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Q: Why this constant expression is not constant

ivaigultI have the following C listing: static const int constant = (0 | ((((1 << 6) - 1) << ((((0 + 8) + 8) + 3) + 7)) & ((1) << ((((0 + 8) + 8) + 3) + 7))) | ((((1 << 7) - 1) << (((0 + 8) + 8) + 3)) & ((0) << (((0 + 8) + 8) + 3))) | ((((1 << 3) - 1) << ((0 + 8) + 8)) & ((0) << ((0 + 8) + 8))) | ((((1 <<...

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Q: What's the big deal about the Nazgûl losing their horses?

AegonI have only watched the movies and I am currently reading The Fellowship of the Ring (haven't finished it yet, I am at the Bridge in Khazad-Dum). A number of times we see characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn or Glorfindel describe how lethal a foe the Nine are. I also read that the Nine ride hor...

DBA
DBA
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Q: how can i make this execution plan more efficient?

Merveille TchoudaI have worked out all the implicit conversion but I still see mentions of it in the plan. I have attached the plan, any recommendation will help. thank you. select cardholder_index, sum(value) as [RxCost] into #rxCosts from RiskPredictionStatistics with (nolock) where model_name = 'prescriptio...

RPG
RPG
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Q: Does a multiclassed wizard start with a spellbook?

NautArchIf I multiclass into Wizard, do I automatically begin with a spellbook? I'm looking for support within the written rules. Designer intent is a consideration, but their intent should be well supported in order to be accepted. If using intent, please review the tweet's logic within the rules to su...

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Q: Advice for making/keeping shredded chicken moist?

user76333My dietician ordered that I eat chicken. I found that to eat the portion I'm supposed to eat (10oz), it's easier to shred the chicken and take 10oz of shredded chicken, rather than try to find 10oz breasts. I am trying to meal prep this chicken over the week. The way I currently cook my shredde...

TeX
TeX
01:05
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Q: Creating patterns

PygmalionUsing north east hatch from the answer to this question Filling rectangle in TikZ with more than one color I wanted to make a north west hatch. However, it has funny teeth I do not know how to get rid of. What is wrong and how can I correct that? MWE: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{ti...

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Q: Is it acceptable that I plot a time-series figure with years increasing from right to left?

Christina ChenI have a plot like this in my paper, but one of the co-authors says The x-axis is backward. I think as long as keeping all figures in the same style, it is ok. But I am not sure if there is really such a rule that years should increase from left to right? My field is environmental science. the f...

GIS
GIS
01:29
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Q: Can mxd files be under version control?

mnavidadIs it recommended to have Esri ArcMap MXD files under version control e.g. stored on SVN or TFS?

RPG
RPG
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Q: How to deal with a Murder Hobo Paladin?

RoomNoSenpaiOur party has a Lawful Neutral Oathbreaker Paladin that has been very much a murder hobo from the beginning. We have been able to keep him in check in most cases but in our recent session he went off on his own and went full murder hobo. We encountered a hag in the woods but she never attacked ...

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Q: How to supply water to a coastal desert town with no rain and no freshwater aquifers?

Joe BThink Tatooine in climate, but with oceans. Here are a few restrictions due to setting: There is modern technology, but not too much electricity ie no super high amperage machines. Population is small at first (only a couple hundred), but is growing since this town has a strong supply of water ...

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Q: What is the meaning of "то, что он пишет"?

MitsukoI am confused by the phrases like "то, что он пишет" and by the construction "то, что" in general. For example, let us consider this sentence: (1) То, что он пишет, и так ясно. However simple and natural this sentence may be for you, it is truly mind-blowing for such a poor student as I am....

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Q: What is the name of the technique when an element is repeated at different scales?

homocomputerisFor example, at the website of the Premier League, the zigzags of the lion's mane are used as backgrounds of the header and the footer; similar shapes are used as overlay masks on some photos. More precisely, I refer not to allusions or resemblance of some elements, but their scaled reproduction...

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Q: List comprehensions in Mathematica?

M.R.I'm looking for an implementation of list comprehensions in Python (nested for-in statement with destructuring and conditionals). Here's an example: matrix=[['a','b'],['c','d']] flat=[(el,i,j) for (i, array) in enumerate(matrix) for (j, el) in enumerate(array) if i!=j] print(flat) Now, anyon...

