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Q: Does the TV show's portrayal of Brotherhood of Steel squires as combatants fighting alongside knights have precedent in past Fallout media?

galacticninjaIn the 2024 Fallout TV series, we see that the Brotherhood of Steel’s squires are portrayed as young adults (or older teenagers). For instance, Aaron Moten, who is 35, plays the squire Maximus, and his character is actively serving alongside a Brotherhood knight in a combat situation. This portra...

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Q: ER diagram with empty boxes as a worksheet

wayneI am in the process of creating a worksheet for my students. It's about ER-diagrams. It's relatively easy with Word, but it doesn't look so nice ;) I already know how to create ER-diagrams. What I would like to have are fields that the students have to fill out. Here my code: \documentclass[10pt,...

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Q: What is this connector called and are they commonly used?

totalconfusionI'll probably end up just cutting it off but I'm kind of curious now. I found it on a 12vdc water pump.

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Q: C++ - Find all duplicate files (follow-up)

HarithWhat's changed since the first version: Instead of hashing each and every file, the sizes of the files are first compared, and if those are equal, the files are then hashed. A better hash function, EVP_Blake2b512(), is used in place of EVP_md5(). Files are also read in chunks now. (Previously eac...

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Q: Will the door fit in a rough opening only oversized 2 inches?

TommyI have framed an opening for an exterior door that will be 32x80” and have therefore made the rough opening 34x82½”. Every 32x80 door I’ve looked at at Lowe’s and Home Depot call for a rough opening width of 34¼”. With hindsight I should have checked this first. Will it fit? Is the extra 1/8” on ...

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Q: Identify unpopular cube solving method

Jason GoemaatI just got back into cubing for fun, not speed. There was an interesting solving method I used to like and can't remember the name of. I believe it started with solving all the corners, then solving the left and right sides by moving the unsolved edge to change to the top layer and spinning th...

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Q: How to change Google Sheets interface language?

vstepaniukWhen for example opening some Google Sheet in a private tab without signing in to Google the interface language is determined by IP. How to change its language to English?

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Q: Zero-Sum Game with two Mixed Equilibrium Interpretation

CormJackIn the attached Zero Sum Game, i have solved for two Mixed Nash Equilibrium, $(l,m)$ and $(m,r.)$ In $(l,m)$ the payoff is $8/5$ to $P_1$, and $-8/5$ to $P_2$. Here $P_1$ mixes between Top and Bottom with probability $4/5$ and $1/5$ respectively. $P_2$ mixes between left and middle with probabi...

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Q: This seal is a name. What are the characters and what do they mean? (Characters identified: 權固守)

Avie RockThis seal is a name awarded to a martial artist. I think the name means strong and protective. The word for strong might be the same word used for iron mills? Any help on the Chinese characters and their translation would be greatly appreciate.

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Q: Might Matthew 7:7 have had parallel grammar in Aramaic?

Peter ShorOne of the things that has always bothered me slightly about Matthew 7:7 : Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you (KJV), is that the grammar is not parallel. In fact, it isn't even as parallel as you could make it in English.1 I recently ...

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Q: How to Highlight the face when selecting all its vertices?

WarStyleSo, the issue is that I switched blender theme to "Maya" and, as a result, now when I select all the vertexes of the face, the face itself isn't highlighted in viewport. But I actually want this to be highlighted. Is there a way to fix this?

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Q: What is known about finite dimensional modules over the nilCoxeter algebra?

Christoph MarkRecall that the nilCoxeter algebra $\mathcal{N}_W$ for a Coxeter group $W$ is given by the $\mathbf{k}$-basis $x_w$ for each $w\in W$ and multiplication $x_ux_v=x_{uv}$ if $\ell(uv)=\ell(u)+\ell(v)$ and $=0$ otherwise. Q: What is known about finite dimensional modules over $\mathcal{N}_W$? When I...

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Q: Is it possible to prove that this matrix is invertible?

Balázs MarkóI am trying to determine whether the following, $ n $ by $ n $ matrix: $$ A = \begin{pmatrix} \Delta_{11} - 1 & \Delta_{12} & ... & \Delta_{1n} \\ \Delta_{21} & \Delta_{22} - 1 & ... & \Delta_{2n} \\ ... \\ \Delta_{n1} & \Delta_{n2} & ... & \Delta_{nn} - 1 \end{pmatrix} $$ Subject to $ \Delta_{i...

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Q: Why do protests happen in the light of their apparent futility

alamarJust today, Riot police called in to disperse angry locals after [a bishop] was attacked at Assyrian Christ There seem to be an ingrained belief that when something bad happens to a society, people gather to protest against it; much like going to the mechanic or doctor, when something bad happe...

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Q: Return current on PCB

AndromedaAs PCB designers we all know that for high frequency signal (MHz), we should design return path (reference GND plane) underneath the signal as follows: Consider that we have a digital chip or analogue chip that we want to design the PCB for driving he chip. In side the package there is die and w...

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Q: Are differentials on their own in stochastic calculus just an abuse of notation?

Markus KlyverIn stochastic calculus, it is often standard to write a DE in differential form, such as $\mathrm dY = H \, \mathrm dX$ for the stochastic integral $$\displaystyle\int\limits_0^t H \, \mathrm d X := \displaystyle\int\limits_0^t H_s \, \mathrm d X_s.$$ The most common sense-interpretation of an ex...

