Self-tutoring about wiring: the tutor inquires about where 208V supply might be found. Looking at the baseboard heaters the other day, I noticed they have two wattage ratings: one if in a 208V system, and one if in 240V. I …
More lifestyle self-tutoring: the tutor mentions the fibre content of a banana. A typical banana has around 100 calories, with 2.6g of fibre. Suggested fibre intake might be 14g per 1000 calories, or 1.4g per 100 calories. The banana offers …
Food research leads to self-tutoring: the tutor follows a query about spelling. When I type fibre, the screen cautions me I might have it wrong. Really? fibre: Merriam-Webster: British of fiber Oxford Canadian: dietary fibre Oxford Canadian doesn’t list fiber. …
Keeping track of birds leads to self-tutoring: the tutor mentions the varied thrush. Often, birds prefer to be heard, not seen. So it can be with the varied thrush, whose song I’ve heard in the yard, but haven’t seen from …
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Tutoring physics or general science, the term parallax might arise. The tutor gives a definition. parallax: the phenomenon that the position of an object seems to change as the viewer’s location changes. Source: Gilmour, Lorna (ed). Collins Essential Canadian English …
Different perspectives on color lead to self-tutoring: the tutor shares ideas about saturation. Saturation is the opposite of gray. (See my post here about gray and grayscale.) Gray can also be written grey (see my post here). However, my sources …
Tutoring English, fresh vocabulary keeps writing interesting. The tutor brings up a term he reads in connection with computer science. deprecated (adj) viewed unfavourably, viewed with disapproval. In computer science, certain ways of writing code can become deprecated after newer, …
Self-tutoring about color theory. The tutor mentions gray and grayscale. From the red, green, blue (aka rgb) point of view, gray is composed of equal inputs from each. There are many lightnesses of it. gray: rgb(n,n,n) Any flavor of gray …
More self-tutoring: the tutor mentions a shortcut to refresh the page in a browser. Ctrl+F5 is meant to refresh the page in the browser. As I understand, the reload is from the server rather than from the cache. Source: www.getfilecloud.com …
More self-tutoring: a question crystallizes in the tutor’s mind, so he looks up the difference between dark raisins and golden ones. Talking about raisins produced in California, dark raisins and golden ones commonly begin as green grapes (typically, Thompson Seedless). …