Today I had a session with my Japanese language partner. We spoke about the 世代間ギャップ (generation gap). I asked her what distinguishes her generation from people of older generations and she said, the older people had more 遠慮. The example she gave was "Imagine a box of sweets that are shared among ...

Say an almost discrete space has exactly one non-isolated point. An example of this property is the so-called metric fan $\left\{\left(\dfrac{1}{m},\dfrac{1}{mn}\right):m,n\in\mathbb Z^+\right\}\cup\{(0,0)\}\subseteq\mathbb R^2$. As a subspace of $\mathbb R^2$ this space is metrizable (hence the ...

I saw a job post this week: """The University of Regina is committed to development of a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the richness of the community that we serve. For this competition, the University welcomes applications from all individuals who self-declare as a woman and meet ...

I'm running the electric cable for a new heat pump install. On the wall where the unit will be placed I'm going to put the subpanel breaker, but I'm wondering what the best choice is. I've run a 6 AWG cable to the wall connected to a 50A breaker in the main panel. The heat pump calls for MOP of 4...

At Sietch Tabr, while eating with Jessica, Paul experiences a fleeting vision of Fremen paying homage to a portrait of Leto I alongside a skull: What's the meaning of this vision?

First question A definition of pedagogy in The New Oxford English-Chinese Dictionary: the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept for the method and practice of teaching, how should I analyze the definition structure? Use parentheses to represen...

I've added 3 partitions I want to mount on boot, but the advice I found elsewhere on the new fstab syntax only agrees with one of the TWO styles present already in my fstab, which makes me very confused. The advice I found elsewhere was, Entry in /etc/fstab: <UUID> <mount directory> <FS type> <m...

Can you take the maximum result of a die roll when you are not pressed for time and there is no usage limit? As an example, the Artillerist Artificer subclass has a 'Protector' eldritch cannon whose description reads: The cannon emits a burst of positive energy that grants itself and each creatu...

I am starting to learn quantum computing and I come from a mostly math background (not much physics). My question is best illustrated by an example. let $\left|\phi \right> = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \left|00\right> + \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} \left|01\right> + \frac{1}{\sqrt{6}} \left|10\right>$ be an entang...

I am a very new DM, DMing a symbaroum game. It is my own world that is inspired by the symbaroum world, but there is a lot of differences lorewise. My players just arrived in a town, it is known that many outcasts and people that got in trouble with the law moved here. It is in the deeper parts o...

Is there any input for which, once processed with tl_trim_spaces could lead to tl_if_blank being true AND tl_if_empty being false?

The glossary entry of the PHB describes cantrips as A cantrip is a level 0 spell, which is cast without a spell slot. See also chapter 7. and chapter 7 (p. 235 PHB) says Before you can cast a spell, you must have the spell prepared in your mind or have access to the spell from a magic item, su...

I contributed to CrowdMath 2021 Paper as a user on a website called ArtOfProblemSolving under my alias JapanMO2020. It turns out that the work was published in an ArXiV paper this year in 2024 and will be published in 2025 according to the ScienceDirect journal date. However, I have instead been ...

I feel the answer should be somewhat obvious, and yet it evades me. I am attaching a picture of what I need (7 items vertically ordered on different rows: item1, item2, item3, item4, item5, item7, item7 and a left curly bracket spanning items 1-7 with a centered label Z, and a right curly bracket...

Rules of exploration mode of Pathfinder 2e had recently puzzled me. Here is said that every 24 hours characters need 8 hours of rest and if they'd go for more than 16 hours without it - they'd be fatigued. Here is table of distances that characters can cover - and it's clear from that table is t...

"In these forests lives a bird that is about as unbird-like as it is possible for a bird to be." BBC (See:0:00-0:08) The word unbird-like caught my attention. Probably never seen such a usage. However, it is on the BBC, so I wonder if the usage unbird-like a common way of making new words? For ...

A recent example of this is the DOJ's lawsuit against SpaceX for discriminating against asylum seekers, and the ITAR laws that prevent them from hiring asylum seekers (because the make missile technology and can therefore only hire US Citizens with security clearance). In this case two federal la...

The flag of Greenland consists of two red sections and two white sections. I'll provide a diagram below, but also give a textual description. The background of the flag is a rectangle that is 18 units wide and 12 units tall. The bottom half of the background is red, and the top half is white. The...

Not exactly an initiation or 'price of admission', but perhaps a plan you carry out to gain a group's favor to see if you're worthy to join. Your submission for their consideration. Best example I can think of is in the movie Now You See Me, all those heists they did was actually in hopes of gain...

