i read a book a few years ago. it was a science fiction story where an alien society came to earth and invited people to visit other civilizations the aliens had encountered to explain some harm the aliens had done. They send out pairs and small groups of volunteers to these other planets. The so...

I'm using the Minna No Nihongo book, and there's this conversation in lecture 4 that i cant seem to translate. The conversation is from a customer to a staff member of the Yamato art museum, the line goes like "Excuse me, what are your opening hours?" I'm really new to the Japanese language, it's...

Following this answer, if the courts find the EO limiting birthright citizenship to be constitutional - what would prevent a future administration from rescinding it and recognizing all the people affected as citizens?

Take, for example, the controversial topic of homosexuality. Homosexuality aligns with the laws of nature, as it occurs naturally in various species (homosexual behavior in animals) and does not violate any physical laws—or at least, to my knowledge, no instance of homosexual behavior has been sh...

Psalms 95:6: O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. (KJV) The Hebrew words here translated as "worship", "bow down", and "kneel" are: שָׁחָה šāḥâ — to bow down, prostrate oneself. כָּרַע kāraʿ— to bow or kneel. בָּרַךְ bāraḵ — to kneel or bless. The English

A student made this dialogue: A: Jane takes dancing classes. B: I also love dancing. Does 'I also love dancing.' here mean 'Like Jane, I love dancing.'? Is 'also' used idiomatically in this context? I am a bit confused because in the following context 'also' refers to the verb rather than to th...

I observed that the line \setbeamercolor{itemize item}{fg=green} in \documentclass{beamer} \def\X{a} \ExplSyntaxOn \str_case_e:nnF{\X}{ {a}{ \setbeamercolor{structure}{fg=red} \setbeamercolor{itemize item}{fg=green} }{b}{ \setbeamercolor{structure}{fg=green} ...

I want to make different versions of the same text but only changing some numbers, the objective is making slightly different versions of the same exam. I have been doing it by copying and pasting the text and then manually changing the numbers I want changed: \documentclass{article} \begin{docum...

When a new blower box was installed in my attic, they ran the condensate line into a vent pipe from the bathroom instead of routing it through the wall to the outside. Is this OK to do?

1 Corinthians 2:11 For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Does the Father have the Holy Spirit within him, and if he does, is it his very own spirit or a separate divine person within him? ...

The wiki says: In the epic Mahabharata, Jambavan is introduced as Jambavati's father. The Bhagavata Purana and the Harivamsa calls him the king of bears. Jambavan is a major character in epic Ramayana. My question is how can Jambavan appear in Mahabharata (a different time period) unless he is...

I had windows installed recently, and when winter came I realized that they didn't fully seal around windows in hard-to-see places. Blue photo is outdoors and the white/pink photo is indoors. I can see inside the house wall through both gaps and can feel the cold air coming through. What product ...

There is an API class QgsAbstractGeometry and method swapXy() which appears to be a function to transpose the x, and y coordinates within a geometry. https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/core/QgsAbstractGeometry.html#qgis.core.QgsAbstractGeometry.swapXy I just can't work out how to access it from Pytho...

I come from a physics and mathematics background, and have no formal training in economics outside of having read the occasional research paper which bridges the economics/pure mathematics divide. I have a strong interest in philosophy, and recently began reading the works of Karl Marx, starting ...

On his last day in office Biden issued a bunch of pardons to his family (on top of Hunter whom he had pardoned previously), Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and the Congresspersons who ran the J-6 investigation (on the Congressional side, of course). Interestingly that came with a statement that:...

I am trying to perform a dual bootstrapping for the Chilean curves in order to generate the Camara curves for Compound Index Swap and Cross CC Basis Swap, collateralized. In this case, for the cbas sofr-camara curve, I have two floating legs: one projects and discounts to SOFR, and the other proj...

Let $M$ be a connected, simply-connected, non-contractible manifold of dimension $n$. Note that I am not assuming that $M$ is closed. I've recently been wondering whether there are any such $M$ which are $K(G, m)$'s for suitable abelian groups $G$ and $m \geq 2$. This has turned out more difficul...

According to Wikipedia On January 19, 2025, Peltier's sentence was commuted to indefinite house arrest by President Joe Biden shortly before he left office. He is scheduled to be released from prison on February 18, 2025. If Peltier has his sentence commuted on Jan 19, 2025, how can the prison "...

