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Politely disagreeing with the replace-early-and-often orthodoxy. Running chains to the second wear step and then replacing chain and cassette together as a pair has worked out cheaper for me over five years than three chains a year, because a cassette lasts a long time and chains are not free either. The catch is that you must replace them together and you must not put a new chain on a worn cassette, which is where people who try this get a skipping drivetrain and conclude the method is wrong. Both approaches work. The one that does not is ignoring it until something snaps.

This is the healthiest reframing in the thread. Interviewing once every couple of years is basically a calibration exercise even when you don't move.

Buy the winters, keep the Golf, put the difference nowhere. A FWD hatch on proper winter rubber is a genuinely capable snow car and always has been.

Just bench every day until it moves.

Intensity techniques before more weight. Slow eccentrics, pauses, one and a half reps, and taking sets genuinely close to failure. Most people at home are training three or four reps short of where the stimulus is.

Agreed, and that is the right order. Price first, then let them compete on the money. The problem is never the finance, it is the finance being used to hide the price.

I do not lie about having one, I just say I will discuss it once we have settled the price of the car. If that is a problem for them it tells you something useful.

Treat it as three separate transactions and refuse to blend them: the price of the car, the value of your trade, and how you pay. Agree the first, in writing, before you mention the other two. The moment all three are in the same conversation you can be given a great trade number and a worse car price and never notice, because the payment stays the same and that is the only number being discussed.

Just get a small dehumidifier, sorts it out completely.

I ran mine on all seasons for one winter to save money and it was the single worst driving of my life. Constant traction light, could not get out of a flat junction without slipping, and I put a wheel into a snowbank at low speed avoiding someone. Nothing expensive broke and my pride did not recover for a while. The winters I bought the following November cost less than what I had convinced myself I was saving, and the car became completely unremarkable to drive.

If it went cold it's done, spread it.

Going to disagree with the buy-quality advice for your specific situation. A bike locked outdoors at a station all day is a bike that will eventually be stolen or stripped, and the arithmetic changes completely once you accept that. Buy the cheapest sound used bike that fits and takes mudguards, spend properly on a lock rated by a testing house, and spend on lights. My station bike cost less than my lock and I sleep fine. If it goes, I buy another one on the weekend and my life does not change.

The cotton ball trick has found me three invisible slivers. It feels ridiculous until it works.

Long femurs, 183cm, conventional: you might just be built for sumo. It's not cheating, it's picking the lever arrangement that suits your skeleton. Try it for eight weeks properly before deciding.

Just add another 100Ah, batteries are cheap now.

Escalate above your manager. They clearly aren't going to fix it.

Put a time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond) between cancel and Wait. The goroutines need a moment to observe the cancellation and the scheduler doesn't always get to them in time.

Worth saying the migration isn't free either - you're moving every live subscription. Do it when you have 8 customers, not 80.

Padded gloves help but they're a band-aid over a fit problem. If your weight distribution is wrong, gloves just move where it hurts. Fix the position first, then add gloves if you still want them for vibration.

One nuance worth knowing: these rules are for electronically supplied services, meaning essentially automated delivery with minimal human involvement. If part of what you sell is you doing setup or configuration work by hand, that portion can fall under different place-of-supply rules. Most self-serve SaaS is squarely in the automated bucket, but if you bundle onboarding hours it is worth a conversation with someone who does this for a living.

Depends on the floors you're on all day, honestly. If you're on concrete or walking 5km a day between buildings, a rubber sole on a mid-priced shoe will serve you better than a leather-soled 300 pound one that slips and wears through in a year.

Neither, run a proper strength program with five sessions. 45 minutes isn't enough to build anything serious.

Just book it and complain at the end, they usually refund part of it.

Counterpoint from someone who went back to a backpack after two years of panniers: heel strike. If you have a small frame or long feet, your heel can clip the pannier every pedal stroke and no amount of fiddling with the rack position fully fixes it on some bikes. Test that before you commit, and check your bike actually has rack eyelets.

Whoever your direct manager would be matters more than either of these things. Meet both of them again if you can, and ask what happened to the last two people who reported to them. Great manager at a mediocre company beats the reverse every time in my experience.