Reading a different question about the opposite of the word consultant made we wonder why the word shifted semantically from the asker to the person who answers? From Etymonline: consultant (n.) 1690s, "person who consults an oracle," from consult + -ant. In medicine, "physician called in ...

I am currently a data scientist mostly doing NLP, and I do most of my work inPython. Since I didn't get a CS degree in undergrad, I've been limited to very high level languages; Java, Python, and R. I somehow even took Data Structures and Algorithms avoiding C or C++. I'm intending to go to grad...

I have recently started composing using some knowledge that I got after a few months of studying counterpoint and harmony (well it is more like trying to compose). And I have mentioned that quite often I unintentionally reinvent in a slightly different manner the existing themes (recently it was ...

If someone can identify this aircraft, please tell me which aircraft this is?

I booked my Air France flight a few months ago and am having issues. On the app it says my boarding passes are unavailable and have to print them at the check-in counter. On the seat section it says: We're sorry, we cannot confirm the seat you booked. Please make a note of your new seat num...

There are many different scales. As far as I understand, a scale is defined by intervals between notes. For example, for major scale it should be: tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone I know that there are also scales with 6 or 5 tones. Is it the case that any set of tones can be used as ...

Torque and energy have the same dimensionality, and so logically are measured in the same units (joules). However, it seems more natural to call the unit for the former a “newton-metre”, because torque does not feel like a form of energy, even though this elaborately described unit means no more ...

I'm trying to identify this logo/part, I've searched combinations of the letters that appear on it as well as IC manufacturer logos and didn't have much luck. At one point I was pointed to a "display processor" site but I can't seem to find it again. Here is the image: There is a USB port wi...

What is the basis for the customs to either stand or to sit for Vayivarech Dovid?

According to Spotify, an analysis of their song library, sharp keys are more common than flat keys. Why?

I want to wire outlets and light in my unfinished attic. There is a light switch at the bottom of the stairs, cable (I think THHN?) that runs through EMT through the wall and comes out upstairs and then connects to the light. Since the attic will eventually be finished, I don't want to add any ...

I am working my way through Charles Pinter's book: A Book of Abstract Algebra. From recommendations on this site, I found a page/web address on Wisconsin University's Math Department that provides solutions to many (perhaps all) of the abundant exercises that are present in Pinter's book. One o...

According to Wiktionary and De Vaan’s Etymological Dictionary, the etymology of the Latin adjective inanis (‘empty’; ‘worthless’) is unknown. I was wondering if anybody had a theory on the origin of this mysterious word; any ideas? By the way, could it be possible that inanis is composed of the...

What is needed here is a command that generates a list with given dates from year 1987 to 2017, as follows: 12/10/1987 30/04/1998 22/02/2014 17/08/2017 19/07/2011 14/05/2004 How it could be done, with sed, gawk.. and how?

It’s Black to move. What must Black do in order to help White castle queenside in just 11 moves?

I am currently working on a simple interpreter for a programming language and I have a data type like this: data Expr = Variable String | Number Int | Add [Expr] | Sub Expr Expr And I have many functions that do simple things like: -- Substitute a value for a variable substituteName :...

Favorite Schemes Every charlatan has an angle he or she uses in preference to other schemes I shave coins or forge documents. Is there a formula or mechanic for shaving coins, or is it more of a flavor thing?

I came across the List of by-elections in the UK and noticed that there was a by-election in West Tyrone in 2018. Nothing unusual about that except that the seat was won by Sinn Féin in the 2017 general election and the incumbent resigned (in UK legal fiction: was appointed Crown Steward and Bail...

Have you ever wanted to get just not one "best" element from a list, but all of them, or a random element of the best ones? That's what the Best class is here for. Opinion-based? Definitely not! Features: Should work with any kind of element. Should always keep track of the best elements seen ...

Although I have properly maintained my nearly 20 yrs old 40 Gallons Kenmore natural gas-fired water heater, However, I have been considering replacing it with a natural gas-fired tankless water heater unit, Rinnai 180,000BTU, which I bought a few months ago at a terrific price. However, due to s...