RPG
RPG
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Q: How would an Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location interact with the Comprehend Languages spell?

allygatorThe entry for the Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location states: While wearing this amulet, you are hidden from divination magic. You can't be targeted by such magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors. Comprehend Languages is a divination spell, so would a person wearing t...

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Q: How to add an aggregate result from a SOQL query inside a map? Shows error- Unexpected token '['

RithuI am trying to create a map of Opportunity ids and a count of its Opportunity Line Items. Map<Id,Integer> opptyIdLineCount = new Map<Id, Integer>(); AggregateResult[] aggOpptyIdLineCount = [SELECT OpportunityId, COUNT(Id)count FROM OpportunityLineItem ...

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Q: Why no parachutes in the Orion AA2 abort test?

Russell BorogoveOn July 2, 2019, the Ascent Abort 2 test of the Orion spacecraft was performed, with the Orion command module ascending on a solid rocket booster, then firing its launch escape system to safely separate it from the booster. One of the announcers in the video states at 1:47 that the spacecraft i...

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Q: In the Seventh Seal why does Death let the chess game happen?

Snack_Food_TermiteThe chess scene in The Seventh Seal is arguably the most classic scene in all of cinema: But why does Death let the game happen? About a minute earlier the Knight has said that he is not ready and Death told him basically that it doesn't matter and there's no delaying this!

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Q: Why create or use Section 31 to carry out Article 14, Section 31 of the Starfleet charter when Starfleet intelligence can do it themselves?

KiskaAccording to the Starfleet charter: Article 14, Section 31 of the Charter made allowances for bending Starfleet regulations in times of extraordinary threat. Right below that sentence on the wiki page it says: This section was cited as the foundation for Section 31 even into the lat...

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Q: Music Physics Question - Automatic Trumpet Embouchure Mouthpiece

GioSo this might be a bit of a newbie question. I'm a working musician who mainly plays guitar and piano, and uses a lot of sampled instruments and synths as well. I don't mean this to be offensive to any players who might play and love these instruments. I understand how important embouchure is to...

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Q: Why is there paternal, for fatherly, fraternal, for brotherly, but no similar word for sons?

Andrea RowlattIf paternal is "relating to someone's parents", and fraternal "relating to someone's brothers", is there, or why isn't there, a word for "relating to someone's sons", i.e: sunternal Sentence example: "sunternal love"

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Q: Can a Time Lord survive with just one heart?

DJ Spicy Deluxe-LeviIn Doctor Who, Time Lords such as the Doctor have two hearts, which got me wondering if they need both to survive or if the second heart is so that if one stops working they can still survive (kind of like a backup generator). And if they can survive without one heart working, will it be harmful ...

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Q: What is the fundamental difference between catching whales and hunting other animals?

Kentaro TomonoI read this article and it seems like activists from cultures without a long history of whaling are inconsistent in their criticism of Japan for its whaling. Many cultural cuisines like rabbits, cows, trout, pigs, chicken, reindeer or walruses are consumed without international criticism. Why d...

ELL
ELL
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Q: Are "confidant" and "confident" homophones?

CykerBoth sound like /-dənt/ to me. Etymology: confidant comes to English from the French word confident, and when the word first entered our language it was often spelled that way, rather than as confidant. So they were actually the same word. Do we really need to tell a difference between them?

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Q: Apex Sleep: what is CPU penalty

cropredyAs we know (as of V46), there is no apex sleep method. Various workarounds have been proposed such as doing a callout to a service with platform support for sleep but this makes unit testing complicated not to mention callout-dml sequencing to consider. Simple sleep loops such as this Util.cls m...

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Q: Short SF story , future people who feed on sunlight try solid food

DannyMcGShort story read in an anthology in UK maybe ten years ago, I can’t think of other stories in the book, or recall any details of the book. Protagonist and his future people live in massive space habitats with artificial suns, they get nourishment by lying out in the solar light for a couple hour...

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Q: Recursive conversion from ExpandoObject to Dictionary<string, object>

JoeliusFor my blazor library which is a modification of this awesome library I have to convert an ExpandoObject into a Dictionary<string, object> since ExpandoObjects aren't serialized properly in the newest preview versions of dotnet-core. See my question related to this for more details. My current a...

04:13
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Q: Implementing absolute value function in c

user9964422is implementing a function to find the absolute value like this: uint16_t absolute_value(int16_t n) { int16_t mask = n >> 15; return((n+mask)^mask); } Any quicker than just doing a simple multiply by -1 if less than 0? this code is on a microprocessor where speed is everything.

