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Q: Extra socket for Math node

Vitalii SadovshikovI have added a new input socket for the Math node but it doesn't take it into consideration (it calculates merely the two default input sockets). Is it possible at all to force the Math node to take into account a supplementary socket?

00:31
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Q: When playing multiplayer, whose resources do you see?

Fredy31I was wondering: if I need to farm a particular resource (ores, flowers), and I've looted pretty much every instance of it on the map, can I join another player's world and get their instances of that resource? So I want to know: when playing in another player's world, whose instances of resource...

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CS
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Q: What does Ecclesiastes 12:7 exactly mean by "the spirit returns to God"?

Spirit Realm InvestigatorEcclesiastes 12:7 (ESV): 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. What does Ecclesiastes 12:7 exactly mean by "the spirit returns to God"? Does it mean that the spirit returns to some specific location in the spirit realm where God "stores" spiri...

00:44
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Q: Limits and colimits in the category of condensed abelian groups

Luiz Felipe GarciaSheafification is needed in limits and colimits of condensed abelian groups? If I have a functor $T: i \mapsto T_i$ from an index category to condensed abelian groups the limit and colimit of this functor are just $S \mapsto \lim_i T_i (S)$ and $S \mapsto \text{colim}_i T_i (S)$ or sheafification...

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Q: Why doesn't Darkseid always use kryptonite on Superman?

honeste_vivereDarkseid and Superman have fought on several occasions and Superman, I think, always turns out to be a major pain for Darkseid. Darkseid is not stupid and surely must have known about the kryptonite weakness from very early on. Darkseid is also not weakened by kryptonite. So why doesn't he jus...

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Q: Split along groups (hard mode)

Wheat WizardThis is an alternate version of this earlier challenge with a twist that adds a significant bit of difficulty. Like last time, you are going to be given a string containing some alphabetic characters along with [ and ]. Your task is to split into sections that are enclosed in a "group" created b...

01:27
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Q: Would Corrosive Weapons Work in Outer Space?

pbuchheitIn the new Thrawn books by Timothy Zhan, he describes a weapon called a 'breacher missile'. In simple terms it is a missile that sprays a corrosive chemical onto an enemy ship or structure, damaging external equipment like sensors and weapons and creating weak areas for laser weapons to target. ...

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Q: Rock, Paper Scissors game using Python

rohitThis is a simple rock, paper scissors game I attempted as part of the Automate the Boring Stuff with Python course on Udemy. The scope of the game is for the user to enter a valid input, the system then returns the result and the current score. If the user wishes to quit the game he/she enters 'q...

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Q: Glue in nipple seat in brand new rim?

Will VousdenI've just laced up a new DT Swiss R470 rim and noticed that one of the nipples next to the rim joint isn't protruding as much from the rim as the others. I looked in from the outside and noticed that there's a big lump of what looks like glue surrounding the nipple seat. There's excess metal on t...

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CS
01:48
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Q: Was Jesus obedient unto death, Phil 2:8; or He became obedient because He suffered, Heb 5:8?

salahPhilippians 2:8; KJV; 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Hebrews 5:8,9; KJV; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of ...

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Q: What does "reet fain" mean in Poseidon's message to Agamemnon in the Iliad?

MithicalIn Book XIV of The Iliad, when Poseidon is encouraging the Greeks while the Trojans are attacking their ships, he says this to Agamemnon while disguised: But the famous Earthshaker kept no blind man's watch: he saw them go, and went after, taking the shape of an old ancient gaffer. He took hold ...

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Q: A powerful mage gets reincarnated as the youngest prince who's overpowered from birth

djmI'm looking for a (mostly black and white) manga that I read a few years ago. I could have sworn the cover was of a young blond boy sitting on a throne, but I could be mistaken. At the beginning of the story, the young boy remembers his previous life and is ridiculously overpowered since birth. ...

02:34
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Q: Melodic minor: Does 6 get raised when descending and then ascending immediately?

MozartovicI found this embellished suspension in C minor: The notes between S and R embellish the dissonant S. You can see that the leading tone 7 is raised in both descending and ascending directions, as well as 6 is raised. This is a descent followed by an ascent. It looks weird that the leading tone is...

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Q: Why does the belief over information sets with probability zero matter in Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium?

oswinsoI'm struggling to understand why the notion of "belief revision" is an important concept. In particular, why does the belief over information sets with probability zero matter? When comparing to the notion of "weak sequential equilibriums" (i.e. an assessment that satisfies sequential rationality...

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Q: Estimating confidence interval of a parameter from the MLE of another parameter

Alberto SinigagliaLet's say I have a maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) for my parameter $\theta$ as in $$\hat{\theta}\sim N\left(\theta, \frac{\theta^2}{n}\right) $$ and we have $$\mu = \sqrt{\frac{\theta}{2}}$$ If I estimate my $CI(\theta)$ in the form of an interval $(min_{theta}, max_{theta})$, can I then use t...

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Q: What does i.i stand for in a menu in Costa Rica

Ivaylo StrandjevI am looking at some menu photos from Costa Rica and I noted that they list two prices, and the second has i.i. next to it. What does this mean? Here is an example(taken from here): Googling did not help. My speculation is that first price is before taxes, the latter is with taxes or alternative...

