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Q: Does the Epsilon-Delta Definition of Limits Truly Capture Our Intuitive Understanding of Limits?

thomas gracemanI've been delving into the concept of limits and the Epsilon-Delta definition. The most basic definition, as I understand it, states that for every real number $\epsilon \gt 0$, there exists a real number $\delta \gt 0$ such that if $0 \lt |x - a| \lt \delta$ then $|f(x) - L| \lt \epsilon$, where...

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Q: Running out of time mid promotion to checkmate. Who wins?

Zock77In a casual blitz game I had with my friend, my last move was to promote a pawn, to ladder mate my opponent (there was already a rook on the 7th). I moved the pawn, but while I was reaching for the queen I ran out of time. Who won?

00:27
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Q: How do I get such colourfull plots with bar legends colored like this?

Bibhash Das1: Each line in this plot is for the same equation with different values of a parameter \beta; the range of \beta is shown in the lines plotted and the bar legend. I want to know how to create such colorful plots. Any kind of example would be nice. Thank You. Let's Say I want to Plot this equati...

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Q: How can you read the weapon icon?

Fredy31 Theres a small icon next to the weapon strength, but I have no idea how to read it. The icon itself can be easy, it's the type, like sword, club, cleaver, etc. But the color throws me; how does it read? What does it mean? What's the difference between a blue sword and a brown one?

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Q: How flat should bench aprons be?

ecline6I'm building the Christopher Schwarz Knockdown Nicholson bench. This is my first foray into handtool building. I'm working on the aprons now and have cleaned up the boards and made them mostly flat on the faces. My question is, how flat is flat enough for the aprons? I understand that the top is ...

Law
Law
00:48
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Q: How should turn lane pavement markings be interpreted in Idaho?

mrogThere's a certain intersection in Idaho, USA that's causing confusion for a lot of drivers. As you can see in the photo, the pavement widens near the intersection, as if there should be a right turn lane. But the widening area is marked with diagonal lines. The turn arrows show that the same l...

ELL
ELL
00:59
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Q: What kind of term or slang is used by English speakers today as a kind of sigh in verbal form?

DuckWhat I mean is this. Suppose someone puts you in a situation that annoys you. You want to express your dissatisfaction to the other person. The first option is rolling your eyes or saying, ironically, stuff like "oh shit!". Is there some less hardcore, or more funny, that can be used without swea...

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Q: Could these passages be viewed as corollary referring to “Logos”?

Tesfaye WoldeJohn 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. Hebrews 1:2 …, through whom also He made the worlds;… Hebrews 11:3 By faith we unders...

TeX
TeX
01:13
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Q: The Page Numbers Position is not getting fixed in centre

Piyush BawejaI am using fancyhdr package but the page number are shifting right on odd number pages and shifted left on even. Code: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage[shortlabels,inline]{enumitem} \usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, outer=0cm, inner=0cm]{ge...

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Q: G-d traveling 18,000 worlds

Curious YidWhat’s the deeper meaning behind this midrash in Avodah Zara 3b: ובליליא מאי עביד איבעית אימא מעין יממא ואיבעית אימא רוכב על כרוב קל שלו ושט בשמונה עשר אלף עולמות שנאמר (תהלים סח, יח) רכב אלהים רבותים אלפי שנאן אל תקרי שנאן אלא שאינן And what does He do by night? — If you like you may say, the k...

RPG
RPG
01:30
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Q: Is this Order of Scribes wizard combo with the Elemental Bane and Faithful Hound spells a legal exploit?

UUake UpSo I'm playing an OOS wizard in a 3/4 shot game. I really like the replace damage type feature for the interesting flavour it can provide to battles but, when looking at the spell list I stumbled upon a combo that seems, well, powerful. It's made from a combo of the Order of Scribes wizard's Awak...

02:23
2
Q: Missing Filesize in FAT32

GandhiI have a .fat32 file and from the Master Boot Record I read the following things: 512 Bytes per Sector 8 Sectors per Cluster 800 Sectors total root Clusternumber is 2 32 reserved Sectors 2 FATs 1 Sector per FAT 800 sectors × 512 Bytes = 400kiB When i check in the terminal with df -Bk ./ then I ...

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Q: Script to switch between networks in ubuntu using nmcli

Rick TI'm trying to switch between already populated networks using a bash file using nmcli but I'm get non sense data back. But get nonsense 1) 0 #? 0 Code below. #!/bin/bash # Pre-populated UUID data for network connections networks=( ["tr_5"]="127f3e9e-34dd-444e-aee4-7c2b35c7c307" ["VC_Hot...

