Obviously an employer absolutely can't require employees to vote for any particular candidate (or even to vote for any candidate rather than spoiling their ballot), but if it was included as a clause in employees' contracts that they must (in company time) attend the appropriate polling station a...

Which of the parameters of a block cipher (e.g., algorithm name, mode of operation, IV (if any), key length) are essential to keep secret?

Now I'm trying to use this to check it: List<Tool__c> tools = [SELECT Id FROM Tool__c WHERE Date__c >= 2019-09-11T00:00:00.000Z]; for(Tool__c t : tools){ //And I'll get here 101 limits because of SOQL in the loop, yeah: List<Gear__c> gears = [SELECT Id FROM Gear__c WHERE Tool__c =: t.Id...

The setting: Present day. The country is up to you. Whatever would be easiest. The guy: Highly skilled. Maybe ex-Marine? Special forces? You can have him be "top of his class" at just about anything, but not a genius or a superhuman. Has a death wish, but like, for everyone. He knows that h...

Recently I approached my manager to approve my 4 days leave (Paid Time Off). He said "Let's make it 3 days and take sick leave on the 4th day". He does this every time I apply for more than 2 days leave. His justification is that since Paid Time off (PTO) can be carried forward to next calendar y...

I am currently outside the US trying to log in to my health care provider's website and the connection just times out. I reached out to them on Twitter and they told me that as a security measure they block connections from outside of the US and suggest I use a VPN. So great I can use a VPN to s...

If I place an enemy or individual in a set of dimensional shackles (I've already placed instant summons on the shackles), and I summon the shackles to me, what happens? As I read the description of the spell and the shackles, I notice a few things: The individual can't teleport away from the s...

I was looking through the supported units of a city with I saw that my stealth bombers had two bearded faces wearing red hats in the bottom right of their icon. What does this mean?

I know the difference between open interest and trading volume. Open interest is the number of contracts, long or short, outstanding. Trading volume is the number of contracts traded in a day. However, I am struggling to understand this concept intuitively. When would open interest equal tradin...

I have a list of strings, some of which are all upper case, and some mixed upper and lower, and some are digits with commas: lis = {"ABC","Abc","Def","1","DEF","Ghi","Jkl","MNO","1,"} I would like to StringJoin adjacent elements that consist of mixed upper and lower cases to give: res = {"ABC...

I have a hard disk that was formatted and reinstalled its OS. The problem is, it wasn't booting before formatting and the data backup that I've made before formatting, for some reason, don't have all the files. There are Microsoft Word *.docx files missing. Now I'm trying to recover the file...

I'm syncing a full BTC node onto an external hard drive, which I'm connecting to by USB. I've created a bitcoin.conf file which sets a very insecure rpcpassword. This is literally the only field I put in the bitcoin.conf file. In what way does this matter? (I've just changed the password. Should...

I have followed all the instructions here https://www.drupal.org/node/2598914 I'm developing a module with a block, and when I went to the Block Layout page and clicked "Place Block", the list of blocks did not come up due to an error in my code. I edited the code and was sure it was correct, ye...

Background I recently received a hefty promotion for $350k (plus stocks and bonuses) with the same company. Now that I can finally start to pay down my debt, I'm not so happy that suddenly 45% of my pay disappears in the form of taxes. Question What can I do to minimize my tax exposure (i.e....

This is probably a dumb question and I'm likely missing something obvious but here's my reasoning-- where am I going off the rails? 1) Most actively managed funds do not beat the stock market index over the long-term. 2) This implies that fund managers are performing worse than a random guess. ...

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What is a safe minimum rate of climb for ultralights? I understand most ultralights climb at least 300-800 ft/min and in fact the Canadian ultralight specs call for a minimum rate of climb of 300 ft/min. Even the Lazair's specs note a rate of climb of 400 ft/min. Why does Canada require 300 ft/m...

I have installed QGIS and I would like to upload a .xls-file (or Access database) with 2 GPS points (starting point and ending point), a road name and some distances from the starting point, for instance, every 500m from the starting point until the ending one. I would like to have a route in QG...

