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A cool guide to soldering
  • 1 if all parts are hot, it shouldn't matter. As soon as you touch anything with the solder, it should distribute evenly around the pad and component.

    2 you just feed it into the joint

    1. If you are not quick enough, the flux in the solder evaporates and it becomes sticky. At this point, clean it and start fresh. Other possibility is that you didn't heat part and component enough for the solder to flow
  • New German research shows EVs break down at less than half the rate of combustion engine cars.
  • As far as I know he's talking about the old filament bulbs. And it's actually a myth or at least a bad example of planned obsolescence. It is possible to make a light bulb that lasts virtually forever, but they would be expensive. It was a compromise between lifetime and production costs.

    And where do you get those led bulbs? Mine break all the time...

  • With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant
  • It is a common fallacy for people to use "but it's possible" as an argument when it's about statistical events. A lot of things are possible, but few are probable.

    The fact that you need to flip a thousand coins to get one that does what you want should tell you that the analogy doesn't work. Repeat your experiment with two coins.

    Is it possible that both mirror the stock market? Sure. Is it PROBABLE? No way, Jose.

  • I made a plain text Linux cheat sheet as a reference and for beginners.
  • It is not as complicated as it looks! As a long time windows user I'm in the process of getting used to the command line and I love the simplicity and direct way of doing things. For some tasks and small programs it is amazing. Grep for example is something amazing that you couldn't do in a windows type UI.

    For other stuff like visualizing a directory tree you can always use a mouse interface. You're rarely forced to use the terminal.

  • Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer
  • While true, that is misleading. The nuclear waste produced will be radioactive for some decades, in contrast to the waste products from nuclear fission, which stay radioactive virtually forever. Most people think of fission waste if you don't specify and thus make fusion waste far scarier than it actually is.

  • Suspect in father’s decapitation ‘went off the rails’ in college, those who knew him say
  • The mean thing about psychosis is that you don't realize it. For him it was reality. Mental health education is key. If you notice someone in their early or mid twenties become reclusive and feel paranoid, notice a professional. As his friends should have done in college.

    Btw, under psychosis people are unfit to plead, if that's the right term. So it's difficult to call him responsible.

  • Alec Baldwin charged for shooting;
  • And someone's job is to control that this person does their job properly. Which is the someone's boss who delegated the task.

    In other words, an executive who assigns a task to someone is responsible to ensure it is done properly.

  • Alec Baldwin charged for shooting;
  • A gun's purpose is to kill people, a car's is not. The analogy is flawed.

    Still, assuming you have mandatory regular inspections of cars in the US, imagine you are an experienced mechanic by profession. Someone lends you a car and says it's safe but you know immediately this rustbucket hasn't been to an inspection in decades. By experience and papers. But you drive in a public space anyways and kill someone due to a fault that would have been found during an inspection. It is 100% your fault.

    As I understand it, following safety procedures would have prevented this death, in the same way nonfunctional brakes would certainly be found during service.

    On a side note, as an electrician who has to sign documents that electrical devices are safe to use, if one of those devices kills someone and I can prove that I followed protocol during testing, I am in the clear. Following rules makes the difference between a tragic accident and negligence.

  • Bolivian court rules that former president Morales cannot seek re-election
  • Fair enough, rules are rules. The smear campaign to paint him as a power hungry authoritarian is infuriating. This man is one of the greatest leaders our sorry species has come up with and is in general loved by the people, mostly the indigenous population of Bolivia, though.

    Read his speech to the UN and it should be obvious why he is often being targeted by international powers.

    https://climateandcapitalism.com/2007/10/03/evo-morales-capitalism-is-the-worst-enemy-of-humanity/

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