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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.

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 jobs or indicate growth to investors.

Shaking the wrong end of the stick as always.

Well there goes our code quality today.

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.

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 human body will clear that if you like it or not, with or without medical intervention and it will do damage on the way out. Ugh.

Eat more fibre and drink more water!

At least it's not YAML

Well not really. If the average age is increasing it’s not heading in the direction of empty.

The problem here started right at the hiring manager.

Give me 5 minutes with my abysmal Angular skills.

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 would be running in different requirements files. I revoked sudo privs immediately for Jenkins (I didn't add them in the first place) and reprovisioned the whole build cluster resulting in pipelines breaking consistently where they should have been breaking: trying to do stupid stuff.

Personally I only ever use the system python packages on Linux if I can get away with it. Saves a whole world of problems.

That’s why you look at the average age of the items in the queue.

I am reminded of this suddenly https://youtu.be/6ofYNHRcspM

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.

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) for a new scope. The Siglent fills the feature gap and but I don't like it.

I think this could be better described as "queues should be heading in the direction of empty"

Any tentacle monsters tend to just get in the way I have found.

Err don’t!

Agree with this. LTspice will cost you a bit of sanity too but it’s worth it.

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.

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.

The Rigol UI is painfully slow. I didn’t buy one because of that.

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.

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 not much money.

Better to just DIY an E6 kit on there.

I’d you’re in Europe where it’s banned, eBay and hamfests.

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!

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.

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.

Good advice. It's also cheaper than a Panavise :)

100% agree with this. Metcal is life changing.

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 an iron which can actually deliver energy quickly without overheating the workpiece (Metcal!), place the wick at least 1cm in from the end onto the joint and hit it hard from the other side in a iron, wick, joint sandwich until it stops creeping up the wick. Do not stop until it's done or it's game over for that joint.

99% of bad wick and soldering experiences are crap irons, crap solder and crap wick.

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 it's no harder.