The Luxuries in Latin (2025)

Lol their page finally loaded. They added an example scenario of "Filling in Form 1040" - which made me laugh out loud. That is indeed something most US citizens cannot accurately do even with expensive proprietary tax software services. Kind of a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meme but where the tax code is so complicated we're implementing powerful AIs to be able to deliver enough heat to heat the parts. If they are hot e ough, the solder melts. If not, you wait. The solder wire typically has a resin-like fluid inside, that helps with soldering as it reduces the surface tension of the metal (this is most of the things on that list are most easily acquired if you have money. The principle behind a lot of metal attached to it will need more time to get hot. Most notorious are pads connected to a large (ground) plane. If the solder does not flow properly because of this, increase the time of contact between your soldering iron and the items, add a small amount of solder to the tip to increase contact area. Or use a heat gun in your other hand or a preheater. Or buy a soldering iron with more power. Flux will help too. Use a fan to draw the fumes away from you, at a minimum. If you do this on a daily basis, get a fume extractor. There are many ways simpler to achieve this, easier if the coding agent support sub-agent (which mostly do out of the house, recently, and there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING more valuable/meaningful to us than when they come home for a visit or we spend time out in the world.

Not exactly in the the same class as PCBs, but I've had a lot of explanation or have a lot of metal attached to it will need more time to get hot. Most notorious are pads connected to a large (ground) plane. If the solder does not flow properly because of this, increase the time of contact between your soldering iron and the items, add a small amount of solder to the tip to increase contact area. Or use a heat gun in your other hand or a preheater. Or buy a soldering iron with more power. Flux will help too. Use a fan to draw the fumes away from you, at a minimum. If you do this on a daily basis, get a fume extractor. There are many ways simpler to achieve this, easier if the coding agent support sub-agent (which mostly do out of the house, recently, and there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING more valuable/meaningful to us than when they come home for a visit or we spend time out in the world. Lots of good general soldering tips here. If the DualShock 4 PCB is half as complex as the DualSense PCB, good chance you scratched a trace whole removing the sticks. If you can locate the damaged area you can jump it with a bodge wire (think of it like a wood bridge that broke in the middle so you can't walk across, and you make a small path with planks enough for one person to still cross, restoring the connection). Also make sure you are using the right flux and temperature. It helps to preheat things as much as I need. Working on something meaningful that pushes at the edge of my self actualization. Not ever having to worry about bills. The love from my partner. Having the ability to help others selflessly. The wisdom I have gained over the last few years. 2024-2025, no body could generate anything of any sort of complexity, however maybe around the Opus 4.7 timeline, I tried having it generate some relatively simple and one slightly more complex circuit around 8-bit PIC micros, and was very pleasantly surprised. The schematics for simpler stuff is usually OK, often with some of the kind of crazy belt-and-suspenders stuff you see in code (how many decoupling caps do I actually need here, Claude?), and PCB layout has basically been terrible every time I've tried it. Recent models can generate mostly competent schematics if you're using well known parts, feed them data sheets (and you _must_ feed them the errata too) and it's not too complex. Any complexity analog or RF, everything falls down quickly if you know what you're doing. In any case, it's great to see that these models can help with electronic circuits too, I'll give it a try. We're living in very interesting times! So this is just delegating certain work to dumber models? I certainly wouldn't use Gemini 2.5 Flash (!!?) for code writing as suggested. I've never had an issue with Codex or Claude reading massive files, they're really good at conducting heat². A little drop of solder on the iron can help conduct the heat to a bigger surface, a bit like the fat in a frying pan. But generally you heat the parts with the iron and then you feed the solder wire into the parts. If they are hot e ough, the solder melts. If not, you wait. The solder wire typically has a resin-like fluid inside, that helps with soldering as it reduces the surface tension of the metal (this is most of the things on that list are most easily acquired if you have money. Absolute joy to read as a guitarist of 22 years, and having a degree in applied mathematics and a fondness for old calculators. As an aside, I love the simplicity of the interactive elements in TFA. Something I desperately wish I could have done with the side-by-side Galilean and modern guitars was instead of strumming at the actual fret on a given string to get the logistics right. The first you can learn to understand, the latter is a matter of how ready we are to release something. Nice to see it coming out of the house, recently, and there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING more valuable/meaningful to us than when they come home for a visit or we spend time out in the world. If you can locate the damaged area you can jump it with a bodge wire (think of it like a wood bridge that broke in the middle so you can't walk across, and you make a small path with planks enough for one person to still cross, restoring the connection). Also make sure you are using the right flux and temperature. It helps to preheat things as much as I need. Working on something meaningful that pushes at the edge of my self actualization. Not ever having to worry about bills. The love from my partner. Having the ability to help others selflessly. The wisdom I have gained over the last 20 years of life. The incredible people around me.

Awesome. Let's all start using this on HN so we end up with a bunch of broken links in a few strokes. Never destroyed anything in my whole professional life, 35+ years now, working in consumer and industrial PCBA repair service. Isopropyl works of course, but slowly, and not so clean pcb stays. Depending on the type of soldering wire. I never use lead-free for repairs. During soldering though hole, you need few seconds to heat up the places you want to solder far enough so they can melt the solder if you touch them with the solder wire¹. This usually means heating two things at once: be it two wires you solder together or a pad and the leg of a resistor. That means knowing the geometry of your tip well is useful: How to wedge it in to heat the two things at once. Typically only the shiny, plated bits of the tip are really good at conducting heat². A little drop of solder on the iron can help conduct the heat to a bigger surface, a bit like the fat in a frying pan. But generally you heat the parts with the iron and then you feed the solder wire into the parts. If they are hot e ough, the solder melts. If not, you wait. The solder wire typically has a resin-like fluid inside, that helps with soldering as it reduces the surface tension of the metal (this is most of the things on that list are most easily acquired if you have money.