Notices by Matt Mullins (mokomull@macaw.social)

@whitequark this *almost* feels like NaCl ("native client", not the cryptography library) that required explicitly jumping forward so that no instruction would straddle a 32-byte boundary.

Except that isn't even a problem by definition in MIPS instruction encoding...

Why can't you use async/await programming to communicate on Tor?

Because onion futures are illegal.

@regehr @recursive @dan I forwarded this nerdsnipe along, and was directed to https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/bsps-bell-system/most-popular/501-components/12949-501-163-101-i2-jun64-station-dials-41-type-for-card-dialer/file in return.

it uses a commutator/brush assembly and a shockingly small amount of relay logic to decode the row/column into the right number of pulses. it needs its own AC transformer to spin that motor, not provided by the 48V on the phone line.