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Q: +1 -1 + 2 stability issue in opamps

user451625There is a term which I am confused with LT1028 is -1 stable while LT1128 is +1 stable. At first I thought that -1 stable means that the opamp is stable when we have negative feedback and +1 stable is positive feedback, but then I was told that it's wrong that if my gain is 2 or 50, then it's not...

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Q: "Plentiful and rare" in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"

manu muraleedharanIn A Christmas Carol, Dickens describes a grocery shop: The Grocers’! oh, the Grocers’! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted ...

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Q: Terminology: homogeneous holonomy group

Ivo TerekFor a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, one can consider the holonomy group and the restricted holonomy group of its Levi-Civita connection. I am encountering several papers from around the 1950s talking about the "homogeneous holonomy group" and the "restricted homogeneous holonomy group". I have no i...

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Q: A cyclic group of prime order

VivianIs a cyclic group of prime order always a multiplicative group? Can you give an example of a cyclic group with prime order?

DIY
DIY
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Q: How can I transition between legacy stair skirting and modern baseboard trim?

Ex0rI am doing some remodeling on my home, which was built in or around the 40s and has the old trim style around the house and plaster and lath. As I remodel, am replacing broken walls of plaster with drywall and retrimming using newer trim styles as the older trim style cannot be located anymore (m...

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Q: Instrumental melodies and vocal melodies

user116369I've been learning music theory and composing. When I'm learning songs on the piano (from a youtube tutorial) the melody always sounds different from the original song. I don't understand if there's a difference between the instrumentals and the vocals. when composing a song is the instrumental m...

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Q: How to center subscripts and superscripts within a certain width?

bp2017I need to make subscript and superscript i's to align with subscript and superscript n's. Initially, n is wider than i: \(a_{i}x^{i}\) is \(a_{n}x^{n}\) is A failed attempt at correcting the width of i: \newcommand*{\zni}{\makebox[\widthof{\(n\)}]{\(i\)}} \(a_{\zni}x^{\zni}\) is \(a_{n}x^{n}\) i...

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Q: How does kinetic energy work?

Lamia AhmadHi i was learning about work and energy in my high shcool From what i understood It is said that energy possesed by a body is the capacity of the body to do work And work is done on the object when it force displaces the object And when an object posses energy , it has a capacity to work thus it...

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Q: Is there a polite way to correct those who omit my doctor title in a professional setting?

Shay McGuireI have my doctoral degree in clinical psychology and I work as a clinical health psychologist in a smaller healthcare system. I don't require anyone to use the term "doctor" for me except patients, to keep good boundaries. Not staff, not other doctors, etc. However, I am only one of two psycholog...

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Q: How to adjust ratio for subfigures?

user16401309I have a problem where i have two tikzpicture as subfigures. But they are sizes completely different. What am i doing wrong here? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{adjustbox} \usepackage{caption} \usepackage{subcaption} % For subfigure environment \begin{document} \begin{f...

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Q: Attempt to solve extended Monty Hall (7 doors) problem with Bayes Theorem

M.B.This is the same as the original Monty Hall problem except that we have 7 doors to choose from , after which Monty reveals 3 goat doors. What is the probability that the car is behind one of the other 3 doors? From my intuition of how this problem works , I can tell it is $\frac{6}{7}$, hence eac...

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Q: How to add multiple Windows 11 users that have umlauts (Ä, Ö, Å, etc.) in them into groups that have umlauts in them via PS1 PowerShell script?

Manu JärvinenHow to add multiple Windows 11 users that have umlauts (Ä, Ö, Å, etc.) in them into groups that have umlauts in them via PS1 PowerShell script?

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Q: Do I need to tell my prospective PI that I'm currently enrolled in a PhD

Anonymous I am currently 4 months into a PhD but from the first meeting with supervisor and lab members, I have realised that this is not for me. The PI doesn't have expertise in my field and expects you to be very independent and super intelligent (the PI is super intelligent themself). Now I have an offe...

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Q: QGIS Issue with overlay_intersects and buffer in QGIS: Incorrect count of features

GieneI have a 'POINT' layer named export_bdd with a field called denom. Many of the points overlap because they are saved at the same coordinates. For each record where denom = 'Teuc pseu', I want to search within a 10-meter buffer zone for the number of entities where denom = 'Teuc pseu'. To do this,...

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Q: Color Selector Combobox Design in C#

JimmyHuI am trying to create a color selector combobox which contains all the values from the KnownColor enumeration, and the background color of each item is same as its name. The experimental implementation Initialize combobox The following code (InitializeComboBox function) is for initializing the ...

