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Q: Produce a list of every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Friday of each month in a date range

Stephen WilliamsWhen fridays_135 is called, a list of dates between the start date and end date is produces by date_range. That list is then narrowed down to just the Friday dates and then grouped by month by fridays_by_month. Finally, fridays_135 loops through those groups of months, extracts the 0th, 2nd, and ...

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Q: Does a Mining World designation improve strategic resource synthesis?

Mark RogersThe Mining World designation improves mining and "Strategic Resource Gatherers". I assume this means that the miners of a strategic resource get a bonus amount of that resource. What I'm not clear on is: Does a mining world designation improve artificial conversion of minerals into strategic re...

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Q: Is it possible to deprecate implicit conversion while allowing explicit conversion?

Nathan PiersonSuppose I have a simple Duration class: class Duration { int seconds; public: Duration(int t_seconds) : seconds(t_seconds) { } }; int main() { Duration t(30); t = 60; } And I decide that I don't like being able to implicitly convert from int to Duration. I can make the construct...

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Q: Interview task: Find a potential customer who is interested in a product

mikmikI had an interview with an employer working on a software-based vehicle solution. Before going further in the interview process, he gave me a task to find out if a potential customer (AUTOMOTIVE OEMs) is interested. My question is, how can I approach a potential customer and arrange some time tog...

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Q: Why did the bell/clock tower fall?

FuzzyBootsIn the 2021 Hawkeye series, first episode, on a bet, Kate tries to ring the bell in a tower which also contains a clock. After a debate on whether the ringing is due to the bell, or the clapper inside, she makes a first attempt, with a tennis ball on the end of the arrow, which produces a quiet t...

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Q: Total cost of The 12 Days of Christmas

GingerIndustriesIntroduction I have decided that this Christmas, as a "present" to a friend, I wish to purchase the things described in the classic song "The 12 Days of Christmas". The only problem is, I don't know how to calculate the total price! Your Task Given a list of prices (in order from first to last), ...

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Q: Are un-dimensioned orthographic views permitted on a standard drawing?

cadmonkeyIf I remember correctly, best practice on a drawing is if you fully dimension a part in two out of three orthographic views you don’t include a third view with no dimensions. Is this a documented standard, best practice, or not true at all? An example would be a sheet metal rectangle with a hole....

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Q: Naming students in a CV

avidWhat are the privacy implications of including a section in a CV listing information about students that one has supervised, e.g.: PhD supervision Jane Doe. Awesome thesis title (2020). John Smith. Another awesome thesis title (2018). Received the Northwest State University Best Thesis prize. D...

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Q: Why does my dd Full Disk Copy Keep failing at 8 GB?

blacKnightI am trying to clone a 500 GB SSD to a 1TB SSD. For some reason, it keeps failing when the data being copied reaches 8GB. This is the third 1TB SSD I've tried this on and they all get stuck at the same place. I've ran the following command: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k status=progress ...

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Q: Filling region with a pattern

PatricioI'm trying to fill the region to the left of a vertical line with a pattern (Diagonal is enough for my purposes) and a different pattern to the right. I've tried ListPlot[{{18, 0}, {18, 30}}, Filling -> {1->{Top},1-> {Axis}}, FillingStyle -> HatchFilling[], Joined -> True] I get the message th...

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Q: Potestne nōmen «Kayla» Latīnē reddī?

KaylaQuōmodo optimē nōmen «Kayla» Latīnē reddī potest, duābus tantum syllabīs? Nōmina hactenus quae cōnsīderābam: Caela, Kaela, Katja.

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Q: Is it normal for a professor to contact only one specific TA regarding the course?

RonI am one of the teaching assistants for a course with multiple TAs. However, the professor keeps sending all the important information regarding the course, like when the exams are, information about assignments, and all other such things only to one specific TA. We, the other TAs, get to know ab...

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Q: Why indicative in a indirect question?

Kotoba Trily NgianIn the repeat entry of Smith & Hall's English-Latin dictionary (which can be read in Latinitium), there is an example: According to grammar books, a verb in an indirect question should be subjunctive, except in early Latin and poetry, while indicative here instead. Is this sentence in either exc...

Law
Law
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Q: How can the UK government fine itself?

snoIn this news story the UK government has been fined £500,000 but who is doing the fining? Is the government fining itself?

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Q: What is this black smoke coming from an all solid fueled Epsilon rocket?

