Let's say, I have an array of numbers which define the length of vertical vector. a={2.82345, -1.47024, -8.24342, -18.139, -22.7169, -13.6214, -4.18446, \ -0.0518885, -0.337122, -4.40746, -7.29603, -8.45888, -5.10904, \ 1.46547, 12.2129, 19.4917, 14.5857, 7.07756, 3.33114, 1.84374, \ 0.292122, -2...

We are experimenting with a glucose test strip (below) in our chemistry lab using an electrochemical method where a potential is applied (150 mV) across the working and reference electrodes and the resulting current is measured across the working and counter electrodes. We have found that sampli...

I am collecting data from multiple files and dumping into a single summary file. cat *files* | sort -u > final.rpt a 1 a 5 a 6 b 2 b 3 b 0 c 1 c 7 How can I uniquify based on string in first column and sum all the number in second column corresponding to that string. For the example above expec...

In many (civil law) countries, there are strong restrictions limiting people's right to change their names. For example, even after an upcoming reform, Germans who are not part of a minority must choose a family name shared by at least one parent. Married couples can choose a double name, but t...

Why is it that only turboprops have a pilot controlled flight/ground idle and not jets?

In the lecture notes I have, the constrain set in the equality case is defined as $S \cap \{x\in \mathbb{R}^n : g(x)=0\}$ where $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ open. The inequality and equality-inequality cases are similarly defined. Then the examples do not use the set $S$. Why in the definition this...

Mucinous carcinoma is a rare type of cancer. It starts in the main cells of mucus, called mucin. Although this type of cancer can develop anywhere, it’s most common in your breast. [ Cleveland Clinic] I am looking for experimental data on the usage of radiotherapy techniques against this rare ...

What professional should I seek out to get financial advise on how to make ends meet with my current budget, expenses, and retirement accounts? My situation is life is hitting us hard and fast: We don't have an emergency funds nor income to build one Our car died and we had to get a new one Expe...

Farmer Ned bought a pasture surrounded by a beautiful wooden fence. He built a dividing fence and moved his horses to one end and his cows to the other. But the next day, most of his new neighbors called to report animals in their yards. It turns out the fences were not as sturdy as he thought. N...

I've created an integer sequence where, after the first two elements, every element is calculated using the previous two. If the first two numbers are $1$ and $3$, the sequence goes as follows: $$1, 3, 6, 8, 12, 15, 20, 22, 33, 36, 38, 57, 60, 62, 93, 96, 98, 105, 108$$ If the sequence starts wit...

In the 5th edition version of Spelljammer, how do ships that are cruising (100 million miles per day speed) (about 1157.4 miles per second) notice other ships? According to the Astral Adventurer's Guide, while in the Astral Sea, creatures onboard need only think about possible ships near them: O...

As the title says, given a valid chess move in algebraic notation, produce the string describing the move. Example: fxg8=Q+ -> Pawn takes g8 promotes to Queen check Bb7# -> Bishop to b7 mate Here is a list of all the keywords and their respective notation R -> Rook x -> ta...

For $f$, $g$ and $h$ cochains, the Hirsch formula is given as $ (f\cup g)\cup_1 h=f\cup (g\cup_1 h)+(-1)^{q(r-1)}(f\cup_1 h)\cup g \, .$ Is there a more general formula that relates the associativity of $\cup_2$ product with $\cup_1$ and $\cup$? For example, is it known how to express $f\cup (g\c...

Context: Chatting with a friend on Whatsapp. We both were following a diet plan, but today I didn't commit to it due to a family occasion. How do I communicate this properly: "Today went well, but wavered on the diet" <-- not sure if this is a correct sentence or if it expresses the fact that I a...

I have an angle in degrees and I want it to be encoded between $-1, ..., 1$ to make it easier for a neural network. I thought it might be a good idea to first convert the angle into radians and then take the sine of it. To get the angle back in degrees, first use arcsin and then convert to degree...

I think my question applies to most games, but for the sake of concreteness, I shall consider one specific game in this question. We consider the game posed by Ilias Kastanas in his paper On the Ramsey property for sets of reals: We first fix some $X \subseteq [\omega]^\omega$. Player I start by...

