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12:16 AM
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Q: VPLS without route target and VPLS ID

daniel gorlately I have been checking out some old IOS-XE PEs in the environment that are peering with each other directly before route reflectors were introduced. they are using BGP autodiscovery and signaling. surprisingly I found in the config that they are not sending extended community with the 'send-...

 
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Q: Why is the metallicity of dwarf galaxies low?

Rich JensenThe "Astronomy Picture of the Day" today sent me down a rabbit-hole. It had a picture of Leo I, with a note that it may have a supermassive black hole at the center, so I went to Wikipedia for a bit more info, and I came across this note: Typical to a dwarf galaxy, the metallicity of Leo I is ve...

 
5
Q: Inner voice when reading mathematics

BenI am writing some notes for my students, and am curious about how others read mathematics: do you have an inner voice when reading mathematics? What about when you come across a symbol which you don't know the name of? Do you make something up in your head, or just skip over the inner enunciation...

 
12:42 AM
1
Q: How can I find the minimum and maximum airspeeds for efficiency with a specific prop/engine combination?

DustyFlierI'm operating a Cessna 180 with various wing and weight mods with a TCM IO550D engine and a McCauley Black Mac (D3A34C401/90DFA-2 3 blade (88 inch) seaplane prop. I operate Lean of Peak (LOP) for most ops, and accept some airspeed loss for the benefits of LOP. At some point of loss of airspeed, t...

 
ELL
1:04 AM
1
Q: "You'll set me off"

philphil(From A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Part II Cambridge Choir, chapter 12 September 1957) (The boy chorister saying goodbye to his mum) 'I'm so proud of you,' Evelyn (his mum) is saying, the tide in her eyes still high.'And so would your father be. You know that, don't you?' 'Yes.' He...

 
TeX
1:48 AM
1
Q: How can I vertically center the question mark on the left of this theorem-like environment?

Andrew KelleyHow do I modify the following environment to make the question mark appear vertically centered (whose spacing depends on the text length)? Here is the code that produces that question box: \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{environ} \newtheorem{question}{Question} \NewEnv...

 
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Q: Homemade number sequence puzzle

Fraternal9274A homemade number sequence puzzle. The sequence is as follows: 001, 1001, 00001, ?, 001001

 
CS
1
Q: Simulate hall voltage as a function of temperature in LTspice

ArlI'm trying to simulate how temperature affects voltage sensitivity in my hall sensor from LTspice. How do I make use of this equation to get my correct output? Any feedback will help, thank you. I should be getting a somewhat downwards linear graph.

 
Law
2:34 AM
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Q: Is it an independent and additional offence to have a fake passenger (e.g., a mannequin) to try to avoid HOV violation detection?

Franck DernoncourtReading https://ktla.com/news/local-news/carpool-violator-busted-in-southern-california-despite-next-level-dummy/amp/ (mirror) made me wonder: is it illegal to have a fake passenger (e.g., a mannequin) to try to avoid HOV violation detection? Clearly, there would be a citation for HOV violation d...

 
DIY
1
Q: How to demolish and remove a small concrete pad?

divBI have a ~5x5ft concrete pad under my deck. There was a hot tub before we moved in but the hot tub was removed and the deck built over it. The concrete pad goes all the way to the exterior wall/foundation is not properly graded: When it rains the water will sit on the pad and potentially running ...

 
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Q: Plotting the image of a function of 3 variables in R^3

Sergio ParreirasReading the question plotting the image of a function under constraints I see that the TransformedRegion command allows one to plot the image of functions whose domain is in R^2 and the image is in R^2. I tried to use TransformedRegion with a function of R^3 into R^3 but it did not work and ther...

 
3:19 AM
1
Q: Why is my crontab giving me a bad username error?

RexorI'm trying to zip a directory and copy it over as a backup. I'm new to Linux to so I followed guides as best as I could, but when trying systemctl status cron I get the following error: Apr 27 13:34:01 mc-server cron[950]: Error: bad username; while reading /etc/crontab Running the command stan...

 
Law
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Q: Can 501(C)(3) sell items that were donated?

TiannaCCMMI am an employee of a nonprofit (501C3) museum that sells merchandise to help us expand our reach to the public. My question is: If someone (an employee or guest) donates items for the museum to sell, can we do that? For example, a local man brought us several of his books at no cost to us, with ...

 
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Q: What consequences can Belarus and Ukraine face for refusing to issue passports abroad?

BravadoThere are at least two countries in the world that have ceased to issue travel documents to their citizens abroad. In September last year, Belarusian diplomatic missions stopped issuing passports following a president's decree. The US and the EU condemned the move, while the opposition in exile c...