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Q: Struggle without attribute nodes PART 2

Jakub PrzybylskiI have a setup like this: And i want to scale UV Sphere depending on its position on Z axis for example. With attribute node that was done in 1 operation and now i cannot find solution, using Separate XYZ and Scale Instances in any configuration.

02:56
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Q: Can I pay my partner’s income tax (Canada)

Dugan I net approx. twice what my spouse does. At income tax time can I pay her income tax for her so she has more money to invest in her retirement savings account (RRSP)? I know that if I were to give her money I would have to pay tax on this ‘gift’, but I am also allowed to pay for other expenses wi...

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Q: QGIS Grid not displaying correctly

Anthony CrespoI'm trying to create a map from a specific province in Argentina in QGIS 3.10. I am trying to create a map showing multiple coordinates showing hail fall data exported from a csv file and projected on the default WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator EPSG:3857 projection. I want to create a map that includes...

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Q: What does the "weak scale" mean?

Jack the RangerIn dark matter research, one of the properties of WIMPs is that "Interactions only through the weak nuclear force and gravity, or possibly other interactions with cross-sections no higher than the weak scale;" from Wikipedia of WIMPs, so I'm curious about what is the weak scale refers to? Does it...

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Q: What 1960s era launch pad and vehicle is shown in this still from stock footage?

Organic MarbleThe interesting question Identify this 1960's launch site and mission? contains some screenshots of launch pad stock footage. Most are of LC39, but as @Puffin points out in a comment, one does not appear to be. What launch pad and vehicle is depicted here? (I do not seek the exact mission vehicl...

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Q: How would a medieval society treat and view Giants?

Wilbur WumminsGiants in my world are fairly human-looking, besides being 14ft tall on average. Giants are unable to normally communicate (due to their constant heavy breathing) but instead communicate through stomping their feet. Giants can often predict earthquakes because of how sensitive their feet are to v...

RPG
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Q: In D&D 5e what if you dropped a 30ft cube of water from a height of 30ft (or more depending on elevation and positioning) on someone's head,

Diamond HeroIn D&D 5e, what would happen if you dropped a 30ft cube of water from a height of 30ft (or more depending on elevation and positioning) on someone's head, using the Create or Destroy Water spell?

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Q: What summons that are casters themselves are available to a Sorcerer/Wizard or a Cleric?

Nec XelosCharacter: support spellcaster with access to level 5 sorc/wiz spell list and level 4 cleric spell list. I'm looking for thematic combat-ready summons for my character: I need summons that are casters themselves, preferably elemental-themed but that's not a requirement. My first thought would be ...

GIS
GIS
03:29
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Q: Labeling numerical data with thousands separator

WillI am running QGIS 3.18. I have successfully joined a .csv file to a shapefile and am now wanting to show some of the numerical data as labels on the map. Upon joining the .csv to the shapefile, the numerical data I want to show as labels does not show with a thousands separator (a comma, in this ...

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Q: Unable to write raster from array using rasterio

LostinSpatialAnalysisI have two raster files, raster1 and raster2. I want to take raster1 and divide it by raster2 and produce an output raster for this calculation. I am using python and the rasterio package. For info on raster1, I run: raster1.profile and receive: {'driver': 'GTiff', 'dtype': 'float32', 'nodata': N...

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Q: How to deal [as a reviewer] with a paper in peer review that breaks anonymity

HATEthePLOTI work in the field of organization theory and labour sociology and to this point of my career, I have reviewed about 4-6 papers. I have been asked by a journal to review a paper. The journal's scope is Project Management with contributions from social sciences, business administration, but also ...

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Q: Damaged company equipment by accident - company now want me to sign form

Livarooney06I was been given company equipment some time ago to help me with my work. When I received the original equipment I signed nothing. I assumed that this was my equipment to keep - especially due to Covid etc. A few months ago I accidentally damaged one of the items (special type of laminated paper)...

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Q: Query using bind variable returns nothing

apexdevStill a beginner here learning to use SOQL and I am not sure why this is returning nothing. I start off with using a txt file as a static resource and reading its contents which in my case are report names, one in each line. I then use the line variable in my query line by binding it in order to ...

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Q: English equivalent of the German suffix '-weise'

jaysiggIn German, if we want to formulate that we conduct the same procedure for a number of items that are all of one kind, we can use the suffix "-weise". So for example, if we want to say that in a school, the same fire drill will be performed in each of the classes, we can formulate this either (mo...

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Q: Oscillating Colors in ParametricPlot

Vilas WinsteinI am trying to draw some curves with colors oscillating between red and blue (as a function of arc length along the curve). To make things easier, I am using circle arcs so that the curves are easily parameterized by arc length. I want to compare multiple curves of the same family, and the family...

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Q: What prevents tRNA molecules that aren't loaded with an amino acid from binding to the mRNA molecule in the ribosome and disrupting protein synthesis?

Joseph HirschtRNA molecules with a given anticodon become bound to amino acids. What factors favor use of an amino acid-bound tRNA molecule, rather than one without a bound amino-acid? Is it exclusively the presence of an exposed OH group on the end of the non-AA bound tRNA molecule or is it possible that t...

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Q: Understand result of Lorentz transform

pasaba por aquiAssume an event that happens at P=(ct:2,x:4) in some inertial frame of reference S. Assume a second inertial frame S' in standard configuration and $\beta=4/5$ ($\gamma=5/3$). The Lorentz transform is: $$ P'=\frac{5}{3}\begin{pmatrix} 1 & -4/5\\ -4/5 & 1\end{pmatrix}\begin{pmatrix} 2\\ 4\end{pmat...

