance. I…
Day job, eight weeks of evenings in this thing, and I've put in for Monday to Friday of launch week off. Now I'm looking at the empty calendar and realising I have no idea what to do with 40 hours. Honest list of what I…
Gas combi from 2011, about 14,000 kWh of gas a year, cavity walls filled and loft at roughly 270 mm, but the ground floor is suspended timber and noticeably draughty. Two quotes in, both in the mid teens of thousands…
First agent I have built, so possibly a naive question. I give it a task with nine clear steps in the prompt fetch, validate, transform, write four files, update an index, report. It reliably does the first three, then…
The laptop I have does not have dedicated keys for keyboard backlight, and the function keys that used to do it on older machines have no effect. Mostly I want to turn the backlight off entirely it is distracting in a…
Started tracking my side project time properly this month. Last week: 2h50 fighting a Docker layer cache in GitHub Actions, 1h25 rewriting my logger for no reason anyone could defend, 1h05 reading docs and changelogs,…
Coming from a gym background, I can back squat fine but my longest ever run is 10km and that was rough. The format is eight one kilometre runs between the stations, so on paper it is a distance I could already cover. I…
Looking at the cheap end because this is for a hobby stream that makes no money, and Fifine keeps coming up as the value pick at around a third of the price of the usual recommendations. What I cannot find is anyone…
900 item list, each row is an image, two text lines and a favourite button. Scrolling is visibly janky on a mid range device and Layout Inspector shows recomposition counts in the 400s for rows after about ten seconds…
Woke up to an email saying my AWS account is closed. This was the newer credit based free plan, signed up about six months ago, $100 in credits, plan runs six months or until the credits run out. I knew the date was…
I've had a subscription running for over a year, mostly for the sleep stories and rain soundscapes, and I switched to a second app after the first stopped working for me. It's roughly seventy dollars a year and I…
Trying to connect to an old network switch and the connection is refused with a complaint that no matching key exchange method was found, naming the one the switch offers. What confuses me is that when I ask my client…
Simple situation. A modal with a form. The user has typed something and clicks cancel. We want to warn them the changes will be lost. Every version I write is ambiguous in some way. The buttons end up being some pair of…
The advice I keep meeting is that polynomial regression above cubic is a bad idea unless you have a strong reason. The justification is always extrapolation, the curve does something insane just past the edge of your…
Split 1.5kg of beef cheeks, seared both the same way, same stock and aromatics. Oven batch went into a cast iron pot at about 140C for three and a half hours, cooker batch went eight hours on low. Both were tender but…
There is a persistent claim that music tuned with A at 432 hertz rather than the standard 440 produces a measurably different effect on listeners: described variously as warmer, calmer or more natural. I can see two…