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You might want to have a look at https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/AnalogTapeModel

Available as a (free) DSP: https://chowdsp.com/products.html#tape

Why not write him and ask? He stopped teaching because of a drop in demand. He clearly loves teaching. If you have a team to educate and a budget to pay him for his time and expertise, he might be willing to run a class for your team.

In practice, one would use energy recovery ventilation to exchange air with outside rather than a CO2 scrubber (not clear if you actually meant a scrubber).

The place to look is existing codes for ventilation. Exempli gratia: https://dos.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/09/2020-mcnys... (see PDF page 46). Regulations to enforce outside air being brought into human spaces already exist.

I have been in some office buildings in United States which had CO2 monitors in each meeting room, and the ventilation would engage to control CO2 below a set level. We would entertain ourselves by exhausting our lungs onto the sensors to trigger the ventilation system.

>Can't have an antenna of any form in it.

All wires are antennas...

This is the most important point: it seems like AI tool use undermines one's ability to use the AI tool.

Once upon a time. The modern cheating student does the following:

- Quick cell phone photograph of the page, phone placed in lap

- OCR + AI = answer

- Glance down, copy

- Repeat

For a more surreptitious variant, use the front-facing camera against the bottom of the page, then flip the page. Cell phone can remain in lap.

The technical ability for the student to cheat in the present day is unprecedented.

For exams in most subjects, the cellular phone is held in the lap. The student needs only briefly expose the exam page to the camera of the phone: immediate photograph of the page, ingestion of the page by an artificial intelligence, and then: the student flips the page to view the side exposed to the camera, and glances down to see the answer on the telephone.

This is an advertisement: the author of the blog post is selling his own translations of Kiselev's Textbooks.

Reminder that no end-to-end encryption arrangement can do anything before encryption, or after decryption, at the endpoints.

Living now in Germany :)

I ring a very nice bell and can "mute" the bell (touching it with my hand to stop the ring just after thumbing the striker), so when ringing for information rather than hazard, it's a short quick ring, rather than a long loud ring.

Signs here alert cyclists to warn when passing, so certainly this etiquette is considered normal, but also I imagine it is not universal to all regions.

Bicycle bells are mostly for warning pedestrians when approaching from behind and passing on shared-use trails. I ride on shared infrastructure and cannot afford to build new infrastructure when my town will not. Not warning a pedestrian when approaching from behind introduces the possibility of collision if the pedestrian makes a sudden change in his walking course. I typically use this etiquette:

Passing a single pedestrian or runner on a quiet day: no bell, coasting for a short bit with a loud free hub (the rotating ratchet element on the rear wheel) alerts the pedestrian to my presence.

Passing a runner: normal ring from a distance so they have knowledge that the bicycle is passing

Passing a cyclist: one loud ring from a distance

Passing a pedestrian walking a dog: two loud rings, one far, one close, so that the pedestrian is aware of the approaching bicycle and he can prevent his dog from running at me/colliding. Many dogs do seem to enjoy a bicycle chase.

Antisocial pedestrians (i.e., walking side-by-side such as to be blocking the path in both directions, preventing the bicyclist from passing): several loud rings of the bell until the antisocial activity has abated. Announcements in my local tongue (not English) that they impede the flow of traffic.

Another very fine online reference for someone new to C is Beej's Guide to C Programming: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/

(Here is a reference to K&R, the standard first reference to C, because I am obligated to make such a reference.)

Understanding that it's not a perfect metaphor... plenty of vim users seem happy to switch to helix.

Took me about two weeks and I'm not looking back :)

A source control tool such as git or mercurial will solve this. Any collaborator who uses vi should have no issues with a git/hg workflow for managing changes.

I am not convinced of the wonderfulness, because the study implies that AI does not improve task completion time but does reduce programmer's comprehension when using a new library.

TLDR from the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245)

>We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.