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Q: What is the latin verb for "To move out, or cause to be moved out, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels"?

Simpleton JackHi people! What is the latin verb for "To move out, or cause to be moved out, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels"? I tried hard to find smth like this in the net but failed... evolve/revolve? No. It means to roll smth. like a stone. e.g. Mar 16:3 et dicebant ad invicem quis revolvet no...

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Q: Is there a single example of an outsider considered a "crank" publishing a ground-breaking result that was found to be correct (in the last 30 years)?

DilworthI'm interested mainly in mathematical and related fields, in which several important and famous open questions exist (e.g., Riemann Hypothesis). Almost every day a new "amateur" scholar (meaning, someone with no formal affiliation to a reputable research institute, or someone who does not have an...

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CS
05:11
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Q: Did the FBI write a letter to Martin Luther King Jr, extorting him to take his own life?

Cotton Headed NinnymugginsThis tweet by WikiLeaks today claims the letter below was sent to MLK telling him to kill himself within 34 days or face sex smear I’m wondering if anyone can find other sources related to this or confirm or disprove the claim in some way? The tweet is phrased in a way that makes it sound (ini...

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Q: Clarification of Dates listed in the Verlustlisten - WWI German Casualties Lists 1918

Brenda CarrI've encountered conflicting explanations of the dates listed in the German WWI Casuality lists - Verlustlisten. My information is from Vol. 1918_XVI, List #2145, List Date: 9 Oct 1918. The soldier I'm researching is Philipp Brase, born 23 Sep 1891. The numbers listed are "23 9" and the town he w...

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Q: What is the meaning of the phrase "the capital city highway"?

Static BounceContext: "At 06:10 yesterday, on the outer circle of the capital city highway in Minato District Tokyo a traffic collision uccurred, involving five cars and at least one truck." What does the capital city highway mean? Does it mean A highway which is located in the capital of Japan (Tokyo) And if...

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Q: How many lists of the 613 Mitzvot are there, and who wrote them?

michaelHow many different individuals listed the 613 Mitzvot? Who was the first, and who. was the most recent?

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Q: Story collection with new house turning into hypercube

comodoroI remember reading a short-story collection that could be about twenty years old, but the book was older, maybe 70s or 80s. After each story there was a sort of scientific explanation. The book was in Czech, but almost certainly translated from English. One story was about a house designed as the...

DIY
DIY
06:06
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Q: Underground feeder wires or cable?

SeabornmanI am planning an underground feeder to a barn. I am intending to direct bury instead of installing in conduit. I can find various cables (4 wire) that are rated for direct burial, but due to availability right now, I'm not finding the gauges of wires I want. I can find USE-2 wire in the correct s...

Vi
Vi
06:20
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Q: Vim normal mode: why is j/k jumping paragraphs instead of lines?

thinksinbinarySo i've copied and pasted text from my browser, and when i hit j/k, it does not bring the cursor up/down single lines like it's supposed to: COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services said Monday that he threw a chair at his ...

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Q: What are the first four moments of a linear function of IID random variables?

BenConsider a sequence of IID random variables $X_1,X_2,X_3,...$ from a common distribution with mean $\mu$, variance $\sigma^2$, skewness $\gamma$ and kurtosis $\kappa$ (all finite). Given a sequence of constants $c_1,c_2,c_3,...$ we can define the linear function: $$H_n \equiv \sum_{i=1}^n c_i X_...

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Q: How can I have an optimistic positive faction in a cyberpunk style world?

Adam ReynoldsI've been thinking about developing a loosely cyberpunk style world that is mostly the sort of standard corporate dominated dystopias we're used to. How could a more positive mostly heroic faction emerge within this sort of world? What would be the factors that allowed them to form?

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Q: When flying to Geneva, do we follow Swiss or French Covid rules?

Ros hebardI am flying from UK to Geneva for a ski holiday in France. Do we follow Swiss guidelines at airport and need to do PCR before we leave from Geneva? Or the French rules: we don’t?

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Q: Question about Summation in calculus.

VaggelisWhen I have a sum in the type of $\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\:c_nx^n$ and for a given value of $x$ the sum is infinity (or converges to infinity? I am not sure if this is correct) does the Sum converges in general? For example, the $\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\:1^n= 1+1+1+\dots=+\infty$ does this sum conver...

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Q: Are all isomorphisms between the Fano plane and its dual of order two?

VincentFamously from every finite projective plane $P$ we can create a dual projective plane $P'$ by taking the points of $P'$ to be the lines of $P$ and the lines of $P'$ to be the points of $P$. It is also well known that the smallest projective plane, the Fano plane, is isomorphic to its own dual. I ...

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Q: Decrease the number of lines of code needed to create a list and verify one value

Brondby IFWhat can I do to reduce the number of steps until I get to the final code result? Is it possible or is this the way with the least number of lines of code? import requests headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4...

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Q: Multi-trunked elephants invade Earth

AlfredI read this novel at least 25 years ago, maybe more. I don't remember the cover. There is a joke: How does an elephant come down from a tree ? It sits on a leaf and waits for autumn. Well, this is how this book begins, by an army of elephant-looking aliens reaching Earth on gliders. And soon they...