 
DIY
2
Q: Why do electrical fixtures with multiple live/neutral terminals have only one earth terminal?

CerebrateAs can be seen in this illustration: I became curious about this while rewiring my house recently, in which I've installed a lot of these. Live and neutral almost always tend to have paired line and load terminals so that they can be conveniently daisy-chained, but only one earth terminal, requi...

 
3:43 AM
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Q: Tiling a 16x16 square with 1x4 rectangles

Will Octagon GibsonConsider a 16x16 square subdivided by grid lines into unit squares. It is easy to completely tile (no overlaps, no gaps) this square with 64 1x4 rectangles. Each 1x4 rectangle in the tiling (no matter whether horizontally or vertically oriented), will be split into two non-empty regions by exac...

 
2
Q: Area Of The Triangle

Afsar AhmedTriangle $(\triangle POB)$ under a semi circle. $OP$ and $BP$ are extended to $OA$ and $BQ$. $AP = 5$ and $PQ = 7$. What is the area of the triangle It's a problem I stumbled upon on chance. I haven't been able to solve it since I am a little weak in geometry. The best approach I have tak...

 
4:05 AM
1
Q: Difficulty Mentoring a Student post injury

Mara TroubatThe program that funds my PhD also has a postbac research mentorship program meant to increase diversity in my field. It is two years long. The student that I supervise started in a different lab and should have finished there, but was kicked out. I don't really know what happened there, but the ...

 
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Q: jq: Printing multiple values from multiple arrays at once

T145The default functionality of jq is to send each object from an array one at a time, though the join operator can merge those values. My problem is in trying to print all the values from multiple arrays at once. Taking this example: { "key1": { "list1": [ "val1", "

 
4:51 AM
1
Q: CMD closes immediately on Windows 11

TamasFor a couple of months, I could not open the command terminal. It closes immediately (I see only a frame for a short time). I'm on Windows 11. I see there are background processes that use cmd. I can do this in Powershell: PS D:\> cmd Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.3447] (c) Microsoft Corp...

 
5
Q: Two numerical sequences

Fraternal9274Two numerical sequences made by me. Make sure to provide reasoning. 90,81,65,29,9,? 46656, 823543, 16777216, ?

 
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Q: Integral of the product of a Gaussian and a exponential of a hyperbolic function

STUIn a derivation I am working on, I have encountered an integral of the form \begin{equation} \int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-a x^2-b\ \textrm{cosh}(x)}\ dx \end{equation} with $a$ and $b$ real and positive. I am not sure if there is a closed form. Any ideas on how to attack it?

 
5:36 AM
2
Q: String character changes (case insensitive) - Go

Romeo LimaI saw this question on one of the socials, presented as an Apple interview question. I have had to paraphrase as it was not given in text format. (Credit: Instagram @greghogg5) Given a string (S) which is guaranteed to contain only uppercase and lowercase alpha characters, return the number of t...

 
1
Q: Plotting 3x3 Linear System

Athanasios ParaskevopoulosI am trying to plot the following linear system ($3\times 3$) in different ways. My question is what wrong have I done to my last code? eq1 = 2 x - y + w == -5; eq2 = y + 3*w == 7; eq3 = w == 2; (*Use ContourPlot3D to visualize*) ContourPlot3D[{2 x - y + w == -5, y + 3*w == 7, w == 2}, {x, -10, ...

 
DIY
6:00 AM
2
Q: A 4AWG wire in residential dryer wall outlet?

5280AngelI was all set to replace the three-prong electrical outlet for a dryer. The plan was to change the old flush-mount with a jbox outlet and extend one of the hot wires to an adjacent jbox that holds a current relay switch to run a booster dryer vent blower when the dryer is running, per this diagra...

2
Q: Unable to detach kitchen faucet

Chris CavinI'm attempting to replace a kitchen faucet but unable to unscrew nuts holding the large stabilizing piece in place. I have them mostly unscrewed, but they are down against a plastic piece attaching a water line to the faucet. It seems like I need to detach the water line, but I can't tell. From t...

 
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Q: Book series about a guy who wins the lottery and builds an elaborate post-apocalyptic bunker

Peter BalkanThis is a series of books about a guy who wins the lottery and spends the money to build a huge and elaborate bunker to survive an apocalyptic event. I thought it might have been written by Boyd Craven but I can't find it in his works. I also thought that it was just called Bunker but I can't fi...

 
CS
2
Q: Relativity of Time from an Observer Perspective

Niccola TartagliaWe have established that time is relative and goes slower for objects in motion and we have experimentally proven with the ISS. A thought experiment: What if the ISS was moving at much higher speeds, let's say fast enough for the time differential to become more noticeable. So say it travels at 9...