BrendanLuke15I saw a clip of a recent (Nov. 5th, 2021) JAXA Epsilon launch on Instagram (link). Shown differently here in a YouTube video @~0:23s: It's an entirely solid fueled vehicle so turbine exhaust can (I believe) be ruled out. Wikipedia says the first stage is a modifie...

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Q: Isometric imbedding of a 2-disk into Euclidean 3-space

maktLet us call a cap the intersection of the boundary of 3-dimensional convex compact set $K$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with a half-space bounded by a plane $H$ such that the orthogonal projection to $H$ of this intersection is contained in $K\cap H$. QUESTION. Given a metric on a closed 2-dimensional disk ...

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Q: Were the distinctive elements of the uniforms snow troopers from The Empire Strikes Back based on any particular real-world uniforms?

BuzzAfter we watched all three Star Wars movies again last week, one of my sons asked me which variant of the stormtrooper was my favorite. I told him it was the snow troopers from The Empire Strikes Back, but that set me thinking. With their all-white outfits, with more fabric than is seen on the ...

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Q: Batman villain- child or teenage crime boss

Nu'DaqI saw this character in a Batman comic in either late 80's/early 90's. The character is a child or teenage crime boss who fancies himself a general/strategist; early in the comic Batman tries to "save him from thugs" only for the brat to hit him with a hammer when his (Batman's) back is turned. L...

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Q: Sparse illconditioned least squares when coefficient matrix is not in memory

Jas TerIt was suggested on math.stackexchange.com that I try to ask this question here. Consider a bounded linear operator $A : U \to V$ where $U$ is finite dimensional and where $V$ is a separable Hilbert space, or with large dimension such that $A$ cannot be stored explicitly, being instead available...

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Q: "Ribbon arrows" in Graphics3D

David G. StorkI'd like to create what might be called "ribbon arrows" in a Graphics3D, as shown in this figure: The center of curvature must be on a specified point (typically on an axis), and the plane of the rotation, starting angle position and the total angle traversed (e.g., 90 degrees, 180 degrees, 270 ...

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Q: Subject-verb agreement

Dachi PachuliaIn Hans Oerberg's book Familia Romana you can find this sentence: īnfrā pulmōnēs est iecur et venter (Ch. XI; lines 20-21) - shouldn't it say "sunt iecur et venter". We have two subjects in the sentence so why is there the verb in singular?

TeX
TeX
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Q: Automatically change l to \ell in a math mode

user182849I want to find a way how to automatically change "l" into "\ell" in a math mode. I tried to do it using \catcode, but it's quite difficult for me. I want it to change "l" only when it appears alone. (e.g., do not change "l" in \log or if I define a variable lb as follows: \[\log l = lb + l^2\] I...

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Q: What are the safest non-toxic elements I can own?

Mister SirCodeAs in a recent question, I mentioned I collect elements. My collection already has quite a few elements and a rare alloy (I have silicon, molybdenum, tungsten, gold, platinum, silver, copper, aluminum, chromium, cobalt, and magnesium, and a rare gold alloy (1 part gold, 2 parts aluminum) that ha...

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Q: In what sense does a number "exist" if it is proven to be uncomputable?

AndreasUncomputable functions: Intro The last month I have been going down the rabbit hole of googology (mathematical study of large numbers) in my free time. I am still trying to wrap my head around the seeming paradox of the existence of natural numbers that are well-defined but uncomputable (in the s...

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Q: Use of "Dar" to mean find

BigbadantOne of the uses of the verb dar in Portuguese seems to be "to find" as per the definition in Priberam: Dar [...] 28. Achar, descobrir, encontrar (ex.: deu com a fotografia escondida no livro). However, I've found some people online suggest that using it this way sounds like broken Portuguese ou...

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Q: Why not solve SVM with gradient descent instead of quadratic programming?

Mohsen KiskaniHow is SVM optimization implemented in packages like Scikit-Learn? Clearly, SVM is a quadratic programming problem but why not just use gradient descent to update the parameters? Is it because we want to find the values of $\alpha_i$ and find support vectors? I found this link but it doesn't seem...

ELL
ELL
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Q: 'We Americans like baseball' or 'Us Americans...'?

numberfiveWhich one is correct? 'We Americans like baseball,' or 'Us Americans like baseball'? Why would you prefer one over the other? I'm thinking of a situation where people from different countries are talking about differences in their cultures. Thanks!

04:28
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Q: Einstein's return to aether

bedabrata-choudhurySo it seems like that Einstein returned to the concept of aether, but from the point of view of a general relativistic framework. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Einstein_ether/ This is often overlooked by modern theoretical physicists. Does the introduction of this aether from a gen...