GIS
GIS
07:16
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Q: Getting the value of OSM tag contained in the 'other_tag' field using PyQGIS

Mar TijnI got my data from OSM and a lot of metadata is stored in field "other_tags", which is in itself an HSTORE key/value field. For instance, my "other_tags" contains a key voltage with value "150000" as I'm processing power lines for my application. How do I access the information in that field prog...

RPG
RPG
07:49
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Q: Does healing from Fast Healing and Regeneration stack?

LinusI have Fast Healing 14 (from level 14 Battle Oracle with Major Curse) and Regeneration 15 (from casting Regenerate on myself). Does the healing from Fast Healing and Regeneration stack, resulting in me healing 29 Hit Points at the start of my turn?

DBA
DBA
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Q: Identify all queries that target a given table?

user2368632Is there a good way to identify all queries that target a given table (extended events, procedure cache, etc)?

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Q: Mirror an integer... in NDos' way

Dannyu NDosNDos' Numeral System NDos' numeral system is a numeral system invented by me. It represents every nonnegative integer by a binary tree. Given a nonnegative integer \$n\$: If \$n=0\$, it is represented as the empty tree. Otherwise, the tree has a root. With the binary expansion of \$n\$: The le...

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Q: Understanding the generalization of the definition of homotopy equivalence

BrainHere is the question I am trying to answer: Show that $f: X \to Y$ is a homotopy equivalence if there exist maps $g,h: Y \to X$ such that $f \circ g \simeq 1_Y$ and $h \circ f \simeq 1_X.$ More generally, show that $f$ is a homotopy equivalence if $f\circ g$ and $h \circ f$ are homotopy equivalen...

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Q: Minimal set definition

amycandyitI'm very confused about minimal sets, particularly with graphs. According to Wolfram Mathworld, a minimal set is "a member set that is not a proper subset of another member set is called a minimal set." However I'm confused because doesn't that mean that it can contain proper subsets? And in that...

RPG
RPG
08:40
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Q: Why high dexterity means low armor class?

miroxlavI am not sure whether character adjustment in Eye of the Beholder 1 works accurately. I see that AC depends only on DEX: DEX AC (HUMAN MALE) ------------- 3 14 4 13 5 12 6 11 7-14 10 15 9 16 8 17 7 18 6 Screenshot (playing with ...

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Q: Did Shukadevji ( Ved Vyas's son) remain lifelong unmarried?

riverWas Shukadevji ( Ved Vyas' son) lifelong bachelor ? In wiki it is shown that he had wife and children . But in this quora answer it is written that he remained lifelong unmarried. What is the truth ?

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Q: Sides of a polygon

emanresu AGiven an ASCII-art shape made of the characters /\|_, your challenge is to return the number of sides it has. A side is a straight line of one of those, for example: \ \ \ / / | | | | _____ Are all sides. For example, this shape: ___ / \ /_____\ Has four sides. You can assume the in...

09:05
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Q: Unbounded Bloch function

didiegopI'm studying the Bloch space $\mathcal{B}$; this is the set of all analytic fuctions $f$ defined on the open unit disc $\mathbb{D}$ such that $$\sup_{|z|<1}(1-|z|^2)|f'(z)|<\infty$$ My question is more curious: can you give an example of an unbounded Bloch function?

09:23
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Q: Does the Archivist actually delete my file if its card dies?

StevoisiakDuring my fight with the The Archivist, they asked me to to select the oldest file saved on my computer. The Archivist turned my file into a card and said it would be deleted if the card died. I won the fight without my card dying, so I never found out: Would The Archivist have actually deleted m...

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TeX
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Q: Why doesn't this \foreach work?

PhysorI don't understand why this doesn't work. I changed x to y and z but it didn't work. Any ideas? \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{pgfplots,pgfplotstable} %\usepgfplotslibrary{colormaps} \pgfplotsset{compat=newest} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ grid=major, xm...

09:44
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Q: Q&A English Auction- if a wallets under bids then provides a valid bid, why doesn't it count the second good bid?

noone392if you set up the english auction with three wallets and do the following: Wallet 1 min bid 10 Wallet 2 bids 15 wallet 3 bids 9 wallet 3 bids 20 wallet 1 closes It will got to wallet 2 and wallet three's second bid never shows up. Is this a bug or intended?

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Q: Golf Conway's Primoridal Still-Life

JonahBackground Note: Per comment by Razetime, this configuration was co-found by one of our fellow code golf enthusiasts, Zgarb A 29 year old conjecture by John Conway about the Game of Life was recently solved. To quote Conway from the linked article: Indeed, is there a Godlike still-life, one that...

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Q: What is the meaning of _voci populi_ in this quote?

LаngLаngСThere is one quote by Victor Klemperer that reads: But there is no vox populi, only voci populi. which seems to be a bit puzzling. On a wiki-talk page the translation speculation runs with the possibility derived from machine translation that both form (vox/voci) might be regarded as synonyms? ...

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TeX
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Q: How to force the left hand of an equation against an equal sign?

BlockNoir I can't find a proper way to force the left hand of the equalities on the second row of the first the equation to stick against the equal sign. Ideally, I would like something that looks like the second equation in terms of the alignment. Here is the code I used for the first equation using in t...

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Q: What is it called when a wheel has a long metal wall on its diameter?

