Another nonogram with story but this time it's ZEBRA type. Clues in darker color describe what should be marked as FILLED. Clues in lighter color describe what should be marked as BLANK. After my Husband died, I couldn't even look at another Man for almost 20 years. But now that I'm [Solve to ge...

If such a pyramid exists, could someone provide the coordinates of its vertices?

I spliced two PWM fan tach wires and connected them to a single ESP8266 GPIO pin. Since I tried powering this on I couldn't get the ESP8266 back up and running, even after disconnecting the splice again. It's probably important to point out that the whole thing was working as expected before I sp...

Would like to know the difference between these two 4N35 optocouplers . They behave differently but cannot find what is related the "001Q" and "027Q" digit.

BH Someone told me that you shouldn’t ask a question to someone who wont know the answer to what your asking what’s the source of this?

When I started reading Steve Forbes book Inflation I was surprised by his confidence in making statements about the impact of leaving the gold standard. The book is clearly written and goes against much of what I have heard second-hand about the gold standard. Here a quote from the introduction:...

I have been to the US before 10 years ago with ESTA. And I'm preparing to visit the US again with a new passport and new ESTA. (The passport that I used before had been expired) To simplify the US entry procedures, i'd like to use APC(automated passport control). It says that 'repeat ESTA visitor...

I use LD_PRELOAD to overwrite the read function. For a minimal test application it works fine, but if I test it with a larger application it does not work anymore. Also LD_DEBUG=all does not show anything at all: LD_DEBUG=all LD_PRELOAD=./lib.so ./big_app This just runs ./big_app and LD_PRELOAD ...

Context: I am an associate professor of mathematics at a small liberal-arts college in the US. I am teaching multiple sections of a general-education mathematics course this fall, and I have a TA who leads optional review sessions for students in the evenings. A student who regularly attends the...

Can someone explain to me please how am I supposed to get this: From this: I'm a little bit confused because in my calculations using Quantum ESPRESSO I found that: Highest occupied level (ev): 8.400 eV computed in scf The Fermi energy is 10.0082 ev computed in nscf I was thinking that CB f...

I'm curious as to how exactly some of the logical and arithmetic operator signs were decided? The plus and minus operators make sense, but how was decided that / was the division operator or that * was the multiplication operator? Also how did we get && as the logical AND operator or || as the lo...

Making changes to a house with hot water radiant floor heating We are considering buying a home that has hot water system installed on all 3 levels of the home (basement, main floor and 2nd floor) and the garage. Love the home but think we may want to do remodelling that may involve moving wall...

Imagine I have an observer $\mathcal O$, a quantum system $\mathcal S$ with Hilbert space $V_{\mathcal S}$, a Hamiltonian $H$, a self-adjoint operator $A$ acting on $V_{\mathcal S}$. The system is in the (normalized) state $|\psi_0\rangle$ at time $t=0$, and the observer measures the system at a ...

In classical guitar music, there is often an inclusion of pima referring to which plucking fingers are suggested for playing certain strings/frets/notes. Whatever happened to pinky? Is that a frowned-upon playing finger (although I, and I'm sure others, use it at times) and if it is advocated, wh...

What’s the terminology for changing a major triad into a diminished chord? C major – C°7 – Gmin7 – C7 etc. I can’t remember the term!

I use Plane Finder app & noticed they have a “ history” area where I can search airspace at a certain place and time. If I SEE a plane flying, but later check their timeline ( on the app), & it shows they weren’t flying.. what does that mean??!! Is that possible? Can it mean something was takin...

I have a grid plane that should appear as an actual grid, but with holes at arbitrary points where the stars are (from this video I made https://youtu.be/tso5pSzBRDo). I'm currently using a mesh grid with a Mesh Boolean node that pokes holes with a cylinder. The grid is just a brick texture with ...

I was recently interested in how to 'bload' some data on my commodore 64. For the sake of discussion the data isn't really relevant (it could be any blob of bytes). Generally you can load a file into the memory address specified in the file itself by using the well known LOAD "filename",8,1 wh...

If there's two things i love, it's space-flight, and late 19th century technology, and i hope to implement as much of the latter into as much of the former in my current setting. And one thing that has me particularly interested are Thorsten Nordenfelt's Steam submarines. Old, beautiful, cast-ir...