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Q: Why are public keys derived from elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and not from hashing?

razak57I've just started studying Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, so I might be wrong, but so far my understanding is that public keys are derived from private keys using ECDSA, in Bitcoin's case using secp256k1. This is a one-way function and is, technically, computationally safe... Until you take into a...

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Q: How does NASA figure out orbital period and mass data for planets and other celestial bodies?

user44607Does NASA calculate orbital periods using Kepler's Laws, or do they measure and observe it in some way? If the latter, how do they do so? Similarly, does NASA calculate the mass of bodies using Kepler's 3rd Law, or do they measure it some other way?

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Q: Gaussian random variables and change of variables

BozuI have the following situation Let $N_1, N_2 \sim \mathcal{N}(0,1)$ two independent r.v. Let $X = \frac{N_1}{\sqrt{N_{1}^{2} + N_2^2}}$ and $Y = \frac{N_2}{\sqrt{N_{1}^{2} + N_2^2}}$. Now I know how show to that $X$ and $Y$ are not independent, but I don't know how to show $X$ and $Y$ are uncorre...

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Q: PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 3): Tentai Show

JafeThis puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door > Divide the grid into "rooms" among grid lines so that each room is 180° rotationally symmetrical and contains exac...

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Q: Capital gains tax on car trade in with appreciated value?

donmFor US tax resident If car is traded in for a higher value car and the trade in value of the car is higher than the purchase price of the car, considering long term (>1yr)? Will there be any capital gains tax owed even after trading in? For example, A 2015 Toyota Corolla purchase in year 2017 for...

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Q: "Ambiguity, should literally match independent variables" in NDSolve with shooting method

akozithere. I am trying to solve a seccond order equation, with 1 boundary condition at the start of the range and another at the end of the range. I've attempted to reduce my problem so that it is non-trivial but still retains the error. Consider the following code: NDSolve[{M''[x] == -(M[x]/(-x - (M...

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Q: Can a supersized collection of tethered large space structures exist?

Jim DanielsI wanted to create a main destination/headquarters for each galaxy in my story but a single planet or megastructure didn't seem grand enough. My idea is to have a vast number of structures from rotating space habitats to non-rotating structures used for storage, computers etc. All structures will...

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Q: Make Bash case expression more succinct

craigIs there a more-succinct way to write this (parse.sh) Bash case statement that parse day, month, year and month and year from arguments? #!/usr/bin/env bash for arg do day= month= year= case $arg in */*/*|*-*-*) read -r year month day <<< "$(date '+%Y %m %d' -d "$arg")" ...

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Q: Are these the basis vectors?

caird coinheringaahingA basis of a vector space \$V\$ is a set of vectors \$B\$ such that every vector \$\vec v \in V\$ can be uniquely written as a linear combination of the vectors in \$B\$. In other words, let \$B = \{\vec b_1, \dots, \vec b_n\}\$ be a basis of some vector space \$V\$. For every possible \$\vec v ...

DIY
DIY
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Q: Can I build a custom shower arm to raise the head?

Daniel BI just moved into a new apartment where the shower arm is roughly pointing at my sternum. I’ve looked up replacement shower arms, and have found a few prefab S-bend options, but they won’t raise the end enough for me. I’ve googled around, but can’t seem to find anyone who’s done this, so either m...

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Q: what piano pedal technique is being used here and does it have a conventional name/notation?

jaxcheese characterized by loud kinda unnatural sounding "stab" followed immediately by a softer sustain. my working theory is that it involves playing a chord staccato then pressing the sustain pedal shortly AFTER releasing the keys (as described by op here http://forum.pi...

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Q: A rectangle cut into two pieces, which build a square

ThomasLA rectangle with side length a and b are in ratio $a : b = (n+1)^2 : n^2$, where n is a positive integer. Is it possible to cut each such rectangle into two pieces, which can be put together to build a square?

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Q: Can 遅く mean 'slowly'?

NamelessFrom my book, However, Jisho says that 遅く can mean 'slowly,' but I can't find an example for that meaning in the same source. In this thread, answerers agree that 遅く can be used to mean 'slowly.'

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Q: How is "Dogs dogs fight fight" grammatical?

J KusinI got this from https://youtu.be/yj-qmd4Cb78 at 25:55 Can you help me make sense of this sentence? The presenter’s explanation "Dogs that other dogs fight, themselves fight." didn’t clarify it for me.

