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Q: Georeference the second and the following pages of PDF in QGIS

KJ2024I have a PDF with 7 pages. The first is a table of contents and the 6 following pages are 6 maps with the same map excerpt. The PDF does not contain geolocation. I want to georeference page 2-6 but I can only access page 1 when loading the document in QGIS.

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Q: A PicoBlaze assembly program that converts binary numbers to octal

FlatAssemblerYou can see it live here. ;This is a program which is supposed to ;convert binary numbers entered using the ;switches to octal, and display the octal ;numbers using the 7-segment displays. ;For converting binary digits to octal, it ;is supposed to use the algorithm we were ;taught in our Digital ...

RPG
RPG
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Q: What happens to your original form when you lose body parts while under the effect polymorph or alter self?

oliver.cAs an example, let us assume someone cuts out your tongue while you are in either polymorph or alter self. What happens when you change back? Do you regain your tongue? Does the cut-out tongue disappear?

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Q: eLife-like publications and Tenure Decisions

yoshiI'm a postdoc and thinking about where to publish. eLife seems good for my work. However, I heard that eLife would be considered "reviewed preprints" and not count as publications for tenure decisions. What are people's experiences? I'm in computational neuroscience so am considering applied math...

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TeX
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Q: Printing clist out, but controlling whether there should be a \nobreakspace after “and”

GausslerI have a pretty dynamic CV. I have a lot of \if...s at the top controlling what the CV is for. If I want to stress that I have experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, I set \ifdynamics to true. If I want to apply for positions that involve data science, I set \ifdataanalyst to true. And so on. Th...

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Q: Planting project / experiment / spider plant in wooden bowl

birdpoolcleanerI have a hardwood bowl,that I would like to use to grow a spider plant in, outside in a self-build little greenhouse. The bowl does not have a drain hole. Is it possible to have the plant in a drain-less bowl without the soil developing some sort of rot / fungus? I want to build a little greenho...

RPG
RPG
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Q: Does the zweihander sentinel’s armament shield feature allow non-reach attacks with reach weapons?

Rowan HamiltonThe zweihander sentinel archetype for the warder has a feature called armament shield: When wielding a one-handed weapon in two hands or a two-handed weapon, the weapon is treated as a light shield for the purposes of performing a shield bash attack on an opponent. The warder smashes with the bu...

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Q: When SG-1 arrives in 1969, why is it initially an "empty" gate room?

Anthony XIn the episode "1969", SG-1 accidentally travels back in time to 1969. They emerge in what initially appears to be an unoccupied gate room, which transforms around them to its "actual" 1969 configuration as a missile silo. How can this be explained in-universe? Based on series canon up to this po...

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Q: RISCV ALU Implementation in SystemVerilog

u185619This will be first of many things I will submit during my journey of self (re)learning CPU design. I have ALU implementation for RiscV base instruction. I am not fully sure what I am looking for, but that can include one or more of the following: Anything that is a big "No No!" Anything I did th...

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Q: Lemma 2.4 of "On groups and fields definable in o-minimal structures"

Eduardo MagalhãesI'm having some trouble understanding the proof of lemma 2.4 from the paper "On groups and fields definable in o-minimal structures" by A. Pillay. Here we are working in an o-minimal structure $\mathcal M$ and $G$ is a definable group in $\cal M$. I've been trying to understand this proof for th...

CS
CS
02:08
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Q: Is partial correctness decidable?

Otakar Molnár LópezIs partial correctness decidable? i.e., is there a general algorithm that for any pair of formal specification and encoded TM, returns true if and only if the TM meets the specification whenever the TM halts? I feel that the answer is likely no because of how complex the problem sounds. If the an...

RPG
RPG
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Q: If Fighting Initiate with Unarmed Fighting Style replaces the damage of a Monk's unarmed strike, does it replace the damage of a Radiant Sun Bolt?

