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by wsh 4y ago
In “notice and comment” informal rule making under the Administrative Procedure Act, it’s standard for agencies to review the submitted comments in the final rule, to show that the data, views, and arguments of interested parties were consi
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by wsh 4y ago
For many years, IBM has developed its mainframe operating systems in a series of proprietary languages, such as PL/S and PL/X, designed specifically for systems programming. Compilers and manuals for these aren’t generally availab
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by wsh 4y ago
NETINT ( https://netint.com/ ) offers hardware video processing units that work with several codecs, including AV1. There are also hardware encoders, in card or appliance form factors, from established broadcast suppliers, su
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by wsh 4y ago
You often simply can’t, by design. It’s fair to assume that the operators of many mass-market services have made business decisions, right or wrong, that the potential benefits of receiving public suggestions and complaints don’t justify th
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by wsh 4y ago
IBM has done this for decades. For many products, especially on the mainframe, every message has a unique identifier, typically with a prefix for the module or subsystem that generated it, a message number, and an action or severity code, s
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by wsh 4y ago
NTSC may be gone now, but to avoid the need for frame rate conversion during simultaneous analog and digital broadcasts, and for compatibility with older equipment and recordings, the U.S. broadcasters all adopted (and continue to use) SD a
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by wsh 4y ago
In some cases, that might’ve been true, but in others, I expect Hertz, when confronted with a rental agreement number, vehicle number, and customer’s name, would have been able to confirm that the agreement was current and valid, making it
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by wsh 4y ago
> You're expecting a lot to be available to an officer that just isn't. What do you mean? Rental car companies don’t have 24-hour, toll-free numbers, published on their websites? Police don’t have telephones?
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by wsh 4y ago
Banks in the U.S. are required to have customer identification programs (31 CFR § 1020.220), but U.S. Private Vaults allowed its customers to be anonymous: https://www.securityinfowatch.com/access-identity/access-con...
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by wsh 4y ago
I make it a rule never to leave the lot in a rented vehicle, from any company, without a printed copy of the rental agreement that matches the vehicle number and license plate, and that shows my name and the return time I expect. Hertz’s cu
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by wsh 4y ago
I’d respectfully disagree. The courts have the last word, of course, but we don’t expect police officers to be unthinking automatons. “Round ’em all up and let the judge sort it out” doesn’t square with the Fourth Amendment. A theft report
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by wsh 4y ago
The usual procedure is for the police dispatcher to check with the law enforcement agency that entered the license plate into the database. In case of a rental car, a call to the local or corporate office of the rental company would also be
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by wsh 4y ago
I liked the illustrations in the COCOMITE guidebook to professional tools, published by Trusco Nakayama in Japan. It’s online in English here: https://www.orange-book.com/ja/c/cocomite/index.html#UNIVERS...
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by wsh 4y ago
For the Prius Prime, page 8 of the brochure describes Toyota’s Connected Services, and page 10 says it’s a feature of the LE model: https://www.toyota.com/content/dam/toyota/brochures/pdf/2022...
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by wsh 4y ago
Have you tried signing in to Google and then using the “Country association inquiry” page? https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/10082950?...
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by wsh 4y ago
Despite the District’s claim, I still wonder if the Southern Pacific had a hand in the choice of a non-standard gauge, to help make sure they’d never be ordered to take over BART and bear its operating losses. That risk might seem slight to
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by wsh 4y ago
See this previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585922 (Briefly: licensing costs for UNIX System V.)
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by wsh 4y ago
There is no lying, though: the law (39 U.S.C. § 3008) leaves the decision about whether mail is a “pandering advertisement” to “the addressee in his sole discretion,” which avoids the First Amendment problems that might arise if the decisi
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by wsh 5y ago
The maps show the standards only for services, such as First Class Mail, that are classified as “market dominant.” Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express are “competitive” products.
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by wsh 5y ago
As I understand it, the Southern Pacific was concerned less with avoiding competition for its Peninsula Commute service than with ensuring that it wouldn’t ever be required to take over BART and bear its operating losses. This was long befo
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by wsh 5y ago
Other than the course outline, is there any substantive content available? I saw only a link to the first problem set, and even that requires a Caltech login.
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by wsh 5y ago
Banks in the U.S., as in many countries, are under tremendous pressure to suppress money laundering and tax evasion. In addition to published regulations such as Know Your Customer and beneficial ownership, they also face quiet criticism fr
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by wsh 5y ago
For a comprehensive review of performance engineering, I’d suggest Brendan Gregg’s book, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud , now in its second edition. Chapter 2, “Methodologies,” describes several methods—mental frameworks, if
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by wsh 5y ago
> Local TV stations are required to broadcast weather. Television stations in the U.S. are required, in a broad sense, to serve their local communities, and many choose to do so by providing weather forecasts and alerts, but I don’t kn
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by wsh 5y ago
You only have to provide a controller, as this person did, if you want to use a real terminal: https://ajk.me/building-an-ibm-3270-terminal-controller Otherwise, a TN3270 client program such as x3270 is enough: Hercules mak
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by wsh 5y ago
Micro Focus is one of the main suppliers of COBOL compilers, so it’s not surprising that they would argue that the language is still relevant.
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by wsh 5y ago
The Bosch Automotive Handbook , now in its tenth English-language edition, is the standard one-volume reference. Older, but still useful, are Garrett et al., The Motor Vehicle , and U.S. Army TM 9-8000, Principles of Automotive Vehicles
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by wsh 5y ago
The IBM i (formerly AS/400) platform, despite its popularity over several decades as a server for business applications—and its importance in computing history as an example of features such as object-oriented, single-level storage—doe
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Apple Ships Mysterious macOS 11.5.2 Update(tidbits.com)
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by wsh 5y ago
Here are some online resources available at no charge: Engineering Manual of Automatic Control for Commercial Buildings (Honeywell, 1997) Inch-Pound Edition: https://customer.honeywell.com/resources/techlit/TechL

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