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Q: AoCG2021 Day 3: Say-Look-Say

lyxalPart of Advent of Code Golf 2021 event. See the linked meta post for details. Related to AoC2015 Day 10. Here's why I'm posting and not Bubbler The Elves are playing a variation of the game called look-and-say. In plain look-and-say, they take turns making sequences by reading aloud the previous...

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Q: lilypond - how to hide an accidental

eftshift0I am writing a JS Bach manuscript in lilypond. I want to just write what he wrote without adding any editorial stuff... and I am kind of struggling with accidentals. In (at least) this manuscript (BWV 1001) he writes down all accidentals. So, the key of his manuscript is F major (or D minor, anyw...

RPG
RPG
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Q: Dissonant whispers targeting a mounted combatant

AjohnsonWhen a mounted target of Dissonant Whispers fails its saving throw, can it use its reaction to move the mount and itself away from the caster, or does it use its reaction to move on its own, abandoning the mount? The relevant text from the spell is quoted below: The target must make a Wisdom sav...

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Q: Is it possible to induce prions/protein-folding diseases via a magnetic field of sufficient strength?

KEY_ABRADEThis logbook entry from Destiny 2 states that WARNING. Novel prion detected in body collagen. Hypothesis: Jovian magnetosphere promotes highly abnormal protein folding. Prognosis: massive sloughing/fraying of basement membranes, Loss of tissue binding, inhibited durotaxis of new cells, delaminat...

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Q: Shortest term as prime minister?

Ryan_LIn November, Sweden's prime minister, Magdalena Andersson resigned just hours after being elected. Was her reign the shortest of any nationally-elected executive? Have any leaders, in any other country, served shorter terms?

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Q: What is a function on a Line or a Curve?

user93353I am reading up on Pairings using Elliptic curves & all the texts talk about functions on a Curve. I am finding it difficult to even figure out what they mean by "function on a curve" or "function on a line" The equation of a line or a curve itself is in the form of a function, but I am unable to...

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Q: Identification of a lego piece - 8x8 lattice design with 2 studs by 2 studs in the middle

BETTY CARUSOThe piece is Red 2.5" X 2.5" square, Lattice design with 2 studs by 2 studs solid tile in middle and 8 studs on each outside around the edge

GIS
GIS
09:27
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Q: Writing Conditional in QGIS raster calculator

AdilsonI have a Digital Elevation Model raster with negative values in QGIS software, I would like to know how I can multiply all negative values by -1, ie all values less than 0, turning them into positive values. I tried this: ("DEM" < 0 ) * -1

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Q: Triviality of a tautological bundle

PolymorphI am trying to solve the following exercise. What I know: $\tau$ is a vector bundle of dimension $n$ over $\mathbb{R}P^n$. The same is true for the trivial bundle $\mathbb{R}P^n \times \mathbb{R}^n$. Then we find surjective smooth maps $$ \pi: \tau \to \mathbb{R}P^n \\ \tilde{\pi}:\mathbb{R}P^n ...

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Q: Movie about zombie vampires

user73910This seemed more or less like a typical zombie action movie. However, the zombies are actually later revealed to be zombie vampires later on. Unlike the regular movie zombies, their head has to be completely destroyed to kill them; a simple headshot will not work. Thus, the weapons of choice for ...

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Q: Is there something wrong with this question concerning Groups

MalcolmWe consider the group $G = SL(2, 3) $ i.e, the set of $2 \times2$ matrices with determinant 1 and addition and multiplication are performed modulo 3 even in the determinant formula. One can show that $|G| = 24$ a) Let $\alpha = \begin{pmatrix} 2 & 2\\ 2 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$ show that $\alpha \in G$...

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Q: Is the MANIAC in the movie 'The Magnetic Monster' the real MANIAC computer?

another-daveI just watched the movie The Magnetic Monster, which is a 1953 science-fiction thriller. The main premise is hokum, but there's an amount of reasonable-seeming background "science" around. The heroes, from the Office of Scientific Investigation (apparently not the OSI that would go on to design a...

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Q: SOQL query: What is the different between "1638369480000" and "1638369480000.0"

XinAn error occurred when I run this SOQL query. SELECT long_number FROM some_table WHERE long_number <= 1638369480000 Error message: MALFORMED_QUERY: some_table WHERE long_number <= 1638369480000 ERROR at Row:1:Column:57 For input string: "1638369480000" I solved the error by adding ".0" to the...

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Q: What is the point of introducing puzzle into tomb design if you don't want anyone to disturb whatever hidden?

user6760My family comes from a long line of well known tomb designer and my spouse is a part time tomb raider, we really are a perfect match! I explained to my spouse that a tomb is a very sacred place for the decease to rest in peace and great care are taken to ensure that is the case for eternity, the ...

