Using the sample data from here, I'm attempting to write JS code (to the ES6 standard) that is equivalent to an SQL inner join. The solution below works fine, but it seems rather long. Is there a more concise approach? const employees = [ {name: 'Alice', department_id: 12}, {name: '...

I seem people list their AOS and AOC on their CV's, but it is not clear to me how these categories are distinguished from each other. Is the AOC the general field in which you work and the AOS your specific interests within that general field? Or does the AOS represent your research interests and...

According to Wiki: An ongoing occupation protest conducted by pro-Palestinian students is occurring at Columbia University in New York City. The protests began on April 17, 2024, when pro-Palestinian students established an encampment of approximately 50 tents, calling it the Gaza Solidarity Enc...

Let $F$ be a local field of characteristic zero and $G$ a connected reductive group over $F$. Let us call an inducing datum a triple $(P,M,\sigma)$, where $P$ is a parabolic subgroup of $G$, $M$ is a Levi factor of $P$, and $\sigma$ is an irreducible admissible representation of $M(F)$. Let $I_{M...

Is it possible to do a Structure Activity Relationship for caffeine given that its structure is similar to that of adenosine? Maybe more potent analogues can be made using caffeine as lead compound? What could I do to conduct an in-silico study, say I make a new molecule (modified caffeine), in t...

Let a matrix the $A \in M_{n\times n}(\mathbb{R})$, and has set of eigenvalues, $\sigma(A)$={$\lambda_1$,$\lambda_2$........,$\lambda_k$}, that is $\forall \lambda \in \sigma(A)$ such that orthonormal base $B_\lambda \subseteq \mathcal{E}_{\lambda(A)},$ the eigen space of $A.$ My question is that...

Today we learned about partial limits of a sequence, i.e. a limit of some subsequence. We wanted to prove a theorem where a sequence has a limit if every subsequence has the same limit (can be infinity or -infinity). The teacher showed us a pretty long proof of this fact, but I came up with a muc...

I'm trying to remember the name of a book I once borrowed from the library over two decades ago. All I remember of this book is the main character was female and there was a line in the book where her boyfriend began saying, "A rose by any other name" and she cut him off and said, "still smells l...

I was creating a geopackage of points with a DateTime field, and the QGIS (version 3.32.3-Lima) seems to treat it as naive localtime data. Layer/CreateLayer/NewGeopackageLayer: Layer properties/AttributeForm/ my datetime field/ -- Choose default DisplayFormat, Default value=now() Layer/edit/Add...

I graduated high school with an IB diploma. I am a current undergraduate and I am wondering: Should I include high school IB diploma on CV/resume? I have read this question, so I am essentially asking the question of is this achievement valuable enough to put on my CV/resume? I think if I were a ...

I am just trying to understand the technical explanation of why a platform resource loader does not work in LWR sites, what is the workaround to make it work? We have a few LWCs that use static resources (JS library stored in CDN) and would like to understand the LWR sites to see if it's possible...

(I'd like to premise that I'm not an expert about these topics (just a student), so many of my doubts and perplexities are probably symptoms of my mathematical immaturity) I'm currently studying differentiable stacks and I'm a little confused by the following statement: Many classes of interesti...

A group $G$ is metacyclic if has the following exact sequence $$1 \to N \to G \to K \to 1$$ where $N$ and $K$ are cyclic groups. In the split extensions, the wikipedia says that direct and semidirect product of metacyclic groups is metacyclic. What about non split extensions? Is it true? I mean, ...

I'm trying to make two ListContourPlots with the same contour spacing and colors. One plot has a larger maximum value that seems to be screwing with the even color distribution in the plot: data1={{17.58,31.56,37.75,108.4,31.19,6.694,1.084},{6.814,17.7,32.47,38.79,31.19,6.694,1.084},{2.206,6.869,...

Economic rent seems to be behind rising inequality and stagnating growth (Stiglitz, 2016) arguing that a wealth residual explaining both declining capital and labour shares in national income is ultimately a result of economic rents. Theoretically it has strong foundations to explain inefficienc...

