The greatsword Hazirawn in Hoard of the Dragon Queen is described as "A sentient (neutral evil) greatsword" and it requires attunement. Are there any restrictions on who can attune to it, or any rules explaining what might happen if a good character attempts to attune to it?

Here is the stack abstraction that I've written. I've designed it to be safe and without undefined behavior. I use ugly_cast to discourage casting and to make casts more easily visible. stack.h: #ifndef STACK_H #define STACK_H 1 #include <stddef.h> #define stack_op(var, op) stack_##op(&(var)...

My father in-law took out a reverse mortgage several years ago. He later passed away. It wasn't until after his death that we learned about the reverse mortgage. He died approx. 4 years ago this coming December. Had my wife and his son known about him doing this we likely would have stopped him.....

Well, Just got instant kill from the first puzzle :P. Let's try harder this time! This puzzle will provide a screenshot in somewhere on Google Earth, please try your best to identify where the location is. The reasons to find out the location should be part of your answer. Will give a zoom-...

I have the following scenario setup inside a rectangular metal container. The container size is 12.03m by 2.39m by 1.84m (lxbxh). Additionally, inside the container I have placed 4 antennas equally spaced, this is shown using the green squares (ignore the red dots/balls). The frequency of these a...

I was asked to propose a solution to reduce echos in a large event hall measuring 70 feet long by 60 feet wide with ceiling height 14 feet( I have never done anything of this sort before). The room will be used for seminars & presentations for 100-200 people seated or standing. The flooring is ma...

I'm trying to find the correct naming for these things in the image: It's the things that surround the exhibits in a museum, and sometimes they delimit a walking area to guide visitors along. I'm mostly interested when they define a route to follow. I'm thinking about red ribbons but I could ...

I just saw articles which say the Harvest moon will be visible in the US. Apart from the US, in which other country can people see it? Can I see it from India?

I'm currently writing my thesis where I have two underlying sources where one says that a variable (has the founder of a kickstarter project backed other projects?) has influence on the dependent variable, while another source says it doesn't. What do I do in such a situation?

I'm having a "challenge" in my geometry classes getting students to use rulers as measuring devices in constructions instead of just using them to connect points with line segments and extending line segments. It's very understandable when they use them to mark off a line segment congruent to a ...

This is a problem from a mathematical contest I was unable to answer I am placing this problem with both the recreational math and calculus tags because I think derivatives are needed. the problem is: A train stops in all n stations along its route (including the initial and last ones). At each ...

This is a very abstract question, I hope this is appropriate. Suppose $T$ is some claim over some infinite set $A$, for example, let $A$ be the set of all loopless planar graphs, and $T$ be the claim "for every element $a \in A$, the chromatic number of $a$'s dual graph is $\leq 4$" (this is know...

My question is whether the structure in the title is known and has a name. For clarity: the structure is a finite group like structure $G$ but instead of the identity we have a zero element $0\in G$ such that $0 g=0$ for all $g\in G$. The prototypical example of this structure is the subset of...

I was doing some software engineering and wanted to have a thread do something in the background to basically just waste CPU time for a certain test. While I could have done something really boring like for(i < 10000000) { j = 2 * i }, I ended up having the program start with $1$, and then for a...

Before Monday I have always taken an impartial stance when ingesting information produced by clearly pro-Leave and pro-Remain groups, to analyze the information and take time to cross-reference it with the information available on the internet. However, when I read the released Yellowhammer paper...

The challenge is to write a golf-code program that, given n positive real numbers from 0 to 10 (format x.y, y only can be 0 or 5: 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 … 9.5 and 10), discard the lowest and highest values (only one, even though they are repeated) and shows the average of the remaining, in x.y fo...

I'm just wondering about the naming of these firewall behaviours? My basic understanding is that stateful filtering lets inbound traffic to return the outbound response without explicitly specifying the rule, whereas stateless requires that outbound rule to be specified. I don't get it, why is r...

I'm working with a finite list of linear equations in some amount of variables. Say, {2kx-3y,3y+2kz-x,2x+2y+2z,ky} Is it possible for Mathematica to take this list and output a list of pairs where the elements of the ordered pairs correspond to the coefficients of the variables in my formula? S...

Jump-Start is a keyword ability that allows a card to be cast from the graveyard, and then exiled afterwards. (For example, Maximize Velocity.) According to the Comprehensive Rules, the exact wording of the cast-then-exile effect is "[i]f this spell was cast using its jump-start ability, exile th...

