It appears I am missing (yet) another tool: a caliper. It simply makes no sense to haul a bike to the LBS to measure a seat tube. How important is a caliper for a home-based bike workshop? There is far less variability in handlebars, and handlebar dimensions are anyway more frequently documented ...

Is it possible to automatically convert all used units in a document to one of the 7 SI units? Where I for example have \unit{\pascal}, I would like to have it rendered as \unit{\newton\per\square\meter}, without needing to make the adjustments everywhere.

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I came across a question wherein I was asked to find out where all the function $\left|x^2 - 5x- 6\right|$ is differentiable. I plotted the graph of the function and I was able to find out that the above function isn't differentiable at $2$ and $3$. Now without plotting the graph of the same, how...

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I'm new to this community and also to Java programming! I recently picked up "Head First Java" and I did my Battleship project. If you could kindly, give me feedback on the code? import java.util.Scanner; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { int location; Ba...

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So I have a Netgear DGND3800b router (n600) connected with 1.5m cat5e rj45 from a 1 gbit fiber transciever to the fiber/cable port on the router, for some reason I am unable get a speed faster than 280/300. Over LAN (ethernet) I am able to get 1 Gbit between computers. Connecting the computer di...

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Here's another cryptic that I thought would be fun to make (and hopefully solve). Rachel and Andrew Lewdin are short with Norse God riddler (4, 6) Enjoy!

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How common is knowledge about the Draconic Prophecy in Khorvaire for normal people / the police / the secret service / monarchs? Who does know it exists, who does know what it means (releasing evil due to certain actions at certain times) and who does know more specifics about it? For example: We...

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Context: I recently transcribed a Piano solo piece in MuseScore 4. It was based on a different person's transcription that used ♩ = 70 as tempo marking. My transcription initially used the same tempo. However now I think the tempo should actually be ♩ = 140, so I used MuseScore's feature "Paste w...

This material from ROHM explains the input filter design for a DC/DC converter. The filter circuit is given below. I understood the design of Lf, Cf2, Cd and Rd. If you see the 3rd page (design of input filter,) they explain the design of Cf1. You can see that they are directly selecting a value...

How does the heading indicator displayed on the PFD of the G1000 work? A conventional cockpit uses a magnetic compass to correct the heading indicator. However, I don't know if the heading indicator on the monitor of the G1000 detects and measures the magnetism itself and displays it on the monit...

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I am in the middle of a very large project using LaTeX (which means it would not be OK to switch to XeTeX or LuaTeX), and I'm starting to run into issues with hyphenation. The entire thing (some 3,000 pages) is written in ecclesiastical Latin. I understand that I can make a list of words that are...

There is an arrow on the following bicycle lane sign. What does it mean? Thank you!

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I'm creating a sub-race of extremely short and technologically advanced humans in my book. These humans, which are dubbed 'faeren' or 'faeries' have created backpacks that have insect wings attached to them, which allow them to hover or fly in the air. Could it be scientifically possible for a hu...

I have some sheet music for vocal + piano accompaniment where I want to notate that the vocalist should feel out the rhythms and phrases and sing expressively while the pianist maintains a steady tempo. I'm concerned marking it simply "rubato" might be misleading and the pianist may think they're...

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I would like to buy a carbon wheelset for my Cannondal CAAD4 R800. I'm using Ultegra R8000 rim brakes. According to specs, the brakes can accommodate a rim with max. 28 mm width. Am I right to assume that 28 mm refers to the outer width of the rim? I would like to buy Zipp 303 Firecrest wheels. T...

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I am currently studying integral domains and see that if $ab = ac$ and $a \neq 0$, then we have $b = c$. I was wondering whether the same is true for three nonzero subsets $I, J, K$ of an integral domain $R$, namely, if $I, J, K$ be three nonzero subsets of an integral domain $R$ such that none o...

We had money in a BlockFi account, which went bankrupt at the end of 2022. How can we deduct that loss on our 2022 tax return?

I have been transposing some voice + piano accompaniment music originally written for a mezzo-soprano or alto into a key for a tenor down (usually by a third or a fourth) and have found the resulting piano sheet music to look rather odd. I don't know how to play piano, but I imagine taking sheet ...

