I stumble upon this question after reading this Wikipedia article, which I find very intriguing: The laughter epidemic began on days averaging around 7 days. After reading that article I went through a rabbit hole of related topics: Dancing media And one of the famous ones: The Salem witch trials...

During the late 1990s, I (and countless others) accessed the internet by running software provided by America Online (mailed to my house on free CD-ROMs) and using a dial-up modem to access their service. This would have been AOL version 4.0 or 5.0 for Windows 95/98. The AOL software at that time...

For those familiar with DHS and the infamous SSSS, can you be informed of your status as "DHS SELECTEE" in advance and asked to provide information on ESTA even as a Canadian citizen? It seems to be that passengers are automatically with SSSS if they belong to this "selectee" list. I know that th...

Empowered Evocation: Beginning at 10th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of any wizard evocation spell you cast. Wand of Magic Missiles (Wand, uncommon): This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast t...

The typical advice that you receive, when transliterating Greek words into Roman letters, is that Greek υ (upsilon) can either be Roman "y" or "u." (See, for instance, the Wikipedia article on the topic.) More specifically: By itself, it is transliterated y, e.g. ὑπόθεσις -> hypothesis. In a dip...

It's a short story in which a spacecraft is destroyed when all its internal friction is removed, so that it falls apart. I think the friction-removal device might have been a weapon.

If I have a subset $A \subseteq \mathbb{R}$, a function $f: A \to \mathbb{R}$, and a point $a_{0} \in A$, then (according to the definitions I came across) for $f$ to be differentiable at $a_0$, then there must exist some open interval $I$ so that $a_{0} \in I$ and $I \subseteq A$. I tried unders...

Here is the "halting first" problem: given two programs $P$ and $Q$, return 0 if $P$ stops after less steps than $Q$, return $1$ if $Q$ stops after less steps than $P$, and otherwise output $0$ or $1$. (So if neither problem halts, or if both halts in the same number of steps, the oracle may outp...

I have seen different ways to decline nemo. Nemo neminis nemini neminem nemine (I am not including the vocative) or Nemo nullius nemini neminem nullo Which one is correct? Has it changed throughout history?

\documentclass{book} \begin{document} $\overline{KF}$ is also equal and $\parallel$ to $\overline{ML}$ \end{document} I would like to use the unicode symbol U+22D5, see image,but I have no idea how to go about it. I cannot find it in any list of symbols for latex.

In Halacha, if a Jew does a form of melacha that is prohibited on chol hamoed, is what is created from that melacha issur hanaah after the fact? Or no, is it unlike Shabbat and it can be benefited from after the fact?

My question is very similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5840313/how-to-get-all-definitions-associated-with-other-symbols except I am looking to find all definitions in which a symbol appears. I.e. I want an ever more full definition than FullDefinition. Taking their example: g[x_] := x...

I bought a https://www.supermicro.com/de/products/motherboard/x13sav-lvds and would like to know who is the originator/company of the small 4-pin plug beside the 8-pin EPS plug which is used to power on/power off the mainboard. [1 Here you can see the view on top of the plug: And here the plug i...

In Halacha, is there any priority in giving converts, with the Halacha status of ani/poor, tzedakah and Maaser before giving it to poor born Jews? The reason I ask is because there are more positive mitzvoth for Jews to love the convert than to love the average fellow Jew.

I can expound on the specifics, but simply put my species is the only sentient one on their planet, receive their energy from photosynthesis, and are otherwise completely closed systems, recycling waste products back into nutrients internally. They have no appendages and are (barely) motile by sh...

Goal of Hidato: Fill in a grid with a series of consecutive numbers that connect each other horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. So I have been working on figuring out the minimum number of clues needed for an $n\times m$ Hidato puzzle such that it had a unique solution. (up to the $8\times...

With Wizards of the Coast pushing the format again, building budget-friendly decks to compete in the local scene becomes relevant. How can one approach the construction of budget decks for competitive local play of Standard (Friday Night Magic tournaments)?

