There are solder practice kits you can get. They’re usually a PCB and a bunch of components to install, then once the whole thing is correctly assembled it should do some simple function. They’re usually pretty cheap so you shouldn’t have to worry about messing it up, and the kit should be trivial to replace in comparison to the part you actually want to work on.
Just so you know, the orange tape is called Kapton tape. It’s useful for higher temperature work (such as soldering) since it can continue to stick up to 400°C.
I have at least 4 coworkers who disprove this.
I work with several such people in my department. I prefer not to reveal much information about my work but I’ll just say it’s with electronics.
Three of them are retired and one of them works for us in his spare time when he’s not traveling across the country for his “main” job. The later one offered to do the work for free because all he really wanted out of the job was to learn how the work is done and how he can do the same work for his retired father.
Of the other three one recently had a second “retirement” because he no longer had the spare time and now cares for his wife full time. Another one recently had an argument with management because he wasn’t logging all of his hours on the job while working from home and would regularly do additional work that he wasn’t being paid for.
I’ve also had one prior side gig type of job where I know some people did it for fun while getting some cash on the side in the entertainment industry and another job with a similar situation in sports.
I’m not going to pretend much of this is very normal by current standards and I’m certain the majority of people involved were also motivated by having at least an additional source of income, but there absolutely are people who even within our current economic system go to work for the fun of it. But the only ones I’ve ever met who do it are people who no longer need to worry about making ends meet.
I don’t currently have the time to watch the full episode, but I skimmed through it a bit. I haven’t seen enough to see much about Myne’s animations other than that she might be acting stiff due to (spoilers) >!entering into noble society!< Aside from that I don’t know what you’re talking about with Ferdinand being apparently fat. He looks just as fit as most any of the other male characters appearing alongside him.
Which season? From what I’ve heard Seasons 3 and 4 are significantly higher quality than 1 and 2, but I haven’t seen them yet myself to vouch for that.
Out of the loop
Gen 2 doesn’t have running, but it did indeed have a bike. Goldenrod City (the city with the 3rd gym badge) has a bike shop off the beaten path where the owner lends you a bike to advertise for his shop then calls you after you ride it enough to say you can keep it. The shop is on the east side of the city behind the department store.
The original GBC didn’t have anything of a backlight. Although the earlier Gameboy Light was the first Nintendo handheld to have a backlight, the feature wasn’t standardized until the GBA SP.
In fact, yellow never exists during the entire process.
I feel like you could argue yellow does exist in HSV. I’m not a professional in programming, working with light, or using HSV so I may be wrong but my amateur understanding of HSV is that the hue strongly correlates with the wavelength of the light omitted (with the obvious exception of looping red back around into blue through wavelengths that can’t exist), the saturation strongly correlates with the purity of that wavelength compared to every other (uniform distribution across the spectrum means white, then only that one wavelength is the pure expression of that color), and value is the amplitude of the resulting wavelength(s).
In this framework you could set hue to be just yellow, make the saturation very pure (high saturation), then have whatever amplitude you need (whatever value). Of course most of the time in modern computing HSV values are going to be derived from and converted back to RGB values, but for a brief period of time between computations you could argue that the computer has an actual representation of “yellow” itself and not just its Red and Green components.
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” -V for Vendetta
I used to think about governments in terms of the things I had to do for them (pay taxes, jury duty, carry my license while driving) or else what they’d do to me (fines or jail, usually). This quote helped me understand that this transaction is not one-way and that if a government fails its people then the people should hold it accountable.
Whether that’s healthy for a given person, realistically possible, or if there’s enough people who’ve been wronged to hold it accountable are different questions, of course.
Man you’re making me want to replay New Vegas but I’m not sure I have that sort of time commitment right now. But it is so good tho…
In my opinion you really don’t have to think to do quite a bit of stuff and enjoy yourself in Factorio. I think if you want to think about what you’re doing you can figure out ratios, making nice blueprints, building circuits, and all sorts but I have a few friends who had hundreds of hours of fun in the game never once considering anything like “what would I need to get a full blue belt of green science?”
The anti-thinking approach would be “I need red science to get this tech, so I’ll set up machines for red science”, “my iron gears going into red science aren’t keeping up so I’ll build more iron gear assemblers”, “my copper going into red science isn’t keeping up so I’ll build more furnaces”, “I have more red science than my labs can use so I’ll build more labs”, etc.
Personally, I don’t mind seeing the exact production numbers and doing a little math to figure out exact numbers of assemblers necessary, but it’s just as valid to build more X assemblers until the X belt is full, then when X’s ingredients start to run out you can repeat that process for its ingredients.
I could have sworn it went on sale exactly once specifically to raise funds for something, but I can’t remember what. I assume for Ukraine, but I’m not seeing anything in their steamdb price change history, anything from their website, or any talk about a one time sale.
The only thing more frustrating to diagnose than a circuit that fails all the time is a circuit that fails some of the time. Trying to correct the issue becomes a lot harder if you don’t have a way to reliably reproduce the problem.
With that in mind I think most of the time if a manufacturer cheaped out on making a less reliable component then the engineer designing whatever circuit it was going to be in would probably rather find a more reliable chip, create a different, more reliable alternative to the problem, and/or try to omit that feature entirely. And I think if the manufacturer started cheaping out on those chips after the fact then it would be a stain on their reputation as suppliers of no longer reliable parts.
For every few cents the manufacturer might save on lowering the quality of an existing part they’re likely going to lose many more dollars on engineers no longer trusting that manufacturer to continue to provide parts they want to trust will be good when they’re producing their second 10,000 unit batch for the same circuit, or when that engineer is 5 projects down the line and needs that chip again.
Ah my bad, I guess it’s been longer than I realized since I’ve last seen the movie.
I’m amazed they haven’t done a remake to up the graphics and give it modern controls tbh
The remake released 15 years ago on the 3DS. In fact the remake is now older than the original was when the remake released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time_3D
They’re making a reference to Office Space.
Found the Welshman