In the central limit theorem we have N independent identically distributed (IID) random variables. I just need a basic confirmation here. I think in the CLT the IID means collective/mutual independence and not just pairwise independence. Is that indeed so? In other words, if the N random vars are...

I am trying to create automated routines to switch between light and dark modes for my desktop as described here. The only problem is, I don't know which gsettings commands correspond to the various settings that I wish to change. The settings that I want to change are: Switch my GNOME terminal ...

I am a ninth-grader chemistry student and I was intrigued by the fact that if the concentration is changed the product changes even if the reactants are the same. For example: $$\ce{C + O2 -> CO2}$$ Is the reaction when oxygen is in a somewhat correct concentration but if the concentration is cha...

In this post I'd like to focus on the standalone interrogative utterances 「なに？」, sometimes rendered as 「なにー？！？！」in exaggerated speech, and 「なにが？」. I'm aware of several previous discussions on this site about the pitch accent of なんの and 何にも. In 標準語 なに goes down 頭高 style while in 関西弁 it goes なに￣. H...

I live in Europe (Italy) and our apartment is in an old building where the electric box has not been changed since the building's construction (in the 60s). Therefore, there is no grounding and no surge protector. Recently, I got a mild electric shock when I was taking wet clothes out of my washi...

I am interested in learning about how to accomplish the following: Suppose I have monthly data for two variables $X_t$ and $Y_t$. I am interested in making an ARIMAX model for $Y_t$ that depends on older versions of $Y_t$ and $X_t$. I can write the basic ARIMAX model like this: $$ y_t = c + \phi...

Could light emitted from Earth theoretically orbit a black hole’s photon sphere and return, allowing us to observe Earth’s past? If so, what fraction of photons would survive this trajectory instead of being captured or scattered? Would the reflected light (e.g., after a ~2,000-year round trip to...

The effect of this feat comes from Complete Arcane is described as below. When you cast an evocation spell that deals energy damage (acid, cold, fire, electricity, or sonic), you can choose for 10 points of energy damage dealt by the spell to become untyped damage to which energy resistance and ...

I am struggling with a couple slightly strange conflicting conventions in Verilog. I have written my own parser, but I am uncertain how to resolve a few things. Looking at the Verilog Spec, I am still quite confused. The statement a && b could be parsed as either: Logical AND of a and b (canonic...

I know the pistol grip tool1 is very versatile and can be used for drilling, to drive screws or to tighten and loosen nuts depending on what bit or socket it is has attached at the moment. It can even be programmed from the ISS or from Huston. Are there any other notable tools used in EVAs? Are a...

I want to create a series of winter season image collections from Sentinel 2. The script works for a hard-coded year (first part of script), but I don't know how to make it work through a list of years (second part of script). My error is: ImageCollection (Error) Date: Bad date/time '2019.0-11-1...

My long-term backups are written to M-Disc platters (100GB BD-R) through a USB-attached BD-RW drive. This works well, but I would like to be able to check if there is a blank disc inserted in the drive at the start of my backup scripts. How do I do that? command line? ioctl system call? And how ...

I am currently working with a university team in designing a cubesat. I would like to propose to the team that we design a satellite that is able to take pictures of other satellites orbiting nearby. I am scouring the internet for some answers to determine if this has potential and would like to ...

I know that CS pins should be pulled high when not in use and low when the device is in use, and that this is logic can be denoted by an 'n' on the pin name but I am slightly confused. I am writing to an SD card with SPI, and its the only component on the bus so i am planning on permanently pulli...

The film was available in RedBox on DVD and I'm 90% it was made between 2009-2012. There was a family in a large house or warehouse being slowly terrorized by the tall, white/blue, bald humanoid with glowing white eyes. They didn't chase, they ambled towards the protagonists. I remember enjoying ...

I'm currently in the process of migrating my primary phone setup from Android to iOS on a iPhone 16 Pro. I previously used a Oneplus 9T, and both the phone specific file manager and the Google file manager have a way to password-protect files. I don't see an obvious option on the Files app to do ...

Suppose we have a metal wire in it's superconducting state with zero resistance. A current persists despite no external electric field applied: $\vec{E}=0, \vec{j}\neq 0$. Then $\nabla\times\vec{B}=\mu_o\vec{j}$. Meissner effect states $LHS=0$, but superconductivity permits $RHS\neq 0$. $\implies...