My world is roughly the same as the middle ages but has a natural form of birth control in the form of a root that can be grown and consumed to prevent pregnancy. Because of this root, opportunities to receive education have opened up to those women who can afford it. However, birth control and a...

Following the docs on the offical CraftCMS website i'm not able to get "Native Layout Elements" saved. My field body is always empty. Any idea what i'm missing here? Relevant Part of Plugin base class <?php namespace tkf\craftfirebasemessaging; use Craft; use craft\base\Model; use craft\base\Pl...

Let $P$ be a bounded linear operator on the sequence space $\ell^2$. Assume it is trace class, positive, and self adjoint. Let $P_k$ denote the map $V_k P V_k^*$ where $V_k \colon \ell^2 \to \ell^2$ denotes the restriction to the first $k$ coordinates. (One can think of $P_k$ as zero-ing out all ...

In general, if there are multiple genes of interests, or edits at multiple points along a large gene are desired, can several edits done at once (or as many as is possible while minimizing off-target effects), transfecting cells with multiple gRNAs and possibly different Cas variants, or would th...

In electoral systems based on parties, it is easy to publish the results: it is sufficient to publish the number of votes each party received. These numbers contain all the information that is needed to compute the election outcome. But in single transferable vote, each voter votes by ranking the...

I am mostly able to do my tasks for now, but my performance has suffered significantly and I really want to leave, even if it means having no job for a while. I fear I might freeze up eventually and be unable to work on the tasks even if faced with fear and urgency (I guess that's the definition ...

Luke 10:21 ESV "In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, 'I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will." My emphasis. In Luke ...

The propagator of a quantum system is defined by $$\mathcal{K}(t,x;\,t_{0},x_{0})\,\equiv\,\left\langle x\right|\hat{U}(t,\,t_{0})\left|x_{0}\right\rangle.$$ In this notation, the unitarity demands that \begin{equation}\begin{split} &\hat{U}^{\dagger}(t,\,t_{0})\,\hat{U}(t,\,t_{0})\,=\,\left(\lef...

I was on a flight recently that went through turbulence that had me convinced I was about to die. To be clear, I love flying. I find the sound of a pressurized air plane cabin to be very relaxing. I like to look out the window whenever possible, even during turbulence and it takes a lot to rattle...

This might seem like a very stupid question and it probably is, but hopefully not as much as one could expect. My question in fact is the following: Does the difference between sum and product lie only in the distinction of their respective neutral elements (i.e. "0" for addition and "1" for mult...

Is loopholes are permissible in islamic finance? I am a bussiness man someone adviced me to buy loopholes to avoid taxes and increase you bussiness rapidly..

The default limit operator displays “lim” with a small l. I wish to redefine it to display “Lim” that is, with a capital L like shown below.

In Christian bibles the Book of Ruth is placed immediately after the Book of Judges, reflecting the time when the story takes place. In Jewish bibles it is located in the Writings (Ketuvah), among the famous "Five Scrolls" - Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther - and is im...

I'm a new homeowner, having recently moved into a 1920's house. I'd like to run Ethernet conduits throughout the house. The basement runs the full length of the house and its ceiling already hosts electrical and plumbing infrastructure. I should be able to go straight up from there without having...

A click-bait ad on my newsfeed is captioned, Die 27 peinlichsten Fotos, die man gesehen haben muss. What, exactly, does this sentence mean, in English? Is it equivalent to, "The 27 most embarrassing photos you must [already] have seen." ? I suspected not. I thought it more like, The 27...that yo...

Lately, a player'o'mine caused a minor kerfuffle by his habit of touching a piece to counter blitz even when the opponent had not finished the move. Interestingly, I found nothing in the rules (admittedly by a quick browse) prohibiting grappling ones own pieces while not having the move, even §4.3 "

I'm an EE, not a physicist, so please forgive if this question is dumb. I learned a bit of magnetics when I took motors 20 years ago, but I don't remember much. I'm reaching out to the physics community because finding EE's who know the answer to this question can be tough. (Take me, for example....

Review context can be found here: 32x32x32 Units Octree With 15-Bit Voxels: Second Edition The above question and the self answer include information such as the definition of the Octree and Node8 data structures, MAX_LEVEL, DATA_MASK, and FLAG_MASK macros, and an overall description of this syst...

