Allegedly, in a hearing in front of Judge Coughenour in Seattle, the following happened: Judge c: "Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order," [...] "It just boggles my mind." This makes me wonder: Could a lawy...

I was watching a YouTube tutorial on Desperado for guitar. The instructor played the first bar several times, and when I watched closely, I noticed that he occasionally played the last two notes of the bar hammer-on (especially when he was playing fast). Here is that part of the video. I'm wonde...

I bought these tiny stepper motors on Aliexpress, and I'd like to use them in personal projects, but I've encountered a problem: the leads are very flimsy, tiny and mounted in plastic. Trying to solder wires to them ended up with the plastic melting. Trying to press pin connectors onto them resul...

I would like to create a red box with a constant height and width=\textwidth to serve as a fixed drawing area for my TikZ drawings. The goal is to always have my random TikZ drawings contained within this defined frame, regardless of their content. my code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pg...

Hypothetical: Some ladies go on a night-on-the-town. One of the ladies is the sober driver and only drinks coke at the bar. The sober driver gets her drinked spiked and as the party leaves she drives everyone back home. Somehow she escapes assault but then there is an accident as the roofies star...

My brother likes to play the card game Magic: The Gathering. Apparently, the cards can be pretty expensive, so in order to keep them in Pristine Condition™, he has a special strategy for shuffling his deck without the cards getting damaged. He deals the cards into several piles, putting one card...

This question was answered back in 2015 Apply a text background color in Adobe Illustrator CS6. I'm first posting the solution and then I will explain my problem and hopefully someone will have the solution for me. The posted solution is: Open the appearance panel, Window > Appearance Double cli...

In Corinthians Paul makes these statements about what the believer has from God: And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV) ἐξ αὐτοῦ δὲ ὑμεῖς ἐστε ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ὃς ἐγενήθη σοφία ἡμῖν ἀπὸ...

Let's say I'm flying a long distance on a plane that has a top-of-the-line navigation computer (and let's say an autopilot that follows it). Let's say I have two waypoints that are far apart. If I tell the computer to "fly to the next waypoint" will it take the constant heading route, or will it ...

Recently, I submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters (PRL). I have received positive reports from the referees, although they asked for some revisions. I would say that they are relatively minor (and one of the referees explicitly writes this). The editor wrote this: "We ask you to consider ...

I wish to extend the code shown below to include: else if {an odd page} then {do an ODD thing} else if {even page} the {do an EVEN thing} \documentclass{book} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{transparent} \usepackage{lastpage} \usepackage{refcount} \graphicspath{D:/TeX_LaTeX} \AddToHook{shipou...

I would like to vertical align the equation at the height of the "+" sign, but I only get the pictured result. How can I center the equation at the fraction line? The equation is part of a tabularx-enviroment (only the code of the equation given below). Thanks for any help. \documentclass{article...

I recently heard ず＋で in business/semi-formal settings where I would expect ず or ずに, for example: この度はご期待に沿えずで I guess grammatically this could work, but since it does seem fairly uncommon I wonder if it is a recent thing. Does it sound off to any native speakers, especially when it occurs in ap...

I am working on a project to log sensor data to an SD card using an ESP32. Additionally, I want to access the SD card contents via USB when the ESP32 is not actively logging. Here's my setup: SD Card Slot: Using the Sunrom Micro SD Memory Card Socket (datasheet). USB Port: Using the Sunrom USB A-...

I would like to detect zero crossing of mains for the synchronization of 2 devices. These devices run on DC via a "wall wart" power supply. Detecting zero crossing with a direct connection to the mains is fairly simple and I could go that route, but I'm thinking it will be much simpler from a saf...

In statistical mechanics, the starting point I have seen is to consider an ideal gas. Then, the idea of macroscopic variables is introduced. For an ideal gas it's stated that the ideal variables of relevance are energy, volume, and particle number. It is reasonable to me that these quantities des...

On a Taiwanese Instagram video I saw the phrase “林娘豬肉勒," and I tried to look it up on Google and pleco, but I can't find a solid meaning. I know its something bad, but I'm not sure exactly what the direct translation is. Any help is appreciated!

In Manfred Bieler's novel, Maria Morzeck oder Das Kaninchen bin ich, the narrator tells us she couldn't leave the concert early that she is attending with her class because the teacher is their escort that day. She says,"ich konnte nicht kneifen, kein Stueck." I would like to know the idiomatic...

My daughter and I remember watching a movie where kids find what we believe were blue monsters. They were in the desert. There were caves and I feel like the kids gave them bottles of Coke. The monsters or creatures had round mouths.

Ever since I upgraded to Sequoia - but I was quite late so this change may have come from an earlier macos - I am getting distracted by useless notifications from mdfind - the Spotlight command for the terminal. sample command: mdfind -onlyin . py output: (I want to do away with UserQueryParser n...

Basically the title. Croatia and Germany have, for the past several years, been using the same currency: euro. Croatian government no longer has the power to print money. But, in Croatia, prices of food have risen by 45%, it is so bad that many people are boycotting Lidl and Kaufland in an attemp...