This would probably work better when the Druid has the option to stay indefinitely in Wild Shape form (usually starting around level 16-18, when a single use of Wild Shape lasts 8-9 hours). In any case, can a Druid Wild Shaped as a horse equip and use magical horseshoes?

Where can I find studies done on the strength dimorphism between male chimps and female chimps? For example, "one-arm pull strength is 300 pounds for male chimps and 200 pounds for female chimps"

If I am in the US, am US citizen with a US passport, and my passport was lost, how long would it take to get a new one, if I can spend a lot of money? I see services online such as "rushmypassport", but I don't know if these are legitimate or if they just speed up the delivery process, once the p...

What do you call the battery slot's ends? By that, I mean the spring and the little round flat end for the plus and minus ends of the battery. Do they have a name? I looked up on the Internet, but couldn't find anything.

In the figure above, LED A is a regular 5mm LED and the visual identification of its terminals polarity is well known. As you can see, on LED B the anode is identified by the longer leg, but the other rules for visual identification are inverted. I've confirmed the situation above with a ...

I have a tab delimited file which looks like this: gene v1 v2 v3 v4 g1 NA NA NA NA g2 NA NA 2 3 g3 NA NA NA NA g4 1 2 3 2 I want to remove those rows from the above file where all the fields for every row from columnn 2 through last is NA. Then the output should look ...

I am trying to make an absolute value parabola function with TikZ. When I try to create the right and left sides of the parabola(the ones that would be underneath the x-axis in a normal function) I can't without including a bend underneath the x-axis. \task\begin{tikzpicture} \draw (-10,0)--...

I have some errors during debugging I2C chip. I took an oscilloscope and found some strange artifacts on the log: Maybe somebody has a suggestion about such questions? 1. What are these strange spikes at the beginning of each clock cycle? 2. Why SDA data ground level have different values?

class Foo{ public static int x = 1; public static void main(String[] args) { Foo foo; System.out.println(foo.x); // Error: Variable 'foo' might not have been initialized } } While trying to access x via an uninitialized local variable Foo foo; I get the compile erro...

I am applying to biology REUs(Research Experience for Undergraduates) this summer. Would a white female junior from a small R2 university, 3.9 gpa, and one summer of research experience be likely enough to get into one these programs? I've heard that it's a long shot if you're not a minority, the...

Why does squeezed toothpaste automatically goes inside? (When I squeeze my toothpaste it remains outside till I am squeezing, as soon as I stop squeezing it automatically goes inside) This phenomena is generally observed when toothpaste is partially empty tubes but not in fully tubes. Why?

In Michael Bishop's SF book Transfigurations (1979), the author (in the course of the narration by the main character) refers in several instances to one or another "debussy", by which he evidently means a bathroom (i.e. a loo/WC/toilet/washroom, depending on your local usage). I've never encoun...

I'd like to seal the hole in the wall/vanity where the drain goes to. I assume there is some sort of circle cap that I could glue there. The reason is that I feel a current of air going out of there. I am in the 4th/top floor of an small building, sometimes the air smells. I believe there is a ...

I am working through a problem with path names. The previous version of a site used short codes for url paths. Coming into this for a new project and the short code based paths, while deterministic, seem user-unfriendly to me. Example current as1/u2/m4/s7 Example longer assume-1/unify-2/mobi...

The question askes the sum of $1$ to $n$ and a number $i$ which $1\le i \le n$ is equal to 1986 Which means $$\frac{n(n+1)}{2}=1986-i$$ Then how to find the solution algebraically? I get $i=33,n=62$ by listing them...

Hello I'm using a mid 2015 MBP. My battery lasts 1-2 hours now, I got this text Condition: Replace Soon on the battery icon. Other stuff are my computer sometimes heats up, gets really slow and fans start working extra hard while working on basic stuff, like running Chrome. I have to close the...

