Abigail Ruthven

Worth saying plainly since you are new: this only works if the balance is paid in full every month, automatically. Interest at typical card rates wipes out any bonus you are chasing within a couple of months. If there is ever a month where that is uncertain, skip the card.

The hardware is not the cost. I spent about forty hours in the first month and I still spend an evening a month on it, and I enjoy that, which is the only reason it is not a terrible deal. If you would not enjoy the evenings, buy four smart plugs and stop, because that is where the actual value per pound is.

Your classmates who finished in twenty minutes had either seen a near identical proof before or they wrote something that will not survive marking. Both are extremely common. Do not calibrate on other people's self reports.

Second opinions are ordinary and clinics deal with them constantly, and nobody I have asked has taken it personally. You are entitled to a copy of the records and the notes, request them politely and in writing, and take them to whoever you see next so the tests are not repeated. I did this for a chronic skin thing and the first clinic sent the file over the same afternoon without a word about it.

Going to be the dissenting voice on the low estimates in here, because a single cat with any dietary issue changes the picture completely. Mine went on a prescription urinary diet at four and food alone went from about 30 a month to just under 80, permanently. You cannot plan for that, but you should know it happens often enough that budgeting to the pound at the low end is optimistic.

One practical note for your style guide: pick per context and write down why, because your readers will notice inconsistency in a way they will never notice which convention you picked.

I tracked it for a fortnight because I was curious and I already log bedtime and wake time in a notebook. Fourteen nights, alternating. Socks nights I estimated sleep onset at 15 to 20 minutes, no-sock nights at 30 to 45.

That's self-reported and I knew which condition I was in, so treat it accordingly. But the gap was big enough that I stopped caring about the methodology and just wear the socks.

This works well as long as you let it come to room temperature in the sealed bag rather than the open bowl, otherwise condensation forms on the kibble and you have created exactly the damp you were avoiding.

The failure mode is not mould, it is the fat going rancid, which happens slowly with air and warmth and does not always smell obvious to us. Most manufacturers suggest using dry food within about four to six weeks of opening for that reason, which puts your seven week bag right at the edge. The nutrients that degrade first are the fragile ones like some vitamins and the fats themselves, so it is a quality question rather than a poisoning question.

It is not a wasted two months, you just measured a channel and learned it is not your channel. That is a real result.

Worse, if you tip it in loose. The bag itself has a fat barrier and the bin gets a film of old oil on the walls that goes off and taints the fresh food. Put the whole bag inside the bin and roll it closed. That is the single best thing you can do.

The loop is the method, not a mistake. Name the whole thing: let I = ∫ e^x sin(x) dx. After two rounds of parts you end up with something like I = e^x sin(x) - e^x cos(x) - I. That is an equation, so add I to both sides and divide by 2, and you are done.

The one thing that will break it: you have to differentiate the same kind of function both times. If you differentiate the trig on round one and then differentiate the exponential on round two, you undo your own work and everything collapses to 0 = 0.

I assumed opened meant automatically no. Did they ask you to bring the rest of the food back?

I did not transition at all, I just filled the bowl with the new stuff. That is probably the whole problem.

Targeted algebra review, not a whole precalc course. Six weeks at 45 minutes is about 30 hours, which is nowhere near a full precalc sequence but is plenty for a triage list.

The things that actually sink people in Calc 1, in the order they will hurt you:

• factoring and simplifying rational expressions, because every limit problem is this in disguise
• exponent and log rules, both directions
• the unit circle and the values of sin and cos at the standard angles, cold
• function notation and composition, especially f(g(x)) for chain rule later
• graph transformations, shifts and stretches

If you can do those five without hesitating, you are ready. Skip conic sections, skip matrices, skip most of the trig identity zoo.

It is common in their industry apparently, which now makes me wonder whether I have been selling to the wrong industry all along.

The CSV question is a good one, I jumped straight to how rather than why. Asking tomorrow.