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A client in Tacoma pointed out my miter cuts were off by a hair on her crown molding job.
She said, 'The light catches that gap on the long wall.' I started checking every cut with a bright work light from a low angle before calling it done. Do you guys have a specific trick for spotting those tiny gaps before the finish goes on?
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skyler_baker2mo ago
Actually, that's a coping strategy, not a trick. The real trick is to cut them right so the light test doesn't find anything (which is way harder, I know).
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chen.jade2mo ago
Oh man, that light trick is so smart. It's like how you only see the dust on your TV screen when the sun hits it just right. Makes me wonder what other tiny flaws we're all missing because the conditions aren't perfect to spot them. What's the "sunlight angle" for mistakes in your own line of work?
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mark_nguyen952mo ago
I read about a study where 90% of software bugs only show up under weird, specific user conditions. Skyler Baker is right, the real goal is building stuff that doesn't fail those tests at all.
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