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26d ago

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Got told my star trails were 'too busy' in a critique last month

Yeah, that "wild curves sweeping past" idea from the elliot is cool. Parker_cooper57 is onto something with aiming off-center, but what if you just pointed at a really dim patch of sky? No bright stars at all. You'd get these super long, slow lines from the faint ones, almost like a time-lapse of the dark itself. It's way less busy because there's no star fighting to be the main subject.

27d ago

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Just read that the Hoover Dam used over 3.25 million cubic yards of concrete.

Ever see a pour that just makes you feel like an ant? I was on a site for a hospital foundation slab, maybe a tenth of that scale, and it still felt huge. Watching those trucks roll in nonstop for two days straight, the whole crew just a tiny part of this massive machine. Honestly it makes you respect the guys who did that dam work on a whole other level.

27d ago

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Cleaned out the shop and found my first trowel from 15 years ago

Oh man, @the_val, my grandpa's wrench is pure rust.

28d ago

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That time my first real program crashed my laptop for a full hour

Come on @the_elliot, that's just a lab machine getting a little warm. Those old systems were built to handle stress tests. A simple infinite loop shouldn't crash anything modern. It's more likely someone panicked and hit the power button early. These stories get exaggerated over time. A forced reboot was probably overkill for a student's coding mistake.

28d ago

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A neighbor's trick for cheaper chicken soup

Just a heads up, onion skins can make broth bitter. The papery outer layers, I mean. I stick to the peels from yellow onions, the thicker ones.