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Q: Can you avoid thermal equilibrium?

Antonio De AngelisI was wondering whether a closed system consisting of only gases could have an initial state of non-uniform temperature but not evolve to a uniform temperature state, that is from what I understand, a thermal equilibrium. I assume that over time if a closed system has different temperatures it wi...

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Q: Ring of fractions of group rings

RellwThanks for your reading. Let $R$ be a $\mathbb{Z}_p$-algebra as integrally closed domain of characteristic $0$. For a finite abelian group $G$, let $A=R[G]$. How could I porve that the total quotient ring $Q(A)$ is equal to $Q(R)[G]$? Besides, could we prove $Q(R)[G]$ actually is a finite product...

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Q: Evaluate the integral involving logarithm and algebraic function

MathStackexchangeIsMarvellous Evaluate $$I=\int_0^{\infty}\ln^2(x)\cdot\frac{1+x^2}{1+x^4}dx$$ I didn't think much and applied integration by parts. After applying ibp repeatedly, I got stuck at this integral $$\int \frac{\ln^2(x)}{1+\left(\frac{x-\frac{1}{x}}{\sqrt{2}}\right)}dx$$ I wasn't able to find an elementary anti-d...

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Q: Was the Tantive IV filming model bigger than the Star Destroyer model?

distractedIn the famous opening shot of Star Wars, the diminutive Tantive IV is pursued by the much larger Imperial Star Destroyer. I was building the Lego Tantive IV model with my son this evening and mentioned to him that the model had originally been made to be the Millennium Falcon, and as a result, th...

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Q: Implications of Goldbach's prime number conjecture

richard1941Goldbach's unproven conjecture is that every even number is the sum of two odd primes. My conjecture is that every even number is the DIFFERENCE between two odd primes. I have tested this on my iPhone calculator for even numbers up to 180,000,000. My question: can my conjecture be proven? If no...

DIY
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Q: how can i improve my drafty floors (as a renter)

Julia Champagnei'm renting an apartment in a building built in the 1880s. i am on the first floor with a garden level apartment below me. most of the apartment has laminate flooring, but in the bedroom they uncovered the original hardwood. it's very beautiful, but i can feel cold air coming up through the crack...

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Q: Halachic sources for sukkah being an Eruv on shabbos

B''H Bi'ezras -- Boruch HashemB"H I don't have the source, but I heard a story of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneurson (the Rebbe's father) who was doing some kind of shimush/ advanced smicha, I forgot the name of the Rav it was under, and part of it involved answering real halachic questions presented to the Rav. One such question...

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Q: How do I make it such that the divergence in my monotonically increasing function is clear graphically (using pgfplots)?

jrobinsUsing the package pgfplots makes me very happy, the result is just so clean! I have one feat though, and it has to do with plotting my function that is called \mathcal{C}; amonotonically increasing one! It diverges when 0.5 is the pre-image, though, my pgfplots does not display this satisfactoril...

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Q: How does one use the result of NDSolve`ProcessEquations in an association

Craig CarterThis is a minimal working example that illustrates a difficulty I am having with NDSolve`ProcessEquations. The example shows that I cannot use a StateData[...] as a value in an association that can be used. This is an example taken from the documentation NDSolve State Data Doc tmp = First[ NDSo...

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Q: Can you ask interrogative questions with intonation alone?

PanPanI'm on my third week of learning French on my own and have been trying to understand how to ask questions for the past couple days. So far, I understand that to ask a yes/no question, adding a question mark and rising intonation at the end does the trick. Tu vas à Paris ? You can add an "est-c...

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Q: AD623 Instrumentation Amplifier Produces Weird Output When Cooled Down

Fr4nkyI am using an AD623ARMZ instrumentation amplifier supplied with 3V to amplify the signal from a Wheatstone-bridge - based pressure sensor. When testing the system in a thermal chamber with the pressure sensor producing ~zero voltage, the circuit showed some weird behavior: When cooled down below ...

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Q: How do YECs explain hereditary diseases?

Matthew(Note that this is the same Question as How do Catholics explain hereditary diseases?, but asking for a different group's views.) Hereditary diseases include color blindness, Down's syndrome, hemophilia, sickle cell disease, and albinism. Sexually transmitted diseases includes chlamydia, gonorrhe...

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Q: send ctrl-w to nested vim in vim terminal window in gvim?

leeand00I am using gvim on windows, and I have a vimterminal window in which I have an ssh session to Linux, where I have vim open. In the remote vim I have the window split; how do I jump between splits considering that gvim is receiving all the ctrl-w commands I send? Is there a command I can use to le...

