Trying to find this story that my dad read in the 1960s although the story may be earlier. It's a story where a spaceship crashes and the pilot seeks refuge and finds some kind of shelter, likely offering protection from the environment. Probably akin to a hunting lodge in today's times. He goes ...

Hiding is very important in D&D 5th Edition as it may allow you to avoid combat entirely or engage in combat where the first turn you have advantage and your opponent effectively loses their turn and cannot even take reactions until their turn of inactivity is over. The Hiding rules (pg 177 PHB) ...

I have noticed that openssl x509 -in $FILE -text sometimes displays the serial number of an X.509 certificate (a positive integer of up to 20 byte, thus most significant bit at 0) sometimes as an "octet string", and sometimes as integer with its hex representation following. For example, here is ...

Knowing that a brilliant move is only given out by sacrificing a piece, is there any position or past game that had given out a brilliant move via Queen sacrifice?

I have a solution to the problem below from my course materials, but I cannot understand where I went wrong with my own attempt at a solution. Any advice much appreciated. Problem: Given a right triangle with one non-hypotenuse side BC at 10 inches, and the other non-hypotenuse side AC at 8 in...

Let $X$ be a compact Kähler manifold, and $F$ a coherent sheaf. Does $F$ admit a locally free resolution $$E^* \to F \to 0?$$ Of course it will be enough to construct a surjection $$E^0 \to F \to 0$$ for a locally free sheaf $E^0$. I know that if $X$ is projective, this can be obtained by twistin...

Most contemporary Protestants are very favorably disposed toward Jews and explain it with their theology. However, it hasn't always been like that. My question is, what has caused this radical shift in disposition? What theological/Biblical findings have been made known that Martin Luther was una...

It seems to me that we ought to be rather indifferent to their existence. Take free will, for example. By the nature of how it's defined, and its incompatibility with science, it can't be proven nor disproven to exist. So why should we care? If it exists, then nothing changes. If it doesn't, then...

In an RCT with multiple treatment arms, I heard that the "pure" control group be small to if we expect the effect size to be large. Why would this be the case ? I understand that we could have a smaller sample size if the effect size is expected to be large, but wouldn't we in any case be better ...

I have interpreted the rules so far, that if for example a rogue is fully concealed behind a tree and is hidden, he can make a ranged attack with advantage. Because it makes intuitive sense. But after reading the scattered and confusing hiding/stealth/unseen attacker rules again I am not sure thi...

I am trying to draw linear combinations of vectors. I started defining coordinates manually, but it's too time- and space-consuming: \begin{center} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.15} { \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1] \begin{axis} [ ...

The code I am using is below, pulling in swap curves from BBG and then using RatesLib to price the swaps. from rateslib import * import pandas as pd from tia.bbg import LocalTerminal today = dt.today() start = add_tenor(today,"1Y","F",get_calendar("tgt")) mat = add_tenor(start,"1Y","F",get_calen...

I have a bunch of old checks from my job which I've already cashed into my checking account (online). Is there any tax reason (USA) or otherwise that I shouldn't just shred them?

I’m planning to add a new dedicated 240v/20A circuit for a window AC unit. The route from the main electrical box to the outlet will require about 65-70 ft of wire. The wire will also travel about 10-12 ft through conduit on the exterior to enter the breaker box. Since we’re planning to run the A...

As this relevant Stack Overflow question revision demonstrates, calling $USER inside a terminal (like https://github.com/termux/termux-app/releases/download/v0.118.0/termux-app_v0.118.0+github-debug_universal.apk) provides a username like u0_a272. However, every application developer I've spoken ...

We have a Case follow-up process defined in a Flow as a Scheduled Path. Is it possible to implement the same functionality in Apex? Under the hood, is the Scheduled Flow Path implemented as a CronTrigger/CronJobDetail?

I have read the different answers on the toxicity of heavy metals but I am still confused about the topic. Why does the mass of the nuclei matter when chemical reactions only involve the electrons. Carbon and lead are in the same chemical group and thus have the same chemical properties.

