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tweet sponsored by the slowly unfolding plumbing situation in my apartment that has been stabilized and bounded away from emergency by maintenance but left me musing the unreasonable complexity of shower faucets
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Update: reality merely has too few instructions. The *right* details for each situation are too numerous to document. Senior maintenance guy came this morning and fixed plumbing issue in 5 minutes where assistant who tried yesterday struggled for 2 hours and still messed it up.
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Trick was, a replacement valve had to be inserted into pipe in a half-open position so it slides in smoothly. Junior guy tried to jam it in full-open and damaged it. Sort of detail you’d either guess by insight, figure out trial-and-error, or see done right in apprentice mode.
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