I'm in the US so a page is 8.5 inches by 11 inches ie. letter size orientation PORTRAIT Whether it is an existing Writer document or a simple document of a few lines, it looks portrait oriented but when printed to a physical printer, it comes out in landscape orientation. Also a simple calc spre...

I'm trying to roll my own version of multiple-cursors using zones, and I'm currently a bit stuck at actually displaying the zones on the screen. I can easily set a zone as my current region by setting point and mark to the zone bounds, but I can't seem to reliably render the other zones. So far, ...

Is it natural to say someone is "ordered" in order to mean s/he is a well-organized person. From what I saw in the dictionaries, "orderly" has more of a meaning like "peaceful/well-behaved" when used to modify a person. And again according to dictionaries, we can call a place or someone's life "o...

How does laws of ethics apply to conflict of interest for consultation purposes? If Alice who is potentially involved in a lawsuit consults with an attorney and discloses confidential information to the attorney but initially hasn't hired that attorney to represent her. But later, Bob, the opposi...

I was reading the CIA factbook's entry on Syria when I stumbled across the following: volcanism: Syria's two historically active volcanoes, Es Safa and an unnamed volcano near the Turkish border have not erupted in centuries This really took me by surprise. Hardly any geophysical feature on a p...

There are random events like flipping a coin to get head or tail, or , rolling a dice to get a number, or ,drawing a ace of spades from a deck of cards randomly etc. In quantum mechanics entangled particles spin is measured assuming randomness in orientation of spin.(Of course we can assign proba...

Both German and Dutch have two distinct words "Mitmensch" ("medemens") and "Mensch" ("mens"), and the derived adjectives "mitmenschlich" and "menschlich" (and abstract nouns derived from those). In English there is only one adjective to translate both of these: "humane". However, both the German ...

I’m working for a kitchen in a hospital and I got the go-ahead from my boss to work on a recipe for a dessert we could sell out front to customers. It’s super simple, just lime juice, maple syrup, and watermelon. I freeze the watermelon in chunks and then either in a couple hours or the next day ...

On the Ontario government's Build or buy a tiny home webpage, there is a section called Factory-built tiny homes. In that section, there is a subsection titled Zoning: Zoning Check with your local municipality to make sure a tiny home is allowed on your property. If the zoning of your property d...

We read in Psalm 121:3-4 ( NKJV): He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep. Generally, the words 'sleep'and 'slumber' are used as synonyms, the latter frequently finding place in poems. Be that as it ...

Does the following result hold: For any compactly supported wave packet, under free Schrödinger's evolution, it is no longer compactly supported after any finite time?

In Genesis 42:15-16, Joseph swears "by the life of Pharaoh." I have searched unsuccessfully for the occurrence of this oath formula elsewhere in the literature of the Ancient Near East. Can anyone provide other instances of this phrase?

I am fairly new to the subject of General Relativity. While looking for answers to some questions I had about it, I came across this post: Whose coordinates are the Schwarzschild coordinates? One of the answers to this person's question stated that "coordinates are meaningless". While I can imagi...

I have a Leviton decora PR180 light switch and a WiFi access point (AP) mounted on the same wall above (~ 3 ft) and to the side (~ 1 ft) of it. The power-over-Ethernet cable feeding the AP runs along the stud, presumably parallel to the power cable going to the switch. It's been working fine for ...

[Cross-posted from MSE] For a pointed space $X$ and unpointed space $Y$, recall the half-smash product $X\rtimes Y=X\land Y_+=(X\times Y)/(\ast\times Y)$. For unpointed spaces $X,Y$ and a pointed space $Z$, suppose there is a commutative diagram of pointed maps $$\require{AMScd}\begin{CD} S^n\rti...

Let $$ \Omega:=\{a_0+a_14+\cdots+a_k4^k:\;a_i\in\{0,1\},\;0\leq i\leq k,\;k\in\mathbb{N}\} $$ be a subset of natural numbers. For any integer $n\geq1$, define the counting function $$ J(n):=\#\{j:\;j\in\Omega\;{\rm and}\; j\leq n\} $$ as the number of elements that $\leq n$ and belong to the set ...

Just a number crossword, but it has no Across clues, only Down clues. Leading 0s are allowed. Edit: pretend I said "well-known" instead of "important" for clue C. It might be something you don't need to look up, even if you're not a physicist.