My kids recently came across the story of David Hahn, the young man who tried to build a nuclear reactor in his parents' backyard shed when he was 17, causing the EPA to designate the shed a Superfund Site. There's a lot unusual about his story, but the detail that really grabbed their attention ...

I have a really strange one... we formerly had our tenant set up to grant E365 Plan 1 and Azure Plan 1 licenses to all mail enabled users, and have for a while. Employees granted mobile access were allowed to connect to their mailboxes with their phones, and we had not yet moved to restricting i...

Given this MWE: \documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage{fontspec} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \NewDocumentCommand{\testone}{m m m }{% \if\relax\detokenize{#2}\relax \textbf{#1}\dotfill#3\\% \else \textbf{#1}\dotfill(#2)#3\\% \fi } \NewDocumentCommand{\testtwo}{m O{} ...

Friday writes different positive whole numbers that are all less than 11 next to each other in the sand. Robinson Crusoe looks at the sequence and notices with amusement that adjacent numbers are always divisible by each other. What is the maximum amount of numbers he could possibly have written...

Source: There are 100 prisoners in a prison. As usual, there is a warden who loves to play games, hence offers the prisoners a chance to free themselves. He says There is a room with a whiteboard, initially having the number 0 on it. There are also two boxes labelled A and B respectively, each...

Top and bottom row are complete. Complete the middle row. Explain why it's correct.

Question from an old exam: Consider the alphabet $A=\{a, b, c, 1, 2\}$ and two fixed words $u=aaab$ and $v=baac$. Let $\mathcal{G}$ be a context-free grammar with the rules $$ S \rightarrow \epsilon | uS1 | vS2 $$ Let $L$ be the language of this grammar. Is the complement $A^* \setminus L$ of th...

For various reasons, I need to shrink my CSP header a bit without degrading its effectiveness. I'm able to save some bytes by wildcarding some subdomains, but I'm also tempted to strip out all instances of https://. Example: connect-src 'self' https://domain1.com https://a.domain2.net https://b.d...

I was wondering why C has the long and short integer type in addition to the plain int, and came across the following quote in the C99 Rationale (thanks to this answer here): [...] In the 1970s, 16-bit C (for the PDP-11) first represented file information with 16-bit integers, which were rapidly...

I'm a second year maths student, looking at Rings and Modules questions for my exam. A property $P$ of rings is invariant under isomorphism if whenever $R$ is a ring with property $P$, and $S$ is a ring isomorphic to $R$, then $S$ also has property $P$. Is there a property $P$ of rings invariant ...

Do split flaps produce lift? I don't see how, because there is no change in camber. It seems like an upside down speed break, producing only drag

The trigger for counterspell is originally: which you take when you see a creature within 60 feet of you casting a spell For a player character that is blind, I want to change it to this: which you take when you perceive a creature within 60 feet of you casting a spell which presumably would ...

The description of Archaic Seal says "Your next Well of Charon item with a duration will instead expire after 2 Guardian(s)." When you have this item, the Seal icon will appear below any Well of Charon items it can apply to. However, I noticed it doesn't appear below Fateful Twist which says "Gai...

Zeus's Static Shock boon has the description "After you enter a Location, Prime 50 Magick to make your strikes emit chain-lightning." I can't tell if this meant the boon would buff lightning strikes from other Zeus Boons, which I had none of a the time, or if it would cause chain-lightning any ti...

Using assimp I've created a function to load 3D models and it does everything I need and I don't plan to use another library or write something custom, however, I am curious how techniques such as abstraction and encapsulation would improve the code (if it all) Model* loadModel(Assets& assets, co...

I need to find a base in which both of these forms are diagonal. Provide this form for both forms. $f(x,y,z)=z^2+2xz+3x^2+y^2-2xy$ $g(x,y,z)=5x^2-2xy+y^2+4xz+2z^2$ I know how to bind a basis, where $f$ or $g$ is diagonalized, but not where both of them are. Don't know if it's useful, but that's w...

