I know everyone in here is obsessed with 67g or 78g linears for that 'thock', but I built my last board with 45g Gateron Yellows and honestly it feels way better for my chunky fingers. After 8 hours behind a bar, my hands are tired enough, I don't need to fight my keyboard too. Has anyone else tried going lighter and just sticking with it?
I was about to rip out this nasty green shag in my 1970s split level in Phoenix and just lay down laminate over the subfloor. My neighbor came over and said I should pull up a corner first to see what was underneath. After about 20 minutes of yanking staples, I found oak planks that just needed a good sanding. I spent $120 on a drum sander rental and three weekends refinishing them now they look way better than any new floor I could afford. Has anyone else found a hidden gem under their old carpet?
I got tired of my electric bill spiking from the dryer so I bought a cheap drying rack from Target for 12 bucks. Set it up in my spare room and hung my jeans and shirts on it last week. They took almost 3 days to dry because the house is cold and damp this time of year. Learned that you really need good airflow or a dehumidifier for it to work in winter. Has anyone else tried this and found a better setup for cold months?
I was 3 weeks into my first coding job in Atlanta and this senior guy walks by my desk, looks at my screen, and says my indentation is all over the place. He said I was using spaces inconsistently like 2 spaces here 4 spaces there. I thought it was just a style thing but he showed me how it actually breaks code review tools and makes diffs impossible to read. Now I just set my editor to auto-format on save and never think about it again. Anyone else get roasted for little stuff like that early on?
Ngl that changed how I read the sky on my drive home from the night shift, because I always thought those smooth lens shaped ones were a bad sign, so has anyone else had a weather fact totally flip your cloud spotting?
I paid $40 for a beat-up copy of the "Buckeye Cook Book" from 1895 at a flea market in Cincinnati last Saturday because the cover looked so neat. Got it home and every recipe calls for ingredients that don't exist anymore or measurements nobody uses like a "gill" of something. Spent two hours online just figuring out half the terms and still couldn't make a single dish. Has anyone else fallen for a vintage cookbook that was basically unusable?
He said he just cranks them down by feel, but after finding three loose pins on a nav box last week that caused intermittent failures, has anyone else seen this shortcut cause real problems?
I was smoothing the bead with my finger. Thought I was doing great. Then my wife watches me for a minute and goes "you know you're supposed to wet your finger first, right?" Looked at the mess I made. All those bumps and lumps. Had to scrape the whole thing off and start over. Anyone else have a simple trick they missed for years?
I spent years thinking sous vide was just another gadget for people with too much money. A buddy brought his Anova over last month and we tried it on a $15 sirloin from Aldi. Cooked it at 130F for 2 hours then seared it in a cast iron pan. The texture was better than any steakhouse I've been to in Detroit. Do you guys use sous vide for anything besides meat or is that pretty much it?
I had to finish 12 drops in a new apartment building near downtown and my cheapo crimper kept giving me loose fittings. The compression tool made perfect ends in half the time, no signal loss at all. Has anyone else noticed a big jump in quality switching to compression fittings for residential work?