02:39
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Q: Finding the Clifford circuit that implement a particular mapping of Paulis strings

NicholaDenote $P_N=\{\tau \}$ the set of Pauli strings, composed out of tensor products of Pauli matrices $\sigma_i^\alpha$ acting on $N$ qubits, e.g. $\tau=\sigma^x_1 \otimes \mathbb{1}_2 \otimes \sigma^y_3 \otimes \cdots \otimes \mathbb{1}_N$. Consider a mapping from a subset of $P_N$ to another subse...

02:49
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Q: Does 'see a [person] [verb]-ing' necessitate seeing both the person and their action?

Captain HatI'm visiting from the RPG stack and realised that part of the answer to this question depends upon the way the English language works. Thanks for having me. The spell being discussed on rpg.stackexchange involves a spell that reads: [You may do x] when you see a creature within 60 feet of you ca...

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Q: New Dark Borders & Lines Since Summer 23 Release

KB2021I noticed this appear after the release of Summer 23 in my org on June 10th. Now my quick action buttons have a dark border around them, my fields have a darker grey line under them, and the tabs have a dark underline. There are so many instances of this, and I haven't seen anyone mention it, why...

03:06
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Q: Are 神 and 神 the same?

AlexMy friend asked me if I know what 神仙 means so I tried to look it up and almost all the results I got were 神仙 instead of 神仙. Which appearently means something like a hermit or an immortal person that has divine powers. But back to the question are 神 and 神 basically the same Kanji meaning wise? May...

ELL
ELL
03:31
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Q: Why does native speaker say "...a island" rather than "...an island" in this sentence: "I thought the 50 grand was getting me a island."

yunusThis is from an American native speaker's video. Mr. Beast comparing hotel rooms (see: 4:06-4:08) In the video, they compare the cheapest and the most expensive hotel rooms and services, so while they are showing 50.000 USD hotel, he says: I thought the 50 grand was getting me a island. He says s...

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CS
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Q: How inaccurate is the following mental picture of particle interaction in QFT?

VercassivelaunosContext: I ask this as a school teacher reaching past the boundaries of my expertise. A colleague was talking about the standard model with an advanced student, explaining how particles interact by exchanging gauge bosons, asking the student to imagine gauge bosons as little spheres. Of course th...

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Q: What to do with tamarind skin remaining in dishes

SamWhen I use tamarind paste, which I buy in a pack that looks like this, .. .. I end up with seeds (which I can remove), with paste (which I can dissolve on low heat), but also with what seems like skin. I never recall seeing this part in restaurant dishes. What am I doing wrong? Should I scoop o...

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Q: Constexpr flat_multimap

Aria HarperAbout the Reasoning I wrote a flat_multimap because it was slightly more efficient to read/write from disk (contiguous memory block) and because it would keep the logarithmic efficiency from a tree (using binary search). I tried to keep to the std::multimap standard, but there were several operat...

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Q: Enum to deserialize HTML sizes from JSON with serde

Richard NeumannI added an enum for my webscraper to deserialize data from a JSON field that represents an HTML image size, which can either be an unsigned int like 1080 or a string like "100%": use serde::Deserialize; use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter}; #[derive(Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)] pub enum HtmlSize ...

04:19
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Q: You'll have to rotate

LezzupFigure out how the two puzzles should connect. Use the following words: bkkz bwni hsklmjwk jlt jra luwujqrbui mktvmhk qfcdfchohwcb winnih wullin ywna B E U C H I O N P D U S D B U D W M R A F V E R U I C O T T O N M L I K Q W R E V E O O P U R S R A A I C S M O P R S E F S A V E Y T...

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Q: How I can get the watt from this datasheet? There is only current and voltage

Pcp115 I need the method that I can do to get the watt It says 250mW but how? I need that because I need to get the minimum voltage and also to get the current in some cases.

04:33
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Q: Why would spoke tensions be uneven, despite equal thread engagement?

Will VousdenI'm building a wheel. I've used a nipple driver to equally engage all nipples on the spoke threads and used this as a starting point for tensioning the spokes. Despite this, after applying a couple of turns on all nipples, some of the spokes have some tension in them, while others are completely ...