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Q: Where is the Blend Mode in 4.0.2?

eeeWhere is the Blend Mode in 4.0.2 in Blender? I also don't see Render Method.

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Q: Proving that the natural numbers are a set in Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory

BlablaThere's just something I don't understand about this and I would like a little explanation. So if we define natural numbers the following way: $$0 = \emptyset $$ $$1 = \{\emptyset \} $$ $$n+1 = \{ 0,1, ..., n \} = n \cup \{ n \}$$ And call a set J inductive if $$\emptyset \in J \wedge \forall x...

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Q: Could Ross Ulbricht be charged by non-US court after pardon?

KvotheCould Ross Ulbricht still be charged by non-US courts for crimes related to Silk road (e.g. for crimes it facilitated outside the US) after Trump's pardon. If so would he be extradited?

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Q: What does "whitewashing" mean in this paragraph from The Picture of Dorian Gray?

m26aCould anyone explain what "whitewashing" mean in this sentence? There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting, though many of them would be the better for a little whitewashing.

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Q: Changing all strcpy to strscpy

JeremyI am learning about Linux kernel development. I have cloned into the stable branch of Linux. I watched a tutorial from Greg KH on youtube that explains you can use the checkpatch.pl script to find code unsatisfactory according to the current standards. I am just a beginner and so I don't have any...

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Q: How can we endure suffering without a clear purpose or divine knowledge, like Jesus had?

ElectronSurfThroughout history, people have faced suffering, sometimes even choosing to endure pain or death for a cause they believe is greater than themselves. Soldiers in war, for instance, may face the possibility of dying because they believe their sacrifice will protect others or bring about some great...

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Q: Undefined consequent in logical implication

ElvisI often see statements such as $$\forall x\in\Bbb R_+.\frac1x>0$$ Now, this notation is defined as $$\forall x\left(x\in\Bbb R_+\implies \frac1x>0\right)$$ Now, consider the case where $x=0$. The antecedent is false, so the implication is true, but is it true even if the consequent is not a meani...

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Q: Why does cardano-serialization-lib put all the change in fees?

wutzebaerHi i'm trying to build a transaction which stakes to a pool with cardano-serialization-lib. Sometimes it uses a utxo like this, wich has about 7ada. This should be enough, fee should only be about 0.2 ada. But instead of returning the ada add_change_if_needed() puts all the change into the fee. T...

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Q: Referring a subfigure or the same set of subfigures comes with "??"

Filippo PavarinoI was writing a paper in LaTeX for my uni project and I stumbled upon a problem I've not been able to solve. I have a figure with 3 subfigures, but when I try to reference them (be it the entire set or one of the subfigures) I get "??" in the text. The reference is there, if I click on it I'm tak...

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Q: Is it appropriate to abbreviate authors’ names in function names, even with proper attribution?

knrumseyI am developing an open-source academic software package that includes several functions from literature. These functions are not always given a name by the original authors and so the convention is to refer to them by the author's name. For example, consider the hypothetical Smythenson-Johansen...

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Q: Why is the permeability of the vacuum exact, and why must the permittivity be determined experimentally?

Pranav ChandrashekarIn G. R. Fowles' 'Introduction to Modern Optics', the author writes: The constant $\mu_0$ is known as the permeability of the vacuum. It has, by definition, the exact value: $$4\pi\times 10^{-7} \ \ \mathrm{Henries \ per \ meter \ (H/m)} \ .$$ The constant $\epsilon_0$ is called the permittivity ...

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Q: Help with a complicated AnyDice ability score calculation

ryangkingI'm working on an ability score generation mechanic inspired by 13th Age, where you roll dice and assign a letter to each result, then determine scores by pairing the results, adding a static modifier, and subtracting the paired results from each other. Here's my take on it: Roll six d6, rerollin...

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Q: Can a Son of Kyuss regenerate a new Son from a severed limb?

RobertFFrom the description in the 1st edition Fiend Folio: Sons of Kyuss regenerate 2 hp per round. This will allow severed limbs to regenerate, and even bring the creature back from 0 hp if it is not destroyed by fire, electricity, or acid. Does this allow a severed limb, for example a hand, to rege...

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Q: Adding zeros to the right or left of a coma / non-coma containing decimal number - how to explain it to secondary students?

niobiumNot sure if it's relevant, but how to answer to a student who asks "wait a minute, you can add zeros to the right of a coma containing decimal number, as well as to the left of a number but you can't add a zero to the right of a number which hasn't got a coma" ? I feel a bit of explaining to this...