Arthur Shawcross Some bicycle wheel have a tall metal "wall" along the perimeter of the wheel (here, the wall is blue.) Other wheels don't have this: the distance between the end of the spoke and the tire is much thinner, like this: My front wheel was recently stolen, and I am looking for a replacement wheel li...

 
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Q: Cyberpunk Loan Shark

codeMonkeyA central component of the cyberpunk genre is the idea of corporations rising to be the dominant power in the world. I'm working with a setting where urban centers are safe because the corps police them, but the countryside is completely lawless because there's no profit in sending security there...

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Q: Help with a sentence from manga でもあの様子だとワザとってわけじゃなさそうだし

leosan でもあの様子だとワザとってわけじゃなさそうだし... My translation (which is probably not complete and even wrong) is this: But if that's the situation it doesn't seem like it is a trick. However I'm not sure what the だと, ワザ, とってわけ, and し mean here or if I got them right. Is the だと functioning as a conditional? Also ...

12:32
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Q: ELO disadvantage due to one pawn move in Indian Chess

shoonyaIn Indian chess, the pawn doesn't move two squares, however in the western chess, pawn can move two squares. Now, since the pawn can't move 2 in the Indian style, the fianchetto is a natural square to develop your bishops. So for a player like Sultan Khan playing against other chess players from ...

Ham
Ham
12:42
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Q: Yaesu VX-7R clock is running very fast

jdvI just noticed the clock on my Yaesu VX-7R is running very fast. I noticed this a few days ago, where it would be days ahead. I would reset the time to the second and then, again, hours or days ahead. I'm not sure when this started happening, or if it has always been this way. The unit was purcha...

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Q: Is it really safe to pass sensitive data to another script via stdin, compared to passing via arguments (Linux)

NewLinuxYes, the transfer to the script via arguments is visible through ps -ax, /proc/<pid>/cmdline etc., BUT if someone has already gained access to your account from the outside (e.g. by hacking your browser) he will have no trouble looking not only ps -ax, but also periodically intercept /proc/<pid>/...

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Q: Is there a graph with 2-factor that is not hamiltonian?

MinaIf a graph $G$ has a 2-factor it means it is a 2-regular subgraph that contains all vertices of $G$. Isn't it a hamiltonian cycle? because it is 2-regular so it is a cycle and it contains all vertices of the graph.

13:35
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Q: Infinite sum bug

lotus2019Why: Limit[Sum[Sqrt[-i^2 + n^2]/n^2, {i, 1, n}], n -> Infinity] (* 0 *) but: Integrate[Sqrt[1 - x^2], {x, 0, 1}] (* Pi/4 *) The former is the Riemann sum of the latter. They should be equal. (Version: 11.3)

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Q: Using FindRoot[] to find an inflection point

J FFindRoot[ {Derivative[2][SinIntegral[x]], 0 < x < (Pi)}, x ] I hoped that my code would return a value for x=0 but it is returning an error: "search specification should be a list with 1 to 5 elements" edit: I want to iterate this multiple times so it will be helpful to be able to find the ...

CS
CS
14:29
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Q: John 6:39 and Jesus' Confidence

Cork88I've done a decent amount of study from theologians and teachers of the Word regarding John 6:37-40, I've even studied it apart from the teachers. It seems most apparent and obvious that Jesus will succeed in losing none out of all that the Father gives to Him for eternal life (John 6:40). Most...

14:46
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Q: Will my mix-and-match drivetrain work?

Gregorius GerardoI'm currently assembling a 3x9 speed commuter bike with the following groupset details: Crank: Shimano Tourney TY501 FD: Shimano Tourney TY510 RD: Shimano Altus M2000 Chain: Shimano 9 speed Sprocket: Shimano Alivio HG400 9 Speed Shifter: Altus 3x9 Speed The question is, does it work well? Becau...

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Q: Get user-friendly name for F-Curve

Dr. PontchartrainI'm trying to get the user-friendly name of an F-Curve that gets displayed in the Dope Sheet and Graph Editor. For example, I would like to get the name 'X Euler Rotation'. If I use FCurve.data_path, I just get rotation_euler (which isn't describing the F-Curve's X dimension). visible = context....

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Q: What is this from: beheading, head stolen in heist, and connected to new body?

Bearded HobbitThis memory of a scene from a book/movie/show/comic popped into my mind and I can't figure out what it is from! It's a beheading/execution scene on a castle/tower/skyscraper over a waterfall/into a sewer. The person being beheaded is the (anti?)hero, and I guess the person in charge of beheading ...

PM
PM
15:19
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Q: How can a Scrum daily not be a status pull?

VoracThere's a widespread saying "The Scrum daily is not a status pull; if it is you are not doing Scrum." By "status pull" is meant everyone from the development team reporting that they have done some work in the last 24 hours, reporting to a manager. And the notion of a manager is another one falli...

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Q: Difference in Perl regex variable $+{name} and $-{name}

itil memek cantikWhat is the difference between Perl regex variables $+{name} and $-{name} when both are used to refer to the same regex group from Perl statement/expression code?

TeX
TeX
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Q: How to plot this parametric curve

TakahiroI am trying to plot this parametric function: (cos(t)+(t)*sin(t), sin(t)+(t)*cos(t)) (0≤t≤π) which gives the curve below: This is my attempt, but for some reason it doesn't work. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[thick] plot[variable=\t,domain=0...

