Hi and thank you for your time. My Shasta daisies need to be deadheaded but I don't see the next bud anywhere. I put my glasses on and I check everywhere, but I don't see any new buds. Any suggestions??

My question is brief — is it possible to estimate excited state lifetimes using computational chemistry (DFT/TD-DFT) tools? I am aware this may be a rough approximation (e.g., neglecting non-radiative pathways) but it is still better than nothing. I have substances with experimentally measured va...

Was it from Adam or God that Eve learned of the commandment to not eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree? Eve is quoted in Genesis replying to the devil and she creates this understanding that she was present when God gave Adam that command. Genesis 3:3 We may eat of the fruit of the trees in t...

I have currently been given a paper to build off of for engineering research. The paper is published in a high impact journal but happens to be written very sloppily in the following sense. (1) The proof of a central result of the paper cites a source which does not have the results that they cla...

A reduced-vision friend faces challenges with a whiteboard glare in a new classroom. A workaround is to sneakily use cell camera then read material at home, yet use of cell phones and cameras is prohibited on the organisation level. The teacher says she cannot do anything, as the glare is caused ...

I submitted my paper to arXiv on June 28th. The status changed from “processing” to “submitted” that same day, and then to “on hold” the next day. While on hold, the primary category changed to “None” and what I had originally selected for the primary category is now in the cross listed categorie...

I recently heard about a claim that For a triangle in 3-space, its area squared equals the sum of squares of areas of its projections onto three pairwise orthogonal planes. I currently don't have any proof for that at hand. However, if it were true, in combination with the well-known Pythagoras...

I've got an annoying creak, and I've been through everything I can think of to track it down - I'm hoping I've missed something. This is on my Canondale Topstone road/gravel bike. It's an alloy frame with an FSA Omega screw-in BB and self-extracting cranks, otherwise a 105 drivetrain. On every r...

Analogous to the $|T\rangle$ and $|CCZ\rangle$ magic states, one can define a $|C^n Z\rangle$ magic state. Is there any known quantification of the amount of magic of this state, and is there a way to transform $|C^n Z \rangle$ to many $|CCZ \rangle$ magic states? If so, what is the rate w.r.t. $...

I know that, $\max(m, n) = O(m+n)$. But my teacher uses, $$m+n=\Theta(\max\{m, n\}).$$ Anyone explain me why the above expression is true.

I have recently passed by the following transformer. It seems to be placed on rails and might be able to roll forward and backwars by about 0.5m each. There are no guards at the end of the rails though, at least not on the front facing end. What is the reason for the rails? It does look a bit lik...

I run a game of Pathfinder 2e that involves a 10th level Alchemist. One issue I have with their build is their systematic use of Greater Camouflage Dye in about any combat situation. The nature of this campaign makes it frequent that not a lot of combat happens during an adventuring day so this p...

We have this rule in the Player's Handbook, p. 204: Spells such as burning hands and cone of cold cover an area, allowing them to affect multiple creatures at once. A spell's description specifies its area of effect, which typically has one of five different shapes: cone, cube, cylinder, line, o...

For me, the natural way to define complex numbers seems to be to take $R^2$ and then define addition and multiplication on top of that an boom, you have complex numbers. You then pretty straightforwardly prove they have the required algebraic properties. Easy. However for some reason, the more po...

About an hour ago, I discovered a beautiful property of a parabola. If a circle intersects a parabola at four points, one of which is the vertex of the parabola, then the center of the triangle, whose vertices are the remaining three points, will belong to the axis of symmetry of the parabola Is...

This problem is from Transistor circuits and applications by Cowles: Attempt at solution The circuit diagram seems incomplete to me, because they assert a +12 V potential at the emitter but the circuit has no gnd reference. The inclusion of the switch also seems weird to me, as its purpose isn't...

Perhaps the most striking fact of quantum mechanics, and where the name comes from, is the fact that the energy of a quantum system is generally quantized (for bound states), i.e. it can only take discrete values. Now, being QFT the generalisation of classical FT to be consistent with QM, I would...

Am looking at the online Beowulf site, and wonder about "aelfheres" that is translated as a name. XXXVI WIGlaf wæs haten, Weoxstanes sunu, leoflic lindwiga, leod Scylfinga, mæg Ælfheres. But it looks like the "ae" is lower case in the manuscript? Are there any other proposed translations...

