Word for a cushy position awarded to a crony?
Word meaning a job someone is installed in where they don’t do anything
How to get only time from date-time C# Why can't I just think the spin as rotating? I'm going mad about the problem.  I really don't understand why do electron have 1/2 spin number, why they are not actually spinning.  I can accept that the electrons have their own magnetic field, which is certain, but why do they have $\hbar\sqrt3/2$ of angular momentum, and I don't know what the heck is spin number.  I've read the definition of  and  more than a hundred times but there is no betterment. I've smashed my head in my desk more than a hundred times either.  My question is the title. Why can't I just think the spin as rotating?  What I've saw recently,     electron's hypothetical surface would have to be moving faster than the speed of light in order for it to rotate quickly enough to produce the necessary angular momentum. Given two date ranges, what is the simplest or most efficient way to determine whether the two date ranges overlap?  As an example, suppose we have ranges denoted by DateTime variables StartDate1 to EndDate1 and StartDate2 to EndDate2. How to install and use Ubuntu from a USB flash drive on Windows 8? When I cut a layer using marquee tool, I get blur edges to cut side. How do I get sharp edges after cut? I am using rectangular marquee tool to cut a portion of the layer in photoshop cs5, but after cutting, the edges are not sharp, I get blur edges.      how can I get sharp edges? How to assign the result of the previous expression to a variable? I want to dynamically create a sequence of strings by manipulate an array of elements and create some arithmetic procedure.  for name in FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH; do     $name = $(( $6 + 1 ))     $name = "${$name}q;d"     echo "${$name}"; printf "\n" done   The desire outcome would be the below for $6 equals 0.  1q;d 2q;d 3q;d 4q;d 5q;d   But I get this error  reel_first_part.sh: line 18: FIRST: command not found reel_first_part.sh: line 19: ${$name}q;d: bad substitution reel_first_part.sh: line 18: FIRST: command not found reel_first_part.sh: line 19: ${$name}q;d: bad substitution reel_first_part.sh: line 18: FIRST: command not found reel_first_part.sh: line 19: ${$name}q;d: bad substitution   I guess it's something simple. It used to work when I did something like   FIRST=$(( $6 + 1 )) FIRST="${FIRST}q;d" What are the pros and cons of having a separate home partition? When I search for my address on Google Maps it cannot be found which means I can't order takeaway etc.  Is there a way of adding my address to Google Maps or even add a street address?  I want the address to be publicly available so others can search it. Delete all files to which no corresponding file with another extension exists My goal is to find a Linux command sequence, which deletes some files if a special condition is fulfilled:  All files with the extensions .cut or .cut.bak in the current directory shall be removed, IF there is no file having the same name, but extension .rec or .mpg in the current directory.  Background: I am developing a tool for a Linux-based PVR, that allows cutting of recorded programs. For each recording (extension .rec or .mpg) the segment markers are stored in a .cut-file with the same name. When some recording gets moved/renamed/deleted, then the corresponding cut-file remains orphaned and shall be deleted. I already have implemented the removing of those useless cut-files in C. But I am wondering, whether there may be a (simple) system based solution. In this case it could be run via 'system' and &amp; in the background, which would make my application more responsive...  I already asked a similar question for the recursive case (browsing also into subdirectories), . There has been a (nearly) perfect answer by kos - but unfortunately it removes too many files, so it is not usable, and I was not able to figure it out... But the same idea can be used here, IF it is possible to parse and pipe the result of 'ls' linewise... I have an odd error that I have been unable to find anything on this. I wanted to change the user comment with the following command.  $ sudo usermod -c "New Comment" user   This will work while logged onto a server but I want to automate it across 20+ servers. Usually I am able to use a list and loop through the servers and run a command but in this case I get a error.  $ for i in `cat servlist` ; do echo $i ; ssh $i sudo usermod -c "New Comment" user ; done  serv1 Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN  Options: lists usermod options  serv2 Usage: usermod [options] LOGIN  Options: lists usermod options . . .   When I run this loop it throws back an error like I am using the command incorrectly but it will run just fine on a single server.  Looking through the ssh man pages I did try -t and -t -t flags but those did not work.  I have successfully used perl -p -i -e within a similar loop to edit files.  Does anyone know a reason I am unable to loop this? How can I be a good reviewer? Someday, as strange as it feels to me right now, I might be asked to review an article for publication. A while ago my advisor and I were talking about this, and it hit me that I don't really know how to be a good reviewer, beyond the basics:   Respond timely to things, Make your report clear and detailed, Have actually read the paper, Etc.   Beyond this, though, I'm completely in the dark. So I'd like to ask:     What's some good advice for a first-time reviewer?   My field is math, but I'm really interested in general advice (although advice specific to math, or another field, would also be interesting and useful).    I'd like to make this question "community wiki" or analogous, but I can't seem to figure out how - if someone can do so, please do, and then I will delete this paragraph. Sometimes we read books rather quickly and don't give them much (or any) thought, so the action 'reading' does not necessarily imply that we have given enough thoughts to any book we read.   Is there a word that describes reading a book with great care; usually but necessarily slowly over a long period of time. I created a view to show Users. These users can create nodes of the "Questions" content type.  The view has to render a table to show how many (the total number) Questions the user has created. Something like:  User +++ Questions created John --- 10 Ted  --- 4 Alf  --- 19 How many ways to arrange people on a bench so that no woman sits next to another woman? I have a data frame in python where I need to find all categorical variables. Checking the type of the column doesn't always work because int type can also be categorical.   So I seek help in finding the right hypothesis test method to identify if a column is categorical or not.   I was trying below chi-square test but I am not sure if this is good enough  import numpy as np data = np.random.randint(0,5,100) import scipy.stats as ss ss.chisquare(data)   Please advise. Is there a (La)TeX distribution running on iPad? Example of non-isomorphic structures which are elementarily equivalent On my y510p, I set Lenovos battery software to "Optimize battery health" while I was in Windows 8.1. I forgot to change it before overwriting that partition with Ubuntu, and now my battery in Ubuntu never charges past 59~60%. I think this is due to something in the BIOS because it persists despite my Windows partition being gone.   I've searched the BIOS but there's no mention of battery anywhere!  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Why is my toilet bubbling? Last night while my washing machine and sink in the master bath was running, my master toilet started having air bubbles come up.  Then this morning while I was showering I heard bubbles again, and the shower was draining very slowly.  After the bubbles occurred my toilet in the master bath and powder room completely drained of water in the bowl and tank.  What is happening?