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by unxdfa 4y ago
Yes they exist because it’s the status quo of corporate structure. I haven’t seen any evidence that adding these staff to a problem actually have a measurable impact on productivity, ROI or decrease organisational risk.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
If they blasted middle management, management and process consultants, HR and ancillary corporate fluff staff into the sun we’d get 6 days of work done in 3 days and never have to suffer a Monday or Friday again. But that doesn’t create job
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Well there goes our code quality today.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Good. I hope that infernal turd is buried. It has been the number one cost centre for our front end stuff for the last decade and a half.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Been there and can sympathise. After a couple of weeks you literally wonder if this is your entire life now and if you want to live like it. The worst bit though was how I got the fissure. I had a nearly completely obstructed anus. The huma
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by unxdfa 4y ago
At least it's not YAML
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Well not really. If the average age is increasing it’s not heading in the direction of empty.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
The problem here started right at the hiring manager.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Give me 5 minutes with my abysmal Angular skills.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
This makes me so happy. Back when we had Jenkins slaves, one of our devops guys set a pipeline up that pip installed different versions over the top of system packages causing weird intermittent failures everywhere. Different pipelines woul
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by unxdfa 4y ago
That’s why you look at the average age of the items in the queue.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I am reminded of this suddenly https://youtu.be/6ofYNHRcspM
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Ah yeah that sort of stuff makes sense. Most of the high power stuff I did was with waveguides. Never needed it for VHF or lower. Skin effect makes sense. Hence why I use silver plated stuff in my VHF stuff.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
That's a fair evaluation. I mostly do RF stuff these days (SA + VNA) so the scope use cases are fairly basic. Mine's a 54642D so 500MHz + LA. I don't want to put down at least 50x what I paid for it ($100 broken - $10 fix) fo
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I think this could be better described as "queues should be heading in the direction of empty"
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Any tentacle monsters tend to just get in the way I have found.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Err don’t!
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Agree with this. LTspice will cost you a bit of sanity too but it’s worth it.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Stay the hell away from the USB-C ones. They are toys. And yes your friend is right: spend on a Metcal. The PS900 is decent if you don’t want to spend on a higher end iron.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I really dislike my Siglent. The measurement UI is horrible and the probes are iffy. I’m still mostly using a relatively ancient Agilent 546xx (can’t remember which model) and some decent Keysight probes and will probably sell the Siglent.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
All my stuff is in zip lock bags in storage boxes. Avoid drawers which take up a large volume as they’re mostly empty and tend to end up all over the floor when they inevitably fall over.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Don’t buy resistors on aliexpress. They tend to be steel legged and go rusty invisibly leading to all sorts of weird problems. Also some of the tend to be mislabelled. Spend on some decent ones. Tayda sell decent quality Royal Ohm ones for
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I’d you’re in Europe where it’s banned, eBay and hamfests.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I’ve built a couple of fairly hefty transmitters without silver solder. I don’t get your point. The main use cases are certain alloy joints. I’ve seen it quoted as having better mechanical strength but that’s not what’s solder is for!
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by unxdfa 4y ago
If they are big cans like the old Sprague ones, I use a crap desolder station and the metcal at the same time. I wouldn't hit them with wick. That's for small components.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Be careful with these. If you use one with a crap iron or overheat the joint it'll suck the traces off the board too. They should only be used with a decent temperature controlled iron.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Good advice. It's also cheaper than a Panavise :)
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by unxdfa 4y ago
100% agree with this. Metcal is life changing.
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by unxdfa 4y ago
Braid ALWAYS works if you know how to buy it, store it and use it properly. Buy it -> chemtronics soder-wick. Do not buy anything else. Store it -> store it in a zip lock bag not just chucked in your draw or crap box. Use it -> Use
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by unxdfa 4y ago
I wouldn't bother. I use silver solder for special occasions (Felder stuff) but it's too expensive to use all the time. You're probably fine with 60/40 loctite multicore. Just keep your parts, iron and boards clean and i

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