I am using SMTP to send email through WordPress, however this requires using plain text password. What if this password is stored in wp-config.php? Very similar to this. Why this topic differs from the linked one: the nature of the password. This password can be used for spam mass mailing, and ma...

I'm reading about Embedding layers, especially applied to NLP and word2vec, and they seem nothing more than an application of Autoencoders for dimensionality reduction. Are they different? If so, what are the differences between them?

So I've read this article about 「ては」 "Te-form" versus "masu-stem + して" (消しているうちに versus 消ししているうちに) then I understand that there are 2 meanings. First is "Repeated/Habitual action" and the next one is "AてはB tends to be treated like a noun especially when two verbs are short and commonly paired" ...

In the new Harry Potter Wizards Unite game, I have a current max energy of 75, but I've used it all up. Is there a way to get more energy other than buying it with gold? Will it regenerate over time?

This question is related to a classification of rational maps in terms of properties of their Julia set. Let $f= z^2 + c$, with $c\in \mathbb{C}$ be a quadratic polynomial such that its Julia set $J(f)$ is connected. Q1: If there exists a relatively open set of $J(f)$ that is (the support of...

I have a domain model class which has a toString implementation that looks like this: public String toString() { try { return getX() + "\n" getY() + "\n" getZ(); //etc. } catch(Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } The method...

In my fantasy-medieval-with-magic world, after a great war between the gods that destroys the old gods, a new "one true god" is born. Out of a love for the people, and a desire not to change who those people are, the new god bestows a blessing to all who accept the gift. The blessing grants the ...

This is a story-based adventure program I coded by myself (forgive the length). It took a long time but it was fun. It includes loading times, changes in relationships, relationship levels, storyline and possible outcomes, user input with xbox-style options, function calling and more. Your choice...

An analog clock has 2 hands*: Hour and minute. These hands circle the clock's face as time goes by. Each full rotation of the minute hand results in 1/12th of a rotation of the hour hand. 2 full rotations of the hour hand signifies a full day. As these hands are fixed to the same central point, ...

In Colorado outdoor stores its not uncommon to see these small canisters of 95% percent oxygen that's sold to help people cope with high altitude. Is there any evidence that these actually help with altitude sickness? I mean plenty of places still sell the Sawyer Venom extractor kits and there i...

Can you find the following circle in this image ? Discribe the angles at which a line intersects the circle.

Let $U \subseteq \mathbb R^{n}$ be an open subset and let $M \subseteq U$ be a $k$-dimensional submanifold of $\mathbb R^{n}$. Consider a differentiable function $f: \ U \longrightarrow \mathbb R$. There's a corollary that states, that if $f \big|_M$ takes on a local extremum at a point $p \in M$...

I want to turn my 2 hot and 2 neutral wires into a pigtail for my outlet. Since I don't have any extra wire or black wires, what kind should I purchase? The wires in my receptacle are copper.

So, about a year ago, I composed a nocturne in Bb. And I used this harmonic progression in the B sections of it: Bb -> Eb -> C -> F -> Gm -> G ->Bb Now, out of the 7 chords in this progression(6 if you count both appearances of Bb as a single chord and not 2), only 2 are non-diatonic to Bb....

In Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica there is an enemy, Horncaller, who has an interesting ability: One with the Worldsoul. The horncaller chooses one beast it can see within 30 feet of it. If the beast can hear the horncaller, the beast uses its reaction to make one melee attack against a targe...

My friend at work was killed by one of the machines and it was awful. The place has been closed so there's no work. We don't know when the factory is going to reopen or if they're closing down forever. If they open again, I don't know if I want to go back. I threw up thinking about going back...

I'm an American citizen and I've overstayed my visa in the UK for years now. I want to book my flight back to the US ASAP on my own dime but I have a some questions about traveling home. A lot of flights I've seen back to the US have a connecting flight in either The Netherlands or the Republic ...