I'm quite new to Blender but and I'm not sure why the FBX button is missing can somebody

Genesis 19:15-17 NKJV 15 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.” 16 And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his...

Galvantically isolated RS-485 surely needs a signal ground, which leaves me puzzled about the following circuit -- which apparently sends the RS-485 signal correctly without the isolated grounds being connected. Photo shows a pair of Analog Devices ADM2582E drivers which are powered by completely...

I presume that, after death, there would not be any afterlife or any remains of the soul. while I am alive, I have a certain perception or concept of the universe. I have a sense of space, time, distance, angle, solid-angle, dihedral angle, etc. that consists my meaning of reality. But what would...

I am trying to include one specific symbol from the New Computer Modern font. The symbol in question is the regular and bold versions of the calligraphic capital T also called Latin Uppercase Script T per the link. According to the font samples at that link I am looking for the symbols given by \...

There are lot of falsifiable statements over the internet, an it is easy to make up one falsifiable statement. Such as: Earh is flat ... Falsifiable through satellite image. Earth is round ... Falsifiable through satellite image. Water is made up of atoms ... Falsifiable through chemical exper...

I am doing umbrella sampling in NAMD and I want to control the distance in the colvars to be in one direction. Is there any possibility?

So a magic-user goes ahead and creates a clone of themselves using the Clone spell. They then take the clone to safe place and hide it in a closet. Years later, a group of adventures are exploring the safe place and find the clone in the closet. They chop it up with axes and set it on fire, then ...

Rabbi Yaron Reuven says that one of the top obligations of gentiles is to "help Jews become more Jewish." "The goyim have to help Am Yisrael do teshuva." Is there a source in Torah or the Talmud that supports this view? Here is the video on YouTube where he says this and here is the time stamp 2:...

There has been creaking in some areas of the second floor in my older home. I tried out the simple fix of screwing down the floor sheathing (they're actually some kind of particle board it seems). While that did seem to help in some areas, in other areas it did not. A picture of one of them is sh...

When the first computers were introduced they worked using commands. E.g. to save a document you must write a specific command on the prompt line like save c:\ document 'name'. Soon Microsoft invented pictures to replace the commands. Instead of writing the commands you press a intuitive picture ...

What is the source of these panels of the Batmobile Garage?

In the ongoing race to select the Republican party nominee, Nikki Haley has lost every primary and caucas bar one. That was the District of Columbia Republican primary which she won with a 62% share of the vote. However, the District of Columbia primary has historically been an outlier due to the...

For given positive integer $n$, is it possible to construct a permutation $p$ of [1, n], such that for each $k$ in [2, n], $p_k$ divides $p_1 + p_2 + ... + p_{k-1}$. Solutions for small $n$: $n=3$, p = 2 1 3 $n=4$, p = 4 2 3 1 $n=5$, p = 4 1 5 2 3 $n=6$, p = 5 1 6 2 7 3 4 $n=7$, p = 5 1 6 2 7 3 ...

Although it is recommended in writing that people use natural sounding phrases, many people, including myself, want to write in voices of their choice. Now voice can have the distinctive sound of character, and these three qualities: -- rhythm, harmony, and beauty -- along with others. To write i...

I'm beginning my study of $p$-adic numbers, so naturally I've come across the non-Archimidean property of absolute values, i.e. $$|x+y| \le \max\{|x|,|y|\}.$$ A metric space with the analogous property i.e. $$d(x,y) \le \max\{d(x,z),d(z,y)\}$$ is called an ultrametric space. I was just wondering ...

I need some help with LTspice MEAS directive. I have a simple circuit, a DC power supply, and a variable Load resistor to observe the current limiter behavior. I made the variable load resistor and have it working with .step param Load .5 .1 .01, which starts at .5 ohms and ends at .1 ohms in .01...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn have been identified by ancient astronomers as they are visible with naked eye at night. The planet Uranus, despsite being visible during very clear nights, wasn't recognized as such. Why?