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Q: Mat Printing Matrix

DialFrostA manufacturing company wants to print a design on mats of varying dimensions, and they hired you to program a robot to make these mats. The design consists of alternating rings of any 2 symbols on a mat. Below are some sample looks: Column 9 by Row 7 Symbol 1: @ Symbol 2: - Input: 9 7 @ - @@@@@@...

DIY
DIY
2
Q: Do carriage bolts hold their position in soft wood?

Will I AmI have a question about carriage bolts, and when they are appropriate to use, instead of more traditional hex head bolts. If I understand correctly, their main advantage is that they can be tightened from only one direction, the square part under the bolt head providing the resistance. With a hex...

HSM
HSM
16:10
1
Q: When was it realized that the giant planets do not have solid surfaces?

M.A. GoldingWhen was it realized that the gas giant planets Jupiter and Saturn, and the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune, do not have solid surfaces? When was that idea first proposed and when was it accepted by astronomers?

ELL
ELL
2
Q: Why does this sentence use "to writing" instead of "to write"?

XingThis is a quote by Hemingway. Don't get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. Should not the sentence be the following one? Don't get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to write.

AI
AI
16:27
2
Q: Where are the parentheses in the Bellman update rule?

nammerkageI'm not having a lot of intuition about the equation. I have this Bellman update rule: $$v_{\pi}(s) =\sum_a \pi(a|s)\sum_{s',r} p(s',r|s,a)[r+ \gamma v_{k}(s')]$$ But where are the parenthesis? Is the second sum using the index $a$ from the first sum? Or is it independent, and can I move out the ...

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Q: Egyptian fraction representations of 1

pxegerAn Egyptian fraction is a representation of a rational number using the sum of distinct unit fractions (a unit fraction is of the form \$ \frac 1 x \$ where \$ x \$ is a positive integer). For all[1] positive integers \$ n \ne 2 \$, there exists at least one Egyptian fraction of \$ n \$ distinct ...

17:00
2
Q: Can I disregard GPL just because I use autoconf?

scrrrI found the following text in licenses to some software I am considering to use: As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you # distribute this file as part of a program that contains a # configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under # the same distribut...

Law
Law
17:29
1
Q: How does Australia split its legal profession?

GreendrakeI just got an interesting edit suggestion to my recent question by someone who just registered (perhaps for the purpose of this edit suggestion). It proposes that "lawyer" is replaced with "junior barrister" because: australia splits its legal profession, so "lawyer" is wrong It also injects a ...

5
Q: How to draw or create a rounded rectangle in Blender using curves (not a plane/cube)?

mikeI am interested in creating rounded rectangles from curves (not planes or cubes). I am aware of how to round a plane's corners using the bevel modifier. The best I have done for rounded rectangles using curves is to make an SVG of a rounded rectangle from illustrator and import it to a curve. Thi...

IOT
IOT
18:08
1
Q: How to use the onboard LED on the ESP32-C3-DevKitC2

Denise DraperI just bought an ESP32-C3-DevKitC2 from Espressif, which features an onboard color LED. I'm a bit of a newbie in this space, so I thought I'd start by trying to get a simple "blink" program running. I've installed the Espressif VSCode extension, and I can successfully compile and load (flash) ...

18:22
1
Q: If I can add a Text above my player/object without a canvas then what do I need the canvas for?

Chen AharonIn all tutorials they are using canvas for the text to put the text above the player/object. Why not just make empty GameObject as child of the object you want to add the text above and add to the empty GameObject TextMesh and that's it ? What the canvas is giving me for this case when I want to ...

1
Q: Parshanut Theory/Intro Books

Nochie WolfI am currently looking for a book that gives a thorough introduction into the Rishonim's and other Meforshim's understanding of the Chumash in their compilations and a guide to Parshanut and (Jewish) bible study in general. Any suggestions? To be clear, I am not looking for a book that goes throu...

5
Q: L'Hopital rule for upper and lower limit?

Calculus FractionalI am reading the following paper 1998(H.Hudzik) P.574 It reads using L'Hopital rule$$\liminf_{u\to\infty} \frac{1/\varphi(1/u)}{\psi(u)}=\liminf_{u\to\infty}\frac{\varphi'(u)}{\psi'(u)u^2[\varphi(1/u)]^2}.$$ That means we can apply L'Hopital for lower limits i.e. $$\liminf_{u\to\infty} \frac{f(u)...

18:50
1
Q: Extracting data from dict and processing it

SitoConsider the following def __genereate_initial_guess(dictonary) -> tuple[dict, dict]: joined_lst = [dictonary["main"], dictonary["background"]] config_input_params = {} config_input_params_limits = {} for key, kind in zip(dictonary,joined_lst): tmp_lst...

19:28
5
Q: Products all the way down

Wheat WizardYou are probably familiar with the Cartesian product. It takes two lists and creates a list of all pairs that can be made from an element of the first and an element from the second: \$ \left[1,2\right] \times \left[3,4\right] = \left[(1,3),(1,4),(2,3),(2,4)\right] \$ Here the order of the resul...

3
Q: Why are most novice programs limited to 3x/week when most novices want to train more?

Aaryan DewanI have less than 6 months of on and off training and I've decided to stick to a workout plan for good. I'm on the fatter side. I wanted to hit the gym 6 times per week and hit two body parts per day (PPLPPL) but everywhere I see, everyone recommends only a 3x/week full body program for at least 5...