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Q: Bounding "Jensen's Gap": Elementary Approaches

Small DeviationThe point of this post is to explore some "elementary" but general ways one can quantify the "gap" in Jensen's inequality. Specifically, let $h:\mathbb R\rightarrow\mathbb R$ be a convex function and let $X$ be a real-valued random variable, then how can we bound $$?\leq \mathbb E\big[h(X)\big]-h...

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Q: Is there an exponential family such that its natural parameter mapping is non-invertible or has non-convex range?

ViktorSteinOn the Wikipedia article for exponential families the density of a distribution on a measure space $(X, \xi)$ from an exponential family is written as $$f_{\theta} \colon X \to \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}, \qquad x \mapsto h(x) g(\theta) \exp\left( \eta(\theta) \cdot T(x) \right)$$ for $\theta \in \Theta$...

05:48
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Q: How do you use the blending tool on a curved object?

lumberfootHow would I go about blending straight lines into a curved object like this? I basically want to make a geometric feather with the lines beginning at the bottom vertex growing outwards towards the arc.

RPG
RPG
06:09
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Q: How to deal with an enthusiastic new player who's interrupting others? aka, How to gently teach "improv etiquette"?

R Greg StaceyI know there are lots of questions about this subject, but I haven't encountered one that exactly matches my situation. The situation itself is pretty straightforward: I've been running a session for about a year, and two out of four players at the table are completely new to TTRPGs. The game's b...

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Q: What is the definition of a possible world?

user107952I recently asked if we can know whether other possible worlds exist. However, I should have asked first what the definition of a possible world is, for only then can we know whether other possible worlds exist. What is the standard definition of a possible world in the philosophical literature?

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Q: What does discourse AN 9.37 describe?

blue_egoFrom AN 9.37: Ven. Ānanda said, “It’s amazing, friends, it’s astounding, how the Blessed One who knows & sees, the worthy one, rightly self-awakened, has attained & awakened to an opening [in a confining place]1 for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow & lamentation, for the ...

ELL
ELL
07:45
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Q: Do you use "take for granted that" without "it"?

LifeispicnicFor example, in this sentence We took it for granted that we'd be invited to the party. Is it acceptable ... without it? We took for granted that we'd be invited to the party.

GIS
GIS
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Q: QGIS importing points with NaN, NaN as vertical separator

SanillaI am importing a CSV file with the coordinates of several points forming some kind of circle structures. The different circles are separated in the file table with one line of NaN, NaN. When I import it and use the Points to path tool the circles get connected with each other. How can I prevent ...

Law
Law
07:59
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Q: What does "credible" mean?

GB supports the mod strikeLooking at the recently delivered findings and conclusions in Brandt et al. v. Rutledge et al., full text here. On pp. 56-57 of the PDF, one of the expert witnesses is discussed (emphasis added): Dr. Levine was the State’s only expert witness who has experience treating patients with gender dysp...

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Q: Vertices of a regular dodecahedron

alephalphaA regular dodecahedron is one of the five Platonic solids. It has 12 pentagonal faces, 20 vertices, and 30 edges. Your task is to output the vertex coordinates of a regular dodecahedron. The size, orientation, and position of the dodecahedron are up to you, as long as it is regular. You may outp...

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Q: What’s growing on my tomato plant? This is crazy!

Tj ReganI’ve never seen anything like this. Looks like a fungus or moss or something. Brown, fur like, skinny stems, 1/2 to 1 inch long. Not normal fungal issues, this is new to me… zone 7b

DIY
DIY
08:53
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Q: What kind of residue is this?

DanielIn the underground parking area of our complex there is some strange white residue that appears like some sort of product of a water pipe leak. Overnight the residue falls down on my neighbours car. Is this something that requires a professional to address and/or fix? Or is this something that ju...

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Q: How to skip neighboring points while placing instances using geometry nodes?

Furkan IşıkI have created a 3D point grid via using Volume Cube Node and Distribute Points in Volume Node. But I do not want to put spheres on each point, rather I would like to skip each neighboring point. Kind of like in the attached ss. I am really new into blender and even putting the question in right ...

DIY
DIY
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Q: What is causing the pilot light to go out with a loud clunk?

ResorathOn particularly windy days like today, the pilot light in my furnace likes to go out. To try to confirm it is the wind blowing out the pilot light through the flue, I set up a camera and recorded this footage: Pilot light going out with a clunk The loud clunk is what is throwing me off. What coul...

 
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Q: Are joined Trill effectively pansexual and gender fluid?

