Hurricanes seem to run out of steam when they make landfall. If our planet were entirely covered by ocean, would hurricanes continue indefinitely? Would they keep gathering energy and increasing in intensity until...?

Why might the housing part of the US GDP basket 40% of the basket, but only 17% of China's?

I am trying to download a style from GitHub and add it to QGIS styles for use, this is how it looks like: How can I do this? I'd really like to use this style.

What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition? Why is the native method generally the best method for most users? How does the native method differ from conventional cloning? What are the pros and cons of native versus third-party tools? How do I configure system partition...

I am trying to derive the R-N solution and i am following Blau's notes (to be found here http://www.blau.itp.unibe.ch/newlecturesGR.pdf) pages 677-679. With the same metric ansatz: $$ ds^2 = -A(r)dt^2 + B(r)dr^2 + r^2 d\Omega^2 $$ and four potential ansatz: $$A_{\alpha} = (-\phi(r),0,0,0).$$ i am...

Is Leibniz's notation pointless? People tell me it's informal but intuitive. I agree with the first bit but how is it intuitive. Look at the chain rule expressed in Leibniz notation for example $\frac{dy}{dx}$ = $\frac{dy}{du}$$\frac{du}{dx}$ The reason this makes no sense is because it tells yo...

I saw written in a coat of arms "PRO MARE NOSTRVM", but we all know that the preposition "pro" takes ablative, so the right form would be "PRO MARI NOSTRO" wouldn't it? I could not find anywere other uses for the preposition "pro". Is that sentence somehow right?

Background: I am a lecturer in computer science, but my research is mostly theoretic and mathematic, so I ask here. I want to encourage my undergraduate students to become research students after their graduation (as master or Ph.D. students). To do this, I have to explain to them what it means t...

I left my drone on until the battery shutdown. The Mavic battery bottom meter light flashes 16 times when checking charge. When i place the battery on DJI chargers it will not charge and also flashes 16 times. Keep in mind i did not store it this way and the battery depleted this low in the pa...

In GAP one obtains a matrix in the following way as an output: [ [ 0, 0, 0, 1 ], [ 0, 0, 1, 0 ], [ 0, 1, 0, 0 ], [ 1, 0, 0, 0 ] ] This matrix is given as a list of lists (which are the row vectors). Question: Is there a direct way to paste this GAP output of a matrix directly into a TeX file and...

I want to refer to a "table" of equations, but I want every "cell" to be numbered. All answers I have seen of anything similar deal with numbering lines, but I'd like to number individual cells as well. Here's the minimal code: \begin{align*} \begin{array}{c|c|c} p & q & p\wedge q\\\hline 1 & 1 &...

The Constitution of the United States of America frequently refers to the President using male pronouns. For instance: He shall hold his Office Not once is the president referred to with a female pronoun, or even with joint pronouns (e.g. "he or she"). Does this indicate that the Constitution d...

Sorry but I will talk about attainments and mention some stuff that are sometimes considered hard to get to, you are free to not read. I will probably abandon this account after this post. Well... I'm post stream-entry, I don't really have doubts about that. I have 2 "addictions", that is 2 thing...

I am reading Francis Borceux’s “Handbook of Categorical Algebra I” and on page 135 it says In particular a finite version of 4.2.5 does not hold: a finitely complete and well-powered category certainly admits finite intersections of subobjects (see 4.2.3), but not in general finite unions of sub...

Assuming I have the statement ∀x(∀y¬Q(x,y)∨P(x)), can I pull the universal quantifier ∀y out of the parenthesis? Meaning, is this statement equivalent to ∀x∀y(¬Q(x,y)∨P(x)) ? An approach I tried so far: ∀x((∃y Q(x,y) ) => P(x)). (original eq.) ∀x((∀y¬Q(x,y))∨P(x)) (De Morgan's...

If you look at the list of FBI directors, some of them are numbered - first, second, third director etc. But the majority are not numbered and they are marked as Acting. What is the difference?

