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.

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.

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

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

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

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 with your comment about probability, motivation, and skill.

>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.

I also don't think the categories are exclusive.

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.

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

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)

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

Maritime engineers and workers can get this job done.

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

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...