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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 expert…

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 ex…

>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 Fo…

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 briefl…

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 informatio…

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 infra…

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,…

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 significan…

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 spotte…

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, mos…

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 yo…

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,…

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 conside…

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…

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 …