As ironic as this is, I work at a bookstore and can't remember the name of this book or its author. I'm looking for a fantasy book set in a world where people have magic. The protagonist is a woman who is without magic, and happy about it, and then her magical sister dies, which upsets her power ...

I have a couple of hours (I started today) experience in Bash. I have been trying multiple times to modify the value from a key in a json file using it. I know that it's much easier in python but I was asked to do this with a bash script. The thing is the value to modify is a path that uses slash...

The paragraph reads: In the event of a Security Breach, Subcontractor will, without limiting any remedies available to COMPANY hereunder or at law or equity: (i) reimburse COMPANY for the costs incurred by COMPANY to notify any affected individuals and any appropriate legal and regulatory authori...

Consider the following MWE: \documentclass{minimal} \begin{document} Which kerning do you prefer? \bigskip \emph{well willow wallow wellington} % \verb+ <--- Version 1, default kerning+ \bigskip \newcommand{\donothing}{\hspace{0pt}} \emph{wel\donothing l wil\donothing low wal\donothin...

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lmodern} %\usepackage[table]{xcolor} %\usepackage{colortbl} %\usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} \begin{table}[] \centering %\caption{} ...

I've never worked on power supplies. What is the purpose of the pattern in this image (yellow) ? I don't have this PCB, I only have this photo.

A: そんなに見えない? B: わりと... The character B took off his glasses and A asks him "You can't see that much?" after B says he can't see past his feet. B answers "わりと..." how is "わりと used by itself?

I need an adjective for that please, is about the energy of the room feeling both sad but quiet and peaceful. There was a ____ atmosphere in the room.

$\newcommand\pt{\mathrm{pt}}$Let $(X,\pt)$ be a connected, pointed, finite CW complex and let $h$ be a generalized cohomology theory. Let $\smash{\tilde{h}}^*(X)$ denote the kernel of restriction $h^*(X)\to h^*(\pt)$. In Corollary 3.1.6 of Atiyah's book on K-theory, he proves that for complex K-t...

I am currently transcribing a piece of music for piano, and I have the following passage in 3/4 time: I find that 3/4 time allows the half note in the RH to fall on the second beat, but the drawback is that the second bass note in each measure is offbeat between the second and third beat. This l...

In Macbeth, before the witches go to speak to Macbeth, they have a little meeting where they discuss what they've been up to. That includes this bit about a greedy sailor's wife who won't share her chestnuts: Third Witch Sister, where thou? First Witch A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, A...

Let $\mathcal{L}\subseteq\mathbb{Z}^n$ be an integer lattice (not necessarily full-rank). Is it guaranteed that there is a vector $\mathbf{v}\in\mathcal{L}$ such that $\|\mathbf{v}\|=\det(\mathcal{L})$? If $\mathcal{L}$ is full-rank, then the answer is certainly yes. Let $\mathbf{B}$ be a matrix ...

In one video I saw that one person has his vertex much bigger than usual, how can I do the same? In video: Me:

To start with, I am aware of " An even lesser LGPL-like license that allows static linking " question, but I believe it was aksed in a weird way and that my question is substantially different. Basically, I am looking for a library license that: Allows dynamic linking with code using whatever li...

I am looking for a scripting/code/api way to do a separate by loose parts and get a list of the resulting separated objects. There doesn't seem like there is a direct way to do this? You can do bpy.ops.mesh.separate then loop through all objects and check for new_obj.name.startswith(old_obj_name)...

The phrase I have in mind is actually in Brazilian Portuguese: Ela fala quais expectativas ela tem para o próximo show. In English it would be like: She speaks about what are her expectations for the next show. In German would I write with the Präposition "für"? " She spricht darüber, dass sie ei...

I'm doing an introductory course on quantum mechanics. I'm having trouble with the explanation of the kinetic energy on the classically forbbiden region on a step potential ($V=0$ for $x<0$, $V=V_0$ for $x>0$ and $E<V_0$). I've seen explanations on this website, my text book and something my prof...

I am using a minipage environment to display these tables. I want the top row of each table to align vertically (as opposed to right now where it looks like the first table is in the center vertically of the first). Thanks! \begin{document} \begin{minipage}[t]{0.475\linewidth} \begin{tabular...