My intuition says 'no'. I know from my knowledge of spaceflight that every orbit includes the point at which delta-v was last spent; you can't use only a cannon on the ground to put something into a stable orbit because the last point delta-v was applied is on the ground. I would think a similar...

Ezra's Drastic Divorces In the book of Ezra (ch. 9 and 10) we learn of Ezra being extremely agitated at the intermarriage of Jews with...Moabites. When I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished. And at evenin...

My question has two components: Reasonableness. What does it mean for a position to be reasonable? What conditions does a position have to meet to be regarded as reasonable? Physicalism. Wikipedia defines it as follows: In philosophy, physicalism is the metaphysical thesis that "everything is ...

We read in Mark 15:21, of an incident in the Passion of Jesus: A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. Some versions like CEV mention that Simon was returning from farm. But, the ...

I am writing my thesis about 3D modelling, and I found these illustrations in another thesis. I would like to make something similar. I can already draw the "egg" shapes in Blender, but this "mesh" and the blue and red details are still a mystery to me. For the mesh, I tried the wireframe modifie...

I am sure of my ignorance and apologize. Is Buddhism effective? There are only 28 Buddha since the beginning of perception, right? What hope is there of ever awakening? I am very discouraged. Though depression is a big thing in my current incarnation. I will likely screw things up anyway.

I know for a separatable state $\rho_{AB}$ we have $P_{AB}= P_{A}=P_{B}=1$ Where P is purity. What if the relation between the purities when the bipartite state is entangled? Is there any inequality relation?

Plans for installing a joint nuclear power plant on the moon’s surface within the next decade are being considered by Russian and Chinese officials, the head of Russia’s space agency said Tuesday, a project he said could allow for the development of lunar settlements amid similar efforts by the ...

I am a mollusc Remove my first, and I'll make you quite fast Now remove my second, and you won't feel best Now remove my third, and you'll get a square seven Now remove my fourth, and it's lost What am I?

I am exploring options for using computer to extract the coefficient of $x^n$ from the Taylor series expansion of a function of $x$, where $n$ is kept as a symbolic entity. While Mathematica offers a function called SeriesCoefficient that achieves this, I am in search of an open source alternativ...

Consider a finite, one-dimensional grid where each cell is marked with one of two symbol (I will use the symbols < and >, but you can you other symbols). When a pinball is placed on one of the cells, it moves according to the following rules: If the pinball is on a cell that is marked with <, th...

I'm specifically referring to a someone which one shouldn't have, from the speaker's perspective. For example: "We shouldn't allow the government to get comfortable with this ?????? power." Where the '?' describes the fact that the power shouldn't be theirs or is unfounded. (1 word) I think the...

Given point $A$ and point $B$, on the one hand, I would like to get a point that is an affine combination of $A$ and $B$, for example $1.2A-0.2B$, on the other hand, I would like to get the coordinate of the intersection point of $AB$'s extended line and $CD$. The MWE is as follows. \documentclas...

When grading problems on quizzes and exams, I often break them down into sub-problems, each worth a portion of the total points. I use rubrics to award partial credit for each sub-problem. However, this practice leads to students arguing that their incorrect work deserves more partial credit than...

I will arrive Munich Airport next month. On the same day, I'll travel to Nuremberg from Munich Hbf. I'll take the S-Bahn from Munich Airport to Munich Hbf. Can I use the ICE ticket that I purchased online on the S-Bahn train from the airport to Munich Hbf station? Can I use the same ticket on the...

I saw another question related to pedaling for this piece, but that one uses a different edition (not sure what edition). My Henle edition (cover picture here) has no pedal in the intro part, and only three pedal markings until measure 19. What's the assumption for the omitted parts?

For human, in general, it's far easier to make an addition than a multiplication. One might argue this is just an effect of the particular way brains are wired. But from what I find, multiplication is also more expensive on computers, where one could certainly arrange chips in an arbitrary way,...

I was at the Kotel earlier this year, and my eye was drawn to this particular stone because of the dove roosting there. I happened to notice there seemed to be some words written/carved into it, but it wasn't clear enough for me to make it out. It seems like the last word of the top line is יעקב ...

