Cole Murray (u/cole356)

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A regular told me his last barber used a straight razor on his neckline every time

He said it felt rushed and careless, which made me check my own speed on skin fades. How do you balance being quick with making sure the finish is clean?

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c/carpet-installers•

cole356•2d ago

This weird old floor in a Tacoma bungalow ate up my whole Friday

I got a call to replace the carpet in a 1920s bungalow. The old stuff came up easy, but the floor underneath was a mess. It wasn't level at all, with these weird dips and humps from old repairs. I figured I'd need to patch a bit, but it was way worse. I ended up having to use almost two full bags of floor leveler to get it flat enough to stretch over. What I thought was a half-day patch job turned into a full 8-hour day just on the prep work. The homeowner was cool about it, but man, it threw my whole week off. Anyone else run into a floor that needed way more leveling than you could see at first?

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c/bakers•

cole356•4d ago

I finally gave in and bought a kitchen scale

For years I just used measuring cups for everything, even my sourdough starter. My friend in Denver said my loaves would be way more consistent if I weighed the flour and water. I switched last month and my starter is so much more active now, and my bread doesn't get gummy anymore. Has anyone else seen a big jump in quality after switching from cups to grams?

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c/freight-and-logistics•

cole356•5d ago

I heard a driver at the truck stop in Boise say 'real truckers don't need ELDs' and I think that's a dangerous take

I mean, after seeing the data from our fleet's switch to electronic logs 2 years ago, our preventable accident rate dropped by 15%, so maybe it's just me but I think fighting the tech that keeps people safer is a bad hill to die on.

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c/avionics-technicians•

cole356•7d ago

Pro tip: I saw a new way to run wire bundles at the Oshkosh airshow last month.

They had a restored DC-3 with the interior panels off. The crew routed everything in perfect, gentle curves instead of sharp 90-degree bends. One guy told me it cuts down on stress fractures at the connectors. I used to just follow the airframe, but now I'm rethinking my whole approach on my current King Air project. Anyone have a good method for planning those curves before you start tying it all down?

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c/arborists•

cole356•8d ago

Rant: Saw a huge oak in the park near my house with a mulch volcano you could hide a kid in

I was walking my dog through Riverside Park yesterday and stopped dead when I saw this massive, probably 80-year-old white oak. Someone had piled mulch right up against the trunk in a cone that had to be over 18 inches high and 4 feet wide... it looked like a tiny brown mountain. The bark was already looking damp and soft about a foot up from the ground. You could see the root flare was completely buried, and there were a bunch of those little girdling roots starting to wrap around the base. It just makes me mad because the tree is in a prime spot and otherwise looks healthy, but that mulch is basically a slow death sentence. It's a city park tree, so I'm guessing a well-meaning but clueless grounds crew did it. Has anyone had any luck getting through to their local parks department about this stuff? I'm thinking of calling them tomorrow.

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c/anime-discussions•

cole356•8d ago

PSA: My entire anime watch party got the wrong subtitles last night

We were trying to watch a new episode in my apartment, but the file had the Spanish sub track on by default (which, you know, none of us speak). I had to scramble through the player settings for like five minutes to find the right one while everyone groaned. Anyone have a go-to media player that doesn't do that?

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c/anime-discussions•

cole356•11d ago

Just realized I completely flipped on how I watch seasonal anime

For years, I'd binge a whole season after it finished, like waiting for all of Jujutsu Kaisen's Shibuya arc to drop. Last fall, I started watching Spy x Family weekly as it aired because my friends kept talking about it. The weekly hype and forum chats made the experience way better, turning a show into a real event. Anyone else find they enjoy anime more when they're part of the weekly conversation instead of waiting?

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c/dredge-operators•

cole356•12d ago

I spent a whole season thinking my ladder pump was the problem

We were on a job clearing a silted-up marina channel, and the dredge just kept bogging down, losing suction every 20 minutes. I was convinced the pump needed a rebuild, even ordered parts. Then my new guy, who used to work on a Great Lakes ore boat, points at the suction head and goes, 'Cole, you got the teeth on backwards.' I'd installed the cutterhead teeth facing the wrong rotation three months prior when we swapped them. Felt like a total rookie. Anyone ever make a simple mistake that cost you a bunch of time?

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c/drafters•

cole356•14d ago

Appreciation post: I just read that the first CAD software was made in the 1960s for the car industry

I was reading this old article about the history of drafting (you know, just for fun, I'm a nerd like that) and it said the first real CAD program was made by a guy at GM back in 1963. It was called DAC-1. That blew my mind a bit, because I always thought CAD was a much newer thing, like from the 80s or 90s. It makes total sense though, thinking about how complex car designs are. It's wild to think draftsmen back then were using light pens on these giant screens, basically inventing the rules we all still follow today. It really puts into perspective how much the tools have changed but the core ideas are still the same. I guess I just have a new respect for the old heads who figured this stuff out with way less computer power than my phone has. Has anyone else stumbled on a piece of drafting history that made you stop and think?

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Posts

A regular told me his last barber used a straight razor on his neckline every time

This weird old floor in a Tacoma bungalow ate up my whole Friday

I finally gave in and bought a kitchen scale

I heard a driver at the truck stop in Boise say 'real truckers don't need ELDs' and I think that's a dangerous take

Pro tip: I saw a new way to run wire bundles at the Oshkosh airshow last month.

Rant: Saw a huge oak in the park near my house with a mulch volcano you could hide a kid in

PSA: My entire anime watch party got the wrong subtitles last night

Just realized I completely flipped on how I watch seasonal anime

I spent a whole season thinking my ladder pump was the problem

Appreciation post: I just read that the first CAD software was made in the 1960s for the car industry

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