I followed a guide to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 since I actually needed some fixes they introduced in it. The guide was pretty straightforward. It just had me do sudo apt update and upgrade, etc, and then sudo do-release-upgrade -d (it didn't work without -d). It downloaded everything, s...

If I wanted to build a space-faring probe (no humans on board), would it be possible to build the structure and covering of the ship so that it absorbed the radiation in space and used it as fuel? I am thinking that it would be built on a moon or space-station and launched to make a long trip (50...

The \sqrt in the urw-garamond (mathdesign) package becomes upright at very little, like in the example image. I don't suppose this behaviour can be changed? Is it possible to replace the \sqrt command from another package which fits well with this font? \documentclass[english]{article} \usepack...

I'm trying to disconnect stainless steel drain pipe where it connects to my threaded galvanized pipe so that I can repipe a ptrap for a vanity from the threaded galvinized using pvc. I'm stuck because I can't seem to pull the steel pipe that is inserted out, despite having loosened what I think i...

I want to cast a 5th level Banishment on two party members who are both native to the Astral Plane. Theoretically they will both fail their save (Silvery Barbs and a high save DC). We are currently on the 4th layer of the Nine hells and my Word of Recall spell failed as the DM ruled teleportat...

Colossians 1:27-28, Douay-Rheims 1899 American edition: To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory. Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man p...

In strange new worlds s2e7 Boimler travels back to the Enterprise. He is addressed as Ensign and he himself is deferential to Pike. Is there evidence that this kind of time travel allows an officer to retain the privileges of their rank, or do they just automatically become an observer or somethi...

Wikipedia says: The algorithm loops through each node of the graph, in an arbitrary order, initiating a depth-first search that terminates when it hits any node that has already been visited since the beginning of the topological sort or the node has no outgoing edges (i.e., a leaf node) Consid...

I have data from an experiment comparing plant weights for 4 independent treatment groups. The data seem to be normally distributed (I have been warned about using statistical tests for normality). However, my sample size is really small ($n=16$ in total; $n=4$ per group). Would a Kruskal-Wallis ...

The 39 year old ceiling fan has 2 switches , one for the light and one for the fan. What should I look for in a new fan. I want to keep the 2 wall switches if possible and do not care about a remote.

Long story short, the (attached) garage on my house has foundation issues and also structural issues with the roof. (The main structure does not have these issues.) I know I need to do something about it. But I don't know what to do - Can it be repaired? Do I need to tear it down? Something else?...

How to sum in a column from the max value upwards until the value is not descending? Here is the example: A 15 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 I want a cell to calculate the sum value from the max value in a column, sum them upwards, until the number i...

I am doing some DMV queries on SQL Server Analysis Service, like SELECT * FROM $system.DISCOVER_SESSIONS. This query will return data for all databases on the server, so it's not really database-specific. When I connect to the server through AdomdConnection, I don't specify the database/catalog i...

As it was shown by Malcev, unlike the commutative case, in which every domain can be embedded in a field, there are noncommutative domains that can't be embedded in a division ring. For noncommutative domains, the nicest way they can be embedded in a division ring is if they satisfie Ore's condit...

I am facing trouble to plot each $d$ orbitals projected density of states from VASP output, firstly taking DOSCAR I used VASPKIT package, and I extracted PDOS_UP.dat and PDOS_DW.dat file which contains $s$, $p_x$, $p_y$, $p_z$, $d_{xy}$, $d_{yz}$, $d_{z}^2$, $d_{xz}$,$d_{x^2-y^2}$ orbitals contri...

If a United States utility patent has expired but a virtually identical World Intellectual Property Organization patent is still in effect, would the WIPO patent prevent any US manufacturers from making and selling products in accordance with specs of the expired US patent for purely domestic use...

My sister and I will in the future each inherit a 50% share of our parent's house. The house needs immediate significant repairs, amounting to tens of thousands of pounds. I am prepared to pay the maintenance costs for my parents, but my sister will not pay anything towards those costs. Is there ...

