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Q: First person plural and third Person plural

calculatormathematicalHere is a sentence one of my spanish friends wrote: Creemos que esta distribución se debe a que los alumnos/as tendemos generalmente a "rivalizar” o “criminalizar” a los profesores, mientras que (...). I noticed that she wrote "tendemos" instead of "tienden" and I wanted to ask her if it is an...

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Q: Space Elevator for Ganymede

domai2312My settlement on Jupiter's moon Ganymede is to get a space elevator. Unfortunately, I am completely overwhelmed with the math: How long would the cable have to be to the stationary anchor point in orbit? And would this point still be within the magnetic field of Ganymede (which is favourably exte...

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Q: Telling a small lie to manage profession does hurt ? Religion and politics vs workplace

sandun dhammikaThere will be a cultural based festival, and I was invited to that. But from my religious point of view it's 100% against of my principles. Actually it's just a new year festival, and it's based on Astrology, and it's against the Buddhist teachings that I follow. I have discussed this matter wit...

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Q: When would we want to do traffic steering?

MitrixsenAfter going over EIGRP, I ran into offset lists which allow the modification of the metric of routes advertised by EIGRP and provide the option of traffic engineering. I am not very experienced with traffic steering/engineering yet. May I know, is there an example where we would want to steer tra...

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ELL
00:57
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Q: What does "writing" mean in "a note is a short piece of writing to help you remember something"?

TomI don't understand what "writing" in "a note is a short piece of writing to help you remember something" mean? In the dictionary, "writing" means "words that have been written or painted on something. There was writing all over the desk." Is it some words? or is it a piece of paper? Does "write a...

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Q: Cannot identify C[Mg+]

Njw96I am not able to identify the molecule C[Mg+]. I came across it a number of times in the USPTO-50k dataset, in reactions such as the one shown below: CON(C)C(=O)c1cn(-c2ccc(Cl)cc2)c(-c2ccc(Cl)cc2Cl)n1.C[Mg+]>>CC(=O)c1cn(-c2ccc(Cl)cc2)c(-c2ccc(Cl)cc2Cl)n1 I searched in PubChem and MolView and cou...

GIS
GIS
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Q: How can I crop a raster (within a function) that is used by catalog_apply() in lidR, using Terra instead of Raster?

Ray JI have older code to crop a chunk within a function (to avoid edge effects when later merging CHM tiles together (i.e., edge pixels derived without enough data. The extend of 1 is to avoid little gaps)), similar to the idea in example 1 here: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/lidR/versions/...

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01:36
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Q: How to expand function with star using latex3?

Clara\documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \ExplSyntaxOn \clist_map_inline:nn { aaa, bbb, ccc } { \exp_args:Nco \DeclareMathOperator { #1 } { #1 } } \ExplSyntaxOff \begin{document} $\aaa$ $\bbb$ $\ccc$ \end{document} I can expand the arguments of \DeclareMathOperator but not \DeclareMathOper...

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DIY
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Q: How to paint a large object without leaving gaps where the supports were?

Joshua FrankI need to spray paint the parts of a large and heavy bed and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. I'd like to paint the headboard by standing it up and then just painting the whole thing, but it would be too unstable for that. So I think it needs some kind of support to keep it uprig...

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Q: How many people are needed to staff a "school" like Hogwarts?

Anne AunymeWhat I mean by "a school like Hogwart" is that: students range from age 11 to about 18, with about a thousand students in total most students live here during most of the year it works in isolation with the rest of the world (so it has to rely on it own gymnasium for example). Assume supplies (l...

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Q: 90s-2000s anime about a girl and her father looking for gems

idoeeeI watched it when I was a kid in Bulgaria (on the channel "BNT 1" it could help). What I remember was a girl and her father looking for gems/stones around the world to add to a bracelet and at the end of each episode we could see the bracelet on a black background and the new gem adding to it. Th...

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Q: What are the Campbells' motives in sending Jane to Highbury?

MithicalWhen giving us the background of Jane Fairfax in Jane Austen's Emma, the narrative seems to imply that the Campbells, who Jane has been living with, have some hidden motives in allowing Jane to visit Highbury: With regard to her not accompanying them to Ireland, her account to her aunt contained...

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Q: Prove sum of i.i.d. random variables becomes arbitrarily large

almostusefulI have an unknown continuous distribution, density function $f_X$, with the following properties: Zero mean Symmetric around the mean For all $a,b : 0 \leq a < b$ we have $f_X(a) > f_X(b)$ I'm looking at sums of IID draws from this distribution $Y_n = \sum_{i=1}^nX_i$ and would like to show tha...

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Q: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

Kleber MotaI have created a image file with this commands: dd if=/dev/zero of=linux.img bs=16M count=1024 cfdisk linux.img mkfs.ext4 linux.img and installed a linux system following the instructions from the book Linux From Scratch 11.3. I have access to this system via chroot, but when I try run it with t...

