Some brands of tape fare better than others over the years. I've had 7 track tapes from the late 60s still be readable.

I really do think coding using AI tools is a bit faster, at least it seems that way to me. As most of the morning but lengthy work can be done faster by AI.

But I am also pretty sure it's VERY easy to rapidly incur technical debt, especially if you are telling AI to review its own work. Yeah it will do some stuff but who is to say post review fixes it's really better?

More than ever I think the right approach to coding with AI is to build up carefully crafted frameworks that are solid (maybe use AI to help but review and tests very carefully) then allow AI to build on top of solid fundamental structures that you know are solid, and do not let the AI modify those - maybe let it ask for feature requests.

Fire up simh (or your real PDP-11) and step back in time.

It's not cheap Chinese junk you asshole, https://www.mouser.com/Product...

So you're saying the lab was producing good data and research with DEI policies?

Well Trump did promise to release the Epstein files as part of his campaign https://www.foxla.com/video/15...

Quite a bit are illegal actually. https://www.justsecurity.org/1...

You must have come home from a long day and found DEI fucking your wife. The current administration is all DEI hires. Not a single one of them is qualified based solely on their merit.

If you watch Fox, then yes.

So you're saying the doings of Trump and Project 2025 is completely the fault of the people who did NOT get voted in?

Stopped reading there. Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you?

Electronics is my hobby and quite often I would buy things like bnc cables or lighted pushbutton switches direct from Aliexpress. The quality on that stuff is honestly fine. However things like opamps or power transistors are a different story. Nearly 100% of it is relabeled fake parts.

The story is likely AI slop.

I work for a small manufacturing company. We make some specialized data acquisition systems and accessories. Our prices fluctuate weekly now because you never what the tariff will be on a particular item. One of our products runs on off the shelf lithium battery packs, similar to the old removable laptop style. The chargers for those packs now have an extra $100 tariff added that we must pass along to the customer. I'm not sure how much more greatness we can take.

So the cheap junk will come from a different place. What was the point?