River Nelson (u/river_nelson85)

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I used to think running the cutter head at full tilt was the only way to clear a channel fast.

Watching a guy in Tampa work half my speed but move twice the material because he pulsed the hydraulics made me feel like a rookie. Anyone have a good rule of thumb for finding that sweet spot in different bottom types?

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c/estheticians•

river_nelson85•2mo ago

I was steaming faces wrong for years until a client in Tampa pointed it out

I always kept the steamer about 12 inches from the skin, thinking closer was too hot. This client, who used to work at a med spa, asked why I was so far back and said their old boss taught them 6 to 8 inches max for real pore opening. Tried it on my next facial and the difference in product absorption was huge. How close do you all keep your steamers?

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c/arborists•

river_nelson85•2mo ago

Just hit 500 trees planted in a single season and my back is screaming

Our crew in Bend finished a big city contract yesterday and the foreman showed me the count. I honestly thought we were maybe at 350, but the number was 512. That's a LOT of holes dug by hand in rocky soil. It matters because it proves you can hit crazy goals with a solid team and good planning, even when every day feels like a grind. Anyone else push past a physical limit they didn't think was possible this year?

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c/archaeology-discoveries•

river_nelson85•2mo ago

My cousin found a weird stone tool while digging a fence post in Vermont

He was putting in a new fence line on his property near Burlington last month and his shovel hit something solid. It turned out to be a smooth, palm-sized piece of slate with one edge clearly worked into a sharp bevel. He sent a photo to the state archaeology office, and they confirmed it's likely a pre-contact era scraping tool. Has anyone else had a random find like that turn out to be something legit?

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c/ai-innovations•

river_nelson85•2mo ago

My custom image generator script crashed after a 500 image batch last night.

I was running a local stable diffusion model to create some concept art for a project. After about 500 images, the whole thing just froze and the command line threw a memory error. I checked my task manager and saw the VRAM usage was maxed out on my GPU. I had to restart the process and add a line to clear the cache every 50 images, which fixed it. Has anyone else hit a wall with long generation jobs and found a better fix?

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c/adulting-hard•

river_nelson85•2mo ago

Showerthought: Adulting means spending weekends on paperwork

Recently, I spent my entire Saturday dealing with insurance forms. Every page had more questions I did not know how to answer. I had to call customer service twice and wait on hold. By Sunday night, I was tired and nothing fun got done. It is wild how much time we lose to this stuff. How do you balance needed tasks with actually living your life? I could use some tips.

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c/fermentation-station•

river_nelson85•2mo ago

That gentle fizz from my jar was the best lesson in waiting.

I used to check my ferment every day, but the sound told me when it was truly done.

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c/forbidden-conversations•

river_nelson85•2mo ago

Surgery talk over cake made the room go quiet

We were all eating dessert when a friend launched into the gritty details of his hospital procedure. The happy chatter stopped dead and people just looked at their forks. How do you politely steer a chat away from stuff like that?

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