02:31
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Q: Income tax on selling stock bought at various times

graphtheory123Say I have 24 shares of stock X, and I got these shares by buying 1 share every month for 2 years. If I now want to sell 1 share of X, how will I know if it is a share I bought 2 years ago, 12 months ago, last month, etc? Basically, if I just sell a share of X, then how will I know if the share b...

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Q: Is WordPress really not thread-safe?

zomegaTake a look at this pseudo code: $b = SELECT balance FROM accounts WHERE user='john' $b -= 10 UPDATE account SET balance=$b WHERE user='john' The code draws 10 dollars from the bank account from John. But if you don't use a transaction nor a mutex and the code runs two times simultaneously the b...

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Q: What are Obligations of teachers to their students

Raul Valdez Jr.What are the obligations of a teacher of the Torah to his students. Or what are the laws that a teacher, rebbe, Rav must follow.

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Q: How to make intragalactic space navigation difficult

fordatSay there are two factions in a cold war with each other. Each faction controls huge amounts of the known galaxy, but there is a demilitarized neutral zone in-between them. Both factions have access to faster-than-light travel. In addition, casual travel between the two factions is highly restric...

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Q: How to create a group of sub tokens off an entity type?

liquidcmsI am trying to create sub tokens in a group off of existing Users token (sometimes referred to as "chaining"). So there are 2 parts to this. Creating the subgroup off the existing User tokens group and creating tokens within that group. I really only need the hook_token_info() part of this; not t...

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RPG
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Q: Can multiple characters create an advantage using teamwork?

WyrmwoodThe rules on invoking aspects state: You can invoke multiple aspects on a single roll, but you cannot invoke the same aspect multiple times on a single roll. Does this mean you can only benefit from one character's create an advantage action?

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Q: Should it be "...in the invoice." or "...on the invoice."?

MariaShould it be The shipping charges are in the invoice. or The shipping charges are on the invoice.

GIS
GIS
03:28
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Q: Create one continuous polygon from many polygons with holes in QGIS

GajerHow can I create one single continuos polygon from many polygon and the gaps will be preserved? So whole polygon will be connect into one big single polygon. Using dissolve tool will not connect every polygon to single continuos polygon. Image below is output which I would wanted. Thank you for...

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Q: Why are "Tax collectors and Sinners" usually mentioned together by the Pharisees?

ray grantIf sinners refers to the hard core, notoriously evil people (1 Timothy 1:9), why are tax collectors singled out? (When Jesus is caught eating with them, Luke 15:1, Mark 2:15, Matthew 9:11, 11:19, Luke 5:30) (Gk. 'oi 'amartoloi) Or is sinners just a designation for ethnic (Gentile) peoples outside...

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Q: Need for Drinfeld modules compared to elliptic curves over function field

curious math guyIn a sense ever since they were invented that Drinfeld modules and later shtukas are the "right" objects to study and play the role of elliptic curves over function fields by virtue that they allow us to prove nice theorems (say Langlands in the function field setting). However a really naive thi...

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Q: Similarities between two vectors

Reda.KebbajIs there simpler and/or faster code for this? List1={1,2,4,6,7}; List2={1,3,5,6,7}; Rule: If values at respective positions match, output 1 else output 0. Result: {1,0,0,1,1}

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Q: TV episode or movie in which investigators visit a town where people go insane if they hear "The Secret"

DrLechterI once saw a show where investigators go to a town where people are going crazy. Eventually, they find out that anyone who hears "The Secret" goes insane. In the final scene the investigators are about to flee to town and stop to pickup some kids. One of the investigators picks up a kid who wh...

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Q: Copy file along with creating directory

Siddharth SomaniI have a file in the directory as /a/b/c/xxxxx.sql I have anorther directory /a/b/d, having no further sub directories How should I copy xxxxx.sql into /a/b/d, to have the new file with directory as /a/b/d/c/xxxxx.sql , in 1 command

05:03
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Q: Cable with mixed wires

popcornLet's say you have a cable that has n wires. Each wire on the left side corresponds to one wire on the right side. However you cannot distinguish between the wires and you want to know which wire corresponds to another. You can only use these three operations: Power on a wire on the left side Po...

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Q: Is every coordinate-wise marginal of a proper joint distribution also proper?

Jonathan LindbloomSuppose that we have a probability density function $\pi(x_1, \ldots, x_n)$ which is the density of a vector-valued random variable $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Here the density is proper, i.e., $\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \pi(x_1, \ldots, x_n) dx_1 \ldots dx_n = 1 < \infty$. Without any additional restricti...

05:28
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Q: Can we interpret fractional Sobolev spaces in terms of fractional derivatives?

shuhaloLet $1 \leq p < \infty$, $0<s<1$, and $\Omega \subseteq R^n$ be a domain. The Banach space $W^{s,p}(\Omega)$ is defined as $$W^{s,p}(\Omega) := \left\{ f \in L^p(\Omega) \colon \int_{\Omega \times \Omega} \frac{ |f(x)-f(y)|^p }{ |x-y|^{ s p + n } } dx dy < \infty \right\}.$$ I am wondering whethe...

