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Q: Past Simple or Present Perfect when writing that something was/has been generated

Al BundyI have very simple sentence, however I have 3 problems with it. The major one is whether I should you Past Simple or Present Perfect when saying that something was/has been generated. The Second one is whether I should use this or that, and the third one is whether I should use by or with. The se...

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Q: Ansible OpenSSL Error with apt module

RedHackThis is rather odd, I noticed it yesterday on one of my target machines, and today its happening on the rest of them too. I also tried running the playbook from a different machine and the same thing happened. It seems like this problem occurs after an apt upgrade on Ubuntu 20.04. The first time ...

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Q: Every open subspace of a separable topological space is separable

AkiraI have encountered this well-known result when reading about separable spaces. Let $(E, \tau)$ be a separable topological space. Let $X \in \tau$ and $\tau_X$ its subspace topology. Then $(X, \tau_X)$ is separable. Could you verify if my below proof is fine? Let $D$ be a countable dense subse...

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Q: Did Luc Besson ever explain why Zorg really wants the arrival of the evil?

WingfootWhat exactly does Zorg expect from the arrival of the "Great Evil"? Once it would have reached the temple, life would turn into death, including Zorg's life. He tried to explain to Fr. Vito Cornelius why, but it still doesn't make sense. What did Zorg expect from the evil for himself?

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Q: How to separate frameticks from vertical axes?

Jason PeñaI'm trying to separate frame ticks from the vertical axes and so far I've found a solution to that end by adding the following command inside the "Plot" main command FrameTicks -> {{{{0.2, "0.2 "}, {0.4, "0.4 "}, {0.6, "0.6 "}, {0.8, "0.8 "}, {1, "1.0 "}, {1.2, "1.2 "}}, None}, {Automatic, ...

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Q: How to analyse count data

PhoebeI have count data on bird abundance obtained from 12 locations. I have summed the abundance for each site as I have been sampling each location twice and there is no significant difference between them (I used the Wilcoxon rank-sum test). The next variable I have is the percentage of the urban la...

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Q: How can a pulsar slow down?

velut lunaI saw in some astronomy textbooks that pulsars gradually slow down due to the loss of energy by its radiation. I wonder why this is possible? Although the radiation is now not thermal but in the form of two beams, I think they still cannot carry away net angular momentum but just net energy. So w...

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Q: Example of non distributive module

Miguel Angel Hernandez GodinezI'm looking for a module that has two submodules $P,Q,R$ such that $P\cap (Q+R) \neq P\cap Q +P\cap R $ I'm struggling to find this example because I'm not that familiarized in module theory Can You help me? Thanks

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Q: Is my zoneinfo backwards or am I confused

hymieAs far as I know, United States Eastern Time is GMT-5 for Eastern Standard Time, and GMT-4 for Eastern Daylight Time. So why do these two commands give different hours in the answers? laptop % TZ=EST5EDT date Wed Apr 27 12:16:36 EDT 2022 laptop % TZ=GMT-4 date Wed Apr 27 20:16:40 GMT 2022 Should...

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Q: How does this PNP transistor improve the switching performance of MOSFET?

Divya K.S My guess is PNP transistor might ensure fast turn off by shunting the gate capacitance (ie, when diode is reverse biased and the PNP is on.) Additional questions: Why is the gate current limiting resistance not present? What is the role of R1 in Fig 2.7? Ref: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.c...

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Q: How should I remove this crankset?

Huskie69I recently acquired a 10 year Cube Acid MTB which I intend to refurbish and convert to an ebike. I need to remove the crankset and purchased a crank puller. It seems to be a universal size but the "internal" bolt which should push against the bottom bracket spindle to release the crank arm seems ...

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Q: Can I govern an ebike down to a lower speed?

DavidI commute on my bike for fun and exercise, but my commute has two steep hills that kill my legs and add a significant amount of time to my route. I've looked at ebikes for their electric-assist ability as a way to smooth out the steep uphill experience, but I still like biking and still want to g...

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Q: When is the earliest that a vampire could have traveled from Europe to North America?

Cyrus DrakeI'm writing an urban fantasy story revolving around, among other things, vampires secretly living in the United States in 1998. And since the first two vampires came into existence in the area that is now known as Romania in around 1450, a question I need to have a solid answer for is when, exact...

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Q: What is the meaning of "might be/may have/genetai" in Colossians 1:18?

C. StroudColossians 1:18 ESV "And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent". My emphasis. A. In this verse is Jesus the firstborn from the dead that His preeminence, already established, might be shown/ expressed...

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Q: Possible Origin of "ergo"

user67637Is it possible that the Latin conjunction "ergo" was derived from the dative singular of the Greek word "εργον", meaning task?

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Q: Why would hydrogen bubble up from the sea floor?

wokopaI am thinking of a world where bubbles of hydrogen emerge from the seafloor, and are trapped by people for use as fuel. But what is the source of the hydrogen? In other words, what geological or maybe biological/bacterial processes would cause masses of H₂ to bubble up through the sea in a reliab...

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Q: What are some good, elementary and maybe also intersting proofs by induction?

JacobimanI am hosting a one-time class/talk on the concept of infinity for some (talented) high-school students. I want to teach them about proof by induction and I want them to do some exercises (you learn math by doing!). I am therefore looking for easy, elementary and maybe also intersting exercises fo...

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Q: Is taproot considered nonstandard to older clients?

arshbotWhen asking an older bitcoind node to broadcast a transaction which includes or spends a p2tr output, how will they respond? Will they broadcast the transaction? Will only certain bitcoind versions broadcast them? Which ones if that's the case? I'm not asking if it's possible to detect if a user'...