There was also the equally sudden appearance of piercings, tattoos and – most shocking of all for hardcore metal fans – make-up. It was one thing seeing Kirk Hammett – always the most (comparatively) effeminate of the group – posing in mascara, showing off his new body tattoos and face piercings...

For example, if no Mass were celebrated worldwide this Sunday, what would happen? Is there any teaching in Catholicism about this? It doesn't necessarily have to be on a Sunday; it could be on a Friday, for instance. Thank you, I hope you can help me. Hail Mary!

There is a theory of science that says that observations are not independent of our theories. What we observe and what observations we consider relevant depends on how we conceive of what is going on. To express this view, we say that observations are theory-laden. For example, an Aristotelian mi...

In Elsschot's novel Kaas / Cheese, the main character Laarmans has representatives for this cheese business in several Belgian cities. Because he doesn't hear back from them, he decides to visit his two representatives in Brussels, whose names are Noeninckx and Delaforge. In Sander Berg's transla...

I am trying to label points with hh:mm but the default for Q-GIS just lets me hh:mm:ss.sss, with a string of 5 useless digits. How can I truncate the last 5 digits?

I'm looking for a short piece (probably a novelette) about a near-future where it's possible to clone people without their consent from a small scrap of skin (etc.). It's not common (and probably terribly expensive), but it's widely known to be possible, so public concern about the risk is very h...

I mostly remember the story had to do with these people who are some sort of tribe and travel around. There is this kid who is different from all the rest of them, because while they have blue finger, but like without bones, tops to their heads, his are red. It is not only that which makes him sp...

I am considering the notation \newcommand{\f}[3]{f\left(#1; #2 \lvert #3\right)} As you can see, the top formula has \vert size as default. I want the latter formula, How do I change my command? I can't use the \left and \right command because there is no left or right in \vert. Any help is app...

The Fujifilm GX617 is a manually operated camera with a leaf shutter in the interchangeable lenses. There are two ways for firing the shutter Via cable release connected directly to the lens' leaf shutter Via the shutter button on the body (which electromagnetically fires the same leaf shutter)....

I want to know how would I go about architecting an MVC architecture using actix-web. I have a user_service which requires user_repository, and this is how I'm currently doing it: let config = Data::new(config.clone()); let mongo_repo = Data::new(MongoRepo::init(&config).await); let user_reposi...

I am trying to test to see if an element inside an array exists. A test case is array1=(a b c) array2=(c d e) for ((i=0; i < ${#array1[@]}; i++)); do if [[ ${array1[$i]} == "${array2[${array1[$i]}]}" ]]; then echo "${array1[$i]}" fi done this works as expectedand...

I want maximize the function $f(x)=\cos(x)+\sin(x)\cdot\cos(x)$, with $x \in (0,\frac{\pi}{2})$. By derivation $f'(x)=0 \Rightarrow x=\frac{\pi}{6}$. But, if we write $f(x)=\cos(x)+\frac{1}{2}\sin(2x)$ and using Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, follows that $u=(1,\frac{1}{2}))$ and $v=(\cos(x),\sin(2...

Maxwell's equations are famously linear and are the classical limit of QED. The thing is QED even without charged particles is pretty non-linear with photon-photon interaction terms. Can these photon-photon interaction terms have a "classical" limit as well? Can we just perturbatively expand the ...

It was quoted to me years ago from mishnah brura, but I cannot find it there now. I am familiar with the line in Avot "no better guard for wisdom than silence" // that is not exact. Guidance and references are appreciated. (And I acknowledge that the friend who told me of this wisdom may have him...

I have two related questions: Can I find Nechama Lebowitz books online anywhere for free? I often see her books titled either with or without the word new. For example "Studies in Vayikra" or "New Studies in Vayikra". Are these separate books or just different editions?