I have figures I want to plot, and I want the figures to be the same size despite having different ranges for the y-axis. Is it possible to automatically generate figures that are the same size, instead of manually resizing each one? I've found some similar issues but none of the solutions worked...

I was doing a problem set question that went like so Let $f:(0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$ be differentiable. Prove that if $\lim_{x\to\infty}f'(x)=1$, then $\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)=\infty$. It makes intuitive sense, and what it reminded me of is that if the terms of a series tends to a finite, positiv...

Words like "want" and "desire" imply a certain kind of feeling, but they're often understood to also imply some degree of willingness or even intent to act upon such feelings. For example, the sentence "I want to quit my job." would likely be understood to mean that I actually intend to quit, eit...

I'm trying to learn a little bit of probability and statistics for finance from Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists, ninth edition, by Walpole et al. I have a strong math background in topology, measure theory, and the like -- so that I'm struggling with understanding the first ex...

The following identity for $a,b\in F$ for some field $F$ has many applications: $$ab=\frac{1}{4}((a+b)^2-(a-b)^2).$$ For example, one can use this identity as a "trick" in showing that the product of two differentiable functions is differentiable, it can be used to show that the product of two Ri...

I'm trying to book travel to Amsterdam from London by train (Eurostar). I've never travelled cross country via train before, but I've found a fare that has a 13 minute window to change platforms. I think this is a good ticket to buy, but I'm not sure if 13 minutes is enough time to change platfo...

Reading the TR25, I discovered Invisible Operators. In particular, at pag. 23 you can read In mathematics some operators or punctuation are often implied, but not displayed. This poses few problems to the human reader, as the meaning is usually clear from context. However, machine interpretation...

I have created a database where one of the fields of a table is defined as enum('M', 'B'). The tool that I am using, converts it to a variant type. I would like to override it and treat it like a character. So the question is, is it stored as a character in the database?

Given t1 = NestList[{2 #, (# - 1)/3} &, 4, 5] I want to get rid of fractions and empty sets. For fractions the following works fine: t2 = DeleteCases[t1, _Rational , Infinity] But then when I want to get rid of empty sets t3 = DeleteCases[t2,{}, Infinity] not all {} disappear. Why? And how to...

Suppose the width is $2L$, then the ground sate wavefunction within the well $$\psi(x)=\sqrt{\frac{1}{L}}\cos\frac{\pi x}{2L}$$ then the momentum representation$$\varphi(k)=\sqrt{\frac{1}{2\pi L}}\int^{L}_{-L}\cos\frac{\pi x}{2L}e^{-ikx}\,dx=\sqrt{\frac{1}{2\pi L}}\frac {4 L\pi\cos (kL)} {-4 k^2 ...

In AdventureWorks2016 when I execute the following query: USE AdventureWorks2016 BEGIN TRAN; SELECT Sales.SalesOrderHeader.SalesOrderID FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader JOIN Sales.Customer ON Sales.SalesOrderHeader.CustomerID = Sales.Customer.CustomerID OPTION (RECOMPILE, QUERYTRA...

Previous owners had plastic sheets glued to tiles over bathtub. A cheap eyesore of a bandaid to what I assume are damaged tiles. I ripped off 1 plastic sheet to reveal tiles marred by streaks of glue. Don't know what it is. Mineral spirits didn't work. Scraping with putty knife painfully slow. Gu...

Recently came across an old SFBC hardback "A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born." It was such a ridiculously quick read (ludicrous speed more appropriate here?), wondered why I'd never gone through the rest of the stories. Unless there's a strong counter-argument, rather than publication order I usually...

From google's coursera course, I learned that the logical zero can be represented as the figure: I also read that the logical zero can be prepared by initializing each physical qubit to state 0. My question is how to obtain the logical zero in the figure? Why is it only related to a, b, c, d but...

Many messages, some unintended artifacts, but only one solution.

Obstruction theory is an intuitive yet powerful method in homotopy theory. It helps study the space of maps (more generally, sections of bundles) inductively on skeletons. For example, it provides a geometric proof of that $K(G,n)$ classifies cohomology [1]. I'd like to learn the full theory, but...

I'm trying a very simple bridge edge loop, cube + cone. If the two objects are not aligned I have a starnge connection and there is no way to fix it. Increasing the number of edges doesn't help. I'm not able how to fix this simple bridge..