I am studying for the Italian driving test and doing my best to learn new vocabulary as I go along. But I'm having a lot of trouble understanding what "riesce malagevole" means because I'm having trouble finding it used in other contexts. First, here it is in the driving exam question context: E...

A famous paper has three coauthors. I wrote a note regarding that paper and want to get some feedback from them. Shall I send the note and my questions in one email to the three authors together (with two of them in cc line or also in "to" line), or is it more respectful to send three different p...

In any regular calculus or real analysis course, we learn the definition of the derivative of a function $f(x)$ as $$f^\prime (x)=\lim\limits_{h\rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}$$ However while studying abstract algebra we come to know that differentiation is just like any operation (like addi...

Im trying but something is wrong with my code in latex : \begin{asy} pair dynkinMark(real x, real y, string s = "", pen p = defaultpen, pair B = dir(45)) { if (s != "") { dot("$"+s+"$", (x,y), B, p); } else { dot((x,y), p); } return (x,y); } dynkinMark(0,1, "1", dir(135)); dynkinMark(0,2,

Amateur c++ programmer here, working my way through the Project Euler problems (problem 4). I would love for someone to take a look at my ~40 lines of code and give suggestions on improving the effectiveness of the code, and how/what to change to better follow the general guidelines for the flow ...

Some buffers can be closed by being in them and pressing q such as the help buffer, doing C-h k M-x will open a help buffer describing the keybinding M-x. Although, the cursor will stay in the original buffer and when I done reading the help buffer, I'll move to it and press q. Is there a way to ...

I am a Software Engineering student and this year I learned about how CPUs work, it turns out that electronic engineers and I also see it a lot in my field, we do use derivatives with discontinuous functions. For instance in order to calculate the optimal amount of ripple adders so as to minimise...

In my init.vim I have the following command: nnoremap <Leader>s :echo "hi<" . synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),1),"name") \ . "> fg<" . synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line("."),col("."),1)),"fg") \ . "> bg<" . synIDattr(synIDtrans(synID(line("."),col("."),1)),"bg") . ">"<CR> For some reason th...

Stealth isn't possible in space, but what if you just shine a laser in their eyes and make a whole lot of noise somewhere else? The situation is this: A shuttle full of pirate marines must dock to a warship orbiting a trade station. The warship is fully operational and armed with missiles and coi...

I have a question about LEDs on 6V Shimano dynamo hubs. I built up an old Schwinn with a Nexus dynamo hub, and the headlight I'm using is based on an LED 6V headlamp. The LED is a Chip-on-board design, and I've wired it directly to the two terminals on the hub without using the frame as a ground....

I can understand that the role of electrons and protons are not interchangeable for elements heavier than Hydrogen, because there is no nuclear force to keep the charged electrons together in a nucleus, but at least for the Hydrogen atom, it should be possible to exchange the proton and the elect...

In programming language theory, people study the theory behind programming languages. But I have never heard any formal definition of programming languages themselves. What is the formal definition, not of a particular programming language like Python or C++, but of programming languages themselv...

I understand the basics of fourth-voicings and mccoy's style, moving fourth voicings diatonically through a scale, and occasionally using chromaticism to shift and play out. I find this though very hard to try to analyze a transcription of something by him. How to assess when is it a standard fou...

The Rama in Orach Chaim 589:6 states that a man may not say a bracha on the shofar for women who have not yet heard it, if he has already fulfilled his obligation. Why wouldn't the concept of arvut apply here? She has opted into a mitzvat aseh shehazman grama, a mitzvah d'oraita. Could a man no...

I understand that the F.T. of a constant signal is the Dirac. However, I cannot find anywhere showing the derivation or proof for this. I'm trying to do it myself and am getting lost. Can anyone give a worked-out derivation that the Fourier Transform of a constant signal is the Dirac? Thank You f...