 
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Q: Does the pistol grip tool also take drill bits and screwdriver bits or only wrench sockets?

Kasie ReamI've heard of sockets that the pistol grip tool1 takes, but does it also take bits that let it also be used for drilling and/or driving screws? 1 cf. NASA NTRS 19960025621; A computer controlled power tool for the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope

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Q: Wrong Expiration Date on Canadian ETA

Shane ChugGot my Canadian ETA Approved But realized I made a mistake in the passport issuance and expiration date (got the dates mixed up) Will I be denied entry if I use the approved ETA in flying to Canada? Or will it be wiser for me to re-apply instead?

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Q: How to claim compensation for denied boarding from Turkish Airlines?

exactapproximateWhat happened I had planned travel from my starting destination to the target destination with a stop in Istanbul. My target destination required an E-Visa document. The E-Visa document was approved but there was a mistake on my passport number, which had an extra digit on the end. The check in d...

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Q: Ubuntu 24.02 - error installing thunderbird

KoosUnable to install thunderbird $ sudo apt install thunderbird Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed thunderbird 0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 13 not to upgrade. Need to ge...

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Q: How do Analytic Philosophy and Continental Philosophy view the concept of innate knowledge

bahhaarHow do Analytic Philosophy and Continental Philosophy view the concept of innate knowledge? How does both of them believe in it? I know that you can't generalise entire schools of philosophy but what do most of philosophers in those two schools believe about it?

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Q: Are ought-statements simply is-statements in disguise?

AxelConsider the example "rape is wrong" or "you ought not to rape." Depending on the speaker's underlying motivations, we can imagine plausible translations of such statements that are entirely descriptive ("is") rather than prescriptive ("ought"). These could include: I dislike being raped. I disl...

 
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Q: Can I repair the corner of a glass induction cooktop?

quantI have a glass induction cooktop that works fine, but the corner has cracked and fallen off. The corner was crushed into several pieces, so I (perhaps mistakenly) threw the pieces out. Here's a photo of what it looks like now: The missing part forms a roughly equilateral triangle with 3cm sides....

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Q: How to understand nonstandard model of natural numbers

Link LThis question is a follow-up to my previous question here, but with hopefully clearer assumptions. Let $\mathcal{L}$ be the language of set theory and let $\text{nat}(x)$ be the predicate which says that $x$ is a natural number, i.e. $\text{nat}(x) \leftrightarrow x$ is an ordinal and its element...

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Q: What is the meaning of 'kalpa' in Buddhism, and how is it measured?

AlistaireThis is one of my main concerns. What did Buddha actually mean by 'kalpa'? I know Buddha said that the Earth will die by fire, and then all beings will be born in the Abhasara loka. I think this may refer to the sun expanding in the next 5 billion years, meaning the Earth could remain suitable fo...

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Q: Detecting being inside a subscript or superscript in LaTeX3

314159265358979323In LaTeX3 we can use \mode_if_math:TF to detect if we are in mathematics mode. Is there a way to detect if we are inside a superscript or subscript? I know about \mathchoice, and \mathpallette, but my context is that I have a command that is not necessarily intended to be used in maths mode. If t...

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Q: Is a stabilizer considered to be valid even though one transforms one basis state to another?

taketoshi kinoshitaI understand an stabilizer generator $g_i$ doesn't change a state $|\psi\rangle$ when it acts on it: $$g_i|\psi\rangle = +1|\psi\rangle \tag{1}$$ However, when I apply an stabilizer generator $g_i$ to those logical qubit $|0_L\rangle, |1_L\rangle$ for the Steane 7-qubit code where $$|0_L\rangle =...

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Q: How is it possible that the sum of first n perfect nth powers is the current year?

Thirdy YabataNote: I made this puzzle. We know that the current year is the sum of first 9 cube numbers. But with a twist, the current year is also the sum of first n perfect nth powers. How is that possible?

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Q: Number of legal positions in 1D go

LucenapositionA 1D go position on a board of size n is a sequence of length n consisting of the numbers0, 1, 2. Not all numbers need to appear in the sequences. A sequence is legal if every block of 1's has a 0 next to it and every block of 2's has a 0 next to it. Think of 1 as white, 2 as black and 0 as empty...

