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12:06 AM
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Q: What do these triangles above and below the staff mean?

Jonathan Ting The image above is taken from sheet music of The Dreamy Fish by Erik Satie, I'm not completely sure what those triangles mean. Looking them up, they look closest to sforzando symbol, but that one doesn't seem to be as tall, and would the upside down one also be a sforzando symbol? Thanks in a...

 
5
Q: Heyacrazy: Careening

DeusoviThis is a Heyacrazy puzzle, designed at request of testsolvers of previous puzzles who wanted to see how longer diagonals would work. Rules of Heyacrazy: Shade some cells of the grid. Shaded cells cannot be orthogonally adjacent; unshaded cells must be orthogonally connected. When the...

 
1
Q: What is the difference between computational complexity and time complexity?

WeCanBeFriendsComputational complexity seems to be used quite a lot in cryptographic papers. The time complexity I am referring to is the one from Computational Complexity Theory. Are these two the same things?

 
DBA
2
Q: SQL Server Management Studio - Why is Dark Theme Disabled by Default?

Code NoviceWhy is the Dark theme disabled by default? Are there some bugs with this theme or something along those lines? It seems odd to me that it is forcible disabled on purpose. I found plenty of links that I made use of to turn on the 'Dark' Theme for SSMS however I'm curious to know why this settin...

 
5
Q: Examples of topos that are not ordinary spaces

M CarmonaIn [SGA6] we find: Mais nous lui conseillons néanmoins, de préférence, de s'assimiler le langage des topos, qui fournit un principe d'unification extrêmement commode. Lets motivate this advice following some examples of topos that are not “ordinary” spaces: Comme autres exemples remarqu...

 
6
Q: In an interdisciplinary context, is the argument of "imposter syndrome" really applicable?

asquaredThere are many questions on this SE from young researchers who are not sure if they are "good enough" to actually be awarded a PhD because they think their work is not good/novel/innovative/advanced enough. Often times the answer to these questions is "imposter syndrome", especially in cases in w...

 
12:32 AM
1
Q: Command in bash shell script to find path to that script?

murrayIs there a command to go inside a bash .sh script that will provide the full path to the directory containing that script?

 
12:47 AM
2
Q: A discontinuity in an integral

Jonathan ShockI have a function which I'm trying to integrate, which is perfectly smooth and Mathematica sees it as well defined everywhere in the region over which I'm integrating it. The function is: Sqrt[((1/2)^2 - Csc[x]^2)/(-1 + (1/2)^2 Cos[x]^2)^3]Sin[x]^2 and the graph of this over 0 to pi looks lik...

 
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Q: You have 3 cakes. Everytime you eat one, there's 17% chance the number of cakes is reset to 3. Find average number of cakes eaten?

HuNI did a Python simulation and the answer is 4.40. But I think there should be a theoretical approach for this problem. I remember having seen variations of it mutiple times but don't know the technical terms for it. If anyone is interested, here's my simulation: def reset_to_original(starting...

 
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Q: Converting a set into a string

BubbalooThe input is a set of alphabets. The output is a string of 32 in length. For any letter in the set if it is preceded by a '¬' we replace the n-th character in our output string with '0', such that n is the position of the letter in the alphabets. If it is not preceded by a '¬' and was there in ...

 
Law
3
Q: How much authority do teachers get from *In Loco Parentis*?

GridAlienI am concerned entirely with the issue as it relates to property. Let's say at Madeup Prep the cell phone policy allows for phones to be in pockets, but not out in class. Some teachers, however, ignore this, and have students use their phones to answer questions in real time (via something like...

 
1:05 AM
2
Q: What does "set -x" do in a bash script?

LostI am reading a bash script and it start with set -x. I googled around and I did not find any single manual which does describe all the flags in details specially -x. My apologies if I sound like someone who did not do his research before asking the question here but I sincerely did not find any ...

 
1:20 AM
2
Q: I can see my two means are different. What information can a t test add?

