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When shopping for jumper cables, don't cheap out. You should think about getting a set of 20', thicker cables. That way you can pull up behind someone and run the cable up to their engine. If you're on the road or highway, it's a lot safer than pulling up next to them.

Touch typing is so, so, so useful.

BASIC FIRST AID

Learn how to type without looking

Tie a knot

Agreed - among the many things I thank my time in JROTC back in high school for is the fact that we got these old 50s-esque hand-me-down dress uniforms. They were sturdy as hell, but coming apart at the seams. Our instructor essentially fitted us, gave them to us, and told us to make them presentable. We learned to…

You should be able to hand-sew anything - patch a hole in your clothes, darn your socks, hem a skirt, whatever.

And having your thumbs hooked through the wheel is a great way to break them when you unexpectedly find a kerb hiding in an unassuming snowdrift... Or at least sprain them pretty badly.

Build a Fire, Outside and In

Perform CPR

Do you have to buy a specific type of soapstone? Someone just told me to be wary because "it's an abestos holding mineral" or something like that and I just want to make sure I don't buy the one type of soapstone that will kill me.

If I hear "what if I put more RAM in there?" one more time...

At the start of my career I worked for a small dial-up ISP back in the early 2000s and had to go through an old man's email (with him on the phone) reading out headers like "How to make your penis gain 2 inches" and "Nude asian teens are dumb" so he could decide which to keep as his inbox was so bloated, and the…

While working at a school district. My favorite was being called in to repair a desktop the wouldn't turn on after 10 mins on the phone I decided to walk to the teacher's classroom. Once I had looked at the tower itself I discovered that they decided to decorate their computer with lots and lots of magnets that her…

Trying to clean a virus laden HDD while it was failing to retrieve irreplaceable photos.

dead link :(

I get a 404 on the link.

Documenting code goes well beyond comments.

It is a serious bummer that nothing of this sort exists in oregon. I'd be insterested in starting one up, but how would you gauge interest before investing in startup?