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Q: Do we have a much compact and generalized version of erase–remove idiom?

JeJoWe can erase one element/ entry from a container by popular erase–remove idiom. However, the problems: one can easily get into the pitfall of typos like c.erase(std::remove_if(c.begin(), c.end(), pred)); // , c.end() //---> missing here or c.erase...

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Q: Why does mean tend be more stable in different samples than median?

Alok LalSection 1.7.2 of Discovering Statistics Using R by Andy Fields, et all, while listing a virtues of mean vs median, states: ... the mean tends to be stable in different samples. This after explaining median's many virtues, e.g. ... The median is relatively unaffected by extreme scores at...

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Q: Will a free neutron radiate if it is de-accelerated?

HolgerFiedlerIn this answer it is said (and I fully agree) Yes, a ... photon can accelerate a lone neutron. The kinetic energy imparted to the neutron reduces the photon's wavelength (redshifts it) by the same amount, so the total energy of the system remains the same. In turn, the opposite process has ...

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Q: How to iterate equal values with the standard library?

gezaSuppose that I have a vector of something: std::vector<Foo> v; This vector is sorted, so equal elements are next to each other. What is the best way to get all iterator pairs representing ranges with equal elements (using the standard library)? while (v-is-not-processed) { iterator b = <...

RPG
RPG
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Q: Can you use a weapon affected by Heat Metal each turn if you drop it in between?

Mister BThis is a theoretical situation, but I wanted public opinion on the ruling. Heat Metal states (ignoring the "At Higher Levels" part): Choose a manufactured metal object, such as a metal weapon or a suit of heavy or medium metal armor, that you can see within range. You cause the object to gl...

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Q: Are there any extinct phonemes in Russian?

MitsukoYour language and mine have something in common - they are very rich and nuanced lexically, but not rich phonetically at all. There are even numerous parodies making fun of the Russian phonology because of that (e.g., this one). I am curious as to whether the Russian language has always been tha...

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Q: Why has Novell never written its own boot loader?

user2246051I've never used NetWare 5.x 6.x but if I remember correctly versions 3 and 4 required you to boot to DOS partition and then load NetWare server files from it. I could never understand the logic behind it. Why wouldn't NetWare just boot into its own partition and load the necessary server files fr...

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Q: Is conquering your neighbors to fight a greater enemy a valid strategy?

johannfowlSo, I have a group of 6 small kingdoms (in a medieval low fantasy world) that share a lot of their culture, since they were just one country in the past. In my story, a powerful nation (let's call it P) is becoming too dangerous and has the potential to beat all these kingdoms in a war (and go ev...

CS
CS
06:33
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Q: What's the difference between a type and a kind?

Thomas CookI am learning the programming langauge Haskell, and I'm trying to wrap my head around what the difference between a type and a kind is. As I understand it, a kind is a type of type. For instance, a ford is a type of car and a car is a kind of vehicle. Is this a good way to think about this? ...

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Q: Homotopy type of non-Cohen-Macaulay complexes

Priyavrat DeshpandeMost interestingly defined (pure) simplicial complexes that occur in topological combinatorics are Cohen-Macualay. Some of these are even shellable (or have the homotopy type of a wedge of spheres; of same dimension). I would like to know examples of pure simplicial complexes (whose simplices ar...

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Q: method to find Limit of integral

ahmedIn a multiple choice question, the following is asked : The limit $$\lim\limits_{x \to 0^+} \displaystyle\int_x^1 \left(1+ \dfrac 1t\right) e^{-\tfrac 1t} dt $$ is equal to : $+\infty$ $-\infty$ $e^{-1}$ 0 1 My choice went for (3) because the integral is convergent and the integrand is posi...

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Q: Will Jimmy fall off his platform?

connectyourchargerBackstory Meet my friend Jimmy: /o\ Jimmy is a little character who likes to stand on platforms. Here's Jimmy safely standing on a platform: /o\ ------------- Now, Jimmy has a good sense of balance, so he can safely stand with one leg off of the platform, like so: /o\ --...

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Q: Mathematical/Algorithmic definition for overfitting

Brian KoIs there a mathematical or algorithmic definition of overfitting? Often provided definitions are the classic 2-D plot of points with a line going through every single point and the validation loss curve suddenly going up. But is there a mathematically rigorous definition?