YashMethods such as t-tests and anova find the difference between two means using a statistical method. This seems strange to a beginner like me, one could simply find the mean of two groups and understand if they are different or not. What is the intuition behind these methods ?

 
TeX
1
Q: Drawing 3 circle (diagram) in Latex

aanI am relatively new to diagram in latex. Basically, I want to draw a diagram as shown below. It does not be exact same, but around that content. \usepackage{tikz} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw (2,2) circle (3cm); \end{tikzpicture} enter link description here

 
1:53 AM
1
Q: How to determine car loan length as a function of how long I plan to keep a car

HowiecampI will be financing* the purchase of a brand new car that I plan to keep for 3 years. Based on this I am trying to understand how to structure the loan variables (term, rate) appropriately. Should I get a loan that lasts only as long as I plan to keep the car? Or how should I think about this?...

 
DIY
2
Q: How to investigate a problem with blown 50 amp HVAC fuse without power?

Kon RadMy AC unit has the fan working but not the condenser and I found that one of the two 50 amp fuses was bad. Unfortunately after replacing it, I saw and heard a spark and the new fuse was blown immediately after replacing it. Then I replaced the capacitor (just in case) and checked if there are no ...

 
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Q: An interview question: What's the number of String objects being created?

bhpshI was asked in an interview about the number of objects that will be created on the given problem: String str1 = "First"; String str2 = "Second"; String str3 = "Third"; String str4 = str1 + str2 + str3; So I am not sure that the answer I gave was correct or not. I answered that there would b...

 
2
Q: Leaving (and reentering) Schengen area with document of other country as a EU national?

dkaeaeI am a EU national of country A, currently residing in Germany, and also a citizen of non-Schengen country B. Nationals of country B are issued a 90 day tourist visa upon entry to the Schengen area (no need to obtain a visa in the country of origin). Unfortunately I have lost my passport of coun...

 
2:30 AM
5
Q: How do we calculate energy of food?

totalMongotHere is the problem, according to me: In a classic hamburger, according to my internet research, approximately 906 kJ are contained. Now take a car of 1 000 kilograms, and push it to 30 m/s. It has a certain kinetic energy, which is: 1 000 * 30² = 900 kJ So does it mean that the work (in a phy...

 
1
Q: Strange-looking FM transmitter circuit

S. RotosI found this simple FM transmitter circuit: I built it an it works rather nicely. There are many simple FM transmitter circuits on Google, most of which look basically like this: These work by modulating the base-collector capacitance of the BJT using the sound signal, which appears in para...

 
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Q: Remarkable applications of Dickson's lemma

Salvo TringaliDickson's lemma states that, for a fixed $k \in \mathbf N^+$, every set of $k$-tuples of natural numbers has finitely many elements that are minimal with respect to the product order induced on $\mathbf N^k$ from the integers. The lemma has many and diverse applications: E.g., it was used by L.E...

 
3:21 AM
2
Q: Why are non-collision-resistant hash functions considered insecure for signing self-generated information

KOLANICHLet we have a hash function that is second preimage resistant but not collision-resistant. Then an adversary can create a pair of different messages M and M', M is benign and M' is malicious, for both of which the signature will be valid. I don't understand why it is an issue in the setting whe...

 
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Q: Did anyone try to find the little box that held Professor Moriarty and his wife after the Enterprise D crashed?

Katie GoodenIt was bad enough that Captain Picard tricked and trapped two sapient beings in a little cube, rather than in any way acknowledge their rights under Federation law, but whatever happened to that cube? The Enterprise crashed, but was the salvage crew made aware of what to look for? Are the two h...

 
3:39 AM
5
Q: How many US airports have 4 or more parallel runways?

Wil NeumannWhich airports in the US have four or more parallel runways? How many are planning additions in the next 5 years?

 
2
Q: Is there any example of one country devastating a third?

totalMongotMy question comes from a video game I am playing: I am playing Austria, in Napoleonic wars. I am fighting France as main adversary, but I just captured and looted Bavaria and Saxony, two little states allied to France. Thus, some countryside with no resources (looted) will separate my territory ...

