[I just purchased a house in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, there's a massive Oak I will need to remove because it's unfortunately leaning over the garage and has severe damage to the trunk. I have been trying to find a company to harvest it for a few $$ instead of paying a tree service $3k to ...

I want to have a barcode like given in this answer Can't generate code128 barcode There also stands that it doesn't work with pdflatex engine - it has to be changed to the xelatex engine and that's done with latex_engine: xelatex in the YAML-header (hopefully?!). So I build up my Rmd file --- geo...

Sorry, but I am browsing since morning around and try to find a solution for that issue. I have a beamer presentation with moloch theme and want to use the Fira font but only for the mathcal part I want to use the font TeX Gyre Pagella Math. This part seems to work but in mathtools I want to also...

I understand that my visa fee will not be refunded, but I gave the clerk flight money as well. Will they refund that amount?

In verse 3, when he says ... nor any health in my bones because of my sin... the hebrew word for "health", used there, is "shalom". Is he talking about peace in his spiritual (internal) being? Secondly, in verse 4, he says For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: As a heavy burden, they ar...

What I remember about the series was that a science experiment went wrong (or maybe right?) and magic was loosed on Earth. An adult brother is looking for his younger sister and when he finds her, she is being transformed by the magic. I think I remember it being a trilogy of books. Hoping this i...

What kinds of pet carriers are allowed on UK trains? The National Rail website says: Dogs without leads, cats, birds and small animals must be carried in an enclosed cage or pet carrier which must be rigid and not open (to prevent escape) and the animal able to stand and lie down in comfort. Ho...

So lets say we are trying to figure out if: P(x, y) is the predicate of $x^2 < y$ as defined for x, y ∈ Z. This means using quantifiers: ∀ and ∃, I can logically say: 1. ∀x∃y of P(x,y) is possible! This is because we can say $ y = x^2 + 1 $ which means $ x < x^2 $. This means for every x there ...

In The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark: when he dropped her off that night he'd said,''you have the loveliest blue eyes I've ever had the pleasure of looking into.I don't think a twelve-year age difference is too much,do you ,Kathleen?'' . I'm wondering why is the past perfect used after...

In a comment thread relative to another question, Nick Cox says: Population pyramids are over-rated. Subtle shifts in the ratio females to males, or its reciprocal, are important and common and expected but very hard to read off pyramids. (Bigger shifts are those you can spot easily.) I then as...

I'm currently in the process of replacing an archaic multithreading solution using some of the newer C++ standard library features now that our software has been updated to use C++20. Previously, most of our multithreading was implemented using thread managers that controlled the flow of the thre...

I've moved into an old stone house in the UK. The water system consists of: Some type of well under the conservatory. It looks very deep and has a good flow rate according to the survey. A submersible pump inside the well that pumps water up the hill behind the house to: A very large water stor...

Is there a particular interest, either by Halacha or minhag, for Jews to recite the mourner’s Kaddish for a Talmid chacham, especially their rebbe Muvhak? My understanding is it is permitted to have a non relative say Kaddish for the deceased, but is there any priority for doing this to Torah ...

For the purpose of this question, I downloaded the video at: https://imgur.com/gallery/ypkZjqm It downloaded as "3Uyndrm.mp4", 4,762 kB In Windows 11, I used File Explorer > Details to view its properties: In these data, the Data rate is the video bitrate and Total bitrate = Audio Bit rate + ...

I sent an email to a patent attorney soliciting tradement and patent services. At what point does the "client-attorney relationship" begin, and hence offering protection to the client? I plan to exchange multiple emails with many questions before the initial consultation, if there is one. Will th...

Inspired by this question, I am curious, is Purim considered by Halacha to be Panim Chadashot? Or no, is Purim not considered similar to Shabbat and Yom Tov in this respect and having new physical guests present is required for reciting Sheva Berachot?

Suppose that for every $n\in\mathbb{N}$ we have a category $\mathcal{C}_n$ and a fully faithful functor $F_n:\mathcal{C}_n\hookrightarrow \mathcal{C}_{n+1}$. My question is whether fully faithful functors are preserved under taking the colimit in the following sense: is the canonical functor for ...

My final attempt to ask this question... if it gets poorly received for the 3rd time, I think I'll give up. We all know the standard TDD cycle: I first write a unit test, the smallest unit test that fails; then I write some production code, again the smallest amount of production code that is suf...