I have multiple Devhub orgs. One belongs to my employer. Others belong to external companies that I do consulting work for via my employer. The latter includes Devhub orgs that define the packaging namespace that I need to reference in the sfdx-project.json for that consulting work. If I try and ...

As titled, extra question, can process group have descendants?

I'm a beginner on this, can anyone help me ?

For the purpose of this question, you may assume that we are working over the complex numbers. Given a connected reductive group $G$, one can choose a maximal torus $T$, and then let $T$ act on the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ of $G$. One can use this action to define the root datum, which in turn ...

In Breaking Bad Gus Fring told the Salamanca twins, The agent's name is Hank Schrader. May his death satisfy you. How did he know Hank killed their cousin, Tuco Salamanca? The twins seemed to know only that a DEA agent killed Tuco, but they didn't know which age...

For example, if I had a gate rz(0), it holds no value in a circuit. It comes out to a matrix of [[1,0], [0,1]], which seems to be of no value, but I am wondering if there is any purpose of such gate in a circuit.

I am new to blender (yes, laugh at the obligatory doughnut) and I when I set up the camera (I use NUM 0 to access the camera and move it into position with "Lock camera to view") in the viewport it shows as the first attached image, but when I render it the image is further back as shown in the s...

I have a very long dryer vent run that is about 18' or so, and is completely behind a wall. Included below is a rough sketch of what I think the vent looks like, but I have no way to confirm that without removing a lot of dry wall and flooring. I bought one of those dryer vent cleaning kits that...

Background I have a code that basically caches file. The way it works is it will first check if the file exists on the local drive and if it does if there is a flag passed called validate_file_size then it will do another check to see if the size of the file on local drive equals the size of the ...

The solar irradiance received by the Earth is 1361 $W/m^2$. What is the lunar irradiance received by Earth from the full Moon in the same units? My first thought was to work it out via apparent magnitude but I don't think that would work out.

My visa to the UK was expired, and I got arrested due to a misunderstanding and false suspicion of criminal activity. The criminal allegation was quickly dropped, but upon being booked into jail, they found that my visa was expired and informed me that I would likely be removed the next day. Inst...

Memory Alpha defines baryons as subatomic particles that "accumulated aboard starships as a result of warp travel", and had to be removed by baryon sweeps- "a procedure lethal to organic material." However, the site does not explain exactly what it is about these particles that they had to be cle...

I have two functions $f(x)>0$ and $g(x)>0$, both decreasing. Then, can I claim that the product $f(x)g(x)$ is decreasing as well? ($x>0$)

My prefix is there for true. My suffix is there for you. My infix is all I've got. Is my whole after not?

I have a custom object call Account_Addresses__c that has a master-detail relationship to the Account record. I am trying to create a Visualforce page that will be embedded in the Account Detail to show the related list's records and eventually allow users to inline edit them. I have the control...

I'm running a classifier (logistic regression). The information on my dataset are the following: dataset size= 279 observations (80/20 rule) train size= 233 test size = 56 # of events in train = 31 # of events in test = 8 I think my classifier and results may be affected due to this not equal...

I think I understand the main implication of the Coase Theorem—that the outcome will be Pareto efficient regardless of the initial allocation of property rights, provided transaction costs are zero, but I am not sure whether the outcome is the same from the perspective of each party. As far as I ...

Mathematics proofs are written as sentences and not as collections of logic symbols. Through logic codes, it is much easier for me to visualize what the symbols are trying to tell us rather than English text filled with grammars. This is my personal opinion. Others may be having different opinion...

So, I was thinking about this question which I asked a while back, and it occurred to me that the "natural predator" of such ships would be missile and fighter carriers which unleash swarms of missiles and/or fighters without having to expose as much surface area as Dreadnoughts. With that in min...