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Q: USPS taking too long to deliver tax returns [US Taxes]

CraUmmI used USPS First-Class Mail with tracking to send my State and Federal Tax returns. It's been 10 days and the tracking site has a In Transit, Arriving Late status. What happens if USPS fails to deliver or loses my tax returns?

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Q: Always leaking ext4 superblock

user145453An encrypted ext4 container will always leak the superblock information. So encrypting an unencrypted metadata file system like ext4 is inherently vulnerable because it instaleaks? Shouldn't it then be an absolute requirement to do at least double encryption to prevent this (so that the outer e...

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Q: How do I slow down boid particles without disturbing the speed of everything else in scene?

Kato KumpI'm following this tutorial on how to slow down particles but I do not see the integration tab under physics like in the video. I noticed if I switched to a different physics type, it showed the integration tab but I need the boid physics type for my particular scene. How do I slow down the parti...

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Q: What is happening every time I pay my credit card? Am I 'settling' with my bank, the credit card company, or another entity?

StatsScaredI understand that credit cards extend credit to customers. And that purchases incurred before the credit balance is due are nothing more than IOUs to either the bank issuing the card (and also the card provider?). But is actually happening every time I pay off my credit card? Am I 'settling' with...

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Law
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Q: Why are websites like voter's records legal?

GrasperHow is it possible that https://voterrecords.com/ can operate without any problems? They reveal your personal information without your direct consent. Basically, you can find address of anyone who you want. Well, if you are registered to vote which most of people are. How can this be allowed to b...

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Q: Vertical line in table columns

user99432In the following table I want to separate the columns: \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{ l >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering}X >{\centering\arraybackslash}X...

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Q: Can an opamp have a negative gain?

JohnI have a school excercise which I don't fully understand. The excercise is that you build an opamp circuit with a negative gain, -40 and a bandwidth of 100KHz. The Gain-bandwidth product is 1000 000. So if I calculate the GBP -40 * 100Khz = -4000 000, so I have to split my opamp up into two opamp...

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Law
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Q: What is considered personal information according to the US law?

GrasperAs a follow up question from this question a person's name, age, address, parties affiliation are considered public data. I'd like to ask then what is considered personal information? So if there is a website breach of data i.e. on Facebook and the hackers get the information mentioned above, Fac...

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Q: False proof: Every linear operator (matrix) has an eigenvalue.

Sergey ZykovBelow is a proof that any linear operator must have an eigenvalue. The proof obviously contains a mistake because the statement is wrong. But I do not see the mistake. Please point it out if you see it. Assumption: $V$ is a finitely dimensional $K$-linear space ($K$ is a field with infinitely man...

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Q: Are entire functions “essentially” determined by their maximum modulus function?

Martin R(Note: This has been asked on Math SE, but without an answer after almost two years and one offered bounty.) For an entire function $f$ let $M(r,f)=\max_{|z|=r}|f(z)|$ be its maximum modulus function. $M(r, f)$ does not change if $f$ is replaced by $e^{i\varphi}f(e^{i\theta}z)$, if $f$ is replac...

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Q: How can i explain the concept of decoration from the computer science perspective

David HerzlosAs a python interested guy i have seen the syntactic sugar of a decorator like this: @decorator def decorated_method(self): return "Hello" So, it's a sort of higher order function in python, but my question is: Is there another patterns or ways to express the same idea of decorating beyond i...

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Q: Does "saved" mean the same thing in 2 Samuel 3:18 & Ephesians 2:8?

Hold To The Rod2 Samuel 3:18 speaks of David saving Israel: 18 Now then do it: for the Lord hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies. Ephesians 2:8 speaks of Christ saving His people:...

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Q: Fill the region above two curves

RodrigoI have need to fill the region above two curves as shown below. How can I fill only the darker region without filling the two intersections as well? Clear[t, a0, \[Alpha], \[Delta], \[CapitalTheta], lmin, lmin2, ebar, \ nmin, nmin2] a0 = 1.059*10^-9; \[Alpha] = 10; \[Delta] = 1/100; \[CapitalThet...

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Q: In what continuity does Joker want his "g** d*** electric car" from Batman?

SkoobaI came across this video clip where Scarecrow and Joker have captured Batman and are going to interrogate him and Scarecrow takes his mask off: [Joker] WHAT!!? [Scarecrow] Bloody hell, it's billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne! [Joker] No! No! Are you shitting me! What is wrong with you? Don't you th...

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Q: What is the English equivalent to the proverb "Somebody finds his soup not thick enough, and somebody finds his pearls too small"

Marie MitWhat's the equivalent to the Russian proverb "Somebody finds his soup not thick enough, and somebody finds his pearls too small"("Кому суп не густ, кому жемчуг мелок")? It means a situation when one person takes what he has for granted and thus affords himself to complain about the faults of the ...

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Q: Rail to rail +12/-12v square wave generation with microcontroller

jamarjuI need to generate a +/-12v square wave, +/-0.4v tolerance is allowed. The purpose is to drive the pilot signal of an electric vehicle level 2 charger, for those curious. This is both a hobby project and brain exercise for me so I would like to use discrete components that I already own, namely B...

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Q: Kant's Prolegomena §13 - triangle example argument

gsmafraIn Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Kant argues that space (and time) are not qualities of objects, but a priori intuitions that allow the concepts of objects in our minds. To argue in favor of this idea, he writes that those who cannot yet get free of the conception, as if space and time ...