Our software uses the =/+ and -/_ keys for opposite tasks. For example, increasing or decreasing a value, or zooming in or out. No modifier keys are used. Here is the conundrum: If we refer to it as the "plus (+) key," users might think they have to hold Shift. If we refer to it as the "equals...

I have a simple bash script like below : #!/bin/bash hname='hostname' echo Hello, my server name is $hname But the output is not as I expected. It is as below : Hello, my server name is hostname But my hostname is not 'hostname', it is actually 'User'. How should I make it seen as th...

The famous Brower's fixed-point theorem states that any $ f $ function that maps a compact and convex set itself has a fixed point. I would like to know if minor disturbances in the function $ f $ could only cause minor disturbances in the fixed point $ x $ of $ f $. In other words the questi...

I have an update cursor running that updates a field based on a lookup table (Python dictionary). The cursor completes fine, but seems to pause and hold after each 1000 records - I have a test in it to write out the time each 100 records, see code. If you look at the results - you can see the f...

“thus, the results of culturally and methodologically circumscribed studies need to be taken with more than the usual grain of salt” focusing more on the part: studies need to be taken with more than the usual grain of salt What does this idiom or phrase means?

I am looking to have an NPC try and seduce one of the PCs in my party. The NPC has an ulterior motive of course, but I don't want the player immediately suspecting a succubus or similar. What techniques have you successfully used in a similar situation to avoid the suspicion? The player charact...

Suppose a positive function $f:[1,\infty) \to (0,\infty)$ has $\int_1^\infty \frac{f(x)}{x} dx < +\infty$. Is it also possible that $\int_1^\infty \frac{1}{xf(x)} dx$ converges? I can make progress when $f(x)$ is monotone decreasing. Since $f(x)/x$ is also decreasing and the improper integral c...

From Collins, If you are mindful of something, you think about it and consider it when taking action. When I am writing, I am always mindful of committing logical fallacies (e.g., red herring, hasty generalization, post hoc, straw man, false dichotomy, and appeal to authority). This sentenc...

I maybe wrong but what I think is the Blockchain ledger exists as long as there are active nodes in the network. So can a blockchain be shutdown by shutting down power supply across the globe? What would happen in such a case? I think the transactions that were not added to the ledger would defi...

Near the end of Batman (1989), This occurs right after Batman has done away with Joker's poison-filled balloons. Why? It seems like Bob was fairly capable. I guess it's probably because Joker was crazy.

In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Spaceman Word™. Use the following examples below to find the rule. $$ % set Title text. (spaces around the text ARE important;...

For one of the tour challenges, it says to "take out 3 Pipes". If I just run into them, I slow down and that doesn't count. I can hit them with shells, but that doesn't seem to count either. How do I take out the Pipes for this challenge?

In a few days I should go fly to Beijing and then would like the 8 hour train from Beijing to Hong Kong using 144 TWOV. The issue is that I have read a lot of articles / discussions online about people getting denied with having turkish stamps in their passport. The second issue is that I would...

It's often mentioned that flying is the safest form of transportation, and no doubt this is true when considering only a long-haul trip. There's no doubt, for example, that driving (or taking a train or bus) 3,000km would be more dangerous than flying the same distance. However, most flight cras...

I have heard the following two sentences in a discussion between a wife and a husband about the husband's addiction to smoking, in a TV series: – Non ce la fai proprio a smettere, vero? (= You just can't quit, can you?) – Così però mica mi aiuti! (= That doesn't help at all!) I see that...

I know that "birra alla spina" means "draught beer" (beer served from cask/keg), but I have recently heard the term "profumi alla spina" and I was not able to find out exactly what it means. Are they provided to the client directly from a tap, as draught beer?

Does anyone know what the "/r" in this score might mean? Thank you so much...

I always receive a gift from a trainer every day but every time I want to send a gift back to that trainer the message, "Your friend still has an unopened gift from you" always appears. If I'm not mistaken, we can't send a gift to a trainer without opening the gift that trainer has sent to us. ...