Two friends are discussing concepts for a new fantasy story: A: There exists a magical mirror that leads to a mirrored universe. In this universe, people drive on the left side of the road, and you were a king who was adored by everyone! Unfortunately, you from that universe died in an accide...

Could there arise naturally a plant that like mistletoe attaches itself parasitically to an oak tree that can interbreed with a regular apple tree, and produce fruit that are very similar to apples?

Imagine a fantasy story in which there once was a very powerful evil divine being, but it was defeated long before the beginning of the story. For the story it is very important that it was defeated, and things would be really bad if it was still alive somewhere, biding its time, waiting for reve...

Consider if I have some matrices constructed as such: A = { { {} , {} }, { {} , {} } } B = { { a , b }, { c , d } } C = { { e , f }, { g , h } } ... A serves as a matrix of empty lists. I want to be able to append B, C, etc. to A, to obtain a final matrix like A = { ...

As an analytical chemist, I'm always ensuring my glassware is thoroughly clean before I start an analysis. However, my supervisor always states that using ultrasonic bath to clean volumetric glassware damages its calibration, rendering it imprecise for analytical usage. Does that hold true, or is...

Today, I have played a game as Black. I reached this position, with Black to play: The position, as you can see, is closed. The truth is that I had difficulty finding a plan here, considering the pawn structure, what are potential short and long term plans? My Thoughts: There are no open file...

And fill with right Mathematical operands and enjoy. Six Relations shown in the pictures are missing the right operands. You can only use plus, minus, multiplication, division signs in between the sixes. Operations are carried out from left to right.

The picture below shows an imaginary line on the globe which crosses the Pacific Ocean and works as a rough separator of the Eastern and Western hemispheres. What is this line called in English? I'm trying to find the history behind its funny shape.

Below I have setup an extension method that takes any object, cycles through its properties, and prints each out to a Console window in the format Name: Value. Specification / Scope: Handle only single objects (no collections) code public static string PropertiesToString<T>(this...

I saw this code snippet in the example on cppreference for std::is_function and I don't understand how it works. Could someone explain to me why U gets deduced as it does in PM_traits? struct A { int fun() const&; }; template<typename> struct PM_traits {}; template<class T, class U> struct ...

I'm looking for a book I read in the early 1990s that is probably a bit older than that. I picked it up in paperback off a used-book rack in bad condition, and it had one of those extra-generic 1980s painted covers, so might have been a decade older. For some reason, when it came back to my mind,...

In this story, a character discovers anti gravity emitters, flies a shipping container into space and docks with space station.

In a press conference recently, Donald Trump threatened a journalist with prison time. Is he legally able to send someone to jail?

I would like to reduce the number of brackets in a list for nested lists containing 1 sublist. For instance {{1,2,3}} should become {1,2,3} However, {{1,2,3},{4,5}} should stay the same. I used: DropLevel[x_] := Level[x, {-1}] /; Dimensions[x][[1]] == 1 Which gives an error on {{1,2,3},{4,5...

From wikipedia: I am not sure I understand this. For example: Suppose we have $\alpha: \mathbb Z/(3) \to \mathbb Z/(6)$ where $$0\mapsto 0, \quad 1 \mapsto 2, \quad 2 \mapsto 4,$$ and we have $\beta: \mathbb Z/(3) \to \mathbb Z/(9)$ where $$0\mapsto 0, \quad 1 \mapsto 3, \quad 2 \mapsto 6.$$ ...

Five cars are driving in a roundabout traffic at the same moment. Each comes from an other direction, and drives less than one full round. Also each car leave the roundabout traffic in an other direction than the other. The cars are forbidden to pass cars in the roundabout traffic. They can le...

Scenario: Players are fighting an invisible beholder and its Antimagic Cone. One player, with high passive perception, wishes to check to see if they are being effected by the cone every five feet they move. Question: How often can the PC check with their passive perception during combat?