I received a Notification: "USB Accessories Disabled - Unplug the accessory using too much power to re-enable USB devices." There are several questions about this, but none of them seem to answer my question, which is: "How do I find out which accessory is using too much power?" I haven't changed...

Since Truffle and Ganache were sunset last year, I’m looking for alternatives for local blockchain development. Specifically, what tools or frameworks are recommended for testing DApps on newer versions of the EVM or recent hard forks? Any insights into setting up a local development environment ...

Here in this question, I asked about the 'almost no bubble formation' on a water surface when the flow of water from the tap is streamline. But recently what I noticed was that when the flow is turbulent we get a lot of bubbles and they all rush outwards to the edge of the container but then as I...

Sorry if this is a newbie question. By ear I am simply not able to determine the time signature of the Balatro soundtrack. I've read comments online that it is in 7/4 time. Can someone guide me how this is counted? The beat I can surmise is basically - dunk-dunk-dunk-dunk (4 equal beats) dunnnk-d...

After several Instagram reels I've now seen a more easily linkable Mashed post making the same claim: With how the Executive Order was worded, it technically classifies everyone as female because that's what everyone is at conception because any (definitely male) sex-charasteristics only develop...

Context (not integral to the question) - I have an issue where MS Teams crashes very often. Having changed it a few times as Teams changes, my current solution is a cron job (via WSL) to start it if it is not running: # every 10 minutes, check if any "teams" process is alive, and if not, start "n...

This is the resolut I got : this is the desired result : any suggestion what shape should the star have to make the branches thinner

A citation of Reijnders in say the year 1995 using bibtex with alphabetic style would return [Rei95], but the ij in this (Dutch) name is really a ligature ij, thus a single letter. So a proper citation should be, I believe, either [Reij95] or [Reij95]. I believe using these ligatures is a bit frown...

Do you know of any result that states distributional properties about the number of prime factors of "interesting" (non-trivial) subsets of the integers? For instance, I would be interested in knowing the distribution of the number of prime factors for the following sets. Mersenne numbers: $M:=\...

After re-installing a Linux machine, I inadvertently ran wipefs -a on the installer pendrive: $ wipefs -a /dev/sd? /dev/sda: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00010040 (btrfs): 5f 42 48 52 66 53 5f 4d /dev/sdb: 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00010040 (btrfs): 5f 42 48 52 66 53 5f 4d ... /dev/sdw: ...

The Jacobian Conjecture on polynomial self-maps of $\mathbb C^n$ (or more general field of characteristic $0$) is open even in the case $n=2$. Some special cases are known such as the case of quadratic polynomials. Is the statement of the Jacobian conjecture known to be equivalent to a purely ar...

For example, I was banned on web platform X (using it on my iPhone true app) and I did the following: On my iPhone I change my SIM card, Change my IP (wifi and LTE), change my email, erase phone and also make new apple account. Than I install app again and try to register on same platform X. Afte...

I am designing an island city a few days away from larger landmasses that is a major center for trade. I'm wondering if it is possible to sustain a population of, say, 25,000 in the early age of sail such a location solely off of fish and imports?

I want to understand the norm of the community. I have to ask couple of confusions in the paper as well as point out a counter example for one of the lemmas. Shall I write to all the authors and then wait for reply from one of them? Or write to one - remind them, remind them again then move to ne...

In the example underneath all the numbering of section, subsection and subsubsection is in the margin, but I'd like the numbering to be aligned on the left (like a virtual vertical line, as shown with the blue line in the picture underneath). I could play with the \hskip values, but that doesn't ...

When I tried to preview the Subdivision Surface modifier at level 1, some corners and gaps were deformed. (screenshot 1 and 2) Then I went in to see what was wrong with the mesh and saw that some parts of the mesh are not merged. (screenshot 3) What would be the correct way to merge these edges? ...

I am not looking for feedback on the algorithm itself, but rather on the implementation; things like modern C++20 writing, style, proper ways to test and handle the validity of input (should I be using assert() here or something else if this is to be part of a library), or proper ways to test the...

Combine waves generated with float curve node to create new wave using geometry nodes. I'm trying to combine two "signals" generated using the float curve node and combine them to generate a third to show what happens when the second wave is phase shifted in the x direction. However when I shift ...

I'm making a horror creature concept and I've been trying to figure out how to properly write the name Dream Devourer in Latin. All the sources I've seen on Google give me different answers and I don't know enough yet to trust my judgment. The context to hopefully help is. Dreams in this world ha...