I'm looking at this switching regulator: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm2675.pdf. For its input and output capacitors it recommends tantalum or electrolytic capacitors. It mentions in section 9.2.1.2.4 that a ceramic capacitor on the input can cause ringing. Admittedly, I haven't had to make...

Before doing many mitzvos, we are required derabanan to say a brachah. Why is this not the same for giving tzedakah?

I've been working at this company for over 6 years and for those 6 years, my boss has been an absolute bully. He micro-manages everything I do, dumps so much work on me, and then criticizes everything that I do. He literally yells all the time and bangs on his desk. When he wants something done i...

The distance ($D$) between two points $(x_1,y_1)$ and $(x_2,y_2)$ on a plane is given by $$D=\sqrt {(x_2-x_1)^2+(y_2-y_1)^2}$$ The distance ($D$) between two points $(x_1,y_1,z_1)$ and $(x_2,y_2,z_2)$ in space is given by $$D=\sqrt {(x_2-x_1)^2+(y_2-y_1)^2+(z_2-z_1)^2}$$ The above two formulas ...

Many have the custom to stand at Vayevarech Dovid. The reason behind this minhag is because many give tzedakah at this point, and it is proper to stand while doing a mitzvah. With this being said, why would I still have to stand on a Shabbos and/or Yom Tov? Why would we still be required to stand...

I just found out a tweet of Ben Shapiro stating the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was closed to Jews for 700 years. I searched and didn't find any name but this article mentions that In the late 14th century, the Muslim rulers forbade Jews from entering the site, but they were allowed t...

Can you add an illustration please and elaborate on the strokes, each one and the detailed meaning nehind it? Ie..I have held this character close to my heart and wear it on my sleeve so to speak. Tattooed on my shoulder on my 25th birthday as a landmark or signpost to commemorate it's beauty and...

(Apologies if off-topic: please close) We are in the UK and interested in purchasing a house, but the highest offer we could make is substantially below the asking price by around 5%. However, we have some advantages over other prospective buyers. Sales in our local area are slow and we're read...

Recently, I am trying to use Haskell in some of my real case production system. The Haskell type system really offers me great help. For example, when I realised that I need some function of type f :: (Foldable t, Monad m) => ( a-> b -> m b) -> b -> t a -> m b There are actually functions like...

I'm trying to write simple macros, which functional is to print every n = n + k-th letter from the alphabet, where k and n are counters. So I need a \loop-\repeat construction. I use it, but it works incorrectly unfortunately. The main error is "missing number, treated as zero" in row with a \r...

Say I decide I want to attack a Gnoll Pack Lord 10 feet away from me and I have 3 attacks. I roll 3 times and each roll is a hit. If my first two attacks kill the Gnoll, can I use the third on one of his buddies (assuming they're within my range) or is the attack lost? Only asking because on Cri...

What term can we propose for someone who prioritizes equipment over musicianship? Someone like the guitarist who is forever exploring guitar/amp/pedal/string/pick combinations instead of investing that time in skill building. My initial suggestion is toneophile.

I have created 3 store for example: Australia India USA and created related store view as show below: In my case if any customer is register from any store or store view. They are successfully register from any store/storeview. and successfully login from any store/storeview but after logi...

There's this term for the rhetorical device of anticipating counterarguments and rebutting them, but I simply can't remember it. Now I know what you're thinking - did you try googling it? Well I did, and was not able to find it. I'm pretty sure its a greek word that starts with either 'a' or 'p...

If f2 and f7 are the weakest squares on the board, if the f-file the weakest file on the board? For example, other than attacking f2 and f7, is there a theoretical advantage in dominating the f-file?

In early scenes of Pulp Fiction, Vince and Jules are in Brett's Apartment to confront him. as Jules gets aggressive, he shouts at everyone in the apartment loud and clear and then shoots and the guy on the sofa. The gunfire was also loud. Jules then proceeds to confront Brett, with the confessio...

This puzzle is part 6 of the Double feature series (first part here). The series will continue in "Double feature: Weightier". Rules of Hitori1 Shade some cells in the grid. No number occurs in more than one unshaded cell on any row or column. Shaded cells cannot be adjace...