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Q: Simple Python code that makes a random string of letters and numbers

JéaMy code basically picks random letters and numbers from three lists and makes a random combination with them. I decided to write this code just for fun, however I feel like the code can be made shorter. I just don't know how. So here is my code: import random caps=['A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H...

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Q: Can you run code before super/this constructor?

Adrian LarsonI had an interesting scenario recently and wasn't sure off the top of my head if my desired inheritance model was possible. This finding might not be the most interesting or novel to some, but it took me a bit of research and experimentation to confirm, so I thought I'd share it here. Can a supe...

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Q: Centering middle line in 2x2 table

ShambhalaI am having trouble centering the middle line in the table. \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage[document]{ragged2e} \usepackage{float} \pagestyle{fancy} \setlength{\headheight}{...

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Q: Which byte-compile-file is my Emacs using? Function signature in describe-function differs to that in bytecomp.el

Sean ChampAfter reviewing some functions in my own dot-emacs files, I've noticed that the function signature that describe-function shows for byte-compile-file differs to that for the function definition in the Emacs Lisp source code visible after find-function for byte-compile-file. The function signature...

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Q: When a University changes name after students graduate

Alan LaoIf a University change its name after graduation, should graduates use the original or the new name of the school in their CV? Sometimes even countries change their names, again should graduates refer to the original or new names in their CV if that takes place after their graduation?

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Q: Was Jesus Christ a refugee?

cj564Was Jesus Christ a refugee? Yesterday I was debating the topic with my Progressive Christian friend who claimed that the Lord was a refugee, was Christ by definition a refugee?

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Q: Can a planet stay cracked?

HarthagImages like this and this are common in sci-fi/fantasy settings, for the obvious "rule-of-cool" reasons. And while the 'rule-of-cool' is certainly worth using (in moderation) when appropriate, I can't help but wonder just how realistic are giant cracks in rocky planets? Since that question, al...

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Q: Potential new employer wants to contact my current employer as part of intrusive background checks

SparklingWaterI've got a formal job offer, conditional on the background checks. Because of my sector, the background checks are being detailed and intrusive. The prospective new employer wants to contact my current employer as part of these background checks. Furthermore, the recruiter even wants me to give m...

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Q: How are people coping with 24-hour PCR test requirements vs travel reservations?

Lemuel GulliverI have not travelled internationally in the last 2 years and I still don't see how it is possible. Many countries require pre-travel testing. For example, this is a direct quote: All incoming travellers aged 5 years and over must provide a negative result from a PCR or certified antigen-detectin...

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Q: How well can students learn abstract concepts through concrete examples?

BilboIn my own personal experience in teaching linear algebra, where many students encounter abstract ideas for the first time, I find that most students have trouble consolidating observations from concrete examples into understanding of abstract ideas. Very often, after giving many examples, student...

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Q: Drain Plug Crush Washer- Installed wrong size

steve layNissan Frontier 2018 4.0L. SV Parts store said I could use any washer in an assorted pack of washers labeled M14. Upon looking further into issue I found that a M12 is the correct size. I already installed the M14. It is not leaking now. Will that be OK until next oil change? Or change it now.

 
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Q: Algebraic Proof help with real numbers

ineedanewnamesLet $a$ and $b$ be distinct non-zero real numbers Show that $-\frac{4ab}{(a-b)^2} = 1 - (\frac{a+b}{a-b})^2$ It's been 15 years since I have been in high school but I came across this problem and wanted to solve it. $-\frac{4ab}{(a-b)^2} = -\frac{4ab}{a^2+b^2-2ab}$ And now I am stuck I assume I h...

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Q: If column has multiple values, copy line with each value separately

schrodigerscatcuriosityI have a file with the following format, each column separated by tabs: C1 C2 C3 a b,c d e f,g,h i j k l ... Now I need to have the number of lines according to the number of values separated by commas (if that's the case) in the 2nd column. The lines must have one of the values and ...

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Q: Install Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 ARM64 on macOS Apple Silicon (M1/Pro/Max) in Parallels

ylluminateThere's no direct download of Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 for ARM64 yet, how do you install it?

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Q: Manga where mc leaves party changes appearance and name

Sp3cTeRR8He is with a girl called the sword goddess, they are the only 2 members in their party and he is 'useless'. He gets fed up of being treated awfully and so he leaves changes his name to Flint and dyes his hair red. Then joins the guild as a lower rank and the girl he left ,who I believe was also h...

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Q: Nearly drained battery for 2 weeks - how much damage was done?

slothstronautI recently made a mistake of starting my car, and only driving it for a short trip multiple times in below freeing weather without letting the car fully warm up. This was after the car had sat for multiple weeks so it drained the battery to the point where it could crank but not start in the cold...

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Q: What frequency of cord shaking maintains the same vertical motion for a point on the cord after increasing the wave speed on the cord?

HyperDimensionalBeingI'm studying for my upcoming AP Physics 1 exam but can't figure out this problem A student shakes a horizontally-stretched cord, creating waves. The graph above shows the vertical position y as a function of time t for a point on the cord. The student then tightens the cord so that waves on it ...

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Q: What's "Q" in the airline IATA codes

Allan SpreysAccording to IATA.org, Jetstar Airline has an IATA code "JQ" https://www.iata.org/en/publications/directories/code-search/?airline.search=JQ Singapore airline is SQ: https://www.iata.org/en/publications/directories/code-search/?airline.search=SQ Neither of them have a letter "Q" in their name, so...

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Q: What type of mint in tzatziki?

AequitasMost recipes I see for tzatziki often call for dill and/or mint. However none of them ever state which kind of mint is needed, it's always just listed as mint. So which mint is best for tzatziki? Spearmint or peppermint? Obviously there are many other less common types of mints which may also wor...