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All functions $f(x):\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ can be decomposed into an even and an odd part $f(x)=E(x)+O(x)$. The proof I see here, and on Wikipedia requires $2$ to have an inverse, however I want to know if this property is true of functions in a ring. For a ring $R$ for every function $f(x):R\t...

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Texts are listed below for reference. Acts written in Greek and the Septuagint (LXX) are word for word the same but is this enough evidence to say the Ethiopian read from the LXX. Phillip probably could read both. The Ethiopian probably could read Greek, but the Ethiopian language was a semiti...

I mean, as opposed to merely cross-examining them in the course of the opposing side’s presentation of their case. A closely related question asks of calling the defendant itself, though not its witnesses.

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I'm rewiring part of my house to get rid of knob and tube. I found a weird situation: A light socket in a stairwell has two wires: incoming hot and outgoing hot to upper switch. Upper switch has 3 wires: incoming hot from light, outgoing two travelers. Lower switch has 3 wires: 2 incoming travel...

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In a New Hampshire "driving law test" that I have, there is a question "Under what circumstance is it a crime if a car owner allows someone other than themself to drive their car?" I could not find out the answer to this question. What is the relevant statute if any?

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Is it possible to achieve multiple lines of equations, where the equation is centered, but text annotations on the right has no influence on the centering? Instead of: E = mc^2 Famous Equation by Einstein a^2 + b^2 = c^2 Pythagoras Have it be something similar to: E ...

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Why is непричемыш word written with не, despite the fact that, ни при чем always written with ни?

I have taken hourly-based wind power data, by taking its periodogram after making it stationary in R. It gives me four seasonal patterns at periods of 24, 12, 08, and 06, as shown in the figure below. Is it possible to have sub-hourly seasonality in my wind power data? The data is given as follow...

I have two solar systems in my world that I'm not sure would be stable. I'm not concerned about whether they could evolve naturally (they didn't), just whether they would be stable if set running. The first would be if there were two earth-like planets in the same orbit at each other's L4 and L5 ...

My father owned GE stock and he died in November. In late November, for my appointment with the probate court, I looked up the closing stock price for the day he died. Unfortunately I downloaded the data instead of printing. Now I am working on the inventory for the court and need to provide the ...

Let $\triangle ABC$ have a right or obtuse angle at $\angle A$. Prove that any other triangle with the same $\angle A$ and longer sides $B,C$ will have a longer side opposite $A$. My proof is below. I request verification, critique, or feedback. Note that this statement is less obvious than it ...

I tried looking for my specific question, but I only found partially related questions here, here, and here. I think my question is much simpler than what was asked and answered in these queries. I'm working through Statistical Rethinking by McElreath and there is a portion where they explain gri...

I have a derivation with text annotation where the annotation needs to be flush to the left and the first equals sign in the equations are all centered. This is the code I am using. In principle it should work but I can't figure out the issue. Ampersands are at the end of the line and ampersands ...

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I've seen it spelled "Hierba" most of the time; occasionally spelled "Yerba".

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Is there any profound explanation why God created sleep for humans? Are there animals that don't sleep and rest by shutting down one hemisphere of the brain at a time, because that mechanism wouldn't be appropriate for us? There is also the question of the danger that sleep provides, something or...

For each real $a>0$, let $x_a$ denote the positive root $x$ of the polynomial $x^5-3x-a$. Is the function $(0,\infty)\ni a\mapsto x_a$ elementary? I am using this definition of elementary functions, except for the algebraic functions mentioned there.

I was told (correctly) that the ability to forecast something is not the same as understanding it. I was also told that inflation is pretty well understood by macroeconomists nowadays. How do macroeconomists assess how good/accurate their understanding/model of inflation is? (I am guessing not by...

I'm using Vim for a project that has a lot of pages per chapter, and Vim is a little bit slow. I want to create a local '.vimrc' file for this project with only the plugins I need, and I'm trying to understand when to use the "set exrc" option and local '.vimrc' files in Vim, and how to manage pl...

How can I create a custom number format in Google Sheets that displays any single-digit number with a decimal point and one number after the decimal point, and any two or more digit number with no decimal point? The format should apply to both positive and negative numbers. I tried chat gpt and i...

I have a few NI USB-6000 DAQs with a 3.5mm pluggable screw terminal. I want to used them in battery prototyping so I'll need to build a few unity gain differential opamps for cell voltage monitoring among other circuits. I'd like to have my PCB attach directly to the side of the DAQ. I've found t...