John the Baptist is a central figure in Christianity. Sent by God as shown by the prophets, he prepared the way of the Lord, the way of Jesus Christ (Malachi 3:1, Mt 3:3, 11:10). John was of the priestly Levitical tribe in the order of Abijah, being born of Zechariah and Elizabeth, both of whom ...

Looking at an MIT note on propagation of errors, the error of a product $m\cdot v$ works out to the sum of the percentage errors, so we can report the range of values as $m \cdot v =m\cdot v ~(1 \pm ~(\frac{\delta m}{m} + \frac{\delta v}{v})),$ in which $\delta m$, for example, is the absolute u...

What's the evidence for stating that the transition from stops to fricatives took place in Proto-Germanic and not that fricatives became stops in the other PIE brances? The question of this kind applies to all others postulated rules of sound change.

The following MCE: \documentclass{article} \ExplSyntaxOn \AddToHook{cmd/section/before}{ \seq_gput_right:Nn \g_tmpa_seq {Foo} \seq_show:N \g_tmpa_seq } \AddToHookWithArguments{cmd/textbf/before}{ \seq_gput_right:Nn \g_tmpa_seq {#1} \seq_show:N \g_tmpa_seq } % \AddToHookWithArguments{cmd/s...

Is this a reasonable way to build a switching supply without using power transistors or other modern devices? One concern is that this might oscillate a lot. What might it be missing? Here Vin > Vz; e.g. Vin might be ~12V and Vz might be 4V.

this is my first question, so I hope I’ve done things correctly. I’ve been observing political discussions, and one sort of argument that I believe to be fallacious appears as in the title. It seems to come from a prejudiced attitude against Xs. Here is an example: A Christian pastor gets arrest...

After a long trouble shooting with my Nexus 8 Gear Hub and other maintenance on my bike I wanted to put the rear wheel back. I did open the gear hub, but I never disassembled any of the internals. I believe I've assembled everything according to spec. But after inserting the shifter cable back in...

I'm working on a legacy code base and I came across a method in which I wanted to remove the chance of swallowing an exception. In the following I want to walk you through the refacoring process, because a code review of only the resulting code might not reveal problems in my thought process. If ...

I wonder if dispersion correction (for instance D4) is needed for double hybrid (DH) functionals in case of large systems with interacting fragments (H-bonds), in particular for geometry optimization? (I vaguely remember that I might have posed this question elsewhere, and the answer was "yes", b...

In an answer to a question about circuit design for audio volume controls, user @Neil_UK suggests this circuit: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab which gives near-log behavior across almost 40 dB when the pot is greater than 10%, and then asks see if you can [explain]...

The following bash script: #!/bin/bash TEST_VAR="" if [[ -z $TEST_VAR ]] then echo "empty" else echo "$TEST_VAR" fi despite missing a semicolon before "then", does not throw an error in bash 5.2 and completes successfully, even returning 0. Running the above script on a system running ...

Let $U$ be a unitary transform with eigenvalues $±1$, which acts on a state $|ψ〉$. Using the phase estimation procedure, construct a quantum circuit to collapse $|ψ〉$ into one or the other of the two eigenspaces of $U$, giving also a classical indicator as to which space the final state is in. ...

In the book Programming Bitcoin (2019) by Jimmy Song (pg's 61-72) the ECDSA signing/verification procedure for message hash z, private/public key pair (e, P), generator point G = (0x79BE667EF9DCBBAC55A06295CE870B07029BFCDB2DCE28D959F2815B16F81798, 0x483ADA7726A3C4655DA4FBFC0E1108A8FD17B448A685541...

Any clues? Think it was a short(ish) story, or OVA, not part of a larger series. Don't think it was a big movie like a typical Ghibli movie, but was like 2 parts if I remember correctly?

I've been working on a CNN binary classification model, and the model performs pretty good in both the training set, and the cross-validation set as well (both practically 1.0 acc). However, I also hold a distinct testing set that I use to set my models at the very end. I do this because I use hy...

So, new DM to 3.5 here. Let's say one of my players is hit by an enemy while at 5hp, and takes 10 points of damage. That player is now at -5hp and dying. Now, what if they took a further 3 points of damage from say, an area attack? Would they now be at -8hp? The reason behind this questions is pu...

Does there exist an infinite Boolean ring $R$ (not assume unital, only associative) with the property that for any nonzero $x,y\in R$, there is a ring automorphism $\varphi\colon R\to R$ such that $\varphi(x)=y$?