4
Q: Replying to students' emails or ignoring irrelevant questions

giacI started teaching this year and what surprises me is how often students will just send you emails asking about stuff that I feel they should figure out by themselves. For instance, they will email me asking when the next lecture is (when they can simply look it up) or if they will get penalised ...

TeX
TeX
4
Q: Strange "at sign" symbol

Davi_2000The @ symbol is not coming as I wish. I want to have the classical symbol, like the one visualized here. I tried in normal text and math mode but it is the same. With the code below, I am not getting the symbol I want. I post images of both symbols. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{input...

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Q: Figure numbering like 1-1 in the 1st chapter and 2-1 in the 2nd chapter

jsvI need to create a document with numbered headings and numbered tables. The tables in the 1st chapter should be numbered as 1-1, 1-2, etc. The tables in the 2nd chapter should be numbered as 2-1, 2-2, etc. And so on. To create numbered headings, I have created a "Heading 1" paragraph style and ad...

4
Q: Geometry nodes instance grid, with material parameters for specific instances

Albert Perkins I'm trying to create a grid of objects, where a parameter for their material depends on their location (for example, increase emission strength of objects along the rim of the grid) What is the best approach to achieve this? I could not find a way to propagate a property from geo nodes to materia...

19:51
1
Q: Update (never insert) a record by External Id using REST API

mmm321321Salesforce offers a way to upsert a record by a given External Id: curl https://na1.salesforce.com/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account/customExtIdField__c/11999 -H "Authorization: Bearer token" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @newrecord.json -X PATCH But if it doesn't find an Account wit...

20:24
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Q: Any downside of using `UTM` tags for backlinks to my site?

samIve been trying to get more information from google analytics about our website referral sources, but like most people 90% of the traffic is showing up a "direct". To get around this for links that i can control, eg things like social media profile / bio links etc.. i want to tag the links with a...

5
Q: How can a gigantic creature combat neural lag?

Darth BiomechFor the purposes of the question, it doesn't really matter if the creature's a continent-sized amoeba or a particularly large kaiju. Speed of thought is relatively painfully slow in organic creatures, since it uses electrochemical processes. It is so slow, in fact, that the speed can be expressed...

RPG
RPG
4
Q: Is this homebrew "Sir Knight" class balanced?

CezaryxI'm here today to ask whom it may concern to read through this class' description. I would ask your answers to address this class in terms of balancing, its features fitting with image of a medieval knight(of course in a fantasy setting) and on your overall feeling. I am also posting two subclass...

3
Q: Can you change the damage type of Poisons via Grave Touched?

XsandrosIf I hit a creature with an attack using a poison coated weapon (for example Purple Worm Poison) could I, rules as written, change the poison damage type to necrotic via the lvl 6 Undead Patron Warlock's feature Grave Touched? That reads: [...] once during each of your turns, when you hit a crea...

3
Q: Smooth complete intersections

FriedrichLet $X_{2,3}\subset\mathbb{P}^n$, with $n\geq 5$, be a complete intersection of a quadric $X_2$ and a cubic $X_3$ containing a $2$-plane $H$. Assume $X_2$ and $X_3$ to be general among the hypersurface of the same degree containing $H$. In particular $X_2$ and $X_3$ are smooth. Question: If $n =...

20:44
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Q: apt install xxxx hangs. How do I kill it?

MeirGI invoked an apt install (of mysql-workbench) by double clicking the downloaded *.deb file. It hangs at the "preparing" stage and the "Cancel" button does nothing. ps aux | grep apt didn't find any process running. What process name should I look for? How do I kill it?

21:20
5
Q: Boundary of manifold with boundary has empty boundary: What about corners in the topological category?

B.HueberIt is a general fact that the boundary $\partial\mathcal{M}$ of any topological manifold with boundary $\mathcal{M}$ is itself a topological manifold and has empty boundary, i.e. $\partial (\partial\mathcal{M})=0$. Now, I am a little bit confused about the following: There is also the notion of m...

21:32
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Q: Exeception line numbers are not reliable

BastiI spent quite some time debugging an issue because the stack trace line numbers were not correct and wanted to share my findings. The problem seems to be 10 Years old and fixed, but under specific circumstances, it seems to be still a problem. I am able to reproduce it, but I'm not able to reprod...

TeX
TeX
21:43
2
Q: Line width keywords seem to cause a TikZ error

sgmoyeI am attempting a simple format, that works well until I use a line width keyword in the \draw command below. The keyword could be thick or thin or line width=2pt. Running the code with thick gives this: and TikZ says, for example: No shape named S-3 is known. Commenting-out thick produces the e...

9
Q: Where's the 'centaur of mass'?

PureferretThis answer and my own both hint at centaurs being front-heavy or, as Separatrix puts it: Centaurs have a permanent curse by horse standards, they are, by design, permanently very heavy on the forehand. Given a centaur like above, where is the centre of mass, or 'centaur of mass' so to speak? ...

2
Q: Trouble integrating square of a sine

physBaI have the following expression which I am trying to evaluate: $$ \frac{2}{L} \int^{\frac{L}{3}}_{\frac{L}{6}} \sin^2 kx$$ where $k = \frac{\pi}{L}$. According to my calculator, the answer should be $\frac{1}{6}$ but I can't seem to get this result by manual integration. Here's what I've tried so...