K.L.R.If a Sun Soul Monk takes the Fighting Initiate feat and chooses Unarmed Fighting Style, thus replacing the usual damage of their unarmed strike with d6 (or d8 if wielding no weapons or shield), would this also replace the damage of their Radiant Sun Bolt, since that deals the same damage as their...

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Q: Must a nonabelian group of odd order always have a normal Sylow subgroup?

Richard_Loves_MusicLet $G$ be a nonabelian group of odd order $n = |G|$ that's not a prime power, so that all the Sylow subgroups are proper. Must it have at least one normal Sylow subgroup? Of course this $G$ is solvable so it does have a proper nontrivial normal subgroup of some kind. Oddness of $n$ is needed bec...

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Q: Does a premise based on subjectivity compromise a logical argument seeking to conclude with an objective conclusion/claim?

DHershberger04Question: Does a premise based on subjectivity compromise a logical argument seeking to conclude with an objective conclusion/claim? I've been thinking about Anselm's Ontological Argument for the Existence of God (Anselm: Ontological Argument for God’s Existence). The logical argument can be pres...

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Q: Why the second C in "recyceln" is pronounced [k] instead of [ts]?

Alan EvangelistaIn German, the letter C is usually pronounced [ts] before E, e.g. "Cent". It seems to me "risaikeln" would make more sense than "recyceln" in German orthography. If the intent was copying the English word, like it's done in "Sandwich", why not write "recyclen" (given that German prefers verbs wit...

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Q: Can you authenticate to ghcr.io and pull down images using fine-grained access tokens?

Evan CarrollI want to pull down an image on the GitHub Container Registry. It requires authentication? Can I use a fine-grained access PAT for that?

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Q: How were lead sheets made in the Graeco-Roman world?

user2231142How did people make lead sheets in the Graeco-Roman world? Especially for the usage in curses. This category is exemplarily represented by the so-called curse tablets (Gk. κατάδεσμος‎, Lat. defixio), thin lead sheets inscribed with maledictions intended to influence the actions or welfare of per...

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Q: Unconvinced by a standard step in deriving Maxwell-Ampère's law from Biot and Savart's law

gatsuI have an issue with a very standard step used in the derivation of Ampère's law from Biot and Savart's law. It can be found in multiple questions already asked here or here for example on this site. I am not too sure where it originates from in terms of literature. It can be found in Griffith's ...

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Q: How quickly could a probe reach the heliopause?

Elias WahlquistWhat if the goal of the Voyager program was instead to reach the edge of the heliosphere (effectively, interstellar space) within a decade? What would be the amount of fuel required and is this amount realistic?

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Q: Is vertex mass the mass of the whole object?

Fution F FusionIs the vertex mass setting for cloth simulations the mass of each individual vertex or is it the weight of the whole object? Like if a plane has 100 vertices and the vertex mass is 2 then is the weight of the cloth 2kg or 200kg? Because blender documentation makes it seem like it’s the weight of ...

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Q: Chain skipping when pedaling hard

spanitoI need some help understanding how to solve the issue of chain skipping in my bike. The bike is a KTM ultra Flite from 2010 with 9-speed cassette Shimano HG50, rear derailleur Shimano Deore XT Shadow and front derailleur Shimano Deore with 3 speeds. Some weeks ago I started to have the problem th...

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Q: Prevent same name overwrite with robocopy

maxicalI need to prevent robocopy from overwriting files in the destination folder if they already exist, I don't see a flag to do that in the manual.

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Q: What are the ethical considerations regarding mandatory class participation?

TimmyWhen I teach, I rely heavily on interactive methods. I don't know how else I can teach. In my experience teaching both (in-person) undergraduate courses and graduate seminars, I've encountered a new kind of situation that's becoming more and more common: I had many students showing strong resista...

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Q: Github Personal Access token gets Permission Denied when trying to pull down images from ghcr.io

Evan CarrollWhen I try to pull down images on ghcr.io, I'm getting "permission denied". My token has read:packages. ❯ podman pull ghcr.io/acme-integrations/cpanel-plugins-build-image:main Trying to pull ghcr.io/webpros-integrations/cpanel-plugins-build-image:main... Error: initializing source docker://ghcr....

