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"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
"While in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is."
I don't know why you are being downvoted, sharecropper is exactly the right metaphor.
I think "I, Pencil" would blow Odell's mind.
DoctorOetker's most recent theorem?
Yes! That was the first thing I thought of: "I don't understand how it subtracts"
The EPA has a website that displays a network of radiation sensors in the US:
https://www.epa.gov/radnet
Hope you never need that information.
None of what I've read today on his passing have mentioned this interesting story of the rescue of his employees from Iran during the revolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_EaglesA mini-series was produced about it starring Burt Lancaster
I don't normally have trouble swallowing but a couple of big pills I take daily would give me trouble. A trick I learned recently was to turn my head to the side as I swallowed them. This video on youtube also describes different techniques besides turning your head:
https://youtu.be/NUzRGKx79k4
I've been burned by their dropping features and services too many times to ever gamble on them again.
I filter anything with the word "unsubscribe" into a separate folder, then add a few filters to handle the exceptions.
What is generally left in my inbox is stuff directly mailed to me that deserves attention. 90% of the stuff in the unsubscribe folder get deleted without looking beyond the subject line.
Potassium can also help. Sadly, caffeine is a major contributor to PVCs for me and I miss it.
Seeing an oscilloscope displaying a Lissajous pattern when I was eight years old was one of the things that sparked my interest in electronics. In 1962, by cracky!
By brother collected these as a kid living in Charlevoix and threw a bunch into Lake Champlain, nearly a thousand miles away, in the hopes of trolling some future geologist.
My brother does stuff like that.
This rationalization is a slippery slope. "Good works" does not entitle one to behave unethically. Seems close to these two from the Ethics Alarms website list of Unethical Rationalizations:
21. Ethics Accounting (“I’ve earned this”/ “I made up for that”) holds that someone can eliminate or mitigate wrong doing by loading up the good side of the ethics ledger so that the bad side looks puny by comparison.
11. The King’s Pass, The Star Syndrome, or “What Will We Do Without Him?”
One will often hear unethical behavior excused because the person involved is so important, so accomplished, and has done such great things for so many people that we should look the other way, just this once. This is a terribly dangerous mindset, because celebrities and powerful public figures come to depend on it. Their achievements, in their own minds and those of their supporters and fans, have earned them a more lenient ethical standard. This pass for bad behavior is as insidious as it is pervasive, and should be recognized and rejected whenever it raises its slimy head. In fact, the more respectable and accomplished an individual is, the more damage he or she can do through unethical conduct, because such individuals engender great trust. Thus the corrupting influence on the individual of The King’s Pass leads to the corruption of others.
https://ethicsalarms.com/rule-book/unethical-rationalization...
Plus your card is half-way back to your wallet before the first call is even made when you swipe it, but with the chip, you can't retrieve your card from the machine until the transaction is done. Even if the transaction took exactly the same amount of time, the chip method takes longer because your execution thread is blocked waiting for a resource to be released.
Made me tear up a bit. When I was ten, Popular Electronics was the first magazine to which I subscribed. I remember how excited I was when the May '65 issue was waiting for me when I got home from school.
I do software consulting in building automation and control systems, but mostly I build a mouth operated game controller for quadriplegics called the quadstick. That has been the most fun thing I've ever done.