Special Agent Benford has been stymied by a third unsolved case of miscreant creative accounting and will voluntarily retire from the Fraudulent Numbers Task Force. Benford’s ability to detect falsified accounting sheets by merely counting the first digits of numerical entries is so renown that a...

amazon returns almost 50 hits for "tomato sauce" and just 3 for "tomato paste" Do "tomato sauce" and "tomato paste" mean the same thing?

I am currently looking to get certified by the ACMG (Association of Canadian Mountain Guides) and it says I need hikes with a minimum of 700 m elevation gain/loss. Should I buy a GPS? Or are there cheaper alternatives to calculate my elevation that is reliable? If GPS is the way to go, any recomm...

I've found the picture below on the TotalWar game series forum, but doing the reverse image search, shows that it is actually quite popular (however, I couldn't find the author or the title): It depicts a Prussian line infantry unit marching towards enemy. My (actually pretty silly question) is:...

Pip is an imperative golfing language with infix operators. It also borrows some features from functional and array programming. What general tips do you have for golfing in Pip? I'm looking for approaches and tricks that are commonly useful for code golf and are specific to Pip (e.g. "remove com...

When I run the APEX PMD, getting Design Error for the Below method. ExcessiveParameterList Avoid long parameter lists. Checked below link not able to solve this issue, Can anyone please help me on this. https://pmd.github.io/latest/pmd_rules_apex_design.html#excessiveparameterlist @AuraEnabled ...

I'm a student of mathematics and I need know about the status of the Milnor conjecture (if there are partial results or if someone solved that). The statement is: A complete Riemannian manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature has a finitely generated fundamental group. If someone can help me ...

I get it that we are transforming space and time in a different way, but how does that relate to changing the definitions of force and momentum? I thought that the Gallilean transformations were thought of as a separate thing from Newton's laws. Were Gallilean transformations an assumption of New...

I have several functions defined by similar way, and they will be used later by the name base + argument. I do not find \cs_use:c, but there is \use:c and \cs_if_exist_use:c. Is this the correct way to do such thing or I should use something else like \str_case:nn? \documentclass{article} \usepac...

I clicked "apply" on 2 displacement modifiers to a plane and it really messed up the look I was going for. I went to go edit the modifiers but I can't see them. In my hierarchy my plane looks like it has no modifiers at all even though I've done a lot to it. How do I find/edit the modifiers I app...

This question has already been asked in general form here, but I'm going to make an effort to make it more specific to keep it open. The spell sickening radiance, cast just before a wall of force (through a readied action or something similar) can trap and kill many solo BBEGs, with just two cast...

Is there a way to turn .mca files into a human readable format? Is there a way to replace all of a certain block or item in a .mca file? I would like to replace all instances of a modded block with a vanilla block. I plan on updating my Minecraft java modded world into a newer version, but the ne...

Synopsis: Inner joins that can be logically eliminated are instead retained if there is an non-eliminated outer join earlier in the logical tree. Why? Examples run in AdventureWorks2008R2 and later. I have added traceflags to give the overall context of successive trees and rules. First exampl...

In the proof it says that 'choose for each $x$ an element of $B_x$ ...' and I think that this means infinite number(If $U$ is infinite) of arbitrary choice because normally $B_x$ doesn't exist uniquely for a given $x$. But the book doesn't mention anything about this. Is it true that this proof ...

Since often very curious ideas and means of excuses appear around the arguing with the means of "that's a fetter", my person thought it would be good if someone would have the skills and goodness toward fellows and behind followers to explain the meaning and whether a perception of it is used fo...

This question is specific to Canada (but you could also say North America) So if I am a sponsored PhD student (externally from my government), and I happen to work/research on a project funded through my PhD supervisor (for example by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation), is he legally require...