 
CS
3
Q: Sending `C-c C-c` to the process window without swithcing to it

A. BlizzardIn ESS mode, I sometimes send some code to the process buffer and want to cancel it using C-c C-c. Can I do this without actually switching to the process window from the script window?

 
DIY
1
Q: Need help tracking down why the tension pulley is red hot after putting on new riding mower belt

user1447679I have a John Deere LX188 and had a bit of a grass fire which destroyed the secondary deck belt. I put a new belt on, and as soon as I engage the deck it starts burning rubber and smoking. When I shut it off the pulley that you see in the pic is blazing hot. That's where it's happening but I ca...

 
3:56 AM
2
Q: Are there languages that inflect adverbs for gender

jknappenTriggered by this answer, I am curious: Are there languages that inflect adverbs for gender or noun class? I have consulted the following two questions but the given inflections of adverbs in their answers are comparative/superlative and agreement in voice (passive): Does any language conjugat...

 
TeX
4:07 AM
3
Q: Position a tabular on the corner of a slide

Marc KeesI would like the tabular in the following slide to be placed "floating" in the upper right corner of the slide. How can I do it? \documentclass{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{itemize} ...

 
1
Q: Almost uniform convergence implies convergence in measure

DanmatLet $(A,\mathcal{F},\mu)$ be finite measure space and $\{f_n\}$ a sequence of finite real measurable functions so that $f_n\rightarrow f$ a.e. We say $f_n\rightarrow f$ almost uniformly if $\epsilon>0$, there is $E\subseteq A$ such that $f_n \rightarrow f$ uniformly on $E^c$ and $\mu(E)<\epsilon$...

 
4:50 AM
1
Q: Heat reduction based on compression

johnny 5So I was thinking about air conditioner today and how we run air across compressed freon to cool down air but why do we need freon at all why not store just compressed air. My guess is because its inefficient. My question given a 1 cubic meter tank of air, if the room temperature at 1 atmospher...

 
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Q: Is it possible to generate a leveled character in borderlands 2?

finduslIn borderlands 2 for steam,is it possible to generate a character at a specific level and story mission point for the standard multi-player campaign? Reason: I played borderlands 2 some years ago fully by myself. Then I played it again with my brother. Now that I'm married I started playing it ...

 
DIY
1
Q: What is the best type of paint to paint a shipping container?

user379468Looked for a better stack exchange forum to post this on but did not find one. Looking at buying a used shipping container. The guy who is delivering will paint it but he uses latex. I'm wondering what type of paint is best on a shipping container, and if you can paint that directly over the ship...

 
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Q: Read file lines into shell line separated by space

MojimiI have a file called requirements.txt, each line has a package : package1 package2 package3 I'm looking for a command that will take each line of requirements.txt and join them in one line, space separated. So basically, I'm looking to generate the following command: command package1 package...

 
5:23 AM
2
Q: Handwriting Music

ACMPI am a composer who started on computer software to write, but am now switching to handwriting music. I have read that one writes everything out in pencil first, then goes over it in pen, but how far does the pencil go? Do you write all lines, all key signatures, all time signatures, and all bar ...

 
6:03 AM
2
Q: GPU chip implementation on CPU - will it be faster?

AlexSo, modern video cards include two devices - a video signal generator and a graphic accelerator. The first of them converts data from video memory into MDA / CGA / VGA / RCA / DVI / HDMI / etc format. The second is another co-processor (like mathematical co-processor), the purpose of which is t...

 
6:17 AM
1
Q: "Sorry to bother you" in an email?

lmcI recently sent an email to a professor asking him about an administrative problem I was having, but after I'd hit the send button, I realized I'd forgot to say: "Sorry to bother you" or something of that sort in the beginning... Now I'm wondering is that considered impolite? Shoud you apologize...

 
1
Q: essere/stare - location of a building

Alan EvangelistaI know that "essere" is used for the current location of a moveable object (eg keys) and "stare" is used for the usual location of a moveable object, therefore I suppose that the latter is used with the position of a building (which does not move). However, I got confused because Google Translate...

