Adrian Cochrane @alcinnz@floss.social

We're not sure if what a person's opinion as to how the control toolbar should look like will be considered as a hot take, so I decided to post a screenshot here.

Digital tech was so much more exciting and fun when it was a nice-to-have that we tinkered with in our spare time, not a byzantine mess of constantly changing infrastructure that we depend on for dozens of essential daily functions.

I remember about 20 years ago arguing that because means determine ends rather than being justified by them, then authoritarians must end up undermining their longer term goals if they organize using decentralized means. In hindsight, that was naive.

I was reading #haskell docs and I thought this line was funny because it really encapsulates most Haskell docs:

"Since Void values logically don't exist, this witnesses the logical reasoning tool of "ex falso quodlibet". "

@hyperrealgopher Yeah. There's definitely a breed of bad documentation particular to Haskell (and maybe Scala, although it should be more rare).

It's almost like c/c++ "examples" showing off their mastery of cmake idiosyncrasies instead of a task at hand.

Some people also recommended raising the temp, but I only have a fixed 40W iron. I considered using the huge ~1/4" tip but I'm clumsy enough with the medium one. Maybe I'll try that next time.

The tip I used was also very old & a little rusty, so I did a VERY light very fine (1000 or 2000?) grit sanding - only 1 or 2 very light strokes, because I know sanding an iron tip can easily destroy the finish/coating and render it useless.

I think I need some flux. I wound up using some thicker flux core solder (and a lot of it) to clean the tip, and after a while, it actually looks pretty decent :)

So far so good... I think this is my nicest solder job ever, at least as far as not melting the wire insulation.

I read a bit before starting, and a few things that helped are:
- larger iron tip (maybe like a 3mm pencil tip up from maybe 2mm?) for more heat mass/minimizing heat loss on contact
- more frequent cleaning & tinning the tip
- minimizing solder blobs on the tip
- trying to be REALLY fast on & off the wire/pad
- not too much solder on the wire
- touch the solder to the wire, not the iron

Almost done... hopefully it stays this clean.

@alcinnz @dredmorbius 3blue1brown has a good video on Hamming codes in particular which provides a good base for learning about more complex error detecting/correcting codes: https://invidious.silkky.cloud/watch?v=X8jsijhllIA & https://invidious.silkky.cloud/watch?v=b3NxrZOu_CE