I've been struggling with this bottle's material. Especially the cap and the base. The cap seems to be a translucent material so I've been experimenting with IOR, Alpha and transmission in the principal BSDF. The spirals used for closing the cap is almost visible. Whereas the base is more clear ...

I'm not sure if this is too broad, but a character I have in my story is mute. This character only has three fingers on each hand. They probably aren't going to be able to use ASL or other sign languages because they only have the three fingers, so how would I create a unique sign language that o...

I know that the general rule for converting pancakes to waffles is add an egg and 1/3 cup of oil. However, as you can see below this recipe has 8 eggs and no oil (except that used for cooking the pancakes. I wondered if adding an extra egg and 1/3 cup oil would work for this recipe? Or should...

Near the beginning of "The Sculptor's Funeral," a character says, "Jim's ez full ez a tick, ez ushel.” Indeed, Jim does habitually drink to excess. Does "ushel" mean "himself"? If not, what does it mean? The heavy man turned on his heel without replying, and walked up the siding. The spare man s...

The main character in this novelette (or maybe a short novella) is really the Tube, which is what Londoners call their subway. It is a story totally different from the novel Neverwhere I asked about in A fantasy novel under London. But the POV character is human, an American. With his wife, for t...

I've read that, when browsers send website requests, the DNS lookup part of the request is not encrypted, and is therefore a security vulnerability. Also, I'm aware that routers have DNS settings, over which WiFi users have no control. Can and should ordinary Safari users, accessing shared WiFi ...

From "Jo's Boys," by Louisa May Alcott... 'A true woman, and a born sailor's wife! You are a happy man, Emil, and I'm sure this trip will be a prosperous one,' cried Mrs Jo, delighted with the briny flavour of this courtship. 'Oh, my dear boy, I always felt you'd come back, and when everyone els...

My story has a species of civilized creatures who feed singularly on blood. They can harvest it from livestock (likely cattle) and keep it stocked (they don’t need to drink directly from the animal). From what I can tell, there are two ways for them to harvest blood: either slaughtering livestock...

1mm pitch. PCB side has U shaped pins that contact the top and bottom of the wire side connector - like an edge connector.

Suppose we have an Instance class in a C++ program, which has a GUID/UUID, name, parents, children, and other properties which can be saved to or loaded from an XML file. The intuitive approach for representing the name of the Instance is to give it a property of type std::string, char*/char[], o...

Suppose a multitude of people all recount similar experiences. They describe seeing a cup on a table or observing the Moon in the sky. Each person reports their own subjective experience of perceiving these phenomena. Based on their reports, there seems to be agreement or consensus among the indi...

Risk.net has recently run a story about the "risk matters hypothesis" which refers to Sharpe’s Arithmetic and the Risk Matters Hypothesis by Haghani, Ragulin and White (2023). If I understand its message correctly, the claim is that an average active managed portfolio will achieve worse risk-adju...

I am reading the book titled 'A Companion to Philosophical Logic,' where I gained insight into how logic serves as a tool for representing our thoughts, which are expressed in natural language. In my experience, languages vary in their power of expressiveness, which depends on the richness of the...

One of the two main puzzles of self-deception, as reported in the SEP, is the static paradox ("How can one be in the state of self-deception?"): The dual-belief requirement raises the static paradox since it seems to pose an impossible state of mind, namely, consciously and simultaneously believ...

related For this challenge, we'll be using a simplified dialect of regular expressions, where: A lowercase letter from a to z matches itself. (expr1|expr2) matches either of expr1 and expr2. You will not have to handle more than two operands, and you can assume there will always be parentheses a...

I was wondering how I can export the temporary reprojected coordinates from a vector file. I am working in zone 50 and imported a file in zone 51. QGIS did a good job reprojecting this on the fly, however when I open the attribute table the coordinates are still in 51. I would like to export this...