Does anycast addressing, in itself, add any additional latency to network connections? Specifically, if you had two servers located in the same data center that had extremely similar routes/number of hops in route, up until the actual destination, one using unicast and the other using anycast, wo...

Background: Aliens are debating whether to launch an invasion of Earth in medieval times, say the year 1000. They launch a satellite to orbit earth and send pictures of Earth to see whether it is worth taking. What would images of the Earth look like? I am guessing that the day half would loo...

It seems tax brackets are beneficial to those earning just under each the tax bracket while being detrimental to those earning just over a bracket. Discrete brackets may also disincentivize earnings in some situations if an individual is just below a bracket. There would be some obvious trade of...

I have submitted a paper to a conference which defined several submission categories: papers, posters, etc. I submitted my abstract in the paper category, but was asked to present a poster instead. I would do it if it was practical in my situation. But the conference is in another country, and t...

I wish to create a chess worksheet with 4 groups: Basic, Pawn, 2Pawns, and Minor+Pawns. A manual worksheet is done by me. But I wish to automate this process. The worksheet will pull \chessboard from each group and set them to print alongside each other. See my manual worksheet. I couldn't figure...

Is there a way to apply a function h to the following nested list {{a, b}, {c, d}, {{d, e }, {f, g}}} where this should should become {h[a], h[c], {h[d], h[f]}} h is applied to the first element of each (deepest nested) sublist, replacing this sublist. The nesting is never deeper than t...

Problem I have been trying to determine the distribution of the sum of 2 values sourced from a Rayleigh distribution with the parameter $\sigma$. Unfortunately, I am unable to match a computer simulated distribution (see below). I have grown quite frustrated with this now and have decided to r...

I'm looking for the title of a book about a human who is abducted by aliens and his brain is transplanted in an alien fighting machine or tank.

This was listed as a Zhou Enlai (周恩来) quote in my 3-rd grade Chinese book: 为了中华之崛起而读书 Wèile Zhōnghuá zhī juéqǐ ér dúshū Reading for the rise of China [Google Translate] Question: How do I parse this quote? Breaking it apart: 为了 = "for" 中华 = formal abbreviated term meaning "China" 之 =...

I'm developing a story with the following basic plot: At the start, my main character's motivating question is "Where is my brother?" As the story progresses, other problems and motivations get in the way and slowly push aside the find-her-brother quest. At the end, she finds the answer-- that ...

Lagrange points as I understand it are points in space between 2 objects where the gravitational pull between them is effectively equal. That makes station keeping at these points relatively easy. But how many satellites could stay in one Lagrange point? How big is the risk of congestion/collis...

We work in a quite noisy place where speaking is not prohibited. Moreover, the operations we do are not quiet at all. Some coworkers are eating, listening to music, talking, etc. during the day. It's allowed, though. We were speaking (in a low tone voice) when one of our coworkers shushed us in...

I played a short and funky game as Black on Lichess not too long ago, in which I fell victim to a gambit trap that caught me totally off guard. Due to the mental blow that I received, I didn't play too well afterward and I soon resigned. Here is the game that I played. [FEN ""] 1. Nf3 d5 2. e4...

If s, p, d and f subshells have these kinds of boundary surface diagram, then why don't they include the probability of finding electrons in their preceding shells? As in, if d subshells have boundary surface diagrams as stated by the great scientists, then it must include the nodes of the prec...

Plot Summary/Details This one is a real longshot, I fear. I can only recall specific details about the protagonists, with a few hazily remembered story elements to go with them. I am certain the tale was science fiction, however. As mentioned in the title, the protagonists are a pair of conjoi...

Real Women Don’t Wear Dresses is when writers portray female characters possessing traditional feminine qualities as being less desirable, competent and reliable instead of their tomboy foils. They also tend to be presented as whiny and annoying, even though they have traits or commit actions of ...

There is the following triangle. I infer that the triangle is isosceles. But I cannot go further.

I have to complete the following sentence: Wir machen die Aufgabe wider unser_ Willen. I would write 'unsere' (accusative plural), instead in the solution they write 'unseren'? Why? Is it an error?