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Q: Fantasy movie including magical mirror and evil wizard

tabilumiFrom vague childhood memories: a fantasy movie in a medieval setting, where an evil wizard uses a mirror to transform people in evil counterpart. When such a transformed person then stands in front of a mirror, her evil nature is shown. The movie must be at least 40 years old, maybe quite older. ...

 
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Q: FindInstance and Integers option

MooI am looking for integer solutions of $$a^3 + b + 1 = (b^2 - c^2)^2$$ Some solutions are $$(a, b, c) = (6,8,7); (46,7,19);(665, 8575, 8584)$$ I tried this with the FindInstance command as FindInstance[{a^3 + b + 1 == (b^2 - c^2)^2}, {a, b, c}, Integers, 10] I was under the impression that this...

CS
CS
05:09
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Q: Anti-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Mechanics and Open Systems

MonteNeroThe Schrodinger equation (SE) with a Hermitian operator $H$ generates unitary evolution, and it is well-known that plenty of quantum processes can be described by SE and appropriately chosen $H$. That is, $$ \frac{d\psi}{dt} = -i H \psi(t) \tag{1} $$ generates a unitary evolution that can describ...

DBA
DBA
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Q: Does Postgres materialized view refresh view concurrently continue after client disconnect?

Danielle HanksI have a materialize view that I update using REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY my_view using a Kubernetes cronjob that runs every 15 minutes. I'm experiencing a problem where it seems there are multiple refresh queries outstanding and waiting due to exclusive lock conflicts with each other....

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Q: Aeschylus quote about wind, sea, skies and sun rays

niobiumI have this quote from Aeschylus that I wrote down a while ago, in French (I read Aeschylus oeuvre in French). I would like to know if anyone knows the exact English formulation of the quote, I mean how it is phrased in your English edition (if you know it by heart, well it's even better!). Here ...

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Q: What are the possible triangular sums?

Will.Octagon.GibsonUsing all the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 each exactly once, place a number into each circle in the diagram below so that the sums of the numbers on each of the three sides of the triangle are equal to the same number. Call this common sum S. What are the possible values of S? Attribution: ...

GIS
GIS
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Q: QGIS 3.36-3.40 that same error: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'

Alex LeggioDoes anyone know how to fix this? (chatGPT and other AIs recommend crap). On QGIS 3.40 (as well as 3.36) start: An error has occurred while executing Python code: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write' Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\pupsik\AppData\Roaming\Py...

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Q: Mount a volume to `/mnt/foo`

PhrogzAt work my team has some scripts written for Linux which assume /mnt/foo exists, and I'd like to make them just work on my machine. But, / is a read-only file system, so I can't sudo mkdir /mnt . I can sudo echo "mnt" > /etc/synthetic.conf && sudo reboot and get a /mnt directory...but THAT is mou...

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Q: Preventing user application from using all memory

AleWe have a number of Windows 2022 (physical) machines configured as terminal servers, where users can log in and run various software packages, including finite elements computations. Depending on what the users do, they can easily use the whole RAM of the machine, which makes Windows totally unst...

 
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Q: How well would Sivatherium Giganteum work as a mount

ShinpokerI'm working on a world building project was looking for a unique work horse/mount animal in prehistoric species and was wondering if Sivatherium Giganteum would be a viable choice. The world has technology about equivalent to the 19th century.

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TeX
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Q: Testing, if a file exists. (The point is the point.)

MBE Look at: %here is the problem With the point in .\jobname1.tex it does not work, without it, it does. \TeX \jobname.tex\vskip\baselineskip Testing, if file \jobname1.tex exists \vskip\baselineskip %here is the problem \openin15=.\jobname1.tex ...