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Q: Forcing macOS upgrade on mid-2011 iMac

SteelWalterI have a mid-2011 iMac with 16gb of RAM and an SSD drive installed. Currently I'm using macOS High Sierra (version 10.13.6) which is the last supported version on my Mac. Is there any way to force the installation of a newer version of macOS, Catalina for example? If the answer is yes, how it can...

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Q: Help understanding this code: public Opportunity[] relatedApp {get;set;}

Criativo can you help me with a question? I'm studying some code here and I came across this line: public Opportunity[] relatedApp {get;set;} what is happening on that line? I mean, why did the programmer use the characters [] later the code continues with: public List<Opportunity> getAppends1(){ ...

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Q: What's this foil dot near the foil stamp a Magic card?

patty c.I saw this photo of a Magic card with a shiny orb next to the oval one in the center. What's that mean?

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Q: Do patent attorneys specialize?

free lions n tigers from cagesI have 4 inventions that I want to file patents for. 2 are software related and 2 are manufactured products. My goal is to find one great lawyer that I can trust for all 4 of these patents. Is that feasible? Or do I have to work with multiple attorneys because the category of inventions is too di...

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Q: Is there any way we can draw its slope field without solving the differential equation?

yodeSome equations are difficult to solve, so perhaps we can plot a function of the equation to see roughly how the solution looks. The same is true for differential equations, where we can observe the integral curve by drawing its slope field. I have a differential equation: $$ y^2=4+4\left(\frac{dy...

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Q: When do I give commands without using the imperative tense?

QuippyI've noticed in French that sometimes to give commands, they won't use the imperative. For example in the Oxford-Hachette dictionary, they have an example sentence; « tu ne vas pas en faire un drame! » which they translate as "Don't make a scene about it!" So I was wondering if someone could expl...

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Q: Why is my 2D arm mesh twisting wierd?

BoboSo I imported a PNG of Peppa Pig as plane and edited it as a 2D mesh directly. Being a newbie, of course, I fxxked up hard. You can tell by both the weight map and render view how screwed I was. The weight distribution was going coco and the texture went wild. I assume that this is because my m...

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Q: Geoserver Keeps Stopping Service

user1602029Geoserver version : 2.20.3 I have followed the following instructions to install Geoserver on a linux server on Digital ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-can-i-install-or-use-geoserver-on-digital-ocean Everything works until I close the SSH/Putty connection. Only way to s...

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Q: My job booked my hotel room for me. Is it okay to ask the hotel receptionist to accommodate a specific room request?

newjob301I am going on a work-related trip and my company has booked the hotel for me. When checking in, I would like to ask the hotel receptionist if they can give me a “twin room”, i.e., a room with two separate, smaller beds, instead of a room with a single large bed. I checked the hotel website and I ...

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Q: Beehive in body short story

ChrisI read a short story in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the past 8 or so years that deals with a lot of body modification. The main character had surgery at some point to add wings but they have started to rot. One of the characters we meet had a beehive living in their body as w...

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Q: Inference of nonparametric tests as linear models

AntiI found some statements throughout the web that suggest that most common statistical tests can be performed as general(ized) linear models (cf. here). For a Wilcoxon test the author of the referenced source exemplarily suggests to first transform the original data into signed ranks and then to r...

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Q: Linear Regression as a descriptive model?

GeekRomeI understand that linear regression can be used as a descriptive model (also am well aware that the regression coefficients should be interpreted as correlations rather than causation). So I was having a discussion with my data science manager about measuring the impact of the usage of cash vouch...

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Q: I with superscript ma

vr8ceThere is a footnote (45-35) in (Milman's 1845) Gibbon that looks like this: See Brenkman, Dissert. Ima de Republicâ Amalphitanâ, pp.1-42, ad calcem Hist. Pandect. Florent. I have not been able to decipher the Ima. I've found a couple of books that detail many of the Latin superscript abbreviation...

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Q: \if compares text literal?

GqqnbigKnuth's tex book introduced \if<token1><token2>. I wrote the following to test it \def\tOne{abc} \def\tTwo{abc} \ifx\tOne\tTwo True \else False \fi \if\tOne{abc} True \else False \fi \if{abc}\tOne True \else False \fi The result is True False False Why did the last two cases evaluate to Fal...

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Q: Why is echo -e behaving weird in a Makefile?

Dominick PastoreI was writing a Makefile (on Ubuntu 20.04, if it's relevant) and noticed some interesting behavior with echo. Take this simple Makefile: test.txt: @echo -e 'hello\nworld' @echo -e 'hello\nworld' > test.txt When I run make, I would expect to see the same thing on stdout as in test...

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Q: Align figure and caption

JAEMTOI am novice on LaTeX, and I tried to align figure and caption. But This happens. What should I do? Especially caption Graph1 is looking bad so I want to align with the square figure. I am finding information from here, with the same problem, but I can find nothing at all like me... \documentclass...

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Q: AS CODE: FIVE BIT ⇐ U SAW/SEE

IAmLucidNonsenseAS CODE: FIVE BIT ⇐ U SAW/SEE As always, your final answer will be a single word.

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Q: The term Database Migration

krenovaI'm curious, when I first heard of the term database migration, it was unequivocally pertaining to moving entire databases from one platform to another. However, recently I had to build a server that required setting up a database myself. Then I chanced up this python library called Alembic. Appa...

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Q: How can a direct democracy, like Rojava, protect minorities from pure majoritarianism?