Is は a particle in こんにちは and こんばんは?

I want love for my enemy But not for myself. I send objects to my enemy, But I don't want my enemy to get them. I am matched with my enemy. But in the end I want the match myself. Why do we run around doing this pointless exercise?

Consider the following MWE: \documentclass[border={1mm}]{standalone} \usepackage[europeanresistors]{circuitikz} \begin{document} \begin{circuitikz} \draw (0,0)to [R,o-o](3,0); \end{circuitikz} \end{document} This is the output: How can I add a text inside circuit component like figure belo...

I have a faculty interview coming up some time in the next week. For this interview I have to prepare 2 lectures. I still havent received the date, nor the lecture topics. So I havent even booked time off work yet. How much advanced warning is expected for this sort of thing? I feel that I wou...

How I am trying to put a label above a variable omega. That works well but I cant find a better way to have the sub- and superscripts belonging to omega itself without a gap. using the superscripts on stackrel itself places them way to high \documentclass[]{scrreprt} \usepackage{eurosym,bm,amsm...

I teach as a private tutor and most of my students are prohibited to use techniques and/or language constructs that they haven't been taught! There's a really broad variety of stuff that is prohibited like foreach-loops, switch-statements, functions/methods, etc. What do you think is the benefi...

I have been trying to find the answer to this question for awhile. I am writing a quick script to run a command based on output from awk. ID_minimum=1000 for f in /etc/passwd; do awk -F: -vID=$ID_minimum '$3>=1000 && $1!="nfsnobody" { print "xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=5g bhard=6g $1' /home "}'...

Let $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lim\limits_{x \to \infty} \frac{f(x)}{x} = c$ where $c\neq 0$ or $\infty$. Is it true that for all such functions $f$, if $\lim\limits_{x \to \infty}(f(x+1)-f(x))$ exists, then it is equal to $c$? Note : Say if $f(x) = x+\sin(x)$, then the conditio...

In Blender 2.80, you have options now to set a file type with it's own set of workspaces. Is there a way to rename, or better yet create a new file type?

I googled it but not got a straightforward answer What does Boys rule, girls drool mean? It is a dialogue of Dumb And Dumber 2014 film. Thank you in advance.

I've just been reminded by a friend of a line in a film we saw mid/late '80s (on video, so may have been earlier but it definitely had an 80s feel to it). It was a humorous sci fi involving humans and aliens. Towards the end, the humans (two boys?) are on the alien spaceship. The aliens are a fa...

You can save a lot on air resistance by drafting a rider closely, i.e. riding close to their rear wheel. What about the rider in front? Is there a benefit, a loss, or is there no difference?

My Mac is connected via a 1GBit Ethernet. However, from time to time I do turn on WiFi and let it connect, typically because I need to use AirDrop etc. When I'm done with AirDrop I usually turn the WiFi off and stay on Ethernet. My thinking is that "wifi is slower" and my Mac may use it when d...

Trying to figure out how much a 1 foot tall fairy would realistically weigh using these 2 guidelines Fairies are just scaled down humans . Their bones are not hollow because their flight is assisted by magic.

In our compound we have 5 townhouses with each meter serving a house. The panel is rusted and the cover gone. It would take us 3 weeks of power interruption to replace the whole thing because we have to apply for permit and it involves costs too and neighbors not willing. I initially thought ...

Halmos naive set theory section 1 quote "Observe, along the same lines, that inclusion is transitive, whereas belonging is not. Everyday examples, involving, for instance, super-organizations whose members are organizations, will readily occur to the interested reader." My question is belonging...

Was the Launch Entry Suit, the pumpkin suit, the first time any space agency used the color International Orange in anything intended to go into space? From International orange; Astronautics: The Advanced Crew Escape Suits pressure suits worn by NASA astronauts and the previous Launch Entry...

I have the passports of countries A and B neither of which require a visa to Turkey (to avoid doubt, none of them is Turkish). I am planning to book a flight in passport A, present passport B at the immigration and use passport A when checking into a hotel. What is the likelyhood that the hotel...

Here is a video on Truncatable Primes. I tried to build it myself. Here is what I have tried using the method in the video for left Truncatable Primes. myNextList[n_] := Select[10^(Length[IntegerDigits[n]])*Range[9] + n, PrimeQ]; SetAttributes[myNextList, Listable]; So a bit of testing: myNex...