Two of our players' characters have had (since the beginning) a very 'pig-tail pulling' relationship from day one. One is a high lady, the other a rougher sea-man. Little fireballs aimed at armpits, lots of insults and little poison quills stabs...you get the picture. Both players seem good with ...

Consider the following 2 variations on a sentence: Diese Filme werden noch nicht im Ausland gezeigt. Diese Filme wurden noch nicht im Ausland gezeigt. Are they both proper German and, if so, do they mean the same thing or what is the difference?

The other day one of the phases of our power faulted and the fuse tripped on the power company side. I measured the voltage at 60-65V. Lights were flickering, and some devices kept running (like a dell computer, it was perfectly happy at 60V). How does the power back feed from one phase to a 't...

I've been trying to answer the following question: If the nilradical of $A_{P}$ is zero for all prime ideals $P\subset A$, then the nilradical of $A$ is also zero. I tried to prove that it is true, but I couldn't came up with any proof. In the other hand, I coulnd find any counterexample in...

I'm reading this manga, and came accross the following monologue: たかが弦ごときで世界の終わりみてーなツラしやがって 俺が上げて落としたみてーで後味ワリーだろがッ 俺の昼寝返せ!!! I can't understand what 上げて落としたみて means. Is this an expression? Are those verbs all changing each others meanings? I've found those translations so far: "I...

I'm working on a practice algorithm problem, stated as follows: There are eight houses represented as cells. Each day, the houses compete with adjacent ones. 1 represents an "active" house and 0 represents an "inactive" house. If the neighbors on both sides of a given house are either both ac...

What’s the difference between 「[独]{ひと}り[言]{ごと}」 and 「[独白]{どくはく}」? They both mean ‘monologue’?

Like saving powerpoint as .ppsx starts playing the presentation when you open it, is there a similar feature in KeyNote as well?

If I think about the characters I came up with in my mind so far, I usually get a pretty big list: (Gyvaris, Martha, Adam, Anon, Anon Requiem, Amrar, Cephit, Koldryd, that lizard guy I never made a name for, Aial, Iris, Horus, The GM, Saphire and Ryn) 15, not too shabby. The problem comes with t...

I was approached to fill a position in an organisation, and during salary negotiations, I was told that they wouldn't budge on the salary because employees were expected to get a pay raise in April the following, and if you were to add up the bonus, the annual package would be sufficient. Given...

There are services to project from one coordinate system to another, GIS software packages that perform projections, but it is all black box, as far as I've been able to find. I want to see the calculations/equations necessary to calculate the reprojection from NAD 83 Michigan GeoRef (EPSG:3078)...

Many programming language provide operators for manipulating the binary (base-2) digits of integers. Here is one way to generalize these operators to other bases: Let x and y be single-digit numbers in base B. Define the unary operator ~ and binary operators &, |, and ^ such that: ~x = (B - ...

It is a fantasy world where Magic has been fading away for a millennium and a half. Lead naturally disrupts magic, such as ending/negating Mage Armour (D&D) when struck. Mercury is discovered to create extremely effective Dragon slaying qualities when combined with Lead. Assuming an Italian renai...

Can you find a convex quadrilateral such that all its sides, diagonals and area are distinct integers? Note that a polygon is convex if all its internal angles are smaller than 180 degrees. Good luck!

We are making a new database design where we are setting some rules upfront. I dunno how much it makes sense to have these rules in place, Each table and column name should be meaningful. It should give information about the table or the column's purpose. Table names should not exceed 27 charac...

Is there any information about who was Chief Poking Fire? He was the chief of Kahnawake reservation close to Montreal (Canada). On all the pictures he looks like a person with European descent. Is there any information about this person? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawks_of_Kahnaw%C3%A1:...

Is there a connection between the monster from IT and Gozer the Gozerian from Ghostbusters (1984)? Both are inter-dimensional, shape-shifting monsters who take the shape of whatever their prey fears. But is this merely a coincidental similarity between the two stories or are they connected some...