I have the following working code: function get_emails_by_multiple_roles ( $atts ) { $user_args = shortcode_atts ( array ( 'role' => 'role' , ), $atts ); $users = get_users( $user_args ); foreach ( $users as $user ) : $role_emails[] = $user->user_email; endforea...

From Kokoro chapter 21: 父はかねてから腎臓を病んでいた。中年以後の人にしばしば見る通り、父のこの病は慢性であった。その代り要心さえしていれば急変のないものと当人も家族のものも信じて疑わなかった。現に父は養生のお蔭一つで、今日までどうかこうか凌いで来たように客が来ると吹聴していた。 I don't get how the bold sentence is understood. I think 今日までどうかこうか凌いで来た means "managed to endure the illness until today" but I have no idea ...

What is inside the 45345 SPIKE Essential battery?

I recently install Debian Stable 12.7 and it is otherwise working very well. I tried to connect an external hard disk (I presume it will have NTFS partition). The light on the hard disk turns on, it starts whirring but does not connect. Following is the output of 'dmesg' command: [ 299.027072] I...

I quite often read stories like the following in the news: Bob is arrested for alleged bribery and falsification of business records. During his first interrogation, he confesses everything, and the case appears to be clear. Later on however, he withdraws his confession, probably based on a reco...

Question inspired by another question: How can moral disagreements be resolved when the conflicting parties are guided by fundamentally different value systems? In the spirit of the aforelinked question let me propose the following scenario: Person K believes that a moral system ought to guide p...

I want to write the word CAR in a text slightly above of the line. How can I do it? \documentclass{article} \begin{document} I want the word CAR in this line, but a few millimeters above (that is, placed slightly higher when compared with the remaining words in the line). \end{document}

I have come across the following integral that I need to evaluate: $$f_1(\mu) = \int_0^\pi \frac{d \alpha}{(1 - \mu cos \alpha)^{3/2}} $$ It is given in a 2005 paper by F.R. Zypman (https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/74/4/295/1056228), in relation to calculating the off-axis electric field due...

Tank say that Zion is... "Deep underground, near the earth’s core where it’s still warm." ... but surely that would put it deep in the liquid mantle, and I seriously doubt the city is submerged in magma. Did the planet's mantle solidify due to heavy geothermal energy extraction, or did he just ...

I read a short story where SETI researchers were able to identify and decipher a signal from the region of Cassiopeia, but when the alien language was decoded, it was just a long philosophical treatise entirely about trinary logic. It seemed that interstellar travel was impossible for both us and...

I am building out a product that displays user profiles and their professional emails (either company emails like [email protected] or academic emails like @mit.edu). In order to see the user profile and their emails, you need to signup and contribute your own professional email. Would this be a secur...

I have an ADC which has 14 bit, 100 MHz sampling frequency. I collected data 6.103 kHz sinus wave. I try to calculate SINAD. However, I can't find same result as in MATLAB. Let me explain more. I create reference sinus for comparing data that collecting from ADC. For creating the reference sinus,...

How can I write the following expression in LaTeX?

フレッドとジョージがケーキやら何やら、キッチンから失敬してきたんだ。 (Harry Potter (book 1) Japanese TL) Fred and George have stolen cake and what have you from the kitchen. I'm wondering what nuance 失敬する provides over 盗む in this sentence. Given the context of the sentence and the fact that 失敬 also means 'impertinence', I'm gue...

For simplicity let us suppose we have the unit rectangle $[0,1] \times [0,1]$ the fact that it is compact. As it is compact, it is totally bounded. In the words of H. Weyl, a city is compact if it can be guarded by a finite number of arbitarily near-sighted policemen. Mse post referencing this qu...

I want to know how the position of the Earth relative to the sun determines when it's fall or spring if on both equinoxes the incidence of light is the same. What makes these two seasons different from each other?

I am in a real-life situation where I need to calculate the radius of a circle in a coordinate system. The circle is NOT centered at the origin. I know two points on this circle, $(1,0)$ and $(2,1)$ and they are $285^\circ$ and $330^\circ$ counter-clockwise from the CENTER of the circle (not the ...

Summary: An alien craft lands, it's referred to by one scientist as a "cinder cone", an alien representative comes out and talks to humanity, but it was all a delay tactic. It was later discovered during an autopsy after this alien died of apparent natural causes that it looked as if the creature...