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Q: 1.d4 and the Bc8

Hauke ReddmannCan White choose a variant/move order such that there is no good way for Black to solve the standard problem of the Bc8 in d4 openings and the dude has to stay put for a while? (Doesn't mean Black has a bad game!) For example, I read a short article about the Slav exchange variation and if I unde...

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GIS
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Q: How can I use ogr2ogr to left join a CSV to a GPKG file and produce a GeoJSON output in a scalable way?

zabopI have a large GPKG and a CSV file, and I'd like to (left) join the CSV to the GPKG on one of the columns. A visualisation of what I'm trying to achieve: Reproducible example We can create an example GPKG file and an example CSV by using this Python code: import shapely.geometry import geopandas...

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Q: Why does macOS start ssh-agent with -l?

Joel BergerI'm looking to add a default timeout to the ssh-agent run by macos at startup. So far I've determined that the file that runs this is /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openssh.ssh-agent.plist which contains: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "

DIY
DIY
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Q: Safe to remove out-of-service 3-line landline junction box by myself?

dadu007We have lived in this house 13 years. It's wired for a landline, but we've never used it. Previous owners must have had 3 business phones lines to the house. There is a junction box for those landlines on a finished basement wall. I would like to reclaim that wall real estate and disconnect the w...

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Q: How does quantum teleportation not lose information?

Y. S.This may be a bit of an elementary question, but I think understanding it will help me understand fundamentally what makes quantum algorithms a bit magical. Alice starts with a message she wants to send Bob, in the form of $|\phi \rangle = \alpha |0\rangle + \beta |1\rangle$. She concatenates it ...

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Q: How to find fundamental cycles in a multiple edge graph?

internetI tried to find the fundamental cycles of a multiple edge graph below, but it doesn't seem to work. Is it true that the built-in function FindFundamentalCycles does not work with multiple edge graphs? Or did I make a mistake or not understand the function? g = Graph[{1 <-> 2, 2 <-> 3, 3 <-> 2, 1 <->

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Q: Meaning of "It is the ego, demanding its feed" in "Smiley's People"

Silent SojournerFrom John Le Carré's Smiley's People: I need you, thought Smiley, watching him gyrate. I love you, I hate you, I need you. Such apocalyptic statements reminded him of Ann when she had run out of money or love. The heart of the sentence is the subject, he thought. It is not the verb, least of all...

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Q: Ways to Say "Forcibly Inducted"

VepueiAs a combatant, your family's safety is threatened by your captors. "Return to your platoon as a spy for us, and your family's lives will be spared." You accept the terms with steadfast inclination. It could be said that you were inducted into the opposition's intelligence protocol, but I find th...

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Q: Does the success of AI (Large Language Models) support Wittgenstein's position that "meaning is use"?

ac15By 'success' we think of current AI/LLMs capacity of producing text that is regarded as coherent, informative, even convincing, by human readers [see for instance Spitale et al. and Salvi et al.] Wittgenstein's position is For a large class of cases of the employment of the word “meaning” - thou...

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Q: Can a firmware upgrade take away the ability to unlock a bootloader?

davidgoHistorically I've always unlocked the bootloader on my phones (and installed a close to AOSP ROM and made use of root access) - however - and I bristle at the thought - I am almost at the point where the cons of unlocking the bootloader may exceed the pros. If I purchase a phone, use it with a lo...

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Q: Should I disclose a mental disorder that's been impacting my job to HR/my boss?

MattRixThere is an existing question about depression in a different situation (job seeking), and the answers are mostly about the obligation to disclose it and clearance issues, which is not really what I'm asking. I've been a very productive employee for years, but lately made a huge deal out of minor...

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Q: Looking for Short Story in Magazine: Researcher living in his Computer simulation

CharlesLooking for a short story that ran in a magazine, I thought Popular Science, but I can't seem to find it. Was between probably 2014 and 2020, guessing about 2017. A researcher is porting into a world of his creation that is a computer simulation to do research on climate change I think. There's ...

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Q: Understanding the verb 諫める: broader than English "to admonish"?

whatyouexpectThis usage of いさめる is from a sentence in Hunter x Hunter, where two characters are together and one of them [A] senses an enemy from the shadows about to attack them. The other character [B] asks why they were able to sense the enemy, and [A] explains how: [A]わずかに漏れた殺気よ 。 敵は私達が子供なんで一瞬油断したんだわね 。 ...

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Q: Writing a general solution to differential equation with Bessel functions

gujaral Consider a mass $m$ is placed on a horizontal level surface and attached to a spring, whose other end is attached to a vertical wall. The mass moves in a viscous medium, where the resistance force acting on it is proportional to the velocity: $\vec{F}_p=-\gamma\vec{\nu}$, where $\gamma$ is a kno...

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Q: Optimizing Multiple Subplot Visualization and Navigation in Matplotlib

Cold FireI have implemented a class in Python using Matplotlib for visualizing multiple subplots along with navigation buttons to move between different subsets of data. Each subplot displays a contour plot along with a colorbar. While it kind of works, I am seeking advice on optimizing the code for bette...

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Q: How many lanes of PCIe does Thunderbolt 4 use?