The question is "How many strings of six lower case letters from the English alphabet contain the letters $a$ and $b$?" Why doesn't $26^6 - 24^6$ work? $26^6$ is all the possible permutations of $26$ letters MINUS all permutations without $a$ nor $b$.

You are trapped in this 5x5 labyrinth - each room is labelled from 1 to 25 and the exit is in room 1. You are given as input the room you are currently in. Your task is to output the shortest sequence of moves (north, east, south, west) needed to reach room 1. Moves can be output in any forma...

This puzzle is dedicated to all of you! Instructions There are 8 anagram questions below. In each question, you can rearrange the letters to find an answer, which is 2 English words that describe a type of PSE users. These "types of PSE users" are related to the Q&A activity and other feature...

So far I was able to figure out most things I needed to do in anydice on my own and with help of various posts in forums, however in this case my math knowledge fails me. How do I calculate the probability to roll for example "1,1,1,1,1-4,1-4" with 7d6 and such? And how do I code that in anydice...

I know it's not important to ask this question but then I'm only curious about this. Who is "Kentaro"?

Or can reads, and preferably writes, that are outside the snapshot (basically everything) still progress?

I have a ESRI geodatabase reader to read input table and i am using where clause to limit data based on date. write now i am using the user parameter to ask user latest date for input table. and then i am writing it to output table. I want to check the maximum date in output table and based on t...

I am a reader more than a writer, and fantasy is my favourite genre. I used to write short stories and poems, some of them are get published in magazines and get good reviews. In 2018 January I read the complete collection of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympu...

Can you place twelve mines on a Minesweeper grid such that they create twelve 4s? The size of the grid can be arbitrary. The mines may create numbers other than 4s, but those are irrelevant. Good luck!

Kurodoko (taken from Nikoli) Colour cells black according to the following rules. The numbers on the board show the number of white cells from the number to the nearest black cell or to the frame of the board (horizontal + vertical). The cells with numbers cannot be black, they a...

How can I create and train a neural network with a scalar Boolean output for binary classification, and hopefully have it automatically compute the "ErrorRate" property (described here) during training? Here is an attempt that resulted in errors: (* create training data *) rmf = RegionMember[D...

I enjoy a symmetry and my motion is oscillatory From the tip of your hand I spiral down to the end I am graceful and sinuous but to use me is not arduous You probably used me What could I be?

This is code, written by our dev team, and SonarQube tells me that the Cognitive Complexity is too high: 21, and the current (default, out of the box) metric limit is 15. I've had a go at reducing the complexity and would love some feedback. For those interested, the full source code is also ava...

I was visiting the Louvre recently, where I tried to ignore the lines to Leonardo's Mona-Lisa and looked at all the other great art instead, such as Michelangelo's dying slave and the many works by Raphael on display. I somehow managed to miss or not notice Donatello's works in the huge museum, b...

I'm a bit puzzled about following example: public class Driver{ ICar car; public Driver(ICar car){ this.car = car; } public void Drive(){ car.Drive(this); } public void ChangeCar(ICar car){ this.car = car; } } public class ICar { void D...

This question is hypothetical - there is no specific project, I just have an obsession with efficiency. I use a lot of 3.3V modules, and have a bunch of single-cell LiPo batteries (which are amazing), so I'm wondering what would be the best way to combine the two if I were to make a project tha...

So, I am working on a multiple page pdf. I need to setup margins on each side of the page using guides. There are 300+ pages and I am working on each page at a time. I don't want to add guides in each page manually. Even coping the guides from one page to another is tedious and frustrating. Is th...

This question just trended over on code-review and I figured you might like it adapted as a codegolf challenge: You are given a non-empty list of x houses represented as booleans. Each day, the houses compete with adjacent ones. 1 represents an "active" house and 0 represents an "inactive" house...

I have the following TikZ tree: \begin{tikzpicture}[grow=south, level 1/.style={sibling distance=50pt}, level 3/.style={sibling distance=25pt}, level distance=30pt, every node/.style={draw, circle, inner sep=0pt, minimum size=5pt}, inner/.style={fill=black}] \node {} child {node[inne...