I'll try to state this formally, forgive me if I botch the notation. Let $$R=\{n : n+1 \in\mathbb{P}\}.$$ Then the question is, $$\exists S \subset (\mathbb{N} \setminus R)\text{ for }s\text{ of finite length, such that }\sum_{s\in S}{\frac{1}{s}}=1 ?$$ It is not hard to find finite subsets of $\...

Can radiography with gamma rays be used in medicine? If not, why not? Is it a technical issue (gamma rays are not easy to generate or detect for this purpose) or is it a safety issue (gamma rays are too dangerous)?

Je suis tombé sur le poème "Histoire de Mlle Manon" de J.-Joseph Vadé. Dans la première strophe, on peut lire : Qui veut savoir l'histoire entière, De mamselle Manon la couturière, Et de monsieur son cher amant, Qui l'aimait zamicalement. Sait-on pourquoi l'auteur a écrit "zamicalement", et non "...

Benjamin Tucker writes in the first chapter, page 15, of Individual Liberty: And it is an ideal that can be as little advanced by the forcible expropriation recommended by John Most and Prince Kropotkine as retarded by the brooms of those Mrs. Partingtons of the bench who sentence them to prison...

How I can plot the flowing image using Mathematica? Thanks,

I've never seen it before, and I found it on this video. I know it's an accidental, though.

In Russian military Tg channels who mocked the "grain deal" from the beginning, there was a recurring theme that Ukraine is exploiting Russian weakness and unpreparedness for confrontation by hauling military supply directly by sea, from Turkey or elsewhere. One freqeuent variation was that Ukrai...

So, the prospect of siccing a semper tyrannis on the current POTUS has been discussed for the past quarter millennium or so. This has left me wondering, what sort of laws are there against murdering, or otherwise criminally ending the life of, the president compared to a regular citizen?

I'm looking for a science fiction short story about an alien society that lives underground, and there is a widespread sense of detachment from one's offspring, and children being raised isolated from their parents and never having contact with them. I remember the protagonist (probable a "female"...

We don't use logrotate in our legacy servers. So, I want to use logrotate with a cron job. But my team insists on doing something else. i.e. just writing a cron and a random one line script that finds *.log and removes them. Problem is that I'm unable to tell exactly what are the advantages of us...

I’ve always heard and seen diagrams that show spacetime as being “flat” or in 2 dimensions with curvature. How does this correspond to the 3 spacial dimensions that we perceive to exist in?

This is a bit of a soft question, but is there a difference between rigorous and formal, and if so, what is it? I have seen those terms used interchangeably, and I use them interchangeably myself, but is there a distinction between the two?

What I remember is the show was Live action Sci-fi'ish In English At earliest late 80s, most likely 90s, definitely not more recent than early 2000s. One crucial early plot device was a portable computer, roughly suit-case sized, that a younger wiz kid receives, (possibly wins at a computer rel...

I am making a simple table with NiceTabular, one of its columns must occupy 6 rows, specifically of the second column. The problem is with the rules (is it possible?), and depend of options using the command \NiceMatrixOptions{rules/color=black, hvlines} For example, the two possibilities were: \...

Stevin's Notation is a way to represent decimals in a non-fractional way. The Flemish mathematician and engineer Simon Stevin is remembered for his study of decimal fractions. Although he was not the first to use decimal fractions (they are found in the work of the tenth-century Islamic mathemat...

I know that just because some action or state of affairs is morally right, that does not mean it will actually happen. So, does that mean morality is counterfactual in nature? Or am I misunderstanding something?

I want to run linear regression on a dataset who is too large to be loaded into memory. I intend to simply calculate $$\left(\sum_{i=1}^n x_ix_i^T\right)^{-1} \cdot \left(\sum_{i=1}^n x_iy_i\right)$$ but one issue is that my input data is all different scales. If the scale is sufficiently small, ...

Assume, we have a key that appears in either of the three rooms randomly (red room, blue room, and green room). We have the following probability distribution: P(key appears in red room) = 0.35 P(key appears in green room) = 0.40 P(key appears in blue room) = 0.25 It is intuitive to say that whe...