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Q: Question about targeting a Hexproof creature

Brandon RenouI was at an official tournament held by Star City Games. It was a draft. My opponent had a Geist of Saint Traft. Having become a little frustrated with it, I had a momentary lapse in memory and I forgot that it had Hexproof. My opponent immediately called for a judge and told the judge to make ...

CS
CS
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Q: Was the 45.9°C temperature in France in June 2019 the highest ever recorded in France?

InductiveloadIt was widely reported that on 28th June, 2019, a record temperature of 45.9°C was recorded in Gallargues-le-Montueux, France, breaking the previous 2003 record of 44.1°C. Sources: Metéo France, BBC, CNN. It was then alleged that this was, in fact, not the highest-ever temperature recorded in Fr...

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Q: Why weren't Gemini capsules given names?

DrSheldonMercury capsules had names (e.g. Liberty Bell). Apollo command modules had names (e.g. Columbia). Apollo lunar modules had names (e.g. Challenger). Space Shuttle orbiters had names (e.g. Columbia and Challenger). Why didn't the Gemini capsules have names?

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Q: Can a USB hub be used to access a drive from 2 devices?

humanSo let's say, I get a USB hub, and I plug it into a hard drive for example (as in, I plug the USB cable that typically goes in a PC, into a hard drive) and then I plug for example 2 PCs into it (as in, I plug it into the part where there are multiple USB slots), can the 2 PCs both read and writ...

TeX
TeX
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Q: Unable to place figures side by side using subcaption

Chandramouli SanthanamI am fairly inexperienced in Overleaf and I want to place two figures side by side, I tried the subcaption package. Here is the part of the latex code I used for this \usepackage{caption} \usepackage{subcaption} \begin{figure} \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.4\textwidth} \includegraphics[...

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Q: Leaving company during company event

giraffe36I'm interviewing with a few companies right now. (I'm a junior software developer at a tech startup.) If things work out well, I'll have one or two offers within the next 2 weeks. (I wasn't actively looking but these two roles came my way - so I didn't get to choose the timing here. I am interest...

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Q: Which package contains /usr/bin/less for Ubuntu 19.04?

SyncopatedAs in the title. Neither dpkg -S /usr/bin/less nor apt-file search /usr/bin/less produces anything useful. Does it mean that there's a bug or that less really doesn't come from any package? (In case you're wondering why I need to know the answer, I find that the less is an old version 487 inste...

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Q: Dualizable object in the category of locally presentable categories

Simon HenryThe bicategory of locally presentable categoires, and left adjoint functor between them, is monoidal closed for the 'Bird-Lurie' tensor product. My question is what are the dualizable objects for this monoidal structure ? Just to be clear, I'm talking about the monoidal stucture for which the in...

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Q: How did Captain Marvel do this without dying?

B. LalondeIn Captain Marvel we learn that Carol has the power of an Infinity Stone essentially because she was near it when it blew up so the power went into her. Why did this not kill her? We've seen many times when people use or wield just one Stone, they get torn apart. Even Peter Quill who was half-C...

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Q: How can a ban from entering the US be lifted?

SammyI know someone who left the country while on parole and he had also overstayed a student visa for nearly 20 years. He claims he doesn't know whether or not he was banned from the country. He's afraid to find out and he's afraid to come back to the states. Is there any luck of him being admitted b...

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Q: 60s Novel, Bionic man exploring changed world post collapse for super computer

NJohnnyPaperback, written in English, from 1960s or 70s. Starts off with a man waking up in cave or buried chamber. He receives info and instructions from a A.I. super computer . (Its been xx years 30? 60? 100? since the collapse of society. The computer's scanners (Satellites? Camera?) are not working...

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Q: How to take personal thing I lend to be used in the office without burning bridges?

threeFatCatWe had a company issued service mobile phone that can be used for emergency and office related texts and calls. 5 months ago our supervisor's personal mobile phone got damaged and he decided to used the company issued service mobile phone for personal use and I think he also needs it because our ...

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Q: Set PlotStyle to be the, say 3rd, default colour Mathematica v11

Esme_This question (at least for v10) seems to have been asked many times, but I cannot decipher the answers. I have read a few posts about this - but I don't know how to use any of the answers (e.g. How to access new colour schemes in version 10?,What are the standard colors for plots in Mathematica...

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Q: Is this standard Japanese employment negotiations, or am I missing something?

