My fixation this morning is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Copper_complex
Apparently there were some people making tools out of copper around the Great Lakes as far back as the Archaic Period?? (8000-1000 BC)
I have to find a good source to read about this, because I’ve never heard about it before, and that’s insane.
This is very true for electronics. Days of reading garbage ai-written websites, 5-times regurgitated information and scientific papers that might solve your problem but are pages of complex equations (spoiler: every time I’ve put the effort into decoding such a paper I’ve found it to be useless, often due to the author misunderstanding the problem they describe in their intro or bad assumptions). Finally you strike upon a badly scanned copy of a document from the 80’s from a company that doesn’t exist any more describing exactly what your problem is and how to solve it in a simple manner.
Sometimes I wish I was insane enough to “do my own research” on certain topics, but that would mean doing enough work for a fucking masters’ degree most of the time