Can you please tell me what kind of filter is used on this image? Was this photo taken in black and white and then pinkish? And what is the easiest way to do this? (considering any program, like Photoshop)

I have this code that tries to check whether a lobbed grenade will head toward a teammate: var heading = tmPosition - grenadePos; var distance = heading.magnitude; var normalizedDir = heading / distance; if (Vector3.Dot(heading, (grenadePos + grenadeVelocity)) < 1.05f && Vector3....

What is a hole? and how should we describe it to study it properly? Many textbooks refer to it as an empty state that carries a positive charge, but how an empty state carry a positive charge? and other textbooks refer to it an physical particle with positive charge and positive effective mass, b...

I have certified managed package which designed for enterprise/unlimited editions. I think that some of the package features won't work properly in professional edition but I would like to verify it and then try to enhance those features to work also in professional. Any recommended options how t...

Let $H \colon S^3 \to S^2$ be the Hopf map and let $\gamma$ be a curve on $S^2$. Then $H^{-1}(\gamma)$ is called the Hopf cylinder or the Hopf torus when $\gamma$ is closed, with profile curve $\gamma$. When $\gamma$ is a circle on $S^2$, the stereographic projection of the corresponding Hopf tor...

Hi I'm building a circuit and I'm building a P-MOS based reverse polarity protection circuit. The input requirements are as follows. It needs to carry 8-40 V input voltage to the output and it needs reverse polarity protection up to -40 V. I predict that the system consumes a maximum of 8.8 W of ...

I want to have 2 nodes that use the same texture, but are interpreting it differently (for example "no alpha" vs "premultiplied"). However, there doesn't seem to be any way to do that. All parameters stay the same between the texture nodes, no matter what I try (tried even packing the texture and...

A web site reads : The difference between notes and chords is that a note is a single pitch (for example C). ... This is important in music theory because a note will have no characteristic when played on its own. However, when a chord is formed from a group of notes then this will form a certain...

today I tried getting windows 11 to run on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B using Tiny 11. After I downloaded Tiny 11, I downloaded and ran the Raspberry imager from www.worproject.com and put it on a micro-SD card. I put the card in the Raspberry Pi and boot it up. It took around 10 minutes but eventual...

For tuples $(a_i)_{i=1}^n$ and $(b_i)_{i=1}^n$ such that $b_1\le b_2\le\cdots\le b_n$ and $\sum_{i=1}^k a_i\le \sum_{i=1}^k b_i$. Is it true that $\sum_{i=1}^nf(a_i)\le \sum_{i=1}^nf(b_i)$ for an increasing and concave $f:R\rightarrow R$? Note: We have neither $a_1\le a_2\le \cdots \le a_n$ nor $...

In one of the questions in my math textbook, I was given this equation and told that passes through (4,4) and (-4,8) $$(y−k)^2=−4(x−h)$$ I understand this graph is a sideways parabola and the vertex is (h,k) and that I need to make two equations to solve for h and k I was able to create the equat...

I watched the "Tales from the Crypt" movie, and the story of the blind people taking revenge on the evil asylum administrator was shockingly familiar. I tried to some other similar movie, and I only found this answer. Additionally, I was quite sure it must have been some episode from "Twilight zone"

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Is tolerance for other cultures (including religions) and peoples an essential trait of Western Humanism (by Western Humanism I mean here: Renaissance Humanism and Enlightenment humanism). By tolerance for other cultures (including religions), I mean an idea embodied in those quotations: Everyon...

Many years ago a friend of mine solved a product package problem for me. Now I am struggling to recreate the notation. The problem was there were product bundles including plane, hotel and car rental from alternative providers. Let say Airlines1 is a, Hotel1 is b, Rental1 is c, Airlines2 is d, Ho...

I've been playing Hogwarts Legacy for like a month, and haven't completed the game, but considering the fact that there is so much conversation options that I can sound like good or evil, and that I can choose not to learn unforgivable curse, and the fact that Sebastian Sallow's (friend of player...

I'm trying to book the Eurostar from London to Paris. It says the trip takes around 2hrs 30mins. But the departure time and arrival times differ by about 3hrs 30mins. Where did my hour go?

