What Can You Do if Your Throat Constricts when Eating?

Problem scenario
Your throat seems to tighten if you eat something dry. What can you do to prevent this? What should you do if your throat constricts?

Solution
If there is an obstruction, a strong cough can help. Drinking cold water can help.

While people may use less sauce than a dish was designed for (because of health reasons),

Do Accredited Computer Science Departments at Universities Work at Teaching Students?

Question
Do accredited universities help computer science majoring students learn?

Answer
No.

In Computer Science departments, students are considered coders by the time they are in the weed-out class. Passing the prerequisite classes is not the same as learning. The students will lectured to about concepts of programming, but there will be very little instruction on coding itself. Students will be expected to translate requirements of assignments into code and debug the program by themselves.

How Do You Configure /boot and /boot/efi Partitions on a RHEL Computer?

Problem scenario
You are installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux. There are some partitions that you do not know how to configure. You know your systems uses NVMe (Non-volatile memory) and EFI. How do you configure /boot and /boot/efi in the “Manual Partitioning” when you are installing Linux?

Solution
The /boot/efi partition would likely be nvme0n1p2 with 1024 MiB. The “Mount Point” would be “/boot/efi”.

What is Cryptocurrency Forking and Cryptocurrency Inflation?

Question
You want to know about cryptocurrency forking and inflation. What are these concepts?

Answer
Cryptocurrency can have inflation; for example as more bitcoin is mined, there is more in circulation. See [1] for more information about cryptocurrency inflation. Cryptocurrency forking can mean two different things [2]. There can be a new type of cryptocurrency that is not compatible with the older coin (a hard fork).

How Do You Stretch Your Quadriceps without Standing or Kneeling?

Problem scenario
You want to stretch your quadriceps without standing or kneeling. What should you do?

Solution
To stretch your left quadricep lie on your left side. With your right hand, pull the top of your left foot toward your butt with your knee bent.

To stretch your right quadricep lie on your right side. With your left hand,

How Do You Troubleshoot an Email when the Sender’s Spam Score May Be Bad or Good?

Problem scenario
The email sender may have a low spam score. What should you do to troubleshoot it?

Solution
Do other people get the sender’s emails? If so, has it ever worked? If not, check the destination email address. Can the destination email address send an email to the first sender with the problem? You could then reply. Maybe you accidentally typed in the wrong email address.

How Do You Troubleshoot the Python Error “(-5:Bad argument) CAP_IMAGES: can’t find starting number”?

Problem scenario
You installed cv2 with “pip3 install opencv-python”

You run a Python program, but you get this error:

[ERROR:0] global /tmp/pip-req-build-afu9cjzs/opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap.cpp (160) open VIDEOIO(CV_IMAGES): raised OpenCV exception:

OpenCV(4.5.3) /tmp/pip-req-build-afu9cjzs/opencv/modules/videoio/src/cap_images.cpp:253: error: (-5:Bad argument) CAP_IMAGES: can’t find starting number (in the name of file): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcd1234 in function ‘icvExtractPattern’

What should you do?

Possible Solution
The video file is not there.