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For example, the theme “never give up, no matter how hard things get” could be condensed to “perseverance”.
How could I do that with the theme above?
In a sentence it would be
“This book’s theme explores ___”.
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The Rema in או"ח סי' ג סעיף ב says that it is impermissible to talk in the bathroom. The Mishna Berura adds the Gemara in Berachos 65b, that even in order to let someone trying to enter know that the bathroom is occupied, only grunting is permissible and not talking.
The common perception is that...
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Biorxiv offers the possibility to transfer an article uploaded as a preprint to a peer-reviewed journal. An increasing number of journals are available for this transfer service.
I tried to find more information on how this transfer works but there's not much information on the Biorxiv website. B...
What is the indexing like on the popular internally-geared hubs (shimano nexus and sram i-motion)? Can one use a 3-speed front shimano derailleur shifter (e.g. acera) for a 3-speed shimano nexus hub? Or a 9-speed rear acera for a 9-speed nexus? Etc etc? Is there a good resource more generally...5
$A (0,a)$ and $B(0,b)\; (a,b>0)\;$ are the vertices of $\triangle ABC$ where $C(x,0)$ is variable. Find the value of $x$ when angle $ACB$ is maximum.
Now geometry's never really been my strong point, so I decided to go with a bit of calculus.
First, I used the sine rule:
$$\mathrm{sinC=\frac{b-...
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I've been using wordpress.com, but it renders latex terribly! There must be a blogging platform that does a good job of this. Can someone recommend one?
How did Aragorn and other rangers make a living? Were they employed by some kingdom? If so, which one?
Or if not, did they just eat what they found/hunted in nature? In that case, was the motivation of all of them to do their job purely altruistic?
In short, how did the lives of the rangers work?
For instance, if I want to make a minifig of my Minecraft skin, I want some kind of program to do that.
I'm writing some software and in it there are actions being executed by the users using the program. Those actions might by something like
Sending an email to another person
Changing a certain document
Writing a comment on something
etc.
An action is always kicked off by a single user. Naively ...1
Q: How should I reply to an email from a student who took a test and failed, and promises to do better?
The following MWE is a model for a typesetting problem which I have encountered on a larger scale.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\Large
\noindent A sentence.\footnote{ordinary numbering} \\
A sentence.\footnote{ordinary numbering} \\
\textbf{\textcolor{red}{A sentenc...1
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Let $\mathsf{ZFC}'$ be the extension of $\mathsf{ZFC}$ containing the constant symbol $\Bbb N$, which we take to represent the natural numbers. In order to say that $\mathsf{ZFC}'$ is a definitional extension of $\mathsf{ZFC}$ we need to find a formula $\phi$ in the language of $\mathsf{ZFC}$ wit...
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Q: Why measure both alkalinity and pH in pools if pH alone tells us how acidic or basic something is?
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I was walking on the web and came across this question:
What do you say we get out of here?
It's seems to me a tad slangy. I don't quite follow the structure of this sentence. It's like something is missing. For me, this sentence would sound more grammatically correct with "if". For example:
W...2
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"Thrifting" or "To Thrift" is a verb used often in the US now, and the act of thrifting is trending among Gen Y and Gen Z youth. Its meaning: to find very good condition used items at a store that specializes in such items, clothing or other unique items, and it can sometimes mean the act of g...2
I am trying to plot sums of functions, with parameters specified by the user, using pgfplots.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\newcommand{\myfun}[2]{(cos(#1*\x) + sin(#2*\x))}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[domain=0:100]
\addplot[red,sample...1
Q: Bayes theorem on the probability of an object drawn at random using percentages (not Naive Bayes)
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A mad lexophile sits alone in his apartment obsessively rearranging his Scrabble tiles and writing words on every available surface, even filling each floorboard with a word. The Scrabble tiles have had enough. They are plotting their escape.
The tiles have discovered that they can scuttle acro...
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About a year ago (late May 2020, I think), I saw a show or movie on TV. I watched a little bit of it, then changed the channel. That was right about the time I began to really like Indiana Jones, and as the movie/show kind of had that vibe, I later wanted to know what it was. All I can remember a...
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In the movie Batman (1989), Jack Napier/The Joker is shown to have killed Bruce Wayne's parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne. Jack Napier looks like he would have been in his mid-20s or early 30s during the shooting. And Bruce would have been around 8-12 years of age. So later on, when Bruce eventual...
M. J. Toswell, Today's Medieval University p. 24 claims a new master
would eat at the commensa, the joint table, after his commencement ceremony of stepping upward
Does the English word "commence" derive from a Latin word commensa < con + mensa (together at table)? Commensa ∄ in Lewis & Short.
My enquiry arrises from a passage in “Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata”, in the tenth chapter which is entitled “BESTIAE ET HOMINES”.
"Mercurius imperia deōrum ad hominēs portat."
I see a subject, a phrase, an object and a verb. I think the active indicative present singular third person form ...
I'm implementing a solver of Finite Element Method, and to solve the linear system of equations I'm using gmres from MKL of Intel. Exists the option with and without a preconditioning. In what case it is not necessary the preconditioning?