Is there a way to use gnuplot for complicated calculations? For \pgfmathsetmacro{\x}{0.02} \pgfmathsetmacro{\y}{2*11000*(1 - 1.40576 - cos(\x) + sqrt(1.40576^2 - sin(\x)^2))} for example I get 'Dimensions to large'. % arara: pdflatex: {shell: yes} \documentclass[margin=5mm, varwidth]{standa...

I wanted to create a function describing a sport game called "Leader". The idea is that you make as many push-ups as you can, increasing each repetition by 1 and as you reach your maximum, each next repetition is decreased by 1 until you reach 0 push-ups eventually. I managed to do this using di...

The task is taken from LeetCode Given an array A of distinct integers sorted in ascending order, return the smallest index i that satisfies A[i] == i. Return -1 if no such i exists. Example 1: Input: [-10,-5,0,3,7] Output: 3 Explanation: // For the given array, A[0] = -10, A[1] = ...

I have built a sdcard.img for raspberry pi using Buildroot. When I run apt-get command it throws error "apt-get: command not found". I did not find apt-get/dpkg package to enable in 'make menuconfig' options. Now I'm trying to run cross-compiled opencv program on my Rpi but some shared libraries ...

The line - codes we are looking at consist of black and red lines. These lines can have width 1 or 2. Black and red lines are taking turns, black line, red line, black line, ... The code ends and begins with a black line (width 1 or 2). The width of the full code is 14. Question: How man...

For $a+bi\in\mathbb{R}(i)$, we have that $a+bi=a\times1+b\times i$. Then, if $a+bi=0$, then $a=0=b$. Thus $\{1, i\}$ is a basis of $\mathbb{R}(i)$. Then the isomorphism $a+bi\to(a, b)$ is what needs to be proven... I am working on making this more detailed because I think I am still being too va...

I want to know whether the function $\dfrac{x^2y}{x-y}$ is continuous at $(0,0)$ or not. when I switch to polar coordinate i get the limit of : $\dfrac{(r \cos^2 \theta \sin \theta)}{\cos \theta - \sin \theta}$ when r is going to zero. can I say that this limit does not exist because there are po...

I don't know anything about music theory but I am a fanatic when it comes to listening to classical music. For a while I have been curious about a type of chord progression which is very common in classical music but not heard in other types of music. It seems to be very common in Baroque music a...

How do I avoid the empty spacing above equation elements between \left( and \right)? \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \begin{equation}\label{eq:abe-kokos} \underbrace{5 \left( \underbrace{5 \left( \underbrace{5 \l...

Detailed answer please and thank you. I see this used a lot among youth. I'm interested to know whether it originated in the Southern US or not?

Recently I started writing songs and I started to wonder: Let's say I sing middle C (while playing open C chord on guitar) for a bar and then go to singing E, third higher in pitch. Should I follow that by a chord that also sounds higher on guitar to match the E note I sing? I'm a little confuse...

Can I use reaction spells like shield or counterspell when I'm in the middle of casting a spell with a long casting time and don't stop casting it? The Sage Advice Compendium says: Can you cast a reaction spell on your turn? You sure can! Here’s a common way for it to happen: Cornelius the w...

When I book with the Eurostar site to a destination in the south of France, they only offer a short Paris transfer time (54 minutes) between Gare du Nord Eurostar and Gare de Lyon TGV. Is this easily achievable with 2 adults and 2 walking toddlers (no buggy)? How would you travel it to not be i...

Charles Proxy has a feature that it can automatically configure your system proxy settings when it starts. Every programmatic way I've found of changing these settings (e.g. networksetup) requires raised privileges to use, however this app somehow manages to do this with standard user permission...

The MWE \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{colortbl} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{ragged2e} \newcolumntype{C}{>{\Centering\arraybackslash}X} \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.7} \definecolor{C...