The code that inspired this question can be found here and below: require(graphics) ## One-sample test. ## Hollander & Wolfe (1973), 29f. ## Hamilton depression scale factor measurements in 9 patients with ## mixed anxiety and depression, taken at the first (x) and second ## (y) visit after ini...

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I'm new to electrical engineering and created this simple AND gate in LTspice. This LED has a max of 2.1V and 120mA. I calculated the resistor using the formula R=V/A=(5V-2.1V)/0.12A=25 Ohms. If you run this circuit, however, you will get a lower current and a higher voltage than what was calcul...

Apparently, when the value of a TeX counter is modified inside an enumerate environment (and no doubt many other contexts), it acts like a local variable, so that any modifications to it are local to the environnent. For example, this code \documentclass{article} \newcount\total \total = 5 \be...

I understand that the mass limit for a white dwarf is 1.4 solar masses, and therefore approaching it would cause a white dwarf (type Ia) supernova, and thus it is a standard candle. I understand this if the supernova is triggered by accreting mass. However, if two white dwarfs merge and each has ...

The real analytical solution of the algebraic equation $x^5 + 10 x^3 + 20 x == 4$ is $x=-2^{2/5} + 2^{3/5}$, how to get it with Mathematica? I've tried with Solve, but it returns x -> Root[-4 + 20 # + 10 #^3 + #^5& , 1, 0] in its original form. The analytical solution is obtained by let $x=t-2/t...

メアリーは母に無断でケーキを作った。 I still don't get the ni particle with the 無断で word. The only explanation I can give to myself is that the ni particle means ''from'' here but I still am not able to make sense of it. Some other sources say it is an action done towards the target but that just doesn't make sens...

For simplicity, assume $G$ is simple, compact, connected, and simply-connected. The Chern-Simons action for a non-abelian structure group $G$ on a trivial bundle with closed base manifold is given by $$S \propto \int_M\kappa(A \wedge dA + \frac{2}{3}A\wedge A \wedge A)$$ where $\kappa$ is the Kil...

Bear with me a moment. I was watching the James Bond parody "Our Man Flint" (1966) starring James Coburn. At the end, he puts all of his female companions into steel barrels and sends them into the sea off a cliff, so they will not be blown up when the whole island explodes. Then he realizes that...

I understand that sometimes when copying a file the system will 'cache' the process of copying, or will 'delay' the process: i.e., it takes a little longer for the copying-process to actually complete than a 'process completed' UI-notification would lead you to believe. This is why it's not good ...

I'm attempting to use UV mapping to apply a texture onto this mesh, and the UV mapping seems to be working perfectly fine, but the texture is appearing transparent. The transparency disappears when I pull the map off of the texture I'm trying to apply. I've tried of few different solutions I f...

According to Halacha, may Jews work on Chol Ha'moed if they will get fired otherwise? So, if not working will mean they get fired and will necessarily lose income, do rabbis give a Heter under those conditions?

I am quite new to Mathematica. I have a text file that upon importing has a repetitive structure with characters included. I need to extract only the following in numbers only (no letters, dash lines, or commas) and store them in consecutive five columns (date, time, measurement value 1, measurem...

I have a table of user info. When you click the button, I want to get the email address from each selected row, output into a comma-separated string. I got it to work with the following code, but I'm a novice with JS so I assume it must be inefficient: function tableToEmail() { var recipie...

An application is logging wrong OTPs (but not correct OTPs). I asked the application developers to not log wrong OTPs because I do not see any benefits. However, they do not want to modify the application code, and are asking me (I have no access to source code) to prove that wrong OTPs in the lo...

The gospel of John teaches that those who do not believe in Jesus as God's only begotten son will perish, I understand the meaning of the phrase to perish is to vanish as a result of being burned gradually in the lake of fire, which means they vanish and are no more which is the second death. Jo...

I'm studying FIR filter design and it's time for the frequency sampling method, my teacher said that to use this method you need to follow the following steps: Sample the periodic frequency response of the ideal filter you want to approximate; Calculate the IDFT of the samples; Use the results ...