In the 2024 rules, the Emanation has been added as an Area of Effect. From the Rules Glossary: An Emanation is an area of effect that extends in straight lines from a creature or an object in all directions. The effect that creates an Emanation specifies the distance it extends. This further li...

---+ BRIEF Q: How can I cryptographically secure a credentials file that is stored on disk as plaintext? Or, rather: how can I avoid storing credentials like those for Gmail and other API keys on disk? For existing programs that assume such an unencrypted file containing secrets. I ask this que...

I'm staying at a rather nice hotel and the enormous shower has a diagonal bar (pictured below) in one corner, about one foot in length and mounted about a foot off the floor. What is the purpose of this? It's not at a useful height for balancing yourself, it's too small for sitting, and way too ...

TL;DR: I strongly suspect a professor in my department led a campaign against my wife (who is an instructor) to discredit her amongst the students in retaliation for her reporting him for harassment. It has devastated her. He left the university a year ago to move to another university - is there...

It seems that despite having lower turnouts than many other so-called developed countries, (which has also increased probably as a result of polarization), Americans really care about the outcome of elections. Another metric that suggests that more Americans care deeply is the completeness of the...

What lesson did the Buddha teach concerning the singling-out of a group in society based on their perceived transgressions?

I'm preparing applications for multiple universities, and I've noticed variations in the terminology used for research-related documents. Some universities request a "statement of research," while others ask for a "research plan." In the cover letter, e.g., What do I need to include in a tenure-t...

I am trying to find the basis gate on FakeSherbrooke. Not sure how to find it? Below is the sample code related to FakeSherbrooke. from qiskit_ibm_runtime.fake_provider import FakeBrisbane, FakeSherbrooke from qiskit_aer.noise import NoiseModel import math backend = FakeSherbrooke() noise_model ...

Can the verb require be followed directly by an infinitive or a gerund? Ex) We require to know it. We require knowing it. Are they correct? Thank you.

I recently watched a video claiming that Shlomo Molcho hy”d was the author of the piyut Shalom Aleichem. Does anyone have any sources for this, or does anyone know of anyone else to whom it is attributed? (The source of Shalom Aleichem has already been discussed here, but I haven’t seen this part...

The phrase خالدين فيها أبداً is often used in Quran. But, what is its precise meaning? As I understand it so far the "khalid" part means the immortality of the soul, and the "abad" part means either the "everlasting" or "indefinite" nature of the place? So, something like "the soul is immortal a...

I rented a car in the United States: I booked it online, planning to pick up at the airport. The online booking receipt specifies the amount "Due at Time of Rental": I wonder the following: In the United States, does the amount "Due at Time of Rental" include taxes? I.e., shall I expect to pay m...

In the linked video Elon Musk mentioned that SpaceX was asked to research the impact of Starship launches on sharks and whales, among other bureaucratic work: SpaceX had to do a study to see if Starship would hit a shark. I'm like "It's a big ocean, there's a lot of sharks. It's not impossible, ...

Alan is sitting at $ (0, 0) $ and Barbara is sitting at $ (4, 4) $. Each minute, Alan moves up or to the right one unit with equal probability, unless he is on the border of the $ 4 \times 4 $ grid centered at $ (2, 2) $, in which case he moves in the only possible direction that keeps him within...

Is this connection right? Its for ESP32 to measure the voltage of a 18650 battery.

I have an HTML file and I want to replace a string that is included between two HTML table tags. Here is an example of what I have: <tr class="noBorder"><td>string1</td><td>string2</td><td>string3</td><td>string4</td><td>random string</td></tr> I want to replace only random string with something...

Suppose we play a game with a 10-sided die where we roll and sum our rolls. We can stop any time, and the sum is our score. However, if our sum is ever a multiple of 10, our score is zero, and our game is over. What strategy will yield the greatest expected score? What is the expected score with...

During the Xi dynasty of Ancient China, Zhang Xianzhong accidentally gained the power to animate and control the dead by supernaturally puppeteering the corpses like extremely sophisticated marionettes or remote-controlled robots, giving the appearance of resurrection. Essentially, he's a necroma...

I am reading chapter 8.5 ALU in Computer Organization and Design by David A Patterson and John L. Hennessy. It first gets carryOut = b*carryIn + a*carryIn + a*b + a*b*carryIn (a and b are the two data inputs) by observing truth table (values of inputs when carryOut is 1) My questions: based on t...