I'm trying to create TikZ diagram to represent the HDD platter. On the platter the track, sector and blocks should be highlighted. I moved from the simple by-the-hand calculated render more onto the systematic approach using variables and calculations and it almost works. The problem I have is wi...

I have two GSM ID as test case where both of them are having data when i checked through sra explorer tool but when i try to fetch through a script only one of them returns output where the other one fails GSM ID GSM3603268 GSM2683458 Output For GSM3603268 cat GSM3603268.test.fastq @GSM36...

As I learned here Connections between the different characterizations of ideals? (Dedekind's ideal numbers, quotientable subsets, kernels), since the very beginning of humanity/Kummer's development of ideals, the idea that they are "numbers" that we can "modulo by"/do "modular arithmetic by" has ...

I have come up by synthesis of 3 lines of research to a general idea whose questions and concerns and most importantly conceptual foundations can be addressed mathematically rigorous way. Although I have not come up yet with any result but I can give N reasons why this framework that is only marg...

So, this is very very old, probably from the '80s, if not before. I happened to watch it several years ago and it is extremely probable it is a telefilm, part of some sort of series. Unfortunately, only few details remain in my memory. It is a science fiction - horror setting. There is a movie cr...

There was a specific type of Beholder that I used as a shapechange target in 3.5, but I can't remember exactly what it was called, or its specific abilities. What I remember is that it wasn't a floating ball, more like a pillar with eyes sticking out. I believe that it had some kind of ability to...

Question: Looking for a word that implies lack of caring about the results / perception of others / ect... because you're already so far behind that you'll never really be significant. It's not really 'nihilism' or 'ennui', because you still believe actions have "meaning", just compared to the va...

I am a Nigeria citizen. I am trying to obtain a Panama transit visa, but they don't have an embassy here in Nigeria. Is there a way I can apply for it online?

I'm working on a meta-analysis of data extracted from scientific literature. One paper reported their data as $ln(mm^2)$ (see panel F in the figure below from https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-009-9695-z). I need to convert this to raw $cm^2$ as they were originally measured. How should I do this c...

It seems that often statutes are binding on courts even if neither party is aware of our calls the court’s attention to them. They will proactively introduce the relevant provisions into the equation of the case and apply them to it to often alter the outcome of their ruling. Furthermore sometime...

QUESTION: Just, why ? I was exploring a local swap meet and found this. For the life of me I cannot figure out why one would need an adjustable spanner at each end. I mean it's ADJUSTABLE and having two on the same handle means you can't tighten a nut and bolt at the same time.

What does してもらうのもなぁ　means? It seems he's saying he won't ask him to do it 5 times in a row?

Can someone explain to me why this precision rectifier circuit isn't fully rectifying the signal? It seems to work well until the crest of the non-inverted sine wave signal. I've been trying to understand it but the only thing I can think of is that it might be the breakdown voltage of the diodes...

I'm trying to write my first define-scheme-function in Lilypond, and I'm stuck. I'm wanting to output a variable number of handbell 'echo' notations within a single measure. This is working for a static number (2-4): echoTwoThreeFour = #(define-scheme-function (halign) (number?) #{ \markup { \...

It is well known that Hogwarts' students have to get through a barrier between Muggle Platforms Nine and Ten in order to reach the magically concealed train Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station and gain access to the Hogwarts Express. I have detailed all Harry Potter movies, and I haven't seen ...

Old time science fiction stories often used the names of well known stars. Even though the few dozen stars which are well known to readers on Earth are only an extremely tiny fraction of all the billions of stars in our galaxy. And those stars were used without any care for their distances from...

When I morph the A curve into the B curve (target), and set the Shape Key value to 0.5, I get the C curve. If I duplicat the C curve, I get a bezier curve of a A' / B' curve, not a simple bezier curve. Is it possible to get the simple bezier curve?

I have a ship full of guns that I have "collected", but do not need. They are either duplicates of ones I already have, or worse versions. I could dump them off my ship or onto the ground to get rid of them, but I could always use for credits, so would prefer to sell them all. Where can I sell my...