AlexGenesisSearching shows that Thunderbolt 4 uses 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0; each lane should contain 3 twisted pairs, two for communication (TX and RX) and one for reference clock. The pinout of Thunderbolt 4 is next: The first question is why there are 4 lanes and not 2 if A2-A3 create a TX twisted pair and B...

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Q: How can my book purchase get the most money to an author?

Daniel GriscomI'm a reader, not an author. But, when I buy books (in whatever format) from authors I enjoy, I'd like as much of my purchase prices as possible to get to those authors. So, I'm wondering: do authors get more or less for purchase of a given work based on the format and/or bookseller? For instance...

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Q: Where are my sudo privileges stored?

Rene ReitsmaOn my (home) Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS machine I have unlimited sudo: $ sudo -l User <me> may run the following commands on <me>-home: (ALL : ALL) ALL However, I do not see my user-id in the file /etc/sudoers and there are no files in /etc/sudoers.d except a README file that does not have my user-...

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Q: Can I use an RF transistor at a lower frequency?

Francisco MaggiI want to design a power amplifier to work at 40 MHz. The only RF transistor that has a higher frequency rating than this I can find where I live is the MRF646, but the datasheet defines its parameters at 512 MHz. Can I use that transistor at 40 MHz?

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Q: Can $3000 of already existing capital losses be used in next year instead of current year?

user4910112Let's say for someone who has modest ordinary income this year, but next year expects significantly more income - is it possible to defer usage of capital loss to the next year? Or, is this person required to use all $3000 of capital loss in current year if income in current year was $3000 or more?

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Q: Can I get a list of items stored in items-as-resources using SPE?

Dan SolovayI'm defining serialization, and I'd like a report of items loaded by Sitecore so I can make sure I'm avoiding those paths. Is it possible to get a CSV listing all items in the stock items-as-resources (a.k.a. protocol buffers) using SPE?

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Q: Mouse is sent in tiny spaceship. Attempted first journey to the moon. Intercepted by intelligent aliens. Given intelligence and speech. Named Mickey

Judith JonesA German scientist is living in America. He talks a lot to a mouse in his house who he catches, and keeps in a cage. He calls the mouse Mickey after Disney's famous creation. He builds a tiny rocket to be the first to fly to the moon. He sends the mouse up in the rocket and watches through his te...

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Q: Excel FFT of Two Sine Waves Not Giving Expected Results

Data2DollarsI did an FFT in Excel on a 440 Hz time domain sine wave, $y_1(t) = \sin(2\pi\cdot440\cdot t)$, and got the expected output in the frequency domain: a single-spike distribution with 100% of the signal at 440 Hz and zero at every other frequency. I did a second FFT in Excel on an 880 Hz time domain...

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Q: Converting "4.8 million" into an actual number

RobKohrI have a sheet that has numeric records that are a mix of three different number types: 260,000 4.8 million 870 million 1.1 billion The first one is handled just fine as a number, but the ones formatted, such as 4.8 million, are difficult to convert into numbers.  I need a formula to convert a n...

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Q: Question about if something would be visible from the surface of a sphere.

DanceroftheStarsSo, I am trying to see if something would be visible to someone standing on the surface of a planet or the top of mountain on it. So, imagine a perfect sphere for the planet, then imagine a moon which orbits perpendicular to the line from the observer to the centre of the sphere. Let's give a orb...

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08:22
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Q: Displayed math inside an ovalbox in the fancy box package

Michael Hardy\begin{center} \ovalbox{Consider the integral $ I_n = \int_0^1$} \end{center} While using the fancybox package, the code above works as I would have expected, but the following gets me an error message about a missing $ \begin{center} \ovalbox{Consider the integral $$ I_n = \int_0^1$$} \end{cent...

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Q: Accidentally used fdisk on mdadm RAID1 array, can I recover my data?

VinceI installed a new disk today and was prepping it, before realizing that I'd done my "prep" work on an existing RAID1 array!! I'd LOVE to be able to recovered if possible. My array was created as /dev/md2 from drives /dev/sdf and /dev/sdh. Here's what I saw with fdisk -l before breaking anything: ...

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Q: Recover trashed photos from the Internal Memory on the Instax Mini Evo

SuzieI accidentally deleted a good chunk of photos off the internal memory of my Instax Mini Evo - is there any way to recover these? I thought I had put an SD card in but realized I only did so in another camera of mine. Someone please tell me I can recover these😭

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Q: If a Dragonborn is affiliated with a particular dragon race, is it more likely to inherit that race's alignment?

RedzI'm DMing for a homebrew quest with vanilla material, where the party is getting very close to a Dragonborn village. I haven't yet decided which dragon most of the village Dragonborn will be descended from, as I feel this may affect how the villagers behave towards the adventurers. Since the ques...

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Q: In what TOS episode did Spock use a prop known as an analog flight computer, and why did he need to turn to a "handheld device" in this case?

uhohIn the recent Undecided with Matt Ferrell video Why the Future of AI & Computers Will Be Analog after about 05:44, the Original Star Trek TV show's Mr. Spock is shown holding a analog flight computer. I don't know the episode, but by the looks of the open electronics racks in the background on th...

