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0 pointsPragmaticPulp4y ago0 comments

> Trivial for someone in the know can mean (something like) "If you have a PhD and a decade of experience, it's obvious."

Construction workers don’t get PhDs and a decade of experience before they can build a safe structure.

It’s trivial because you can look up virtually any plans or tutorials and see the accepted ways of doing things. You can type it into Google and get instant results explaining why something is against code.

This person had to go out of their way to spend extra money to do it differently. It’s not even a good example of a pitfall, because everything in framing construction revolves around nails by default.

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DoreenMichele4y ago

I'm aware construction workers don't get PhDs.

Some people are exposed to certain things from early childhood and others aren't. Some people have a rich ecosystem of pertinent experiences and are surrounded by knowledgeable people and others don't have those assets.

People who have no friends or relatives who know anything about X real world physical skill and are googling up info online are often poorly positioned to judge the quality of the info in question.

To me, it seems to be a simple and obvious point. I don't know why it seems to be failing to click with you.

Ironically, that's perhaps an example of the kind of disconnect I am trying to describe, though that fact seems unlikely to help me make my case.

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