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Q: NMR and dienes to isolate certain isotopes?

Young Jun LeeI am looking to achieve isotope separation using transition states. In the rxn of dienes with halogens, based on the temperature, the dienes can create a thermodynamic product or a kinetic product. The kinetic product is reversible, while the thermodynamic product is not. This is because thermody...

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Q: How should the price, hit point and hardness (and aura) be calculated for a magical weapon & armor shield?

Terry WindwalkerThe core rule mentioned that each enhancement bonus granted to a weapon/armor would also grant it additional hardness and hit points. It also mentioned that while shields can be enchanted as armors, they can also be made magic weapons. So if there's a shield, being enchanted to be +5 shield as an...

 
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Q: Why are most roads and parking spaces in England narrower than in the rest of Europe?

OrsinusI drove my car in almost every country in continental Europe. Recently, I experienced driving in England for the first time. But it doesnt matter where I went, from London to Rottingdean or Bath, everywhere, even on the highway, all roads are narrower than in any country in Europe. Especially cou...

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Q: Are countries with other religions doomed for hell?

CaptainYulefI am someone who has only recently converted to Christianity, and I came upon a troubling point. If it is a sin to have other gods above God, then how does He feel about countries where everyone has a religion different from it? Is that entire country just doomed for hell, or is there an allowanc...

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Q: Maximum stay in the US under a B1/B2 visa in a 365 day period

Pavithran IyerI am an Indian citizen and have a B1/B2 visitor visa (and a NEXUS card) for the US. I currently reside in Toronto, where I work, whereas my wife resides in Berkeley, where she works. Due to our job locations, my wife and I do not live in the same country. Nevertheless, we make efforts to visit ea...

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08:24
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Q: Apparent contradiction between moment of inertia and Archimedes's law of the lever

Maximal IdealSuppose you have a (nearly massless) lever you are using to lift something up. On the other end there is a $2\,\text{kg}$ object at $1\,\text{m}$ away from the pivot. Let's say I input some force on my end to lift the object some distance. Now suppose I redo the procedure and I replace that objec...

DIY
DIY
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Q: How to find compatible evap coil for HVAC system?

amphibientI have a Lennox system, air handler CBX27UH-036 and condenser XC14-036-230. After the cooling stopped working (but both inside and outside fans and compressor work), a technician told me it was 99% the coil that has a leak because it is a known issue with Lennox products. He told me to find a coi...

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Q: Why do we teach linear algebra in precalculus classes?

Joel CroteauWhen I took precalculus, we learned about polynomials and how to factor them, we learned about trigonometry and lots of great and useful identities there, and we learned about matrices. They didn't call it linear algebra, they just called it matrices. We learned how to multiply them, we learned a...

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Q: Phonetic reconstruction of "Haremhab"

vectoryThis is a follow-up question to Hippopotamus - Egyptian ḫꜣb - a phonosemantic calque?. In a lecture by Jacobus van Dijk the pronounciation of the Egyptian Haremhab is clarified to be something different, perhaps ? harmaha (0:14'42)1 Now I am worried what if anything this implies for ḫꜣb "hippo", ...

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Q: Third party libraries in LibraryLink

AlbercocI am trying to use third-party libraries in LibraryLink, but the kernel crashes when I call their functions. In particular, I want to make available some functions of SuiteSparse to manipulate SparseArrays in MMA. The library gets built, and the function loaded, but calling it crashes the kernel....

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Q: Could my glass buildings last for thousands of years?

Kal MaddaIn my story world, I was thinking about having glass structures built by a prior civilization to preserve information. The reason the structures would be made of glass would be because the glass the structures are built of are also used as a giant data storage device. Kind of like the glass etc...

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Q: If a character naturally lost an eye and a hand, would he be able to attune to Vecna's appendages?

TieflingDragon84I'm thinking about a custom campaign that has a character that has a lost eye and left hand since birth and hasn't been able replace them. He searches for these items to complete himself. Vecna's appendages normally require one to lop off a hand or gouge out an eye. Would he be able to attune to ...

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Q: Can someone sue for house ownership if they gave money for it?

Kevin GomezMy parents received money from my grandmother to put a down payment for a house. After my parents purchased the home and put the house under their names, my grandmother moved in and eventually after 3 years she moved out. Now she wants her money back which my parents can't pay for. She suggested ...

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Q: Should I Get My Vision Corrected Prior to 1st Class AME?

LRobertsI have 20/30 vision in both eyes. I don’t have glasses or a prescription for corrective lenses. 1st class AME requires correctable to 20/20. I need to obtain a 1st class certificate for an aviation scholarship. Do I need to get corrective lenses (to get to 20/20) before I have my evaluation? My o...

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Q: How to calculate the density function?

