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I have taken to looking for Copilot AI in GitHub responses before filing issues. If it’s there, I don’t file. Feeling a bit validated here:
https://hails.org/@hailey/114752144098708214
(limited alt to come, but if you want more ask OP…)

Hailey (@hailey@hails.org)
Attached: 2 images Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas. Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

Naughty bots get the hose

Interesting piece on the #Arctic #SeaIce and it's (improving) representation in global climate models by Gavin Schmidt over on @realclimate, I'm not entirely sure all of the improvement is for the right reasons, there are probably compensating biases, it would be interesting to see if the models get the regional signal correct in different parts of the Arctic, but overall I agree with this piece, there have been some big steps forward in global models, the regional level is often not very well represented though.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/predicted-arctic-sea-ice-trends-over-time/

Fenceline (or frontline) communities are residential areas that sit next to high polluting facilities that emit pollutants like noise, light, odours, chemicals, and even traffic.
Lynn Jacobs explains that less than a kilometer from her home and across from the KahnawŠ:ke Survival (High) School are waste management facilities, including one that recycles plastic battery casings.
“In the summer, we smell plastic burning odours because the process of the recycling is, it gets shredd…

Sacrifice Zones: Life along the fenceline between the land and industry
Lynn Jacobs opens a gate to the backyard of her small homestead, taking slow strides

A dynamical coherency gate for state recovery: Statistical requiem for the long arc of cislunar orbital mis-prediction
Binyamin Stivi, Vishnuu Mallik, Lamberto Dell'Elce, Aaron J. Rosengren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22748

A dynamical coherency gate for state recovery: Statistical requiem for the long arc of cislunar orbital mis-prediction
We present a statistically grounded methodology for recovering physically consistent initial conditions from historical two-line element sets (TLEs), enabling accurate long-arc trajectory reconstruction for distant and highly eccentric Earth satellites. The approach combines numerical averaging of osculating orbital elements with Gaussian-mixture-model (GMM) filtering with robust fallback strategies to isolate a dynamically coherent subset of mean elements at a common reference epoch. From this…

Design of a bioinspired robophysical antenna for insect-scale tactile perception and navigation
Parker McDonnell, Lingsheng Meng, Hari Krishna Hariprasad, Alexander Hedrick, Eduardo Miscles, Samuel Gilinsky, Jean-Michel Mongeau, Kaushik Jayaram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23719

Design of a bioinspired robophysical antenna for insect-scale tactile perception and navigation
The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) uses its soft antennae to guide decision making by extracting rich tactile information from tens of thousands of distributed mechanosensors. Although tactile sensors enable robust, autonomous perception and navigation in natural systems, replicating these capabilities in insect-scale robots remains challenging due to stringent size, weight, and power constraints that limit existing sensor technologies. To overcome these limitations, we introduce CI…

On The Road - To Xi’An 🏯
在路上 - 去西安 🏯
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Phone physics and the Gateway Arch: Fun with friends and physics at the AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis
David Marasco, Bree Barnett Dreyfuss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22746

Phone physics and the Gateway Arch: Fun with friends and physics at the AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis
As a famous landmark and feat of engineering, the Gateway Arch was a popular destination at the 2025 AAPT Winter Meeting in St. Louis. The visit to the observation deck of the Gateway Arch is unique, climbing the steps after exiting the small tram capsules and seeing a floor that continues to slope upward assures that you are in fact at the very top. Everyone in our group excitedly took pictures, pointing out local features like the Dred Scott Courthouse. There were many selfies at the pinnacle…

I was late to pick my daughter up from camp because #NYCParks closed a huge portion of Corona-Meadows Flushing Park. Apparently for some kind of music festival. There was, of course, no bike detour. The area has highways running through it, and the bridges over the highways are cordoned off. How do you get to