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I agree! I recall a time when I spent an hour in a home depot parking lot strapping down lumber to the roof of my car practicing the trucker's hitch.

https://www.animatedknots.com/truckers-hitch-knot

One of my favorites. You can really make things tight which is such an advantage when tying things down.

It's something out of nothing. It's the same rope with the same properties. You haven't added any extra materials. But now you have a strong loop.

I think it's a similar feeling to building programs. You combine small elements together in the right way and you get something more useful than the sum of its parts.

>> I can't really put my finger on it.

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Nuts. I mean knots.