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Q: Drill Small Hole in 2 Inch Wood Ball

Mattman944I am trying to drill a 1/4 hole in a 2-inch diameter hardwood ball (sphere). Not all the way through, about 1/2 inch deep, to insert a dowel. I would like the position and angle to be good enough so I can spin the dowel in my fingers and the ball remains visually stationary. Here is what I tried....

 
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Q: What is the best order of doing exercise for the same muscles - in order of increasing difficulty or decreasing?

user93353I have been doing crunches for years, so I can do a lot of them in each set. So I added some variants I am labelling the basic crunch with leg position as /\__ as Crunch 1 - have been doing this for years. Then I added 3 extra sets of Crunch 2, where I do crunches with leg position like below \ ...

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Q: Is it a Db9 with a #11 or a D with a b9 and a #11?

Kevin G.I don't know why I haven't gotten stuck on this before, but it being the season here I am playing Having Yourself a Merry Little Christmas with the 4th measure transitioning D-7 to Db9#11 to Cmaj7, and I'm stuck. Is the middle chord a Db with a 9 and a #11, or is it a D with a b9 and a #11? And h...

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Q: Is there a semisimple abelian category or a split abelian category with an infinite number of simple objects?

LoronegroAn abelian category $\mathcal A$ with arbitrary coproducts (for example, a Grothendieck category) is semisimple if every object in $\mathcal A$ is a coproduct of simple objects. It is true that every semisimple abelian category is a split category, i.e. every short exact sequence splits, but not ...

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Q: Naive proof that subgroup of free group is free, what's wrong?

JMMA subgroup of a free group is free. The proof I'm familiar with uses covering space theory. But today someone mentioned to me that if a free group $F$ had a non-free subgroup (i.e. a subgroup subject to some relation), then certainly that relation would still hold in $F$, contradicting the freene...

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CS
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Q: Why is the SPD going with Scholz instead of Pistorius?

user182601Pistorius is much more popular than Scholz and indeed any other candidate (source): FT (2024-11-21): “To put it plainly, we have two possible candidates — one is the most popular politician in Germany, and the other is the least popular politician,” Maximilian Mumm, SPD mayor of the west German...

GIS
GIS
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Q: How to import a shapefile into Google My Maps

BruceI am using Google My Maps to work on a simple agriculture project. I drew polygons and lines for structures, boundaries, etc. and that works great. Now I found some data online that I want to show that comes in a shapefile format which I am not familiar with. From searching I understand it's mean...

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Q: How do I publish my book free as a free to read website with webpages?

StatguyUserI saw a website where authors have published their entire book as a website. How can I also do it? Which website gives such tools? http://www.feat.engineering/

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TeX
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Q: How to put the QED symbol of a proof at the right place inside aligned?

somkiat_tWhen a proof ends with a aligned* environment, putting \qedhere after the last equation would cause the QED symbol to appear near the last equation not in the end of the line. How it appear in the end of the line? \begin{proof} Box completely misplaced: \qquad $\begin{aligned}[t] a&=b \\ a&=b.\qe...

ELL
ELL
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Q: What does "cause for reflection" mean?

Julian JacksonIn a duel, the cheerful singing cowboy Buster Scruggs tries to shoot Curly Joe's brother by using a mirror's reflection: Buster Scruggs: His heart would be on the left, but in the mirror it'd be on the right. Of course, we is both facing the same way and the gun is upside down, so...Yeah, best n...

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Q: Possible bug in RegionDistance when used with Rotate and Translate

A. KatoWhile I was trying to solve this problem, I noticed a strange result of RegionDistance. The following is a contour plot of the distance from the tilted square. Is it a bug? Should I avoid using Translate to specify a region? It seems Rotate is OK in this case. I'm using "14.1.0 for Mac OS X ARM (...

AI
AI
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Q: How do high dimensional vectors becoming perpendicular help explain why LLMs perform better at scale?

Rohit PandeyIn this video, it is mentioned at 27:10 that as we go to higher and higher dimensional spaces, the probability of two random vectors being orthogonal goes to $1$. And also that this might explain why large language models perform well only at scale. How does the orthogonality fact help large lang...