I read a paragraph on Halloween: On November 1, the souls of those who had died were believed to return to visit their homes, and those who had died during the year were believed to journey to the otherworld. Halloween (October 31) was invented in Ireland and is followed by All Saints’ Day. It w...

This is a cryptic crossword themed on the TV show Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Mild spoilers ahead. No knowledge of the plot or characters is required beyond what’s explained here. A crime has been committed in the NYPD’s 99th precinct. Someone has stolen Det. Scully’s foot fungus cream. Without it, he m...

Is it common or possible to apply for internal faculty position at the same university? I am assistant professor at a University's department-A and considering applying to a similar position in a different faculty/department-B within same university as the new role provides way better resources. ...

I am planning to start a D&D group next year and last year I got a teacher who would do it. This would be the first time, and I'll most likely have to be the DM. @enkryptor (at Intelligence vs Wisdom in D&D) said to refrain from stealing from the party unless all players approve, and I like that ...

I have a bin with $5$ blue and $10$ red balls. I take out $2$ and at least one is blue. I then take a 3rd. What is the probability that the 3rd ball is blue? I understand I likely need conditional probability but I'm having a hard time with the "at least 1 blue" because whether it's 1 or 2 affect...

Given an integer greater than or equal to 2, output ASCII-art resembling an isometric-perspective cube ring with that side length. Expected outputs given below for 2, 3. You can imagine the rest. You may alternatively consider the first example to be output for 1, second to be output for 2, etc. ...

So I’m in the neon industry, and the manufacturers of solid state switched mode HV power supplies recommend using the same length of wire for both ends of the secondary, which would require putting the supply in the middle of your 30 feet of neon (neon units run in series, up to 48 feet at 15kV) ...

In Bava Kamma 109b Rashi (s.v. lamed-alef, in the middle of the page) brings an alternative explanation in the name of "oker harim." Do we have any clue who he meant by that? Artscroll does not say. And Tosafot bring the same perush but do not attribute it to anyone in particular.

Beginner puzzle This puzzle is intended to be suitable for people who are new to puzzle solving. Clarification: Both experienced solvers and new solvers are welcome to post solutions to this puzzle. Below is a grid with three rows. Some additional numbers are underneath the grid. For each column...

Suppose that $𝑝$, $𝑞$, and $𝑟$ are $512$-bit primes and for some integer $𝑎 < 10^5$, $𝑝 + 𝑎$ is also prime. We know the moduli $𝑛_1 = 𝑝 × 𝑞$ and $𝑛_2 = (𝑝 + 𝑎) × 𝑟$. Can we recover the primes $p$, $𝑞$, and $𝑟$ from this information?

Details taken from the Tolkien Gateway The First Age ended with Morgoth's overthrow - a truly epic event which seems appropriate as the end of an era. The Second Age did not end with the sinking of Númenor, and the reshaping of the Earth from a flat one where Valinor could be reached by sailing t...

The main character is young but she knows she'll die around 19-20, due to the curse of her being born a female and females can't handle the 'power' or 'mana' that the family possesses. I remember something vividly in the manhwa .. she tells the knight that it's okay because she won't live long an...

I have dual citizenship, Passport A & B. I've been using Passport A to enter Japan from all my previous travels, but currently I need to renew it and cannot use it during renewal time. So does anyone know if I can enter Japan with Passport B?

Of all the things that go into my oven, a lasagna is one of the more "wet" or saucy dishes. When a fully baked lasagna comes out of the oven, it still has quite a bit of water content remaining. So, this made me wonder if it is true that, during the baking process, most of the lasagna (ignoring t...

Like if you put a red spotlight and a blue spotlight on the same area, the light ends up magenta. And if your light is purple and you have a yellow chair, the chair will appear black because the chair isn't reflecting any of those wavelengths of light. Presumably, there are pigments that reflect...

Given a Shimano front hub how do I find the corresponding axle part numbers? Does anyone know where on Shimano's website I can find this information? I have a Shimano front hub (Deore XT HB M8000, 36 holes). I would like to buy a replacement axle kit. This is what should be in the kit (Image for...

\begin{eqnarray} \begin{split} J_{cp} &=& \frac{1}{36} \bigg[\sqrt{3} \sin (2 \text{$\phi' $}) (\sin (\sigma ) \cos (\text{$\sigma' $}) \sin (2 \phi )-2 \sin (\text{$\sigma' $}) \cos (2 \phi ))\\ &\quad-3 \sin (\sigma ) \sin (2 \phi ) \cos (2 \text{$\phi' $})\bigg]\\ I_{1} &=& \frac{1}{288}...