I want to have a different material on this part of the mesh. Since assigning a material to it creates a sharp and jagged demarcation between materials, I thought to use a vertex group, and smooth it in the shader nodes. With geometry nodes, I captured a vertex group, outputting the attribute for...

Parents are visiting on B2 visa. Dad unfortunately suffered a stroke and is currently in a coma. 6-month duration is coming up. But he cannot sign the I-539 extension form. Already have relevant letter from the hospital. How should I go about it?

Suppose that each row of an $n \times n$ array $A$ consists of 1's and 0's such that, in any row of $A$, all the 1's comes before any 0's in that row. Assume $A$ is already in memory, describe a method running in $O(n)$ for finding the the row of $A$ that contains the most 1's. What I tried, is t...

This has me curious. I say not MIT level because their students are already exceptional, which is very difficult situation to recreate. I, being from Nepal want to quit my job to start a new job as a computer science teacher after few years because I feel Nepal needs a hero at the moment. Current...

I am trying to create a twisted pipe like in the picture below. I've tried using curves, bezier, point and circle but no luck. Perhaps I am just doing it incorrectly. Any suggestions for a good technique I can use to get this accomplished would be most helpful.

Could someone explain for the following attachment (waveform image) how were exactly the values of "RMS" and "average" determined this way (for that curve of sine)? Given the duty cycle δ and period "Ts" (or frequency fs). PS: I'm not asking about the [Total] RMS and average values of the given w...

Please forgive me, I'm not a math geek, I'm a Linux guy that's trying to do something cool. So straight out the gate, I do not understand advanced (or even what you might deem quite simple math). I graduated high school last millennium and barely passed math - so please bear with me. What I'm doi...

Values of a list can be added to an association's values like so, <|"a" -> 10, "b" -> 10, "c" -> 10|> + {1, 2} (* {<|"a" -> 11, "b" -> 11, "c" -> 11|>, <|"a" -> 12, "b" -> 12, "c" -> 12|>} *) The order does not matter: {1, 2} + <|"a" -> 10, "b" -> 10, "c" -> 10|> (* {<|"a" -> 11, "b" -> 11, "c"

I have a square with length of side is $a$. How to draw a number of circles inscribed in a square so that the sum of the radii of the circle is greatest? In the below picture is six circles inscribed in a square. We can consider number of circles are 5, 6, ... We consider number of the circles is...

My friend works for the military and wants to play Runescape while deployed overseas. He currently plays OSRS on the Steam Deck via Bolt Launcher. Is there a way for him to play the game offline at all?

3 men are guarding 3 doors. 1 door leads to a pot of gold, while the other 2 lead to hungry lions. 1 guard always tells the truth, and the other 2 always lie. You are allowed to ask 2 questions in total (whether with the same or different guards). What should you ask? Is 100% certainty possible?...

Image Source: https://www.calpaclab.com/water-hplc-spectro-grade-4-liter-bottles-case-4/ted-ws2211-001 When ordering HPLC/Spectro grade Water for HPLC from certain vendors(not all), it comes in an amber coloured bottle. From my understanding, H2O is not photosensitive, so why is there a need to ...

I'm a beginner to Blender (and 3d modeling in general), so apologies in advance if my question is very basic. I'm making this ramen bowl, and I added some details to it and made it relatively high-poly (50k faces). Now I want to make a low-poly version of this, and bake a normal map to it (planni...

I'm trying to automate the vertical alignment of these shapes so I can use a foreach loop to put them in a repeating pattern. (At the moment the triangle is a bit high and the circle is a bit low) Any ideas? Thanks heaps! \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric, ...

Rules of Fillomino: Fill in all empty cells with numbers under the following rules. Divide all of the board into blocks. Fill each block with the same number horizontally or vertically. Each block contains as many cells as the number in the block. Same sized blocks cannot touch each other, hori...

I am going to Alaska and one of my stops is Canada. Can I be denied to board a cruise at a US port if I have a misdemeanor? I understand that I may not be able to get off the ship in Canada and that would be ok. I just want to make sure I can still at least board the ship.