What is a mixed effects model when the within group variance cannot be estimated. For example I have an outcome that is very rare to begin with. Less than 5% of children have this outcome. Then I have different groups across the country who have contributed data for this condition including the c...

Using VS Code's command palette, I can create a LWC by being prompted for a name. If I enter a name of myComponent, I get the requisite files with the JS file having the following: import { LightningElement } from 'lwc'; export default class MyComponent extends LightningElement {} We have a bas...

I am considering flying from United Kingdom to Australia via Doha, with a three hour layover each way. My (United Kingdom) passport would have <6 month validity so I would not be able to enter Qatar. However, I would just stay at the airport and so wouldn't need a transit visa. No problem. Howeve...

Is there a "quick and dirty" way to approximately calculate how many calories a dish will absorb from the oils used to cook it's ingredients (Rather than oil used as an ingredient itself)? Something that can be used to give a rough estimate that regardless that's "close enough" irrespective of th...

We have a battery with built-in BMS and I am preparing a PCB that is supposed to talk to it. I need to decide whether I put 120 ohm standard end termination or 60 Ohm for 20cm short "bus". There are only two wires coming from BMS with RS485 interface. Is there a way to find out if there is termin...

This is the cop's thread, where one should post the scrambled code. Here is the robbers' thread where the cracked source should be posted and linked to the cop's answer. Task: Write the shortest safe program that given two inputs \$x,y\$, outputs \$\arg(x+iy)\$, where \$\arg(z)\$ is defined as t...

Task: Crack the scrambled code for calculating the argument of a complex number \$z=x+iy\$ given two inputs. You must post a comment in the cops’ thread with a link to your working source, mentioning clearly that you have cracked it. In your answer’s title, you must include a link to the original...

This was read on an online story site. One surviving astronaut returns to Earth where adults were wiped out by immortals who stopped aging before puberty. They are purposeless and hedonistic. The astronaut has a really hard time fitting in.

It is my understanding that if have an outstanding balance on most credit card and you use it make a purchase then the interest will start to accrue from the date of purchase. However, I thought that there was a law passed a while back saying the credit card companies could not do that? Did the l...

I would like to have an asteroid belt "close" to a star. I want it to contain "large" asteroids. Is this plausible? I believe the location of our real life asteroid belt is happenstance, due to Jupiter and various gravitational effects. So to an extent the location is fairly arbitrary. However, I...

On an infinite (perhaps only in one direction?) chessboard, what kind of configuration of (possibly a very large number of) knights could checkmate a lone king? I'm really thinking of an infinite-in-two-directions chessboard... And the salient point in my mind is that, although an individual knig...

I want to exec a program and control it's arguments including arg0 and environment. Using C I could go for execve. Can I do this in POSIX shell?

I am quite struggling with the usage of QuantumInstance API. This API is present in qiskit version 0.32.1 Below is small code: from qiskit.utils import QuantumInstance from qiskit import Aer simulator_used = "qasm_simulator" backend = Aer.get_backend(simulator_used) quantum_instance = Quantum...

I was just given a Tektronix TDS 3014B and I wanted to learn how to use it. I setup a simple sine wave generator and I'm working through all the menus. When I start the sine wave, everything looks fine until I change the vertical scale. Once I get the vertical scale above a certain threshold, ...

I am trying to create a matrix illustration for a paper, however, I am running into an issue with splitting a row into multiple columns. My code is as follows: \begin{center} \begin{align} \label{eq:2} \phi = & \begin{tabular}{c c} states & 1 2 3 4 5 0 \\ \begin{tabular}{c} ...

Let $X$ be an $\mathcal{X}$ valued random variable. We are doing Bayesian statistics. Suppose that $\theta$ is a $\Theta$ valued random variable with known prior distribution $\Pi$ and that the regular conditional probability $P_{X \mid \theta}$ is known. If $\Pi$ is proper (i.e. $\Pi(\Theta)=1$)...

A biography is published about some notable person in motorsport, A, now dead. In the book, assertions are made that another notable person in that sport, B, was about to be hired by A until an existing injured employee C of the same organization (also notable in reputation) heard about it; and i...