What should an individual be doing after finishing his personal Amidah while waiting for the chazzan's repetition to start? Do the same restrictions apply during this period as the period while the chazzan is actually reciting the repetition (What should you be doing during the repetition of the ...

The following puzzle is a variant of a puzzle published in the May 8, 1926 issue of THE WINNIPEG TRIBUNE MAGAZINE: In the picture below there are nine trees arranged in two rows with five trees in each row. The puzzle is to reposition four of the trees leaving the other trees untouched so that y...

Can flashbangs in real life make you see all black for a few seconds instead of all white? Before this get's closed as offtopic, no I'm not planning a terrorist attack, I'm making a videogame and I wanna know if it's possible to have flashbangs made with normal real stuff that's already available...

This is a very odd question, but I just so happened to be observing a pint of beer and realized that the bubbles floating up seemed to travel faster towards the center of the glass than towards the edges of the glass. My first assumption was that the sides of the glass cause friction which slows ...

A lone Physicist discovers how to fuse a common element, probably Iron. He is debating whether he should suppress the knowledge by not submitting a paper. He reflects on his life and how 'Hell is other people' but has finally decided to suppress the knowledge. Then some unruly youths break the wi...

Why is there no infinite natural number, and why does finiteness need to be closed under the successor function? I think can understand why something like $…S(S(0))…$ is not a natural number because it is not the successor of anything. Likewise, I can see why $S(S(…))$ is not a natural number bec...

The Russian translation for "effectiveness" seems to be "эффективность", a word that sounds pretty similar to "effectiveness" and also initially would seem to be able to be used interchangeably to describe the same concept in both languages. However, the Russian translation for "efficiency" is also

I am relatively inexperienced with QGIS. I seeking to access building footprints in a 20km radius from the centre of Melbourne city, Australia. The dataset I am hoping to use is Bing's 2020 Australia Building Footprint collection that is located here and can be downloaded here. The problem I'm en...

Cross post from Maths stack exchange The integral $$ I(m)=\frac{1}{4\pi}\int_{-\pi}^{\pi}\mathrm{d}x\int_{-\pi}^\pi\mathrm{d}y\phantom{,} \frac{m\cos(x)\cos(y)-\cos x-\cos y}{\left( \sin^2x+\sin^2y +(m-\cos x-\cos y)^2\right)^{3/2}} $$ gives the Chern number of a certain vector bundle 1 over a ...

In trapped ion quantum computing, while optical qubits have an energy difference of hundreds of THz, hyperfine qubits operate in the microwave regime ($1\sim 10$ THz). Due to this reason, hyperfine qubits have longer lifetimes (thinking in terms of the time-energy Heisenberg uncertainty principle...

Context In trying to make modular linear power supply with digital control, I figured I'd need a DAC to output the correct voltages into the feedback circuitry (two - one for voltage and one for max current). I wanted these to be 16-bit so I could have ~1mV precision in a 60V supply. Question Whe...

Some British style guides recommend that punctuation should go after quotation marks, unless the punctuation is part of the thing being quoted. So you would write She said "hello", then waved. However, if I typeset this in LaTeX it looks kind of bad, with too much space between the quotes and t...

Basically, giant crabs ridden by humans as cavalry, I just don't know if it's a good idea, and I could use some answers on how to make it work. The setting is medieval fantasy. The Giant Crabs won't really have a diverse diet, so ration problems, but then again they are giant crabs, with shells a...

I am considering these two sentences: I have no idea. I have no ideas. Are they both correct, and if so, are they synonymous?

I am using a TPS2546 in a USB charging hub, and I'm basing it on a preexisting design I found online (link to writeup for design). In the schematic for the hub design the ILIM_SEL, EN, CTL1, CTL2, and CTL3 pins are all pulled up or down with pullup and pulldown resistors. As can be seen in the ph...

Clear["Global`*"]; f[z_] := z^(2 m) /（1+z)^m res = SeriesCoefficient[f[z], {z, -1, -1}, Assumptions -> Element[m, PositiveIntegers]] The result is a DifferenceRoot form solution. How to convert it into a special function: (* ((-4)^(-1 + m) m Pochhammer[3/2, -1 + m])/Pochhammer[3, -1 + m] ...