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Q: Convergence of Taylor series of holomorphic functions on the unit disk

Boyu ZhangSuppose $f$ is a holomorphic function on the open unit disk $\{z\in \mathbb{C}\mid |z|<1\}$ such that $f$ extends continuously to the boundary of the disk. Suppose the Taylor series expansion of $f$ at $z=0$ is $$ f(z) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n z^n. $$ Is it always true that $\displaystyle \sum_{n...

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Q: What is the legal status of people from Unites States overseas territories?

Michael Atkins-PrescottI am reading the wikipedia page about Puerto Rico's political status, and the section about citizenship paints a pretty crazy. In a nutshell, a person born in Puerto Rico is a US citizen, but since someone living in Puerto Rico is not living in a state, they cannot vote in federal elections. This...

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Q: what is the average value of an time autocorrelation function

GunaGiven an autocorrelation function $R_{xx}(\tau)$ for a random process $x(t)$ the formulae to find its mean is generally given as $$\mu_x^2=\lim_{\tau\rightarrow\infty}R_{xx}(\tau)$$ but if the autocorrelation is a periodic function, it doesn't work, my doubt is whether the average value of the $R...

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Q: Is there any geographic resource that lists all the alpine peaks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, etc.?

Jan KowalskiDo you know of any geography books or any other resources that would list all the peaks considered part of the Alps in the European countries, or were they simply never listed? 😊

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Q: ffmpeg seems cant detect escaped character on file name?

ReYukiI tried to convert mp4 files to mp3 with bash: IFS=$'\n' for f in $(ls -1 --quoting-style=escape -R ./*.mp4); do ffmpeg -i "$f" "${f%.mp4}.mp3"; done and, ffmpeg throw an error: ./Asu\ no\ Yozora\ Shoukaihan.mp4: No such file or directory but if I tried to type it manually, it works without any ...

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Q: When does a Langlands parameter really occur in cohomology of local Shimura varieties?

ZhiyuLet $G$ be a connected reductive group over $\mathbb Q_p$. Let $\{\mu \}$ be a conjugacy class of cocharacters $\mu: \mathbb G_m \to G$ over $\mathbb Q_p^{alg}$, and $\{ b \} \in G(\breve{\mathbb Q}_p) //_{\sigma} G(\breve{\mathbb Q}_p)$ be a Frobenius conjugacy class of $G(\breve{\mathbb Q}_p)$....

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Q: Recursive auto-nesting of math decorations (e.g., \hat \bar x -> \hat{\bar{x}})

Nick MI'm writing a style file for my research group's use, and one thing that happens a lot is multiple modifiers acting on a math symbol. An extreme example of this might be, for instance, \hat{\bar{\tilde{\mathbf{a}}}} which produces . I'd like to redefine the decorations \hat, \bar, etc. so as to ...

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Q: How can the Director of National Intelligence be unaware of IMF?

Shane TysonA classified individual, holding the key to an entity bent on world domination, becomes the center of attention. Delinger, the Director of National Intelligence, is taken aback when Kittridge informs him about this person, who is associated with their covert branch, the Impossible Mission Force (...

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Q: What is my Civi package?

Marina Vitkovićmy organization has been using CiviCRM for newsletters for a while and we don't know where to check which package we are paying for and what are its limitations. Could you please help me locate that information?

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Q: Canning mandarin oranges

XaanaI'm curious if there is an approved recipe for water bath canning mandarin oranges in a basic simple syrup. Ball canning has an "Orange slices in honey syrup" recipe however the variation between Oranges and Mandarin Oranges is my concern. My assumption would be that acid would need to be added t...

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Q: What is the accent of words with the -um contraction?

VivatLinguaLatinaThere are contracted words in the genitive plural like deum (deōrum) and dīvum (dīvōrum). I don't know if the accent goes to the penultimate syllable or in the last one where the contraction takes place.

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Q: Rings where each left principal ideal is also a right principal ideal

Liam BakerI'm interested in rings $R$ where for each $a,b$ in $R$ there is a $c \in R$ such that $ab = ca$, or equivalently where $aR = Ra$ for each $a \in R$. Obviously commutative rings and skew fields satisfy this condition, but I'm also looking for other examples, or even a characterisation. Unfortunat...

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Q: Chain pins will not budge

macmanI am trying to unlink my chain in order to install a quick link. The chain is a Shimano CN HG 601. However I have to use quite some force. I already broke the handle of my tool. Even if I use the remaining part of my tool together with some pliers to apply more force, the pin won't budge. Does an...

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CS
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Q: How was the 14th Amendment interpreted before the Wong Kim Ark case?

Michael Atkins-PrescottThe first section of the 14th Amendment seems pretty black and white to me... "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States..." Today (or until today, perhaps) that's interpreted to mean that the children of undoc...