The matrix is sparse and not symmetric.
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Q: problem with a discrete logarithm/cyclic groups example... can anyone clarify this concept for me?
I was watching this really short video about the discrete logarithm example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL7J8hPKEWY
and at 0:38 they show all the possible values that you can get if p = 17 and g = 3.
At 1:00 they state that the solution is equally likely to be any integer between 1 and 17.
M...
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The Roman-Catholic Church argues that Christ has established the ministerial priesthood (as distinct from the priesthood of all believers, cf. 1 Peter 2:9), at the first supper.
Particularly, Catholics affirm that the greek words used in Luke 22:19:
[...] Do (poieite) this in remembrance (anamnē...
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I'm trying to disprove the following statement:
If $(s_{n,1})$,$(s_{n,2})$,...,$(s_{n,k})$ are Cauchy sequences, then the sequence $\prod_{i=1}^{k} s_{n,i}$ is also Cauchy.
I'm not too sure what I'm supposed to do here. How do I prove that it's true, or how do I come up with a counterexample? Wha...
In terms of order of magnitude, how does a the energy consumption of a typical mammalian neuron (in the brain) compare with the state of the art MOSFET?
I would like to re-order the buttons in the Case list view.
Where:
Change Owner - standard
New - standard
Create New Enquiry - Link
Button
Here's the settings from Search layout:
My initial thought is that it isn't possible, but I'm just making sure that I did not miss anything.
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Q: Why would a research professor want my CV and research statement if they cannot supervise students?
My son's statistics teacher claims that you need statistics to consistently make money from investing. She cites James Harris Simons and quants as examples. On my advice, I told my son to respond that many billionaire investors like Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio, Kenneth C. Griffin, Israel Englande...2
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You are a historian studying a long forgotten language. You have just discovered a clay tablet which seems to list all known words in the language, in alphabetical order. Your task is to find this alphabet's order, if it exists.
The Task
Given an ordered list of words, try to output an ordered li...
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The various world space agencies' crewed missions have had a long series of firsts, Yuri Gagarin's first being the grandparent of them all.
Crewed space missions are recognized worldwide as barrier-breakers or at least symbols thereof.
Without regard to any other specifier beyond handedness, I'd ...
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Q: What action should I take upon learning that boys are wolf-whistling girls in my daughter's class?
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How does fiat currency help a country's economic growth? For example, if a certain country such as the U.S or Brazil gives 1billion dollars to a developing country like Angola or Congo, how does that money help build its economy? The fiat money we use today is an imaginary instrument. Federal Res...
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I was an idiot and was suckered into running a PowerShell script.
Can anyone tell me details about it?
I have a feeling they only uploaded some files from my system.
But I am worried there may be a backdoor left running on my system.
The upload I can live with, but not a backdoor.
WARNING do NOT ...
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I'm having issues with unwrapping a mesh with no seams. It should be a very easy process but I've been trying to solve this issue for a couple of hours.
As you can see from the images above, it results in a horrible alignment. No double vertices, All transformations applied... The only parts th...3
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I have been a Tabla student for a decade. For those of you who don't know, Tabla is an Indian percussion instrument with a big language of rhythmic cycles of its own.
I wanted to know if playing excessive Tabla over a period of time can cause permanent damage, like tennis elbow or carpal tunnel s...
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Revelation 22:1 ESV
Then the angel[a] showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
Seeing that this book is full of imagery and symbolic language how can one understand what the river of water of life signifies or points to
What doe...3
We received a product with this high-current battery connector, but don't know where to get the matching other half for it. Does anyone know what this connector is called?
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Is there something I can type on the command-line to determine if an executable is an M1 binary or and amd64 binary?
In a featured Stack Overflow Meta question, there was a logo of a company, which looks like this:
(The logo might be copyrighted. It is posted here for discussion purposes only.)
I failed to recognize the company name, which is
One of the highly upvoted comments was
Follow-up question: Is it s...9
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The main story would deal with a strange suicide in a town such as San Francisco in the 30s. The latest case deals with the disappearance of a mother and her child.
Each time the bodies are severely damaged, leaving little information for identification and clues for the case.
The characters woul...
I have a file that looks like that:
chr1 3143567 3143568 .3-2704 1.000000|ENSMUSG00000102693.2
chr1 3143599 3143600 .3-2705 1.000000|ENSMUSG00000102693.2
chr1 3143631 3143632 .3-2706 1.000000|ENSMUSG00000102693.2
chr1 3143663 3143664 .3-2707 1.000000|ENSMUSG00000102693.2
chr1 31436...6
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I am reading an interesting honeypot posted years ago. But I was confused by how the honeypot contract is implemented.
More specifically, take this transaction as an example. As we can see, during this transaction:
TRANSFER 1 Ether From 0x6f49baef279f8c40d7479f5be6a9bbf5fc607af0 To 0x95d3498009...4
In Les Misérables, in the poem at the end, Hugo writes « La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va ». Why « d'elle-même » instead of « elle-même »?