If I go to the USA on say Australian passport and win over $1200 then Uncle Sam keeps I think it is 30%. If I go to the USA on say a UK passport and win over $1200 then Uncle Sam lets me keep it all. Lets say I'm dual passport - Aus/Uk - but I reside and pay taxes etc in Aus. If I go to the USA a...

How can I copy a clip in Ableton Live so that we need to make a change to the clip, all copies of the clip are changed accordingly? E.g., in Cubase one can do so via ghost copies.

BH I heard someone say that the Yetzer Hara for all bad things eventually goes away with age, but the yetzer hara for honor never goes away. Is this true? If so, where does it say this?

What is the rationale behind the number of senators per state? The US has 2 and Brazil has 3, but why? Is there any case with one representative per state? Or, at the state level, one representative per district? What are the consequences of each number?

Mientras, el valor de mercado de Nvidia cayó en la última semana de agosto un 7,7% hasta los 2,92 billones de dólares, después de que proyectara márgenes brutos en el tercer trimestre por debajo de las estimaciones del mercado e informara ingresos que solo cumplieron las expectativas, decepciona...

Velocity dispersion of stars in a galaxy could be useful for example in calculating the galaxy's mass, using the viral theorem. I am wondering how this velocity dispersion (standard deviation in velocities) is usually calculated. Are doppler shifts of individual stars being measured (and is it th...

So we just bought a new home (first-time!) which had carpet in the bathroom... Our goal was to replace the carpet with COREtec LVT. Unfortunately, when we pulled up the carpet, we saw that the plywood subfloor had water damage in some parts. For comparison, here is the subfloor to left of the toi...

I want to download Facebook on ubuntu. What do I need to do to install this? The answers in Desktop Facebook application for Ubuntu are not valid in Ubuntu 24.04, or any currently supported versions.

In the world - and universe - of Pandemonium, humans have existed for thousands of years in parallel to humans on Earth, having crossed over during periodic collisions between Pandemonium's universe and our own. In Pandemonium, humans have been genetically engineered for thousands of years. The ...

Magic is able to achieve its mystical effects through its Pleroma. Basically, Pleromas are magical and non-physical locations and objects that serve as the sources of power for magic. Each Pleroma is connected to a specific element of magic. In this case, time magic derives its power from the Tim...

I am receiving monthly compensation for having to move due to the demolition of my apartment building. I have two choices for the compensation: Take the compensation, at $755/month for the duration of the construction project for the new building. This will likely take five years. Total value: $...

Please see slide 17 at https://www.syscop.de/files/2023ws/mpcrl/lecture-joschka-pg-and-ac.pdf Could some expert explain why the terms under expectation (underlined with red) are like that?

I took a course on Econometrics last year which covered OLS, GLS, panel data, binary dependent variables, instrumental variables, experiments and quasi-experiments, big data, time-series forecasting, dynamic causal effects and cointegration. From the best of my knowledge, it was broadly based on ...

Background: Christian Trinitarians believe "that there is one eternal being of God – indivisible, infinite. This one being of God is shared by three co-equal, co-eternal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit". Trinitarians generally believe that this doctrine is taught in the New Testament...

There are dynamical systems which have regions of phase space that are both chaotic and integrable, e.g. small perturbations of integrable systems as in KAM theory. Are there any tools for bounding the proportion of phase space which is chaotic or integrable (say, in terms of "local" properties l...

I've been working at my current job for six months. Initially, I was told I could wear whatever I wanted as long as I had closed-toe shoes. Recently, my employer provided me with one work shirt, a green t-shirt with the company logo, and said I must wear it every day. For the past three days, I'v...

I'm preparing an animation with 5 instances to travel along an ellipse. They must also always face one direction. I'm able to achieve the instance. However, because the instances are dependent on the resampling of the curve, I'm unfortunately stuck with a rough pentagon shape. Is there a way to g...

In Season 2 Episode 6 of Pushing Daisies, "Oh Oh Oh... It's Magic", Dwight Dixon learns that Charles Charles' watch was buried with his daughter, Charlotte Charles. At the end of the episode, he digs up her coffin, and finds it empty (without her in it). In Episode 7, "Robbing Hood", he visits V...

Using all the numbers {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}, each exactly once, fill each empty white square with a number so that all the horizontal and vertical equations are true. The grey squares are not used. Attribution: Erich Friedman

Let $x$ and $y$ be given real numbers. We may suppose that $2\leqslant x \leqslant y$ and that $u:= \log(y)/\log(x)$ remains bounded in a compact set away from $1$ as $x,y\to\infty$. An integer $n$ is said to be $x$-rough if all its prime factors are at least $x$. Let us denote the set of all $x$...