I'm currently in the process of writing a new campaign setting in which many classical mythical creatures have been rendered extinct for various reasons, one such creature is the dragon. My initial idea was that some sort of event or evolutionary flaw in the past stopped dragons being able to bre...

If I have a pair of quotes on a line by themselves: '' ...and a short paragraph of text, say three lines of text: some text that I'd like to move Now if I want to move the text into the quotes, I can place the caret at the line above the first line of text and press 3, dd to select and del...

If $X$ is a nonzero normed space. $S,T \in Lin(X)$ satisfies $ST-TS=I$, where $I$ is the identity function. Prove the two linear operators cannot be both bounded. My attempt: Suppose $S,T$ are bounded, then $\Vert Tx\Vert \leq a_1\Vert x\Vert,\Vert Sx\Vert \leq a_2\Vert x\Vert$ $\Vert x\V...

I would like to have a command \catlim which behaves differently in inline vs in display mode. Namely, in inline mode, it should be equivalent to \lim and in display mode, it should be equivalent to \varprojlim (or some nicer version of it) with arrow below the limit. Here is an example what the ...

Question 3: It said $m/z = 122,$ and $m/z = 124$ is in a $3:1$ ratio, so I figured that meant that chlorine is present. Then I thought $m/z$ was the actual compound's molecular mass. So I used the rule of 13, and did: Chlorine's molar mass = 35 122 - 35 = 87 Using the rule of 13 87/13...

I have a doubt about value of $e^{z}$ at $\infty$ in one of my book they are mentioning that as $\lim_{z \to \infty} e^z \to \infty $ But in another book they are saying it doesn't exist.I am confused now As we can see $e^{z}$ is entire function then as $z \to \infty $ then $e^{z}$ must go to...

My current project involves two companies. The product owner from Company A and the development team from Company B. Recently the two companies came to a disagreement regarding the Product Owner (PO) for the following reasons: She does not give acceptance criteria. She will give one-liners and...

I would like to know is there anyway to overline a text label like this in ArcGIS10.3.

Let's use the spherical coordinates so that $\vec P=(r, \theta, \phi)$. In this context i've read that it's possible to write $$\vec P'=\vec P + d\theta\ \vec e_\theta+d\phi\ \vec e_\phi+dr\ \vec e_r$$ but i don't understand the meaning of this since it looks like $$(r', \theta', \phi')=(r, \thet...

I am working in a Company providing internal first- and second-level IT support. Which means, I am not a callcenter picking up the phone, creating a ticket and picking up the next phone. Rather, I am taking an Idividuals IT issue and try to solve it before taking on the next issue. I am here si...

I don't understand how black can be added in CMYK color mode. So green is made up of 85% cyan, 14% magenta, 100% yellow and 2% black. But I thought black is created by combining 100% of cyan, magenta and yellow, so where does the 2% come from?

I would like to know why it is so disadvantageous to have an advanced artificially isolated pawn when it can be exchanged by another pawn. I refer to situations where a side cannot mantain such square with a pawn. Examples: In the Caro-Kann, after 1.e4 c6 2. e5 d6 3.exd6?! What is so wrong with ...

We say, following this definition, that a domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n}$ is weakly Lipschitz if it can locally be flattened by a Lipschitz homeomomorphism $\phi$ (i.e., a Lipschitz continuous map $\phi$ such that its inverse $\phi^{-1}$ is still Lipschitz). My question is the following: g...

In the movie The Dark Knight Rises, Bane robs the Gotham City Stock Exchange, more specifically with the purpose of bankrupting Bruce Wayne. What I don't understand and feels like a plot hole to me: Why does this transaction actually go through? Not only are there tons of witnesses that can attes...

Google is still indexing 410 pages which was implemented 2-3 month ago. These pages should have gone away at this time. So, Should it be logical to implement X-Robots-Tag: Noindex,Noarchive while having 410 http status? What's your suggestion?