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Q: Why did Henry VIII execute Margaret de la Pole?

TheHonRoseMargaret de la Pole was, arguably, a Yorkist claimant to the English throne, but never appears to have pressed her claim. Her sons were, certainly, troublesome to Henry, particularly after his break with Rome,but I have never understood why Henry felt it necessary to execute Margaret. She was a w...

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Q: What is the probability that there will be at least one empty box?

cheesewizConsider four boxes, numbered $1$ to $4$. We throw four balls in the boxes in such a way that each ball ends up in any particular box with probability $1/4$, and in such a way that different balls are thrown independently. What is the probability that there will be at least one empty box? My meth...

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Q: Understanding Linux 'top' command: Memory vs Swap display format confusion

Just a learnerDoes the "avail Mem" value actually relate to physical memory rather than swap, despite being displayed on the swap line? I noticed there's a period at the end of the "swap used" column.

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Q: Can I pretend that Spearman's = Pearson's correlation coefficients for meta analysis?

helplessstudent147How legitimate it is to pretend that Spearman correlations are Pearson correlations? I am currently working on a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the correlation of Test A with Test B (gold standard). My meta-analysis involves pooling correlation coefficients from various studies, bu...

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Q: Suggestion for catching a flight with short layover in Amsterdam

Vohra SinghI am an Indian citizen (Indian Passport) who is travelling Business class from Mumbai, India to New York, US with a stopover in Amsterdam, Netherlands My flight is DL9495 2:25 am Mumbai to 7:45 am Amsterdam and then DL0047 8:55 am Amsterdam to 11:35 am New York. It’s a very short layover, moreove...

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Q: Integration using ImplicitRegion[] or the tranditional form?

so_sureI performed the integration using ImplicitRegion[] with the bounds {w1, 0, 1} and {w2, w1^(1/(3/2 - x)), 1}, as well as the straightforward form {w1, 0, 1}, {w2, w1^(1/(3/2 - x)), 1}. However, the two approaches yield different results. Could you help clarify why this happens and which result is ...

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Q: Meaning of *て*いませんか?

BigRigzI know this kind of sounds useless, but the ませんか grammar does not sound correct here. I was watching this podcast, and at 1:13, she tells the audience, 風邪をひいていませんか。 This...sounds weird. She says "the temp change is rather big, but will/have you caught a cold?," at least I think. But this is usi...

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Q: Extract a RAR file while automatically truncating long filenames

rerI have a lot of rar archives, and some of them contain files whose names are too long for the filesystem. When attempting to extract them using unrar x, I will get the error: Cannot create [extremely long filename].ext File name too long Using any archive utility currently available for Linux, i...

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Q: Any flight ticket booking option which cheapest in india?

Shyam kumarI need to book flight a ticket to Bangkok for my family, looking for the cheapest platform to book it.

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Q: USA B2 visa implications of a UK visa application

MohdI have had a UK tourist visa refusal 2 yrs ago. I have a 10 year USA B-2 visa and a recent Schengen visa. I wish to apply for UK visa again. However if I get refused will it impact my chances of getting a USA B-2 visa again? I have travelled twice to the USA without overstay.

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Q: Categories in which isomorphism of stalks does not imply isomorphism of sheaves

Zhen LinLet $\mathcal{A}$ be a locally small category with colimits of small filtered diagrams. For the purposes of this question, an $\mathcal{A}$-presheaf on a topological space $X$ is a functor $\Omega (X)^\textrm{op} \to \mathcal{A}$, where $\Omega (X)$ is the poset of open subspaces of $X$, and an $...

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Q: User temp file is 103GB; is it safe to delete?

gchqOn a Surface Book 2 it takes forever to get to the login screen after a reboot with 'waiting for ProfSvc' - I have noticed that the file at Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Temp is 103GB which is quite a chunk for a 1TB drive that has 553GB free! Is it normal for this directory to be so large? 632,...