My attempt: Suppose not, i.e., suppose there exists a convergent sequence $(a_n)$ that does not have a smallest or largest term. $\implies (a_n)$ is bounded sequence. $\implies A=\{a_n:n\in\mathbb{Z}^+\}$ is a bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}$. $\implies \sup{A},\inf{A}$ exists in $\mathbb{R}$. No...

How can I align the text Familia to the center as in the Excel table? Also, how can I space the cell that says Program Memory. Look Picture 2. The rotated text looks different. My code: \newcommand*\rot{\rotatebox{90}} \begin{table}[htbp] \centering \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|...

I'm trying to re-create and animate a "Whispy Clifford Attractors" this http://paulbourke.net/fractals/clifford/5.jpg from this site http://paulbourke.net/fractals/clifford/ I can create the equations and animate the a variable in Octave / Matlab (but as you can see it's not a great image see...

I am using code by @szantaii from How can you create a vertical timeline? I know there other timeline code in Latex, but I like to use the above solution, since the vertical timeline has the actual distance between the years proportional to the actual physical difference in the years. This giv...

Shouldn't these countries benefit from it. Shouldn't they want heat. To melt the ice.

In the arcade in Terminator 2, John is seen playing some sort of game with a big seat that rotates around. What game is it?

If the weather keeps up, they'll be swimming their horses round the track. What is the meaning of swimming their horses here?

Are there any words that are impossible on Scrabble even if the blank tiles are used? I mean that the words can't be played because there are not enough tiles to play it.

I know that Ireland is in the European Union but not in the Schengen Area. My question is when I got my Irish passport, can I travel to countries in Europe (or most of them that are in Schengen Area) only with my Irish passport and not taking the destination's Visa? Thanks in advance.

So, I was browsing Wikipedia today, and I came across this article, detailing a lawsuit in Ancient Greece. Basically, what had occurred was that a man, Protagoras, had entered into a contract with another, Euathlus, to provide him with training in oratory and law, in exchange for a sum of money t...

I´m wrapping my head around one issue that seems pretty simple: Cube with loop cut. Picture: I want to rotate the top planes and keep their x/y coordinates. I dont want to do it with proportional editing for multiple reasons Edit: I want to start out with a flat plane. Additional: Is there...

There is a method: private String myMethod(String gender) { String newString = ""; if(gender.equals("a")) newString = internal.getValue(); else newString = external.getValue(); return newString; } I refactored everything, but with one small change: String newSt...

So dumb impatient me used the following script on my 19.04 server in an attempt to move a bunch of video files into folders with prefixes : dirs=(A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) shopt -s nocasematch for file in * do for dir in "${dirs[@]}" do if [ -d "$file" ]...

Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) are more general than Linear Regression by construction. Nearly the same question was asked here: When to use GLM instead of LM?. However I'm not very satisfied of the different answers proposed. I was wondering: is there a systemic way to know if GLM would be m...

Seems got well-reputed for this puzzle series :D, and the next question is ready! I wish I could give out the first hint this time... Everyone is really great in PSE! This puzzle will provide a screenshot in somewhere on Google Earth, please try your best to identify where the location is. T...

Just encountered this sentence in the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, and may I ask why it is grammatical? Just not sure why there could be no conjunction between the two subjects it and he. And, it being low water, he went out with the tide.

The well known Pogorelov’s rigidity theorem says that if two convex closed surfaces in Euclidean 3-space are isometric to each other being equipped with their intrinsic metrics, then they are congruent, namely there is an isometry of the Euclidean space which maps one surface onto the other. ...

I recently discovered that the class Aves (or Birds) has been renamed Avian Dinosaurs. My question is when this taxonomic denomination achieved the consensus of the scientific community and through witch process, this change was made.

I am playing with my friend. I didn't notice that my king was in check, so I made an illegal move. We noticed this after several more moves. What should happen next? Do we restart the game or continue it as is?

Photos' source: Cessna 140 and Cessna 150. According to Wikipedia here, Cessna 150 is successor of Cessna 140. Both having 2 seats capacity with single engine. Then my question, why the newer Cessna 150 is tricycle landing gear changed from the "old school" tail wheel? If we consider the two...

The following example can be compiled with pdflatex or xelatex without any problems, but with lualatex, the compilation comes never to an end. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[slovak]{babel} \begin{document} $f'$ \end{document} What is wrong here?