The poem Dance in Heytkah reads as follows, 12th September - Kurban Eid I saw the dance of Sama In the modern world Magic mirror on the wall My beloved hometown Kashgar From ancient history fill now The sama happens in Atekar Filled with vibrance I pass by And see the beautiful view And it b...

In Heinlein's —We Also Walk Dogs there is a bowl from the British museum that is used to induce a genius to create antigravity. At one point, he asks if the bowl is stolen property and the General Services people say no. O’Neil eyed him. ‘It’s stolen property.’ ‘You’re mistaken. Nor will you fin...

I'm having a hard time figuring out the meaning of ように in ジャブー様の一件でもわかるように ガノンは我々の行く手に 先手をうちはじめた I know that when following a verb in dictionary form, ように can have several meanings, like "in order to", or when referring to orders, advice, etc. This usage doesn't seem to match anything I've lear...

I'm quite new to blender as i made this little electronic hand on my own with only 2 days of experience. but the problem is that when I went to rig it to make it animate it just wouldn't work. the armature is made and the mesh is linked correctly but the arm looks like it becomes a liquid when I ...

I'm trying to solve the following question \begin{equation*} \left\lfloor \frac{\left\lfloor \frac{3\lfloor x\rfloor }{2}\right\rfloor }{9}\right\rfloor =4 \end{equation*} I got the following inequalities: $ n \leq x \lt n+1 \\ m \leq \frac{3n}{2} \lt m+1 \\ 36 \leq m \lt 45 \\ ⌊𝑥⌋= n \\ ⌊\frac{...

I understand that ferrite beads provide high impedance for high frequency signals. However, I am very confused on what that actually means. I've been reading in multiple posts and articles that ferrite beads turns high frequency noise into heat. Is that actually true? I don't understand how high ...

Wouldn’t having the grid fins extended from launch to booster separation just cause extra drag?

Suppose I have two upper and lower curved ropes in a geometry node, I would like to achieve a zigzag rope in that section. Ideally, I would like to learn the points of the upper curve and the points of the lower curve, I would like to create a curve that alternates back and forth, but it won't wo...

In In Matthew 6:9, the Greek it literally says: "Thus therefore pray you" or "Οὕτως οὖν προσεύχεσθε ὑμεῖς". Is Jesus saying that we should pray like that and only like that? Initially I would think not as Matthew records Jesus praying in many other ways too, but it seems like He is giving them a ...

Gödel (1932) showed that intuitionistic propositional logic (more precisely, a fragment with implication and disjunction) is not a finitely many-valued logic. What about the pure implicational fragment?

This is the article as mentioned above: https://www.universetoday.com/166172/the-maximum-mass-of-a-neutron-star-is-2-25-solar-masses/ To repeat, according to this article, the maximum mass of a non-rotating neutron star is around 2.5-3 solar masses. What is defined as a non-rotating neutron star...

My question is: are these three statements correct? (1) The net work on an object that rolls without slipping can be exactly divided into a "work on the center of mass" and a "work causing rotation about the center of mass": $W_\text{net} = W_\text{com} + W_\text{rot}$. (2) Although it is true th...

Give that 70 in French is soixante-dix, do the French say that a 70-year-old is still in their 60s? The same question goes for someone in their 90s - are they said to be in their 80s? Or is there a different expression for it?

Let we have simple recursive function: Clear[recFun]; recFun[1, k_] := 1; recFun[n_, 1] := 1; recFun[n_, k_] := recFun[n, k - 1] + recFun[n - 1, k - 1]; recFun[2,3] Out: 3 But this code not work: Clear[rf]; RecurrenceTable[{rf[n, k] == rf[n, k - 1] + rf[n - 1, k - 1], rf[1, k] == 1, rf[n...

Without using a calculator/computer, please show steps to determine which expression is larger: $(2^{90})! \ \ \ vs. \ \ \ 2^{30!}$

Why is Koopman's theorem a reliable approximation for ionization energy but unreliable for electron affinity? I understand that it has to do with cancellation of errors by orbital relaxation and electron correlation, but why do they cancel more in one case than the other?

I'm curious about images (or videos) that a) Include both a portion of the vehicle and its re-entry plasma wake, and b) That were taken at near-orbital (high-hypersonic) velocities or greater. I suspect that such images (or videos) would be invaluable to the designers of thermal protection system...