 
6:42 AM
1
Q: Transposing from C to Cm?

dugtrying to transpose a song from C to Cm, is this possible? how many semitones?etc My software is playing up and my theory isn't that great, thanks

 
RPG
7:29 AM
2
Q: Can I control a Hound of Ill omen as I would any other mount?

RuseSay I am a small Shadow Magic sorcerer, I summon a Hound of Ill Omen, I mount it, and I attempt to control it. Does it move as I direct it, choosing only between Dash, Disengage, and Dodge? Or does it only move towards its target, using every action to Attack it?

 
7:50 AM
2
Q: Are we sure Millenium Prize Problems can be solved?

JacopoStanchiI would like to know if we are sure that the 6 remaining Millenium Prize Problems, like the Riemann hypothesis and the P vs NP problem, have a proof in set theory. They might fall into the undecidable category as far as we know, right? Thank you for your help.

 
8:29 AM
4
Q: Which cells to pick to get a pure sample of DNA without precise equipment?

NecrikusNormally when conducting DNA testing, I presume techniques are utilized to ensure you're just testing one individual's DNA from a sample, even if it is possible that sample was contaminated one way or another. However, in a thing I'm writing, there's a character that is able to produce personal...

 
 
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10:00 AM
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Q: Improving Performance of an XY Monte Carlo

KaiI normally write my Monte Carlo codes in Fortran for speed, but I was doing some quick and dirty work and wrote one in Mathematica for the XY model on a square lattice (see Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition). Monte Carlo is normally all about speed, since we are usually interested in very large sy...

 
10:38 AM
1
Q: What are the nuanced usages of まず?

Toyu_FreyThe following lines of dialogue is spoken by a girl to the narrative character in a book I'm translating. 「普通の人なら、あの状況{じょうきょう}ではまず間違いなくパニックになるわ。 自分の置かれた状況を把握{はあく}しようとして、混乱しているうちに殺されていたはずよ。 でもあなたは違った。状況を把握するより先に状況に対処した。 それがあなたの才能なの」 I know まず generally means 'first', but I am unable...

 
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Q: Change my first, I'm entertaining

Paper Towel Change my first, I'm entertaining Change my first, I can kill Change my middle, I'll be over Change my middle, I'm some bloke Change my last, I'm made of skin Change my last, I'm better than gin

 
 
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11:50 AM
2
Q: Maps between grassmanian with inclusion property

Ali TaghaviEdit: According to the comment of L. Spice I changed the inclusion sign to the subset sign. Is there a continuous map $f:\mathbb{C}P^3 \to Gr_{\mathbb{C}}(2,4)$ with $x\subset f(x)$? What about a map $g$ in the opposite direction with $g(x)\subset x$? What about a holomorphic version ($f$ or $g$...

 
12:10 PM
1
Q: How do proponents of Sola Scriptura address the ministry of those Apostles who authored no parts of Scripture?

Paul ChernochMy purpose is to find a defense of sola scriptura against one part of the argument put forth in this article: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/going-beyond The author of the article uses as one of his pieces of evidence in his argument against sola scriptura the ministry of those...

 
12:36 PM
2
Q: Most natural way to use the negative with つもり

ineedhamWhich is more natural to say in Japanese? Do they have slightly different connotations? 食べないつもりです。 (I intend not to eat.) 食べるつもりはないです。 (I do not intend to eat.) Also, are those translations fairly accurate?

 
12:58 PM
1
Q: Sum ergo cogito?

Dzamo NortonFollowing Descartes but in the opposite direction: I exist. Something has made the assertion in the previous sentence and must have thought it to do so. Therefore my thoughts exist. Combining with the direction established by Descartes I have cogito ⇔ sum. Since assuming either is equiavlent...