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Q: How is the satyrical phrase "Vae me, puto concacavi me!" by Seneca the Younger grammatical? Shouldn't it be "Vae mihi, puto me concacavisse!"?

FlatAssemblerSeneca the Younger had a satyrical phrase: "Vae me, puto concacavi me." (Oh dear, I think I have shitted myself.). But it appears to be rather ungrammatical. "Vae" goes with dative, right? As in Vercingetorix'es phrase "Vae victis!". Furthermore, in Classical Latin, you would you use accusative w...

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Q: Top loading an Aircraft vs bottom Loading

SeanWhen an aircraft carries a load, it could be mounted on top: This is the Myasishchev M-4 carrying the Energia rocket fuel tank. This is the American side. But, other times it could be mounted below: My questions is: What determines the reason where to mount the payload Attempt to answer: The i...

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TeX
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Q: Fixing inconsistent dashes and math glyphs in URW Palladio?

user1362373Nitpicking mode activated. When using URW Palladio, the en-dash and em-dash glyphs are inconsistent with the glyph of the hyphen. Similarly, the glyphs for math operators are inconsistent with the glyph of the hyphen. MWE: \documentclass[border=1pt]{standalone} \usepackage{mathpazo} \begin{docum...

TeX
TeX
17:46
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Q: Perfect cross in a \fbox square

Carl AndersonI'm trying to put a perfect cross (just like $\boxtimes$) in the following square \fbox{\texttt{A}}. Any hint? Find below my code: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{xcolor} \begin{document} \fbox{\texttt{A}} \textcolor{blue}{$\boxtimes$} \end{document}

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Q: What is it called when you have a hobby where you're good enough at to impress others but you yourself know you're only beginning?

PandæmoniumLike the title says, I'm looking for the theorem or the effect that makes you feel incompetent compared to a master (let's take playing music for example) but good enough that others that aren't in said hobby find it impressive. I thought of the Dunning-Kruger effect but it's not exactly that.

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Q: Why do some people write text all in lower case?

dixhom the number of friends & family i’ve cut off for voting for kamala harris is zero. https://x.com/TiffanyFong_/status/1860005417063166403 This is obviously grammatically wrong. This people who do this seem to be young native speakers of English, as in this case. Is this a sort of slang-ish usage?

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Q: Can I use integrated cable stop from clamp-on downtube shifter in thumb shifter conversion?

MogI have an old Raleigh steel frame that I'm converting from clamp-on downtube shifters to thumb shifters. Trying to work out cable stops, as no braze ons to bolt any converters on to. The existing clamp-on shifters have an integral cable stop, so wondering if I can just use this as the cable stop ...

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Q: Was the statement that Jesus ‘received sinners’ stated invidiously, meaning the people saying it could not consider themselves to be ‘sinners’?

AnneJesus is reported as mixing with sinners and eating with them in Luke 15:2. The RSV and KJV say this was “murmured”, which I take to show that those stating this fact were complaining, or – worse – sneering. This question wants to explore (1) how persons who knew themselves to be sinners would ha...

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Q: Topology for the complex numbers endowed with different notions of convergence

Santiago Pabst MeschiniI was wondering what does the topology of the complex numbers look like if it is endowed with different notions of convergence. My question came to follow from the idea of Cesáro mean convergence, Abel summability and Ramanujan summation. What I mean with that is the following: First, say that a...

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Q: How to prove SVD theorem?

YchenI am reading a proof of the SVD theorem. But there are two parts of it that I don't understand. Here is part of the book: Proof. The matrix $A^{\mathrm{T}} A$ is symmetric and by Lemma 7.4, its eigenvalues are real and nonnegative. Listing the eigenvalues in descending order we obtain $$ \sigma_...

ELL
ELL
18:53
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Q: What does "the next" refer to?

Julian JacksonAlice discusses Gilbert's unwavering political beliefs and her own lack of certainty with wagon train leader Billy Knapp, who kindly reassures her that this trait is not a defect at all: Billy Knapp: Uncertainty...That is appropriate for matters of this world. Only regarding the next are we vouc...