Ash RiversIn representative democracy, often people can use the monopoly of violence for a good cause by enforcing protection of minorities that are enshrined in constitutions that can be violently imposed. Results include Eisenhower using the national guard to desegregate schools and Justin Trudeau accept...

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Q: How should I shim furring strips to bring them on plane with an adjacent wall?

TonyWe removed some old wood panels from the wall in one of our rooms with the plan to install drywall in its place. Behind the wall we found what looks like existing furring strips (approx. 1 inch thick x 2 wide) running horizontally across the studs. The challenge we have is that attaching 1/2 inch...

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Q: How to quickly dispose the bodies of 100 million individuals?

faddllzIn a country of a typical dictatorship, the government has planted within each person an obedience chip. This chip has a kill switch that could be triggered if the government wanted a particular person to die. A long story short, a typical rebel group was intending to overthrow the government for...

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Q: Getting to Brussels Airport by train - timings

RichI need to get to Brussels Airport for a Schengen flight that leaves at 7pm on a Sunday. I'm probably going to aim for one of these trains (timings taken from Bahn.de) Arr Dep Ghent 15:13 BRU 16:35 or De Panne 13:52 BRU 16:35 ...

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Q: Bipartite version of Hamming bound (two families of codewords with large Hamming distance)?

OctopusLet $A,B\subset \{0,1\}^n$ be two subsets of binary strings of length $n$ with equal cardinality (i.e. $|A| = |B|$). Suppose they have the property that for any $a\in A$ and $b\in B$, the Hamming distance between $a$ and $b$ is at least $d$ for some $d = o(n)$. Then, what is the largest possible ...

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Q: GeoPackage, SQLite: features count but don't exist (QGIS)

MartinMapGeoPackage is my favorite geo-format but I also have some strange behaviors. One of them: I delete all records/features within a table using QGIS -> Delete Features or SQL statement but there are still features counted as you can see in the screenshot below: I also deleted all records and reset ...

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Q: How to know who bought the shares I sold

FluxIf I sold some shares through my stock broker, is there a way to find out who bought the shares I sold? Or is the transaction anonymous, where the buyer(s) and seller(s) will not be able to know the identity of the party they are trading with? I am mostly asking this out of curiosity, to understa...

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Q: Fix lightning-datatable lenght to 3 records and have a "show more" link on the bottom

robrufI have built a simple custom LWC that shows a query result in a lightning-datatable. Thing is, it shows too many records and I'd like to fix the rows to 3, plus a link on the bottom that says "Show more". This is what I am trying to achieve: This is what I currently have: HTML: <template> <h2>

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Q: Domestic US flights with expired passport

SimonMy passport will expire soon and to get a new one I must go back to my home country, which I plan to do in few months. I have a valid Visa until 2023. I would like to travel within the US before going back to my home country, but my only US ID would be the expired passport (I don't have a US driv...

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Q: Sailing an age-of-sail sloop with 2-man crew

JANXOLFor writing a story, I'm trying to figure out if 2 people could crew an age-of-sail (15th/16th-19th century) sloop and sail it effectively. Various sources give various crew numbers for various types of vessels and estimating where the ship in question falls into these measurements appears to be ...

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Q: Dystopian short story read in US high school: boy and man travel through ancient ruins which are actually our modern-day civilisation

IreneGamineI can't remember if the boy and the man are father and son or perhaps teacher and student. I seem to remember that the boy is in training to be a kind of priest, and that this is why he is being shown these ancient relics. They walk among the artefacts of the 'ancient ones', seeing things like ta...

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Q: tikz-cd: an extra background color not conforming to the page color

JinwenConsider the following example, you can see that there is a white background behind the text label, which is not consistent to the page color. Is there any way to fix this behavior? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz-cd} \pagecolor{yellow} \begin{document} \[ \begin{tikzcd} X &

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Q: Testing interaction with proprietary software without a license

f222First a bit of context: My company develops a software and middlewares to make our software interacts with other software. One of a client has a proprietary software we should interact with, he gave us the .h/hpp and the .def file which are needed for the interaction. He has some dlls that are us...

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Q: How to say, "are you free to meet sometime soon" in a friendly and informal way?

changesquare es-tu libre de te rencontrer un jour ou l'autre ? sounds simply wrong, stiff or somehow 'unfrench' to me... In this context, I would be meeting a friend for a regularly occurring chat over coffee.

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Q: How to prevent dizziness when thermalling in the back seat?

SanchisesI recently started learning to fly sailplanes. I am usually quite resistant against airsickness, both when flying commercially as well as flying in the front seat of a sailplane (either when the instructor is thermalling or when I do it myself). However, I recently took a longer flight as a passe...

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Q: Meaningfully compare target vs observed TPR & FPR

alexSuppose I have a binary classifier $f$ which acts on an input $x$. Given a threshold $t$, the predicted binary output is defined as: $$ \widehat{y} = \begin{cases} 1, & f(x) \geq t \\ 0, & f(x) < t \end{cases} $$ I then compute the $TPR$ (true positive rate) and $FPR$ (false positive rate...

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Q: Vectors perpendicular to a Bezier curve path

FoadBasically, I want to draw this: to represent some pressure distribution over a surface. I have tried this video tutorial and this page, but this is what I get: and here are my "Pattern Along Path" settings: I would appreciate it if you coul...

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Q: Sequence of integers not the sum of powers of earlier terms

ATOStarting with 1, output the sequence of integers which cannot be represented as the sum of powers of earlier terms. Each previous term can be used at most once, and the exponents must be non-negative integers. This sequence starts: 1, 2, 6, 12, 25, 85, 194, 590, 1695, 4879, 19077, 83994, 167988 ...