 
1:50 PM
1
Q: How do I control aperture with lens reversal for macro?

tomriddle99I bought a lens reversal ring to try macro photography on my 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. But when I tried it, I couldn't control the aperture as my lens doesn't have manual aperture control. I attached the lens normally and changed the aperture and again detached it to use it reversed. But still, the ...

 
4
Q: Why ArcTan[1, 0. I ] yields -1.5708+0. I?

Hallow_JuanWhy ArcTan[1, 0. I ] yields -1.5708+0. I ? The result should equal to 0. Is this a bug?

 
2
Q: Can you expiate someone else's wrongs?

ZebrafishThis is a public notice to the people of a town in Yugoslavia (now in Serbia) by a Nazi commander in 1941. This was a reprisal attack against the people of the town because some Yugoslav partisans killed 10 Nazi soldiers. The end result was that 2300 residents, who were occupied by Nazi Germany,...

 
TeX
2:37 PM
2
Q: Problem when including a foreach loop

AwerakaI have the next code which makes exacty what I wanted, that is, to plot the triangle and show the values of every interior angle. \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz}\usetikzlibrary{angles,quotes,calc} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \coordinate (A1) at (0,0); \coordinate (A2) at (2...

 
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Q: Could George I (of Great Britain) speak English?

SpencerWeb based sources differ wildly in stating how well King George I could speak English. Brittanica says: Since he could not speak English, he communicated with his ministers in French. Wikipedia, in its own inimitable way, waters this down quite a bit: Though he was unpopular in Great ...

 
2:51 PM
3
Q: Pronunciation of ce/ci in Rome

Alan EvangelistaThe standard pronunciation of C before the vowels I and E (occurring, for instance, in words "innocente" and "abbraccio") is /tʃ/ . However, I am watching a movie which takes place in Rome and everyone seems to pronounce it /ʃ/ instead. Does this pronunciation belongs to the Roman accent?

 
3:04 PM
3
Q: Quick Sort in C

sturcotte06I'd like to know if there's any issues with this implementation of qsort_r (which is not available in all implementations, so I'm trying to provide one that allows to compare values in a dynamic environment) and whether it could be improved upon. typedef int32_t compare_fn(void *data, const void...

 
3:20 PM
1
Q: How do thermal tapes transfer heat despite their low thermal conductivity?

PhilI found myself needing to attach small heatsinks to Mosfets and CC power regulators. Also some high-power diodes. Today I have learnt that thermal compounds, even best in the market, are dozens of times less conductive than aluminium or copper. I understand thermal compound is used only to cove...

 
3:33 PM
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Q: Why is the UK so keen to remove the "backstop" when their leadership seems to think that no border will be needed in Northern Ireland?

x457812In this article titled "Merkel Didn't Give Johnson 30 Days to Fix Brexit" the author writes The U.K. has been told time and time again that as soon as a workable solution is found to the problem of the Irish border, the backstop won’t be necessary. Also as far as I understand (but I cou...

 
1
Q: Debian Wheezy Archive EOL Term

DennisDebian Wheezy has reached its EOL (end of life) now. Does it also mean that all its files found here http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/ will be killed and deleted for good one day too? How long are the archives kept for and do they also have this EOL term?

 
3:50 PM
10
Q: Tex Quotes(UVa 272)

TwilightSparkleGiven a string, replace all left-double-quotes into two backticks and all right-double-quotes into two single-quotes. Left-quotes means the quotes that starts a quote. Right-quotes means the quotes that ends a quote. Quotes cannot be nested. You may assume that there are an even number of double...

 
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Q: Where was Carl Sagan working on detonating a nuke on the Moon? Where was he applying when he leaked it?

uhohAt 18:49 in Scott Manley's video The Craziest Things You Can Do With Nuclear Weapons he says: This was an idea to… it was a number of ideas; they thought it could raise morale with the US. The idea was that they would fly a nuke to the Moon and basically hit the “dark side” and create a giant...

 
4:11 PM
3
Q: Lost property on Portuguese trains

badjohnWhat do I do if I leave an item on a Portuguese train? I was travelling from Lisbon to Lagos with a change at Tunes. The change was quite tight so I hurried. As a result, I forgot a bag.

