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The guy in the most famous engineering video ever made had no idea what he was saying. None of those words are real, and they've been fooling people since 1944. His name is Mike Kraft. He had a tape recorder hidden in his pocket with a wire running up to his ear, and he just repeated whatever it told him with a totally straight face. Honestly, it's the most accurate vibe coding video ever made, and he shot it decades before anybody had heard the phrase. The script goes back way further than the video. In December 1944, a British engineering student named John Hellins Quick wrote a fake article for the Institution of Electrical Engineers' student journal. He gave his made-up machine hydrocoptic marzlevanes and an ambifacient lunar waneshaft, and assured everyone that side fumbling had been effectively prevented. That was three years before the transistor was even invented. Time magazine ran it in 1946, and some readers bought it. One wrote in asking what a dingle arm was, and the editors answered him with more made-up jargon. Another guy in Hoboken figured he'd be able to pick one up at a Manhattan department store any day now. Then in 1962, engineers at GE snuck a data sheet for it into the official General Electric Handbook, laid out exactly like the real products on the pages around it. Around 1977, a Detroit actor who made industrial training films, Bud Haggart, talked a GM crew into staying late after a real shoot so he could put it on camera. Kraft had worked with Haggart, and later did his own version for Rockwell Automation, standing in front of an Allen-Bradley motor control center. It went out on the company's end-of-year VHS tape and he figured that was the last anyone would see of it. Then somebody put it on eBaum's World, and it's been bouncing around the internet ever since. He's made basically nothing off it. He told Ampere News his fame is so low that "bugs can crawl under" it. His theory for why it never gets old is that people see themselves in it. Anybody who's really deep in a field sounds exactly like this to the person sitting across from them, and the video lets you hear it the way they do. Kraft didn't actually memorize the monologue until more than 30 years after he filmed it. He only did it because he was scared somebody at a conference would ask him to perform it without the earpiece. That's more effort than most of us will ever put into understanding the code we shipped last week.

The phone ban era is officially here. ​Kansas state law now requires all students to lock up phones, smartwatches, and earbuds during the entire school day. ​The kids will hate it, but teachers are cheering. ​Are you onboard with this, parents?

Good morning to everyone except the person holding up a 5-car line in the left lane for today's commute to work. ​Swallow the pride, flip the blinker, and slide to the right. Let the fast traffic through. It’s just how we do it in America. 😏