I was presented on Facebook by a French puzzle from one of my French relatives as follows: Combien d'angles possède un cube? With 2, 4, 6 or 8, as the possible choices. Now I know there are 24 angles in a cube, but 8 vertices. Google translator is telling me that l'angle translates to corner as w...

Śrimad Bhagavatam 8.16.21 स विधास्यति ते कामान्हरिर्दीनानुकम्पन: । अमोघा भगवद्भ‍क्तिर्नेतरेति मतिर्मम ॥ २१ ॥ sa vidhāsyati te kāmān harir dīnānukampanaḥ amoghā bhagavad-bhaktir netareti matir mama Does it mean we should not pray to any other god than Vishnu to alleivate our sufferings?

This problem is part of examination preparation material for second mid-semester test of 12-th grade in my school: In the 3D space Oxyz, given 3 points $A(1,0,0)$, $B(0,-2,3)$, $C(1,1,1)$. Let $(P)$ be the plane containing $A$, $B$ such that the distance from $C$ to the plane $(P)$ is $\frac{2}{\...

I am student here who just touched on Fama-French portfolios. I read from certain articles that while fama-french portfolios are extremely popular in explaining the returns, in real-life, it is quite impractical to short due to transaction costs etc. Hence, no managers out there are offering fama...

I am trying to obtain the embedding diagram of Minkowski space. I took the metric: $$ d s^{2} = - d t^{2} + d r^{2} + r^{2} \left( d \theta^{2} + \sin^{2} \theta d \phi^{2}\right) $$ for $t =$ cte and $\theta = \pi /2$, $$ d s^{2} = d r^{2} + r^{2} d \phi^{2} $$ I know this should give me a disk,...

I recently watched an educational video titled “Understanding the Demand Curve: Shifts and Consumer Surplus”. In the video, individual consumers were associated with specific points on the demand curve. For instance, a consumer 1 who values the product more (in this case, oil) was represented by ...

I need to input Chinese characters in a document and I need to set the indent of the first line to 2 times width of current font to satisfy the Chinese habits, and the width of a Chinese character is not 1em or 1ex certainly. So I try to use the LaTeX2e command \f@size to get the width of current...

If I were born in 1984 my name would have been thamilay. If I were born in 1984 my name would be thamilay now. Which sentence is wrong. Correct me!

This is from a British TV show, a patient who fell off the bike and hurt her leg is at the doctor's office. Hospital visit (6:49-6:55) The doctor says something looking at her arm, but neither the subtitles nor what I heard makes sense. 1- Is it the rest that saw where it is swollen? (This is the...

I read about French passport renewals (Google Translate): The old passport must be returned. If it included a visa, it can be kept for the period of validity of this visa. Assume that the old passport did include a valid visa, thereby allowing the passport owner to keep it when retrieving the n...

Let $G$ be a finite group, and define $a(n)=\#\{g\in G\mid o(g)=n\}$. In problem 5.18 of Isaacs' Character Theory of Finite Groups, the following polynomial is defined: $$F_G(X)=\frac{1}{|G|}\sum_ma(m)X^{|G|/m}$$ Theorem: $F_G(k)$ is an integer for $k\in\mathbb{Z}$. Setting $G$ to be the cyclic g...

I'm trying to create a text-based game using AI. I was playing around with text classification AutoML from Vertex AI just to learn AI, and then pick the best solution for my use case. Is it possible that I can train my data online (using any cloud provider) using a text classification model, and ...

If God knows those who do not worship, and has chosen them from the beginning, why warn them in chapter 14 not to worship the beast? Thanks everyone for the reply. Rev 13:8 (BLB) - And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, of whom their names have not been written from the founding of the w...

I need to find the Thévenin equivalent of the right side of the circuit by looking into node E and F. How can I find it?

While practicing for a school coding challenge, I came across this problem. My code got the right answers but exceeded the time limited. Any tips for how to reduce the time complexity? This is from the PCTC past paper - 2023-23. Problem Finn is a wizard’s apprentice. While clearing up his maste...

The first image is my Blender: And i need those viewport control buttons on the second image:

In my world, set some time less than 100 years in the future, there have been changes in climate in many places due to global warming. Also, some organisms of extraterrestrial origin got loose and have become endemic in some places. Many of them are pests. At the same time, it has been discovered...