Why doesn't the following always simplify to 0? Simplify[a^(b c) - (a^b)^c] If we Assume a,b and c are integers it works... Simplify[a^(b c) - (a^b)^c, Assumptions -> {a \[Element] Integers, b \[Element] Integers, c \[Element] Integers}]

As it shows in attached pictures, there is a "Difference between system uptime and last boot time" in my windows, it becomes an issue because AV, SIEM or every monitoring system shows a different time between system and boot. Because of this problem, these workstations do not accept security poli...

I have 6 equations: $$\begin{array}{l} x_1^2+y_1^2=(x_2-x_1)^2+(y_2-y_1)^2 \\ x_3^2+(3-y_3)^2=(x_3-x_1)^2+(y_3-y_1)^2 \\ 4[(x_3-x_2)^2+(y_3-y_2)^2]=(4-x_2)^2+y_2^2 \\ x_2^2+y_2^2=4(x_1^2+y_1^2)\\ 4[x_3^2+(3-y_3)^2]=x_1^2+(3-y_1)^2\\ 9[(x_3-y_2)^2+(y_3-y_2)^2]=(4-x_3)^2+y_3^2 \end{array} $$ that ...

We were travelling from Valencia to Athens via Istanbul, Turkey. We had a travel itinerary to visit Greece and had a valid Schengen Visa. However the visa officer at Valencia Airport stamped an exit schengen stamp on our passport. When we reached Istanbul, we were denied entry on the onboarding ...

Let's assume that we only have the bip32 derived btc address, no private or public key. Is it possible to find out its index used for the bip32 generation?

My home directory contains 'project' as a directory which contains 'confidential' as sub-directory and 'confidential' contains some files. I just want only I can access this folder and other users can't access it. I ran command Me:~ me$ chmod -R 700 project/confidential Me:~ me$ su Bob b...

It's not really clear how to add custom attributes when adding an external JS script to the page. Currently I have this code: drupal_add_js('https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.js', array('type' => 'external')); How can I add an integrity attribute to the rendered script tag? The rendered s...

After running caffeinate with a command such as caffeinate -s -m -i -t 172800 &, how can I show the remaining time with a subsequent command

I want to compute the matrix multiplication $ABA$, where $A$ and $B$ are real and orthogonal matrices. In fact, they are specifically $3\times3$ rotation matrices. However, it is much easier if I can reverse the order of $BA$ somehow, because I can then perform the multiplication much easier. I...

I noticed a used 10-stop ND filter for sale, at exactly the size I want, at a price of 15% of a new filter, except with shipping it's 21% of the price of a new filter with shipping. The catch? It has a scratch starting from approximately the center of the filter, ending at near the edge. The len...

\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{pst-eucl,pst-text,pstricks-add,pst-grad} \usepackage{mathptmx} \begin{document} \begin{pspicture}[showgrid](-5,-5)(10,5) \psframe*[fillstyle=solid,opacity=.5](-5,-5)(10,5) \psset{PointName=none,PointSymbol=none,linewidth=4.5pt,linejoin=2} \pnode...

I have one Visualforce page and one Visualforce controller. I have different attributes defined in the controller of Visualforce page as shown below public boolean firstPanel{get;set;} public boolean secondPanel{get;set;} public boolean thirdPanel{get;set;} I also have a separate controller...

I was studying a book of control system where i read that a block diagram is a specialized high level type of flow chart So what will be the difference between a normal flow chart and a block diagram? I have tried searching Google for this confusion but no satisfactory answer

Modes of a waveguide As shown in the link above, they show how these modes work for various values of m, n, and p. However, where is the antenna/ source of radiation placed within the cavity? From the picture I have shown the placement of 4 antennas refer to previous post here Visual understand...

#!/bin/bash read -p "Enter value:" val echo "$val"|grep "^[0-9]*$" val="$?" if [[ $val == 0 ]] then echo "Integer" exit fi echo $val|grep "^[a-zA-Z]*$" val="$?" if [[ $val == 0 ]] then echo "String" exit fi echo $val|grep "^[0-9]*.[0-9]*$" val="$?" if [[ $val == 0 ]] then echo "Float" e...

A friend called me yesterday and said that he was upset about an email where his supervisor's secretary sent an email that listed four people and cc-ed a number of administrators. A deadline was given for documents to be turned in by 5pm, and 830a.m the email was sent to all the people who did n...