We have a third-party extension for our Magento store that we purchased on a subscription basis. We've decided not to continue with the subscription, so we cancelled it. However, we want to continue using the current version of the extension on our site. Our concern is about future Magento upgrad...

I have been trying to grasp my brain over the last couple years with this topic and it appears that while I now have a quite decent grasp on it from a physics perspective, meaning on how it works and why it is happening, I have been met with a startling poverty of thought with regards to philisop...

As the title states, does the phrase/proverb having your cake and eating it too imply hypocrisy? Does it have the same connotation as Rules for thee, not for me?

There is one sentence I am confused with in the below panel: だから気に入らない、誰とつるむでもなく孤高を気取って表面上明るく接して上手くやれてると思ってるアイツが I am bit confused about the use of 誰と. I think it is supposed to be 誰とも. Is it a typo? Perhaps not because も is placed in でもなく. If that's case then, 誰とつるむでもなく means something like "...

I was thinking about whether an aircraft is designed to use internal pressure to maintain its rigidity (like some rockets) and then realized that this would probably be a bad idea because then a loss of pressure could be catastrophic. So, aircraft must be able to prove that they can fly when the ...

I'm moving into a "new" apartment in a very old house. Most of the rooms have one 2 prong ungrounded outlet which nowadays just isn't enough (or safe for very high draw electronics imo). I've already discussed swapping those out, with the landlord, to GFCI outlets to at least have some fault prot...

Is there a method in Blender to subdivide a mesh into equal squares regardless of its shape, even after all transformations have been applied to the object? In this example, I have two images: one is a Cube and the other a Cuboid. This is the default cube, and the subdivisions consist of equally ...

I have this setup. Selected vertices are in Vertex group. I want to align vertices in the group by 2 connected points, not in the group. These in the middle works well: But as you see, 2 side points work wrong. Why is that? Here is the node setup:

I have several mesh islands inside -1 to 1 on both X and Y axis. I want Geometry Nodes to detect any island that has at least one of its points falling out of this -1 to 1 on both axis, and if so delete that island. How can I go about accomplishing this?

While choosing some buck regulators I came upon some models that have a pin which selects the switching frequency between 2 values; take TPS629210 or TPS62913 for example. I'm just a hobbyist and not a pro on analogs but generally I thought higher switching frequency is always better (correct me)...

It is possible to have JavaScript code in pdf or svg files. JavaScript inside svg runs in almost all browsers, JavaScript inside pdf generally always runs in chrome. So during a pentest we see the website allows upload of pdf file with javascript content which runs inside browser, can we say the ...

I entered România using my Romanian (living abroad) passport. That passport was turned in to local authorities when I applied and was granted my Romanian ID card. Can I use my American passport when leaving Romania? Thank you.

I am designing quantum algorithms where the quantum circuit uses CSWAP gates a lot. The result is very noisy on the quantum hardwares. So I designed really simple circuits to test whether it is indeed the CSWAP that are causing the problems. This is a simple circuit to calculate the square sum of...

The main character is a young child. The duke conquered her kingdom and defeated it. She was treated horribly by her family .. the duke was about to kill her but I think he took her back to the imperial palace to see what the emperor had to say. The emperor ordered him to kill her once she become...

So my car Hyundai i20 has an overheating issue. Took it to a local garage and they have given me a quote saying it's a blown head gasket. The quote says, along with the report : " Checked out vehicle, found high HC readings in cooling system indicating head gasket failure ." Have been quoted £123...

I want to know the part numbers of the components marked as shown in the attached image.

I am creating a design that must be portable across different tools: Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus, Microsemi Libero. The design uses multiplier followed by adder that accumulates the results from the multiplier. This forms a multiply-accumulate block. I can include or exclude a register stage bet...

I need some help.. I developed a test platform for the hardware tests of an electronic board panelized in sets of 10. The boards are placed on the test platform in their panelized form. As shown in the schematic below, the platform powers only one board at a time, allowing communication between t...