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Q: Which aviation flight computer is Spock using aboard the enterprise (as a prop)?

uhohIn the recent Undecided with Matt Ferrell video Why the Future of AI & Computers Will Be Analog after about 05:44, the Original Star Trek TV show's Mr. Spock is shown holding a analog flight computer. I don't know the episode, but by the looks of the open electronics racks in the background on th...

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Q: Prepositions after, before etc. as temporal determiners

Kyle F. HartzenbergHuddleston and Pullum's CGEL (2002, pg. 356 footnotes) identifies last and next as (potential) members of the determinative category when used in temporal deictic expressions such as last week, next year, and where they contrast with the central determinative this. Is ir reasonable, then, to asse...

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Q: Tumah of multiple births

Micah FogelIn parashah Tazria we read that a woman is rendered impure by giving birth; one week for a boy child and two weeks for a girl child. What if it is twins or more? Are the periods of impurity applied consecutively? Or concurrently? Or something else?

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Q: Simplest way to create a clickable list in MacOS that will cause selected programs to run

HippoManI'm looking for something which runs under MacOS that will let me do the following: Suppose I have a file called "program.list" with contents something like this: "Program 1" "/usr/local/bin/program 1" "Program 2" "/usr/local/bin/program 2" "Program 3" "/usr/local/bin/other-program xyz" "Program 4"

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Q: How much pressure would it take to compress a block of solid steel into one-tenth the original volume?

ZanMoon-chanWe all know to compress objects into smaller volumes, you would need to apply pressure to them. The required pressure depends on how strong the material is and which form is it (gas, liquid, solid). I have a 10 cm3 block of steel in my room. I am always wondering how much pressure it would take t...

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Q: Correlation between factors vs correlation between error terms of items measured by each factor

user1205901 - Слава УкраїніSay there is a CFA model where there are 2+ factors, and the correlation between factors is freely estimated. A change is made to the model such that an error term connected to an item on one factor is correlated with an error term connected to an item on another factor. It’s been suggested to me...

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Q: How many papers should I include in the literature review writing?

Muaz AbdallahI'm composing a literature review on the use of air bubbling carriers in direct contact membrane distillation. I've encountered various papers with promising findings, some of which might overshadow my own results. Should I incorporate all of them or selectively choose which ones to include?

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Q: How do physicists talk about spin of individual particles when the universe is massively entangled?

zzzThe following two things seem to be true: (1) The universe is massively entangled because the wave function that describes the entire universe has measure 1 of being entangled. Further, given how entanglement spreads, it seems likely that the universe is massively entangled. (2) On a canonical pr...

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Q: \cs_new:Npn causes illegal unit or measure error while \let doesn't

StephenIn the MWE: \documentclass{article} \setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt} \begin{document} \ExplSyntaxOn \cs_new:Npn \foo:nn #1#2 { \makebox[#1][s]{#2} } % \cs_new:Npn \bar:nn #1#2 { \foo:nn #1#2 } \let \bar:nn \foo:nn \fbox{\foo:nn {3cm} {a~b~c~d}}\par \fbox{\bar:nn {3cm} {a~b~c~d}} \ExplSyntaxOff ...

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Q: Are Quantum Computers Bad at Addition?

AidanI recently built a dynamic full adder gate with Qiskit. The gate essentially copies the classical computing method for a full adder by emulating the classical gates e.g. AND == Toffoli (Quantum AND gate). I ran a 5-bit adder with ibm_kyoto (127 qubits Eagle processor), with 10000 shots, expecting...

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Q: Expense Rows per page

calgary1xCurrently in expense default is 50 rows per page. How do i increase that to more than that. Example 100. Please see image. Thanks

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Q: Should Christians repent for the failures of Christianity to live up to Christ's commands in Church history?

Perry WebbLooking back at church history, the Universal Church has failed miserably at keeping Christ’s command when it comes to all Christians. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you ar...

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Q: Can Weapon Property Runes apply to Athletics maneuvers?

StrillRecent errata has clarified that if you use an athletics maneuver with a weapon, the weapon's traits, such as Agile, can apply. Do property runes apply as well? For example, a Crushing rune says it applies its effects on a critical hit with the weapon, and mentions attacks, but does not say that ...

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Q: The last letter of my name is missing on my bank account information, should I keep trying to fix it?

AmelianI live in Mexico and I've got my first debit card. I have three names, in total (counting spaces) I need 21 characters to write them. After realizing that the last letter of my last name is missing on my personal bank information and on the automatic emails I receive from them, I went to the bank...

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Q: In The Lord of the Rings, did anyone ever say "The fellowship is now complete."?

LarryjlI have seen some references to this quote, but can't confirm if it was a real line, in either the books or movies. Is it perhaps a Mandela effect, or a reference from something else?

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Q: The incomplete sonnets at the beginning of Don Quixote - what does the pattern mean?

OmortisI am reading John Rutherford's translation of Don Quixote. In the prologue there are several sonnets that appear to be some sort of puzzle/guessing game as the last syllable (syllables?) are missing. For example: I am the squire called Sancho Pa---; I took French leave, and scarpered pre--- To li...

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Q: How to expand a volume group from a single physical volume

MikeI am using LVMs on RHEL9. I have a logical volume on a partition(/dev/sda4) and need to give it more space. I went into VMWare and made the drive larger. I then expanded the partition using parted and ran "resizepart 4 100%". Then I ran "pvresize /dev/sda4". This grew the physical volume. Now I n...