ConcernedHobbitMy dilemma is that I have recently been interviewing for a remote position with a company based out of Tokyo, Japan. They are a fairly young start up, with one semi successful product currently out. They seem to be incredibly interested in hiring me. However, there seems to either be some cultur...

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Q: Magento2 : Data Not saving in Custom Table

Waqar AliI have created a custom module and trying to save data but not saved data into custom_table. I don't know why? I compared same code with my previous Modules Everything is same. Here is my installSchema.php public function install(\Magento\Framework\Setup\SchemaSetupInterface $setup, \Magen...

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Q: Do Venezuelan passport holders need a visa to transit through Santiago, Chile?

Dale WoodsI am looking to organize a flight for my friend who is a Venezuelan passport holder, coming from Panama, to visit me here in Australia I already had to cancel one flight because it went through the USA, and she doesn't have a USA visa. The only other option is through Santiago, Chile. I am doi...

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Q: Change the default text editor in Terminal

Andrew EisenbergI just discovered that Control + X + E opens a text editor in the Terminal that allows me to edit the most recent command before executing it again (I think it is actually a bash thing). However, the editor that gets opened is always Emacs. How can I change it to vim?

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Q: Microprocessor architecture bits vs bus sizes

alt-roseI am ready following on this website: "Another big difference between 32-bit processors and 64-bit processors is the maximum amount of memory (RAM) that is supported. 32-bit computers support a maximum of 4 GB (2^32 bytes) of memory, whereas 64-bit CPUs can address a theoretical maximum of 18...

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Q: Problems in compiling code due to Modulus operator

pikafan_8080I have written a program to store a number (which is predefined by the programmer) in form of digits in an array. For example, if I want to store a number 1234 in array arrx[4], then its elements would be : arr[0] = 1 arr[1] = 2 arr[2] = 3 arr[3] = 4 I try to achieve this using below piece of...

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Q: Triangle - Why is it the basic building block for complex shapes

Osama Asif C InfinitumI was recently learning about OpenGL and computer graphics development. I have a question regarding the usage of triangle as the basic building block, or basic shape to develop complex shapes. Is there a particular reason? Or just something that "stuck"?

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Q: Taking my Ph.D. advisor out for dinner after graduation

AntonioI recently finished my Ph.D. in the U.S. and will be leaving soon for a job in industry. I have got a precious gift for my advisor as I really admire him and he is one of my role models and totally deserves it. Now for giving him the gift I was thinking maybe I should take him out to dinner or so...

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Q: LTSpice: how to setup sinusoidal or exponential voltage source?

tenghizMy textbook proposes to calculate power for the voltage source which has sinusoidal or exponential waveform. Probably my question is very silly, but I really don't know how to input textbook's equations using LTSpice independent voltage source setup menu: v(t) = 10*sin(24t) + 14 and v(t) = 12...

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Q: Find max number you can create from an array of numbers

David RefaeliWas asked this in an interview yesterday: You are given an array of numbers (not digits, but numbers: e.g. 9, 23, 184, 102, etc.) - you need to construct the largest number from it. For example: you get 21, 2, 10 - the largest number is 22110. This is my solution, I wonder if you can improve t...

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Q: How do I check that users don't write down their passwords?

VladimirI have a password policy which states that users must not write and store their passwords down in plaintext. How can I ensure that they haven't done so by writing their password in emails, scripts, documents or files?

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Q: Why did Super-VGA offer the 5:4 1280*1024 resolution?

JonathanPC displays almost always targeted 4:3 CRT displays. And indeed, VGA and most super-VGA modes had 4:3 aspect ratio resulting in square pixels - except the odd 5:4 1280*1024 mode. This mode even caused 17"/19" LCD monitors to actually be 5:4, before widescreen 16:9 took over. How did this odd res...

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Q: Handling DateTime column in DataExtenders

Djordje NedovicWe have data extender which will provide date when certain item is locked. Data extender adds column to Checked-out Items page. That is done by adding following XML block in ListCheckedOutItems.xml <list:column id="LockedSince" type="data" title="{Resources: Tridion.Web.UI.Strings, LockedSince}"...

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Q: What is the highest level of accuracy in motion control a Victorian society could achieve?

A Lambent EyeIn my late-Victorian world high-precision clockwork is highly available, but I am having trouble finding out exactly how precise their work could be. I have done some research on the subject, but cannot discover how people make more precise tools with less precise tools. If, for example, one si...