This question is related to the following textbook question: The temperature of an ideal gas is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of its molecules. If a container of ideal gas is moving past you at $2000 \frac{\mathrm{m}}{\mathrm{s}} ,$ is the temperature of the gas higher t...

Almost a year ago I made a saison batch that got contaminated, I stored it out of sight(without emptying them) and forgot about it. Suppose I empty the bottle now, wash them good and sanitize them with starsan. Can I use them again or should I throw them away?

Consider these simplified tables: CREATE TABLE dbo.words ( id bigint NOT NULL IDENTITY (1, 1), word varchar(32) NOT NULL, hits int NULL ) CREATE TABLE dbo.items ( id bigint NOT NULL IDENTITY (1, 1), body varchar(256) NOT NULL, ) The words table holds about 9000 records, ea...

Let $V$ be a finite dimensional vector space over $\mathbb{F}_p$ with an action of the cyclic group $C_p$ of order $p$. We can now form the two vector spaces of invariants $V^{C_p}$ and co-invariants $V_{C_p}$. Qustion: Do we always have $\dim{V^{C_p}=\dim V_{C_p}}?$ Just to say what I do ...

予定 (Yotei) is defined as plans; 計画 (keikaku) is also defined as plans Please could you explain the difference by explicitly making reference to the following examples: Example 1: Kyuuka no yotei wa arimasuka? (What are your vacation plans?) Example 2: Mada ryokou no keikaku wa arimasen. ...

How can I compute the partial sum of a sequence of integers? This is what I have so far \documentclass{article} \usepackage{calc, forloop, xparse} \ExplSyntaxOn \seq_new:N \g_tmp_seq \seq_new:N \g_partialsum_seq \seq_set_from_clist:Nn \g_tmp_seq {3, 1, 2, 4, 0, 1} \newcounter{i} \newcounter{j}...

I am considering free falling objects that eventually hit the ground. The objects have various masses and various final (ground-impact) velocities. What should I measure the "strength of impact" with? Momentum $p = mv_{f}$ or perhaps kinetical energy $E_{k} = \frac{mv^2}{2}$? Or something else?...

I need to execute a command as I drink a water bottle. I have made a scoreboard already. scoreboard objectives add drinkPotion minecraft.used:minecraft.potion But, the execute command that I used doesn't work because as I drink the potion, it turns into a glass bottle. (Water bottle is consider...

Mana is the life energy of elves that allows it to function. These elves are similiar in design to human beings. When an elf becomes pregnant, the developing fetus feeds off of its mother's mana, abosrbing it into itself and allowing it to grow. This is minimal during the first few months, with m...

I have some friends who recently came into a great deal of money. They have always been kind and supportive of me. I'd go so far as to say I owe them a great deal for the practical help they have given me in the past. Now that they have a life-changing increase in wealth, I can see how they might...

In the Pali, nirujjhati (ni + rudh + ya) appears to be a verb for the noun "nirodha". nirujjhati ceases; dissolves; vanishes. to be broken up, to be dissolved, to be destroyed, to cease, die Uparujjhati (upa + rudh + ya) appears similar in etymology, however differs in the prefi...

Does the UK have a written constitution? I didn’t think it did, but then I found this: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_Kingdom_2013.pdf

I was watching Netflix Narcos, the word "Plata" was used dominantly to refer to money instead of "Dinero". The translation for former would be silver. Is this difference a result of advancement in language, is the word is still applied in modern usage?

While studying artificial intelligence, I have often encountered the term "agent" (often autonomous, intelligent). For instance, in fields such as Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Game Theory, Markov Decision Processes. In an intuitive sense, it is clear to me what an agent is; I was...

I want to be able to use my Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a desktop system. In order to do that, I need to be able to make use of apps such as Firefox-ARM64. Given all of the confusion regarding migrating the Raspberry PI OS to a 64 bit OS, I have no idea as to what is actually going on. Is there any ...