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Q: How can I add different ticks on both sides of color bar?

valar morghulisBarLegend[{{Blue, White, Red}, {0, 4}}, Ticks -> {{0, "0"}, {2, "1e-2"}, {4, "2e-2"}}, LegendLayout -> "Column", Charting`TickSide -> Right] How can I add different ticks on the left side to get something like this

CS
CS
1
Q: Would it make sense to use an array of linked lists for a Priority Queue, given a fixed number of priorities?

user4779From what I can gather priority queues are typically implemented with heaps. If I have a small fixed number of priorities (such as 4), wouldn't a small array where each index represents the priority, and indexes into the associated linked list at that priority, be a more efficient implementation ...

17:53
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Q: Sentence with "lui rester"?

silphMy questions are about the bolded sentence below1. (The earlier sentences are there to give context) : Assise sur le coin du lit, dans la lumière de la lune filtrant entre les persiennes, son regard ahuri planté dans le mien, Denise tenait ses cheveux dans ses mains. Loin de sa tête. Ne lui rest...

DBA
DBA
18:31
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Q: Trying to get a large amount of data (column type is "text") from an MS SQL Server

BETSCHI want to get like 300MB of data (text column) out of an MS SQL Server, but with the library I'm using I'm getting an out-of-memory exception as soon as I try to access the field. Unfortunately, I'm bound to that library and cannot switch to something else. I've tried getting chunks using SUBSTRI...

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Q: Unable to verify Bitcoin 23.0 release due to developer keys being untrusted/uncertified

parkamarkI have precisely followed the instructions for attempting to verify the latest 23.0 release of bitcoind on Linux, available here: https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/ I have gpg imported all the keys defined here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/master/contrib/builder-keys/keys....

18:48
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Q: How can I create this circular non symmetrical object?

PaulSince there was some confusion over what I was asking yesterday, here is another try. Can someone tell me how to create the object seen below? I have marked the object I am interested in: Please note that the inner loop of the object is circular.

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Q: Understanding how Superposition work/is used

GlobyFrom what I understood, quantum programming can solve some algorithm exponentially faster. Thanks to the superposition, unlike a classic bit, which can be either 0 or 1, a qubit can be both 0 and 1. Does that mean we can apply an algorithm for all bits possibly in one shot? Example: We have 2 qub...

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Q: Who are all the characters who have called themselves The Wasp?

AncientSwordRageWho are all the characters who've used the super hero persona of 'The Wasp' in the 616 version of the comics? From what I can see on marvel.fandom.com, this was just Janet Van Dyne, and her step-daughter Nadia as well. But I know lots of people have used the alias Ant-Man, so it seemed likely to ...

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Q: How does a Christian reject another's theology without rejecting their faith?

Jalog_the_MartianI, an "evangelical" "social justice" "protestant" have many theological disagreements with many of my brothers and sisters in Christ. For example, I reject a portion of the Catholic church's teachings. I also can't entirely agree with any church that denies our call to social justice and evangeli...

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Q: Metallicity in gravitational wave astronomy

Junaid IhsanMetallicity relates to the quantity of elements in an object that are heavier than hydrogen and helium. I often see this terminology in recent studies of gravitational waves such as this paper. If I want to study the formation of stars or any other stellar remnants such as (neutron star black hol...

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Q: Not publish item after moving its workflow state through PowerShell script

NishaI am moving workflow state through Powershell script to approved state. However, it is not publishing that item in the web database. Code:- $item.Editing.BeginEdit() $item.__Workflow=$workflowId $item."__Workflow state"=$workflowStateId $item."__Default Workflow"=$workflowId $item.Editing.EndEdit...

Law
Law
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Q: If a man is raped and the woman insists on carrying the child to term, is the man still responsible for child support?

AllureInspired by Is it true that men are forced to pay child support for children they didn't consent to have? Let's say Alice rapes Bob and becomes pregnant. She then carries the child to term, against Bob's wishes. Can she then compel Bob to pay child support? Compared to the linked question, here B...

19:26
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Q: what's the role of Ebmaj7 on this Ebmaj7 D7#9 Gm9 progression?

Juan LuisI'm trying to understand this chord progression: Ebmaj7 D7#9 Gm9 Ebmaj7 F#dim7 Gm9 Bb13 I know from D7#9 to Gm9, that's a V-i. But where's the Ebmaj7 coming from? Does it come from the relative major of Gm (Ebmaj7 is the 4th degree of Bb)? Which role does F#dim7 play here as well?

19:45
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Q: Why is the output voltage in my second op amp not the same as for the first op amp?

kandI saw this tutorial on a website. From that, I designed these circuits: In my circuits the voltage source is 12 volts. The tutorial says the output gain should be 2. In my second circuit the gain is 2 but in the first one that is designed with transistors it does not give me 24 volts like the s...

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Q: Change Mac terminal name before the @

c.jungcIn my terminal app, it shows (base) jeffsungs@Sung-Macbook-Air ~ % on every row. I know that Sung-Macbook-Air is the localhostname, and how to change it. But how about the writings before the @ (in this case is jeffsungs), what is its name and how to change it?

19:58
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Q: Where are historical research papers stored?

SurobakiI have been reading some historical papers in the field of computer science, economics and game theory. I have noticed that some of the really old ones such as Equilibrium points in n-person games by John Nash (1949) accessed from PNAS has minor inconsistencies and flecks in the ink, indicating i...

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Q: Novel where the protagonist knows he will have his memory about a magical world erased and write everything down beforehand

charon25I recently remembered a story I read when I was younger about a boy discovering a magical world (maybe even situated in our own) but his memory gets erased because humans are not allowed to know about it. Knowing this, he writes everything down before and then rediscover his notes and remember (o...