I have a setting where I want the atmosphere to basically be filled, heavily and consistently, with a bunch of small, airborne bacteria-like cells/microscopic biomatter. For the sake of keeping the question focused on the effects of the actual environment at hand, let's disregard any and all effe...

‎"I never asked that question before." "I never said that." From my memories I forgot where I heard this. English speakers especially Americans sometimes use simple past to mean present perfect, is that true?

I have this deformed plane covered in some models I made: While the models are rotated to match the normal of the surface, The only issue is that I want the models to face different directions, while the base of the model is still aligned with the normal of the surface. My current geometry node ...

As a follow-up to When Did Israel First Expect Deliverance from Egypt?, I would like to add: In Gen 42:25, we read (regarding Joseph)--- And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man's money again in their sac...

There are 2 places I can type this character from my keyboard, and I don't know if they are the same character. These are the characters: - and - I would like to know which one of these options this character (if they are the same) is. The choices are: Hyphen En Dash Em Dash I am learning the d...

This returns line numbers but they are in a string: grep -n -F -w $word $file | cut -d : -f 1

"It is a good habit for children to read books everyday." I'm not quite sure how to analyze this sentence. Is the "it" a dummy pronoun? I think the whole infinitive clause is "for children to read books" So, basically it can be written like this: For children to read books everyday is a good ha...

Using this query: SELECT A.CACHE_BUFFER_TOTAL, B.CACHE_BUFFER_USED, A.CACHE_BUFFER_TOTAL - B.CACHE_BUFFER_USED AS CACHE_BUFFER_FREE FROM (SELECT BYTES / 1024 / 1024 AS CACHE_BUFFER_TOTAL FROM V$SGAINFO WHERE NAME = 'Buffer Cache Size') A, (SELECT (SELEC...

This question came up during public records training at a public organization in Washington state, but I am interested in the general case. That said, I've provided the specific hypothetical about public records at the end in case it is useful for understanding the question. Suppose you are an em...

Example list My understanding of Historic Gates is that they win by getting 9 different Gates into play and then activating Maze's End. There is a secondary plan of direct beatdown with big creatures (Primeval Titan, sometimes Gatebreaker Ram, and Zacama/Atraxa/Ulamog as in the example decklist),...

I am trying to solve numerically some equations involving the PolyLog function, for example: NSolve[-PolyLog[2, -z] == 10^5, z, Reals] However, I encounter the error: NSolve::nsmet: This system cannot be solved with the methods available to NSolve. I tried using a series approximation to PolyLo...

This is part 36 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, The numbers in blue form a Tapa puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid so that the numbered cells correctly indicate the number and lengths of stretches of shaded cells in the eight...

There is a question for how to help another player remember the rules. We have a slightly different problem: our DM is forgetting how even our most commonly used character features work, and is constantly perplexed how we get to our attack bonus or damage, or whatever it may be that works in our ...

I created a object, when I bevelled it with 0.01 amount and added a Subdivision modifier. It leaves a sharp edge. How can I solve it. Please help me solving it. i am actually trying to do like this

TL;DR: I'm seeking a fireplace that can have two thermostats installed in parallel, a "smart" and a "dumb" thermostat, and that can run during a power outage. The "dumb" thermostat would be a backup so the fireplace would still light up if the "smart" thermostat does not have power. My research t...

I followed the OpenTTD Wiki, which explains how ratings are calculated, and also cross-checked with the implementation. According to this table, I should get around 210 points, which should map roughly to 82%. I'm in 1961 and use trains with 144 max speed Vehicles are older than 2 years Two tra...

Suppose that graphs $A$ and $B$ with $V(A)=V(B)$ have Hadwiger numbers $a$ and $b$. That is, $K_a$ and $K_b$ are the largest clique minors of $A$ and $B$, respectively. Are there upper bounds on the Hadwiger number of the union graph $A\cup B$ (with edge set $E(A\cup B)=E(A)\cup E(B)$) using $a$ ...