OCR failed on this in spite of my attempts to enhance it.  Can someone type a text version? I suppose it’s a representation of the surname "Groleau" but maybe I got the order wrong.  When my late father was teaching English in Guangzhou, they gave him a name seal: It’s French Canadian, pronounc...

I'm working on Sitecore 9 where I have implemented CSP in Sitecore using web.config. After adding the CSP configuration in web.config file, the site is still working but I have one Sitecore form where I have implemented redirecting to another page and this redirection is not working anymore while...

I have an ubuntu 24.04 and a Nitrokey HSM. I use p11tool --list-token-urls to list the HSM url. When I run it from a local session it works, and it print: pkcs11:model=p11-kit-trust;manufacturer=PKCS%2311%20Kit;serial=1;token=System%20Trust pkcs11:model=PKCS%2315%20emulated;manufacturer=www.CardC...

As I mentioned in my previous question siesta: current-voltage threshold value is not consistent with the band gap value, at different bias voltages, we have different transmission spectra. Why are the transmission spectra affected by the bias voltages?

We've all heard several times about how Elon Musk plans to take us to Mars using Starship. Although I do believe that given the time and money this is possible, I don't understand how we shall colonize/live on the planet. Will we live using oxygen obtained from earth or do we have plans for a nat...

In Exodus 34:7, it says that the consequences of sin can be passed down to the third and fourth generations, but in Ezekiel 18:20, it states that each person is responsible only for their own sins. How can these two verses be understood together, and what is the significance of mentioning up to f...

Using all the integers from 1 to 12 inclusive (each used exactly once), along with any number of the five arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and raising to a power) and parentheses, construct an equation with the largest (and identical) number on both sides. Cl...

In this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07081), they study the effect of a four-fermion perturbation $H'$ on the SYK model, and they take the form of the perturbation to be $H' = \frac{u}{2}C_{ij}C_{kl}\psi_{i}\psi_{j}\psi_{k}\psi_{l}$, where $C_{ij}$ is also an anti-symmetric Gaussian-distribu...

This question is a silly one, but I would like to ask anyway. What will pilots do if one of them really must use the bathroom in critical parts of the flight like when landing? I mean, like really need to go, probably because of some spoiled food or a minor medical condition. Are there any offici...

I heard a person say that if you have hate towards a person in your heart you have to tell them about this because it's forbidden to keep those thoughts in your heart. Is this like if you feel rejected by the other person or like only if they said something bad about you or for other things like ...

As a Java beginner, I've inherited a custom Geoserver extension, running in a Windows environment. The plugin contains logging code like this: import java.util.logging.Logger; import org.geotools.util.logging.Logging; [...] public class ReportBuilder { private static final Logger LOGGER = L...

I tried using the command without arguments and it just returned an error code. Do I need to have some kind of mining software setup? Does that software not already come with Bitcoin Core? How do I go about getting this software working, either way?

I am applying for the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship (MSCA) in physics this year. The proposal includes developing a novel theoretical method, applying it to various models, and making a framework that translates the parameters of these models to the impact on some observables. The poi...

I read this book many decades ago, in French original. A few years later, I saw the movie (most probably with the same title) that was made about it, also in French. I'm positive the author is French and originates from Southern France. The action is in a small village in southern France, many de...

Setup: The way gecko's feet function has been a captivating but now relatively well understood phenomenon. They have many small spatula on the feet that exploit electromagnetic van-der-waal forces on the walls to which they stick. This concept has been developed in "nano-tape" a product which is ...

The charity Blood Pressure UK is warning about the risks of salt, with particular highlight on processed pig products and cheese. I am aware is the crucial role that salt plays in the preservation of meat, it is not there just for flavour. Cheesemaking however does not rely on salt in the same ...

How can I create a query in a layer using the Model Designer in QGIS, like the example shown in the picture below? How i can make this in Model Designer?

Clear["`*"] w = 2; f[x_] = Abs[Sin[w x]] + Cos[w x] Plot[f[x], {x, -2 \[Pi], 2 \[Pi]}] How do I find the x-coordinate of the point circled in this trigonometric function graph? SolveValues[f[x] == 1 && -2 \[Pi] <= x <= 2 \[Pi], x] // Sort SolveValues[f[x] == -1 && -2 \[Pi] <= x <= 2 \[Pi], x] ...