In set theory, $A \cup B$ is logically defined as $\{x : x \in A \lor x \in B\}$. In set theory, the result of unionizing A with B is a bigger set, but in logic, "or" is a softening operation. In set theory, $A \cap B$ is logically defined as $\{x : x \in A \land x \in B\}$. In set theory, the re...

Initial values specified for x, y, ... are evaluated before x, y,... are cleared. It's from the Details in The reference to Block. And I can't understand it. When are the local variables cleared and what's the meaning of "initial values are evaluated"? Could anyone give an example to illustrate...

Can two signatures based on the elliptic curve secp256k1 be compared to determine if they use the same public key without recovering the public keys?

In my world, Elves live in a tall forest with a canopy so thick that almost no light reaches the forest floor. Due to this, Elves have all but gone blind. The sun still warms the upper layers, but the warmth might not reach the floor where the elves live. Other factors to consider are that the p...

The recent discovery of a molecule that mimics the Sierpinski gasket has spurred headlines identifying it as the first fractal scientists have found in nature. I find these claims highly dubious because it's either entirely impossible for a real fractal to be realized in nature or tons of other s...

The problem is very simple; I have a photos library with many live photos. But the live photos simply won't play. It's probably the same issue as described here. Three things I've tried I tried these 3 things I tried repairing the photo library. I tried exporting unmodified originals so I could...

I want to write a document with a remark environment, and the caption "Remark" should be Italics, with no bold. I have tried three ways to declare it in the following example, namely remark, remark1, remark2. \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage{amsthm} \newtheorem*{remark}{\textit{Remark}} \ne...

Motivation. The starting point of this question is the trivial observation that if we cover $\mathbb{N}$ with $$\big\{\{0,\ldots n\}: n\in \mathbb{N}\big\},$$ then this cover doesn't have a minimal subcover (from which no more sets can be taken away). So in this question we focus on covers in whi...

I have a question about Contour Integrals. Contour Integrals are defined as $$\int_{C} f(z)dz = \int_{a}^{b} f(z(t))z'(t)dt \tag{1}$$. But why define it this way? The textbook I'm using (Complex Variables and Applications by Brown and Churchill) simply gave this definition with little explanation...

When the warning tone appears in Ubuntu 24.04, the screen flashes at the same time. How can I turn off the flashing?

My first question is if the bell pair that Alice and Bob share for the E91 protocol matters since I've seen different resources use different pairs for the explanation. My second question is say they each get one qubit of the bell state |00> + |11> (for the sake of clarity I'll ignore normalizati...

To check if $i equals any command line argument (in a Bash script), I use if [[ " $@ " =~ " $i " ]] Is there a better way? I mean, a way that is more recommendable, more general, or the like, yet almost as simple. If I am correct, the above works when $i and each command line argument do not co...

Consider the exact sequence $0\rightarrow M'\rightarrow M\rightarrow M''\rightarrow0$ and its induced sequence $0\rightarrow T(M')\rightarrow T(M)\rightarrow T(M'')$, where $T$ denotes the torsion submodule. I aim to present an example where the last arrow is not surjective. Could it be that the ...

I have a text converted into a mesh. I want a bunch of cones to fall into the hole in the text. When I use rigid body, all the cones end up outside the text instead of inside. How can I get them to collect inside the text? What I'm trying to do is to fill a logo with objects, like lots of cones. ...

I want to simulate a modified square wave circuit. I looked at other pictures on Google and they are all similar. What is the reason for this? How can I fix this? I expect: I got this: Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=urKi9OLDdCA The schematic of my circuit:

The following general reaction proceeds with decrease in amount of substance, so increasing pressure should shift the position of equilibrium to the right. $$\ce{2 A(g) <=> B(g)}$$ But let's say the forward reaction is endothermic, and both $\ce{A}$ and $\ce{B}$ are gases. This means if the posit...