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TeX
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Q: Cover page for a report with and without tikz

user1850133I'm trying to make a cover page for a report but I'd like to do it without tikz too since I'll have to use remember picture and that requires one more compiling. here's my try (I need to add something to get rid of the page number), but if you have ready made suggestions please do it. \documentc...

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Q: How Can I Solidify a Waving Flag Without Overlaps for Double-Sided Textures?

Megan LoveI need to apply a unique image to each side of a flag (without mirroring), which requires solidifying the flag mesh so both sides can be unwrapped separately. When I have the Solidify modifier active, all is okay and manifold. However, when I manually extrude or apply the Solidify Modifier, it re...

GIS
GIS
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Q: QGIS Graphic Modeler: Clip with selected attribute

e-shirtI am trying to build a model that takes a road networklayer (lines) and a city coverage layer (polygons) and a city key (numeric). They city key defines, which feature from the coverage layer should be selected. Then the network layer should be clipped with only the selected feature. I somehow al...

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Q: For a nation of super-intelligent children, why would childish doodles be the most efficient visual communication for them?

DmytMy modern day Earth has a nation comprised entirely of 0-10 year old super-intelligent humans. Those who grow beyond 10 years old mysteriously disappear. When a citizen is one month old, they already match the intellect and memory of an adult. Their mental capabilities rapidly grow as they age. F...

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Q: Why does the definition of a unitary t-design use tensor products?

user1936752A t-design $X$ is defined by the following equation $$\frac{1}{|X|} \sum_{U \in X} U^{\otimes t} \otimes\left(U^*\right)^{\otimes t}=\int_{U(d)} U^{\otimes t} \otimes\left(U^*\right)^{\otimes t} d U$$ where the right hand side uses the Haar measure for $dU$. Why does this definition make sense co...

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Q: Where was Noach from? Where was the teivah built?

bondonkI am struggling to find any indication of where Noach was from: geographically, historically, in Jewish texts. Where did all of this pre-flood episode take place? Was Noach born in the same place that he tried to appease people to heed his words? Where was the teivah built?

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Q: Question about astronomy/astrophysics MSc of International College of University of Science and Technology of China

M.N.RaiaRecently, I became acquainted with University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) MSc program. However, I couldn't find any "Faculty" or "People" section in the Astronomy/Astrophysics Department. Specifically, I would like to know if there are people there who work on theoretical/computatio...

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TeX
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Q: Line numbers outside the box in algorithm2e

evelynI'm new to LaTeX and I'm facing a problem while writing my proposal through Overleaf. As this pic, the line numbers of my alg are outside the box. Is there anyway to solve this problem? Here is my code: code ref \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[linesnumbered, ruled, vlined]{algorithm2e...

DBA
DBA
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Q: I want to search for _01

Michael LechnerI want to search for _01 in a column, but when I do this using LIKE it also finds all cells with 01 and not just those with _01. Example Select * from customers where code like'%_01' Result

ELL
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Q: Any difference: You’ve got quite THE load to carry. VS You’ve got quite A load to carry

Yunus It sounds like you’ve got quite the load to carry when you go out! It sounds like you’ve got quite a load to carry when you go out! They both mean the same to me. Is there any difference to the native speakers?

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Q: How to reduce waste with crispy fried chicken?

ExtraCrispyChickenWhen making crispy fried chicken there are some inefficiencies and waste: unclean bowl for egg wash unused leftovers of egg wash dirty hands, tongs or gloves some flour leftovers (possibly) contaminated with egg wash How can I change the recipe or the process to make it less messy, use fewer bo...

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Q: Using If inside NestList

user57467For getting only integer result of t1 = NestList[{2 #, (# - 1)/3} &, 4, 5] I could filter them out by t2 = DeleteCases[t1, _Rational, Infinity] But I want to to get rid of them by If when creating t1, something like t1= NestList[If[Mod[#-1,3]==0,{2 #, (# - 1)/3},{2#}]&,4,5] which does not wor...

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Q: The summation formula of a sequence after adding the absolute value to its general term

Trumpa[n_] = 2^n - 4 s[n_] = Sum[Abs@a[k], {k, 1, n}] The summation formula obtained after adding the absolute value to the general term is this: \!\( \*UnderoverscriptBox[\(\[Sum]\), \(k = 1\), \(n\)]\(Abs[\(-4\) + \*SuperscriptBox[\(2\), \(k\)]]\)\) How can this result be obtained? 2 + 2^(1 + n) ...