It is indeed the explanation: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/pull/1014

>this error does make me pause to wonder how much of the rest of the paper used AI assistance

And this is what's operative here. The error spotted, the entire class of error spotted, is easily checked/verified by a non-domain expert. These are the errors we can confirm readily, with obvious and unmistakable signature of hallucination.

If these are the only errors, we are not troubled. However: we do not know if these are the only errors, they are merely a signature that the paper was submitted without being thoroughly checked for hallucinations. They are a signature that some LLM was used to generate parts of the paper and the responsible authors used this LLM without care.

Checking the rest of the paper requires domain expertise, perhaps requires an attempt at reproducing the authors' results. That the rest of the paper is now in doubt, and that this problem is so widespread, threatens the validity of the fundamental activity these papers represent: research.

Agree about the possibility of infra nightmare, especially in the "SVN era" -- but in 2026, it's pretty straightforward to run a gitlab instance (takes about an hour to set up, most of which is DNS and TLS stuff, ime) for a course and set up actions, or use other submission infra like CMU autolab. I do this.

Agree with your comment about probability, motivation, and skill.

This is a very important point. Jolla's pre-order site (https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder) states:

>User configurable physical Privacy Switch - turn off your microphone, bluetooth, Android apps, or whatever you wish

Unless that user configuration is via internal jumper or DIP switch, then this cannot be a hardware privacy switch.

Agreed: information-dense isn't bad at all. It's a reason for peer review, though: people other than peers in the field have a much harder time reviewing an article for legitimacy, because they lack the context.

I also don't think the categories are exclusive.

Yes, there are often strong reasons to have peers as gatekeepers. Scientific writing is extremely information-dense. Consider a niche technical task that you work on -- now consider summarizing a day's worth of work in one or two sentences, designed to be read by someone else with similar expertise. In most scientific fields, the niches are pretty small, The context necessary to parse that dense scientific writing into a meaningful picture of the research methods is often years/decades of work in the field. Only peers are going to have that context.

There are also strong reasons why the peers-as-gatekeepers model is detrimental to the pursuit of knowledge, such as researchers forming semi-closed communities that bestow local political power on senior people in the field, creating social barriers to entry or critique. This is especially pernicious given the financial incentives (competition for a limited pool of grant money; award of grant money based on publication output) that researchers are exposed to.

So few of us use physical tapes these days, but the "tape archive" (tar) remains ubiquitous.

Not entirely unserious: "awk" is a good name because it is three characters to type "rg" is better than "grep" because it is two fewer characters type

I don't own any iPhone.

Yes, I actually do use my kerosene lamp when I go into my (shed) at night.

It also helps heat the shed in the winter, which is when it's mostly likely to be dark when I want to do some work in my shed.

Here's a nice resource where you can read more about kerosene lamps! https://www.sevarg.net/2022/10/09/keropunk-part-1-kerosene-l... (not my website, but great for learning about kerosene lamps)

Yes, this is true. Realistically, a "charging station" for a ship this size would have a large pierside structure to transform/regulate, and a very large cable array that would probably be moved to the ship via a crane. The connectors would almost certainly require manual fitup and the operation would require several personnel.

(Similarly, refueling a ship is substantially more complicated than refueling an automobile.)

Maritime engineers and workers can get this job done.

It is possible to keylog via audio.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10190721

This article appears to have some political bent to it based on comments about immigration.

I was made curious about the possibility of an "intentional backdoor" in ELD (Electronic Logging Devices) that allowed truckers to misreport their hours.

I was not able to find results to directly confirm or deny that this was true, but it certainly seems like these recently-mandated ELDs come with security concerns: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/vehiclesec...

There's a window-hole in what should be an exterior apartment wall facing a hallway. Right side of the screen.

PRC distinguishes from ROC ("Mainland China" vs "Taiwan") just as DPRK and ROK distinguish the two governments on the Korean peninsula.

See also: "Germany" 1949-1990