NicolasLet $(X, Y, Z)$ be a randomly absolutely continuous vector, whose density function is given by: $$f_{(X,Y,Z)}(x,y,z)=\frac{6}{(1+x+y+z)^4}$$ For $x,y,z>0$. Calculate the density function of $W=X+Y+Z$. My idea was to calculate $\mathbb{P}(W\leq t)$ given $t>0$ and define the region $A=\{(x,y,z)\in...

11:11
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Q: Set Time and Place to End Every Illness?

NJMThere is a concept I've heard quoted in the name of Chazal that before an illness enters a person's body, it has a designed set time, place, and messenger when it will leave. Where is this Chazal?

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Q: Is there a way to have multiple conditions in a `c_if` in Qiskit?

juliamartin27If I want to condition adding a gate to a circuit in qiskit, I understand how to use c_if() to condition on one classical register, but is there a way to condition it on the measurement of two or more classical registers? Say I have q = QuantumRegister(5) c1 = ClassicalRegister(1) c2 = ClassicalR...

11:44
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Q: Is the functor category of a small category into a topos itself a topos?

Marlex BlankI am reading the book "Sheaves in Geometry and Logic" by MacLane and Moerdijk. Early in the book, the authors show that $Sets^{\mathscr{C}^{op}}$ where $\mathscr{C}$ is a small category is an elementary topos. My Question: Is it true, more generally, that $\mathscr{E}^{\mathscr{C}^{op}}$ where $\...

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Q: Why does latin show some adverbs as conjunctions?

Manuel Cauã RebouçasSome words in latin are shown as being adverbs, yet they have the meaning of conjuctions, at least i guess. The word "quapropter" can be an example. I don't know if I'm mistaken, but I find that weird.

DIY
DIY
12:00
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Q: AC line voltage sharing conduit with DC conductors for solar PV

RustyShacklefordI have an existing solar PV system; conduit to the house carries DC pairs for two "strings" of solar panels plus EGC ground. It'd be very convenient for wiring of an EV charger (EVSE), if I could run its AC wiring in the same conduit. The EVSE would mount near the solar panels. Conduit fill is ...

TeX
TeX
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Q: "Citation X on page X undefined on input line X" error with super minimal example

envyulI'm getting a Citation 'test' on page 1 undefined on input line 6. error for the below example on Overleaf. I've looked at many other questions and I can't find the error. Any ideas? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{biblatex} \begin{document} \cite{test} \begin{thebibliography}{99} \bibitem...

 
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Q: What is the meaning of two wavefunctions being "same"?

pratik misraSo I had taken a course on BEC and Cold Atoms. I have read about the properties of non-interacting Bose gas and I was a little concerned about what we mean by two wave functions (of bosons) being the same. Does it mean that they are physically located at the same point in space? I understand that...

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Q: I was excluded from an article - what can I do?

academiaistheworstPrior to starting my Ph.D., I initiated a project with my former boss. We both wrote proposals and secured funding from an international foundation for a two-year period. The following year, I began my Ph.D. program (continuing with the project), during which I dedicated four years to collecting ...

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Q: Near-instantaneous inter-star communication utilising wormholes

KatyThis is my first question on the worldbuilding stack exchange, I discovered this place last night when double-checking that my world's river-carving-through-a-mountain-range is possible (it was, which is nice, very important storywise for the mountains to rule out economical transport except via ...

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Q: Flip Flop as frequency divider precision

Doubtful MonkI am using a couple of CD4013BC as frequency dividers as per schematic : I am checking from a data logger that they are losing some cycles, or not dividing the frequency properly from time to time. The unused IC pins are grounded. Did anyone experience the same and know the possible reasons why ...

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Q: How to Create a box with an angle one side and rounded corners via CSS?

ExitoSo I currently find myself needing to make something like this. My first thought was to use clip-path, but the rounded corners would be hard to pull off, and it would be hard to maintain the 22.5 degrees when the button changes width because of its contents. So I ended up making each button 2 di...

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Q: Why is the solo/featured instrument in so many Baroque-era concerti silent during the slow movement?

Tom KorbuszewskiIs the reason the soloist is often silent during a Baroque-era concerto simply to provide a break from all the virtuosity often required within the outer movements? Or is it to allow a string soloist to quietly retune?

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Q: Teacher needs help with an integral involving trig identities that a student found online

KitKatCatHat$$\int\frac{\sqrt{\sec^3(x)+\tan^3(x)+\tan(x)}}{1+\sec(x)-\tan(x)}\,dx\quad\text{for $0<x<\frac{\pi}{2}$}$$ I have spent several days trying and failing to solve this problem. I am a teacher student of mine found it online. They asked for help solving it and initially I thought that there was a s...

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Q: How to protect horses and foals from wolves outside

AllerleirauhThere seem to be a broad discussion about the wolves coming back to Germany and stressing farmers of sheep and other animals. But today I first time read about a foal, eaten by a wolf. Since some years there are more and more regions, especially in the east, where wolves wander back in from more ...