If a Palestinian convert to Judaism or even better to the religion of prophet Abraham, can he get Israeli citizenship ? Quran actually instructs Muslims to return to the religion of Abraham, so if every Palestinian return to religion of Abraham, they can become Israeli citizen and thus the curren...

I’m looking at the effectiveness of a type of programme that can have a range of number of sessions, 1 to 20. I start with a meta-analysis (k = 70) that tells me the average effect size for that type of programme is 0.50 SDs. In my meta-analysis, the average number of sessions is 7. I want to pre...

Suppose you need to define for an organization what should be considered an information security incident which, when observed, triggers security incident response (investigate, contain, eradicate, recover – details of which might also need to be defined). The definition of a security incident ty...

I'm doing a PPL in the UK at an established flying school. The aircraft I'm training in is a Cessna 150. Aside from a 1 hour introductory flying experience I have logged just 3 hours of flying with a qualified instructor. The lessons I've had so far have covered basic flying controls, how to "boo...

I got this circuit: The circuit detects the 250 VAC voltage when it is present using the optocoupler. There would be a reverse voltage on both LEDs as the input AC alternates, although the current will be low (near V peak will be approximately 1.5 mA.) The condition of the circuit could change t...

In The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S02E03 "The Eagle and the Sceptre," some Númenóreans oppose Míriel's ascension to the throne, considering her use of a palantír as "dark magic" and "Elf sorcery." This reaction puzzles me, given the Elves' reputation for opposing Morgoth, the embodimen...

In most books I see that Floating Rate Bond trade at par. Yet I never see a detailed proof of why this is true. When trying to go into the maths I don't find this result. I feel like it also depends on a lot of things. What is the coupon we are getting with the FRN and what discount curve are we ...

I have a couple of naive questions about Hilbert calculus / Hilbert-style deductive system and its relation it philosophically/conceptionally opposite "natural deduction" style based proof systems. Recall, that Hilbert style deductive system mainly differs from natural deduction system by consist...

I am currently going through the papers of Nazarov (2003): "On the maximal perimeter of a convex set in $\Bbb R^n$ with respect to a Gaussian measure" (MR2083397, Zbl 1036.52014) and Ball (1993): "The reverse isoperimetric problem for Gaussian measure" (MR1243336, Zbl 0788.52010). To define the G...

I found this test question on the internet and apparently the author says the correct answer is ‘knew’ not ‘know’ The movie Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, hit the theaters in 1975 and was a huge hit. Millions saw the movie, and even those who did not know / knew the story. According to som...

With an optocoupler I detect once a button, a ring bell in that case, is pressed. The ring bell is a 4+n system, I get about +5 to +6 VDC if the ring bell is pressed. It switches an optocoupler which sets a GPIO on an ESP32 on high then: I am doing that twice, since there is a primary and secon...

I've read in many places that the stall speed is xxx knots for a specific plane. Is the stall speed of any aircraft fixed or does it change depending on other conditions such as weight, density of air, temperature, humidity, etc.? Could an aircraft stall at a higher flight speed, depending on the...

Let $A$ and $B$ be Artin $k$-algebras for a commutative artinian ring $k$ (e.g. $A$ and $B$ are finite dimensional $k$-algebras for a field $k$). Let $M$ be an $A$-$B$-bimodule of finite length over $k$. We say that $x\in M$ generates $M$ if for all $m\in M$ there exist $a\in A$ and $b\in B$ with...

Recently I asw this sequence problem from Scientific American. Given the terms below, find the next three: $110, 20, 12, 11, 10, 6, ...$ As many readers probably figured out more quickly than I, the answer is all the terms are actually the same number, six, represented in base two, then base thre...

I am trying to finish my garage and I am currently in the process of putting drywall. The issue that I am facing with the ceiling is that I do not have any framing at the edges to screw the sheet to. The plan that I have in my mind is to try to detach the sheet and put it back in to make sure it ...

I recently sent a message to a lecturer concerning an issue I have. I asked him to advise me as he is not a lecturer in my department. We scheduled a call and during the call he said I was rude and lack phone etiquette and then he dropped the call. I called back to apologize but he told me not to...

I'm trying to learn about DC-DC Boost converters and with the help of WEBENCH I've made this circuit: Parameters are: Vin: (4.95 - 5.05) V Vout: 17 V Iout: 300mA Efficiency: 95.2% My main questions are: Efficiency is defined as Pout/Pin. So, in order to get 300mA at the output, will I need at...