Ryan TaylorWe are first introduced to the Trill in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Host" and learn that joined Trill are a combination of a humanoid host and a intelligent worm like symbiont. During the course of the episode the host is killed and the symbiont is joined with a new host, this...

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Q: Cannot find what the PCB reference designator "CE" refers to

markhyphenI'm trying to figure out what parts are being used on a board. There are various PCB reference designators that are stumping me and I'm having trouble figuring out what the components are. In this instance, the reference designator "CE" is being used. Is this a electrolytic capacitor? Any help w...

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Q: Why is halohydrin not formed In bromination of stilbene?

KatStilbene can be dibrominated using $\ce{HBr}$ and hydrogen peroxide in ethanol. Common sense would suggest that the major product should be the bromo-ethoxy product due to reaction with bromonium ion followed by the solvent since it outnumbers the strong nucleophile. But, in practice this is no...

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Q: Understanding Precision Recall in business context

BaktaawarSo, I know yet another Precision, Recall question which is asked umpteenth times now. I wanted to ask some specific business related questions. Imagine if you are building a classifier to predict which patient who are diagnosed with certain disease are most likely to going to become eligible for ...

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Q: 16 month old wants to co sleep, won’t sleep alone

SharaOur 16 month old son has been co sleeping with us since he was 9 months old. Usually we put him in his room to sleep when he’s already fallen asleep on me. He will sleep by himself for about an hour. He wakes up, and will not go back to bed unless I bring him to bed with us. We were told to put h...

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Q: Best way to send a boolean (1/0) to a windows application in real time?

Max BluhmI have an arduino mega connected to a light sensor that reads the status of a machine's indicator light. I have a C++ application that controls the machine, and I would like the arduino to send the application the status of the indicator light in real-time so that the application can control the ...

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Q: What are the absolute minimum required Permissions I need to download from Play Store?

user_dn34297I have a tablet I bought for work, and as I don't really need most of the apps on it, I am shutting down and disabling all the Google/Android Services I don't need. Seeing how I need to download some apps I need for work, I need to know the absolute minimum requirements in terms of Permissions (e...

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Q: How to get Vector Length in the compositor?

MentalistI have a Material node setup that processes color and I want to recreate that node tree for the Compositor. Unfortunately the setup relies on a Vector Math : Length node to accomplish what it does. Looking at the Blender Manual's entry for the Vector Math node, we can see that Length is performin...

RPG
RPG
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Q: What are some monsters that could trap NPCs for a long time without killing them?

CodeDependentI'm currently working on a campaign where time is moving faster within a certain region than in the rest of the world. As the players enter this region, I have some NPCs that I want them to rescue. The problem is that I need a convincing reason as to how these characters could have survived in t...

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Q: Integrated Brownian motion

Wang JingI occasionally see a post here: Integral of brownian motion wrt. time over [t;T]. This post has the conclusion that $\int_t^T W_s ds = \int_t^T (T-s)dB_s$. However, here is my derivation which is different from him and I don't know where I am wrong. First, we have: $$\mathrm{d}(uB_u) = u \mathrm{...

12:48
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Q: Can mowing weeds cause them to spread?

Mark RansomI know that there are plants that can sprout from cuttings, so I wonder about this. I have a mulching mower that deposits clippings back on the lawn. There are some weeds like thistles and violets that seem to thrive the more I mow them. Is it because my mower is propagating them?

TeX
TeX
13:03
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Q: Strange spacing

ThomasSThis MWE % Typeset with pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (MiKTeX 23.4) % (preloaded format=pdflatex 2023.4.30) 21 JUN 2023 06:48 \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \begin{document} \hbox to 5cm{This (what?) looks ugly} \end{document} gives the following output: It the spacing sup...

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Q: Hardy space inclusion in the right-half plane

Laurent LessardI'm looking for an example of a function $u \in H_2$ such that $u \notin H_\infty$, where $H_p$ is the Hardy space on the right-half plane. Since this notation is perhaps not standard, here is a complete definition. Let $\mathbb{C}^+ := \{s\in \mathbb{C} \mid \text{Re}(s) > 0 \}$ and $\bar{\mathb...

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Q: Why exchange bishop for knight in this endgame?

Steve BennettIn this position, Stockfish gives black (me) -8.1 and recommends BxN. 8/5p2/4pkpp/p1n5/Pp6/1Bb1PP2/2PNK2P/8 b - - 7 28 Instead I played Kf5 and the evaluation plummets to -2.1. My understanding was that generally bishops are preferred over knights in endgames, so I'm trying to understand what is...