I'm making a program to compare Borderlands 3 weapon damage over time in a graphic. There's still some work to be done, like implementing elemental damage, but I'd like to know if I'm doing a good job for now regarding the main firing logic. My biggest concerns are: General readability. Weapon...

I live in a big city (in Paris, France) and take public transportation every day. I'm perceived as a woman and I will sometimes have to sit near a man who is "manspreading": sitting with their legs spread wide enough to take up more than 1 seat of space. I find this behavior very rude and unplea...

I notice Canon lenses start at $125 for the 50mm f/1.8, and the $125-$400 range is filled with many options from wide angle to telephoto, not even counting third party brands. Whereas the cheapest Fuji lens I could find was $300, and prices quickly go up for wide angles. Are Fuji lenses really ...

Here p is a character pointer not an array! Yet compiler gave no warning or error? char *p = "Vladimir";

I am writing a stored procedure which will accept a parameter and send mail to some recipients. I am using the sql builtin stored procedure. here is the code create proc send_mail_admin(@usage_data as varchar(200)) as begin --get the list of mail admins from Users declare @admin_list varchar...

In fishing, there's a knot called "Blood Knot". Wikipedia cites The Ashley Book of Knots: The barrel knot, called blood knot by Keith Rollo, is the best bend there is for small, stiff or slippery line. The ends may be trimmed short and the knot offers the least resistance possible whe...

I have the following topology set on AWS where there are 4 CSR 1000v Routers deployed and Segment Routing enabled in which the Segment Routing Headend is R1 and the destination is R3. I aim to send iperf traffic from Endpoint1(Client) to Endpoint2 (Server) with the following SR path = {R1, R2, R...

I've been trying to grow some lemon trees from seeds. Everything went mostly fine: out of a dozen germinated seeds I got 5 seemingly strong & healthy saplings growing. These are the saplings after about half a year: However, after a few more months they started to gradually lose all their leave...

Specifically, the Matt Colville way of rolling stats is: Roll 4d6, drop the lowest value die for 1 stat; If this roll is lower than 8, reroll it; Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have a set of 6 stats greater than 8; If there are not at least 2 values of 15 or higher in this set, drop it entirely...

I was readingTime complexity, it says that addition and multiplication are done in polynomial time without any explanations. Can somebody give a detailed proof why this is the case? Thank you

This is the repost of the following question as suggested by @HoboProber . Again, if you don't know what is Schelling's model of segregation, you can read it here. The Schelling model of segregation is an agent-based model that illustrates how individual tendencies regarding neighbors can l...

I'm currently learning Java online and am confused about the following code and what one of the elements in the array is evaluating to: int[] a = new int[]{9, 8, 3, 1, 5, 4}; for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { if (a[i] % 2 == 0) { a[i] += 1; } else if (a[i] < a.length) { ...

I'm hoping there is a regular shuttle service which is easy to find and fairly cheap.

Historically, in the UK if a property owner died intestate with no heirs, the property ownership went to the Crown under an escheat. During the Black Death, in the 12th century, the population of England was reduced by 30-40%, presumably this wiped out entire families and left a lot of property ...

First time ever make a riddle. Forward, I will lead the way. Backward, freedom you shall have. Keep going, I'll hold them back. Take my sword, do what you must. Dead or alive, our rights are just. Who/what am I?

I have a bunch of old neon indicator lamps recovered from old AC devices and used to indicate power status. I wonder: is there any reason nowadays to use the neon lamps instead of LEDs? I see they are still widely available. LEDs are cheaper even after considering the need of a diode in AC appl...

Assume, there is a simple test PHP script: <?php $a = ($argc == 2 ? $argv[1] : 10); for ($i = 0; $i < $a; $i++) { echo '.'; } echo PHP_EOL; Now, I do a grep or a conditional sed on the file: grep '<' test.php yields the two lines containing the <. That's clear. grep '\?' test.php yield...