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Q: Initializing variables variable in an "if" statement

ArneI read that in C++17 we can initialize variables in "if" statements like this if (int length = 2; length == 2) //execute something Instead of int length = 2; if (length == 2) //do something Even though it is shorter, it affects the code readibility (especially for people who don't k...

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Q: Simple Arithmetic Puzzle 8. Or is it?

TheSimpliFireThis one's different to all the previous ones... \begin{align}7+53&=28\\16+6&=21\\5+19&=97\\15+8&=\,?\end{align} Can you find the value of the question mark?

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Q: Modifying components in a changset

Luke BrayI have found conflicting answers to this question so am asking it again. If I add an Apex class to a change set and then subsequently modify the class does the version in the change set reflect this change? Or will the 'original' version I added to the change set be the one that is uploaded?

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Q: Do Goblin tokens count as Goblins?

user27744I have a typically mono red Goblins deck. My question, are tokens considered Goblins too? For example, I have 10 1/1 Goblin tokens put onto the battlefield by Krenko, Mob Boss. Can I use those tokens for Skirk Fire Marshal's ability?

RPG
RPG
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Q: Can you take the Dodge action while prone?

intooI was wondering what the rules say about dodging while prone. I couldn't find anything from the PHB. I would imagine that rolling out of the way of attacks is possible but it would be kind of slow so I don't know how to rule it. In my situation a cleric used Turn Undead and a frightened skeleto...

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Q: Where can I find the Graduale Romanorum in Latin or Croatian in physical format?

Dominik AgejevI've been looking for the official Graduale Romanorum which sanctions which hymns, chants, etc. are allowed to be performed during Mass. Unfortunately, I could only find the Latin version in digital format. Also, if anyone knows a good hymnal in Latin or Croatian or where I can find official do...

DBA
DBA
17:51
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Q: Why is this delete operation slower after a foreign key relationship has been added?

ThatDataGuyImagine the following table about cat owners. drop table if exists owners cascade; create table owners( id bigint primary key generated always as identity , name text not null ) ; insert into owners(name) select random()::text from generate_series(1,20000); --insert 200,000 owners reco...

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Q: What is the shape of the upper boundary of water hitting a screen?

Naga Sandesh GoliWhen I saw that thing I did not understand how that shape is formed. To be ideal, take a vertical smooth plane. Now aim at wall with the thin water tube. Then the outer layer forms a parabolic shape with stagnation point as focus of it. I found it by tracing that shape. How could you explain thi...

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Q: What do I need to see before Spider-Man: Far From Home?

Saxon DruceI have seen Spider-Man: Homecoming, but have not yet seen several other MCU movies (including Civil War, Black Panther, Infinity War, Endgame and many more). However I gather from various Internet spoilers that: How independent is Spider-Man: Far From Home? Do I need to have seen up to the en...

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IOT
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Q: What is a good way for an IoT device to receive its network settings?

Mikael LindqvistI'm in the process of building an IoT device using ESP8266. The device will eventually contain a couple of motors, and I would like to control these motors using MQTT. I would like to make the device as cheap as possible, so I would like to avoid things like displays and keyboards. So, when the...

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Q: I was denied boarding

RolaI have a c-type single entry Schengen visa issued from Spain. And this is my first time Schengen visa. I wanted to go to Rome first for 3 days and then to Spain for 4 days and then back to my country from Spain. I had all the internal flight ticket from Rome to Barcelona and the hotel's non-refun...

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Q: Shipped package arrived - didn't order, possible scam?

Ben10Two days ago I received a text message from DHL with a link to a DHL track parcel page. I can confirm that it is the official website. I even took the tracking code, and manually went onto the DHL website and entered in the code - and everything lines up. It did not ask for any additional informa...

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Q: Auto manage planets

tatsuplaying Stellaris in latest version 03/07/2019, I'm having an issue with the auto-manage planet button (the orange one) : I click it but nothing happens. What I imagine should happen is it should start building/replacing buildings or maybe the same for districs (I just recently found out that...

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Q: Did William Shakespeare hide things in his writings?

Mr PieI was reading Shakespeare's third sonnet, and I noticed something funny. I am going to put in bold all the capital letters in the sonnet itself. Sonnet III When fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow, And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field, Thy youthes proud liuery so...

Ham
Ham
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Q: Kenwood TH-D72A: what's the difference between Tone and CTCSS?