When im passing Bmp as stream, function always return: "D4-1D-8C-D9-8F-00-B2-04-E9-80-09-98-EC-F8-42-7E" - its 1x1px empty bitmap MD5 but file saving on disk correctly. When I load bpm from disk, function return correct MD5. Also passing "new Bitmap(int x, int y);" with different value return sam...

def merge_arrays(list1, list2): len_list1 = len(list1); len_list2 = len(list2) merge_len = len_list1 + len_list2 merge_list = [] l1_ptr = 0 l2_ptr = 0 # import pdb; pdb.set_trace() while(l1_ptr <= len_list1-1 and l2_ptr <= len_list2-1): if (list1[l1_ptr] <= list2[l2_ptr]): ...

Say, I have two itineraries booked with Ryan Air. City A to City B, and City B to City C, with a few hours connection in City B. Being a point-to-point airline, Ryan Air does not offer connecting flights, and my itineraries have been booked independently. Now because of COVID, the second flight C...

Isnt resultant force allways pointing slighlty backward at every wing,so why hang glider is not push downwind by the wind? From theory that cant be possible,so does wind somehow coming at him at angle from below? ground seems flat,maybe slightly angled.. (Is it easy what his doing or that can do...

I was walking with a friend some time ago, and it happened to walk near an open-air restaurant. Some woman was singing. While I considered her singing good-enough, my friend scoffed and complained about the singer not "breathing" (properly). Now I understand that breathing keeps us alive. I also ...

In his book, The Attributes of God, A. W. Tozer mentions that John Wesley had a bad relation with his wife and because of this failed marriage, it is said that he (sometimes) used to pray in Latin so that his wife won't understand what he was praying about. The version of the book I have has no b...

Some years ago I listened to a radio drama involving four kids trapped on a wreck starship. After ruling the mission they and their families were on a failure they convinced the AI to return to Earth, only to find the Earth missing. I thought it was called "Earth Bound" but I can't find anything ...

Why is it necessary to burn the hydrogen fuel coming out of the engine for the lift of the rockets ? If it is done to create a greater reaction force on the rocket then why can't we do the same lift with just adjusting the speed of the hydrogen gas going out of the engine like we can release them...

I am trying to work out how to have a fake mirror in my scene. Character A walks by a mirror on the wall, which should reflect the room and everything in it, except Character A. Instead of Character A, it reflects Character B. So, basically, I want a simple reflective surface, but: Character A s...

尷尬 feels like a pleonasm, for it shares 尢 as the semantic component. Why wasn't just one character, either 尷 or 尬, used to signify the meaning of 尷尬? How common are such pleonasms? What are the reasons for them?

Per Wizarding World (formerly Pottermore), Ron's full name is Ronald Bilius Weasley. And he use his family name Ron Weasley? I recognize that even the first time he met Harry, he called himself "Ron" and not "Ronald": Ron: Excuse me, do you mind? Everywhere else is full. Harry: No, not at all. R...

German Right-wing (extremist) protesters are often seen carrying black-white-red flags, which are the flags of the German Imperium. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/corona-demo-berlin-135.html Vizekanzler Scholz sagte: "Es kann nicht hingenommen werden, dass einige mit Symbolen aus einer schlimm...

I received an "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" email, which is quite suspicious. The message is displayed in Thunderbird like this: From: someRandomStuff [email protected] Date: 24.08.20, 21:05 To: a list of very random looking email addresses, probably machine generated Is this simp...

At the end of Back to the Future 3 we see the DeLorean getting hit by a train in 1985, seemingly wrecking it beyond repair. Looking at the scattered parts we actually see the time circuits and flux capacitor turning off, and we even see Mr Fusion (the future technology). Those two parts did not s...

The following picture shows how I make a Weibull Graph to visualize the strength of samples. The code and the needed data are below. In the Epilog of ProbabilityScalePlot I am plotting the confidence intervals for the data. I am doing this with 4 different HalfLines. halflines={HalfLine[{6.11461...

I have an 08 ford focus that I haven't been driving. I just turn it on and let it run for about 30 minutes every few weeks so that it's not just sitting. One time I left it running in the parking lot and forgot about it until 14 hours later. How bad is this? What kind of damage could I expect fro...