Very often I want to refer to a certain claim I mentioned earlier in the document: "As I said earlier, blah." Since I often rearrange material, I need to ensure that "blah" indeed occurs earlier (it doesn't help to know that it occurs somewhere in the document). So I mark it with \label{blah}. I ...

Feel like I’m always beating up the foundation with the weedwhacker. What is a good replacement and easy care if remove a strip of grass from side of house. Grading and drainage is important in my subdivision. Mulch holds much moisture so wondering if rubber mulch, rock bed, what else? And sh...

The NES CPU was a copy of the 6502 with the BCD circuitry removed. As I understand it, this modification was motivated by a theory that BCD was the only part of the 6502 that was actually patented, so that by intellectual property law of the early 80s, it was technically legal to directly copy th...

I have a 04 Chevy venture. One day as I was rolling up my driver and passenger window from my driver side switch the driver window went all the way up but passenger stopped like 3 inches from closed. I tried to roll driver down from same switch and nothing but I was able to roll up passenger wind...

As an example, say Alice and Bob have a child together. Alice makes $20m/year, Bob makes $250k/year. They get a divorce and Bob gets full custody. Normally Alice would be forced to pay a lot of money ($20k/month?) to Bob in child support payments due to her income, with the argument being that th...

Has anyone experienced what happens when you book a Lufthansa flight with a stopover in Munich/Frankfurt, but the second leg is operated by LH Bus and you don’t show on that leg? Will Lufthansa cancel all your itineraries or miles? Thanks.

A man I have been talking to online for a few months wants me to link our bank accounts. He said his account was hacked and is froze while the bank is investigating it. Meanwhile he needs to send child support for his daughter and is unable to do so. He wants me to link my bank account with his s...

I've seen the following precision voltage reference circuit in schematic diagrams of several vintage instruments: I understand how this circuit works in general: it is basically two constant current sources back-to-back, providing the current to the Zener diode Z1 that acts as a voltage referenc...

PRE-FACE Avid libre computing and copyleft supporter, Long year GNU Emacs mainstream user, just surpassing the point where GNU Emacs becomes play dough, essentially by starting to learn eLisp. Before that turned into beginner to intermediate bash script coder—so, in bash I'm familiar with some ba...

I haven't found recent question about this subject. I wanted to know if there was a site or a database with the geographic distribution of Bitcoin users freely available ? I know that there are several limitations but I've seen research papers (and Chainalysis) estimating this. The main goal is p...

Pardon the bad grammar in the title, just wanted to keep it short. So in the sentence さくらが投げられた, さくら is the subject doing the action receive, where she is receiving "thrown" ie. Sakura was physically picked up and thrown But in 私が言われた, it's saying that "I" am the subject receiving "said" Why does...

The SNES color gamut is 15-bit RGB. On the face of it, that makes sense for a 16-bit machine. But. The color generators on some earlier machines like the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, NES, were not defined in terms of RGB at all. Why not? As I understand it, because these machines were designed on th...

In this quote (Demolin), it is said the neogrammarians opposed the dominant views of their time. "The neogrammarians (Junggrammatiker) A group of young 19th-century scholars - Karl Brugmann, Berthold Delbrück, August Leskien, Hermann Osthoff, Hermann Paul, ... - who opposed the dominant views of ...

I am interested in solving the following problem: $$ \max c^\top x \qquad\text{s.t.}\\ Ax \le b\\ x \in \{0,1\}^n $$ One can assume that $c$, $A$ and $b$ have integer entries if that simplifies things. We can assume that the problem is feasible. The problem is indeed NP-hard. Other hardness resul...

Which syntax are acceptable when citing a sequence of articles? I am teaching my students to use LaTeX2e and BibTeX (albeit I am planning to upgrade to LaTeX3 and BibLaTeX soon!) with the package Natbib, and there one would use a command such as \cite{refBlah,refBloh,refBlih,refBleh} to produce ...