I have seen a postcard with a quote "You can achieve a lot with hate, but even more with love", signed "Shakespeare", in a French bookshop. The quote is not exact, because I have translated it back from French. The original is “On peut faire beaucoup avec la haine, mais encore plus avec l'amour...

Is it possible to thicken the line graph shown when using the formula =SPARKLINE(L4:L)?

I've seen signs like the below from street view of a "Radroute" bicycle path but haven't been able to find any information in English. The signpost below seems like it is part of a decent bicycle path going for at least 50km. What is Radroute?

I need to draw a Venn diagram for$ X - (Y \cap Z), but I can only figure out how to get $X - (Y \cup) Z)? Can anyone help? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,backgrounds} \begin{document} \def\firstcircle{(0,0) circle (1.5cm)} \def\secondcircle{(60:2cm) circle (1....

I'm currently designing a self-powered PCB with a STM32L432KCU6 MCU on it. I want to use USB, but D- is already used for a different purpose. According to the datasheet, D- and D+ have to be connected to PA11 and PA12. For PA12, this is no problem as this pin is still free. However, I'm using PA...

I thought it was the blue note but this is not it. For some reason, "perfect third" comes to mind, but google returns nothing. Anyone know?

In the following exercise, I'm asked to choose between 「どんどん」,「だんだん」 or 「ぞんぞん」to complete the sentence: 遠慮【えんりょ】しないで、____ 食【た】べてください。 Do not hesitate, eat ____ (adverb) please. I think that neither どんどん (rapidly, steadily) nor だんだん (gradually) fit well in this sentence, do they? Therefore, ...

I am studying Knuth's "The TeXbook". In Chapter 12, he demonstrates the glue that TeX puts between words by looking at the contents of hboxes in internal diagnostic format. I am trying to use \showbox command to generate the output myself like below. \setbox0=\hbox{''Oh, oh!'' cried Baby Sally. ...

If I am talking about my dog, and I want to say: He is big and angry. In Spanish, using "enojado" and "grande", what should I do? "Enojado" uses estar, while "grande" uses ser. How can I say this?

If I am asked a question in English using want, for example: Do you want to talk to me? I can respond like this1: Yes, I want to. I can't say: Yes, I want. It would be very incorrect and weird. In Spanish, how can one say "I want to"? Also, supposing this works, does it work w...

So my USB containing a Live Linux booting environment got semi-corrupted. It seems to be booting, but the EFI partition got corrupt, because of Windows failing to write to it. So I thought why not use Linux for that. Is it possible to format a Kali USB running Live Kali? If so, then how? I trie...

Are there infinitely many pairs of $(a, b)$ of relatively prime integers $a > 1$ and $b > 1$ such that $a^b+b^a$ is divisible by $a+b$? I've spent almost two hours on this question to no avail. The small cases I have tried, such as $(3, 5)$, $(3, 7)$ and $(5, 7)$ all work, so I'm conjecturing th...

Just put a new sink in and was not lucky enough to have the plumbing line up. I have it roughed in and wanted some insight/opinions on whether this will work, or what I need to do to fix it. I have a slope leading from the disposal to the trap, but with the new larger sink, my p-trap is about 2" ...

We see in both books and movies that Harry Potter is Dumbledore's golden boy. Their relationship was more of a personal thing. Dumbledore was more like a mentor than a headmaster to Harry and Dumbledore makes sure that Harry is safe. The boy knows this that he is there for him if anything happens...

I am troubled and afraid of pets because of hygiene reasons but almost everyone is telling me I should not consider hygiene as a reason to avoid them and be appaled. I am a person that loves hygiene. I dislike and avoid physical contact with humans when dirty and/or sweaty. I must shower at leas...

Imagine a traveling party of about 30 people, animals, wagons, and a bunch of equipment (e.g. think traveling theater). I'm trying to come up with a way for a devilish entity to teleport all of that away (on the same plane); or alternatively, teleport everybody and their animals, and then make al...

This puzzle is based on Where is it? - The Google Earth Challenge series started by Conifers, :D Hey, check these out! These seven places are so special because the devil from hell did an experiment to combine a chicken sandwich and popcorn by accident. Silly, know where are they?

I define a command \test that does nothing but define a control sequence \c[count], where [count] is the current text value of the counter count at the time \test is executed. I want \c[count] to output the text "Number \thecount", where \thecount should be the value of count at time of executio...