Out of apparently nowhere, I now find that the Firefox app (running as a snap on Ubuntu) is very distorted when launched. And it experiences further strangeness (like imprints of previous content) as I proceed to use it. Aside from the regular system updates, I haven't made any config changes rec...

The Declaration of Independence was used as an instrument to approach foreign countries and interact on the world stage, prior to winning the Revolutionary War. Therefore, it was the ground on which the Confederation established loans, which were used to fund the war. As such, should it not be as...

I already knew the adjective 清潔 that means "clean, hygienic", but I recently came across the word 衛生的 which also means "hygienic" and I don't understand in what situations should I use each of them. So far, I've come across an entry in HiNative that states that 衛生 is a noun while 清潔 is a Na-adje...

I wonder who first suggested and defined weak stationarity, and which paper it is. It seems that many paper using it as given, but I'm just curious of how it is defined and proved, and the discussions over the definition.

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It is from a nineteenth-century short story: Dans le fond le plus reculé d'une province reculée de la France vivait un homme nommé Augur. Son père, honnête fermier, avait vu prospérer sa famille non moins que ses affaires ; et neuf enfants, tous enchantés de vivre, lui promettaient, avec une pos...

Take the functional equation $$f(x+y)=f(x)f(y).$$ This is a variation on the Cauchy equation, and we know that it has a unique continuous solution over the real numbers $$f(x)=e^{\alpha x}.$$ We then look at the pair of equations $$u(x+y)=u(x)u(y)-v(x)v(y),$$ $$v(x+y)=v(x)u(y)+u(x)v(y).$$ Moving ...

How do smart contracts established trusts? Is it more of a social thing - ie a lot people know that this contract from this protocol has this address, or is there a more trustless, way where someone can confirm the authenticity of a smart contracts? I mean there are some popular smart contracts i...

I have a script that works fine, but runs in series. I would like to have the script take each line from a text file and run/spawn that line in a subshell and then move onto the next line and so on. I need the subshell for two reasons. Firstly, to have the job run in parallel rather than serially...

I tried to install ubuntu 22.04 from the windows store but I get the following error: Please enable the Virtual Machine Platform Windows feature and ensure virtualization is enabled in the BIOS. For information please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2-install Press any key to continue... however both th...

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I use the following code to display a Hasse diagram of a graph. g = Graph[{1, 2, 3, 4}, {1 -> 2, 1 -> 4, 2 -> 3}, VertexLabels -> Thread[{1, 2, 3, 4} -> {1, 2, 3, 4}], VertexWeight -> {1, 2, 3, 4}, ImageSize -> {240, 240}]; SetProperty[g, VertexLabels -> {v_ :> Placed[{Style[Pr...

I have a specific example, but while I was thinking of how to do it, I had this realization. I, as a DM, always tell my players what checks to make for every interaction, usually resulting in a conversation like this: Player: "I want to follow the tracks." Me (DM): "Okay, give me a survival check."...

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In R I want to allocate projects to people based on their rank preferences but also their performance. Say I have 5 projects and 3 people. In this case, all three people want project A because it's their top preference but Anna should get it because she has the best performance score. Now she's o...

please tell me how you can get such a model with the possibility of setting different sizes of hexagons and, accordingly, their number. I've already figured out how to create a hexagonal sphere using a Tissue Addon and a grid modifier. The question is whether it is now possible to get a model as...

I am writing a mathematical paper where I (re-)state a well-known theorem, followed by several corollaries. One of these corollaries is my main result and, naturally, it is somewhat lost in the text, while I would like it to stand out to the readers without them reading through all the running te...

Opening the /Applications folder from Finder I can see it contains the ootb Apple app TextEdit.app. Yet running ls -alh /Applications from a terminal does not list the TextEdit.app. Dragging TextEdit.app from Finder into the terminal inserts a path of /System/Applications/TextEdit.app (on MacOS V...

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I am trying to compute the YTM of the following Zero-Coupon Bond: The issue date was 13-01-2022 and the maturity date was 14-01-2023. For me, it seems strange that the price remains "almost constant" when expiration approaches, I expect to tend to 100. Also, I've manually computed the YTM using ...

I recently used Dante to obtain a WGS and have downloaded several files produced during this process. There is a file that ends '.vcf' which I did think was a VCF file but I'm not sure now after a previous question. Part of that file is included below. Its about 1.1GB in size. It appears to me to...