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Q: MacBook Air restarting often after SSD replacement

lokesh L PI recently upgraded my MacBook Air's SSD to a Crucial 1 TB SSD (model name: Crucial P2 1TB PCIe M.2 2280SS - part number: CT1000P2SSD8) from Amazon. The SSD is attached with an Etzin M.2 NVME SSD Convert Adapter Card. From time to time, I am facing restart issues with it. Configuration: macOS Mon...

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15:52
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Q: Preference relations based on Varian

CormJackI understand that there is no universally agreed terminology for preference relations. However I need to pin down a definitive way to think about them (both for my exam, and my own sanity). Please can we help me decipher the following. Note: I apologise for the extended nature of this question. ...

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Q: Systematically Missing Data

JobI have a problem regarding regression with sistematically missing data. I cannot describe the exact setting, so I will make up a situation that captures everything that is essential. Let's imagine the following experiment setting: I am doing research on the probability of individuals participatin...

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Q: How to improve the preservation of the global data structure in UMAP?

pmu2022I have a dataset, where the features are comprised of points arranged in a regular grid on a simplex. Each of these points are defined as follows: A point $\mathbf{x}$ on the simplex can be represented as a vector in $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that: \begin{equation} \mathbf{x} = \left( x_1, x_2, \ldots,...

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Q: What is the energy of activation of uncatalyzed ATP hydrolysis reaction? Say in aquous solvent?

Anik Samiur RahmanBy ATP hydrolysis, I mean the chemical reaction: ATP + Water -> ADP + Pi. Focusing only on the reaction, this is a nucleophillic substitution reaction, most likely occuring in SN2 mechanism. But so far, I haven't found a single paper reporting the energy of activation of this reaction uncatalyzed...

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Q: equal symbol (=) behaves unacceptably in `doc`

SyvshcI want to make a document with the package doc. When I type = in \changes, words before = disappear. Why would this happen? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{doc} \begin{document} \RecordChanges \changes{v1}{0000/00/00}{test=hello} aaa \PrintChanges \end{document} I compile the file main.t...

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Q: How to compute the density of the spherical polymer using radius as a bin from the lammps trajectory?

kesavanI am working on condensate studies and I did form a globular condensate of the polymer system using lammps. I wanted to find out the number density of condensate with respect to the radius as bins to find out the core density and surface density of the polymer. I tried using this python script bu...

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Q: Complexity class of optimization problems whose fractional relaxation is polynomial-time solvable

Erel Segal-HaleviIt is known that the problem of integer linear programming is NP-hard, but its fractional relaxation can be solved in polynomial time. The concept of fractional relaxation can be applied to any optimization problem in which the expected output is an integer vector: the solution of the relaxation ...

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Q: Why is std::array<T,0> sized and aligned according to T in libc++?

Daniel LangrIn libc++, the specialization of std::array<T,0> has a member (const) char array, which is aligned and sized according to T (source). I wonder what is the reason for this implementation since this member (__elems_) does not seem to be used anywhere. For comparison, libstdc++ uses an empty member,...

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Q: Beamer miniframes: how to include section number alongside section name?

BastienI am using a Beamer theme (Singapore) that is using Miniframes for the header. This header will contain section names, but not their number. What I would like I would like to include the section numbers alongside the section name. It looks like this: First section Second section Another sec...

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Q: Find local maximum

chen chenWhat instruction could I use to obtain the local maximum point of the red circle in the graph? I tried using the $FindMaximum$ instruction, but couldn't get the desired result. The curve generation code is as follows: dt = 0.00006; tend = 0.08; sol = DSolve[{l il'[t] == vl[t], c vc'[t] == ic[t],...

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Q: Where are transaction signatures beside the scriptSig?

Amir reza RiahiTo spend a UTXO, we need to sign it (have the scriptSig). Then we can spend that UTXO to any address we want, which it wasn't included in the signature we produced for unlocking the UTXO. So we should provide another signature to express our intention that we want to spend to this specific output...

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Q: When I delete pre-installed apps (iMovie, GarageBand, etc.): What are the consequences?

mizechSome of the apps, which come with MacOS, are really big and I don't use them. Can I simply delete them with "Command" + "Del" like normal files? Just in case one would need them later: Can they become re-installed via AppStore or do I have to set the whole system back the factory settings?

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Q: OpenZippelin upgradeability pattern | How can both implementation and proxy contracts share the same storage tho they were implemented independently?

REZAZI MOHAMED ABDESSAMEDPlease bear with me in this. I tried to understand it myself, but I couldn't. I'm playing the Ethernaut challenges(a series of contracts hacking), and I'm solving the challenge 24 - Puzzle Wallet- that speaks about upgrading smart contracts using Proxy contracts. Here's the contract's code: // SP...

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Q: Removing Elements from an Array Based on a Second Array

TAHER El MehdiI've written a function that takes two arrays of integers as input and removes all the elements in the first array that are also present in the second array. I would like to share my code with you and kindly request your feedback for potential improvements. Please find my code implementation belo...

