Actually I was talking to a guy who runs a carpet recycling facility near Dayton and he told me something wild. He said the backing material on most residential carpet is made with calcium carbonate, basically limestone. So when it sits in a landfill it doesn't just sit there forever - it actually reacts with rainwater and leaches out a bunch of calcium and other minerals into the groundwater. He showed me test results from a nearby well that had double the normal hardness levels. Nobody ever talks about the chemical leaching part of carpet waste, it's always just about the volume. The recycling facility he runs grinds the old carpet into pellets for auto parts and those rubberized gym floors you see in schools.

Did you ever try using a spray bottle of soapy water to find those tiny leaks? I spent two whole dives thinking I was just out of shape and breathing like a freight train before I realized my second stage was farting bubbles at me the whole time... felt like a real gear idiot when I finally found it with a q-tip and a drop of soap.

Tbh skip preheat on thin patches, just watch for chill cracks.

Winging it was my old strategy. Counting passes just made me mess up more because I'd lose track halfway through.

oh man i feel this in my soul. i started with python and my first project was a text adventure where you could go north or south and that was it. my friend started with javascript and within a week they had a website that made fart noises when you clicked a button. i was jealous honestly. but then i tried helping them debug a for loop and they looked at me like i was speaking ancient greek. so i think python wins for actually learning the concepts without the browser getting in the way, but js wins for keeping you from quitting on day three. depends if you're the type who needs to see something cool fast or you're okay with feeling like a wizard who only knows one spell for a while.