I have seen saying such as "invest in credit/be long credit", what does it actually mean? For example, I can buy high yield etf which is essentially a basket of low rated corporate bonds. When credit worsens, i.e the probability of default goes up the etf(following the bonds it holds) will go dow...

According to Crystal Field theory(CFT), complexes with stronger ligands must absorb light with higher frequency hence would transmit corresponding complementary colour. The colour of $(\ce{[Ni(H2O)2(en)2]^2+})$ blue - purple and colour of $(\ce{[Ni(H2O)6]^2+})$ is green, whereas the colour of $...

What is the function of the pipe referred to as "Venting Pipe" in the picture and how is it different from the exhaust pipe? The two photos you see in the picture are the "Venting Pipe" and "Exhaust Pipe" of the DA40NG aircraft, respectively. The exhaust pipe is in the lower right part of the cow...

The Circle of the Shepherd druid's Spirit Totem feature can summon a spirit that grants certain benefits. One of the options it can summon is the Bear Spirit (XGtE, p. 23; emphasis mine): The bear spirit grants you and your allies its might and endurance. Each creature of your choice in the aura...

Let $M$ be a connected and simply connected compact Riemannian manifold (without boundaries). Fix a point $p\in M$. The diameter set $D_p$ of $p$ is the set of points that maximize the distance from $p$, i.e., $D_p=\lbrace q : d(p,q)=\max_r d(p,r)\rbrace$. The cut locus $C_p$ is the set of points...

What I am trying to do is first take an image and encode it into quantum states, for this I have taken an image from the MNIST dataset and then reshaped it to (4,4) and now I wrote the following circuit to prepare quantum states for it. dev=qml.device("default.qubit",wires=4) @qml.qnode(dev) def...

I have a visa that starts on March 15th and my flight arrives on the 14th at 11:30 PM. Would I be allowed to board the plane, as I am certain I will not be going through the immigration procedures until after 12:00 and it is already the 15th?

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On the hilltop in the field near my house, there lives a coven of witches. Or more accurately, there is a coven of witches living in a pocket of the Faerie Realm which has recently become attached to the hilltop by my house. By the rules of the Faerie Court, their home must be hidden using both v...

when a steady current is set up in an inductor, it has some energy associated with it due to the magnetic field set up. it uses this energy to resist changes in current .then how does an inductor which is disconnected from any cell and has no current through it, hence no energy in it, resist chan...

Is there an objective standard for power measurement? I've been confused. My background is not in EE, but I've been interested in the ways to measure power. I've learned that there are many different designs. But then I wondered, does some power measurement implement an objective standard? Possib...

A COVID test has an accuracy of 99% for sick person (meaning a sick person will get a COVID+ result with a chance of 99%) and an accuracy of 93% for non-sick person (meaning a non-sick person will get a COVID- result with a chance of 93%). Also suppose that 1 person in a million, is sick. If a pe...

I struggle to define elegantly a LaTeX3 command and forward its arguments (notably stars, tokens, embellishments) to another command. I guess I might be able to make it work using \expandonce or alike, but I guess there is a better solution. MWE: \documentclass[]{article} \NewDocumentCommand{\my...

Hello may (legally) occur situation when router is not sending router advertisements but is providing configuration via DHCPv6?

I have a longtable with alternating rowcolor and two math columns. The rowcolor works as intended when the content of the row is in a single line, with padding both above and below the row content. Some entries are valid for both columns and hence are in the middle. But overall the table is looki...

Bitcoin Inquisition recently had a PR about soft fork activation and as part that PR, it buries taproot and references a closed PR to Bitcoin Core to bury taproot. Will the taproot deployment be buried in Bitcoin Core and if so, what needs to be in place to bury it?

I know that it is possible for a 3-body system to be "stable" in a figure-8 pattern. It's only stable if it is set up perfectly with no outside forces, but that's fine with me. If there were theoretically that system created of stars with equal masses, is there any stable orbit for a planet other...

The Counterspell feat lets spellcasters counteract a foe that is Casting a Spell, as long as they have the spell prepared and they can see it being cast, via expending that same spell. What if an enemy casts a cantrip? Would a spellcaster be able to Counterspell using that same cantrip? Assuming ...