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22h ago

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My buddy in Denver said 'a good sleeping bag is all you need, pads are a scam'. Spent a cold night on a 35-degree trip and I'm not so sure.

Learned that same lesson on a gravel campsite in Vermont, couldnt believe how stiff I felt the next morning.

2d ago

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TIL swapping the last chapter of a mystery novel can fix a weak ending

Page 47 had a mention of the neighbor's dog acting weird around the groundskeeper, so I swapped the killer to him in an Agatha Christie novel last week. My wife looked at me like I was nuts when she caught me cutting pages out of a $25 hardcover with scissors. Honestly though, the new ending made more sense than the original, so maybe I'm the real detective here.

2d ago

in

Debated between a heat lamp and a brooder plate for my new chicks and chose wrong

Bet that was a rough lesson learned.

2d ago

in

My first coding project took 3 hours to fix one line of code

Honestly, how long did it take you to realize it was just a comma? Ngl I've had that exact same thing happen but with a missing semicolon in PHP. Spent like 4 hours one night staring at the screen, and then I just happened to glance at it and saw it. The worst part is when your brain gets so tired you start second guessing everything else too. The real trick is to step away for 10 minutes or talk it out loud to someone, even if they don't know code. Works like a charm for me every time now.

4d ago

in

Just realized torque wrenches from Snap-on and Harbor Freight give totally different readings after 2 years of shop use

Bet you just didn't reset the Harbor Freight one right after dropping it once.