 
1
Q: How to Write an Involuntary Secret Reveal

Arceus InsanityI am trying to have my character's secret discovered, they are currently in a hospital, and hiding injuries under their clothes, a couple of which have reopened. They are underaged so they are at least stuck there, police are not involved. How can I get the nurse to realize that they're injured? ...

 
6:46 AM
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Q: Identify this set: mostly red & white bricks

trancvibeI'm looking for instructions for a incomplete kit I got. Wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction. Nephew loves to put them together with instructions. Packaging shows 7, 8, 9 with the number 146R7 and a smaller number 135149.

 
DIY
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Q: Diagonal Cracks at corner of 1 piece shower/tub - Serious?

DMSI am looking at a condo for sale. In the guest bath, the 1 piece tub/shower enclosure has diagonal drywall cracks extending from the left upper edge/corner (on the showerhead side) and the right upper edge/corner (opposite side). The left side is about 6" long and the right side is about 3" lon...

 
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Q: Any idea what went wrong during this flight?

DixielandI'm new here and I hope I won't break any rules with my post. Something's been bugging me for the past almost 7 years already. So I was on this flight from Sofia to Bologna in mid-September of 2017. It was an early evening flight (can't remember what time we took off but it was already dark), a...

 
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Q: What is a safe percentage for battery Maximum Capacity in an iPhone?

pmaguniaMy battery maximum capacity is at 84%. I was wondering how low the maximum capacity could go could go before I start seeing problems of my phone shutting down. It's an iPhone XS. Currently, at my usage, I can get through my whole day without any issues. I don't use the phone much and don't have m...

 
7:31 AM
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Q: New Gnome Ubuntu won’t update to 46.1

Christian Bearsly ClarkThe new regular Ubuntu 24.04 won't update to gnome 46.1. I do have Gnome 46. My Fedora 40 has Gnome 46.1. Does Fedora has a different style to updste ? I have done all the command lines and stuff. Am I missing something ? Is it the PPA ? Thanks.

 
7:53 AM
1
Q: 2005 Impala No start, no crank, but starter solenoid clicks

computercarguyAs the title states, I have a 2005 Chevy Impala with the 3.4L (3400) engine. I can turn the key and I can hear and feel the starter solenoid working, but the starter motor doesn't turn. I can use a jump pack connected to the battery to get it started, and it starts easily, but trying to get a jum...

 
CS
1
Q: Is there a different way to measure speed, other than with time?

foolishmuseA second on Earth is different from a second on the Sun and a second next to a black hole. Therefore speed, as measured in meters per second, is different in each of these locations. Is there an accepted and universal way to measure speed without the use of time, so that it can be understood by e...

 
8:16 AM
1
Q: Did God "design" logic?

Rabbi KaiiNote, this question doesn't require belief in God, but it helps me formulate the question. Is the following statement a possible truth: He decided that 2 + 2 = 4*. He could have made it so that 2 + 2 = 5, without modifying the meaning of "2" or "+" or "=" or "4" or "5" (i.e. keeping all of that ...

 
ELL
8:40 AM
2
Q: What is some antonym of shortchange?

TimWhat is some antonym of shortchange? I can't find any at https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortchange. There doesn't seem to be word "longchange".

 
9:02 AM
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Q: Is Israel able to sustain the war in Gaza without extra aid from United States? Why is such aid to Israel considered necessary by the U.S. congress?

No OneI wonder based on the current economic situation of Israel, if it could sustain the war against Hamas by itself without external aid. It is reported that the United States committed over $3.3 billion in foreign assistance to Israel in 2022, the most recent year for which data exists. About $8.8 m...

 
9:47 AM
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Q: How is 时机 being used in 就可能预测病人发病的时机?

Becky 李蓓From the HSK6 Standard Course (下册, page 23; photo of original): 比如心脏病,病人发病常常是有预兆的,如果对患者的心跳数据有足够长时间的持续积累,就可能预测病人发病的时机;对于心脏病突发致死的案例,如果能提前24小时监测到零星先兆,甚至可以挽救患者的生命。 I believe the grammar of the clause I highlighted has the form: ……,就可能预测(病人发病)的时机;…… where 病人发病 is an attributive for 时机, and the tar...

 
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Q: Using DeleteDuplicates with choosing which item of the pair should be deleted

azerbajdzanHow to delete duplicates on criteria that an interval is duplicate if it is fully contained in another interval and the smaller interval should be removed. None of the following works on both lists int1 and int2. It is dependent on the order of the lists. So DeleteDuplicates may identify that Int...