Vertical artifacts appear on every photo on Minolta XD-7, bought as "refurbished". Can this be easily fixed?

I'm helping a company to redesign their cryptographic protocol for communication within a network of embedded devices. So far I have discovered several insecure practices, such as using very short (6 characters) passwords to derive AES symmetric keys and so on. When redesigning the protocol, I wa...

When I search Google, most results indicate that beef, as well as slaughtering cows, is illegal in Tamil Nadu, India. However, I'm in Chennai right now and I'm seeing beef on the menu. What's going on here? Is the information I found wrong, or is this some sort of buffalo vs. cow thing?

The only instances I could find of time dilation in Full Dive VR are in Altered Carbon where it is used as a form of torture/learning, and in 2 episodes of Rick and Morty where both of them live "full lives" in minutes. Especially in the case of Rick and Morty, both of them still have their base ...

Let $X$ be an equidimensional reduced scheme of finite type over an algebraically closed field $k$. Assume that $X$ has two irreducible components $X_1$ and $X_2$. Assume also that $X_1$ and $X_2$ are nonsingular varieties which meet transversally at $Y := X_1 \cap X_2$, so that $Y$ is a nonsingu...

I want to ask about why the generator and discriminator are differently designed in the example My First GAN of the coursera course: Build Basic Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Why didn't we use the same set of layers and activation functions for both generator and discriminator? On what ...

I read a book "a history of abstract algebra"- chapter 6 by Israel Kleiner. And in this book, it is said that Emmy Noether gave a presentation at the ICM congress held in Zurich in 1932, and that the content was the starting point of modern cohomology theory. And the reference for this part is ...

I try to render my animation but since 1 day the render automatically start at frame 1528 for no reason. When i try to render single keyframe it works perfectly fine but "Render animation" doesn't want to work from frame 0 to 1527. When i tryed to set the animation range from 0 to 1500 blender di...

"Sonia do you think that the UK media have done the right thing not to run these pictures." ITV-this morning (see:1:40-1:48) The expression "to run a picture" caught my attention. I looked it up, but couldn't find any definition. Still, from the context, I can understand it seems to mean "to publ...

Can a player ready a standard action and a move action to the effect that they constantly move out of reach of an advancing opponent? Say a PC has a 50ft land speed, and a monster has a 30ft land speed. Can the PC ready both their standard and move actions to move out of the way of a creature whe...

I've made an awk script that does the same operation and has the same parameters as Python's pandas.DataFrame.pivot, for 2D tables. It reshapes a table from "long"-format to "wide"-format. In a "long" table, some variable names are specified by a field for each row. E.g., Temperature and Humidity...

Background: I wrote a package that typsets small icons created with l3draw which I would like to make accessible. More concretely, when the user copies text with some icons embedded, a replacement text for the icon should end up in the clipboard. I tried two approaches: adding an overlapping \hb...

For example 'два пельменя', where 'пельменя' is masculine, so when referring to them, should it be 'два штуки'?

I have a character that can control water (rain, specifically), and am curious if it’s possible for them to turn these droplets solid via pressure rather than built in ice magic. If they exert enough pressure onto the raindrops, could they make them solid? And if so, what happens when they fall a...

I.e., by comparing the dimensions of the screenshot and size / position of UI elements, without the aid of metadata?

I am using an STM32 STM32F103C8T6 running at 48 MHz using ADC DMA and I find that using a for loop for manipulating arrays is much slower than multiple lines of code. For example: void HAL_ADC_ConvCpltCallback(ADC_HandleTypeDef* hadc) { int i = 0; HAL_GPIO_WritePin(GPIOC, GPIO_PIN_14, 1u); ...

I am a UK citizen, resident in Austria. When I was boarding a flight from London to Austria the other day my boarding pass was rejected at the gate ("Unable to board") and I was asked to show my proof of residence and then allowed to board. My interpretation was that they somehow knew how many da...