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Q: Boy who can see EM waves but loses the ability because of a thunderstorm

WillI'm trying to find the name of a short sci-fi story in which a doctor discovers that a young boy can see electromagnetic waves with an extra organ in his head when he informs his father that the radio is broken because he can see the fault and where the electricity stops. The boy has to wear lead...

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Q: Calculate mean/variance of sums of randomly chosen numbers from an array

ShaneLet's say there's an array containing float numbers, and it's size is n. Now m numbers will be chosen out of this array, and these m numbers' sum will generate a new number. So all these possible combinations of such m numbers' sum will form a new array, and I need to calculate mean/variance of t...

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Q: Power series of the reciprocal of f defined as a power series

Giovanni RussoDefined f(x) as a power series: Sum[a_n*x^n, {n, 0, Infinity}] there is a function that calculates the power series of 1/f(x) like InverseSeries for the inverse?

CS
CS
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Q: Where in the Gospels does Jesus explain what 'The Truth' is?

Kadalikatt Joseph SibichanWe read in Jn 14:5-6( KJV): Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Elsewhere, Jesus explains what he means by calling himself 'The Way' and 'T...

TeX
TeX
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Q: Absolute positioning of TikZ drawing at edge of page

Dan ConnorsI am trying to position a simple filled polygon in the south west corner of the page. I compile my file multiple times, as required when using the remember capability of TikZ and my figure is not exactly in the lower left corner. It's about 1mm above the bottom of the page and 1mm to the right ...

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Q: How to find NVMe version on the motherboard?

LeconasI have tried searching in Sysinfo of Windows, no NVMe version found. Using HWiNFO64 and CPUID CPU-Z to read hardware info, no NVMe version found. CrystalDiskInfo shows NVMe version but it's for the SSD not motherboard. Looked up motherboard manual but the manual of motherboard RPL Compass_RTX is ...

HSM
HSM
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Q: Does the earliest known use of an "average" occur after the invention of calculus?

papakiWhen making a broader point about how humans find it difficult to think in statistical and probabilistic terms, Neil deGrasse Tyson said: Do you realize the first time anyone took an average of numbers, and figured out that that was a good idea, was after calculus had been invented! A previous ...

TeX
TeX
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Q: Draw a 3D plot of beams of an antenna using Pgfplots or any other package

MIchaelNilanHi can someone help me with the 3D plot of the following 2D plot The latex code for this is: \begin{tikzpicture} % First beam (3D effect with fading color) \draw[thick, color=blue, line width=1.2pt] plot[variable=\t,domain=0:360,smooth,samples=51] ({180 + 10*sin(\t)}:{2*(sin(\t/...

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CS
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Q: Is the use of an optocoupler necessary for a relay circuit?

electroGiven that relays inherently provide isolation and separate the control circuit from the power circuit, why is an optocoupler placed in the control circuit section of relays in industrial boards?

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Q: Do switches try to keep track of Ethernet group membership?

IzzoI'm trying to better understand ethernet multicast support. My current understanding is that the I/G bit in the destination MAC address indicates whether the target recipient is an individual address or a group address. For individual addresses, the switch will attempt to forward the frame onto t...

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Q: How can I tell if commercial packaging is suitable for Sous Vide cooking?

GreybeardLooking at the Serious Eats website, J. Kenji López-Alt cooks a gammon (ham) joint sous vide in the original packaging. As vacuum sealed produce in the UK doesn't have any certification mark as to the type of plastic (Unlike food containers etc.), how can I tell if I can safely repeat this proces...

TeX
TeX
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Q: How to add a subscript to lcm

KVanatI would like to write lcm (the lowest common multiple) with subscripted text as is done in this paper: 'On Chebyshev-Type Inequalities for Primes' by M. Nair. I also want to know how to write the less than or equal to as it is typeset here rather than using \leq.