According to When is a number a magic number?, I know magic number should not exists, so I know the following code about creating a Label from some UI framework and set the color RGB needs to be improved: Magic number version: Label* label=Label::create("someText"); label->setRGBColor(32,128,192...

For years I have been using GPOs to install MSIs to our Windows clients. All MSIs resided under a single \\fileserver\share, with a GPO assigned to each MSI for installation. Currently, out AD servers are Windows Server 2019 systems (DFS-R for replication). Since we have a number of remote office...

I wonder if this kind of phrase is common in German. For example, I want to say: He changed the oil of my brother's son's car. the oil of my brother's son's car I translate that this way: Er wechselte das Öl des Autos des Sohnes meines Bruders. Does it make sense?

We have theoretical questions in our exams (often in ABCD format). For example, I can state the question: For an indefinite integral, does it hold that $\int f(g(x)) \cdot g'(x) \, dx = \int f(x) dx $? or should I state the question: Let $f, g: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be two stri...

When it comes to functions (non-member functions in c++), marking them as static gives them internal linkage. This means that they are not visible outside the translation unit. Why isn't this the default? I don't have a good statistic but from what i've seen most functions in implementation files...

I’m doing a little project for Wolfram Demonstration. When I create snapshots, i.e. paste several times Output cell of Manipulate, all of them updates simultaneously, if any control is changed. I understand it’s about localizing variables, trying to apply Module inside and outside - nothing helps...

I was planning to make two portions, but didn't have enough potable water. Then I decided to make four portions, and the water was plentiful. What food was I making? Hint 1: Hint 2:

The background is we have our database data directory on an LV which locates on a VG, we want to use the LVM's snapshot function to backup our database data, but this VG has no free PEs left, we also could not shrink the LV(we use XFS). The VG has two PVs, with each PV a raid10(each with 8 hard d...

I find myself in a complex situation involving citations between a published paper and the thesis from which it originated. Here are the key details: I submitted my thesis for examination and, during the 8-month review period, published a paper based on one of its chapters. The paper was also acc...

Trying to replicate these photos but not sure how. 1st photo is mine and the rest are thewatchbox.com photos. There photos have more deeper colors and pop more. Mine seem to have a grey tone to it. Anything I can do pre or post production to enhance my photos? I use 3 strobe lights, a cylindrical...

n1 = {6 - 8 m, -2 + 8 m, 4}; n2 = {2, 2, 4}; Solve[VectorAngle[n1, n2] == 150 Degree, m, Reals] Why can't the equation with the angle between vectors be solved?

I am trying to computing the overall spectrum of a given signal from its Short-Time-Fourier-Transform. I am using python to do this and I wrote my function to compute the STFT: def compute_stft(x, window_size, hop_size): # Calculate the number of frames == number of samples of the entire signal -...

Let's Draw! STEP 1 DDD DDD STEP 2 VVD DCC STEP 3 N VVD DCC U STEP 4 N VVK ECC U ...so what'd you make?

Suppose we have the following variables: Height, a continuous variable Sport, a dummy equal to 1 if the person did any sports when young; Vitamins, a dummy equal to 1 if the person took any extra vitamins when young. We set up the following regression: (1) Height = a + b•Sport + c•Vitamins + ...

In Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl", there are repeated mentions of "singing benna", in a sequential pattern: [...] soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?; always eat your food in such a way that it won’t turn someone else’s stomach; on Sundays try ...

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Discovery mission is a one way trip. After the exploration phase, the astronauts will enter hibernation until rescued by Discovery II. As the hibernation period will be longer than the return to Earth, the implication is that it is a lack of propellant that prevents ...

Sometimes I do a repetitive task via a macro, but it ends up too complicated and I make a mistake somewhere. Then when I try to execute the macro, everything happens at once and I can't see where I went wrong, so instead of trying to edit the macro I just attempt to re-record it (with variable su...

I have a package name like package-0.0.1.jar and I need to remove the version information as well as the file ending .jar from this string. How can I achieve this? I have seen that you can use the "%" sign to cut parts of a string. So I tried JNAME="package-0.0.1.jar" CLEAN="${JNAME%-.*\.jar}" b...