I am trying to create these number bonds with squares for the numbers but I am not sure how to move the box towards the middle. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{enumitem,multicol,xcolor} \fboxsep=4mm \fboxrule=0.5mm % set these parameters globally \begin{document} \begin{multicols}{3} \begi...

I am writing a project proposal for the first time but I am in dilemma whether I should add the citation in the abstract as well or not. Any suggestions?

I have a 1TB computer on Unix that is full mounted at /. I have installed a new 10TB HDD and mounted it at /hdd . I would like to know if I could still write in /home/usr and have the storage used from the new one, or should I: copy /home to my new HDD / somewhere else and then use it as it is. ...

I generally feel that I have a good intuition for chord naming, but know very few formal rules that apply to chromatic progressions like this one I wrote: It seems obvious that one should avoid spelling the same pitch two different ways consecutively if at all possible, but every spelling I try ...

I’m interested in finding a decades old science fiction short story that centers upon a rich guy trying to acquire a vase that is of incredible beauty. What stood out in my mind is by the end the story the thief hired was so taken by the vase’s beauty that he asks the guy if he may be allowed to...

In the starting deadlift form, we have to hinges : the one at knees and one at hips. I noticed in my lifts, that I unfold the knees and then separately unfold at the hips.

I imagine that one would usted anyone outranking them, but does this politeness extend to addressing subordinates? My instinct as well is that when speaking to someone of the same rank, one might use usted for formal communication and tú for informal. Does it vary from country to country?

My sprinkler system came with the house and occasionally has issues. As I troubleshoot these, I've discovered that there's a lot of things about sprinklers that are not intuitive or obvious. It doesn't help that a lot of it is buried underground and I don't have any documentation about how it was...

I have 12 gauge wires on a 20 amp breaker, and there are 3 power outlets in this circuit. Can I create an extended outlet (just for a WIFI router about 50w) using 14/2 gauge wire on that 12 gauge circuit? Why I am considering doing this: I have 14 gauge wires available This power outlet will onl...

In a M(not-)WE as below, is there a way to insert \'{e}, \'{a} and similar commands? The simple minded solution, just insert them, does not seem to work. I get a Runaway argument when running the code? \documentclass {beamer} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing,intersecti...

Let me start off by saying that my networking knowledge is fairly weak, so please bear with me. I am reading the book "Mastering bitcoin" and it says that I should be running a node if I want API access to the bitcoin network - which I do want. I will be using bitcoin core to set up the node. I'v...

According to Explanation on how "Tell, Don't Ask" is considered good OO, I know I should avoid get the state of an object and then decides the actions to take to that object, eg: Bad: public class Manager{ public void scheduleCallback(){ if(this.systemMonitor.temperature>100){ ...

An urn contains 20 balls colored each of the 7 colors of the rainbow (140 total balls). We select balls one-by-one without replacement. Given that in the first 70 draws we selected 5 more red balls than yellow, find the probability the 71st ball drawn is yellow. Question Source My approach Let us...

In the Royal Ontario Museum, I found this armor, and was perplexed by the two gold rings that appear on the breastplate. While it seem that something ought to be attached to them, no example of samurai armor in the museum demonstrated this. Wikipedia's article on samurai armor shows this compone...

So, I can construct a random polyhedron and find its 3 silhouettes onto the 3 standard planes. For example, polyhedron = PolyhedronCoordinates[RandomPolyhedron[{"ConvexHull", 10}]]; (* Projection Functions *) projections = polyhedron[[All, #]] & /@ {{1, 2}, {1, 3}, {2, 3}}; (* Labeled Graphics ...

Just because the reverse and palindrome were not too challenging individually :) Write a program (full program or function) that satisfies the following: given a string input, the program as-is outputs the input string unchanged. the program reversed outputs the input string reversed. the progra...

In persistent homology theory, stability theorems are important to show that the topological signatures extracted are stable under small changes. A key result is the following bound on the bottleneck distance between persistence diagrams in terms of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between point clo...

Can someone help review my analysis below and provide any feedback? Problem In a Computer Science class of 30 people comprising of 6 females, is there statistical significance of gender discrimination if only 3 students failed and all 3 were female? Approach Since the sample size is relatively sm...