I have a .tif file with 61 bands. Normally, to save a band, I use the rastar calculator expression filename@1. But since there are 61 bands, with each band corresponding to a date, from April 1 to May 31, is there a way to export all the 61 bands into 61 .tif files, like running it as a batch pro...

I have created a print layout for a QGIS project and would like to use that print layout as template for other projects. How can I make the template globally available in QGIS? I had a look into the relevant tutorials but the print layouts were used only in one project. I would need to be able, t...

I am running an algorithm where I need to apply gate1 to certain qubits and -1*gate1 to others. Any idea how I can do that in Qiskit?

I found this in a Sherlock Holmes book. It says "I object to rows, because my nerves are shaken" I can’t completely understand what it means. Book bought from amazon kindle store named "Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection" This sentence is included in chapter 1 of "A Study in Scarlet" called "Mr....

I have been told by a user it's wrong to say 'I suspect this clause to be a bit sloppy English' because 'a bit' is used there attributively and that 'a bit' can only be used predicatively as in the sentence 'His English is a bit sloppy'. On the other hand Oxford says a bit [singular] (used as an...

I have a character linked by a rope to a fixed point, in an environment with obstacles. I want to do a pathfind that take into account the rope. Here, if the character followed my current pathfind in yellow, he would get stuck. I want to find the blue pathfind instead. To be more specific, I want...

We are playing through B1 "In Search of the Unknown", a basic rules D&D adventure from 1978, using 5e rules. In the module there is a pool of clear acid that has a bronze key clearly visible at its bottom. If any adventurer falls or leaps within it, certain and immediate death will result. Putti...

I am trying to set up sfp by following: flxbl Docs Ran this command: npm i -g @flxbl-io/sfp Output: changed 546 packages in 5m 63 packages are looking for funding run `npm fund` for details As mentioned in step B in flxbl Docs, ran below command: sfp --version But getting the error output li...

When editing geometry, faces are automatically selected and can still be selected when going back to OBJECT MODE, Does it have an effect on memory or performance? After completing geometry edits, If verts, edges, faces, are still selected, it 'feels' weird, but i don't know if it really matters.

Solve the grid. Then solve the grid again. The answer can be one or two letters long.

I have 7 patients with blood measurements from two different tissues and at two different oxygenation states. We first took measurements from tissue A and B (Normoxia) and then we administrated oxygen (Hyperoxia) and took measurement from tissue A and tissue B. I would like to see the effect of o...

I found this on Sherlock Holmes "A Study in Scarlet" "For days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of...

As per the Datasheet of LMC555, the maximum supply current is 250 μA @ 5 volt supply voltage. How come the output current reach 2 mA, I mean where did the IC get the extra (2*1000-250) μA? Maybe I miss something or misunderstand these attributes at the datasheet, so it will be helpful if anyone c...

In the book, The Organic Chemistry of Nickel : Organonickel Complexes by PW Jolly, the reaction between sodium hexacarbonyldinickalte(-1) and ammonia produces hydride complex. Some possible structures proposed: I think the Ni-H bond is formed by the donation of the electron pair in nickel to hy...

I'm in a situation where my bibtex database keeps getting language={EN}, I know that it should be language={english}, but these entries are automatically generated and I can't edit my bibtex database. So, my question is, how can I make EN "work" without disabling the language field? Some of t...

The NASB20 (other translation are similar) has: that there be no sexually immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. My interlinear rendering: μή τις πόρνος ἢ βέβηλος ὡς Ἠσαῦ, [that there] not [be] someone sex...

I have the following two equations: 'r1andr2. Here,n, x, y, mpandmm` are real constants. I tried the following solution, but it does not work. Solve[{r1 (-n r2 + r1 x) - r2 (n r1 - r2 y) == mp, -r2 (n r1 - r2 x) + r1 (-n r2 + r1 y) == mm}, {r1, r2}] Update: r1 = Sin[a]; r2 = cos[a]; Num...