It does. I reach it often. Worrying about forking is often a premature optimization that only the OCD inflicted worry about on most modern systems. The same with those who worry about cat|

Of course, a #!/bin/bash makes that irrelevant anyway.

I try to avoid shell scripting wherever possible (and when it's not a trivial script). That it has its foot in both the command line and programming leads to some oddness. Unless you are very careful, it's easy to produce something which may run fine in a simple case but there are edge cases where things either break or introduce security holes. Spaces in filenames can break things, carefully constructed filenames can cause data loss or worse. Much better, in my opinion, to use a proper programming language where variables are variables and treated as such explicitly.

They could always land at Meig's. Oh wait... F'ing Daley.

Some of them are. Most? I'd like to see a breakdown of that. I recall reading that TSA fees alone recently went up double digits of $ and since I consider the TSA not to be legitimate in the first place, that's a good place to start.

I just bought return tickets to England. $293 flight, $768 taxes and fees. So yeah...

When the LEDs were being half-wave rectified, they were probably being overdriven at peak. When you used the bridge rectifier, you were doubling the power that was going through them.

There's probably a resistor there anyway. Power is probably 5V, possibly 12, 3.3 or anothe r value and LEDs are typically 2.2V so you need to drop that with a resistor. Make it a little bit bigger and the light is dimmer.

He wouldn't. I was talking about the government agencies, not the executive or legislature.

On the downside, you did miss a great opportunity to play out a Monty Python sketch.

How do you make that atomic?

You're not incorrect. I don't know why we're not seeing a move to this already. It wouldn't even be too hard to retrofit to existing installations if they're wired properly.

Though the heatsinks on the lights don't get as hot as incandescents. I can unscrew an LED immediately with bare fingers where an incandescent needs to be allowed to cool. Still, wasted energy...

Who says?

It seems more likely than the electron decay postulation (though butterfly effect and all, I guess). It's not unlike the whole "toilet flushing in the opposite direction in northern/southern hemispheres" urban legend where it turns out that other factors far outweigh the Coriolis effect.

And then a step to the right?