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Q: Am I racist for using a stereotype?

throwaway accountOne of my main characters' family is Asian (specifically Korean-American). The oldest sister, Chelsea, is a child prodigy. When her toxic and shitty parents found out, they exploited the hell out of it, bragging about her, making sure she got into the best possible college. She was their golden ...

20:36
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Q: Alternatives to raising eyebrows to show surprise

echo3I’m trying to reduce the number of clichés in my manuscript, and I’ve found 11 instances of characters raising their eyebrows. A couple I don’t mind, but it feels like too many. What other actions can be used to indicate “mild surprise”?

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Q: How to check if points lie within a circle

K_TheyersSo we have two graphs overlapping with the Show[] function, one is a network of connected points, and the other displays three circles over the top of the points. I'm trying to check which points lie within the circles, and put them into separate lists. I first tried to use the distance equation,...

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Q: What is the Literal Translation of "vestigio suo" in Suetonius' "Divus Augustus 28.2"?

tonyIn Suetonius' "Div. Aug. 28.2": "...et moriens ut feram mecum spem mansura in vestigio suo fundamenta rei publicae quae iecero." = "...and in dying I will carry the hope with me, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government will stand firm and stable." (Perseus: Alexander T...

TeX
TeX
2
Q: How can I resize a table and put them side by side?

Laura MartinsI want to put 3 tables side by side but they are to big for me to use \quad, and I don't know how to resize it so it cant fit. Tried \quad, and trying to make the font smaller with \small before \begin{tabular}, but can't use \small without \begin{table} and couldn't use \quad with \begin{table}....

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Q: Why can an anonymous temporary exception be bound to a reference at a catch site

P45 ImminentConsider #include <iostream> struct Foo{}; int main(){ try { throw Foo(); } catch (Foo& e){ std::cout << "Caught"; } } The output is Caught, but why? I would have thought that the catch should have been const Foo&. What am I forgetting?

Law
Law
1
Q: Verbose sustain/overrule objection in Depp's case

George MenoutisMy knowledge of law is shallow and only comes from entertainment sources, mainly movies. I was watching some moments of Johny Depp's trial. I noticed that, when an objection is made, the judge responds: "I will sustain/overrule the objection". Isn't that a bit verbose? In movies, I only hear "Sus...

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Q: Why are (many) proofs difficult in general?

A. LavieThis is not a complaint about my proofs course being difficult, or how I can learn to prove things better, as all other questions of this flavour on Google seem to be. I am asking in a purely philosophical sense (but still only with regards to mathematics; that's why I deemed this question most a...

RPG
RPG
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Q: How can my group move on from believing there is a traitor in their midst when there isn't?

BlueMoon93My group is playing Curse of Strahd and believe there is a traitor among them when there isn't. What RaW mechanics are there for them to find out who (if anyone) is leaking secrets to the Dark Lord or other mechanics so they can move on from this self-imposed fear? My goal is for my players to fi...

21:29
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Q: Determining if a OneDrive file is synced locally via a terminal

Callum MunnIs there any way to check if a OneDrive file is saved locally via a terminal in Windows? I'd like to automatically run a check of all data files associated with a project without the user having to ensure all files are saved locally by selecting Always keep on this device in the OneDrive sync se...

TeX
TeX
21:40
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Q: Defining command similar to AtBeginDocument

Michael FraimanI want to define command \AfterAtBeginDocument that acts similar to \AtBeginDocument: collects code and then puts it right after what AtBeginDocument produces. So, the code \AfterAtBeginDocument{ 2 } \AtBeginDocument{ 1 } \begin{document} 3 \end{document} should produce 123 T...

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Q: "Wolstenholme prime" Related question.

Subhadip Debsharma$Q$. If $p$ is an odd prime, show that $$ \left(\begin{array}{c} 2 p-1 \\ p-1 \end{array}\right) \equiv 1 \bmod p^{2} $$ My approach Here, $$ \begin{array}{l} \left(\begin{array}{c} 2 p-1 \\ p-1 \end{array}\right)=\frac{(2 p-1) !}{(p-1) !(2 p-1-p+1) !} \\ =\frac{(2 p-1) !}{(p-1) !(p) !} \end{arra...

21:58
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Q: Tick labels are chopped in PolarPlot output

dekeesWhen I enter the following code: PolarPlot[1, {t, -Pi, Pi}, PolarAxes -> {True, False}, PolarTicks -> {"Degrees", Automatic}, PolarGridLines -> {True, False}] Mathematica generates the following output: It is obvious that some labels for PolarTicks are outside plot range and therefore not full...

CS
CS
1
Q: Problems casting a uint8_t array to a struct

OysteinI'm having problems casting an array of uint8_t to a struct in C using a Silicon Labs MCU (EFM32GG11B120F2048GQ64). The byte array is the received data from a UART, and I want to cast it to a struct representing the message structure. When casting the array to the struct, report_type (uint8_t) i...

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Q: Travel to Italy from the UK - Is the NHS COVID Pass sufficient to fulfil the Green Pass requirements?

nopassport1I will be traveling to Rome, Italy, from the UK, within the next few days and thought to check the Foreign Advice page for Italy. https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/italy/coronavirus It states that Italy currently use a 'Green Pass' system, whereby citizens can prove their vaccination/ reco...

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Q: DNS - Unbound - How to provide different IP for a server based on client network

iamsumeshWe have an intranet DNS server using Unbound in FreeBSD. We have another file server with multiple network IP, First one is 10.10.10.10 and Second one in 192.168.10.10. Is there any way that DNS server provide different IP for this file server based on the client network? Eg: For the user from 1...