As we send up more and more satellites, it stands to reason that our view of the universe becomes more and more obscured. I would certainly expect for example that a large telescope such as the LSST would be able to see the International Space Station, and since the ISS is not transparent, it wou...

I saw the following code from https://circuits4you.com/2018/03/10/esp8266-jquery-and-ajax-web-server/ but I could not understand it thoroughly... I looked at the documentation of PROGMEM from this https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/variables/utilities/progmem/ but could not understand t...

"Not is he brave who kills a tiger, but rather, the real brave man is the one who controls his anger." I read this sentence, and it attracted me a lot because of its unique construction, i.e. Not+state verb+ subject..., but the question is if this is grammatical. Although this seems to give muc...

I would like to use a PVC pipe to send candy to kids 10 feet from the door on Halloween. I'd put candy in the high end and it would come out the low end into the kid's candy bag. I could use help in figuring out a way to mount such a pipe without having the benefit of a railing to attach it to. I...

I have been using Ubuntu on my laptop for a while and in love with it and now I want to use it on my main PC. I have a 240 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD. I have windows10 installed on the SSD and use the HDD for general files. I want to freshly install Ubuntu on my system. How should I use my SDD as moun...

I have a simple Kotlin interface: @FunctionalInterface interface ServiceMethod<T> { fun doService(): T } This, in spite of the name, is essentially identical to Java's Supplier functional interface. The only difference is that I can implement the Supplier, and I can't implement my own. val sup...

I’ve got a request from a partner vendor in a completely separate routing domain to directly route a /24 rfc1918 network on my rfc1918 internal network. The proposed solution has their handoff directly connected to our router with static routes with next-hop on my router pointing to the vendor ro...

There are many myths and doubts about this title. Do we have evidence about the original intention of Beethoven naming his Symphony after the so called fate motif?

In one of his last letters to Wilberforce, John Wesley wrote in 1791: Dear Sir, Unless the divine power has raised you to be as Athanasius contra Mundum, I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise in opposing the inexcreble villainy which is the scandal of religion, of England and...

I am trying to calculate the sample size for a mixed linear regression model. The dependent variable is continuous and the model includes 2 further continuous variables. The random intercept is based on a grouping variable (5 levels reflecting sites where the subjects have been enrolled). I would...

Hello there, I'm trying to calculate condensed Fukui functions for atoms of ascorbate (anion!). For some reason, when calculating nucleophilicity, the functions are negative. The equation I use is: $$ \tag{1} f_A^- = P_A(N) - P_A(N-1) $$ First of all, please confirm whether I am correct - since a...

I've been looking for a solution to this question for a while. I was wondering if anyone is aware of a way of defining symbolic dummy indices to implement Einstein's convention. Let me explain with an example. I would like to define, say, an object with one index, defined this way (more or less):...

I'm using Craft Commerce Lite and the donation purchasable. I don't want users to ever be able to add more than one donation to the cart. Using the Lite edition stops users from being able to add donations with different amounts since those would need two line items. In the docs for Adding the Do...

We have a flight from Schiphol to Calgary booked directly with KLM. At this time, Canada doesn't seem to let anyone enter the country due to the covid pandemic. (Except for a few exceptions) Still KLM is flying, and we can't refund our tickets. Isn't it a requirement for the country to let us in ...

The shell standard output redirects to the last line of the file, is there a way to write it to the first line of the file? Since the content of stdout is unpredictable, I suspect that this may require changing the default behavior of stdout, but I am not sure if it is feasible. Example, redirect...

I'm trying to understand why there is a discrepancy in lock count in sys.dm_tran_locks and sqlserver.lock_acquired extended event in certain cases. Here is my repro script, I'm using the StackOverflow2013 database on SQL Server 2019 RTM, compat level 150. /* Initial Setup */ IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.Hig...