I am considering ECU tuning my car (landcruiser 150 2.8 D4D) and have been reading about the issue. Someone told me that automakers frequently use the same motor across models and versions, yet it ends up having different power. This seems to indicate that the motor in question had enough reserve...

This $(ls -d...) does not work in a systemd unit file: [Service] Type=forking Environment="ORACLE_HOME=$(ls -d /usr/lib/oracle/*/client64 | sort -rV | head -n1)" Environment="TNS_ADMIN=$(ls -d /usr/lib/oracle/*/client64/lib/network/admin | sort -rV | head -n1)" I want to avoid hard-coding the Or...

In Romanian, there are currently two letters used for the /ɨ/ (i with bar) sound (close central unrounded vowel), namely "â" and "î" – there used to be other letters as well, in order to de show the ethimology of the word, like û,ê, etc. However, this is somewhat at odds with Romanian orthography...

I have the following code: \documentclass{book} \usepackage{tkz-euclide} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \tkzDefPoint(5,0){C} \tkzDefPoint(0,0){B} % Define B \tkzDefShiftPoint[B]({atan(4/3)}:3){A} % Move 3 units at the calculated angle to get A \tkzDefSquare(B,A)\tkzGet...

First-time user of Mathematica. I have three equations, and I'm trying to solve for one of the variables. I'm hoping this is just a syntax problem. eq1 = a^3*c + c^3*a == (a + (1 - f)*d)^3*b + b^3*(a + (1 - f)*d); eq2 = g == c - b; eq3 = (e - d)/(a + d) == g/b; Solve[{eq1, eq2, eq3}, d] But it ...

An inductor has rated operating voltage (across inductor) = 75 V. Suppose 100 V comes across it for some microseconds (~ less than 1 us). What will happen? Is the operation dangerous in such cases? I usually don't hear about voltage ratings for inductors thus the confusion. Here is the datasheet ...

I need a command that wraps argument #1 in \left\langle-\right\rangle and places #2 as a subscript to the closing \rangle, like the command \simple in my MWE. However, the horizontal spacing between the angle and the subscript gets awkwardly big for larger angles. My first attempt in command \bet...

Although it is forbidden for a Jew to eat food cooked by a gentile (YD 113), there are some exceptions - notably, food that is regularly eaten raw (113:1), or food that is not fit to be served by a formal state banquet (113:1). Not all locations have the same culinary customs, which therefore cre...

I want to design the plot legends independent of the plot style I use in ListLinePlot. So I do: colors = ColorData[97, "ColorList"]; fontsize = 20; leg = LineLegend[{colors[[5]], {Black, Dotted}}, {Style["simulation", FontFamily -> Times, fontsize, SingleLetterItalics -> False], ...

I am confused about what the avg_comparison function does in the marginal_effects package. library(lme4) library(marginaleffects) I define a model model <- glmer(y ~ + t + a + a:t + e:t + e:t:a ...

In 2019, the United States became the first country to recognizes Israeli rather than Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights.119 It may be argued that this move by the Trump Administration also reflects a realist policy toward recognition of borders, as Israel has, de facto, exercised effecti...

Using a QgsFeatureRequest by default will fetch all attributes (including geometry) of the features. I can use .setFlags(QgsFeatureRequest.NoGeometry) to not fetch the geometry, and .setSubsetOfAttributes(['value'], vector_layer.fields()) to fetch only one attribute. I would like to fetch no attr...

From my understanding: Hida families and Coleman families of modular forms are roughly given by $p$-adic modular forms whose $q$-expansion at classical weights is "close" to a $q$-expansion of a classical modular form. But the difference between the two families is not exactly clear to me; my und...

>Does a function from $\mathbb{R}^2$ to $\mathbb{R}$ which sums to 0 on the corners of any unit square have to vanish everywhere? I think the answer is yes but I am not sure how to prove it. If we allow any square of any size the answer is yes - an old Putnam problem. You obtain the same result i...