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Q: On track with my travel agent

Jeremy Dover"Hey Pat, thanks for arranging this day trip on the railroad for our scout troop." "My pleasure, friend. My friend at Union Pacific owes me a favor. I love the sound of the horn and the feel of the track passing underneath." "You even put together an activity for the scouts...that's really above ...

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Q: Why is 4. Ng5 in the Two Knights not common in current (2024) top-level chess?

AllureWhen following the ongoing 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournament, I notice that Black often plays the Two Knights Defense in response to the Italian, but White goes for a quiet Giuoco Piano line instead of 4. Ng5. Why? Example games are Firouzja vs. Nakamura, Vidit vs. Gukesh, Vidit vs. Nakamura.

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Q: Could Iran have obtained any valuable intelligence from its April 13 attack?

FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBadIt seems that the Iranian April 13 attack against Israel had mostly political objectives: testing what western powers would and would not do to support Israel and their interests in the Middle East, as well as disclosing the existing military cooperation between Israel and Jordan, and the intelli...

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Q: Can the player and the illusion from the spell Mislead act in parallel?

oliver.cThe description says that you can use your action to make the illusion move or gesture in whatever way you command it. Does this mean that either the player or the illusion does effectively nothing? Can't the illusion act autonomously, completing a more complex command, while the player does some...

DIY
DIY
15:14
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Q: Finding right screws for electrical box

rb9001I'm trying to install a new ceiling light replacing an old fan. The light fixture is around 8 lbs in weight. The issue I'm running into is that I cannot find the right screws to use with this electrical box (unfortunately, we can't find the old screws). I tried SAE screws - 1/4" was too small and...

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Q: In dialogue, what is the best way to show an action as well as dialogue from two different characters?

therandomizer12I'm writing a book, and there's a point I've come up to where there's an action, plus dialogue from two different characters. Here's the excerpt: “What do you want for her?” Dane asked. The man paused in thought. "Five hundred." Now, what is the best way to format this? Is it A: "What do you w...

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Q: What prevents Russia from mimicking the Iranian attack against Israel?

FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBadA question that has been bugging me for a while is: why haven't Russia tested NATO unity by carrying a relatively harmless or deniable attack against a NATO member? Though until recently I imagined a more naïve scenarios - like "accidentally" hitting territories of Poland or Baltic countries or e...

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Q: A novel about near-death experiences and a mysterious ship

AlfredI read this novel about 20-25 years ago, and I think it was shortly after its publication. It is definitely SF if only because medicine is more advanced in the book than it was 20 years ago when it was published (but maybe not more advanced than now, reality has a way of catching up with fiction)...

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ELL
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Q: Can we use "It varies a lot" at the beginning of a new paragraph?

J.MoonCan we use "It varies a lot" at the very beginning of a sentence or a paragraph in written English? I just had a harsh debate with the part-time lecturer about whether we could use "It varies a lot" in the first clause of the first sentence of a paragraph. Example: "It varies a lot, but I wake up...

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RPG
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Q: Can an Injection Reservoir apply to Athletics Maneuvers?

StrillThe Injection Reservoir Adjustment allows you to inject a poison into the target on a successful attack. ...Immediately after a successful attack with the adjusted weapon, you can inject the target with the loaded poison... Many athletics maneuvers are attacks. If I apply the Injection Reservoi...

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Q: How can I use $0 in Makefile?

ellatI would like to include the following command (taken from here) in a Makefile. A simple version of my Makefile script containing the command is: copy_files: sed 's/^/\./' ./input_file | \ rev | \ LC_ALL=C sort -u | \ awk 'p == "" || substr($0,1,length(p)) != p { print ...

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Q: What do we mean when we ask "What's the – fundamental – nature of reality?"

JonThis is a very popular question within metaphysics and I'd like to understand what do we are really mean with the question. In particular, what do we mean when we use the words "fundamental" and "nature" when posing this question?

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Q: LGPL obligations for using glibc

user44168Similar questions have been asked before, but I'm not satisfied with the answers. In LGPL v2.1, Section 5 states that a binary may be derivative to an LGPL library if it was compiled with the library's headers, because its object code can be derivative to the library, and so it should follow the ...

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Q: What is the lowest placed team to have a Golden Boot winner?

ImClarkyAt the time of writing, in the 2023/24 Premier League season, Cole Palmer of Chelsea is currently joint-top of the goal scoring charts with 20 goals, with Chelsea currently 9th in the Premier League table. Normally the top goal scorer in a season is from one of the top few teams, if not the overa...

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Q: How do I check if a GameObject is touching another GameObject in Unity?

ok-coder1I am trying to check if a GameObject is clicking another GameObject. I am trying to make a 2D shooter like Duck Hunt so this is important. I have tried IPointerDownHandler but found out that it is no longer supported. Code: using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEn...

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Q: What do I miss to see the texture?

Chef BoarIt has been a while since I played with blender and must have lost basic understanding of it. This must be something very simple or I am just missing something. I am trying to add material/texture to an object. However, it takes a color, but not the texture/image, nor any of the maps for some rea...

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Q: Does standard quantum mechanics imply anti realism?