A small preface: XT wire HDD interface had limits of 1024 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors. But BIOS calls (int 13h with AH = 02, 03, 08) provided different limits: 1024 cylinders (CL[7:6]<<8|CH), 256 heads (DH) and 63 sectors (CL[5:0]). Later, again, wire sizes invented with ATA were 65536 cyl...

So my micro-setting revolves around the sole customs-fort guarding the entrance (land bridge/causeway) to a impoverished city. This city is a fragment of a shattered Empire where the city administration all portray themselves as being the official rump-government in order to maintain the veneer o...

Is this the amount of time it takes to change the output once input is placed inside? In flip flops, when we input something, the output remains constant for some time until it changes. Is this amount of time the propagation delay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xouZueHZ6dM (time frame 3:45) Another question people may ask is, “Will GPT-5 be AGI? (which stands for artificial general intelligence)” The answer is no, but it would be the most powerful LLM that has ever existed. When it comes to parameters, this will make it a...

how can I input a value when scaling an object and have it linked in all axis (XYZ)? For instance, I want to scale a box to 0.01. How can I scale it to 0.01 without having to input the value 0.01 three times (into X, Y nad Z)?

A wooden beam (which is a rectangular parallelepiped) with edges of 8, 8, and 27 inches is to be sawed into 4 parts out of which a cube can be made. Naturally, one should draw first and saw later. How should the beam be cut? Clarification: Assume that the sawing does not reduce the overall volu...

I read this short fiction (not very short, probably novelette, maybe even short novella, rather than short story) about 20 years ago. In was in a collection, not sure it was in English, possibly in French translation. It definitely does not sound like a French original SF. I don't remember much. ...

in Overleaf i got no errornumber, but in the output i got for „Маша живёт“ instead „ “ ist 3. Person ... \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[left=20mm, right=20mm, top=20mm, bottom=20mm]{geometry} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[russian, german]{babel} \begin{document} \se...

Given a stablizer expression (parity check matrix) of a quantum error correction code, how to obtain its system Hamitonian? I am not sure whether this is correct: for toric code, its Hamitonian is just to substract all the stabilizer. Assume the stabilizer for toric code is $A_s=\otimes_j \sigma^...

When I'm trying to use a european resistor with a label in my RLC circuit it places an unwanted second label at (0,0). I'm quite new to circuitikz so this might be an easy fix, but i can't find a solution. \documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage{circuitikz} \begin{document} \begin{circuitikz} ...

There is an article here Alpha Centauri in which computer models suggest objects from alpha centauri could be passing into our solar system. But how could we be sure the objects are from alpha centauri?

I have two GeoJSON files with different shape types (Polygons for one and Points for the other) and I would like to concatenate them in a single vector layer that I can export back to GeoJSON. When using the Merge shapefile tool from QGIS I'm stuck as I'm force to specify the type. Is there anoth...

A variety of groups is a class of groups satisfying a specified set of equations. Equivalently, it is a class of groups that is closed under homomorphic images, subgroups, and direct products. A typical example is the variety of groups satisfying $x^n = 1$, for a fixed $n$. The 1967 paper Varieti...

I was calculating the energy of the lowest-frequency photon that could fit into the universe, simplifying the universe as a "tube" with a length of 92.1 billion light-years (radius = 46.05 billion light-years). Here's a summary of the calculations: Wavelength of the photon: 8.7×1026 m8.7×1026m Fr...

The ltcmdhooks-doc reads: The hooks are not physically present before \begin{document} (i.e., using a command in the preamble will never execute the hook) [...] Does it mean that commands that are \@preamblecmds are definitively not subject to hooks? The following MCE seems to confirm this, whi...

Sort of the reverse of an older question I posed here before. The Beguiler learns (most) spells in a pecular manner: When you gain access to a new level of spells, you automatically know all the spells for that level on the beguiler's spell list This does not specify HOW the character gains acc...

Suppose we levy a specific tax $t$, then, at the new equilibrium, we have $$ D(p+t)=S(p), $$ where $D$ is the demand function and $S$ is the supply function. And this makes equilibrium price $p$ is a function of $t$. The incidence formula $$ \frac{dp}{dt} = \frac{D'}{S'-D'}, $$ where $D'=dD(p)/dp...

If color extraction algorithms are run in an image (eg. K-means clustering), the color palette obtained from the image is a derivative work?

I read this short story in a science fiction anthology on Kindle within the last four years. It was written in English. It was about a time bomb (a bomb that stops time) being detonated in London. Everyone outside the affected area thinks everyone within it is dead, but they are not. An agent of ...