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Q: What does the last sentence this paragraph from 'And then there were none" mean?

Ishant DomainFrom And Then There Were None: Well, he’d enjoy a chat about old times. He’d had a fancy lately that fellows were rather fighting shy of him. All owing to that damned rumour! By God, it was pretty hard—nearly thirty years ago now! Armitage had talked, he supposed. Damned young pup! What did he k...

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Q: Meaning of "Overdispersion" in Statistics

stats555I am trying to understand what "overdispersion" means in statistics. Based on the Wikipedia page, "overdispersion" is defined as follows : "In statistics, overdispersion is the presence of greater variability (statistical dispersion) in a data set than would be expected based on a given statistic...

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Q: From conceptual framework to econometric estimation

hbknWhen I run the following regression, I find that $\beta>0$ $$ y_i=\beta D_i+\varepsilon_i$$ To explain the finding, I wrote down a conceptual framework and I obtained the following prediction $$\frac{\partial y_i}{\partial D_i}=L_i \frac{1}{1+e(1-\alpha)}$$ By assumption $\alpha \in (0,1)$, $e>0$...

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Q: Photograph allegedly from Barcelona in 1987

PereThis image has been bothering me for years. It has been in Wikimedia Commons since 2014 named "Barcelona Ramblas.jpg" and described as taken in 1987, but I'm sure it's not the Rambles and I can't identify it as anywhere else in Barcelona, and although I would be happy to be proven wrong, I think ...

GIS
GIS
11:56
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Q: Getting NameError on GetParameterAsText

OliverI am trying to write a simple script that get input from a variable in ModelBuilder and use it in a Python script to "zoom" on a selected features in layout. Here is the script and the error: aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject('CURRENT') mapx = aprx.listMaps()[0] lyr = mapx.listLayers()[4] quartier = ...

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Q: Does classic outlier detection assume normality?

Davi AméricoMy classmate told me he was showing his work in some stuff statistics-based and some time he was showing a boxplot and using it as outlier detection then his professor said 'it's not even correct, the 1.5 from classic outlier formula comes up due to normal data' the classic formula is: $IC=(Q_1-1...

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Q: Count number of rows of files matching pattern

JejeBelfortI would like to list the files matching a specific pattern along with their number of rows. So far I have tried the following, which list me the files matching the desired pattern: find 2021.12.*/ -maxdepth 2 -name "myfilepattern.csv" -ls 123456789 32116 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 32881884 Dec ...

13:32
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Q: Weird Lich and Laboratory Maniac situation, who wins?

MontugIn a Commander game I cast Lich + Sudden Substitution and swapped Lich for one of my opponents' creatures, giving him 0 life. My opponent plays Laboratory Maniac and proceeds to make us both draw our entire libraries. So the question is, who wins? I obviously lose from drawing out, and he wins fr...

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Q: Plot a double integral

Steve237I'm trying to plot the result of a double Integral Plot[ Integrate[Integrate[x^7 (x - 2)^4 (x - 3)^9, x], x] ,{x, -10, 10} ] Results in a 22-degree polynomial, but why doesn't the above Plot work?

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Q: Was Philip Larkin factually correct when he implied that in 1955 the streets in Ireland were "end-on to hills" more often than those in England?

Matthew Christopher BartshIn the 1955 Philip Larkin poem "The Importance of Elsewhere", it reads: Their draughty streets, end-on to hills, the faint Archaic smell of dockland, like a stable, The herring-hawker's cry, dwindling, went To prove me separate, not unworkable. Living in England has no such excuse: Here's a li...

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Q: LM386 amplifier circuit

Mudassir AhmadI am building an audio amplifier with LM386 with a voltage supply of 5 V. The input signal is 50-250 mV. Can anybody tell me why there is a resistor and capacitor in series at the output? As the value of this resistor is 10 ohms, will it draw some power from the speaker and decrease its loudness ...

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Q: I see a great city whose glory will touch the stars. >> in Latin

JanWhat is the best translation of the following English sentence into Latin? I see a great city whose glory will touch the stars. It was said by a legendary mythological figure called Libuše [Libushe] while having a vision about the future of the city Prague. My attempt: Ego urbem maximam momentam ...

15:38
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Q: When connecting two Android phones via a cable, how can I choose which phone is charging which phone?