I want to understand what is the most effective algorithm for splitting. I have ids of users and I want to split them into 2 groups.
Now I have 2 variants:
Modulo approach - let's say we will place all even ids into one group, odd numbers into another.
Pros - for any sequence we will have a un...1
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I'm looking through the /proc directory and, as user, I'm not able to list a directory even though it shows that user is the owner.
Why and how does this happen?
For instance, in ls -l /proc/2323/map_files it says ls: reading directory '.': Permission denied. But the owner is clearly user. The us...
Where I can find these folder icons? They are not inside shell32.dll.
I'm currently reading 3 limit switches and sending those data over Serial.write using the following code.
#include <SPI.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <arduino-timer.h>
//Define limit switch pins
#define LEFT_SWITCH_PIN 5
#define RIGHT_SWITCH_PIN 6
#define REAR_SWITCH_PIN 7
bool left_switch_stat...2
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Frank Artiles, a former Florida state representative and senator, was charged with felonies in connection to a scam candidate scheme in Miami Dade County. There was a general question asked about the legality of fake campaigns over in politics, and one answer mentioned this case. Commenters seeme...
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Prologue (you can skip straight to the "Problem" section (bolded) if you want):
First, to show you what way (let's call it trigonometric substitution method) I'm talking about and to show that this way works, I'll describe the tenets and then do a math using that way:
Basic tenets of trigonometri...
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I've read many times on this site that high order polynomials (generally more than third) shouldn't be used in linear regression, unless there is a substantial justification to do so.
I understand the issues about extrapolation (and prediction at the boundaries).
Since extrapolation isn't importa...
I am using GeoServer 2.18.0 war file under Tomcat 9.0, deployed all this into AWS instance m5.xlarge
Details :
GeoServer contains 250+ layers, includes vector and raster datasets.
In case of raster data, it is uploaded to GeoServer & vector data is coming from PostgreSQL database.
In addition, ...
I am a beginner to solidity and I came across this concept called "Low-Level Calls". What exactly is a Low-level function? and How is it different from others?
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Q: Robust program to write an array of certain data type to a binary file and read back from it (C++17)
Which differences can we find on various signals? We assume that we have a reference signal (determined theoretically) and measured signal.
Which methods exist for determining the similarities between them?
The signals have no phase shift. If I calculate the cross correlation between the signal...8
I've recently returned from a week of travelling around Europe, visiting a different town or city in a different country on each day, choosing my destinations according to an underlying pattern. I've plotted the first six places I visited on the map below; I need you to tell me: Which UK town or ...
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My Aunt is holding onto savings bonds my grandparents bought me. There’s a single word I’m looking for that means she’s holding them & won’t give them to me (I’m in my 40’s)
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I have a number of files each containing a specific pattern in their names like ABC1234001 which carry information about certain groups of my data (tables of multiple columns). I also have a table info.tsv like this:
group1 ABC1234001 ABC1234010
group2 ABC1234011 ABC1234018
group3 ...
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
shopt -s inherit_errexit
a=$(cat no-such-file)
echo survived
$ /tmp/a.sh
cat: no-such-file: No such file or directory
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
shopt -s inherit_errexit
echo -n $(cat no-such-file)
echo survived
$ /tmp/a.sh
cat: no-such-file: No such file or director...
Amos 5:18
Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! For what good is the day of the LORD to you? It will be darkness, and not light.
What's with the woe? Don't we all desire the second coming of Jesus?
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I made a black hole following this tutorial, and I want to put it behind some glass. However, because of the way the shader uses the facing node from the layer weight (at least I think this is what causes the problem), the black hole disappears when glass is in front of it. How would I fix this? ...
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I'm new to Vector and 3D Geometry and today I was taught the equation of a line passing through two points $A(\vec{a})$ and $B(\vec{b})$ as $$\vec{r}=\vec{a} + λ(\vec{b}-\vec{a})$$
It is difficult for me to imagine how this works. Why do we have a $λ$ here? What I can think of is that $\vec{r}=\v...
How many formula fields we can create per one custom object in Salesforce ?
I can not find any information about it here
Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you.
Can I have an SFP port with a RJ45/ethernet transceiver on one end and connect the other end to a regular ethernet port?
What are ten smallest natural numbers n, such that n and n+1 have digital sums which are not relatively prime?
I'm writing a code wherein I need to sort the data based on a field, but I'm confused on how I can use the comparable on the nested JSON. Also, I'm generating apex using apex2json tool.
Here is my (pseudo)code.
public class Appts {
public static void getAppts(){
String data= "{\n \"appoi...
Per title, I must emphasize that it shall be on the near side. Antoniadi (lunar crater) and Aitken basin are all on the far side. Preferrably it is also wide and large like the Oceanus Procellarum...
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What is purpose of CH button and CH switch position on ELITE (OMRON) Taschen-Rechner 8002 calculator?
The switch has three positions: ON, OFF and CH. Only in the ON position the calculator display is being lit up, in the CH position the calculator does not do apparently anything.
See the linked w...
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