I applied for a new passport 2 years ago and still had medium-length hair at the time. Now the 2 years have passed and I have a bald head. Could this cause me any problems when traveling outside the EU?

I have measured the OPA237 supply currents for different positive and negative output voltages (by setting V7 and V8, one always at 0V) using a differential amplifier as show in this simulation: I got the following results: I was surprised that the positive supply current changed significantly ...

Suppose I have a group $G$ and a commutative subgroup $H$ and another subgroup $K\subseteq H$. So I have $K\leq H\leq G$. Moreover, suppose I know that the index $\vert G:H\vert$ is finite. I have to prove or disprove that $\vert G: K\vert $ is finite. My attempt: I think it is true. So I tried p...

I know there are a lot of advanced tremolo set-up rigs. I'm just wondering if there are some basic techniques while playing and such.

I understand the word incredulous has a soft g in place of or augmenting the soft d. So, it's in-credge-you-less not in-cred-you-less Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=incredulous | /inˈkrejələs,iNGˈkrejələs/) agrees and the pronunciation has this soft g sound. But the word "incredulity,"...

For the following question I've gotten a matrix $P =\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 & 1\\ 1 & 0 & 1\\ 0 & 1 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$ that works for $P^{-1}AP=J$ but doesn't work for the final solution, I think because the final column doesn't have a zero as the matrix $P =\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 & 0\\ 1 & 0 & 1\...

It wasn't MFM or RLL. IDE? SATA? It was so simple! You just had to have an electomagnet override a spring that pulls the heads back. I'm surprised they didn't think of it a long time ago.

This is a highly subjective question, but here goes. Has anyone ever published a result that was "taken seriously" by the research community, but was then discovered to be incorrect because of a "dumb mistake"? Allow me to (somewhat) clarify my terms: By a "dumb mistake", I mean "any mistake tha...

Basically looking for what is described in the title. Kids crash their ship and start living off the land without their normal rations, and they start feeling things like normal kids. I read it in a reading textbook but it was a textbook that was a sample from a publisher and not adopted by the s...

I am conducting path analysis using structural equation modeling (SEM) and have a question regarding the use of a grouping variable in my model. One of my key longitudinal hypotheses is whether the association between household income and later income differs based on the level of household incom...

The pop up messages/notifications do not display when I complete actions. I am using 4.2, previously when I saved my project, at the bottom centre of the screen, a pop up message would say 'project saved' or when I merged vertices by distance, a pop up message would say '5 vertices merged'. But a...

$\DeclareMathOperator\Gal{Gal}$Let $E$ be an elliptic curve defined over a number field $K$. Put $G:=\Gal(\bar{K}/K)$, and for each valuation $v$ of $K$, put $G_v:=\Gal(\bar{K_v}/K_v)$. Consider the following exact sequence: $$ 1 \to E_\text{tor} \to E \to E/E_\text{tor} \to 1.$$ Then we have a d...

I've been playing a lot in the Tower of Frozen Shadows and I've gotten keys for the first 4 floors. When I right-click on a received key in the tower, the key disappears. I know it gets added to my keyring, but I have no idea where to find it. Since keys are cross-persona, I'll be back with anoth...

According to Microsoft, the Excel function WEEKNUM is used to return the week number for the specified date based on a specific model (1 or 2). The week number indicates where the week falls numerically within a year. Model 2 means that the week containing the first Thursday of the year is the fi...

The main protagonist is a male barbarian class warrior who can use shamanic magic while using a red gem and had a relations with a harpy who bore him a rare male harpy son. I know this isn't much. The cover, I remember was yellow with the barbarian protagonist holding the magic red gem. This has ...

There seems to be a famous saying from the Rebbe Maharash, Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn (1834 - 1882): די וועלט זאגט, אז מ'קען ניט ארונטער דארף מען אריבער, און איך האלט אז מ'דארף לכתחילה אריבער The world says that if you can’t go underneath, you must go over. But I say that you should go over to beg...

I have consulted some answers in TSE, but I didn't found satisfactory solution to solve my case in typeset \Downarrow. Here below is my MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{fixdif} \begin{document} \begin{align*} \d x &= W_1 \frac{\d V + C \d t}{V} + W_2 \frac{\d Y C_...

How can I make the column separator a continuous line? As you can see from the output, the vertical line breaks at the horizontal lines \documentclass[tikz, border=1cm]{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.18} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{siunitx} \beg...