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Seamless integration with fax-based workflows!

Former 2:5034/16 here. I was born too late and missed most of the fun, but still managed to catch the trailing end of fidonet in the late 2000s. Pretty much everything was over IP …

Just curious, what come first and second in this use of the phrase applied to computer security? I came to know the expression from fire circus performance and adjacent circles, wh…

Nitpicking, IBM did non develop _the_ Apollo Guidance Computer (the one in the spacecraft with people), it was Raytheon. They did, however, developed the Launch Vehicle Digital Com…

Some pocket calculators from not too long ago supported this unit for some reason, along with radians and degrees. That's the third option on "DRG" button.

"You are so poor that when AWS goes down, you still can get into your house" -- seen somewhere

For a short while, I worked at one of Samsung subsidiaries on their TV firmware, mostly fixing Linux kernel bugs introduced by the product teams cannibalizing upstream features to …

"Letting go" belongs in the same HR phrasebook. They didn't ask permission to quit and the company were so generous to let them, the initiative was from the other side.

Not sure if you're referring to DeviantOllam or someone else, but here is his awesome talk on safes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_Jv7vuiqg He is a great source of knowledge o…

Here in Finland mechanical locks with electronic keying are pretty common in some places. Some of them like iLOQ or Abloy eCLIQ are actually pretty clever: electrical bits of the l…

If you enjoy good old grumpy bitterness like this article, you might also enjoy revisiting the classics: - https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ - http://n-gate.com/

> Almost nobody in the space produces anything professional and everything uses Yocto even for two person projects where Multistrap would be more productive. While I agree with you…

Interestingly, ISO standard documents are sold for a non-insignificant price and DRMed, while people writing them are volunteers and/or paid by their employers to participate in st…

I haven't heard about Optane before, but the concept of persistent memory reminds me of PhantomOS[0], which is based around the idea that from the app perspective everything is alr…

And part of the reason for that is compatibility with existing light fixtures using legacy sockets designed 150 years ago at the dawn of electrification for incandescent bulbs, whe…

Back in 2018 I've been involved in a product development based on TX2. I had to untangle the entire nasty mess of Bash and Python spaghetti that is JetPack SDK to get everything se…

I've worked on a weather radar system with specs suspiciously similar to those you are describing. 250kW is a pulse power for a C-band stationary radar system, with a typical pulse…

I'm surprised that there are no mentions of a great hacker-friendly plain-text accounting software called `ledger` https://ledger-cli.org/ in this thread. It has amazing documentat…

Here in Finland one retail chain (of the whole multitude of two that operate nationwide) is experimenting with scan-as-you-go approach in a few of their largest stores, and it's aw…

I'm in Europe and here it would be "98 recommended, 95 allowed with possible degradation in performance", as it's the case for my 2006 car. More modern small volume turbocharged en…