I'm a Swedish national. My husband is a Ghanaian citizen and has permanent residence in Sweden. My sister-in-law just passed away, and we want to attend her funeral in London. We plan to stay from 20 March to 24 March 2024 (5 days). What sort of documents would my husband need?

I want to save the content of a macro (which may contain text and other macros) for later use and without full expansion. \def\mcr{a} \def\textandmacro{sampletext \mcr} % this content i want to recall later with unexpanded \mcr \def\save{\textandmacro} % so i save it \def\mcr{b} ...

I bought an outdoor wooden planter online. It wasn't sealed so I wanted to treat it to help protect it from weather and water. The wood was already stained gray so I went with a "Clear Transparent Waterproof Wood Finish" meant for decks and fencing that I already had in my basement. The liquid in...

I'm trying to wrap my head around a conceptual problem involving a simple pendulum with a rocket attached to its mass. Imagine the rocket expels gas to provide a tangential thrust force. However, the thrust is calibrated such that it's not sufficient to swing the pendulum upward; instead, it only...

It is documented that the SD Bus Interface requires 74 clock cycles before the first command is sent: Taken from SD Specifications Part 1 Physical Layer, Simplified Specification, Version 6.00 https://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/networking_communications/SD/SD.pdf This leads me to have several r...

There is a lot of discussion about quantum computing and how it will be able to crack wallet addresses. This could happen as early as 2025 says one source. Microsoft and other entities are working to secure their networks against quantum computers. I am curious to know if Bitcoin is addressing th...

We tried upgrading our old scoreboard in the gym with LED bulbs and now they flicker rapidly. Is there a way to fix this? There are close to 200 bulbs on the scoreboard that were previously 7w bulbs.

I'm interested in discussing the performance of the new version of NAMD. It seems that in this updated version, there's an increased reliance on GPU processing. However, despite using this new version, I haven't observed any notable improvements compared to the previous iteration. Below are the s...

A long time ago I was on a 737 ( I believe -200 but it could been -300) with an inop APU and cross bleed. We taxied out on one engine and snuggled up behind another 737 - it looked like 15 feet from our nose to the tail of the other aircraft. The lead jet spooled up on one engine and after a coup...

The problem goes something like this: $$ f(x) = 4^x+8^x+9^x-2^x-6^x-12^x$$ Find the maximum value of f(x). This question appeared on a test in which calculators were not allowed, so please refrain from using any graphing calculators or similar instruments. I tried substituting $2^x=\alpha$ and $3...

I was trying out leetcode's Steps to Make Array Non-decreasing As per the challenge's description: You are given a 0-indexed integer array nums. In one step, remove all elements nums[i] where nums[i - 1] > nums[i] for all 0 < i < nums.length. Return the number of steps performed until nums beco...

Please consider the following MWE, which is an excerpt from a much larger project. The scenario is to define a conditional \IfComp{<number>}{<defined>}{<undefined>} that queries, whether or not a final control sequence (in this case \csname test-<number>\endcsname) is defined via an intermediary ...

About a week ago, I had my whole front suspension changed. Both shocks, all tie rods, inner and outer, both upper control arms as well as the sway bar links. Now my car drives so bad. When trying to drive about 40mph my car almost loses control. Any time I hit a bump or if it's raining, it's alm...

Puzzle attribution: Me Goal of Hidato: Fill in a grid with a series of consecutive numbers that connect each other orthogonally or diagonally To get the green checkmark $\color{green}✓$: Solve the puzzle (showing solution process is optional) or show that no solution exists/the solution is n...

This is a word division puzzle which uses cryptic clues. If you're unfamiliar with either or both of those, you can click the associated link. In order to solve the alphametic, you'll first need to fill in the dividend, divisor, and quotient by solving the cryptic clues. I've left the enumeratio...

Every elliptic curve over a field $K$ can be mapped to a smooth, projective genus 1 curve (also defined over $K$) with a $K$-rational point, and vice versa. As I understand it, curves without said $K$-rational points can never be mapped to elliptic curves (since clearly then the elliptic curve gr...