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by gw99 4y ago
Shitty solder + flux is wrong. Simple. That is part of production engineering which is mostly about making sure that your product doesn't come back again because it's broken.
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by gw99 4y ago
Yes it’s additional flux that you don’t need.
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by gw99 4y ago
Kimwipes soaked in isopropyl pushed around with some guaranteed 100% nylon brushes (usually the black ESD brushes are fine for this). Toothbrushes bristles may melt. Not all of them are nylon and if they aren’t they will go sticky and this
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by gw99 4y ago
This. I encountered hell the other day. I saw a corporate Citrix deployment that had 45 users running three electron apps on an underprovisioned server with the CPU, disk and memory rammed at 100% lagging out. That’s 135 separate browser st
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by gw99 4y ago
Oh look they turned Chromium into IE6. Forced ads, difficult to eviscerate search engines, proprietary extensions, dubious security posture! Oh goody!
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by gw99 4y ago
Correct. Once you go Metcal you don’t go back. When I got divorced the first thing I put on the “mine” list was my Metcal :) You can solder on 0805 parts and switch to soldering bolts onto nuts without changing the tip or any settings.
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by gw99 4y ago
Actually this crap will probably be bodged into a rats nest nightmare project if it’s an instructables user. Anyone who has debugged one of them knows to do things properly or suffer the wrath of intermittent problems.
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by gw99 4y ago
Oh please not the flux over everything argument. This is completely wrong. Buy a decent iron (metcal - get a second hand one off eBay) and some decent solder (felder 62/36/2) and you don’t need it. Also don’t use a toothbrush with
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by gw99 4y ago
You should even really do that. There are loads of nice solder in crimp terminations now that you can use for wires. Or wire to board connectors. Just stay away from any Molex crap. Tends to charcoal itself.
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by gw99 4y ago
There’s some terrible advice in there which is merely cargo cult thinking. The whole thing needs garbage collecting. The final straw was when I saw someone using a wire brush on a Metcal tip after reading one of these mil spec guides. I was
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by gw99 4y ago
I did several years in production engineering. We never used flux. Not once. It’s a crutch for people who don’t know how to solder. What we did was use solder that wasn’t shitty. Big fan of felder 62/36/2 but it ain’t cheap. We al
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by gw99 4y ago
Good advice. It’s worth expanding on my comment now I have a few minutes. You can terminate solid core like this if it has some strain relief but not stranded!. My favoured construction method is to take a Hammond box lid and screw a piece
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by gw99 4y ago
You shouldn't really lap solder wires to boards. They tend to pull the pads off the boards or crack. Better to use wire to board connectors or solder terminals.
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by gw99 4y ago
I'm not so sure. All you have is another layer of abstraction between you and the problem that you are facing. And that level of abstraction may violate your SLAs unless you pitch $15k for the enterprise support option. And that may no
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by gw99 4y ago
The current 2022 SE is the same size and form factor.
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by gw99 4y ago
Was 2019 so I expect so unless they replaced them since.
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by gw99 4y ago
I’m a regular train traveller in the UK. It’s a shit show especially for us hikers. Trying to navigate the mess that is different operators and ticket splits to not get utterly shafted is a nightmare. Then half the trains go missing or are
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by gw99 4y ago
The Caledonian sleeper is hell on earth. I did it once. The only worse experience I had was a rotten old YHA hostel in the 90s where I stayed in a bunk room with three people with bowel disorders. And it wasn’t much worse.
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by gw99 4y ago
That was 1/3 of the problem domain of scheduling things. The other 2/3 was made considerably more difficult by it.
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by gw99 4y ago
I wrote an RFC5545 parser and event generator once. No thanks.
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by gw99 4y ago
Also not as flammable as OVH ones.
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by gw99 4y ago
One of my hobbies is outdoor photography. I don’t mind people taking actual photos of the outside. The objection is having 75% of the frame taken up by someone repetitively taking photos of the same pose (the good side of their face) while
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by gw99 4y ago
That’s a fair assessment of the situation.
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by gw99 4y ago
They beyond meat McPlant is a hell of a lot healthier than a Big Mac or a quarter pounder with cheese here in the UK. I’m not a vegetarian as such but the McPlant burgers are rather better tasting as well.
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by gw99 4y ago
Sort of. I encounter many miserable looking poorly equipped people constantly asking me to take selfies of them posing with a fake smile. I was stopped 7 times on a 50km hike recently. People want to be seen to do it. They don’t appear to b
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by gw99 4y ago
I have learned that someone who excessively stands between an interesting subject and a camera rather than stands behind the camera should not be a part of my life. This includes my ex wife. Instagram is also full of that. One of the cesspo
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by gw99 4y ago
Working on something at the moment more as an experiment that might turn into a product. Stack is Go + SQLite + nginx + htmx. I am now working on a simple orchestrator in Go that manages hundreds to thousands of these small silos across mul
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by gw99 4y ago
At least it's not Gnome "Let's rewrite again what we didn't get around to finishing and fixing 2 years ago"
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by gw99 4y ago
No comment :)
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by gw99 4y ago
Watch that. Doesn't always work. Not everyone you will work with loves what you love or gives as much of a shit about it as you do. And it's painful watching them fuck it up day after day after day. Eventually you end up disliking

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