I want to buy some sunglasses with a white frame and blue lenses because I like the look of the colors together, something like this (I also like the side protection of this particular model): When looking for information about the benefits/disadvantages of different lens colors, I found some in...

Aura of Protection on PHB p. 85 states: Starting at 6th level, whenever you or a friendly creature within 10 feet of you must make a saving throw, the creature gains a bonus to the saving throw equal to your Charisma modifier (with a minimum bonus of +1). You must be conscious to grant ...

I had an attempt at training a convolutional LSTM network to imitate a player of the 2D platformer/shooter Teeworlds. This is an example of the data and labels I fed to the network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ocxnWipQDw The network was to predict the action of the player (on the right sid...

Why is it when I write {}.key = 0 in the chrome console I get an error: > {}.key = 0 > Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token . But when I encapsulate the above expression in round brackets I get no error: > ({}.key = 0) > 0 What exactly is going on here? I would have thought the same error...

Sometimes, some elements in logos look off-centre or misaligned even though we align them in the software (mechanically). Is it accepted practice to shift the mechanically aligned elements, so that they look aligned to the human eye? For example, in the below picture, the D looks like it is not ...

The rear of the plane is nearer to the ground, while the front part of the plane is away from the ground (see image below). Other planes are more flat. I think it was for high AoA but these planes are carrier operated so I don't think there is much sense for that. (wikimedia.org)

I ran across a curious sentence today, in a Mesopotamian prayer to a personal god (the grammar looked better in verse format): "Daily worship your god with offerings, prayers and appropriate incense. Bend your heart to your god; That befits the office of a personal god, prayers supplic...

I am hosting my Cloud Pages over HTTPS and I am having some issues due to Content builder assets being "http://"... What would be a correct way to ensure Content Builder uses "HTTPS" instead of "HTTP" I have to host some of my content externally.

What I mean by "high and mighty" (though I realise this term does not exactly paint anyone in a nice light) are characters who know their worth and know themselves to be better than numerous other people, but are not condescending towards others and do not lack compassion and empathy. They are si...

I am writing some code and I need to compare some values. The point is that neither one of the variables should have the same value as another. For example: a=1 b=2 c=3 if a != b and b != c and a != c: #do something Now, it is easy to note that in a case of code with more variables 'if' ...

I've been trying to get to some Access DB files (I know, didn't know this still existed either) from a Windows (7) machine onto my Linux Mint (19) machine. Up 'til now, I've never had to mount something with a space in it, I've always done: $ sudo mount - cifs //192.168.1.123/folder /mnt -o use...

A race of dragon-like humanoids - for brevity's sake just think of the Dragonborn of D&D, just with wings - were the first species to achieve sapience, and have had lots of time to establish a far-reaching empire that covers most of the known world. They also practice a kind of druidic magic that...

As I understand it, 'focus and recompose' is often used to ensure the subject is in focus and at the same time composition is right. It has been estimated that some lenses are best in terms of image quality at the center and soft/blurry towards the edges at wide open apertures. When I am using th...

People are confused when they hear that in int&& x x has rvalue reference type, but x is an lvalue. Misunderstanding stems from the fact that identifiers and expressions are different things, and so are types and value categories. Moreover, types of expressions are "adjusted prior to any furt...

We booked a flight via Travelocity for my stepson to return home to Vietnam in October 2019. He will travel from MCI to SEA and then another Delta flight from SEA to ICN and finally from ICN to SGN on a Delta flight operated by Korean Air. Will he be able to check his luggage all the way through ...

So after working on my game engine for 2 years, I´ve decided to step into the networking environment. I just don´t know if its good idea to rewrite the engine, or how much work it will take (but still want to try it). I´m little bit confused by some approaches, so thats why I´m here. In short I ...

Let $A$ be an abelian group. We have a map from $A \to \prod{(A/I)}$ where $A/I$ varies over the cyclic quotients of $A$. This map is given by sending $x$ to $\prod (x \text{ mod } I)$. Is this map injective?