AlejandroIn quantum entanglement, there is something called a joint wave function that describes the state of the two particles entangled. At measurement, this mysteriously “collapses” into an actual outcome, where knowing one outcome can always tell us the outcome of the other particle’s measurement, eve...

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Q: What would the climates/biomes on my fantasy continent be?

bruithelI've roughly marked out where I think a desert might naturally form according to the mountains, and plotted the rivers in a way that I think makes sense, but what other climates might I expect on this continent? It's roughly the same size as Australia, in an Earth-like world in around the same po...

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Q: Endomorphism ring of a generic elliptic curves in positive characteristic

aya Let E be a generic elliptic curve over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$ (i.e. an elliptic curve corresponding to a geometric point over the generic point of $M_{1,1}$). What is $End_{k}(E)$?

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Q: Using flex PCB for RF signal instead of coax cable

EENoviceI have been looking into reducing the number of different cables needed for my project: I have a couple of photodiodes on separate boards, with a total of 7 analog outputs. They have signal bandwidths of up to ~1.5GHz. Currently, I am using a separate coax cable with a U.FL connector for each sig...

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Q: If we know that there were no type 1 errors in previous tests, should we still make corrections for multiplicity?

user7064Suppose there's a study where an interim analysis was performed to evaluate efficacy with the intention of stopping the study. However, since the predefined success criterion wasn't achieved, the study continued until completion. In this scenario, should the final analysis account for multiplicit...

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Q: Has the handling of whitespace by \alltt changed recently (i.e. since 2021)?

Janafter moving to a new computer (and installing a current (2024) texlive system), I noticed that the layout in my document was messed up in several places. After some experimenting, it turned out that this was due to the handling of whitespace by the alltt environment. More precisely: tabs appare...

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Q: Are Tiagra BR-4600 brake pads compatible with 105 BR-5810 calipers?

EnderTiagra pads are about half the price of 105 pads. I wonder what is the difference and if they are compatible with the 105 brake calipers at all.

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Q: I seem to have lost the add rule menu item for CiviRules

DanI have been looking to update my CiviRules, and add new, but I can’t find the Add rule menu item under CiviRules. I have searched the Civicrm_menu table in MySQL, and it is missing, can someone help with what the path is to the ‘add rule’ in CiviRules so that I can add it back again please?

19:25
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Q: What is this intro to this rendition of Kah Echsof?

Rabbi KaiiMy inability to hear lyrics, and my inabilities in Yiddish require me to ask the fine folk here what exactly is being said in the first words that precede Kah Echsof in this rendition. Could someone transliterate and translate for me, and for a nice bonus, give me some kind of context of why they...

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Q: pandoc does not seem to include .rtf files. Can I add them?

PedroskiI am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS I wanted to convert .rtf files to PDFs using Python. I found this on stackoverflow: import pypandoc def convert_rtf_to_pdf(input_rtf, output_pdf): pypandoc.convert_file(input_rtf, 'pdf', outputfile=output_pdf) if __name__ == "__main__": input_rtf_path = "Path...

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Q: When incrementing a private key by 1, by how much is the public key Incremented?

user2284570If you have a secp256k1 keypair and you increment the private key by 1, then a faster way to compute the new public key is to perform an addition on the previous public key. But by how much? Some software like Profanity on Ethereum used this.

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Q: Would medieval humans know if an ancient civilization had existed and been wiped out?

Sam MoonLet's say there was a society of lizard people that were highly intelligent, about 50 million years ago. They built permanent structures and developed up to an industrial tech level; they had iron bridges and skyscrapers. They used electricity, had massive telephone lines underground, and had lan...

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Q: Finding a nilpotent, infinite, f.g., virtually abelian, irreducible integer matrix group

Max HornI was wondering if anyone here knows of an example of a group $M \leq \mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$ which is nilpotent infinite finitely generated virtually abelian irreducible (over $\mathbb{Z}$ or $\mathbb{C}$, shouldn't matter) It is not hard to find examples that satisfy all but the last prope...

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Q: Two-sided t-tests: Why do we need to test two-sided if your estimate is telling you in what tail to look already?

KarenImagine the following scenario: H0: kids in a town sleep 7 hours on average (mu= 7) HA: kids in a town do not sleep 7 hours on average (mu=! 7) And then you collect your sample of town kids and you get an estimate of the mean: 7.8 hours and a standard deviation of 1.0 hour. Now, I don't really un...

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Q: Can an astronomer fully work remotely?

dtnMy question today is addressed to those astronomers who have quite a lot of experience working remotely. In general terms, the answer to the question includes the following elements: the range of tasks to be solved, the methods and frequency of interaction with colleagues, the frequency and neces...

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Q: Password checker using Decorator Pattern

DEF ABCI'm currently trying a Password checker for password in Decorator Pattern, which will point out what the current password missing to be a strong password (my example will check for 8 characters, at least 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase, 1 number). Please review and help to improve this code. interface P...

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Q: Piping live sound from raspberry pi to macOS

zahntheoI want to pipe and live play the sound recorded on my raspberry to my MacBook. Ive tried the following: On My raspberry: I tried to establish a data stream on a port 3333 arecord -D plughw:3,0 -f S16_LE 44100 -t raw | nc -l -p 3333 On my MacBook: nc 10.10.1.1 3333 | play -t raw -b 16 -e signed-i...

