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The manual of basic repair techniques used in these shops has been approved for public release; see Standard Maintenance Practices, Miniature/Microminiature (2M) Electronic Assembly Repair , published here as an Air Force technical or
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For reading books in PDF, I use a Sony DPT-RP1 reader. Its e-ink display can show an entire letter-size page at once, with the original formatting. You can use a stylus to take notes or make highlights; there is no backlight or web browser.
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Three times (MC680x0 to PowerPC to x86), so far, or more if you also count the 24-bit to 32-bit and 32-bit to 64-bit transitions.
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Here are some examples from the computer industry, all available at no charge: • Apple Style Guide: https://books.apple.com/us/book/apple-style-guide/id11618552... • Google Developer Documentation Style Guide
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If you’re building a portfolio piece, to get a job working on web-based software, it might be better to make it a web-based application. If the software is for yourself or other users, however, judge it first by how well it meets those use
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I’m not sure I follow the question: when you buy a bond, you’re lending money to the issuer, increasing its debt. There’s no shortage of buyers for government securities, anyway. In yesterday’s auction of 28-day U.S. Treasury bills [1], for
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Here’s a sampling of published recommendations: MIL-STD-1472G, Human Engineering , § 5.2.2, Displays—content FAA AC 20-175, Controls for Flight Deck Systems , Chapter 3, Additional Guidance for Multifunction Controls SAE ARP4032, Human E
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I imagine the “last seen” times are shown mainly to indicate whether users are still active members of the site, and if they are likely to have seen recent replies. For these purposes, a few minutes’ error is harmless. It wouldn’t surprise
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Yes, there were commercial, online information services in the 1980s, and some of these included access to an encyclopedia, such as the one published by Grolier. Here’s a directory, from the November 1986 issue of InfoWorld magazine: https
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Does the Court’s holding that officials cannot be “authors” have any implications for copyright in privately written documents that have been adopted as laws or regulations? Is Veeck v. Southern Bldg. Code Congress Int'l, Inc. , 293
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The main reason is compatibility, especially with application software, which may depend on specific behaviors of the versions of the system software included in the original distribution. “Stable” here refers to the stability of the API an
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you also need to own more than 25 registered motor vehicles and a five million dollar surety bond. The OL 311 application form and 13 CCR § 227.04(c) say you have to provide one of insurance, self-insurance, or a surety bond. The requirem
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There are many “in-network” auto body shops, which get referrals from insurance companies in exchange for negotiated rates. The industry’s term for this is Direct Repair Program (DRP).
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Here’s one example: In the IPv4 Internet, there are about 830,000 prefixes (network addresses) announced, and the number is growing [1]. Routers at ISPs and sophisticated customers maintain full (“default-free”) routing tables with at least
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by wsh 7y ago
Aside from the legalities, with COVID-19 already circulating in the neighboring states, would the practical benefit of closing California’s borders, to stop a few people still traveling for non-essential reasons, outweigh the costs? Enforci
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Still the wave? More like the endless summer: IMS remains an IBM program product, as it has been since 1969, though the license fee has gone up a bit. There have been, and will continue to be, many ways to store and retrieve data without ro
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Besides the technique, it’s also important to use the right kind of lacing cord. A current standard in telecommunications is nine-ply waxed polyester twine, traditionally in white or natural color. In aerospace, flat-braided lacing tape is
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these URLs should allow you to deep-link into a PDF from outside it, which hasn’t really been possible before Chrome and other browsers with built-in PDF viewers have long supported the #page=XXX URL syntax, to go directly to a specific p
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The federal lawsuit against the City of New York mentioned in the Atlantic article was settled in 2018, with the City and the Bronx district attorney’s office agreeing to reforms related to the return of property taken from arrestees. Pre
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There are compact, off-the-shelf products, such as cellular and dual WAN routers, that can switch automatically to a second Internet connection, which could be delivered on a different medium by a different service provider. For example, at
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The Wikipedia article about FrameMaker says it was first released in 1986, and for the Mac in 1990, five years after the original Inside Macintosh books were published. FrameMaker was used for the new Inside Macintosh series, starting i
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I thought Active Directory was Microsoft’s response to the competitive threat from other X.500-inspired, proprietary directory products, most notably Novell’s NDS, which met the needs of large organizations in ways that Windows NT domains c
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Daimler AG’s lawsuit, filed in 2017, over allegedly counterfeit Mercedes-Benz wheel caps that were, similarly, sold by Amazon.com and not a third party, is apparently still pending: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/
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I wouldn’t accept that as normal. In well-run organizations, when there is a regular, ongoing need for evening or overnight coverage, it’s provided by people scheduled to work during those hours, who are selected and trained to be able to h
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I’d like to see the return of Commando, the feature from Apple’s long-obsolete A/UX operating system and MPW Shell software that provided a dialog box from which command-line options could be selected. The A/UX Essentials [1] an
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I remember some software that made inefficient use of the display, but the best programs were carefully designed to show as much of the user’s work as possible, on screens with far fewer pixels or character cells than those of today. For ex
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You’re welcome. As for your questions, more the latter: with Informed Delivery, you can see the images, but the mail is delivered as usual, and you don’t get a virtual address.
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I can’t recommend a specific service to receive and scan mail, but if I were choosing one, I’d be more concerned about the integrity of its employees, its reliability and longevity, and its compliance with postal regulations (e.g., in the U
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When working with an inexperienced or forgetful manager, it’s sometimes helpful to report frequently, but tactfully and informally, on progress and plans: “Here’s the memorandum on those design changes. I’m still working on the cost analys
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Entire textbooks have been written about the corporate treasury or cash management function. Briefly, large companies try to keep as little money as possible in deposit accounts at banks; the rest goes into investments, selected for risk, r

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