I have a strategy on a stock (such as Buy and Hold) on which I have to calculate the maximum drawdown. The problem is that I'm working on returns expressed in percentages, so I do not have the time series of prices but the one of returns obtained at each step. So I wrote this code: def MDD(return...

Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem has various coordinate systems; like the Affine, Projective, and Jacobian coordinate systems. We prefer not to use the Affine coordinate system during the calculations since the operations require inversion and that is much costlier than multiplication. Katz and Lindel...

Imagine you had the opportunity to found a new country from scratch (in 2020). Value exchange would probably be digital, like a centralised pseudo-cryptocurrency where only the state can create new currency units. Instead of relying on income tax and/or indirect taxes, there would be no form of...

The US president has the authority to grant a pardon to a person other than himself in respect of a federal crime, even before the person has been indicted. There has also been some discussion over whether he can issue a federal self-pardon. But he does not have the right to issue a pardon for a ...

This is question is related to an English work I am currently doing. I have a phrase where I want to describe how a particular person has 'made a considerable impact' on the world that we live in today. This is the sentence I am using: Franco Zeffirelli made considerable impact on the world of fi...

In a linear regression model, the reason we control for variables is to prevent the omitted variable bias (OVB). That is, suppose we are trying to fit the model $$ Y = \beta_{0} + \beta_{1}X_{1} + \varepsilon $$ however, there is another variable $X_{2}$ that is correlated with $X_{1}$ and influe...

The minus sign and the fraction line aren't perfectly aligned, probably due to the presence of brackets. So I've found a way to make them be, using \parbox \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \begin{equation} \dfrac{N_{i}}{N_{0}} = \exp \bigg( \parbox[h][2cm][c]{4m...

I booked a flight from Fiji to the UK via Auckland - Hong Kong - Istanbul - Gatwick. Do I have to claim my baggage from Hong Kong in Istanbul? We will change airlines there from Air NZ to Turkish Air.

Most game systems use regular English words for their names. If you don't know how to pronounce "dungeon" or "dragon", or any other regular word, e.g. Cambridge dictionary is of great help. Proper nouns are a different story, but, generally, some audio or video exists for popular settings where t...

Please help me to understand the meaning of "guilty" in this context: "He turns around and spots me. Byron. Once I would have done anything for Byron. ‘Skye! Skye Turner – it’s you, isn’t it?’ ‘Guilty,’ I say, then instantly regret it. Byron engulfs me in his strong arms." Excerpt from "My moth...

I was playing MTG Arena and I had a funny situation where my opponent had Revenge of Ravens (ROR). I attacked with a bunch of monsters and soon after died. Something similar happens in this video at 0:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdqIZbeDss and I was puzzled at the order in which damage wa...

I am under the impression that men for the legions of the Roman Empire were conscripted across the empire, and so Latin could not have possibly been the first language to every soldier. But could all soldiers speak and understand Latin to some extent, or were some of the troops led in another lan...

The classic Orchard planting problem asks for the maximum number of 3-point straight lines attainable from a configuration of $n$ points drawn on a plane. Here we are interested in a variant of this problem. What is the maximum number of 4-point circles attainable from a configuration of 10 poin...

In the game Blood on the Clocktower, some of the role tokens have green leaves on the west/north/east side of the token. There are also some tokens who have a larger orange leaf. 1 west and 2 north: 1 east: An icon with the orange leaf:

I am trying to solve this problem since two days and I wasn't able to find anything that could fix it. I wan this two equations in the system to be both aligned to the left and well ordered, without all those blank spaces. I will post the code: Is there a way to keep the curly bracket of the sys...

My character has 3 levels in Fighter and chose the Arcane Archer archetype. That allows him to use the Arcane Shot option Piercing Arrow (XGtE, p. 29): Piercing Arrow. You use transmutation magic to give your arrow an ethereal quality. When you use this option, you don't make an attack roll for ...

