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I think I would have instead changed the name to `marty`, who, in time, learned to think fourth-dimensionally.

I like the ideas of this article but would not use SPARC as a main badguy in my examples. A naive and probably popular takeaway would be, "Thank goodness I am not writing for SPARC and don't need to worry about these SPARC architectural concerns!"

I went through elementary and middle school using MECC software on Apple II, and of course had no idea at the time what a treasure it was. My generation was at the beginning of the computer-education revolution; we had "gamified" learning before that was ever a thing.

An Apple II on a wheeled desk-cart was always popular in elementary school.

Truly, the SE was a great phone. It was not really "rolled in" to future phone models; it just ended.

Tangentially related, if anyone has Sun nostalgia but only a bit, find a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard on eBay and plug it in. Great keyboard for a Mac. Unfortunately, the left-hand function keys (Stop, Again, Props, etc.) do not emit any usable keycodes. But everything else works.

I agree, it looks like an IBM-mediocre version of every other LLM coding tool that currently exists.

Definitely not the grandson of Microsoft Bob.

(Please don't downvote - serious question) Are Chinese models generally accepted for use within US companies? The company I work for won't allow Qwen.

LibreOffice almost seemed irrelevant; with cheap to free (*included) tools in abundance, such as MS Office, Google Workspace, Apple Pages/Numbers/Keynote, the need for LibreOffice is not what it once was, back when StarOffice and OpenOffice were liberating people from the tyranny of Microsoft.

Now it's worse than irrelevant, it's a liability.

Janky is directly proportional to cost. Grandstream are the jankiest and least expensive. I like the Cisco 191; it is a fine unit but costs about $100-120.

For three or four endpoints all within the home, you could do this with just ATAs and not even need a SIP server. Many ATAs have a configurable "dial plan" that will let you map a number to an IP address, thus giving you the ability to call the other terminals directly within the LAN.

Yeah, this was the confirmation I needed that it's "not just me."

And this! https://www.mcmaster.com/help/api/ Linked from the footer of every page!

I'm so happy to have seen their web site that I want to do business with them, even though I have no business to be done.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit... is the Gift Article link. This was what I submitted, but the query params got stripped.

Carriers both land/VoIP and wireless must attest to having fraud mitigation measures; this is the "Robocall Mitigation Database" and in Cape's record they exempt themselves from STIR/SHAKEN attestation but state they have measures to prevent fraudulent calling. (which is required for them to be permitted to operate)

What kind of measures are possible to prevent fraudulent calls when the caller is your anonymous customer? The answer is obviously "none," unless you respond to every complaint by terminating service of the offending customer and hoping they don't come back.

I need an agent to summarize the buzzwordjargonsynergistic word salad into something understandable.

In 2021 I speculated on IP and acquired a /23 block by ARIN wait list. I figured on running some services from the IP space for a while and after the 5 years mandated wait time would cash in when surely it would fetch $100k from some party desperate for IPv4.

At this point the services I am running are far more lucrative than the IP space itself is turning out to be.

Around 2010 I ditched Perl for PHP because I had been using PHP for web and could write the same systems scripts in PHP as I used to write in Perl. Sticking with one go-to language is easier on the brain.

It is unfair to blame Cloudflare (or AWS, or Azure, or GitHub) for what’s happening

Ultimately end-users don’t have a relationship with any of those companies. They have relationships with businesses that chose to rely on them

Could you not say this about any supplier relationship? No, in this case, we all know the root of the outage is CloudFlare, so it absolutely makes sense to blame CloudFlare, and not their customers.

Later today or tomorrow there's going to be a post on HN pointing to Cloudflare's RCA and multitudes here are going to praise CF for their transparency. Let's not forget that CF sucks and took half the internet down for four hours. Transparency or no, this should not be happening.

Your description can only refer to Kevin Mitnick. They threw the book at him to set an example. I remember being amazed at what a hacker he must have been. Later I read about his crimes and thought "that's all?" RIP Mr. Mitnick.

Because that's how and where people find them.

Related questions with same answer: Why do you still use Facebook? Why do you still use LinkedIn? Why do you still use YouTube?

T.38 is actually a fine way of transporting fax bits but unfortunately it is quite uncommon to see T.38 end-to-end. While a VoIP provider may negotiate T.38 with a customer's fax ATA, it is likely being transcoded to G.711 by a gateway at some point as it traverses the telephone network, ultimately making T.38 a less-reliable choice. (Better to have the same codec end-to-end.) A comparison might be cellular or VoIP providers offering wideband codecs, which sound great when you stay on-network, but when the call crosses the PSTN and is transcoded, the sound is worse than if you used the standard narrowband end-to-end.

Reminiscent of TheDraw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw), a tool I used "back in the day" to create BBS artwork.

Can anyone recommend a good CSS replacement for viewing this site? The author posts interesting content but the site itself is unbearable.

Indeed, brace yourselves as the floodgates holding back the poorly-developed AI crap open wide. If anyone is thinking of a career pivot, now is the time to dive into all things cybersecurity. It's going to get ugly!

There's an IPv6 article that's been on the front page for the better part of a day and to my incredulity, the "IPv6 sucks; why don't we just add more segments to the IPv4 address" guys haven't shown up yet. Where the hell are you, dudes? Do you take the weekend off?

"Using [your] brain" is key. And your brain has to understand software engineering in the first place, before you can use it. In my project, the product manager has recently tried his hand at vibe coding. LLM produces what you would expect it to produce and as described in the article: ok but not robust code, and fast. So now he thinks he knows how fast coding should be and has gone light speed on the product, expecting engineers to produce high quality software at the speed of LLM-produced "ok code". And it's hard to keep expectations reasonable when the world is all a-hype about LLM coding.

Martin, son of Fly, the first time traveler and inventor of rock-and-roll music.

I hate "let's just have a quick call" people. It's never quick, it's always manipulative, and always a waste of time.

I have a client who tries to use calls to weasel out of paying for things. Finally I refused to talk to him on the phone any more. Some invoices remain outstanding but I'm not willing to waste more time listening to BS. I can spend my time making money from responsible people and meanwhile continue to have my invoice system pester him.

Re: sales, there is no such thing as a quick sales call.