 
TeX
10:32 AM
2
Q: How to have tikzpicture environment properly formatted in align environment

AtexI've tried to figure out how to use the the tikzpicture environment within an align environment, and the closest thing to an answer I found is here: use of tikzpicture matrix in align or gather environment. This doesn't answer my question, however, because it involves the usage of the tikzlibrary...

 
 
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CS
11:42 AM
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Q: What does transfer rate in RAM actually mean? How do you actually measure it?

WaveCaveFrom what I gather, transfer rate is how many bits you transfer via the bus at once with every clock. So the formula would be: frequency (in MHz) * 2 (because of DDR) * bus width (because I think it's a hard limit on how many bits can pass through at once?). But the thing is, I was looking at som...

 
12:27 PM
3
Q: Ben Hur set reference in Good Omens?

Anthony XIn season 2 episode 2 of the "Good Omens" TV series, a scene occurs about halfway through with Aziraphale and Crowley. The space looks to me a lot like Ben Hur's home as it appeared in the 1959 Charlton Heston movie - with the placement of doors, the stairway, and other features. Is this co-incid...

 
1:12 PM
2
Q: A simple cross-number puzzle

Will Octagon GibsonBeginner puzzle This puzzle is intended to be suitable for people who are new to puzzle solving. Clarification: Both experienced solvers and new solvers are welcome to post solutions to this puzzle. Fill each square in this cross-number with a non-zero digit such that all of the conditions in th...

 
1:34 PM
2
Q: What's wrong with my campy derailleur?

Yay BrizsleI'm trying to tune my campy chroma 10 speed but it wont shift to either the 2 highest gears or 2 lowest gears. Could it be that the drivetrain is bent? Is this due to a bad hanger?

 
1:58 PM
2
Q: Why/does 'low-dimension' topology end with dimension 4?

Municipal-Chinook-7Put another way, assuming it is somewhat fair to say that we have a qualitatively better handle on manifolds up to and including dimension 4 than we do for the case of 5+ dimensions, is it just a coincidence (i.e., 'non-mathematical' factors) that it seems 'natural' for us to think of space-time ...

 
CS
1
Q: how do I add turn-off to a latching circuit?

justin barnesso, I made this latch circuit : Falstad Simulator It turns on and stays on. How do I add turning off using single momentary switch? I tried making an RC switch like this:

 
2:21 PM
4
Q: Old school sci-fi book about descendants on a generational spacecraft

ScottI'm looking for the name of a sci-fi book based on a generational spacecraft that sent heavy rain (radioactive isotopes) to Earth because they were angry, then later sent a message to Earth warning them about heavy rain and also apologizing.

 
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Q: Asymptotic properties of integral of power of sine function?

Romeo LiuI'm trying to investigate the asymptotic property of the following integral: $$ \int_0^{\theta} \sin^nx dx, \quad n\to +\infty $$ where $\theta \in (0,\pi/2)$ is a constant. For the case $\theta = \pi/2$, it is the Wallis integral and we have $$ \int_0^{\pi/2} \sin^nx dx \sim \sqrt{\frac{...

 
2:44 PM
1
Q: How to solve this inequation?

neo742 My code: Reduce[2023^x+2023^(101-x)*(-1)^x<0 && x\[Element]PositiveIntegers,x] Error messages: Reduce::nsmet: This system cannot be solved with the methods available to Reduce. How to solve this problem correctly?

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Q: Catch error propagation

lesobrodI'd like my function to work only for arrays with all positive members, eg: myf[arr_] := Reverse@arr /; AllTrue[arr, Positive]; So myf[{1,2}] Output: {2,1} and myf[{-1,2}] Output: myf[{-1,2}] Well, but: ToString /@ myf[{-1, 2}] Output: Reverse::normal: Nonatomic expression expected at position...

 
 
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3:52 PM
3
Q: What are the following ALA-LC kana-to-romanization mappings used for? – キィ/ニィ/ヒィ/ミィ/リィ/ギィ/ビィ/ピィ (all: -ī) and スェ (swe)

Lover of StructureI looked through the ALA-LC romanization of Japanese (from the list of ALA-LC Romanization Tables), and there are some kana-to-romanization mappings which I am not sure what to make of. (To prevent confusion: While this ALA-LC romanization (dated "June 2022") is largely (or perhaps even fully) co...

 
CS
2
Q: Please help check why my opamp calculation has a different answer from my lecturer's

MikeWazowskiMy Lecturer's Solution Why is the first equation = 0? Couldn't there be current sinking into the Vee rail of the opamp or being sourced out from the Vcc rail of the opamp and then outputted into the circuit to Vin? And why didn't the lecturer take KCL at the node I pointed with a blue arrow in th...