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Q: The addition postulate can be proven?

chichiIn the very beginning of a geometry book, the Ruler Postulate is introduced: Every point on a line can be paired with a unique real number. Then, the Segment Addition Postulate is introduces: If points A,B,C are colinear with B between A and C, then AB + BC = AC. I do not understand why the addit...

CS
CS
18:34
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Q: How to calculate noise power for an entire RF Band

rrpvIf I receive the entire L-band and feed it to an IC, what will be the input power assuming no interference? I know noise will dominate, but how can I calculate a rough estimate of it? The thermal noise is based on the bandwidth and the temperature, so if I add the bandwidth of all the signals tha...

TeX
TeX
18:59
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Q: Getting wrong characters using UTF codes with Aegyptus font

JFCI am trying to insert characters with their UTF codes and display them using the Aegyptus font, but it doesn't work for all the characters. Some of them display correctly, some of them are not found, and some of them display other characters instead. It feels like I'm getting another version of t...

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Q: TimeProvider.Delay as a unit test friendly alternative to Task.Delay

JaggerJo.NET 8 finally introduced a time abstraction that can be used to fake advance a clock while testing certain components. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timeprovider?view=net-9.0 The code below should behave exactly like Task.Delay and should be a 1:1 replacement. Is this code...

TeX
TeX
19:21
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Q: How to apply tcolorbox to formulas in LaTeX?

Danning LiuI have created a custom command to box the formula. However, when my formula has a number, the command boxes the entire line including the number. I would like it to only box the formula itself. How can I modify my code? \usepackage{tcolorbox} \usepackage{varwidth}%tcb自适应宽度 \newtcbox{\formelbox}{...

Law
Law
20:04
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Q: Foundation of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

SMSTJWhen did the Federal Diet (i.e. national legislature of Germany) pass the respective Federal Law and Constitutional Amendment that established the Bundesverfassungsgericht (federal constitutional court). I could find some information on the passage of the Federal Law, but it did take a lot of jus...

CS
CS
20:26
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Q: Why can pressure be identified as partial of energy with respect to volume?

Adam HerbstThere's something I'm still struggling to grasp about the fundamental relation of thermodynamics. For a closed system, we have $$dU = \left.\frac{\partial U}{\partial S}\right|_V dS + \left.\frac{\partial U}{\partial V}\right|_S dV$$ We identify the first partial with temperature, and the second...

GIS
GIS
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Q: Geometry missing- Points layer

Golnaz MI am using Windows11 - Also QGIS 3.36.2 I have a point layer (geojson file) when I open the file there are data for coordinates. Something like this: "type": "Feature", "properties": { "id": "0", "originalId": "0", "clusterId": "5b3666b6-790d-480b-a99a-f5cc6f6186e0", "type": "Junction", "geometry"...

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Q: How is the fundamental frequency formally defined?

noobGiven a frequency-amplitude graph as one would obtain from a Fourier transform of some sound wave, how does one unambiguously determine, numerically/formulaically, the fundamental frequency? Example: Suppose I have a tone consisting of exactly four pitches: 311Hz, 457Hz, 622Hz, and 914Hz. Which o...

ELL
ELL
21:33
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Q: Double genitive - "a friend of my father"

IhavequestionsI'm studying the double genitive, and while I do understand its usage, I have a question with some example sentences I found: "a friend of my father's" "a good friend of ours" Now, I'm having a hard time figuring out what the difference between those sentences and the same but without the double ...

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Q: What key is Chopin's Nocturne Op 37 No 1 in G minor?

Mustafa chaabanI have a question about this particular piano piece, keep in mind I have a very limited music theory knowledge. Okay, so I'm playing Chopin's Nocturne Op 37 No 1 in G minor. But the piece ends on natural B — I mean the last note is natural B. Is the piece supposed to be in B major or B flat maj...

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Q: Is it possible to link single float values across multiple Geometry Nodes modifiers on the same object?

Pieter LéonI have a curve with multiple Geometry Nodes modifiers applied to it, each using a separate node tree. I want some input values to always stay in sync across all modifiers—like they're linked—so I don't have to manually update them every time I make a change. What I Tried: Using a 'Store Named Att...

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Q: Second URP Lit material shows pink on FBX model exported from Unreal 5

Jason CrosbyI'm trying to get materials working on a model imported into Unity 6, from Unreal Engine 5, but for some reason one of them isn't showing. I have played around with a few of the settings with no effect. Unreal 5 export settings Import settings Demon material Ax material How it renders in the ...