We, the readers, know Batman has no superpowers. I have no idea if the villains know that. Several superpowered heroes use technology to augment their capabilities, so it is not a wild guess to say that the Bat might have superpowers too. Do the villains know for sure that he has none, or not? ...

I want to use the macro \as for abbreviations in my document. However, siunitx interferes with its use in pdf bookmarks. The following MWE produces a document with a section named "foo" in the document, but "as" in the pdf bookmarks. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{siu...

Let $E\subset B_1(0)\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a compact set s.t. $\lambda(E)=0$, where $\lambda$ is the Lebesgue measure, and $B_1(0)$ is the Euclidean unit ball centered at the origin. Is the following integral finite: $$\int_{B_1(0)}-\log d(x,E)d\lambda(x)<\infty?$$ Although this question seem...

I am working on a paper in the field of AI. I've developed a new technology that allows many state of the art benchmarks to be improved on. I want to make sure that when I publish the paper, anyone/company that wants to use the technology can do so free of charge with no strings attached. My fear...

Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to write a program that outputs a non-zero number(can be integer or float). The tricky part is that if I reverse your source code, the output must be the original integer negated. Rules You must build a full program. That is, your output has to be printe...

Say I have three dictionaries dictionary_col2 {'MOB': [1, 2], 'ASP': [1, 2], 'YIP': [1, 2]} dictionary_col3 {'MOB': ['MOB_L001_R1_001.gz', 'MOB_L002_R1_001.gz'], 'ASP': ['ASP_L001_R1_001.gz', 'ASP_L002_R1_001.gz'], 'YIP': ['YIP_L001_R1_001.gz', 'YIP_L002_R1_001.g...

As a DM, I like to award items to my players. These may not be in the module I'm currently running, so I often draw from the DMG. I recently found that XGtE also has a list of magical items (this shows both lists). I can use D&D Beyond to filter magical items by sourcebook, but there are a mill...

It’s well known that Avraham kept the entire Torah which clearly prohibits human sacrifice, but once HaShem tells him to sacrifice Yitzchak he was willing to break that law. So obviously HaShem can suspend the Torah’s laws. Is there any other case where HaShem asks a Navi to do something contrar...

$\require{AMScd}$ I'm considering minimum values (at non-zero integer points) of real, positive-definite, quadratic forms of determinant $1$. These are functions $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}$ which can be represented as $x\mapsto x^\intercal Ax$ for some symmetric, positive-definite matrix $A$ w...

The verb audire is many times (if not most of the times) found with an accusative. For example, in the Vulgata, 4 Regum, 22:11 says: et audisset rex verba libri legis Domini, scidit vestimenta sua. Yet, sometimes it appears with a dative. For example, 4 Regum, 22:19: et perterritum est ...

Can さくじつ and きのう be used the same way? I know the terms mean yesterday. Thank you!

Last night I made some lovely chicken. However the flavour from the marinade was lacking and spotty. Some parts of the chicken (drumsticks) were quite flavourful, while in others the flavour was more in the background almost like an after thought. Now, a quick note - I normally cook using dry r...

In the next couple of months, I am planning to have to conduct several interviews with candidates for full-time and intern/co-op positions. I work at a very large company that is well known in the industry. The problem is that sometimes we don't have enough conference rooms in the facility, so w...

In football games, I heard people use "卧草" for time-wasting actions near the end of a game. Is "卧草" a proper Chinese word? I did not find it in dictionaries.

Once a week we have team meetings that are scheduled during lunch which the company buys (irrelevant to me since I bring my own lunch anyway). I have no problem with the timing, but I find it insanely frustrating when people talk and eat at the same time. Obviously people try not to talk and chew...

Recent stable version of Debian, Debian Buster, does not have Java 8 any more. However, Java 8 is still widely used in productive settings, and doing this is a huge fallback before any upgrade. Anybody knowing better the internals of the Debian mailing lists, and their communication, what could...