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by wsh 5y ago
This Usenet thread (1991) explains more about the procedure: https://yarchive.net/phone/cutover.html
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by wsh 5y ago
The Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its member newspapers and broadcasters, is the most important American news wire service, and APNEWS.COM is its public website. If a story moves on the AP, it’s news, almost by definition.
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by wsh 5y ago
I had to rewrite a letter for someone the other day and used Google Docs for the first time in a while. I was struck by how often it made autocomplete suggestions and how good they were: not just stock phrases (“Thank you in advance for you
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by wsh 5y ago
They made a video for that one, too: An Axe to Grind (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHmTLDG5aSg (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNHWH6ipic (Part 2)
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by wsh 5y ago
Readers who find this document interesting may also like: Hand Tools for Trail Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekyJ8pMbTcE (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-wXYgwjcqw (Part 2) Use and Care of
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by wsh 5y ago
Yes, the Martinsburg Monster. This later film shows what looks like an IBM 360/65 console at 1:09, but an article from 1963 says they were using an IBM 7074 then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOt0GRVGNXo http:&#x2F
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by wsh 5y ago
That’s true for the later editions, but the first (1985) editions of the red and blue books were produced using Scribe: https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF#pag...
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by wsh 6y ago
Indeed: mainframe COBOL programs often invoke transaction processing and data management facilities (using “EXEC CICS,” “EXEC DLI,” or “EXEC SQL” statements, for example) that aren’t part of the standardized COBOL language. There are commer
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by wsh 6y ago
I’ve seen many mainframes-aren’t-dead-yet news articles, and that’s clearly true—many large companies began using computers when only mainframes could do the job, have substantial investments in mainframe software, and continue to buy newer
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by wsh 6y ago
If you’re in California, it’s difficult to avoid the state’s $800 annual minimum tax, regardless of where the entity is formed or who does the initial or ongoing paperwork. Even if a corporation or LLC is organized in Delaware or another st
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by wsh 6y ago
I agree that it’s better to state the uncertainty [1] together with the measurement, but when this isn’t done, there is a standard convention for significant digits, explained in ISO 80000-1:2009 [2], subclause 7.3.4: When a number is g
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by wsh 6y ago
(Reposting my comment from 2013 with a current link to the tariff.) With so few customers (and no new ones allowed), it’s not surprising that the DC distribution system in San Francisco isn’t widely known, but it’s not a secret. Regulated e
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by wsh 6y ago
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21548757
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by wsh 6y ago
In Texas, the roster lists 60 professional engineers who hold active licenses with “Software” as one of the branches. I expect some of these individuals took and passed the NCEES exam in software engineering, which was offered from 2013 unt
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by wsh 6y ago
If you don’t want to be an AWS customer at all, why don’t you send a written termination notice under the AWS Customer Agreement ( https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ )? Section 7.2(a) says, “You may terminate this Agreeme
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by wsh 6y ago
Such doors, often with a hoisting beam above, are also seen on older telephone central office buildings in the U.S., for the same reason: they made it easier for Western Electric to install full-height (11′ 6″) distributing frames and other
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by wsh 6y ago
It’s not always that way: in the entertainment industry, for example, union contracts often set only the minimum wage scales and working conditions and leave individual workers (or their agents) free to negotiate for anything better.
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by wsh 6y ago
Standard rates (prices) for goods and services tend to be offered when it’s too costly or complicated to set prices based on actual cost, when customers hesitate to buy because of price uncertainty, when it’s desired for some customers to s
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by wsh 6y ago
I’m not sure “Schelling point” is the right term for places that have become hubs of particular industries because of their well-known connections to people and organizations in those industries. This isn’t quite the same as the tacit coord
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by wsh 6y ago
I read what the author has written, and if I’m still interested, I look at the code itself. I try to answer, in my own mind, questions such as these: Does the author clearly explain his or her motivation, goals, and plans for the software?
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by wsh 6y ago
One place for an announcement would be “Show HN,” if your project fits within the guidelines [1], but I think what you announce is as important as where. For example, how does your software compare, from a user’s perspective, to existing
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by wsh 6y ago
I agree with the advice for authors not to spend time on formatting—leave that to the editor, book designer, and compositor—but that’s not necessarily a reason to avoid Microsoft Word, which despite its flaws, has extensive facilities for c
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by wsh 6y ago
To show that a message existed at a particular date and time, you could use a time-stamping service operated by a trusted third party, in which they digitally sign a timestamp and the cryptographic digest of your message. Several public cer
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by wsh 6y ago
The paper was published in the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences , which is among the thousands of biomedical journals indexed by the National Library of Medicine in its PubMed service, which provides abstracts of the cont
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by wsh 6y ago
How much do tools such as this one help with reuse or porting of real COBOL applications, as opposed to textbook examples? As I understand it, many COBOL programs of current practical interest make extensive use of data management and trans
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by wsh 6y ago
This article was published in 2017. Have there been any more recent developments?
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by wsh 6y ago
As a one-volume introductory book, I’d suggest any of the last few editions of Groover’s Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems . The coverage is fairly broad, not just metalworking, and it’s written for a
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by wsh 6y ago
Several trends make scavenging less attractive than it once was: • There won’t be as much information. With the shift to e-mail and online documentation, there are fewer interesting paper documents, and the ones that remain, when no longer
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by wsh 6y ago
Mail chutes were a common feature of buildings for many years, and not only in New York City. The sixth (1970) and seventh (1981) editions of Architectural Graphic Standards discuss them on the “Planning for Postal Service in Office Build
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by wsh 6y ago
The FAA has issued the Aeronautical Information Manual under that title since 1995, and as the Airman’s Information Manual from 1967 or earlier, decades before Quantum Computer Services (AOL’s predecessor) was founded. I don’t know when

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