I have a few questions relating to the difference between words that start with da (like darüber, darauf, dazu, usw). These questions are similar, but not exactly the same to, the ones asked here: "darüber" vs "über es", and the "dar"-family How do the "da-" and "wo-" prefixes work? but my questi...

In a scientific paper I came across the comparator circuit with hysteresis shown in the picture. The authors of the paper use this circuit to control the voltage at a capacitor. If the voltage at the capacitor exceeds a level Vdc,max the comparator should output high, if the voltage falls below t...

I've been struggling for so long on this practice question for circuit analysis. Am new to this topic so would really appreciate some guidance! :) The question is as follows: With the load Rl removed, find Vthv (using KCL) and Rthv across terminals A and B. I ended up finding the potential diffe...

I read Arthur C. Clarke's Expedition to Earth when I was in elementary school although I struggled to understand it, it made a strong impression on me and I hope to find a good time to read it again. I'm curious to know if any movies have been created based on the stories in this book.

A few months ago i was at a very good asian restaurant and i had ramen with chicken in it. The chicken was cut in small "flakes" (around 2cmx1cm rectangles and really thin), was super juicy, tender and had a special chicken taste like i have never tasted it before. Searching for chicken ramen rec...

I made this effect in Cinema 4D, objects scaling radially, but I can't figure out how to do this in Blender using Geometry nodes. Any idea? C4D radial transition

I have a wall switch that currently controls a wall outlet. I don't have or want a light plugged into that outlet. I'm comfortable reconfiguring the circuit so that the outlet is powered directly and the switch is out of the picture -- both ends of the switch go to the outlet gang box so it's eas...

I know fishes, birds, lizards, etc. lay and hatch from eggs (mostly), but apparently, they can also be born (out of eggs): Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. Alejandro Jodorowsky There are also such statements as: No bird gives birth to live young. Some birds are known to give ...

Does the metal shell of a connector, such as USB and HDMI, serve a conducting purpose? The metal shell of my TV's HDMI terminal is corroded. Should I make effort to have it contacting and conducting well?

-But Orwell obviously admired him. He wouldn’t have named his hero for him otherwise. -No, no, no. It seemed to many of the first American readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four that Winston Smith’s name was a symbol of a noble free tradition lost for ever. But it was nothing of the kind -1985 by Antho...

I have a random variable $ X $. Im suppossed to prove or disprove if $ X \in {\mathscr L}^5 $, then $ X \in {\mathscr L}^1$. However, I dont know what $\mathscr L $ is suppossed to mean. I dont have the script for the course so I dont know how it was defined. However, I know that lebesque integra...

These are attached to the model, so i can't unjoin it.

I'm currently working on a LaTeX document and I need to include a diagram that looks like the one shown in the attached image. After some research, it seems that TikZ might be the tool to achieve this. I've attempted to create the diagram using both Tikzmaker and Tikzit, but I'm encountering diff...

Recently i received around 1400 USDC on my Ethereum wallet that I access through Metamask. Today I opened Metamask because I wanted to transfer those USDC, but I found that there were no USDC anymore in my wallet. This is my address on etherscan: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa1ed7b3740994bd6919...

How to maintain curve tilt when adjusting height. I have a curve where the spiral maintains the flat side down when the Z height is 0 and the curve tilt is 45 degrees (see red arrows). When I change the Z height the curve twists and the flat side is no longer down but is twisting. How can I pre...

We already have a challenge about multiplying multiply single-variable polynomials. This challenge is about multiply two polynomials with multiple variables Your task is given two multi-variable polynomials (for instance given as nested lists) to return their product. Examples representing polyno...

How does "five-formed / five-shaped", πεντάμορφη, mean "beautiful"? Such that it's used as in translation of "Beauty and the Beast" movie titles, and accepted by Google Translate?

I'm using OpenBabel 3.1.1 and the Python to C++ bindings to load pdbqt files and convert them to pdb with explicit hydrogens. Unfortunately, I can't add nonpolar hydrogens using OpenBabel. I can do this using Autodock's PMV GUI as a test and comparison, so my concern is not the underlying molecul...