As far as I understand, if a contravariant vector transforms in the form: $$\vec{x}'=A\vec{x}.$$ (Where $A$ is the transformation matrix) Then the covariant vectors shall transform as $$\tilde{w}'=(A^{-1})^T\tilde{w}.$$ Now, If I write $A_{uv}={A^u}_v$; where 1st indice denotes row and 2nd one de...

I accidentally got expelled from House Hlaalu in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and I'm not in a situation where I easily can make amends, so I would like to use the console to easily get out of this situation. What is the command to do this?

In C# you can write a while-loop like this do { stuff(); } while (condition) which means it will first do stuff() once, and only then start checking the condition for additional runs. Is there an equivalent pattern in Emacs Lisp?

I pray that someone may have some reliable sources that I would like to use when speaking to atheists. What is the evidence that Matthew was written before or after AD 70?

One of the more controversial issues in the peace process has been the status of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. A plurality of Israeli Jews say these settlements help the security of Israel, but there is a political divide on this issue as well. The relatively small proportion of Jews (8%)...

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I have a question about an apparent contradiction. In Luke 24 it says that the women went to the tomb and when they saw that it was empty, they entered and saw a vision of angels. After that they went to the apostles to tell them about it, but the apostles didn't believe them. However, Peter aros...

I heard that microprocessors are usually made using silicon, yet germanium has a better conductive state. Why isn't germanium not chosen instead, taking to account that better conductors provide better efficiency?

Take the following command (real example) : ~$ gpg --edit-key [email protected] showpref quit (...) [ultimate] (1). Foo Bar <[email protected]> Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES AEAD: Digest: SHA256, SHA1, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed Fea...

I have this very simple function: function calculateElectrostaticForce(distance) { const charge1 = 1.602176634e-19; // Elementary charge in coulombs (C) const charge2 = 1.602176634e-19; // Elementary charge in coulombs (C) // Calculate the electrostatic force ...

I’ve been looking everywhere however have been unable to find an answer to this On Thursday I arrive into Istanbul (IST) at 17.45 (BA) and my next flight is on Flyadeal at 21.35 I already have a Mobile Boarding pass for my next flight and I have only got Cabin bags Can I use the International Tra...

My son is a US citizen but has a mexican drivers license can he drive in the US

The greedy circle packing of a bounded region in the plane is the result of placing at each stage the largest possible disk into the region that remains uncovered. The greedy circle packing of a square, for example, begins by placing the inscribed circle, and then four more circles, one in each c...

I’m currently on a direct United flight from Newark to Los Angeles. While boarding I got the dreaded “bag is on a different flight” notification. That’s a later flight that will arrive 4 hours after mine. But… why did United do this? My bag was checked in 2 hours before the flight so it’s not lik...

I use MacBook Air (M1, 16GB, 2020). Today I updated the macbook to macOS Ventura 13.6.5. After the update, The computer boots up and I can login to it. The CPU usage is 1% (i.e. 99% idle) and the RAM usage is 5GB (i.e. 11GB available). The disk I/O, the network, etc. are all idle as well as far...

I'm trying to create a circle that iterates over all hues like so. Right is what I currently have. \foreach\x in {5, 10, ..., 360} { \pgfmathparse{\x} \definecolor{tmpcolor}{HSB}{\pgfmathresult,255,255} \fill[color=tmpcolor]( {0.5\textwidth + 0.22\textheight*sin(\x)}, ...

I've been reading Sean Carroll's book on GR and I stumbled upon an exercise on EM using $p$-forms. I think I've solved the problem correctly but I am having problems with my answers. I'll provide the question, my answer and what is troubling me, if anyone could help me it would be much appreciate...

Long story short my 9 year old informed me that her teacher told her, "I hate you." The principal conducted an investigation and 1 child said they heard the teacher say something to my child about hate. The principal then asked the teacher and he said the teacher stated he couldn't remember what ...

I know it is possible to break long lines using the seqsplit package. The following code block shows a minimal working example. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[a4paper, showframe]{geometry} \usepackage{seqsplit} \begin{document} Without using seqsplit: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEF...

I am beginner in learning German and I am a bit confused. When I try to translate English sentence: "I see her nephew now." to German, both Google and DeepL translates as "Ich sehe jetzt ihren Neffen." Here I ask, why "Neffe" takes "-n", it is not plural, doesn't it have to be "...ihren Neffe." i...