I have built several models on the training dataset and i am not happy with the results and I wish to club them all together and generate a new model, so here is my idea as i already have the results for the existing models i would like to create a new dataset with the existing model results as s...

I made this small system that checks if you're old enough to drive. I'm new to C#, but I do know most of the basics since I also know Java. I'm trying to make my code more efficient. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. using System; using System.Threading; class EfficientCode { sta...

$ u_n$ is strictly positive, $\frac{u_{n+1}}{un} <\frac{1}{4} \forall n $ What's the limit of $u_n$ Can I say that the radius of convergence is just 1/4.

On many pictures (maybe on most of the pictures) part of nose looks hammered or slightly smashed, or bent. Please note these 2 symmetric dents just behind nose spike: source source On other pictures these dents are missing: source Why? Is this a feature or damage?

I frequently visit Singapore on short business trips, and have usually received a rounded rectangular (for brevity, "square") Visit Pass stamp. However, on my last visit, the officer first stamped a square stamp, cursed, crossed it out and stamped in a hexagonal one instead: What, if anything...

I am writing a bash script to mount DFS Windows shares via cifs. I have the main part working, but I am having trouble for when I need the user to enter the DFS path as a variable and convert the backslashes to forward slashes. #!/bin/bash FILE='\\edi3\welshch\test' FILEPATH="$("$FILE" | se...

I have a flight at 6:20 am from Heathrow Terminal 4. I usually take the 285 into Heathrow, then either walk or get the free transfer train to my terminal. Terminal 4 requires a free transfer train, but this only starts at 5 am in the morning. My navigation app suggests the 555 bus but this only...

In each cycle of Zion and the Matrix, the One chooses those who will found the new Zion. I can see how the knowledge of the previous cycle might be lost in the first few generations of trying to simply stay alive -- when all you can think about is where your next meal might be found, it's hard t...

Can you paint every number from 1 to 8 with two colours, such that there are no distinct numbers $a, b, c$ of the same colour with $a+b=c$? For example, you cannot have 2, 3 and 5 of the same colour since $2+3=5$. Good luck!

Would like $X$ to remain general, but if needed, let's say GBPUSD Exchange Rate. By liquidity I mean overal market volume across exchanges / ease of opening and closing positions / total notional outstanding.

I have a SQL table which consists of order details. Table Example order_id | item_type | stock_code | price_code ---------------------------------------------- 1 | S | 0005-01 | NULL 1 | P | NULL | PRC-1 1 | S | 0004 | NULL 2 |...

Persistent live drive with a partition for persistence There are some web sites describing new tools new features in [new versions of] old tools that can create a persistent live drive from an iso file with Ubuntu 19.10 and the corresponding Ubuntu family flavours. Why and how does it work...

How do incentives work in the NFL in respect to salary cap? For example last season, if Nick Foles played 3 more snaps against the Redskins, he would have received $1,000,000 based on total plays that season. However, how do those contract incentives work? Do they count toward the salary cap? ...

When I enter a world for few seconds everything is normal and then it goes blurry. I thought it was something to do with my laptop overheating so I let it cool but that did nothing. I was able to play for few hours normally and then this started. After Googling I found that this might be somethin...

I want to know after how many ledger lines should you start notating music with the 8va symbol. I have read that the flute often has music written on ledger lines. So up to how many ledger lines can a flute read? And what about the other instruments?

Can you paint every number from 1 to 23 with three colours, such that there are no distinct numbers $𝑎,𝑏,𝑐$ of the same colour with $𝑎+𝑏=𝑐$? For example, you cannot have 2, 3 and 5 of the same colour since 2+3=5. You may need to use a computer to solve this. Here is a similar puzzle for nu...

I was studying particle physics and I saw the word "scalar particle" many times, also in books. On the internet there wasn't any thing about it. So can anyone say what is a scalar particle ?

Let $P_1(x)= ax^2-bx-c$, $P_2(x)=bx^2-cx-a$, and $P_3(x)= cx^2-ax-b$ be three quadratic polynomials, where $a,b$, and $c$ are non-zero real numbers. Suppose that there exists a real number $k$ such that $$ P_1(k) = P_2(k)= P_3(k) $$ Prove that $a=b=c$. Hello everybody! The above is a questio...