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Q: How is the completeness of first order logic reconciled with the incompleteness of set theory?

SurprisedFirst Order Logic (FOL) is complete in the sense that: there is a proof procedure for FOL such that just the statements(/wffs) of FOL that are true and remain true under any re-interpretation of their non-logical terms (i.e. apart from "and", "not", "for all" etc.,) are theorems. Gödel's incomple...

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Q: Samsung SyncMaster 3 cannot show resolutions up from 800x600 despite manual saying otherwise

FrankenPCI am in the proud possession of a Samsung SyncMaster 3 monitor. In the reports and in the manual it says it can run 1024x768, but I cannot for the life of me make the resolution higher than 800x600. Please help me. Here are the manuals and reports in question : https://www.atarimagazines.com/comp...

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Q: Name of a 1970's ESP/Psychic-themed "docudrama" series?

Helbent IVPlot Summary/Details This one was a quasi-documentary style show that I believe was supposed to be based on (supposedly) actual real life occurrences of the paranormal. It wasn't, as best as I can remember, meant to be a fictional show in the vein of Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. I recall one ep...

CS
CS
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Q: Have Jonathan Pie's "allegations" been supported by the Privileges Committee report? "he lied, and did it again by denying that he’d previously lied"

uhohThe Evening Standard's June 20, 2023 MPs overwhelmingly back report finding Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over Partygate begins: MPs voted by 354 to seven to accept a report finding Boris Johnson deliberately misled the House of Commons over Partygate. 16 months ago I asked Are t...

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Q: Dedicated LPG Ute, long distance drive, VIC to QLD

S.MeeNeed to drive to Ipswich QLD from Ballarat VIC, have a dedicated LPG vehicle, anyone know which route would be the best to take for enough Petrol Stations that sell LPG? Is there an app or website with a map of LPG petrol stations? I cannot seem to find what I need.

14:08
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Q: Sum of Three Primes and Vinogradov's Theorem

zero2infinityMy course instructor told me that every odd number greater than $5$ is sum of three primes. However the following statement is confusing. But there is a theorem by Vinogradov that states There exists some X > 0 such that every integer n > X can be expressed as a sum of three odd primes. So I am c...

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Q: Writing a separate package vs copy pasting small amount of reused code

Elliot SolskjaerI have two npm packages that build on top of our core software platform. Their core functionality is mostly different, except for how they serialize data. This is and will predictably stay identical for as long as these systems operate. The code for serializing said data is very short (~200ish LO...

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Q: Mixing materials with Geometry Nodes?

ZyzioDo you have any idea to recreate the node setup below, but in such a way that instead of a True/False switch you get a Float input from 0 to 1? I'm asking because I would like to create an animation that will allow you to smoothly change materials in all objects in a given collection. Thx. I'm ...

DIY
DIY
14:48
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Q: Dryer, laundry, bathroom in 3/4” flex FMC?

divBCan I have one 240V 40A circuit with 3x8AWG (clothes dryer) and two 20A circuits (washer and bathroom circuit, 120V with neutral each) together in one 3/4” flex SMC? I believe so but I haven’t found a definite answer. In terms of fill it should be definitely ok (3x8AWG+4x12AWG is 28.39% fill for ...

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Q: How to prove the correct decryption of several (ElGamal) ciphertexts in a batch?

user109993I know how to prove the correct decryption of a (ElGamal) ciphertext. The above protocol is from the paper: Bootle J, Cerulli A, Chaidos P, et al. Short accountable ring signatures based on DDH[C]//European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015...

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Q: Why are the results of the dd command not reflected immediately?

gyunn35hi i currently have a question about the result after using dd command. [root@localhost sdb2]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 898M 0 898M 0% /dev tmpfs 910M 0 910M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 910M ...

16:13
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Q: Entering another Schengen country with a Fiktionsbescheinigung without entering germany first

QWERTY I have gotten a Fiktionsbescheinigung with third box ticked. I’ll be travelling from germany but for the return I’m planning to go to hungary. So my question is would the immigration officer in hungary allow it or will I have to enter germany first and then go to hungary. Has someone done somethi...

GIS
GIS
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Q: QGIS - expression join attrributes by location

JonathanI'd like to sum up values from a point layer in my polygon layer from points lying within the polygon. I only found it with the processing toolbox, but that creates a new layer. But I just want to make a new field in my polygon layer that updates when I place a new point. My case: I have a polygo...