CS
CS
21:55
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Q: How do custom images get added to LCDs

SeanJWe're working on a project that has a BOM with a custom LCD and no part number. I'm trying to understand the process around logos on LCDs before going back to our partner. In the Varitronix example below, there is a 40 pin LCD with a BAT symbol on pin 40. We need a graphic similar to the BAT. ...

CS
CS
22:17
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Q: Why do textbooks teach that inflation is caused by an increase in the money supply?

NoSingularitiesInflation is defined as an increase in the overall level of prices in an economy. Mankiw claims: What causes inflation? In almost all cases of large or persistent inflation, the culprit is growth in the quantity of money. The high inflation of the 1970s was associated with rapid growth in the qu...

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Q: Should all sessions expire after disabling 2FA?

Brian BrownI know that when enabling 2FA all sessions must expire. But how about disabling 2FA? Should all sessions expire then? I know that disabling 2FA is a risk, but that's not the question. I'm wondering only about all active sessions - do they need to expire after disabling 2FA?

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Q: Chinese fantasy movie with gods and magic swords

ptlg225I saw this fantasy movie on TV in around the mid-2000s. Literally every character was Chinese, so I think it was made in China. At that point, it must have had multiple dubbings, because the translations into my language usually comes from American media. In this fantasy world, the gods lives abo...

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Q: Handsome fellow, not too bright

Jafe Solve on Penpa+ Across 1. Fruit-based drink, in the role of tea? Not fully acceptable! (8) 5. Best horse claims first victory (7) 9. Parts of Kamëz, Albania turned out to be covered in flames (6) 10. Current #1 of rookies joins Michael Jordan's squad (9) 11. Character with origins in Greece, ass...

DIY
DIY
22:40
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Q: Kohler shower head leaks from ball joint - how to address?

bmarguliesWater emerges from around the ball in the ball joint when the shower is running. Those hex surfaces do not appear to be a nut. Rather, they seem to be unitary with the rest of the head. Is there any way to stop the leakage?

GIS
GIS
23:04
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Q: Applying overlay_nearest function on LineString by start and end points in QGIS

HarrisIn QGIS 3.40, I have two layers, a layer of points orientated in a line one meter apart, each with a unique value in a field. And a linestring layer running parallel to but not intersecting the first. The linestring has 2 fields: "Start Point" and "End Point", I would like to transfer the unique ...

CS
CS
23:24
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Q: What is the logic behind using KCL to prove that source current equals sum of gate and drain current here?

user3612There is this beginners electronic course I am taking where we are not following any textbook, but the professor gives out .pdf files each week with some basic information. It takes an experiment yourself approach to arrive at the conclusions. This week was about MOS transistors where we are lear...

Law
Law
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Q: Can statements made by a Juror after a trial be grounds for a re-trial?

ConanTheGerbilIf a juror is witnessed making a statement (post trial) that indicated an irrational, biased or bigoted reason for finding someone guilty, could that be grounds for a re-trial? "I didn't believe that defense witness - everyone knows capricorns are compulsive liars" "I don't know if he did it or ...

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Q: How to only download files from a certain number contained in the file name in a directory?

CaroZI am trying to download files from a distant server to my own. They are all contained in a directory named. -r 00_fastq Which contains files whose names look like : 142_R2_001.fastq.gz 143_R1_001.fastq.gz 143_R2_001.fastq.gz 144_R1_001.fastq.gz 144_R2_001.fastq.gz 147_R1_001.fastq.gz Therefor...

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Q: Tracking Medicines

Chris PfohlWhen our kids are sick and need meds it can be pretty overwhelming keeping track of when each kid last got each dose of what meds, and when they can get a “next dose.” This is especially true when the kids are sick (high stress) in the middle of the night (when we're exhausted), and often when we...

CS
CS
23:46
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Q: Need help understanding this braking circuit for a stepper motor driver

Nicolas MontoyaI am using the DM860T stepper motor driver to drive this NEMA 34 stepper motor, and I just want to use a braking resistor to absorb the voltage spike in the event an emergency stop button is pressed which will kill the stepper motor driver input voltage, but I am confused on how they recommend do...

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Q: Lefschetz map in the middle cohomology of a smooth projective hypersurface

Eduardo de LorenzoLet $X \subset \mathbb{P}^{n+1}$ be a smooth hypersurface of degree $d$. In this post, the author shows how to compute its cohomology groups, and most of the ring structure. If we denote by $h \in H^2(X)$ the hyperplane class, we know that $H^{2k}(X) = \mathbb{Z} \langle h^k \rangle$ for $2k < n/...


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