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by psim1 1y ago
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?
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by psim1 1y ago
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
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by psim1 1y ago
Reminiscent of TheDraw ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw ), a tool I used "back in the day" to create BBS artwork.
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by psim1 1y ago
Can anyone recommend a good CSS replacement for viewing this site? The author posts interesting content but the site itself is unbearable.
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by psim1 1y ago
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!
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by psim1 1y ago
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. Whe
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by psim1 1y ago
"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 wou
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Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He's Speaking Out(wsj.com)
16 points by psim1 1y ago|3 comments
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Bill Gates to give away $200B over 20 years(wsj.com)
14 points by psim1 1y ago|1 comments
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by psim1 2y ago
Martin, son of Fly, the first time traveler and inventor of rock-and-roll music.
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by psim1 2y ago
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 t
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Ask HN: How to correctly search for jobs on LinkedIn?
10 points by psim1 2y ago|5 comments
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by psim1 2y ago
Zabbix is a good all-rounder.
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by psim1 2y ago
Same here, but learned my lesson in the past and won't participate anyway.
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Ask HN: Are hackathons anything more than a lame distraction?
18 points by psim1 2y ago|27 comments
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by psim1 2y ago
Hi, would like to know more but your job postings page is returning a 403 Forbidden.
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by psim1 2y ago
Counterpoint: Being on a small team in a large organization sucks. In a large org, small teams have no weight. Actually, we have wait - we have to wait for everything: devops resources, marketing resources, even infosec resources. We are to
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by psim1 2y ago
Apple themselves call the floppy connector a DB-19 ( https://support.apple.com/en-me/112201 ). In this case, it would be better to use the "wrong" DB-19 term so that people seeking the referenced connector can
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April Fools Day Request for Comments(en.wikipedia.org)
16 points by psim1 3y ago|2 comments
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by psim1 3y ago
This is a solution looking for a problem. The browser is a horrible place for viewing text logs. Companies like Splunk and Datadog put countless hours into trying to make it work and it's never not-painful to view logs in a browser.
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by psim1 3y ago
$ killall cat | cat | cat | cat | cat | cat Terminated: 15 Which cat died first?
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Fax(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by psim1 3y ago|0 comments
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by psim1 3y ago
> if the digital streams are viable will switch to reproducing them for the listener. This produces a weird effect when listening in the car and moving in-and-out of good digital SNR range. When the radio switches between analog and dig
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Citadel: Modern groupware with a classic BBS interface(citadel.org)
2 points by psim1 3y ago|0 comments
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by psim1 3y ago
"Multiple timers. We truly live in an age of wonders!" Feels like I am in bizarro world. What is so wonderful about this?
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by psim1 3y ago
I am one of the few people from my generation to maintain a "land line" (VoIP) and I, too, run it with Asterisk and the FreePBX configuration GUI. FreePBX provides a ton of macros out-of-the-box so that adding unwanted callers to
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by psim1 3y ago
Their wiki has always been a bit of a mess. The company Signalwire is largely the same crew as the original FreeSWITCH team.
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Once the Largest, a Hotel Goes Poof Before Our Eyes(nytimes.com)
1 points by psim1 3y ago|0 comments
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Graphs That Explain Software Engineering Salaries in 2023(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by psim1 4y ago|0 comments
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by psim1 4y ago
Would this need to be attached to an amplifier and large (at least quarter wave) antenna in order to transmit to satellites? Why VHF? Wouldn't upper UHF be a better choice for transmission to satellites?

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