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Q: The problem of solutions of ordinary differential equations

little starI am using MMA to compute the solution of a system of ordinary differential equations, they are as follows, Clear["`*"] DSolve[{( g[r] + G1[r])*(1/r^2 + 1/r ( Derivative[1][g][r] + Derivative[1][G1][r])/( g[r] + G1[r])) == g[r]*(1/r^2 + 1/r Derivative[1][g][r]/g[r]), ( ...

16:44
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Q: Fine-tuning LLM or prompting engineering?

FrankFor some type of chatbot like a customized chatbot, it may be better to fine tune the LM for the domain specific data and the type of question in stead of relying on the prompt as prompts have to be processed by the LM every time? Another reason is that how can the system add the correct prompt f...

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Q: Write full box to topology file + script representation

Marco Di GennaroI would like topo writelammpsdata to print the full box, while it seems only to be printing one molecule. I have loaded several molecules in a box with VMD - here working with water and benzene as an example. Although the box looks alright, I am not able to correctly topo writelammpsdata. Essenti...

TeX
TeX
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Q: Kurier font, greek letters not displaying properly with siunitx

PyonTrying to use the kurier font along with the siunitx package via pdflatex. In math-mode, the font looks good, but when using siunitx with detect-all the Greek letters are not using the correct font. Below is an MWE and preview. Any help would be appreciated. MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepack...

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Q: Sitecore Horizon for 10.3 (not Managed Cloud)

Serhii ShushliapinAs this documentation page states, Sitecore Horizon got obsolete in 10.3. Unfortunately, there is no any info what to use instead for Sitecore 10.3, k8s, (not Managed Cloud). Is going back to Experience Editor the only option here?

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CS
17:03
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Q: Trailer spare tire mount: U-bolt threads too long for lug wrench

User1974I'm installing a spare tire mount (U-bolt) on the tongue of my boat trailer. https://www.princessauto.com/en/spare-trailer-tire-u-bolt-mount/product/PA0008007005 The tire mount/U-bolt's threads are quite long -- far too long for my lug wrench to reach down over the threads to the lug nuts. How c...

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Q: How to answer the interview question "What advice would you give your former workplace?"

AvenstoroI applied for a job. After applying I was asked to respond to a short survey. I can't remember the exact wording but one of the questions was "What advice would you give your current/most recent employer and what would you change?" My most recent job was really good and it would be hard to pinpoi...

17:30
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Q: Symmetry group of an hourglass shape, the molecule Ferrocene.

Pierrick LeroyI am starting to learn (Visual) Group Theory and I saw this hourglass shaped molecule Ferrocene: I am wondering what group is described by its symmetries. On top of the five rotations I think there are vertical $v$ and horizontal $h$ flips. Mapping its Cayley Diagram gave me $4$ cycles with flip...

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Q: How does lowess handle gaps in time series?

KrautsultanI have been using the lowess smoother to calculate trends for time series data for a while now but until now my data was always without gaps. I now have to work with data where there are quite large gaps in time (~2h for minute sampled data so ~120 missing samples) and by reading the documentatio...

TeX
TeX
17:41
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Q: Theorem environment overrides personal commands

SimoPapeI have defined a \imag command to assign the value of the imaginary unit with the font \texttt. However when I call the command \imag inside a theorem environment with the plain style the font is printed with the italic font. Does anyone know of a general way to solve this problem? The following ...

17:58
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Q: stream a "big" array of measures to a server through wifi

AlekseyFedorovichI'm measuring accelerations at "high frequency" (4kHz) from an accelerometer (ADXL355/ADXL357) to an esp32. It's crucial that no sample is lost while performing a measure which last say 2 seconds, thus I first record all the samples and then send the complete array of measures to a server over wi...

TeX
TeX
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Q: Letting drawings ignore a contour without drawing over the label

TrailblazerI used the contour package to label an edge. I wish for other edges, to not be interrupted by the contour around the label. This can be achieved by just drawing those edges after the labelled one. But this draws over the label which makes it harder to read it if I use different colors. The follow...

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Q: Is it legal for an employer in CA to ask for another form of ID when you already provided ID from List A (passport) for Form I-9?

Amanda SanchezI recently applied, and was hired, for a retail position. When I was completing the onboarding forms online, I entered my ssn and I selected which form of ID I would present them at the store. The onboarding site stated I could either show them my passport (from List A) or show them two other for...

