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Serious reply:
Get the smallest lightest soldering pencil you can find, that you can comfortably hold in a pencil grip (not a saucepan grip). You should be able to steady it all on the heel of your hand or pinkie edge.
Some of the butane gas ones are excellent, once you get the hang of temperature control.
Cheers from an old hardware guy,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That's not all your fault: modern (lead free) solder needs a higher temperature, and doesn't "flow" as well as the older (leaded) stuff did. And the higher temp means you have to work faster, or you can damage diodes like LEDs and so forth - they don't like to exceed 350C, and lead solder needs >420C to flow at all well. (Leaded was >360C so you had more time.)
It's even worse if you are trying to solder banks with wire, as you haven't got the PCB to act as a heatsink.
I'm much worse at lead free soldering than I was a leaded, but I switched in 2001 in anticipation of the 2006 EU legislation. New solder, solder pot, irons, SMT irons, staff retraining, ... it was an expensive business (we had to keep leaded kit as well for repair work, you can't "touch up" leaded electronics with an unleaded tip).
It you are tinning wires before you start soldering everything on, then I'd really recommend a solder pot - they aren't expensive (but are seriously dangerous) and they tin better and quicker than hand work.
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Why are solder pots dangerous ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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About the size of a coffee mug, filled with liquid metal at 400C ... I'd suggest some care and attention to detail is needed ... 
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Point taken
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And I thought the problem with IoT was that the 'S' stands for security.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Did u try with butterflies?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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many analytical persons are not good at handling real things. it was said that some physics labs will "forbit" certain theoretician entering the lab because equipments would magically be broken after they left 
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Agreed.
After hours spent dealing with power supplies and address line pins burned out from previous semesters, software looked a lot brighter than hardware.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I am terrible at soldering
I'm worse. Several years ago, I had needed a single solder for a home project. I went to the tech area and a tech volunteered to do it. I wanted to frame his work when he was done (and he did it so fast, we may have gone back in time.)
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it super fun, but your right when it comes time to test and something just isn't working correctly and after hours of reviewing code, you look back at the board to find a cold solder point that sort of works sometimes.
it's even worse when making your own PCB's and pulling your hair out to find a little bit of tracing bridging two circuits that you didn't catch during board cleanup.
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When you suppose, you make a supposition.
When you hypothesize, you make a hypothesis.
When you theorize, you make a theory.
But what do you get when you surmise?
How does one make a conjecture?
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Surmise and conjecture can both be used as nouns or verbs.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: But what do you get when you surmise?
You get a surmisal.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: How does one make a conjecture?
You get a conjective.
Those are the noun versions.
Spread them around on the Internet far and wide and they'll get included in the OED (eventually).
I mean a few years ago canceled was speeled with one l and now they do it with two cancelled.
Also, the dictionary finally gave up on irregardless and just made it mean the same thing as regardless.
Don't even start on flammable and inflammable.
Also people send me email and say, "please see the below chart". Which we all know is wrong.
They should be saying "please see the chart below".
English is quite pliable. Just keep pressing on it and it'll bend to your ways.
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Don't you just love it when non-scientific sunshines write about highly technical issues? According to this article the speed of light is 186,000 MPH.  NO! Sunshine - it's about 186,000 miles per SECOND! More accurately it is 670,616,629 MPH!
Physicists Break the Speed of Light Using Plasma in New Experiment[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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It's msn.com. What do you expect, intelligence?
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Since MSN almost certainly chooses news articles to re-publish using an AI, it is proof that AIs can be Artificially Dumb too.
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So, what is the speed of dark?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It is well known that dark is faster than light.
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186,000 miles per hour is the speed of light in a Telstra fibre ... 
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Cp-Coder wrote: Don't you just love it when non-scientific sunshines write about highly technical issues?
Getting the speed of light right isn't particularly technical, more of a fact you can google in about two seconds per hour (or about 9.46 trillionth(!) of a light-year) 
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Sander Rossel wrote: in about two seconds per hour (or about 9.46 trillionth(!) of a light-year)
Obligatory xkcd: Dimensional Analysis
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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