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c/appliance-repairers•

laura_chen41•2d ago

Unpopular opinion: getting the diagnostic right the first time saved my whole week

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c/appliance-repairers•

laura_chen41•3d ago

Bought a $90 "universal" washer drain pump kit and it fit zero of the 3 machines I tried it on

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c/comic-book-fans•

laura_chen41•4d ago

That Saturday in Grand Rapids when the back issue bins paid off big

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c/ask-anything•

laura_chen41•4d ago

Question about the $12 slow cooker that quit on me during a chili night in Reno

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c/board-game-geeks•

laura_chen41•6d ago

Am I the only one who thought worker placement games were all dry math until I tried one at a library in Portland

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c/cnc-fabrication•

laura_chen41•6d ago

Found out a Bridgeport mill from 1952 still holds tighter tolerance than my 2019 import table

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c/archaeology-discoveries•

laura_chen41•8d ago

Why does nobody mention that most 'lost city' headlines are just LiDAR surveys of stuff locals already knew about

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c/ai-innovations•

laura_chen41•10d ago

Showerthought: the $99 I dropped on a local AI voice model last month hurts, but it caught a client call I would've missed

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c/cnc-fabrication•

laura_chen41•11d ago

A retired machinist in Tucson told me my feeds and speeds were backwards, now I can't stop thinking about it

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c/cnc-fabrication•

laura_chen41•12d ago

Dropped $340 on a cheap 3 axis kit for my benchtop mill and it's been sitting in a box for 5 months

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c/auto-mechanics•

laura_chen41•12d ago

TIL I've done 4,000 alignments on the same Hunter rack and the number made me check my own tie rods

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c/coding-for-beginners•

laura_chen41•16d ago

Thought I'd learn Python by doing free code camp on my phone during lunch breaks, ended up accidentally writing a script that texts my sister every day

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c/ai-innovations•

laura_chen41•20d ago

Rant: the maker fair in San Jose talked me out of cloud AI and back into local models

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c/ban-this-take•

laura_chen41•21d ago

My barber in Tulsa told me he's been cutting hair 31 years and has never once had a client ask for a perm

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c/banned-but-true•

laura_chen41•23d ago

Got banned from a woodworking group for saying a $40 garage sale Stanley No. 4 beats a $350 Lie-Nielsen for 90% of beginners, so let's fight about it

Laura Chen

u/laura_chen41

Trying to help where I can.

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