I have been trying to understand the the following section of a paper by Gabriel Dospinescu and Arthur-César Le Bras: (the full version of a preprint of their paper can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00606). Above, $K$ is a field of characteristic zero, complete with respect to a disc...

The following command: time sh -c julia src/script_etudedtsi.jl 80 20 100 366 5 10 0 1 0 0 1 1 returned the elapsed time for my Julia script. I tried: pidstat -u -p $(pgrep -f julia src/script_etudedtsi.jl 80 20 100 366 5 10 0 1 0 0 1 1) 1 pgrep: only one pattern can be provided How could I get...

I collect and use vintage atomic / molecular model kits eg by Catalin, Courtaulds, Sargent Welch etc. These all represent molecules but intrigued by this Sargent Welch set (link below) dated 1947 design by Henry D. Hubbard who was noted for a design of the periodic table. It is the only set have ...

I am trying to understand the meaning of a verse from John Keats's Lamia (full poem here): [...] Now, when the wine has done its rosy deed, And every soul from human trammels freed, No more so strange; for merry wine, sweet wine, Will make Elysian shades not too fair, too divine. Could someone ...

In my blender python script I have a function which reads data from a serial port then moves the position of an object based on that data. I use bpy.app.timers.register to loop the function every 0.01 seconds. It needs to run frequently in order to update the position in realtime. Blender is not...

Consider the following data and corresponding ListDensityPlot: data = RandomReal[{0.0001, 0.0003}, {10, 10}]; ListDensityPlot[data, ColorFunction -> "SunsetColors", ColorFunctionScaling -> True, PlotLegends -> BarLegend[Automatic, LegendLabel -> "Density", LabelStyle -> Directive[Blac...

using MBP M1 Ventura I use multiple external HDDs for storage /editing videos, photos, original music. Should I convert them APFS or stick with HF+?

Comic Conventions, or Cosplay, Anime, Manga Conventions are popular all around the globe. How would native French people name them? I found many possibilities: convention d'anime évènement manga salon manga festival manga

I am writing a Linear Algebra textbook that is supposed to have several Earth Science applications (Geophysics, Atmospheric Science) given that I come from an Earth/Atmospheric Science background. I want to help students from my field to achieve a better understanding of Linear Algebra and how it...

The application form for the job I'm applying for requires the email address of my previous supervisor. My previous supervisor, however, has given me only his LinkedIn address instead of his new email address. He has yet to reply to my text asking him for his email address, and the application de...

(Before closing as duplicate, this question is somewhat related but not the same at all: Pedal power meters on off-road / MTB). Background I am an avid runner, and am pondering whether I will branch out to biking "earnestly" in the next season. Right now, I have a very nice full-suspension MTB wh...

I have the following function in Mathematica: $\frac{x! \sum _{i=1}^j (-i+j+1) S_{j+1}^{(-i+j+2)} x^{-i+j+1}}{(x-j)! \left((1-x)_j\right){}^2}$ Defined as: a[n_, m_] := (n - m)*StirlingS1[n + 1, n + 1 - m] p[x_, j_] := Sum[a[j, i - 1]*x^(j - i + 1), {i, 1, j}] m[x_, j_] := (Factorial[x]/ Fact...

When installing drip irrigation, how do you mow around to keep from damaging systems or do you bury the system?

I have a group of genetically engineered humans with pink(#fe019a) skeletons. The humans are naturally born with it so it isn't transplanted. Furthermore, the skeletons are pink within the body and when exposed outside. Asides from the skeleton, the humans are as similar to us as can be allowed u...

I am trying to understand the meaning of the following passage from John Keats's Lamia (full poem here): "Shut, shut those juggling eyes, thou ruthless man! Turn them aside, wretch! or the righteous ban Of all the Gods, whose dreadful images Here represent their shadowy presences, May pierce the...

If my regression model $$ y_i = \alpha + \beta x_i + \epsilon_i $$ suffers from OVB the error contains one variable which we assume correlated with $$ \epsilon_i = \gamma w_i + u_i $$ my estimate of $\beta$ will be biased by a component which depends on $\gamma Cov(x_i,w_i)$. I would colloquially...

I know that we use "since" when we refer to some specific event that started at some point in the past and is still continuing and "for" when we talk about the duration of the event. So in the sentence "He has been absent since last week". We mean that he has been absent from some day in the prev...