 
4:23 PM
5
Q: Network helper class with retry logic on failure

sfarzosoI wrote an helper class which allow me to request the body content from a site that is created by AJAX, for doing so I'm using Puppeteer Sharp. This is the class: using System; using System.IO; using System.Net; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using PuppeteerSharp; namespace Ap...

 
4:39 PM
1
Q: Arduino oscilloscope voltage divider design

MordecaiI'm building an oscilloscope with arduino, but I have some questions about how to design the input voltage dividers without ground. The problem is the oscilloscope only needs one input to measure voltage, but as far as I know voltage is a comparison. So how can the oscilloscope measures voltage w...

 
2
Q: Is there any way white can win?

Pranav[fen "1K6/1P3q2/1P6/P7/3k4/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"] Is there any way that white can win or draw in the above game?

 
1
Q: How to get my button in a dialog click?

Smartsheet engI have added the following JS to a node form, it clones the submit button but clicking it inside the dialog (which does show up) doesn't submit the form in the browser, just nothing happens when the button is clicked. I also tried adding the button server side, same results: (function (window, D...

 
TeX
4:54 PM
3
Q: Asymmetric table

le rouge et le noirI have a question regarding my table. It appears that the code delivers a table that devotes the majority of the space to last column. I couldn't figure out the reason. What might be the problem? \documentclass{buthesis} \usepackage[usenames]{color} %used for font color \usepackage{amssymb} %mat...

 
5:07 PM
1
Q: How do I make my image comply with the requirements of this photography competition?

ghena yousefI am participating in a photography competition. but there is something that i want to ask you about : "we may require the originals of the awarded photographs to be submitted by the relevant participants, with a short side of minimum 2200 pixels and bit depth of 300 dpi." " Contest photographs...

 
5:24 PM
4
Q: Why is 7 Bd3 in the Cambridge Springs QGD more often met with 7...Ne4 than 7...dxc4?

user1205901My question relates the Cambridge Springs QGD when Black deviates from the main line by playing the well-known inaccuracy 7 Bd3. [FEN "..."] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 c6 6. Nf3 Qa5 7. Bd3 I had always been taught to play 7...dxc4 8 Bxc4 Ne4 here. However, searching an u...

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Q: Why is 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Bg5 almost never played?

A. N. OtherWhy is [fen ""] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Bg5 almost never played? Isn't it a logical opening move? OK, it goes against the rule of "Knights before Bishops in the Opening", but is a general rule enough for this move to be virtually never played at top level?

 
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Q: How can I make a map from 2 lists?

Yassine TalhaI have 2 List<String>s, the first one represents a list of all items, and the second represents selected items. So I would get a Map<String, Boolean>, from those lists, whose keys are all list1's items, and value is list2.contains(itemOfList1) (true or false). Map<String, Boolean> mapOfDataList...

 
5:41 PM
2
Q: Does merkle root contain hashes of transactions from previous blocks?

Sanjeev DwivediEvery block in a blockchain contains merkle root value. So for any block, there is some list of transactions and you create a merkle tree based on these transaction. For other blocks, same process will repeated. My question is: Let us assume that A, B,C,D are transactions and we create a merkle ...

 
6:00 PM
5
Q: How to find volume from Washer method?

Rae AnnSo, I want to use Washer method to find $$\pi \int_{y=0}^2 (\sqrt{4y})^2-(\sqrt{4y}-0.1)^2 dy.$$ I've literally spent a day trying to do so, and when I treat each part separately and then subtract the answer keeps resulting in a) a negative or b) two drastically far apart numbers Hence, I th...

3
Q: Is the position of vector in space immaterial?

hanugmAre length (magnitude) and direction the only features to quality an entity as a vector? If I move a line segment($ls$) in space without changing its length and direction, then the resultant line segment $(ls')$ is also the same vector? For example, the line segment joining $(0,0)- (3,4)$ and t...

 
6:38 PM
2
Q: 'Us students' - Does this apposition need a comma?