 
4:16 PM
2
Q: Finding a more efficient solution to a trigonometric identity problem.

Red FiveTHIS IS NOT A HOMEWORK QUESTION This question comes from a university entrance exam from around 1910. No solutions were ever published. My own solution is given here, but I get the feeling that a more efficient solution would be possible. Question: Find the exact value of $\cos{\frac{2\pi}{15}}+\...

 
 
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5:21 PM
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Q: Logic to check if app was launched for the first time using DataStore

Muhammed AslamI have written a dummy code to check if an app was launched for the time using DataStore. It is working however i want to know if this can be optimised and i also observed a small glitch initially like black screen for like a few seconds only for the first installation. I would like to know why t...

 
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Q: Can vacuously true statements be proved using proof by contradiction?

gfjfvhjkI always thought it was valid to prove vacuously true statements using proof by contradiction but now am not so sure. For example, consider the vacuously true statement $\forall x \in \emptyset, x + 1 = 0$. To prove it by contradiction, I assume for the sake of contradiction that $\exists x \in \...

 
5:45 PM
1
Q: How to remove tyre dust caps

SeanJI have a flat tyre and want to fix the puncture. I went to remove the nuts . At first I thought I had the wrong locknut. . Then I realised they are the dust caps. None of my star screw heads are big enough. How do I remove dust caps (Volkswagen Touran 2015)

 
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Q: Tefillin removal on chol hamoed - first day vs the other days

DovFor those that wear tefillin on chol hamoed, there seems to be a widespread minhag to remove tefillin on the first day of chol hamoed before mussaf, yet on the other days, one does so earlier - before hallel. What is the reason for this?

 
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Q: Matrix representation of the symmetric subspace for two copies

BlackHat18Consider two copies of an $n$ qubit Haar random state, given by: \begin{equation} \rho = \mathbb{E}_{U \sim \mathsf{Haar}}\left[U |0^n\rangle \langle 0^n| U^{*}\otimes U |0^n\rangle \langle 0^n| U^{*}\right] = \frac{\Pi_{\text{symm}}}{2^n(2^n - 1)}, \end{equation} where $\Pi_{\text{symm}}$ is the...

 
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Q: Problem 5C.3 Isaacs' Finite Group Theory

Elianna I have a question about the following problem [Finite Group Theory, Martin Isaacs, Chapter 5]: Let $G$ be simple and have an abelian Sylow 2-subgroup $P$ of order $2^{5}$. Deduce that $P$ is elementary abelian. I report my reasoning: From a theorem on the decomposition of finite abelian groups, I...

 
6:08 PM
2
Q: 2,6,?,30,-270 number sequence

Fraternal9274Got this number sequence puzzle from a friend.

 
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Q: Smooth Urysohn lemma

PhilipFrom topology I know the Urysohn lemma. My question is if there is some sort of Urysohn lemma for smooth manifolds. To be more precise: Let M be a smooth manifold and suppose $A$ and $B$ are two disjoint closed subsets of $M$. Then there is a smooth function $f$ on $M$ so that $0 \leq f(x) \leq 1...

 
6:30 PM
1
Q: How to solve this kernel-panic on a Debian 12 system?

lalebardeContext: My PC don't boot anymore after a power hard cut. I can boot a LIVE DVD and mount all file systems. fsck is clean on my boot partition (ext2) and on my system/root partition (btrfs) smartctl -t short is clean on both too I have a legacy BIOS PC (no EUFI) I have reinstalled grub2 from a ...

 
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Q: Which 'laws of indices' hold for complex bases and real powers?

Anis Manuchehri-RamirezSpecifically, I would like to know whether: $$z^a z^b = z^{a+b}$$ $$(zw)^a = z^a w^a$$ $$(z^a)^b = z^{ab}$$ hold true for any and all $z,w \in \Bbb{C}$ and $a,b \in \Bbb{R}$? Also, I'd be interested to see any others that hold.

 
6:53 PM
4
Q: Should alat value be used as it is in calculation or multiplied with CELL_PARAMETERS value?

Misbah I am trying to perform DFT calculations for CsPbBr3 system on QE v7.2. To exploit symmetry i have given the space_group=221 and A=5.95(angstroms) in input file for vc-relax calculation. The following CELL_PARAMETERShave been generated in output before the calculation ends. CELL_PARAMETERS (alat= ...