The Wikipedia page uses the following proof for the statement: P (Premise) ¬P (Premise) P ∨ Q (Disjunction Introduction) Q (Disjunction Syllogism) There are two issues, to me: this proof specifically deals with contradictions, not any false proposition; I could prove the same thing ...

As someone who knows nothing about medical science or kids, I have observed that 1-year old male infants often seem quite tall for their age. And I think to my self, “That kid still has ~17 years of growing left, surely the growth rate can’t be linear…” So I looked up height-for-age graphs to get...

Is there a single word that exists in English that describes when someone tries to make some people hate each other or fight? So, for example, If person A and B are neighbors, so in this situation Person C tries to tell person A that person B might be taking a bit of their land. And tells person ...

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a separable Hilbert space and let $A_n:\mathcal{H}\rightarrow \mathcal{H}$ be a sequence of bounded linear operators converging strongly to the identity operator, that is, one has $$\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\|A_nh-h\|=0$$ for all $h \in \mathcal{H}$. Assume further that $A_...

I hold a MET Daily ticket, that I validated on the metro the first time Do I need to continue to validate it every time I take a bus/metro?

The symbolic solvers of Mathematica are strong, however, the ones fail in some cases, for example, for the system {x^(x + y) == y^12, y^(x + y) == x^3} over the reals. Indeed, Solve[{x^(x + y) == y^12, y^(x + y) == x^3}, {x, y}, Reals] Solve::nsmet: This system cannot be solved with the method...

There has been several entries on solving deterministic differential equations that include indicator functions. Stochastic differential equations may introduce new difficulties. Namely, does the usual technique used in the deterministic situation, of dividing the domain into intervals, still app...

There are many videos of US judges imposing punishments on people who commit obvious contempt of court in their own courts in front of them. They can order the person taken to jail on the spot. Do British judges have the same power for people who are openly contempuous in front of them?

Infidelity is typically regarded as a moral transgression, but it cannot exist without a prior promise of exclusivity. This prompts the question: why is exclusivity so highly valued in the first place? From a utilitarian perspective, does exclusivity, whether formalized through marriage or establ...

After listing several wars in Europe, a sixteenth-century commentator writes quantulum ergo abest, quo minus universus orbis Christianus bello a se ipse dissideat, et suo quod dici solet gladio iuguletur? which must mean something like What little is left, then, before the whole Christian worl...

SpaceX and NASA are investing a stunning pile of resources in developing Starship, the heaviest of heavy lift launchers; despite the small market for heavy launchers and the significant advantages of small satellites. SpaceX’s justification for developing Starship is colonization of Mars although...

I am an experienced cyclist (38M), I have been cycling for 30 years across MTB, gravel and road. I commute 20km per day and have completed several ultra distance events (1500km+) I have never really had much body pain from cycling over the years and had a decent bike fit 2 years ago. For the las...

It is common in tikzcd to bend an arrow either left or right, but I'd like a way to do the following: You have two vertices that are not aligned in either direction, and want an arrow between them that begins and ends with the same slope, either both horizontal or both vertical; possibly you'd wa...

I've recently come across references to Lord Rosse's original sketch of the M51 galaxy, made in 1845, and found both versions on the internet — one where the spiral structure is depicted in white on a black background, and another where it appears black on a white background. This has left me won...

Recently I found out that remarks I had made about the Duchess of Sussex were the subject of debate on talk radio. I had pointed out to Piers Morgan, who finds it hard to leave the topic alone, that Meghan had to “learn” what it was like to be black in our society. She herself claimed that she ha...

I followed this guide to share my iPhone internet connection with Windows: Downloaded iTunes from https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ (not the Microsoft Store version, scrolled to "Looking for other versions?" and clicked Windows). This file was named iTunes64Setup.exe. Used 7Zip to extract ...

You're locked in one of three magical cells (yellow circles) located at the vertices of a triangle. In each cell there're three transporters numbered 1, 2 and 3, one of which transports you to the cell in the clockwise direction, one transports you to the cell in the counterclockwise direction, a...

I want to add a read/write separation to my database in WordPress, to optimize queries. I do it as follows (with a MU-Plugin): class Custom_Read_Write_DB extends wpdb { public $read_connection; public $write_connection; function __construct() { // Initialize the master databa...