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Q: How to get the nucleotide sequence for protein NCBI accession code, programatically?

LauraIt is a lot easier in my work to do blast searches against protein databases when I can, since I work with distantly related organisms. But sometimes, I need to work with the actual nucleotide sequences. Until now, I've often done it manually, but it is getting unfeasible due to increasing data a...

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Q: Is HC(=NH)OH a stable compound?

nightcod3rThe molecule $\ce{HC(=NH)OH}$ has been shown to derive from hydrogen cyanide and water (compound 7). Is it a stable compound? source: Das, T.; Ghule, S.; Vanka, K. Insights Into the Origin of Life: Did It Begin from $\ce{HCN}$ and $\ce{H_2O}$? ACS Cent. Sci. 2019, 5, 1532–1540. https://doi.org/1...

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Q: How to join in the following way?

John TaylorConsider the following list of tables: listtemp[n_] := Table[RandomReal[{0, 1}, {2, 2}], n]; How to join its elements at the level 2 in a compact way for arbitrary n? Say, for list5=listtemp[5]; the desired result obtained in the tedious way is Join[list5[[1]],list5[[2]],list5[[3]],list5[[4]],l...

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Q: How do you interpret "believes all things" in 1 Cor. 13:7?

Perry WebbRobertson has: Believeth all things (παντα πιστευει [panta pisteuei]). Not gullible, but has faith in men. -- Robertson, A. T. (1933). Word Pictures in the New Testament (1 Co 13:7). Broadman Press. But, how do you interpret this phrase so that it doesn't imply gullible?

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Q: How to if a polygon is within a concave area of another?

Scott AllinsonIs there a method where I can detect if a polygon is inside the concave area of another (in this case a bay), then output the bay itself? It's hard to explain with words so I'll demonstrate below: This polygon falls within a bay area and I want QGIS to make this bay area a new shapefile like bel...

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Q: Fast way to create this abstract sphere

diniulianI want to create this abstract sphere (attached image) I am wonder if it is possible to create it in a fast way. I tried to create a cub and apply subdivision and cast to transform into a sphere, after that I added particles with custom render object (cylinder hexagon), but doesn't look symmetric...

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Q: Searching for a Short Story - 50s-70s Sci Fi - Main Character is a Retired Judge

ComicReliefMorlockMy mother (early 70s) only remembers that the story's main character was a judge (human, on Earth) who'd recently retired and apparently had a reputation for being a fair judge and honest person. During the story he's approached to learn intergalactic law and be a judge for intergalatic cases. Th...

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Q: Can I learn acrobatics in a Microlight?

CloudCan I learn acrobatics in a Microlight, such as a C42 or Eurofox? I would like to extend my abilities beyond getting from A - B but don't want to get a full PPL. I enjoy unusual attitudes too much :)

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Q: How do I get the total number of SSTables with nodetool?

gobsejI am referencing following documentation: https://docs.datastax.com/en/dse/6.8/dse-dev/datastax_enterprise/tools/nodetool/toolsTablestats.html#Examples I would like to get the total number of SSTables. For that I tried using the nodetool tablestats command and adding up all the values of the SSTa...

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Q: Can a valid ESTA received for business travel be used also for tourism?

ozakinciI have acquired an ESTA for business travel which I've done in summer 2022. It is valid till 2024. This summer (2023) I'd like to visit USA again but this time for pleasure, to visit my brother and family. Can I use the still valid ESTA or do I need to apply for a new one? Thanks and best regards...

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Q: Does it make sense to include a predictor that is by definition related to the response variable in a regression model?

philsfI want to use a multiple logistic regression to model the relationship between two experimental groups (test and control) and accuracy of a procedure, controlling for the experience (in years) of the participants. outcome ~ group + experience The design I am using is paired in the sense that eve...

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Q: What was the release date of the MOS 8502?

userI have been unable to find when the MOS 8502 was first released to customers. The process it was made on was available from 1979, but MOS don't appear to have used it for their own parts at that time. The 8502 was used in the Commodore 128, released in 1985. Was the 8502 available earlier than th...

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Q: Excessive brown flux post reflow

LordTeddyI've been assembling low numbers of reasonably complicated PCBs professionally for a few years now, and while I can get good results eventually, one thing that's dragging the process out is the need for post-reflow cleaning. I always find quite an excessive amount of dark, hard flux, which takes ...

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Q: Is there a process for Wikipedia improvements to be translated

Philip CoulingSome time ago I fell down Alice's Rabbit hole when I discovered the same incorrect technical definition turning up in very many places such as blogs and StackOverflow answers. I think these all trace back to a bad version of a Wikipedia page. ⚠️ Last bad version here ⚠️. It seems the incorrect ...

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Q: What happened to this character at the end of "Fringe" season 5?