A circular embedding is a graph embedding in which all graph vertices lie on a common circle, usually arranged so they are equally spaced around the circumference. If I only specify that some of the vertices are on a circle while the others are placed inside the circle (or arranged randomly), how...

I am using Series function in Mathematica on $(1/z)(-k^2)^z$. Up to $z^0$, the function gives me $1/z + \log[-k^2]$. But in the standard textbook on QFT, it turns out the expansion should give $1/z + \log[k^2/\mu^2] -i\pi $ up to $z^0$ in the series. Could you explain the reason behind such discr...

I live in Germany and I want to visit some of my best friends in Peru and Chile, but the air fares are around 1,200€ - 1,300€. Comparing the flight duration of BER-LIM to the ones of visiting Vietnam or South Africa shows an overpriced mile/cost ratio. Could someone please explain me why this hap...

I solve many systems of equations. But I don't know how to solve these two equations I know. I don't know mathematics so much can anyone solve this problem using any method. $$9^{x^2-y^2} - 27^{x-y} = 9^x$$ $$18^{y^2-x^2} - 3^{2y}=27^{y-x}$$

I know that there is (or at least, used to be) one portal in the dungeons under Dragonspear Castle that linked the castle to Avernus, the first level of the Nine Hells. Are there other such fixed portals documented in the Forgotten Realms that connect to the Nine Hells? (Sources can be from any E...

A loan company said they needed my logins to my account an has got a couple closed an also logged into my id.me an got it locked do they need my username and password an said he needed another cause that couldn’t verify my identity

I am struggling with a screenflow here. I made a LWC which I want to include in a screenflow that runs in the salesforce homepage : When I start the screenflow, I can see that my LWC is here, but the fields from the lightning-record-form are not displayed and the spinner keeps on spinning. Event...

In the former Soviet Union satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe, apart from the ruling Communist Party, there were bloc parties, to give a façade of democracy. I can understand the interest of the regime in having such parties, and I can understand why people would join the ruling Comm...

Consider some table tabb = RandomInteger[{0, 4}, {5, 4}] and a row row = RandomInteger[{0, 4}, 4] How to check if row matches with at least one row of tabb?

Is there a simple way NOT to have a symbol at the beginning of a line? I need to add symbols on a line each x meters. Symbology > add symbol > line of symbol works fine, but there is always a symbol added on the very first point of the line. How can it be removed? Actual situation:

Good Afternoon, How i can show all data when using count and where clause in MySql. In my case, I have master data like pict at below. and i using this query to show count the data. SELECT body, count(body) from tb_list_data WHERE type ="FAC" AND group by body order by body ASC and ...

when I tried to render the document in texlive 2023 with xelatex compiler: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{siunitx} \begin{document} \begin{center} \num{.3e45}\\ \num{1.654 x 2.34 x 3.430}\\ \si{\kilogram\metre\per\second}\\ \SIlist{0.13;0.67;0.80}{\milli\metre} \end{ce...

I know return is total discounted reward of an episode,so it is easy to plot return vs episode figures.But in many papers,they provide figures of average return vs step,like this: According to the definition of return,it can't be calculated until the end of episodes,so I feel puzzled how to compu...

Consider some list of elements elements={"a","k",1,"12","cdt","b","m","l","q",132,12.345,999,1000,Exp[x^2],Sin[y]}; We may make the following table tabb = Table[Take[RandomSample[elements],4],50] and a row roww = Take[RandomSample[elements],4] I have to check if roww matches at least one row o...

I am currently working on a tool parsing every transaction of the bitcoin blockchain, using the getrawtransaction RPC call in verbose mode. My goal is to store them all in a database, while keeping some useful information about them (i.e., not everything that is given by the RPC call). Something ...

Andy's SNL audition (there are longer videos which I think might be worth watching and they have some other auditions) makes sense to someone who came to know Andy's stuff but 1975 was pretty early in his career. I assume he was known to the producers from clubs but the woman speaking sounds like...

A tautology is a statement which is always true. What is the name for a statement which is always false? Is it correct that a statement is either tautology, the false counterpart of tautology, or contingent?

Short backstory: I've been working for my current company for a few years as a developer and IT Support\Specialist which includes a lot of calls, help-desk duties along the developer part of the job. This job includes a lot of outside of job hours calls and interventions as well. I am satisfied w...