I had to write code for a competition which calculates sum of the perimeter of three overlapping rectangles in a 2D space. rectangle A and rectangles B and rectangle c is overlapping each other.They have also one common point of interaction. i need to calculate the overlapping area of each rect...

This may become an inscription written on a historical marker commemorating a mass grave. Which of the following is correct: Requiesce in Pace or Requiescant in Pace? The former was offered up by a young lady who was in my high school Latin class 50 years ago. The second was provided by trans...

When I was younger I read three books that were bound into one book, all by the same author I believe. The first two books were in the same universe and the third one was not. The first book was about a man who enlists in some kind of big intergalactic(?) space war. The technology in the univers...

I'm looking to use a greek diacritic over an English letter. More specifically, I would like to use the greek 'rough breathing' diacritic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_breathing but I would like to place it not over a greek letter, but rather over the English letter $x$. Babel seems to o...

In Australian English we have a phrase 'emu parade' which refers to the action of one or more people walking around searching for specific things on the ground in a certain area. For example, say you have a picnic in a park, afterwards you'd systematically walk over the area looking at the ground...

A series of high profile witnesses have recently testified in US congressional hearings about Ukraine, particularly including Marie Yovanovitch (Oct. 11, 2019) and Gordon Sondland (Oct. 17, 2019). As far as I can tell, all such testimony has been given in closed-door hearings, with publication o...

We know of multiple celestials (Malkizid, Thah Rahalar) that served evil deities. After their fall, do they necessarily become fiends or devils? Inspired by this question.

Wouldn't that imply they recognize each other as different states? That is, if China considers Taiwan part of its territory, the Taiwanese are necessarily Chinese too. And equally the other way round. UPDATE: notice that the question is about what they do to avoid implicit recognition of each ot...

Sorry if this is a stupid question. In this passage I'm notating, the right hand has accentuating chords and the left hand carries the melody. I wonder whether I need to denote that (and if so, whether method A or B is more proper - I have seen both used); or if it speaks for itself that the left...

With Mathematica 12, I can create implicit Entity Classes like: I can also filter for having exactly a specific property, like so It seems quite trivial, but I can't seem to filter by a property not having some value. For example, I'd like to be able to say EntityClass["Country", "Continent" -

During a recent session, my character was given a Cloak of Protection and a Staff of Fire. Both items require attunement. Is it possible to attune to both items at the same time or do I need to attune to them seperately?

I was given a link to the official oracle documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/datatypes.html where it is said: Default Values It's not always necessary to assign a value when a field is declared. Fields that are declared but not initialized will ...

I need to return 3 phones that were recently purchased from US, I will be travelling from India to US (SFO). Is it okay to carry 3 Phones (packed-unused) with a valid UPS return package. Will this cause any issues at India or US customs ?

Is there any difference in meaning between the phrases in the following sentences? I will work next month. I will work in the next month. I will work for the next month. If I am right, for the next month means throughout the next month. But what about in the next month? Is it even...

I originally asked this on the Biology site, but someone pointed me towards this site in their answer for a full-on word request stating this site might be more helpful in that regard. I was talking in an SE chatroom about fingers, and not being a native English speaker, I had to look up the ...

You have 5 numbers 1, 9, 3, 5, and 7 you need to arrange these number like Rules create 2 pairs from numbers above keep one of the number in the middle then apply this law 1st pair * last pair - middle number. after arranging and applying the above rules the result should be a num...

I am building balsa free flight gliders with a chord of 0.10 meters and a velocity of around 3 meters per second. This works out to a Reynolds number of around 15,000. The wings are around 1 meter in span, and are made with the wood grain running lengthwise. They are thin undercambered (no bot...

I was looking at Science Fiction Film with a scene where actors dodge huge white crates in futuristic warehouse environment and a memory popped into my find of a film reviewed on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 which involved the hero (and I think a female) driving through a futuristic warehouse (ma...