 
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Q: Ubuntu Studio boot from live usb failed: "Initramfs unpacking failed"

wstryderBooting Ubuntu Studio 24.04 from live usb freezees and gives the error: "Initramfs unpacking failed: invalid magic at start of compressed archive" Unlike other posts, this is not from a installed system, but trying to boot from live usb. The iso sha256 is OK, and booting from the stick on a Intel...

 
7:15 PM
3
Q: Coding challenge for mixing a string

VesselChallenge at https://www.codewars.com/kata/5629db57620258aa9d000014/train/python Given two strings s1 and s2, we want to visualize how different the two strings are. We will only take into account the lowercase letters (a to z). First let us count the frequency of each lowercase letters in s1 an...

 
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Q: How to view operator norms on open-system representation of quantum channels

Pink ElephantsI know how the operator norms $\| X\|_{1}$,$\| X\|_{2}$, and $\| X\|_{\infty}$ are defined for any operator $X\in B(\mathcal{H})$. My question is about how to view$\| T(X)\|_{1}$,$\| T(X)\|_{2}$, and $\| T(X)\|_{\infty}$, when T is a quantum channel. Espescially when we use the open-system repre...

 
RPG
3
Q: Homebrew Cleric Subclass: Spirit Domain. Is this balanced?

PJRZCleric Subclass: Spirit Domain You have long been gifted with an awareness of the spirits around you and found yourself contacted by a particular spirit that has since bound itself to you. This will generally be the spirit of an ancestor keen to watch over the family bloodline but may also be the...

 
7:38 PM
1
Q: Recompress squashfs

usiloI have some squashfs files that are currently compressed with the default algorithm which is zlib/gzip. I would like to recompress them to zstd. What would be the command to do this without extracting it to disk and recreating it from that extraction?

 
8:02 PM
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Q: Does Sola Scriptura imply that one should expect no personal spiritual experience of the Gospel?

Nigel JI am seeking answers on the basis of Protestant Trinitarianism. As referenced in a previous answer regarding Sola Scriptura, Steven Lawson quotes Martin Luther, in a specialised article on Sola Scriptura, and explains the force of Luther's words : Unless I am convinced by the testimony of Scrip...

 
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Q: How does one use the adjective "überlegen"?

OllivanderWie kann man das Adjektiv überlegen nutzen? Ich möchte einen Satz formulieren, in dem es heißt: Ich liebe dieses Brot, weil es eine bessere Textur hat als das andere., aber ich möchte lieber nicht besser als verwenden. How is the adjective überlegen used? I want to formulate a sentence that says...

 
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Q: Top of the World

JafeThis is part 61 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, Today I have travelled to admire another massive mountain peak from a very safe distance. This one is considered a sacred place by the locals here and, despite not being a househo...

 
ELL
1
Q: Verb "to convict" with prepositions

BeqaI have a question regarding the use of the verb "to convict" with preposition "on". We can use this verb with the preposition "of" plus a noun or gerund. He was convicted of stabbing a stranger in a bar brawl. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. You can look it up in almost every ma...

 
TeX
8:24 PM
2
Q: Misunderstanding yunit in pstricks, or a bug, or extreme imprecision?

AlMa1rFeeding latex with \documentclass{article} \pagestyle{empty} \usepackage{pstricks} \begin{document} {1: \begin{pspicture}(-.1,-1)(.1,5) \psline(0,0)(0,5) \end{pspicture}} {$10^{-4}$: \psset{yunit=.0001}% \begin{pspicture}(-.1,-10000)(.1,50000) \psline(0,0)(0,50000) \end{pspicture}} {$10^{-5}$...

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Q: Adding stacked bracket annotation above nodes in tikzpicture

pindakazenI want to add stacked bracket annotation above nodes of tikzpicture. The following is my tex document: \documentclass[10pt]{article} \ExpandArgs{c}\newcommand{new@fontshape}{anything} \usepackage[russian,indonesian]{babel} \usepackage{newtx} \usepackage{linguex} \usepackage[none]{hyphenat} \usep...

 
1
Q: Why is recovery mode not read-only?

user10709800I have just run rm and removed a file I am now attempting to recover - alas, I have not implemented a git version system. So, I am booting into recovery mode. The problem I have is I can write to the disk, which is concerning. The steps I take are: reboot the system From GRUB, select boot into r...

 
CS
1
Q: Why regular languages closed under this operation?

ErroRAssume we apply the following operation on the regular language $L$: $$OP(L)=\{a_2a_1a_4a_3\dots a_{2n}a_{2n-1}:a_1a_2a_3\dots a_{2n}\in L\}$$ Why $OP(L)$ remains regular? I think this is as the same as shuffle but I have no idea to show that.