Riddle AaronCan a pronoun be used in apposition without comma? A few of us students have participated in the match. This sentence looks quite awkward at first glance. Is this sentence gramatically correct? I can't find any forbidding rule regarding a relation between pronoun and comma in apposition.

 
2
Q: Showing that the limit of non-eigenvector goes to infinity

KeithLet $A$ be a $3$ by $3$ real matrix with the triple eigenvalue $1$. Also, further suppose its eigenspace corresponding to $1$ is only of dimension $1$. Thus, we can find a basis of $\mathbb{R}^3$, denoted by $v$. $w_1$. $w_2$ where $v$ is an eigenvector of $A$. Then I have to show that $\lim_{n ...

 
TeX
6:52 PM
4
Q: Two questions about typesetting a Roman missal

Gregor PerčičI'm putting together a Roman missal for use by the laity at Traditional Latin Mass. Thus far, I've faced two main problems, which are apparent in my MWE. \documentclass[a6paper,pagesize,12pt]{book} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{color} \u...

 
7:29 PM
3
Q: tar using short form option versus old style

user10796158In the GNU manual for tar, there is the following example to show that the order of the options is important: tar -cfv collection.tar blues folk jazz In this case, because v is placed after f, then the tar archive will be named "v", and tar will try to add collection.tar to the archive if it e...

 
RPG
3
Q: How do the Etherealness and Banishment spells interact?

Medix2The etherealness spell states: You remain in the Border Ethereal for the duration or until you use your action to dismiss the spell... I am aware that the spell does not allow you to go back and forth like the blink spell and others. Let us asume somebody is under the effefts of etherealn...

 
7:45 PM
6
Q: Are the A380 engines interchangeable (given they are not all equipped with reverse)?

Sam CreamerI have noticed that the A380 only uses the two engines closest to the fuselage to reverse thrust to brake. Are all four engines the same (i.e.: could they theoretically swap engine 1 and engine 2) or are the inside ones different from the outside ones? In general, would the outside ones have rev...

 
DBA
1
Q: Sql server sleeping state is increasing using ADO.NET?

VikasWe have one live ASP.Net application which is used by around 1000 concurrent users. In this application we have used connection pooling. There are 2 connection string defined in web.config with different name but we are calling same DB. <add key="connection1" value="server=1.1.1.1;USER ID=**;pwd...

 
8:18 PM
6
Q: Localization at a multiplicative set is a localization at a prime ideal if local

helloLet $R$ be an integral domain. Assume $S$ is a multiplicative set in $R$ such that the localization $S^{-1}R$ is a local ring. Does there exist a prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}\subset R$ such that $S^{-1}R\approx R_{\mathfrak{p}}$ as $R$-algebras (if not, at least as unital rings)?

 
RPG
8:36 PM
1
Q: Murderer's Gloves, which book is it from?

AndrásI tried googling it, but no luck. It is supposed to be good for rogues.

 
5
Q: How would a Creature that needs to be seen by Humans evolve?

AOS1981 Leader Of The 1981 ArmFor my question, I was wondering the idea of a creature that needed to be visually seen by Humans or else, if no sight on it by a human being has been made then it can only last for 24 Hours. I was wondering, despite the obvious Non-Scientific biology part of it, would there be a more scientifi...

 
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Q: Uri tokenizer as a simple state machine

t3chb0tI was feeling like writing a new Uri parser. The previous one was too limited and wasn't able to parse the authority part. This one is also based on the pretty image here and can tokenize all parts. I drew the image as an ascii art below. Core The implementation has a single method Tokenize th...

 
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Q: Can RMSE and MAE have the same value?

HiyamI am implementing cross validation and calculating error metrics such as RMSE, $R^2$, MAE, MSE, etc. Can RMSE and MAE have the same value?

 
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Q: Can I get temporary health insurance while moving to the US?

