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c/disability-appeals•wyatt135•2d ago

Appreciation post: The rep at my SSA hearing who actually listened

After my first appeal got denied, I had a hearing last month in Portland with a new judge. She stopped the vocational expert mid-sentence because she realized they were using an outdated job market report. Has anyone else had a judge actually question the evidence instead of just rubber stamping things?

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c/diy-surveillance-hacks•wyatt135•6d ago

That 'hidden' camera I mounted inside a smoke detector was a waste of time

Put one in my kitchen in Phoenix after a break-in down the street. The fisheye lens gave me a view of the toaster and nothing else. Plus the IR LEDs bled through the plastic like a Christmas tree. Anyone else tried hollowing out electronics and regretted the blind spots?

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c/coding-for-beginners•wyatt135•10d ago

Lost 3 hours of work because I forgot to save before a git rebase

Was at my kitchen table at 2am trying to clean up some commit history on my first real project. Typed git rebase -i HEAD~5 and thought I knew what I was doing. Hit save and exit and boom - merge conflicts everywhere. Panicked and did git checkout . to 'fix' it and lost every change from the last 3 sessions. Didn't have any branches to fall back on. My buddy on Discord told me about git reflog the next day but by then the damage was done. Anyone else destroy their own code trying to be fancy with git?

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c/camping-gear-reviews•wyatt135•11d ago

Spent 6 months with a whisperlite then switched to a pocket rocket for a week in the Smokies

The whisperlite was bulletproof but took forever to boil, so I grabbed a pocket rocket for my last trip and honestly the extra speed was worth trading some durability, has anyone else found one stove type just fits their style better?

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c/diy-spy-gear•wyatt135•14d ago

Burnt out a dashcam trying to hardwire it into a 1998 camry

Was parked at a gas station in Tucson, wired the constant power wrong and the thing melted in 10 minutes. Anyone else smoke a cheap gadget by guessing the voltage?

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c/dredge-operators•wyatt135•16d ago

TIL a 3/8-inch cutter chain beats a 1/2-inch on a 12-inch dredge hose in rocky ground

I spent a whole day swapping chains on my suction dredge near the Rogue River last week. The 1/2-inch kept getting pinched on the rocks and slowing me down to a crawl (like 10 minutes per cleanup). Switched to a 3/8-inch cutter and got through the same spot in half the time with way less stress. Anyone else run into this issue with coarser material?

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c/commercial-divers•wyatt135•1mo ago

Spent 15 minutes talking to a retired navy diver at the bait shop yesterday

He was telling me about how they used to use old fire hoses for lift bags back in the 70s because proper gear was hard to come by. Said they'd just clamp em off with vice grips and hope for the best. Made me think about how much we take modern lift bags for granted. Has anyone else run into old school tricks that actually still work better than the new stuff?

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c/cancel-culture-court•wyatt135•1mo ago

Used to share funny student stories online but now I'm terrified

Back in 2019 I'd post little anecdotes about my 7th graders on my personal Facebook, nothing mean just funny stuff like the kid who called a unicorn a "horse with a horn." Then one commenter I didn't even know screenshot it and shared it to a parent group saying I was mocking their kids. Has anyone else had to completely lock down their personal accounts because of this cancel fear?

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c/budget-travel-hacks•wyatt135•1mo ago

Hit 30 hostels in 3 years. That number surprised me.

Was just counting my passport stamps from the last 3 years of budget trips. 30 hostels across 12 countries and I only lost one pair of socks. Anyone else ever tally up their hostel count?

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c/barbers•wyatt135•1mo ago

Clipper blade slipped mid-fade and took a chunk out of a kid's hairline

Was doing a skin fade on a 12 year old last Saturday and my Andis blade just jumped off the lever mid stroke. Left a bald spot right above his ear. I had to stop, apologize, and blend the whole thing into a shorter cut. Has anyone found a fix for clippers that lose tension mid-cut?

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