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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by itronitron on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:44AM (#40561321)
To extend that further, most professional painters think of themselves as sanders.
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by lukas099 on Monday June 03, 2024 @07:17AM (#40561529)
Why?
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by throwup238 on Monday June 03, 2024 @07:59AM (#40561807)
It’s usually more than 80% of the work. Painting something is really fast with modern sprayers but sanding off the old layer is still a lot of elbow grease, even when you have sand blasters.
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by boznz on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @04:31PM (#40578642)
A Lot like development then, there is a lot of work before you write your first line of code, however like the original post you can do a simple sand down, no undercoat and have something that lasts a dozen years if you keep on top of it.
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