Kevin DalmeijerSoon, I will be moving from the Netherlands to the US on an H1B visa. My new employer in the US provides health insurance as soon as my contract starts. However, I will arrive one week before the start of my contract. Can I get temporary health insurance in the meantime? By law, as soon as I der...

 
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Q: Managed Package: How to get rid of dependency from Territory Management feature

wesawSF is going to drop Territory Management (aka TM 1.0) in Summer 2020. So we are trying to migrate our managed package to Enterprise Territory Management (aka TM 2.0). As the first step of such migration, we are building some abstraction layer at Apex code level to work with territories, hiding ...

 
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Q: Is MOSFET active device?

PkmbThe i-v characteristics of MOSFET lies in the first and third quadrant. Therefore it should be passive device acc to me. But I have read that it is an active device. Can somebody tell what is wrong here or what am I missing? Because for passive elements Pout should be less than Pin which corresp...

 
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Q: Very slow boot time and poor perfomance

copernicusI have jumped back into using Ubuntu again, but I am having real issues with the overall performance of Ubuntu 19.04. It's very sluggish, it locks up, but the worst is that it can take about 5 mins to boot up. I have an old Dell Optiplex 7010 with an i3 3000 processor with 8 GB of ram and using ...

 
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Q: What verb is かまされる?

ChristerIn the first light novel of the Konsuba series there are two pages of character profiles. In them Kazuma say to Darkness, どこかの誰かに爆裂魔法をかまされたからな I am confused as to the meaning and identifying what verb that is. Any ideas?

 
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Q: What does Deviance mean in lmer

Helio CuveProbably a rather silly question, but I would like to have a clear explanation of what deviance in linear mixed models (using lmer) is. For instance, how do I interpret it along AIC, BIC, and LOgLik in the anova output below, when conducting a model comparison. Thanks in advance!

 
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Q: Ionization energy of neon vs its cationic counterpart

Schwarz Kugelblitz Which requires more ionization energy: $\ce{Ne}$ or $\ce{Ne+}?$ It seems to me like it should be neon because of noble gas configuration, but the answer given is $\ce{Ne+}.$ Does this anything to do with size of the atom shrinking? Is this because cationic counterparts always have more ioni...

 
 
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Q: Wrong arrangement of boxes in raster of tcolorbox

lylThe following MWE constructs raster boxes of tcolorbox. There are two problems with these code: Boxes do not rank on line, but in different rows. The second row in #2 box is not filled. Please see the attached figure for details. Anyone can help me with the above two problems? Thank you. ...

 
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Q: What should come first--characters or plot?

weakdnaI'm starting a new fantasy story, and although I had a loose idea of plot, I began sculpting my characters before writing anything. Creating images of them in my head, developing their personalities, mapping out their interpersonal relationships, and, my personal favorite, searching for people o...

 
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Q: How do I prevent other wifi networks from showing up on my computer?

spectrumI understand that I can prevent my computer from connecting to networks automatically under System Preferences > Network > Advanced, but I want to not even be able to see networks other than ones I have specified. I don't want to see this long list:

 
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Q: How do you interpolate outside the range of data?

Donald AireyI've got a simple interpolation function using data from an external program. For values above 3,000, the function reaches a limit. FreeElectronFractionData = {{3000.000, 1.0829044}, {2999.700, 1.0828636}, {2999.400, 1.0828634}, {2999.100, 1.0828633}, ... {2.701, 0.0000003}, {2.401, 0.0000003},...

 
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Q: Gparted can't create partition table because flash drive is read-only

EVARATEOverall, I want to make a live usb drive that installs Windows 10. Originally I did that with unetbootin which seemed to work fine. Then I tried booting from that USB-stick but nothing showed up in the boot menu. So I checked again with gparted and it says that the entire stick has no partitions:...

 
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Q: pgfplots: Missing one group of bars

aronadaalI'm trying to draw a bar diagram with 4 value groups each consisting of 5 bars. I think it's a scaling problem, so not all the groups were drawn. I already had a look at the documentation but I couldn't find the right config to make that happen... \documentclass[tikz, border=10pt]{standalone} \...

 

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