 
DBA
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Q: Why is COALESCE not a function?

J. MiniThe docs insist that ISNULL is a function, but COALESCE is not. Specifically, they say The ISNULL function and the COALESCE expression If I put on my Lisp hat, I can think of COALESCE as a macro and everything makes sense. However, I've never needed such thinking in T-SQL. So, I must ask. In T-...

 
8:47 PM
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Q: Rust hole underneath door sill cover

user4520Vehicle: VW sedan (unibody) I've noticed significant corrosion approx 2cm / an inch in diameter underneath the front passenger door sill plastic cover. Basically as soon as I pressed on the rust with a single finger, it crumbled and I ended up with a small hole, I then removed some other weak bit...

 
ELL
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Q: "on a farm" vs "on the farm"

EugeneWhat had thrown me into perplexity were collocations of a subject in the plural and the indefinite article with the word "farm" in the phrase "on a farm" (and others of the kind). My specific question would be about the patterns of this sort: "(some, different, what) animals live on a/the farm" and

 
9:11 PM
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Q: How can I use GLSL shaders within Mathematica?

flintyThe function SurfaceAppearance provides a number of preset shaders for use in Graphics and Graphics3D, however it is undocumented in Mathematica 14.0. Apparently, these shaders are written in GLSL. I frequently use OpenCLLink / CUDALink for specialized image effects, and the ability to write GLSL...

 
9:32 PM
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Q: How can I remove a point of junction and reconnect 2 meshes via python?

Megan LoveI have a set of problematic meshes that have junction vertices (those with 4 edges). And I have to remove these via python and connect those vertices marked in green. Is this possible? I can select these vertices linked to 4 edges like this import bpy import bmesh obj = bpy.context.active_objec...

 
CS
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Q: Physical meaning of Zero-Point Energy

KeshavI know that a quantum system can never have 0 energy due the Uncertainty Principle, and its lowest energy is called the Zero point Energy. However, Energy is a relative quantity (atleast in classical mechanics). What is this zero point energy relative to? When I calculate the energy for a harmoni...

2
Q: Poisson equation and gravitational potential

Rene KailIn Newtonian gravity, what is the difference between the Poisson equation $\Delta(\Phi)$ and the expression $\Phi = -GM/r$ for the gravitational potential $\Phi$? Are both somewhat related?

 
2
Q: Is the following a subspace?

Karanbir SinghI am new here so please don't close the question (instead please tell me how to improve it). So I know that for a subset to be a subspace it has to satisfy the following properties: Closed under scalar multiplication. Closed under addition. I however do not know how to go about determining wh...

 
9:56 PM
2
Q: Ubuntu 24.04 getting error You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list when issuing apt-get build-dep

Scott StenslandOn Ubuntu 24.04 I get this error when I run $ sudo apt-get build-dep -y vlc Reading package lists... Done E: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list Prior to 24.04 fix was to make edits to /etc/apt/sources.list, but now on 24.04: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # Ubuntu sources have ...

 
1
Q: FX Strangle Market Conventions

Attack68Info on Risk Reversals for context In the FX vanilla options market buying risk reversal involves selling a lower strike put and buying a higher strike call. The price of such a structure is a volatility spread. Thus, if we assume the existence of a delta-volatility smile function, which has the ...

 
10:18 PM
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Q: List openvswitch virtual switch with ip command

metablasterI've configured openvswitch virtual switch and can list it with ip command as follows: # Show all interfaces ip link Output: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 <snip> ...

 
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Q: Why did XML lose out to XHTML, then HTML 5, on the web?

Noel WhitemoreI started my web design career back in the late 90s, and at that time web page technologies seemed to be in a state of flux. In particular, I remember a transitional period prior to widespread adoption of XHTML when some major web sites started deploying XML web pages that wouldn't render on peop...

 
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Q: Is the supposedly fake prophecy of Mahdi that the Bene Gesserit implanted on Arrakis actually a real prophecy?

Bri BriI've been re-reading through Dune recently, and I've been considering the prophecy of the coming of Mahdi that the Bene Gesserit supposedly implanted on Arrakis as part of the Missionaria Protectiva. From the perspective of the Bene Gesserit and Jessica, it's not a real prophecy, but rather a sup...

 
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Q: Homemade salad dressing with raw garlic not safe?

MichI just went on a well recognised cooking website for a salad recipe and it said that the salad dressing can only be stored for 48hrs as it has raw garlic in it and keeping it any longer can have disastrous results. I looked it up and google tells me raw garlic I oil can cause botulism, however, i...