Franck DernoncourtWhen connecting two Android phones via a cable, how can I choose which phone is charging which phone? E.g. when I connected a Samsung Galaxy S9 (Android 10) with a Google Pixel 6 (Android 12) via a male-to-male USB-C cable, the Google Pixel 6 got charged.

15:51
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Q: What does a DME indicator do in HOLD or RNAV mode?

ProgrammerI found this DME indicator on the Cessna 210. Its mode switch has four positions - NAV1, NAV2, RNAV and HOLD. NAV1 and 2 are clear - it uses the NAV1 and 2 freq respectively. I'm wondering what the other two do, especially HOLD? RNAV is also quite logical - it uses the position selected in the RN...

16:13
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Q: Manager wants me to learn different field of work

A.ZI'm Full stack developer. I have been hired as the same by my current company. As the company is not that big my manager wants me to learn dispatch process as there are very few team members for dispatch but I have made it clear that I don't have any interest in changing my field of work. Still i...

CS
CS
16:57
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Q: Changing a relation to become transitive

DandelionGiven a binary relation $R$ on a finite set $S$, is there an efficient algorithm to transform $R$ to a transitive relation $R'$ by minimum number of addition or deletion of pairs $(x,y)$ to or from $R$ where $x,y \in S$?

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Q: Are these wasps? What is the best course of action to handle them?

Anthony KongSo I just discovered them under a solar panel switch ('isolator') today. I have no idea how long they have been there but I reckon it cannot be more than a month or so. There are two of them and they look very guarded. Question 1. Are they wasps? Question 2. And what can I do to remove them? I a...

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Q: How to get bomb-laden drones long distances without gathering suspicion?

Pneumosisotis(note: this takes place in the same universe as my previous question) Hello, fellow comrades. As you know, we have been gaining in strength lately, exploiting instability in Russia (quick author's note: Russia's unstable because they didn't diversify their economy quickly enough, so their economy...

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Q: Unknown device in MANIAC I machine room

Alex HajnalIn my answer to the question about the LANL MANIAC I posted a picture of it in its natural habitat. In the picture there's a mystery device electrical-taped to one of the columns by the system console. Can anyone identify what it is and say why it would be found in a machine room? Source: LANL...

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Q: I am a creature from the ancient world

dan04My head has two faces. My upper body is powerful. My belt honors two great men. My legs and feet are numbered incorrectly. What am I?

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Q: GPL and variants use case question

west_farmerConsider a company A which buys software from company B. That software contain code owned by company B, also some open source libraries licensed under Apache license or MIT license, but no GPL and variants stuff. Company A modified that software under permission of company B, added some component...

RPG
RPG
17:52
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Q: How powerful are mass mind control spells?

Mauro GilibertiI'm DMing a game where I want the BBEG to feel almost dreamlike: it can physically do little to nothing, but uses mind control and illusions. Until now, it mind-controlled the mayor of a small town, hid objects from the players, blinked around a couple times, made a "time freeze illusion": I have...

ELL
ELL
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Q: All i got was/were macarons. All i had was a bruise and a cut

Bilal ZafarI need to ask what does "got" in this sentence mean? Does it mean i "received" macarons or i have got(as in possession) macarons? And why did we used "was/were", why not "is/are?" Secondly likewise sentence is "All i got was lousy t-shirt" why we used "was" why not "all i got is lousy t-shirt?" T...

18:24
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Q: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

IsaacRoan SisonYou are finding 3 places. Also, Kiribati's flag is for checking if you got the "places" correcct. Hint 1: Hint 2:

DBA
DBA
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Q: Columnstore: terrible execution plan - filter instead of seek

Thomas FranzSee the execution plan on https://www.brentozar.com/pastetheplan/?id=SyLQIPDtF (SQL 2016 Enterprise) I have a datawarehouse table peak_reporting_data which tracks the activity per day and hour and contains about 4 billion rows per months with an clustered columnstoreindex partitioned by date_key...

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Q: How can I split a transaction to two addresses using metamask?

chovyMy idea is to ask users what amount they want to tip another user. However I want to take 5% of that amount and send it to another address (as comission for site operator) I know the user would have to confirm two transactions but does metamask or web3 have a way to do bulk transactions or one tr...

CS
CS
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Q: How to choose capacitor voltage rating for ESD protection?

CatastrophicFailureI understand the basic calculations on capacitors for ESD protection. In a nutshell the higher the capacitance the lower the final voltage will be because the charge of the ESD event will be "distributed" among the capacitors... However, I'm still confused about the voltage rating... Is it enoug...

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Q: Math PhD program admissions: what happens between December and February?