This is from a TV show in which a family reunites 14 years after. And the son, Zach, along with mom, are waiting at the airport for the father to show up. At that time, the presenter says: It'll be the first time Zach has met his dad. I wondered why the second part of the sentence is a perfect te...

I am working with this WFS endpoint: https://wxs-gpu.mongeoportail.ign.fr/externe/39wtxmgtn23okfbbs1al2lz3/wfs In QGIS, I do: Layer -> Add Layer -> Add WFS Layer..., then add the above endpoint. I am interested in the layer with the Title Communes, Name wfs_du:municipality: I successfully add th...

I've been following this recipe for lemon bars by Claire Saffitz. The crust turned out perfect, however the lemon custard was super soft, just short of runny. Cutting the entire thing into pieces / bars was nearly impossible without creating a big mess. I'd like to have a firmer custard, but I'm ...

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$. Let $R, S$ be two commutative $k$-algebras. Let $\operatorname{Ch}(R), \operatorname{Ch}(S)$ be the categories of complexes of $R$-modules and $S$-modules, respectively. Question If $\operatorname{Ch}(R), \operatorname{Ch}(S)$ are eq...

Let's say I wanted +2 Perception. I could... Put two points into Perception. Put two points into VANS; the second rank gives you +2 Perception. Seems like for 2 points I could have +2 Perception, or I could have +2 Perception and bonus VANS pathfinding. VANS pathfinding isn't the best perk, but...

Consider the accepted answer to the following question which says It's Fubini's theorem . The domain of the double integral is: $(\omega,y)\in\Omega\times [0, |X(\omega)|]$, however the outer integral is with respect to the measure of the outcomes. $\mathrm d\mathbb P\equiv \mathbb P(\mathrm d...

The New York Attorney General has filed a civil "complaint" against Donald Trump as well as some family members and companies. The allegations are centering around fraud by inflating property values in financial statements provided to banks and insurances. As a German, I am confused: Civil lawsui...

I'm working on a project that measures battery voltage. The device, I designed, works on coin cell. I have to extend battery life, that's why I used the following design But it requires two pins BATADC analogue input pin S1 digital output pin I don't want to use 2 pins. Can we redesign by using...

I am needing a reference for the following statement (in case it is true): Quillen functor between stable model categories preserve finite limits iff it preserves finite colimits. For stable $\infty$-categories, I found this one, but for stable model categories, I couldn't find such a statement i...

問題の神社にも岩座があったっていうし The stone like socle in the shrine. What does 問題の add? My take would be something like "The shrine in question"

My daughter is 5. Sometimes my husband (her father) will try to 'play' with her by pretending to be a lion, going roar and pawing at her in a playful manner. Sometimes she's okay with this and has fun, and other times it makes her very upset. He sometimes does this at transition times, like arriv...

There's a question asking me about to identify mode borrowing, how do I do it? What is mode borrowing, may i have some examples?

I'm trying to scatter houses to given lots (one lot = one face). I know i can scale my instances to fit the face size but i want to do it the other way around because the house size should be fixed. So i need a setup which measures every face and decides which house should fit into it. Is this po...

I'm making a task scheduling table. I divided the table into 16 rows and 12 columns. In the first two columns, I describe the activities: I reserved the first column for the dash to “simulate” the itemization environment. In columns 3 to 12 I have distributed the months in which I intend to carry...

Given the spatial overlap of nucleon wave functions within the nucleus, why is the bonding of nucleons only the result of pion exchange and not of gluon interactions between quarks in different nucleons?

If you havn't 400V NPN transistor for using in 325V net, is it acceptable use 1kV diode in series to NPN transistor (150V) collector? This is low current part of circut so additional losses is not important. VT2 is used to increase Hfe of VT1 but has low Vceo. In case VO3.2 is closed VT2 is open ...

At the end of the trial, we see a guard ripping something away from Ahsoka, some kind of jewelry. What is the jewelry and what's the significance of the guards' act?

I'm trying to create a 3D Cardioid, for which I would like to control/adjust the thickness along the axis perpendicular to the cusp. Do I use the cardioid's parametric equations for X and Y? What about Z? I'm getting "Error Evaluating Expression."

