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  • After the rotary phones who used “ticks” to spell out numbers (you could hang up quickly to spell phone numbers, like click-click-click meant “2”) the newer used sound burst, or short beeps. Beep, boop, baap meant like 735. You could buy a little beeper that dialed a phone number for you. History goes people could mimic the beeps to dial a number, like taking up a phone and go beoueoeop and call comeone.

    Phreaking (van eck) is when you listen in on radio waves from electronic equipment, as cool as it is, it has nothing to do with this little information nugget :-)










  • C/C++ oldtimer myself, yep Rust is basically C++ template metaprogramming. So Rust does this thing way better, but as you says it does other things less good. Exactly like Java with the facility to run on different platforms (well, sort of) for example.

    C/C++ is hard because it’s the ultimate multi tool!

    I use Python BTW when I don’t need the fancy stuff, maybe the death of C/C++ will be that of a thousand cuts, one specialised language for each specific C/C++ use …