 
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Q: Meaning of "too silver for a seam" in "A Bird, came down the Walk"

Selfie- grofieThe following lines appear in the Emily Dickinson's poem " A Bird, came down the Walk": And rowed him softer Home— Than Oars divide the Ocean, Too silver for a seam. What does the phrase "too silver for a seam" suggest? (I find it quite complicated to interpret.)

 
TeX
10:41 PM
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Q: Angle between 3 points defined with coordinate

Robertas VilkasLet's say points A, B and C are defined with coordinate. Is there a built-in function (let's say \angle{A,B,C}) which calculates the angle between 3 given points in Latex? I'm aware of the function \pgfmathanglebetweenpoints, but it's not practical since it takes just 2 points and it doesn't work...

 
11:04 PM
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Q: How to force generation of Image thumbnails?

gcs_devIf you load an image into Blender, its thumbnail preview is not automatically generated until you, for example, open the "Browse image to be linked" menu of an Image Texture node at which point you can see the thumbnails appear one after the other as they are generated. How can I force this previ...

 
TeX
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Q: A category theory diagram (Need Help)

MathCosmoI am a beginner in latex. Please help me draw this category theory diagram via latex. I have tried this code, but working: \begin{tikzcd} A \arrow[dd, bend right, shift right=2] \arrow[rrr, bend left, shift left] & & & B \arrow[lll, bend left, shift left] \arrow[dd, bend left, shift left=2] & \...

 
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Q: Calculating spread on a par rate curve given bond’s coupon and yield

akrylicIn Tuckman and Serrat’s Fixed Income Securities, they give an example of a bond and state its coupon and yield. They also provide an HQM par rate curve and quote the bond’s spread to this curve. How would the spread to this curve be calculated? From the coupon and yield, you can calculate the pri...

 
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Q: Up-to-date java version for setting up a minecraft server on raspberry pi 4

r.botProblem summary I'm trying to set up my raspberry pi 4 as a minecraft server as described here. I've installed the default version of java. The output from java -version is openjdk version "17.0.11" 2024-04-16 The next step is to launch the server with the command java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar s...

 
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Q: how to use 〜方面 "serving... areas"

TosakuIn the extra section of Genki 1, Chapter 10, the book introduces 〜方面 "serving... areas" in the context of trains and stations. However, it does not go over how to use it, and I can't find anything online about its usage and difference from say 〜行き which is also taught. How is it used in the cont...

 
11:29 PM
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Q: US Copyrignt application question

RichardIt appears that the standard US Copyright application for a literary work makes giving one's birth date optional. Is that correct?

 
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Q: What does "as a person in Bath who drinks the water" mean?

MithicalIn Jane Austen's Persuasion, slightly after Anne first arrives at Camden Place (where her father and sister have moved to), Lady Russell comes to pay a visit as well, where she has to deal with people being treated differently than she would like. We are given this passage on the matter: Lady Ru...

 
11:49 PM
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Q: What is the rationale for the change of syscall calling convention in new Linuxes?

Petr SkocikQuoting from https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst: At least on 64-bit x86, it will be a hard requirement from v4.17 onwards to not call system call functions in the kernel. It uses a different calling convention for system calls where struct pt_regs is decoded on...

 
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Q: How do I fix blue, hard lines appearing with subdivision modifier?

SnoreBinBefore subdivision surface modifier: After subdivision surface modifier: Going back to modeling after subdivision surface modifier: Also, when I add smooth shading, very dark lines appear: Also, just in case this helps, I stacked mirror modifier before subdivision surface modifier.

 
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Q: What Does the Rambam Mean by ותלמודו (Laws of Shema 1:2)?

GratefulDThe Rambam in Laws of Shema states (1:2): וּמַה הוּא קוֹרֵא, שְׁלֹשָׁה פָּרָשִׁיּוֹת. אֵלּוּ הֵן (דברים ו ד) ״שְׁמַע״ (דברים יא יג) ״וְהָיָה אִם שָׁמֹעַ״ (במדבר טו לז) ״וַיֹּאמֶר״. וּמַקְדִּימִין לִקְרוֹת פָּרָשַׁת שְׁמַע מִפְּנֵי שֶׁיֵּשׁ בָּהּ יִחוּד הַשֵּׁם וְאַהֲבָתוֹ וְתַלְמוּדוֹ שֶׁהוּא הָ...

 
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Q: Analysis of a sentence with a double -は

suizokukanI have a problem with the following sentence from Saito's Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Legends and Fables in Japanese and English. I'm interested in breaking down the sentence syntactically. (Context: in a tale, a couple of mice have finally had a child). 親{おや}鼠{ねずみ}になったこの鼠{ねずみ}夫婦{ふ...

 

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