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Q: Why are quasi-categories better than simplicial categories?

user475383There are many models for $(\infty,1)$-categories: simplicial categories, Segal categories, complete Segal spaces, and quasi-categories. Doubtlessly the model most used to do higher category theory in is the model of quasi-categories, due to the work of Lurie (Higher Topos Theory, Kerodon), who c...

22:01
2
Q: How do I create a custom label for Labeling Function?

L_R_G_2021How do I use LabelingFunction on a List of String Variables or a Function that generates String Variables? I want the List Plot to Display the individual elements of the List variable LabelString. LabelString = Table[StringForm["Test # ``", LS], {LS, 1, 25}]; ListPlot[Prime[Range[10]], Labeling...

2
Q: Will 3,600ft asteroid be visible at my location tonight?

rbhatAccording to NASA, a 1.1-kilometer asteroid called 7482 (1994 PC1) will be visible tonight at 5:50PM. How do I know if this asteroid will be visible at my location with the naked eye? When NASA says 5:50PM today, what location and/or timezone are they referring to? Is there an intuitive iphone ap...

22:19
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Q: Routing traces to and from a 48 pin microcontroller becoming a mess

ErvI have a 48 pin microcontroller with VCC = 5V. I'm becoming worried that I have the traces too close and all the vias and crossing traces may mess with the signals' integrity. Are there examples and general guidelines to routing traces in such a situation? Do you see anything in the picture that ...

22:36
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Q: Can the field of Laurent series be made into an Archimedean ordered field?

metaverseIn today's analysis class, my professor introduced the field of formal Laurent series $\Bbb R((x))$. He also talked about the dictionary order on $\Bbb R((x))$ and why it is not an Archimedean ordered field. One natural question arises: Can $\Bbb R((x))$ be made into an Archimedean ordered field...

RPG
RPG
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Q: Does a Great Old One Warlock have two-way telepathic communication with its thrall?

orderThe warlock's Awakened Mind telepathy was recently changed from "You can communicate telepathically with..." to "You can speak telepathically to..." with the intent of clarifying that the telepathy was one-way. Create Thrall's text, however, also says "communicate telepathically", but it has not...

1
Q: What could a_0=s in Shamir's secret sharing scheme represent?

King OdysseusWhat could $a_0=s$ in Shamir's secret sharing scheme represent? As we already know in a $k$ out of $n$ secret sharing scheme, a secret is split in $n$ parts however only $k=t$ parts (of a polynomial of degree $t-1$) are needed if we want to compute the secret. Suppose that $f$ is the polynomial f...

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Q: Compress and decompress

AnttiPYour task is to make a bidirectional compressor. It takes a list of bytes as input and returns a list of bytes as output. It has the property than whenever it is iterated twice it returns the original input. In other words, if f is your program as a function, then f(f(x))=x for all x. Now, since ...

22:57
1
Q: How should I follow up with this professor?

AvengerI e-mailed a prof in France (Paris) on 10 Jan that my research interest align with his work and I would be willing to work for a PhD under his supervision in Pure Mathematics. I am a student living in Asian country. His reply was the following: Dear X, Sorry but to get a grant for a PhD is very ...

DIY
DIY
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Q: How do I keep the lights on permanently?

James GeddesCurrent Situation My upstairs hallway gets rather dark as it has no windows. It is also at the top of a set of stairs, which too has no light source. To ameliorate this, I have recently installed LED light fittings. I would like to remove the light switches to ensure that these lights remain on p...

4
Q: Why is the scale of the Bezier Bevel so massive on Curves? how can I scale effectively?

CromeXI'm struggling to model with curves today. I can't seem to scale the curve without making the object curve so tiny I can't even see it? To get the curve size I want, the target object is a speck on the screen. Has this been updated since last I used it? 2020 How do I scale without having a spec...

DBA
DBA
1
Q: Environment variables in Postgres C extension

NikolaI cannot get environment variable in my PostgreSQL C extension code. For example, this function always returns 111: #include "postgres.h" #include "fmgr.h" #include <stdlib.h> PG_MODULE_MAGIC; PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(myinc); Datum myinc(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) { int32 arg = PG_GETARG_INT32(0); char* ...

23:21
3
Q: Compensative lengthening of ε and ο to η and ω in Homeric Greek

Canned ManIn the grammar section of Pharr and Wright’s Homeric Greek section 601, the following is stated: The loss of one or more consonants in a word usually occasions the lengthening of the preceding vowel. This is called compensative lengthening. When it takes place, α, ι, υ = ᾱ, ῑ, ῡ; ε = ει; ο = ου....

23:32
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Q: Double Decay: The Fish

Ichthys KingI am a fish Remove my first, and I might be a thief Remove my second, and you will divide Remove my third, and you will see much pain Remove my fourth, and I am measured by metres Remove my fifth, and nothing is left Remove my fifth, and you see what I do Remove my fourth, and you have space to...

23:52
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Q: Area of a circle passing through two vertices of a parallelogram touching one edge.

peta arantesFor reference: Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram, $AB = 6, BC= 10$ and $AC = 14$ ; traces a circle passing through the vertices $C$ and $D$ with $AD$ being tangent and this circle is $BC$ a secant. Calculate the area of ​​the circle. (Answer: $12\pi$) My progress: $AD^2 =AI\cdot AC \implies 10^2=A...


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