CarnifexSo I've read many theories about all the time paradoxes of the Fringe season 5 ending. But what I can't seem to find an answer to is this: Walter was supposed to take the last inoculation which enables him to travel to 2167 with Michael. But September took the last inoculation shot and decided to...

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Q: The paradox of IOU

BlankerHansif money is just an IOU then the initial creation of money contradicts this assumption, does'nt it? A central bank doesn't owe money to any other entity (national central banks or commercial banks) when creating money. Is there a scientific term for this kind of IOU paradoxon?

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Q: Oven baking potatoes to make mashed potato/pomme puree - how to store the cooked skins

JamesTWhenever I make pomme puree or mashed potatoes (with warm milk/cream and softened butter depending), I always bake the potatoes after covering them in oil & salt and use the inside for mash/pomme puree. However, with most meals (like the lamb roast dinner I am making today), I do not particularly...

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Q: How to show percentages in org-tables?

crocefissoConsider the following table: |--------+------| | Number | % | |--------+------| | 0.004 | 0.40 | | 0.0047 | 0.47 | | 0.01 | 1.00 | | 0.019 | 1.90 | |--------+------| #+TBLFM: $2=$1*100; %.2f How could I change $2 formula so it would look like this: |--------+-------| | Number | % | |...

DIY
DIY
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Q: Was this shower pan installed correctly?

user3242036I had a plumber install a shower pan yesterday and he seemed annoyed I asked him to install it in a mortar bed even though that's what the instructions said. I already have an issue with the fact that he used concrete with lots of big rocks instead of thin set but my biggest question is whether t...

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Q: Can applying for a new loan affect my existing mortgage? (US)

Time4TeaI live in the US and I am a somewhat mature full-time graduate student. I have gone back to grad school after having spent some years working and I have children and a mortgage. My school has a policy that certain students need to apply for a FAFSA student loan and I am wondering if applying for ...

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Q: Why inner automorphisms; why conjugation? Why not closure under other automorphims?

user6873235I've been casually reading up on group theory recently, and I want to get a really solid and motivated understanding of where all the definitions we use come from. Notions like the center of a group seem utterly natural to give a name to; all those elements that commute with the whole group $G$, ...

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Q: 3 Broken Spokes

Samuel TaylorI have Trek Marlin 7 that I bought on May 2022. Starting I had a spoke break at the thread in November, then another spoke break in mid-April at the thread and now I have another one break at the end of April. When I have spoken to the shop they compared my issue to having a puncture. I had anoth...

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Q: Offset a column in tabular to make a half-row

AnnaI'm trying to add an in-between row for my table. This image shows what I can do with tabular (above), and what I'd like to get (below): This was produced with a trick that makes the source hard to read and transposes the table. Is there a better way? E.g. any way to adjust the offset of a cell ...

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Q: Average sum of the 3 smallest numbers in a 6/49 lottery game

user2015253As you probably know, a 6/49 lottery game is a game where there will be 6 numbers drawn, ranging from 1-49 with no duplicates allowed. Today I'm not looking for winning chances though. If I were looking for the average sum of all 6 winning numbers, I'd assume the result to look much like a Gaussi...

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Q: How does spellcasting progression work if I go back to the original class after prestige classing?

ElkbenderSilly example, but it should be fairly understandable: If a character takes 9 levels as a Wizard and then becomes a Loremaster. They take 3 levels of Loremaster, and decide they would actually really like that level 10 bonus feat that Wizards get as well, what happens to their spellcasting/spells...

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Q: How to fill sink holes?

DWGKNZWe recently purchased a 5 yo house. It's a 3-acre lot with the house built on a raised hill in the middle. There are a couple of spots at the edge of the "developed" yard where the earth is sinking and holes opening up. I dug one out and can see it has been caused by logs in the fill and water ru...

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Q: How do distributed databases follow unique constraints?

JohnybLets say i have an application where user can register, and the username has to be unqiue value. Now lets say i have N partitions and for each partition i have M replicas with multiple leaders. Now i have questions regarding these scenarios: First: User 1 attempts to register with username user1...

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Q: Crossbreeding mouse and chinchilla

teunbrandThe MGI Mouse Genome Informatics website states for the Mus musculus 129 strain, popular in biomedical research, that: Origin: Dunn 1928 from crosses of coat colour stocks from English fanciers and a chinchilla stock from Castle. Source However, according to wikipedia, Chinchillas are in the su...

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Q: Is it NP-hard to decide the existence of n subsets picked from n lists of subsets the union of which contains at most s elements?

Vladislav BezhentsevYou are given $n$ lists. The $i$-th list contains $k_i$ subsets of $\{1, \ldots, m\}$. You are also given an integer $s$. You should decide whether it's possible to pick up exactly one element (that is subset of $\{1, \ldots, m\}$) from each list, such that the cardinality of a union of all picke...

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Q: Why inputs' scriptSig are stripped before the whole transaction being signed?