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Q: Is a new Tourney rear hub better than a 15 year old Deore hub?

EnderI have an old MTB with Deore M530 rear hub. I found out its axle has a slight bend thanks to the help of the members here. There is also wear on one of the cones. I am going to order an axle set (axle and two nuts) which seems to be compatible (It is actually for Deore LX rear hubs but axle has t...

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Q: How to use hyperref new color scheme?

richardIIIIn a previous question on this site (better default colors for hyperref links), Ulrike Fischer said that a new colorscheme option will be provided for the hyperref pacakge, four years ago. It is also documented here: https://mirror.las.iastate.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfmanagement-te...

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Q: Negated Fibonacci and the floor function

Notamathematician Let $F_n$ be A000045 (i.e., Fibonacci numbers). Here $$ F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2}, \\ F_0 = 0, F_1 = 1, \\ F_{-n} = (-1)^{n-1}F_n $$ I conjecture that $$ F_{-n} = \left\lfloor\frac{n+1}{2}\right\rfloor - \sum\limits_{i=1}^{n-1} \left(\left\lfloor\frac{n-i+1}{2}\right\rfloor + 1\right)F_{-i}, \\ F...

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Q: Why do Japanese people pronouce the word "Mach" as マッハ instead of マッカ?

Mạnh ToànWhy do Japanese people pronouce the word "Mach" as マッハ instead of マッカ?

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20:56
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Q: Separate columns in matrix by bar

TrommelpeterI would like to create something similar to this in my document. I have tried using nicematrix so far but cannot get it to work. Thanks in advance:)

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Q: Have there been notable scientific research articles with ground-breaking results in Young Earth Creationism research?

MarkI previously asked Are there scientific research articles published in reputable journals that provide supporting evidence for Young Earth Creationism?. Here I'm relaxing the conditions. In other words, I'm happy with articles published in Answers Research Journal, Journal of Creation, or any oth...

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Q: Short story; a journalist visits a hospital with patients who are mentally ill. One patient pretends to use invisible tools to build a machine

Judith JonesThe journalist likes this patient, a friendly little man who seems perfectly normal except for using invisible tools to build a complex invisible machine. The journalist spends some time with him and can identify the different invisible tools. See when he is carefully measuring with an invisible ...

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Q: Transaction got reverted Uniswap Universal Router

duyanhhzI want to programmatically swap using Uniswap Universal Router, but the transaction always gets reverted Here is my code: const ethers = require("ethers"); const { abi: V3SwapRouterABI } = require('@uniswap/v3-periphery/artifacts/contracts/SwapRouter.sol/SwapRouter.json') const ROUTER_ADDRESS = "...

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Q: Storing MQTT on Ethereum Chain or is there a better way?

howtomqttblockchainI'm working on a college project where we are using IoT sensors (raspberry pi) to monitor the supply chain conditions, think temp, pressure, humidity etc. This data is being transmitted via MQTT to a Ubunutu VM. The VM is also running a Ganache Ethereum testnet, with a smart contract powered dash...

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Q: Does interface segregation principle apply to configuration data holders?

CalimeroIf you have a class representing your applicative config file. Instead of injecting that config class everywhere, would it be good application of interface segregation principle to expose several interfaces (based on config sections ?) on the class and inject them one or several of those to the c...

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Q: A visualization for the quotient rule

TommiContext: first year didactics of mathematics course for middle school teacher students (in Norway). I have a reasonable visualization for the product rule of derivatives: Consider a rectangle with sides $a$ and $b$, change them by $\Delta a$ and $\Delta b$ respectively, take the difference of the...

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Q: Can the composition law of a group be defined only when considering a representation or realisation of the Group?

HypnoticZebraWhen we talk about, lets say, the Lorentz group, we define the action of the Lorentz transformation $\varLambda$ on \begin{alignat}{1} x^{\mu} & \in\mathbb{R}^{1,3},\\ x^{\mu} & \rightarrow x'^{\mu}=\varLambda^{\mu}{}_{\nu}x^{\nu},\\ \varLambda^{T}g\varLambda & =g \end{alignat} and we can show th...

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Q: how can I fix my model to accurately assess zero values?

Priya PatelI'm building a random forest model that is designed to predict tree canopy cover. I'm using an R software environment and satellite remote sensing data as my predictors. I'm okay with under or over estimating the tree canopy % where there are actually trees, but it's extremely important that my m...

22:05
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Q: Fitting a disk in a non-polygonal region

SyedClear["Global`*"]; d1 = Disk[{0, 0}, 16, {0, π/2}]; d2 = Disk[{0, 8}, 8, {-π/2, π/2}]; Graphics[{ FaceForm[Lighter@Yellow], EdgeForm[Thin], d1 , FaceForm[Lighter@Pink], EdgeForm[Thin], d2 , Lighter@Green, Disk[{8 Sqrt[2], 4}, 4] , Red, AbsolutePointSize[6] , Point@{0, 8}, Point@{8, 0} ...

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Q: In the German word "Winter" (winter), why didn't the High German Consonant Shift change 't' to 'z' /ts/, so as to be "Winzer"?

FlatAssemblerIn the German word "Winter" (winter), why didn't the High German Consonant Shift change 't' to 'z' /ts/, so as to be "Winzer"? German "Winter", just like English "winter", comes from Proto-Germanic *wintruz, and Proto-Germanic *t, in most cases, changes to 'z' /ts/ in German. That's why English '...