This item just appeared after a Microsoft update. "Distant Future Corp" has a couple of apps on the app store and only a few staff. They appear to deal with sharing of things like link collections, but it’s hard to find out much about them or their CEO(?) Steve Gehrman (as a Flutter developer he...

Im trying to create an ssh certificate using keygen tool from One region(ex: india) to connect the server in another region(ex: us). Im giving the validity for the certificate as (current time) to (curretn time + 2 hours). Ex: certificate is created with validity from (26-4-2024 00:30:00) to (26-...

Recently played this game on chess.com and it ended up in a stalemate then also I lost 1 point and the opponent gained 1 . How i this possible as I have more points in the end?

Most examples of output from forest (not unnaturally) follow a pyramidal shape commonly encountered in linguistic trees. As an experiment in culinary recipe formatting, I've tried to invert the pyramid: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xparse,tikz}% xparse for u{<...>} \usepackage[edges]{for...

Suppose Alice has a qubit $|\phi\rangle=\alpha|0\rangle+\beta|1\rangle$ and measures it. Bob knows the initial state but not the result of her measurement. So after the measurement, Alice knows what state her qubit is in: $$\rho_A=|0\rangle\langle0|$$ or: $$\rho_A=|1\rangle\langle1|$$ I don't rea...

I am currently training a force field using machine learning techniques. One way to test the performance of the ML model is to use the force field for a production run (= molecular dynamics) and taking snapshots. For each snapshot a single point calculation (=DFT) should be performed. Then energi...

It is known that for a primitive substitution $S:\mathcal{A}\to \mathcal{A}^+$, there exists constants $c,C>0$ such that $$ c\theta_S^n \leq \vert S^n(a)\vert \leq C \theta_S^n \quad \text{for all} \; a\in \mathcal{A} \quad \text{and} \; n\in \mathbb{N}, $$ where $\theta_S$ is the Perron-Frobeni...

I have been looking at sample query letters [successful ones] sent to agents for publishing novels. I notice that in nearly all of them, the author says their manuscript is "complete" at X amount of words. What does "complete" mean in this context? Does it mean that it has a beginning, middle and...

I have a 12VDC cuircuit board with a blown glass fuse (careless wrong polarity). The bands are brown, blue, red plus a wide blue band. Looking at the chart it says the time/current rating is T. Is this a quickblow fuse?

Namaskar, I need to understand the meaning of below shloka. तीर्थानां तीर्थराजं च पावनानां तु पावनम्। भक्तानामेकमाधारं सानंदं श्रीधरं भजे।। आदिनारायणं विष्णुं ब्रह्माणं च वसिष्ठकम्। श्रीरामं मारुतिं वन्दे रामदासं च श्रीधरम्।। नमः शांताय दिव्याय सत्यधर्मस्वरूपिणे। स्वानंदामृततृप्ताय श्रीधराय नमो ...

I want to find total used and remaining space for each database in Azure SQL MI. For that, from an example, when I right click on a database and select properties I see following example output, where total size should be ~365 GB: data_size log_size total_s...

Say we have the following mask (I drew it myself on paint): I asked myself if it is possible to know the form of the image generated on a screen after the mask or know the electric field generated after the mask. I went on research and on some optics books and the closest I got was the Babinet's...

I posted a month ago sharing conflicts that I had with my retired co-advisor about an article. This article was the remaining piece left to complete the basic requirements to acquire my phd. This article was based on my retired co-advisor (who recruited me)'s idea and she also suggested the journ...

The below code produces 3 images next to each other, with each image having a caption, and ending with a general caption below all 3 images. My document has a title with an author block, then an abstract and some sections with paragraphs of text. When I compile this code my text from the Introduc...

According to Ynetnews: But the huge noise of these protests obscures the truth: Most Americans aren’t antisemitic, certainly not Hamas supporters. Many of them, from the East Coast to California, don’t differentiate between Hamas and hummus. I wonder, if there are any studies on how much Americ...

As a passport holder of a Schengen country with a Canadian partner, can we both queue for the Schengen line at the passport control at the airport in Frankfurt am Main?