CS
CS
22:43
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Q: Future inextendible curve

Talha AhmedThe definition of future inextendible curve is as follows: A causal curve $\gamma$ is called future inextendible if it is impossible to find an event p $\in \mathcal{M}$ such that for all $U \subset \mathcal{M}$, $U$ neighborhood of p, there exists a $t'$ such that $\gamma(t) \in U$ for all $t>t'...

CS
CS
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Q: Did Eve have a girl child or girl children before the birth of Cain?

Kadalikatt Joseph SibichanWe see how Eve is cursed for her disobedience, in Gen 3:16( NIV): He told the woman,“I’ll greatly increase the pain of your labor during childbirth. It will be painful for you to bear children, Going further to Gen 4:1, we read : Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and...

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Q: Can someone tell me what a typical day in eternal life will look like?

Candid MoeI'm old atheist and I'm going to die soon. I never enjoyed life, not then, not now, and I happy to die and disappear. A missionary told me that if I accept Jesus, I will have eternal life, but was unable to explain me what that exactly entails. I read the New Testament and found it lacking in det...

ELL
ELL
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Q: Can we use the simple present tense to express a habit that starts just about 24 hours or less ago?

TomWe often use the simple present tense for repeated events that starts quite awhile ago. Say a graduate had his first job a month ago after graduating from university and started to go to work then. Now, he can say "I go to work every day". Say, yesterday afternoon Lana was ok but when went to bat...

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Q: Speaker repair to centres thereof

TimI have a couple of nice 12" speakers, nice, except their centres are imploded, probably by someone pushing them in. Is there a way to restore them to their former glory, or, in fact, will it make no difference at all, whether the centres are 'dimpled' as in have been pushed in from their normal c...

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Q: Scandinavian film, 1980s, possibly called Royal Toilet?

Tom HarringtonI'm trying to remember a movie or TV show that PBS ran sometime in the early to mid 1980s. I recall it being called something like "Royal Toilet", but web searching suggests I'm mistaken. This was a Scandinavian film. At the time I thought it was from Sweden, but someone told me it was from Denma...

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Q: Quantum phase estimation algorithm on a superposition of eigenstates

Daniele CuomoGiven a Hamiltonian $H$ and a state $|\psi\rangle = c_1|E_0\rangle + c_2|E_1\rangle + \cdots$, with $|E_i\rangle$ being an eigenstate of $H$. Can I use the QPE algorithm for $U|\psi\rangle= e^{-iHt}|\psi\rangle$ to estimate a random eigenvalue of $H$? Or rather, the bits of information may come f...

RPG
RPG
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Q: How to handle players campaign, inside another player?

Alexis MercadoI'm creating a custom campaign to play with my brothers, where they will be people trapped inside a monster. They will travel across different sections of his body, looking for a way of exit. The monster will be controlled by other player, who will have his own adventure. The problem comes from t...

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Q: Looking for a letter from H. P. Lovecraft to R. E. Howard

FabriceI'm looking for a letter from H.P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard. This letter was sent on 12 Sept 1931 and is referred to as MF1.210 in the book A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, edited by Joshi, Schultz and Burke in 2009 (Hippocampus Press). Unfortunately I ...

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Q: Set Position Node

Marco Grecousing a simple plane (2x2) I would like to set the position of point at edge position but the result is a plane 1x1 and not the same plane rotated of 90 degree . May be I do not know the use of set position node and capture attribute node.

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Q: Using AI Assistance for Drafting Recommendation Letters: Risks and Considerations

bc aI am applying for a PhD program and have reached out to three professors to write recommendation letters for me. Since they are quite busy, they have asked me to draft the letters myself. Can I use ChatGPT to help me write them? Would this result in the admission committee identifying AI involvem...

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Q: Mind the gap between……

yuzuoI am new to creating puzzles, and this is the first puzzle I've designed for PSE! After completing these mini crosswords, you can extract a word from them.The answer consists of a five-letter word.


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