My kid has this problem in a discrete-math course: How many functions $f:\{1,2,3,4\}\to\{1,2,3,4\}$ have the property that, for all $i$, the inverse image of $i$ does not have size $i$ (that is, $\left|f^{-1}[\{i\}]\right|\ne i$)? One can of course list all of them, but I suspect there's a nice...

I've read this Integral promotion: prvalues of small integral types (such as char) may be converted to prvalues of larger integral types (such as int). - first line [...details - not important...] Note that all other conversions are not promotions; for example, overload resolution chooses char ->...

I try to load test a simple insert stored procedure CREATE TABLE _test(ID BIGINT) CREATE OR alter PROCEDURE dbo.test_sp AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; BEGIN INSERT INTO _test SELECT CAST(RAND() * 10000 AS BIGINT) END END Not when I run this sp with SQLStress tool I get SQL...

I am trying to buy a house and seller says the clothes dryer needs a belt but works otherwise. Is there someway I can verify that? The issue is that it’s a gas dryer and it isn’t ventilated currently. Ventilation ducts are available it’s just not Hooked up to it. If I were to inspect the dryer,...

I have the following implementation of the Miller-Rabin test in Python: from random import randint import decimal decimal.getcontext().prec = 10000000 def miller_rabin(n, k): if n == 2 or n == 3: return True elif n == 1 or n <= 0 or str(n).isdigit() == False or n % 2 == 0: return Fal...

I'm currently developing a private network for a client using geth 1.11.3 and have encountered an unusual behavior. Here is a simple contract: pragma solidity ^0.8.0; contract Test { string public name; constructor(string memory _name) { name = _name; } } I aim to pre-deploy this contrac...

I have been wondering about the role and goal of philosophy as a discipline and as a practice. Some people might say that philosophy is about finding the truth, or at least getting closer to it. But what if there is no absolute truth, or if it is inaccessible to human reason? What if different ph...

I am trying to transcribe a little song and I am facing a problem: I am realising that there are several ways to write it, 2 ways to be more specific; Here are 2 images (I just wrote the first few measures of the song): Which one is the right one? If I get rid of the metronome, and just listen ...

I am designing a PCB that needs to switch an analog signal coming from multiple sensors with a multiplexer. I need to be able read single uVs of changes on the signal. I am looking to power the MUXs with a switching converter and am worried that the switching noise will couple through the MUX VDD...

I've got a QGIS point geometry layer with four point features and a numeric field sequence. I want to create a virtual layer joining these points into a line geometry layer (which will have one feature) in order of increasing sequence. I can make a virtual layer with a line feature from the point...

When using microtype and soul, if I highlight a text that continues on the next line, I get thin white lines after the words on the first line. Here is some code: \documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, twoside]{article} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{xcolor, soul} \begin{document} \sethlcolor{red!50}...

I want to travel from south Germany (say Munich) to Scotland (say Edinburgh), but with no flight as I want to protect the climate. Meanwhile it is again possible to book the Eurostar train connection to London via Deutsche Bahn. But then I have to book another train to Edinburgh. Maybe there coul...

I have an old Cervelo One from 2000 with Shimano 105 drivetrain including a FC-5501 crankset. I'm looking to add power metering to the bike and there is a Ultegra FC-R8000 available with a 4iiii power meter. Crank lengths are the same at 172.5mm. Concerns: 1) My 105 set up is a 9 speed in the ba...

For $f(x)$ solve for its normalization factor as follows: $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} f\left( x \right) =A\exp \left( -\frac{\left( x-x_0 \right) ^2}{2\sigma ^2} \right)\\ A=\frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2\pi}}\\ \end{array} \right. $$ sol1 = Simplify[ Integrate[ Exp[-1/2 ((x - x0)/\[Sigm...

I'm in an online, voice-only Pathfinder 2e game. I'm having a lot of fun... But when the party gets in discussions about which from among a number of options to take (do we kill the bandit leader? take her weapons and send her away? tie her up and bring her with us?), sometimes they end up feelin...