Aleksander Alekseev - R2AUKKenwood TH-D72A supports 3 types of tone: Tone, CTCSS and DCS. What is the difference between Tone and CTCSS? As far as I know CTCSS is basically a continuous transmission of a given low frequency signal mixed with the voice. So it's basically a simple tone, isn't it?

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Q: When to use conoscere, other than saying you know someone

DavidI was always taught to use sapere to say that I know something and conoscere to say that I know someone. However, I get the feeling that this is an oversimplified heuristic for new speakers, and I'm wondering if there's a more correct/thorough rule for when to use conoscere instead of sapere. I'm...

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Q: Why do Martians have to wear space helmets?

colmdeIn Mars Attacks!, it's established that Martians must wear those space helmets because, unlike us oxygen-breathing Earthlings, Martians must breathe nitrogen. Is this a deliberate joke by the writers or just research failure? Because, of course, Earth's atmosphere is mainly nitrogen!

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Q: What's the difference between 反面 and 一方?

Alex16I understand that they both present two opposite sides of a situation or of something. However, even if in some cases they can be interchangeable, there are other where they cannot. Can somebody provide me some example to underatand the difference?

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Q: Who is responsible for exterminating cockroaches in house - tenant or landlord?

michaelIf a rental house is infested with cockroaches, what does the halacha say about who is responsible for hiring an exterminator, the landlord or the tenant?

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Q: Is there a standard definition of the "stall" phenomena?

Robert DiGiovanniIn the process of increasing angle of attack of a wing, lift is increasing to a maxima at a certain AOA, then decreasing as this AOA is exceeded. This seems to be the current agreed upon definition of the stall point. Yet the sharp pitch down and transition of the center of lift to 50% chord do...

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Q: How do I make a celtic knot?

DennizBI have no idea how I'm supposed to tackle this, I've tried making a three-point star but after that I had no idea how to continue since a celtic knot has rounded edges.

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Q: n-level Ouroboros Quine

Leo TenenbaumThis 128-language quine ouroboros (a program which outputs a program in another language, which outputs a program in yet another language, (125 languages later), which outputs the original program) is pretty impressive. But unfortunately, it has a static number of iterations. Write a program whi...

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Q: Two libraries collide. Ambiguous functions/variables?

wheelerI get several errors once I try to include these two libraries: error: expected unqualified-id before '{' token #define DEBUG_PRINTLN(...) {} #include <DHT.h> #include <DGS.h> void setup() { } void loop() { } Apparently DEBUG_PRINTLN is causing the problems, because it is defined a...

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Q: When is one 'Ready' to make Original Contributions to Mathematics?

TomThis is quite a philosophical, soft question which can be moved if necessary. So, basically I started my PhD 9 months ago and have thrown myself into learning more mathematics and found this an enjoyable and rewarding experience. However, I have come to realise how much further I still have to ...

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Q: What causes a fastener to lock?

tgun926I am rebuilding a car engine. With some of the fasteners I am unscrewing, I notice that a lot of torque is required to undo the fastener. It feels like a snap when undoing a fastener, rather than a smooth twist. If I tighten the fastener to a set torque again and loosen it, it requires the same t...

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Q: Would Disciple of Life supercharge Regenerate?

Q PaulReading through the cleric spell list it occurred to me that if Disciple of Life works on regenerate you would regain 10 hp instead of 1. Is this valid?

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Q: Boss furious on bad appraisal

IoannaAfter completing an anonymous 360 evaluation in our company, our boss received a score 2.5/5 as an average of 8 evaluations. He gathered all 8 of us in his office, demanding to speak up and support the negative review of each of the factors, not knowing which ones have ranked him with 1/5 and whi...

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Q: What are some bad ways to subvert tropes?

tryinI recently came across something I wrote in 4th or 5th grade, where the MCs, a girl and a boy, were superheroes. One wore a blue costume with knives, and the other wore a pink one with flowers... BUT PSYCH! The girl wore the blue one! And the boy wore the pink! Your stereotypes mean nothing to my...

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Q: Is there a name for non-Benders in the Avatar universe?

treyBakeIs there an "official"/in-universe name (or slang) for people that can't bend within the world of Avatar? I know Benders are just called benders: If you want to be a Bender, you have to let go of fear. - Aang, s1 ep1 So Benders have I guess a semi-official term, but do non-Benders? Almos...

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Q: How to ask if a dropped object belongs to someone?