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Q: How to evenly mix stir fried vegetables with noodles?

GilgoldmanGather round, fellow cooks, while we attempt to solve a mystery together. Tis the mystery of the slippery noodle and uneven stir fry, a true mind boggler for all ages! Behold the conundrum: Whenever I attempt to make stir fried noodles I end up with a the same problem - well cooked noodles, good ...

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Q: Came across a very similar framework: what to do?

isthisablunderI am from a social science field. As a part of my dissertation I have published a paper on my topic in a journal with good standing. In that paper, I propose a framework to analyze an issue and related topics. This got published, even received several citations in the last year. Today, I came acr...

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Q: Has Trump's political views changed on Israel's war in Gaza?

sfxeditTrump is a strong supporter of US ally Israel. On April 14, 2024, Washington Post reported - Trump supporters echo pro-Palestinian ‘genocide Joe’ chant: “Genocide Joe” is a phrase used by pro-Palestine protesters against President Biden because of his unconditional support of Israel amid its ons...

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Q: Frontend error after upgrade to Magento 2.4.7 Error: Cannot instantiate interface Magento\Csp\Model\Collector\MergerInterface

pajAfter performing a test upgrade from Magento Open Source 2.4.6 to 2.4.7 the frontend does not load returning the error Error: Cannot instantiate interface Magento\Csp\Model\Collector\MergerInterface in /var/www/magento2/vendor/magento/framework/ObjectManager/Factory/AbstractFactory.php:121 setup...

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Q: Why don't airports use different radio frequencies/channels for each plane to prevent communications from interfering with each other?

Purple PThere have been serious safety incidents where multiple airplanes using the same frequency caused simultaneous messages to garble each other. For example, at Pearson International Airport in 2020, two planes nearly collided on the runway, because a small Embraer 190's message that it was rejectin...

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Q: Removing polygons that look like lines in QGIS

vivjminI calculated the difference between 2 massive polygon layers with the Difference tool in QGIS. I get the result I wanted...more or less. The problem is that there are a bunch of lines that appear in the middle of the polygons of interest. I tried getting rid of them by calculating their surface a...

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Q: What happens if you own a stock and the firm becomes liable about something

upstreamLets say you own a common stock of a very large firm, and then the company loses a case, or had data breach etc.. etc.. and has to pay money to others. Will you, as a stock owner be liable to pay something out of your pocket too?

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Q: Torah scholar conceding due to a logical but unlearned argument

SchmerelIs there any documented case of a major Torah scholar changing his mind as the result of a logical argument put forth to him by someone who was not basing his argument on any clear Torah sources the Torah scholar did not know, was not testifying that the opinion of some other greater scholar was...

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Q: Expressing the area of an isosceles triangle as a function of one of its angles.

Antony TheoWe are given a circle with radius $1$, its center point and an inscribed isosceles triangle with $AB=AC$ and its height (as shown in the picture below). Can we express the area $(ABC)$ as a function of $θ$ where $θ=B \hat{A} C$? How I tried: I put the diagram in a Cartesian coordinate system. A...

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Q: Change the font size of siunitx output

SockPileWhen writing numbers with units using the siunitx package, \SI{1064}{\um}, the numbers and units are noticeably smaller than the text, however the mu seems to be the correct size. I am using Verdana as the main text font and the default LaTeX font for maths. MiKTeX and compiled with LuaLaTeX. MWE...

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Q: Relative inclination to LOS

RKerrI'm encountering some difficulty understanding the concept of line of sight inclination. Typically, we assume that the observer is positioned perpendicular to the system being observed. Consequently, the orbital inclination (which is crucial for calculating the radial velocity of the system) is r...

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Q: (When) does a morphism of monad induce adjoint functors between categories of algebras?

sysyphusVFor monads $S$ and $T$ on a fixed Abelian category $C$, a morphism of monads $\sigma: S\rightarrow T$ induces a functor between Eilenberg-Moore categories $\sigma^*:C^T\rightarrow C^S$. This functor sends a $T$-algebra $(A,\rho:TA\rightarrow A)$ to an $S$-algebra $(A,\rho\circ \sigma_A:SA\rightar...

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Q: At what point does a line spectrum become a continuous one?

user15755358I have 1 main and 1 sub question, please dont remove my post for this i just want to clear this up its been bugging me, thanks. Fundamentally, I don't understand 2 things, and if anyone could clear this up I would really appreciate it; at what point does an emission line spectrum become continuou...

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Q: Coauthorship of a paper with big name prof

Albert ParadekI am 3th year PhD student. I have written 4 math-stats papers (good Q1-Q2 journals but not the top top), one alone three with my supervisor as a coauthor. I am finishing my next paper: my best idea and best work, in my humble opinion deserving to be considered in the best of the best journal. The...

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Q: How do Biblical inerrantists explain disagreements about the interpretation of the Bible?

MarkIf God can preserve an inerrant Bible despite the fallibility of the humans who transmitted it, shouldn't He also be able to ensure an inerrant interpretation of that Bible despite human fallibility? Yet, disagreements on interpretation persist among Biblical inerrantists. After all, we only have...


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