Crash BandicootI have a question about the "black box" of PhD applications. After the December 1 or December 15 deadlines students are just told they are going to receive a decision between February and March. My question is: how does the selection work? I know it varies between universities, but I am pretty su...

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Q: Bash Regex pattern for password to exclude specific special characters with negative lookahead

malthusI want to create a template for password entries and the conditions are: Password must be at least 12 characters long; There must be at least one lower case, one upper case, one number, and one special character; Specific special characters such as <>`"'~ are not allowed; Order does not matter, ...

19:00
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Q: Does the COVID vaccine contain Graphene Hydroxide nano razor blades?

Adam NathanAccording to chemist Dr Andreas Noack, recently deceased, and a specialist in graphene nano particles, the mRNA vaccine contains Graphene Hydroxide a non-biodegradable and very stable compound that 'acts like a nano-sized razor blade, causing untold damage'. https://tapnewswire.com/2021/12/graphe...

CS
CS
2
Q: Valid Android alternative to Google Maps?

dr_During the years I have grown dissatisfied with Google Maps, for a number of reasons: Places in Google Maps are inserted by the community, and it's a cesspool. I have noticed a growing number of places which are a joke (Morons' Parking Lot), offensive (Wall against foreigners), private (mom & da...

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Q: What would be a realistic length of minimal compulsory military service for a modern country's occupants?

FrontEndI have a world in which several neighboring countries are in an ongoing long term military conflict. The style of conflict fluctuates between a cold war USSR vs US, current North vs South Korea and actual modern land battle near the borders. As a result I want to have a compulsory military servic...

19:18
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Q: How to upgrade from Yosemite to Monterey?

brandizziI have a Macbook Air, early 2014, running Yosemite. I went to the App Store, looked for Monterey, didn't find it, got a link somewhere else and finally found it. Yet, when I try to install it, it says my machine is incompatible with Monterey. Yosemite is unusable due to outdated apps, lack of TLS...

2
Q: I can't format disk with macOS Journaled in Monterey

angry kiwiI'm using macOS Monterey 12.0.1 (21A559). Opened the Disk Utility app to format an external hard drive and I see these options: There is no option macOS Journaled What am I missing?

GIS
GIS
2
Q: number the soil_unit_code in a soil_id column

ThomasHaarlemI believe its pretty easy to be done, but I just don't seem to see the solution in Qgis. Is it possible in the field calculator? I've an attributetable with 200 features with like 20 different soil_unit_code category's (aVz, EZ50A, Ezg21, etc). Just a string. Now I want to give each soil_unit_cod...

20:02
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Q: How do I find good games to memorise for the openings I play?

MattI have read other questions like this and I find people responding "just doing tactics is less effort and helps more". But personally, I find it really easy to memorise things, so I'm interested in trying it anyway. So please consider this question under the assumption that memorising games is th...

20:14
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Q: How to express Bessel Functions in terms of Hankel Functions

Alex97I have the following expression BesselJ[\[ImaginaryI]*m, k*r] FunctionExpand knows how to transform from HankelH1 to BesselJ, but not the other way around (see comment by @flinty ). How can I force Mathematica expressiosn using BesselJ in terms of HankelH1 and HankelH2?

GIS
GIS
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Q: How to retrieve info about tile compression which geopackege file uses?

M.D.93Is there any way to retrieve info about tile compression (JPEG/PNG, PNG, etc.) which geopackege file uses? I have tried a gdalinfo command, but it does not provide this type of information.

2
Q: Are both of these the Dirac Hamiltonian?

Pablo T.Sometimes, I see this called the Dirac Hamiltonian: $$\hat{H} =\vec{\mathbf{\alpha}}\cdot\hat{\vec{p}} + \mathbf{\beta}m ;$$ but, if we take the Dirac Lagrangian density, obtain the corresponding Hamiltonian density via Legendre transforming and integrate, we get --- if I'm not mistaken --- $$\ha...

20:31
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Q: Why is there not lots of current flowing on a house’s grounding electrode?

SkepticIf I remove the plate of a wall outlet, and touch the hot screw, I’ll get a shock. The potential difference with the ground is enough to send some current into my hand. Importantly, this happens even if I didn’t disconnect the neutral, which has much lower resistance. So, by the same logic, why i...

DSP
DSP
20:52
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Q: Frequency Sampling Filters (FSFs) NOT the Frequency Sampling Method

Dan BoschenA class of digital filters called Frequency Sampling Filters (FSF) has been mentioned in a side note by Richard Lyons in another related question comparing IIR digital filter design using mapping techniques. There is very little information on this technique available through a simple web-search ...