Roothaan Hall Equations: The Hartree-Fock equations are a set of modified Schrodinger equations: $f_{i}\psi_{m}=\epsilon_{m}\psi_{m}$ where: The Fock operator ($f_{i}$) is given by: $f_{i}= \hat{h}_{i}+\sum_{j=1}^{n/2}[2\hat{J}_{j}(i)-\hat{K}_{j}(i)]$ and the molecular orbitals are expressed as...

I am trying to learn how to use the graphical modeler application in QGIS 3.14 I have encountered a problem early on. If I pull vector layers into the modeler canvas and then add in an algorithm to act on the layer, when I try to set the input within the algorithm dialogue, the layer as added to ...

My first name (legally) consists of two names separated by a space, but I only go by the first in everyday use. I'm from Scandinavia and having a first name that is a compound of two names is not that uncommon. I also have a middle name that I rarely use. Let's say my name is "John Andrew Smith ...

If I have a differential signal on a pair of wires then how would I do a simple RC low pass filter on this differential signal?

I wonder how programs should be installed on Mac? Via Homebrew or an official installer if there is one? Let's say I want to install Node.js on my Mac. The official macOS installation guide offers different alternatives to do so. So first, I installed it via its official installer file. I then sw...

Benzene is explosive within the explosive limits of minimum $\pu{1.2 \%}$ and maximum of $\pu{7.8 \%}$ in air. Source: Wikipedia I would like to know what is the explosive power of benzene measured in TNT-equivalent. Benzene can explode like in China in 2005 which was 'only' 100 ton benzene. The ...

In some of my servers there is this strange line at the end of /etc/passwd/ consisting of just: +:::::: Does anyone knows what it means? I searched the net but only found the same, unanswered question by one Jim from 2012: Anyone know what this means in Linux SLES 11 and can it be removed (se...

I want to save deployment version in DB from where I can get the currently deployed version?

I know that by using Hodge decomposition and the fact that Schubert cells are Hodge cycles you can compute the Hodge numbers of Grassmanian but is there a more elementary way to compute sheaf cohomology $H^i(\Omega_{Gr(m,n)}^j$)?

Two parties communicate over a network sending back and forth up to 100 messages. Each message sent is a response to the last received message and depends on it. This means that both parties have to wait idly for the response to arrive before they can carry on with computations. Speed is quite cr...

I'm using Busuu as part of my language learning and they have the following sentence: "Tu l'as acheté où ce pantalon ?" Which they translate to: "Where did you buy those trousers?" My question is what is the "l'as" doing? As in how does the above sentence differ from: "Tu as acheté où ce pantalon?"

Rabbah publicized a Gezerah (command / decree) that Lulav and Shofar should not be used on Shabbat because of a fear someone may violate the Melacha of Hotzaah. I heard that there was another case that this Gezerah applies to, and I heard it was in the Beit Hamikdash. Does anyone know what the ot...

I'm working in an application where I have to use different connector type system as a Ethernet plug. I did test this already in a single cable inserting this connector in the middle acting as a breakout and it works. For the final design one of the solutions is to populate a standard RJ45 on the...

I'm working on this project. It is a VW samba bus from the 50's. The drawing is seen in the attached picture. The part which I'm struggling the most are the air ventilation grills seen in the backside of the bus. I don't know how to create that shade or hollow effect as it is depicted in the sam...

I'm curious if a sentient magic item can be counted as a creature for spells such as Scrying.

Critical hits are introduced in the PHB under "Attack Rolls": If the d20 roll for an attack is a 20, the attack hits regardless of any modifiers or the target's AC. This is called a critical hit, which is explained later in this section. Then, later in this section under "Damage Rolls": When y...

I have developed my DRF back-end API locally, deployed it on an AWS Lightsail instance (with a public static IP) and I now want to secure it with HTTPS. I understand that in order to use Let's Encrypt (and not pay for an SSL certificate), I have to have a domain name associated to my instance IP ...