There are a couple of overlapping Q, but with a different focus. We have; Matthew 27:34 (and John 19:17, Mark 15:22) 33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). NIV: Revelation 11:8 - Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figurat...

I am trying to identify the connector type shown in this picture: It is used by this Shelly accessory: https://www.shelly.com/products/shelly-50a-current-transf-pro-em-50?_pos=2&_psq=50A&_ss=e&_v=1.0

When we sense something bad is happening to someone or something, then it is revealed that something bad did actually happen, we would literally say, in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, "aha, my heart uncovered this for me" (which sounds peculiar in English, yes). As in, my heart revealed to me all this tim...

I have $N$ envelopes each containing a note with a name on. Some names appear on more than one note. There are a total of $X$ distinct names. To figure out what $X$ is, I open $n$ envelopes and find $x$ distinct names. What estimator of $X$ should I use? Ideally, I would like to have an estimate ...

I have worked in 2-3 companies so far. Although, as of now, I have had less stress, but, in any team, there is at least 1 team member, whom I dont like. In my first one - the team lead. He used to make unnecessary demands, last minute changes, and so on. He was assigned a new project, after I in...

I received a push notification from CNN as below. I want to know what makes it different if we simply say "before the trial started". Prince Harry settled his yearslong legal battles against Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group before the trial was due to start.

When should expl3 programmers define user-level document commands using \NewDocumentCommand,\NewExpandableDocumntCommand, and friends versus using \cs_new_protected:Npn \cs_new:Npn, or \cs_new_eq:NN? Currently, I always use \NewDocumentCommand, \NewExpandableDocumntCommand, and friends, but I hav...

I have the system eq1=a+b+c+d+e+f==0; eq2=a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2+e^2+f^2==6k^2 (1-m+m^2); eq3=a^3+b^3+c^3+d^3+e^3+f^3==6k^3(m+1)(m-1/2)(m-2); I need to find a,b,c,d,e,f for generic k,m. I know a possible solution is a==k(2m-1); b==k(2-m); c==k(-1-m); d==0; e==0; f==0; Or any permutation thereof. There...

Is Uoroanimarum the correct translation of "To eat souls."? Granted, I'd prefer something more poetic or romantic of a sentence, but I've just started learning. Also, would it be Uoro Animarum or Uoroanimarum?

Scheduling 10 Teams Across 8 Stations in 8 Rounds for a Competitive Telematch Hi everyone, I’m organizing a university telematch event and need help creating a schedule. The event involves 10 teams and 8 game stations, and we’re planning to divide the event into 8 rounds. During each round, teams...

If i am not mistaken, Tenzen Gyatzo HHDL is translated by Tupten Jinpa in quoting ‘another Amado Master’ as stating “Emptiness does not mean the absence of functionality.”. Meaning that although the phenomenon we experience in our ordinary human existence do not have inherent existence, but evolv...

I know that IND-CCA2 means that indistinguishability under adaptive chosen ciphertext attack. Further, CCA2 means security against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack. Is there any relation between IND-CCA2 and CCA2 security notions? My View: IND-CCA2 involves CCA2 as adversary can query for any nu...

Here's some context from the movie What Dreams May Come (1998): Annie: The eight pieces from Germany never arrived. I've gotta choose replacements the night before the opening, and get them down here, and re-hang them, and re-light them and I... Chris: Okay. Focus, okay? Focus. Annie: It's our d...

I am using underbrace and trying to align an equation set to the left, but having troubles. I tried defining the document to be fleqn, which didn't help, and neither did flalign*. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fullpage,amsmath} \begin{document} \begin{flalign*} t\left(x,y\right) &\leq ...

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; - John 14:16 kjv In this verse both Father and Comforter are accusative, singular, masculine nouns. Also, "he shall give" and "he may abide" are both active, indicative, 3rd person, singul...

I’m currently conducting a bibliometric study on the research productivity of Africa in a certain medical field. My goal is to analyze the highest-cited articles authored by African researchers, but I’ve run into a bit of a challenge. When I search databases like PubMed or Web of Science, the res...

While revisiting some old notes on algorithms, I came across a code snippet illustrating the sorting of a vector using quicksort. I’m dissatisfied with how the nodes are defined relative to each other, requiring some nodes to be repeated to maintain references. Additionally, I had to draw them in...