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Q: How do you make M2 Ultra with lithography?

Meatball PrincessThe M2 Ultra chip is unusual not because it's a single chip made of two halves, but because the halves are centrosymmetric images of each other instead of translation. Assuming the wafer is exposed first for the odd-numbered patterns, flipped 180 degrees, then for the even-numbered ones, Can you...

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Q: Is group associativity equivalent to assuming equivalence of left and right inverses?

richardAssociativity is usually taken as one of the axioms that define a group, however I'm sure I recall reading that it can instead be proved if it is taken as axiomatic that the left and right inverses are the same. In other words, given a set, $G$, and a binary relation, $\cdot$, can we prove that ...

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Q: Cleaning sand out of brifter

SSilkRecently while trying scootinf through a ditch that had soft dry sand at the bottom, my front wheel bogged down and I had to awkwardly hop off the bike over the bars. In the process my bike summersaulted forward. One of those goofy moments that's hard to describe properly. Not a big deal and no i...

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Q: How to know if increases in self-reported marijuana usage are real?

UnderwoodLet's take Colorado for example. Considering the prior existence of penalties for marijuana use, it is reasonable to expect that people may have been less inclined to admit their marijuana usage prior to its legalization. Therefore, even if the data reflects an increase in self-reported marijuana...

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Q: Why are Search & Rescue aircraft looking for the OceanGate Titan submarine not visible on ADS-B Exchange?

RockPaperLz- Mask it or CasketCurrently, there is an ongoing Search and Rescue mission being conducted by Canada, the United States, and commercial operators to find and rescue the crew of the OceanGate Titan submersible vessel (submarine) in the area of the Titanic. Reportedly, this Search and Rescue mission involves multipl...

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TeX
19:22
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Q: Gap between array columns

AlanI am using an array inside a tcolorbox, but I am getting this unwanted gap between the columns of the array. How do I make this array perfectly fit into the parent tcolorbox and remove the gap between columns? \documentclass[a4paper]{book} \usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry} \usepackage{avant} \us...

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Q: How did ZX Spectrum games loaders prevent the use of MERGE?

Paul MarkhamThe MERGE command could be used on early games to load the first BASIC program block without it auto-running, but in later games, the use of MERGE caused the machine to hang. How was this achieved?

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Q: Can dark matter accumulate at Lagrange points?

user51304Interplanetary dust can accumulate at Lagrange points . "Kordylewski cloud - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kordylewski_cloud But can dark matter accumulate at Lagrange points and is there evidence for this for example between pairs of galaxies or between the earth and moon?

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Q: Lilypond paper settings

kargirwarI want to incorporate Lilypond generated PDFs into a book. I would like to have two sided PDFs. I referred here: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/horizontal-spacing-paper-variables. But can't quite figure out what is the correct syntax. This is what I tried so far: \paper { ...

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Q: Confusion regarding Geodesics

Sekh SokalSuppose we have a causal curve and we can cover the causal curve by convex normal neighborhoods. We also know that, in convex normal neighborhood there will exist a unique geodesic inside the neighborhood, connecting any two points in the neighborhood. So, my question is: Are we making the curve ...

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Q: If Boris Johnson returns as an MP, would he have to serve the 90-day suspension for lying to Parliament?

Silver FoxParliament has accepted the partygate report, which investigated whether Boris Johnson misled parliament. The report recommended a 90-day suspension and that he should be denied a former member's pass to the parliamentary estate. However, as BJ has resigned as an MP he doesn't have to serve the s...

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Q: What is this disc-like switch called?

44yu5hThe black disc on the left side of the Bluetooth speaker is used to seek music (previous track / next track). It rotates only halfway and centers automatically with some spring-mechanism. This is an image from an amazon-review so this is the only image I have. I want to use the same for navigatio...

GIS
GIS
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Q: QGIS: How to copy-paste multiple values from one feature to other features in the same layer?

i.i.k.I have added some features to my layer and want to copy paste certain values from certain columns to the newly added features. Have a look the image. The values of the feature at the bottom should be copy and pasted into the three features above. At the moment I copy and paste each single value ...

RPG
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Q: Attack with more than 2 weapons without having 3 or more arms?

Terry WindwalkerI guess doing so will cause the rest of the weapons not to be benefited from the Two-Weapon Fighting feat. And since the PC (a normal humanoid) doesn't have three or more arms, he cannot take multiweapon fighting, which renders this tactic useless. So one of my fighters wants to do this: Horned H...

