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  2. Dirty, dangerous and demeaning - Wikipedia

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    Oil rig drillers can be covered in oil and mud and they work beside dangerous machinery in harsh environments. "Dirty, dangerous and demeaning" (often "dirty, dangerous and demanding" or "dirty, dangerous and difficult"), also known as the 3Ds, is an American neologism derived from the Asian concept, and refers to certain kinds of labor often performed by unionized blue-collar workers.

  3. 64-bit computing - Wikipedia

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    Cray releases UNICOS, the first 64-bit implementation of the Unix operating system. [21] 1993 DEC releases the 64-bit DEC OSF/1 AXP Unix-like operating system (later renamed Tru64 UNIX) for its systems based on the Alpha architecture. 1994 Support for the R8000 processor is added by Silicon Graphics to the IRIX operating system in release 6.0. 1995

  4. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    The operating system provides an interface between an application program and the computer hardware, so that an application program can interact with the hardware only by obeying rules and procedures programmed into the operating system. The operating system is also a set of services which simplify development and execution of application programs.

  5. Large-file support - Wikipedia

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    The shift towards 64-bit started in 2014 when all new processors were designed to a 64-bit architecture and Android 5 ("Lollipop") was published in that year providing a fitting 64-bit variant of the operating system. [15] [14] Apple had made shift in the year before starting to produce the 64-Bit Apple A7 by 2013.

  6. x86-64 - Wikipedia

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    AMD64 (also variously referred to by AMD in their literature and documentation as “AMD 64-bit Technology” and “AMD x86-64 Architecture”) was created as an alternative to the radically different IA-64 architecture designed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard, which was backward-incompatible with IA-32, the 32-bit version of the x86 architecture.

  7. Skill - Wikipedia

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    A skill is the learned or innate [1] ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. [2] Skills can often [quantify] be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. Some examples of general skills include time management, teamwork [3] and leadership, [4] and self ...

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  9. Soft skills - Wikipedia

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    The term "soft skills" was created by the U.S. Army in the late 1960s. It refers to any skill that does not employ the use of machinery. The military realized that many important activities were included within this category, and in fact, the social skills necessary to lead groups, motivate soldiers, and win wars were encompassed by skills they had not yet catalogued or fully studied.