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Q: How to do a release upgrade using private deb repositories?

fbindelWe have Ubuntu servers (20.04 LTS) without Internet connection. In order to get new apt packages, we have a JFrog Artifactory server with Internet access and connection to our Ubuntu servers mirroring archive.ubuntu.com for specific requests. The sources.list file is changed accordingly. This wor...

CS
CS
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Q: Statements on reasons to vote against US H. R. 6930, a bill to confiscate assets from sanctioned Russian oligarchs & use the funds to support Ukraine

Timur ShtatlandWhat are the reasons that 8 US Representatives holding very different political views voted against US H. R. 6930, a bill to confiscate assets from sanctioned Russian oligarchs and use the funds to support Ukraine? I am looking for official statements or fact-based analysis, no opinions or specul...

ELL
ELL
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Q: What is the meaning of "Clothes and all" in this passage?

EtemonIt is a part of a fiction book that I was reading: I'll return to Max's backyard, I told myself. And I'll jump into the pool. Clothes and all. I'll dive down... swim underwater... through the portal... swim back to my world. What is the meaning of "Clothes and all" here? I haven't seen this kin...

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Q: Are there any available tools to implement Jellium models?

MauricioI want to solve a Jellium-DFT like problem. Does any of the self-consistent/DFT software packages available allow to solve for the case of a Jellium configuration (no lattice)? If not I would like to find a hand-on solution to a similar problem. I want to understand how to apply Kohn-Sham equatio...

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Q: Next step in this Slitherlink puzzle?

justhalfI am playing this Slitherlink app on Android, and get stuck on this puzzle at the following state: I made a lot of progress on the right side, but after this I couldn't find anything that I can do, without potentially guessing a very long chain. Can anyone help me reason the next logical step fr...

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Q: Logistic Regression on multiple classes (Shouldn't it be only on binary?)

ProcolHarumI'm a bit confused with the usage of logistic regression for multi-class classification. My understanding is that a logistic regression is dichotomous (two possible classes), so in the example of the Iris sepal/petal there are 3 Species: 1. *setosa*, 2. *versicolor* and 3. *virginca* If we run...

CS
CS
2
Q: Why do people add their initials to the names of tailor-made functions added to their config file?

Pedro DelfinoIs it a namespace trick to prevent future problems? I noticed a pattern in the Emacs community. When people create some tailor made function and insert it on their init files, they use a convention on the name prefixing it with their initials. For instance, take a look on this question that I pre...

DIY
DIY
1
Q: Best way to clean up nails after demolition?

Tom AI have a small wooden shed in my back yard that needs to be torn down, and for the most part, I can handle it fine. However, I have one concern about the cleanup afterwards: how can I make sure the nails get cleaned up thoroughly so my kids and pets don't step on them? I've thought of a magnet ...

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Q: How i make such driver?

Norbert FarkasHow do I make a "driver" that works like this: If I move object1 +X toward, then object 2 +X going towards , but if I move object1 -X toward, also object2 +X going towards. Thanks in advance for the answers! (Sorry in advance for my English)

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Q: Why are spoiler panels 5 and 10 locked in high speed flight on the B777?

JoriddlesFrom the Boeing 777 FCOM: Spoiler panels are used as speedbrakes to increase drag and reduce lift, both in flight and on the ground. The spoilers also supplement roll control in response to control wheel commands. Spoiler panels 5 and 10 are locked out during cruise, depending on altitude and ai...

23:05
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Q: Changing the PHP memory limit in settings.php is not reflected in phpinfo()

james6848Of the various methods to increase the PHP memory limit, the only one I can use for a certain site is ini_set('memory_limit', 'XXXM'); in settings.php. This value does not appear to change the memory_limit shown in phpinfo(). However, I know it is actually being modified because the site breaks w...

2
Q: Weakness in Maximize

user64494Solving a minimization problem in version 13 on Windows 10, I obtain Maximize[{Sin[x + Sin[x]] + Sin[x - Sin[x]] + (Pi/2 - 2)*Sin[Sin[x]], x >= 0 && x < 2*Pi}, x]//FullSimplify {2 Cos[Sin[Root[{Pi Cos[Sin[#]] - 4 Sin[Sin[#]] Sin[#]& , 0.9033391107665128473590217051048716426220.300104378161908...

TeX
TeX
23:21
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Q: How to change "." to \cdot automatically

Nam Tran LeBy the David Carlisle's answer, Automatically use \cdot We can input *, TeX turns * into \cdot command. How can I change * by ".". \documentclass{article} \mathcode`\*="8000 {\catcode`\*\active\gdef*{\cdot}} \begin{document} $e=m*c*c$ is equiliant to $e=m\cdot c\cdot c$. I want to type $e=m.c.c$...

DIY
DIY
1
Q: Does NEC require a refrigerator outlet within six feet of a sink to be protected by GFCI?

BobHatcherI'm trying to find out if an outlet for a refrigerator within six feet of the sink requires GFCI outlet. I read somewhere that 210.8 (A) (7) Sinks - where receptacles are installed within (6 ft) of the outside edge of the sink. (GFCI is required) But I read in a thread here that it only applies ...

23:47
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Q: Lava overgrown by plants

Anton HinkelThe problem: I want to have a volcanic island with an everlasting lava outflow completely overgrown by (jungle) plants. It therefore follows that plants should also grow above the lava. I know that volcanic ash is very fertile, so the plants can grow well. However, I see the heat of the lava as a...


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