Amir reza RiahiIn this video the lecturer explains that before the whole transaction get singed, the scriptSig part of inputs are removed, and this cause the ability to perform transaction malleability attack. My question is that, why scriptSigs are removed? Why they're not as a part of the message to be signed?

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Q: Creating ChartLabels in scientific format over a range

Elias.LiuI would like to shorten this repetitious code. Personally, I would save the labels in a separate variable and then just refer to the variable, like for example "ChartLabels -> mylabels". This way the plot function itself doesn't look cluttered. ChartLabels -> {Rotate[ "2\[Times]\!\(\*Superscri...

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Q: Table with a sequence:

a019I can generate a table: Table[{i, If[i == 4, 1, i + 1]}, {i, 4}] and the output is {{1, 2}, {2, 3}, {3, 4}, {4, 1}} however, if I want to make i>4 lets say 12 Table[{i, If[i == 4, 1, i + 1]}, {i, 12}] the output is now {{1, 2}, {2, 3}, {3, 4}, {4, 1}, {5, 6}, {6, 7}, {7, 8}, {8, 9}, {9, 10}...

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Q: "Wine" vs. "new wine" in Hosea 4:11

The EditorHosea 4:11 reads (NKJV, emphasis added): “Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart. What's the difference between "wine" and "new wine"? Is it that "wine" is alcoholic while "new wine" is not, or is there a different distinction?

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Q: complementary events and conditioning

markowitzIf we have two events $A$ and $B$ it is sure that $$P(A\mid B) + P(A^C\mid B) = 1$$ however it seems me that $P(A\mid B) + P(A \mid B^C) = 1$ is false in general I don't remember why it is so. Can you show me this fact in a simplest way?

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Q: Series of simultaneous rejections, how to adivse younger fellows

Dr.MI myself work as a clinician-scientists. I work in a small group and oversee several students. The current situation involves one of them who is a PhD-candidate. She is bright, fast and hard-working. Over the past two years, she wrote several good papers. Many of these papers are based on existin...

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Q: How to use your own styles in Quantikz?

user296811I am using the quantikz package to draw a quantum circuit and I am failing to insert my "own" gate (BS) as a quantum gate. The gate noisy is a working example of what I want to insert in the second gate. Can anyone help me? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{quantikz} \tik...

DIY
DIY
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Q: Can I use an old-work box on an exterior wall?

SidneyI would like to add an outlet to my deck -- there is no power there and running an extension cord around the house to another exterior outlet is a total bummer. I actually have relatively convenient access to run the wire right now so I'm not worries about that, but I don't know if adding an exte...

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Q: Malcev completion of free groups

QwertLet $K$ be a field with $\mathrm{char}\,K=0$, $\hat{L}_n$ the complete free Lie algebra of $n$ variables $x_1,\dotsc,x_n$ and $\mathrm{exp}(\hat{L}_n)$ its associated group with the product given by BCH formula (which is the Malcev completion of the free group). Is $\mathrm{exp}(\hat{L}_n)$ gener...

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Q: Non-diagonalizability of the adjacency matrix of a directed graph

ABBLet $G$ be a directed graph with no multiple edges or loops and let $P_i$ be its vertices. Let $A$ be the corresponding adjacency matrix of $G$, i.e. $a_{i,j}=1$ if and only if there is a directed edge from $P_i$ to $P_j$, ($a_{i,j}=0$ otherwise). Suppose that there is a path in $G$ that does ...

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Q: Connect a microphone to a smart TV for karaoke purposes

Marc BrillaultI recently bought my first Smart TV (Philips 65OLED707/12) and I was wondering if I could connect one (or preferably two) microphones to it, to sing Karaoke with my family and friends. I want to be able to mix the sound from the microphones and the sound of the karaoke app, so all is outputted by...

23:25
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Q: Singular distribution F such that convolution F and F is an absolutely continuous distribution?

Silvestrov DmitriiF is a singular distribution function concentrated on the positive half-line. Is it possible that 2-fold convolution F*F is an absolutely continuous distribution function? Please, give me an example.

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Q: Can a quantum computer count up by 1 faster than a classical computer?

BobLet's say you want to generate all images of size NxN, black/white pixels. This is equivalent to counting from 0 to 2^(N^2)-1. On a classical computer, this is impossible for even 32x32=1024 bits. Can a quantum computer count up by 1 faster than a classical computer?

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Q: Can you disassemble a plane, then rebuild it, and call it amateur built?

SomeoneCould I buy a Cessna 172 or a similar plane, take it apart into as many pieces as I safely could without damaging it, rebuild it, and register it as amateur-built? Assume that I know what I'm doing but do not have an A&P certificate.

GIS
GIS
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Q: Changing spatial reference of Map using ArcPy in ArcGIS Pro

MikV89Steps: I am loading a aprx from a template, which is in WGS84 spatial reference. Then I do some processes. Finally, I want to change the MAP's spatial reference (WGS84) to another, which I get from another layer. It is possible to do it using arcpy and ArcGIS Pro? The code is: aprx = arcpy.mp.A...


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