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Q: The pronoun " on"

Shadow sparkle Does anyone have any information on why they decided to use "on" as the informal way to say " we " in French? And why we conjugate the verb that comes after that exactly like Elle and il? I read this while researching " Before becoming a personal pronoun, « on » was a common name. « On » was firs...

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Q: Why aren't derailer hangers made into standard shapes?

RobertThat small piece of metal can render a bike unrideable, and sometimes a repacement is impossible to find. There are standards for headsets, bottom brackets, brake mounting points, OLD and dropouts, etc, that frame manufacturers follow. Are there no standards for the hanger shape, so people can ea...

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Q: Importing LTSpice Library or Component model from Github

WissaInstead of having my library on my machine which runs LTSpice, I want to put them on the cloud, something like Github, where I save all my library components, models and symbols and import them to my LTspice where ever I am and share them with others. LTspice has .inc and .lib directives to impor...

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Q: Who Was Jonathan the Grandson of Moses (or Manasseh) in Judges 18:30?

Dan FeffermanThe Book of Judges relates a story of the founding of a northern settlement by the tribe of Dan, in which the Danites conquer a defenseless town and set up an idolatrous shrine there. The priest at this altar is a a young Levite named Jonathan, identified by most translators as the grandson of Mo...

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Q: How can i create a function that takes Sets as input?

100xln2The function takes a list of integers as an input and spits out a vector of length l, that contains 1 at the positions that are specified in the list, else zeros. Lets say that l=5; A:={1,4}; then f[A]={1,0,0,1,0} A:={1,2,3} OGV[A,l_]:=Table[If[Element[i,A], a[i]=1,a[i]=0],{i,1,l}] It gives me...

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Q: Why simply moving the coax cable away from power panel can have such huge difference in errors?

GratefulDiscipleI wonder whether anyone has experienced this. My coax cable drop from the cable company emerged through my basement wall close to my power circuit breaker panel. Initially I hooked up the coax cable directly to my cable modem (Motorola MB8600) as straight down as possible (to avoid bends) to the ...

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TeX
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Q: Weird first line indentation in verse after ragged2e ending in line break

14mRh4X0rIn a multi-author project, I noticed a weird indentation in the first line of a verse environment directly following any ragged2e environment if it ends in a line break (\\): \documentclass{article} \usepackage{ragged2e,verse} \begin{document} \begin{FlushLeft} Hallo\\ Hallo\\ \end{Flus...

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CS
22:57
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Q: How can I replace a potentiometer with a fixed resistor on a buck converter?

Ashish1313I want to use a buck converter which steps down 12 V DC to 5 V constant DV output to power my custom PCB. I came across a buck converter in market which can do it but there is potentiometer on it which can be adjusted to vary the output voltage. Below you can see the schematic for the buck conver...

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Q: Determining four rational numbers, given their pairwise sums

liayn15 The pairwise sums of four weights (rational numbers) are: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16. What are the four weights? I tried intuitively solving as well as making equations to solve it. If we assume weights in ascending order as: A, B, C, D, then the smallest two weights should sum to 6 (A + B = 6), and ...

RPG
RPG
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Q: How Exactly Do I Balance Combat Encounters In D&D With The Rules From The DMG?

O-Castitatis-LiliumSo, I have a quick question about the encounter balancing. Now, I know HOW to do it, and I have done it the same way all the way through CoS...but I'm starting to think I might be wrong here. When it says to round it down to an appropriate XP threshold for the party, am I supposed to take enemies...

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Q: How to verify that multipart zip file is valid

b00kgrrlI want to verify that a multipart zip file that I've created is valid, but because of the 4 GB output limit imposed by my filesystem, I am unable to do so. I used the following command to create a multipart zip file: zip -9 -r -s 3g MyArchive.zip MyDirectory I then attempted to verify that the r...

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Q: Could we view a list of patents filed by an attorney on USPTO website?

ratib90486Is this possible? I'm looking to hire attorneys who are majoring in certain fields.

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Q: problem aligning equation to text

Daniel Bomfim dos SantosI wrote this equation, and it exceeds the space of the page, getting too big or misaligned with the text. I'm using the overleaf model \documentclass[conference,a4paper]{IEEEtran} {\footnotesize \begin{equation} \begin{aligned} &-\frac{356826171875*X^{15} }{3487131648}+\frac{2235361328125*X^{14}}...


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