KeenLet's say I see a wallet on the ground and a person I suspect dropped it. In English I would naturally ask" Excuse me. Is this your wallet?" A direct Japanese translation would be"すみませんあなたの財布ですか" but time and time again I hear that using "あなた" is rude. How then do I get around this in case the pe...

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Q: Way to see all encrypted fields in Salesforce?

TestMcTestersonI was looking for a way to see what fields in an org are encrypted. I am aware of the encryption statistics, however I was hoping there was a way where I could do a SOQL query and return all the encrypted fields. If not, I can use the encryption statistics page.

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Q: Curve fitting when data has a sharp initial slope and then tapers off

PeterJI have a dataset that I'm currently smoothing using a 6th order least-squares polynomial which models the initial sharp curve well but as the data tapers out some noise at the end causes a downwards curve at the end. It's probably easiest to show a plot of my current data followed by the results ...

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Q: Why do most airliners have underwing engines, while business jets have rear-mounted engines?

quiet flyerWhy have modern airliners converged on a configuration with two or occasionally four underwing engines, while modern business jets have converged on a configuration with two or occasionally three rear-mounted engines? I am of course aware of the many past airliners with rear-mounted engines, wit...

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Q: The Purpose of "Natu"

tonyFollowing on from the question "Using Genitive & Infinitive To Describe Characteristics"; Joonas (26/6/19): "adulescentis est maiores natu revereri." = "It is of a young person to respect his/ her elders/ ancestors. What is the purpose of "natu" given that "maiores" means "elders/ ancestors", wi...

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Q: Red and White Squares

OrayThere are two grid boards with the dimension of 9x9 and 14x14, consist of all white squares. You are supposed to color some squares with a red color on the conditions below: In a board, if two square has a common edge, they are neighbor squares. Every square needs to have at least 2 colored nei...

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Q: Convert integer to full text string duration

BishNaboBI have a function I have written in VB for use in SSRS 2012. It takes an integer and converts it to full text duration - for example 900 becomes "15 minutes", 9000 becomes "2 hours 30 minutes", and 7201 is "2 hours 1 second". The code works, and is: Public Function SecondsFullText(ByVal TotalSe...

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Q: What is it called when the tritone is added to a minor scale?

cmasterWhile improvising today, I discovered that you can create some quite cool, melancholic sounds by adding the tritone to a harmonic minor scale. For A minor, the resulting scale would be A B C D D# E F G# A I guess, I'm not the first one to discover this, which got me wondering, whether there...

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Q: How did the IEC decide to create kibibytes?

userWhat was the decision making process that lead to the IEC to create "kibibytes", "mebibytes" and so forth? To me it seems like kilobytes were well established as 1024 bytes, both by programmers using them and by electronic engineers. Indeed, even now the 1024 byte kilobyte is commonly used when ...

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Q: Does 5e have an equivalent of the Psychic Paper from Doctor Who?

StuperUserRelating to Does 3.5e have an equivalent of the Psychic Paper from Doctor Who? Are there any legitimate 5e spells/items/mechanics that reproduce the effect of the Psychic Paper from Doctor Who?

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Q: Electrokinesis, direct, and based on technology

UshumgalluSuperhumans in my setting work based on advanced technology (but not clarketech; no violations of physical laws, no FTL). My question is, how can a superhuman direct electricity? From my understanding of electricity, it moves in the easiest path it can take. Air, for instance, retards the mo...

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Q: How important is it for multiple POVs to run chronologically?

Weckar E.The way I am currently designing a story with three distinct POVs. An issue I am running into, however, is that one of these has much more to do in the first third than the other two while having less to do later. Because of this, I am considering not running the POVs chronologically next to eac...

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Q: How would a sea turtle end up on its back?

Charlie BrumbaughThere is a video going round of two guys flipping a sea turtle that had ended up on its back so it could get back into the water. How would a sea turtle end up on its back in the first place (it sure doesn't seem that the turtle would do that on purpose)?

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Q: How can select a specific triangle in my Delaunay mesh?

Las des NestorHere is the code I am working with. I create a list of random coordinates, then I create a triangular mesh with the code: list = RandomInteger[{1, 10}, {10, 2}] mesh = DelaunayMesh[ list, MeshCellLabel -> {0 -> "Index"}, PlotTheme -> "Lines", MeshCellHighlight -> {{1, All} -> Green, {0, ...


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