21:06
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Q: Remove words from a string that contain special characters

M.A.I have a string like this: string="there is a humble-bee in Hanna's garden"; Now I want to exclude those words that contain "-" and "'". My own solution would be: StringDelete[string,Cases[StringSplit[string," "], _?(StringContainsQ[#, {"'", "-"}] &)]] so the outcome is: "there is a in garden" ...

21:16
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Q: What is the constant function, exactly?

I'm a studentThere is a big discussion in our class. Teacher says, $f:\mathbb Z^{+}\rightarrow \left\{0\right\}$ and $f(x)=0$ is a constant function. But, student says only $f:\mathbb R\rightarrow \left\{0\right\}$ and $f(x)=0$ is a constant function or $$f(x)=0\,\,\forall x\in\mathbb R$$ Unfortunately, wik...

1
Q: Timing attacks: Symmetric vs Asymmetric Algorithms

NB_1907There is a statement that I can't give a reference; "Since the timing characteristics of symmetric algorithms are not as key dependent as asymmetric algorithms, they are more resistant against timing attacks." Is it true?

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Q: LTspice diode bridge rectifier output oscillating

Ana ĆupurdijaI've made a LTspice model of a diode bridge rectifier, but when I simulate my circuit the output voltages are oscillating. Here is my schematic, along with the simulation result of the voltage at node 3 (marked with an arrow.) When I zoom in on these weird parts, I can see that it is definitely ...

DIY
DIY
21:39
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Q: How do I Loosen a Stuck Threaded Brass Fitting?

sol1000I’m about to replace some of the brass water pipes to PEX in my basement. I bought an adapter fitting at a plumbing supply store(picture 1) and cut the cold water pipe(picture 2). I tried to remove the pipe from the old fitting in order to install the adapter (picture 3). The problem is the pipe ...

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Q: Marvel comics: pink alien villain (character ID)

peteA pink-colored villain, female I believe, of an alien species with a small body but a very large head, and the ability to shoot some sort of electric blast out of the center of her forehead, as well as possibly using that blast for mind-control purposes. She is pretty scary looking, with pointed ...

22:17
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Q: replacing visualforce conditional rendering formulas in LWC

joacoiudicaso I'm migrating a visualforce component into LWC. In that component, there is a table rendered, and a lot of columns are rendered differently depending on data field values and/or some other condition regarding a property in the controller. This is, for example, something I have to convert: ...

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Q: Does it make sense to host media on a .onion site on the darknet, or can I link to lightweb as well?

ImmensusThere is a resource on the light web (normal Internet), hosted on multiple servers and subdomains. Let's nominally call servers A (main, with code) and B (auxiliary, with photos and videos), and the domains are named, respectively, example.com and media.example.com. The example.com has a mirror i...

22:40
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Q: "She buys it." in German

KcFnMiThe English it might translate to er/sie/es, right? So the translation of She buys it. might be Sie kauft ihn/sie/es. How can we choose the correct ihn/sie/es if we don't know what she is buying?

22:55
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Q: How can telepathic communication work across different time periods?

IncognitoGods inhabit a realm parallel to the mortal plane known as the warp. These beings are effectively made up of warp energy condensed into solidified form. They can enter the mortal plane through an avatar, which is a human manifestation of the god imbued with its essence. A god can have multiple av...

1
Q: Dataset and why use evaluate()?

Murilo Araujo SouzaI am starting in Machine Learning, and I have doubts about some concepts. I've read we need to split our dataset into training, validation and test sets. I'll ask four questions related to them. 1 - Training set: It is used in .fit() for our model to learn parameteres such as weights in a neural ...

1
Q: Reading in external single cell data

mmppI'm trying to read in an external single cell dataset from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16164-1, but I am having trouble reading in the count matrix. counts found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE154778 This is how I've been reading in the raw counts. cts ...

23:36
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Q: random choice of multiple lists but delete element chosen

Peter MüllerI want to make a function which takes lists as an input and outputs one element out of one of the list with uniform probability (if for example we have 2 lists, one with 7 and one with 3 elements, each element should have chance 1/10 to be picked) and removes that element from the list it was cho...

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Q: Engineer asks for a title change and raise with a change of responsibilities

Jim Lars SvensonWe have an internal startup of a new kind of specialized service, staffed with resources from a larger engineering department. One key Engineer of that startup is leaving the company and her role needs to be covered. The role is broad, requires self-management, and involves many responsibilities ...


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