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European Union recommended emergency number is "112". Because you can morse it with the hook or even by short-circuitin the wires. This is also why the pulse-dialing receiver is operational in most EU countries.
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It goes opensource in my book maybe you will create an opensource alternative for the hardware. This sort of gatekeeping is maybe the reason why hobbyists avoid HN.
Huh? I didn't say that wasn't a cool project. On the contrary, I think this is a great project even if it was all closed source. Maybe I should have clarified that I just meant to highlight the fact it's almost impossible to understand what many of the devices around us are doing because of the dependency on fundamental building blocks which are closed source and have no open source alternatives. I'm sorry if my comm…
I didn’t like the tone, hence the comment.
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In the good old days, they looked at 111 at an emergency number but it was rejected because it was too easy for the digit 1 to be tapped out by in high winds by wires rubbing together. That's why the UK went with 999 as something memorable, but slow to dial.
AFAIK they changed it to 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3. Sorry. Someone had to.
* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/truths-about-telephone-numbers.html#Eme...
It's cool project!
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For someone not familiar with morse or pulse dialing, how does one do that?
Tangent: many old Western Electric touch tone phones have a switch between "pulse" and "dial" for backwards compatibility.
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It's almost as if Europe is not a country. Just like the US, every country in has its own emergency numbers that you should probably know if you're in that country, but for Europe as a whole, 112 is the universal emergency number. And while 911 might be known to many outside the US, as a number that requires actually navigating the dialing pad, it's not all that great. The UK's 999 or Europe's 112 are far better at b…
911 is faster to dial, but 999 is easier to find in darkness /smoke
European Union recommended emergency number is "112". Because you can morse it with the hook or even by short-circuitin the wires. This is also why the pulse-dialing receiver is operational in most EU countries.
We're in NA so it was a huge mystery as to why this was happening just with their extension, took a while before we realized what was going on.
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I grew up in North America (where 911 is the emergency number), so when I moved to Germany and wanted to remember 112, I noticed that it spells out: 1 + 1 = 2
That would foil me if it was my only memory device. A+B=C is true of ~55 (napkin math) different 3-digit numbers. Plus another 40-ish for A×B=C and 50-ish for A-B=C...