I'm a layperson with some (long ago) college economics under my belt who is curious about externalities. In particular, why are externalities bad? Intuitively I personally agree externalities are "market failures," but I'm wondering what precise sense can be made of this claim. Why exactly are ex...

Fey Wanderers get an ability called Beguiling Twist which reads: (...) whenever you or a creature you can see within 120 feet of you succeeds on a saving throw against being charmed or frightened, you can use your reaction to force a different creature you can see within 120 feet of you to make ...

Dispelling Globe (previously known as Globe of Invulnerability) has the following effect: It attempts to counteract any spell from outside the globe whose area or targets enter into it, as if the globe were a dispel magic spell 1 rank lower than its actual spell rank. The interaction is pretty ...

I'm trying to ListContourPlot some data with a Log10 scale. I tried adapting the answer from this post (thanks azerbajdzan), but the legend and colors are screwy. I want the legend to show the Log10 of the list conttest and the colors to be the nice gradient defined by shadetest. data={{6.016*10^...

This is not really connected to my story but I had an idea of having finger guns that actually work. Because lasers are cool I thought that you could have a character with the ability to magically generate lasers from their fingertips. Let's say that they could generate a laser with a high amou...

There are $N \geq 1$ white balls and $1$ black ball in an (infinitely big) urn. Every turn, a ball is drawn from the urn uniformly at random. If a white ball is drawn, it is put back into the urn along with one more white ball. If a black ball is drawn, it is put back into the urn along with two ...

(From A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Part I, Aberfan, chapter 11) Robert had suggested he invite her to his graduation, telling William that he and Evelyn had exchanged letters over the past few months; friendly, open. I think would/should is missing there and it has to be . . . Rober...

Tommaso Landolfi wrote that Flaubert, speaking about Pushkin, told to Ivan Turgenev: "Il est plat, votre poète." What are the sources? (plat, per Dictionnaire Le Robert, figuratively refers to something "sans caractère saillant ni qualité frappante," i.e., something that lacks meaningful characte...

As I have a long trip ahead of me, I‘m hoping some aviation expert or pilot can ease my nerves. I would be very grateful for a response from an in-the-know professional. As gate-checked hand-luggage is not screened (why not?) I stumbled across an article saying that one faulty laptop in the hold ...

I tried to implement what I understood from previous advices here. use more functions improve the logic of "play" allow wrong user input indent to 4 spaces and remove () Mind that I only have access to google colab so I cant benefit from formatting tools or tests. I also added comments and type...

I have Shimano disc brakes (pads replaced last year). I cycle frequently enough (approx 3-5 hrs a week). Brakes were previously working without issue. Recently I was caught in some April weather: day 1: tail end of a heat wave (mid 20s C) day 2: torrential downpour day 3: caught in sudden heavy s...

I just saw the following at the English language and usage stack exchange meta forum (ELU meta). We should not be pasting definitions from online dictionaries into answers when their terms of service prohibit such use As one of the answers there suggests, it may make sense theoretically, but I'...

The problem Consider an equation such as      "3 ± 2 ± 4 ± 1 = 4"      and determine if there exists a sequence of pluses and minuses that makes it arithmetically correct. If it exists, exhibit it. For instance, [-, +, -] works in this case:      "3 - 2 + 4 - 1 = 4". Sometimes it's impossible: e...

I am working with FFT using NumPy in Python, and I noticed that it's common to divide the output of the np.fft.fft function by the length of the data array. Here's a simplified example of my code: L = 1024 # Length of the data array x = np.array([3, 1, 0, ..., 2]) # Data array with 1024 element...

The OALD gives the following pronunciations for been (verb): /biːn/, /bɪn/ (British) /bɪn/ (American) Do AmE speakers think the two lines below rhyme? Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? I've been to London to visit/look at/see the Queen. Perhaps Brits have acquired the short vowel ...

I would like to select all the vertices on the character's hand from this edge loop down. Are there any quick ways to do it?