Would it be cheaper to draw money at the atm, or bring euros and exchange at the airport? I'm also considering sending euros via PayPal and collecting it in Malaysia. Bonus question: How much is cards accepted in Kuala Lunpur, Malaysia?

I've noticed this kind of architecture in hub payment systems(system where you can pay to multiple merchants at one place-thus called hub). payment app-->payment mediator-->bank server Bank server deducts money Bank server responds that it deducted money to payment mediator Now payment mediator ...

I recently came across the verb прозябать in a book. Its meaning is one of eking out an existence in the sense of enduring hardship and suffering instead of truly living. This, to me, is an ongoing state, which I interpret as purely imperfective in any imaginable context. However, Wiktionary offe...

Is it because France had impactful printers and typecutters like the Garamonds and Jensons in the Renaissance? Or is it about being elegant and “Frenchified” when talking about something as peculiar and slightly arcane as typography? (Like Jacques in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, picking ...

You might think this question is trivial because an msdos partition table MBR ends with 55 AA (hex). But it's not because disks formatted as FAT32 (with no partition table) end with 55 AA too. I formatted a disk like this: mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdX Such a disk has no partition table and is recogni...

The issue with my sink is that the drain cannot be removed, so I'm not sure how I can insert the drain snake to unclog it. I've included a picture of the drain. How can I unclog this sink when the drain cannot be removed?

I want something like a heat map, where plot points with height 0 appear blue, with height 1 red and everything inbetween I want a fade of colors. Here is my code: \documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis} ...

(I have posted this question in Math Stack Exchange, only to have received no answer.) It is well known that a semidirect product of two cyclic groups $C_m$ and $C_n$ has the form $$ C_m \rtimes_k C_n = \langle x,y \mid x^m = y^n = 1,\, yxy^{-1} = x^k \rangle, $$ for some $k^n \equiv 1\pmod m$...

As I've recently been genning up on some of my undergraduate courses, I took a passing interest in the Part II Cambridge Maths Tripos questions from the exams sat earlier this year. One question, from the Logic and Set Theory course (p63 at the above link), that caught my eye was the following: ...

What does "He had put away nearly three sixpacks during the baseball game, and he was shagged." mean at the end of the paragraph? Tom was nearly asleep when the phone rang. He struggled halfway up, leaning toward it, and then felt one of Beverly’s breasts press against his shoulder as she reache...

How could I plan a flight to increase my chances of a fun ride through turbulence? What if I want to plan my flight before the weather forecast is available? The internet is full of people who are afraid of turbulence, but I find it enjoyable, within reason.

I need to remove the side portion of a pelmet above a kitchen cupboard. The problem is that I cannot find how it is secured. It is fixed solidly, I cannot move it with moderate hand pressure. The picture from inside the cabinet shows no screws into this piece. A screw is visible into the front p...

This is part 13 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. Identify the 26 words clued by the images below, then infer a hidden 'top-10 list' among them. One entry is missing - what is it?

Nuclear fission! How hard can that be? Nuclear reactors have been quietly humming under the earth's surface only a few billion years ago after all. It's very convenient then, that my planet's quite a bit younger than earth, and has many of them deep below, containing naturally enriched uranium (a...

Good afternoon folks. I am a bit confused and trying to find the right answer. This is what we have: Why do we have here minimum for straight-in approach even though the descent angle is 4.1 degrees? If we convert it to percentages it becomes around 7.2% with the groundspeed of 100 knots. Accord...

I need to generate a figure comprising 3 successive tikz pictures with vertical spacing in between. I've tried the following code: \begin{figure}[h] \caption{Cross-Validation with Three-Segmented Training Dataset} \vspace{0.5 cm} \begin{tikzpicture} \node[text width=3cm] (Iteration 1) {Iterat...

What should you do when you are buying a ticket for someone with only one name (i.e. no family name, last name, or surname)? Some airlines tell you to use an honorific like "MR" or "MS" in place of the first name, but visas are generally issued to First Name Unknown, "FNU". I am posting this as a...

The description of the Path of the Giant barbarian's Elemental Cleaver feature (from Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants) says, in part: Giant Stature: Your reach increases by 5 feet, and if you are smaller than Large, you become Large, along with anything you are wearing. So here's my question...