I have a 12 bit ADC in an RF system with a noise figure of 11 dB. I am trying to figure out how much gain I need at the input to the ADC (too far along the chain to affect NF). Which is the deciding factor in how much gain I need: Does my signal power need to exceed the ADC noise power (quant no...

I've been reading up on the "sticky bit" and it's almost what i want… but not quite. Background I'm managing a small JupyterHub instance with three courses and an instructor for each course. I'd like to have a folder on the server for file submissions. Students (in the jupyterhub-users group) sho...

I consider an alphabet $\mathcal{A}=\{0,1\}$ on which I can define words. Let $\alpha$ and $\beta$ two words of size $n$ and $m$ respectively, such that the number of $1$ in $\alpha$ has the same parity than the number of $1$ in $\beta$. We know that there are $\frac{(m+n)!}{n!m!}$ ways of shuffl...

I'm trying to get Mitsuba 3 for Blender working. Has anyone had any experience with this? I'm using Blender 3.6 LTS Portable for Windows. (I had to run Blender with the .\blender.exe --python-use-system-env command in order to avoid the error Failed to load Mitsuba package as described here). Aft...

If I buy duty-free in Istanbul and I have a connection flight at Stansted to Glasgow can I keep my duty-free I got in Istanbul or do I have to go through security again as I have checked in for my flight from Stansted to Glasgow online it just so I know to buy duty-free in Istanbul or not

I understand the basic idea of price elasticity of demand; it's an estimate of the sensitivity of changes in demand to changes in price. For example, if the price elasticity of demand = -0.2 for some good/market, and the price goes down by 5%, you'd expect demand to increase by 1% (= 5% × -0.2). ...

In a group of soldiers, if 70 percent have lost an eye, 75 percent an ear and 80 percent an arm then what percentage, at least, must have lost all three? Assume that each soldier lost at least an eye/ear or an arm. What's an intuitive way to solve this? I tried the Venn diagram approach but faile...

I am working on a scale model electric project and am in the process of setting up the power supply arrangement as shown in the diagram. My plan involves shorting the neutral of the step-down transformer to a dedicated earth line. My questions are: Is it safe and advisable to proceed with this se...

Are there any differences in the meaning of or when we use the idioms 'blow a fuse/gasket' and 'have a fit'? The definitions in the Cambridge Dictionary are: blow a fuse/gasket: to become very angry have a fit: to become very angry

PUZZLE: Fill this grid according to the rules given below. RULES: Rule 1: Fill each region with all the digits 1 through N (using each exactly once), where N is the number of cells in the region. Rule 2: If an integer K is written in a cell, that means that the nearest value of K (looking only...

I use an ESP32-S3 with a microSD card slot where I turn the power of the slot on and off using two MOSFETs. This will happen after a short period of time, after I detected that a microSD card was being inserted. GPIO9 turns a n-channel MOSFET on which then causes a p-channel MOSFET to turn on as ...

I got a asus C433T flip chromebook and i did a uefi full ROM thing with mrchromebox firmware, i installed ubuntu 24.04.1 off a usb and it worked perfectly fine, i rebooted it 1 time and it doesnt boot anymore. The orange charging light comes on when plugged in but no change when pressing or holdi...

I am planning to connect ADS1015 with ESP32 S3 and power on both with 3.3V. According to the datasheet, ADS1015 can measure ±256 mV to ±6.144 V. Does it still apply if the power supply on ADS1015 is 3.3V or shall the maximum measured voltage not exceed 3.3V + 0.3V? If so, I am probably better off...

You have 1 1×1 square, 2 2×2 squares, 3 3×3 squares, 4 4×4 squares, 5 5×5 squares, 6 6×6 squares, 7 7×7 square and 8 8×8 squares. Is it possible to fit them in a 36×36 square grid without overlaps? Source:

I work with a bunch of Win-98, NT4 and 2K systems that run on older hardware and over the years I've migrated (cloned) hard drives from these systems as a way to keep them going. Cloned them to larger drives (ie - cloning 20 gb to 40 and then to 80) and more recently have cloned 80 GB IDE to 128...

After installing Docker-Desktop, I noticed some weird inconsistencies when running SquirrelDisk. Low and behold, ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/Docker.raw is reported to be 1T when i do ls -la. I'm running it on a base MacMini M4, with 256GB of hard disk so, that is phisically ...

The TeXLive source code might be overwhelming to the average user, as myself, so I'd like to get some indication about how the TeXLive team converts the several scripts written for Unixes into Windows executables: take updmap (a perl script) or mktextfm (a shell script) for example. Are there eso...

I stumbled upon this stunning image here. Author responded to me with the p5.js JavaScript library code: Don't know if this help, but this the code for a single bug 😅 (cx,cy are the coordinates in canvas and radius the size of the bug). Usign p5.js for easier graphics on JS canvas function d...

Electron Drift Velocity in welding? --I have done arc welding and drift velocity doesn't seem to explain the arc energy for melting steel. YouTube videos describe a home welder might have a typical 25 volts at 120 amps, usually DC, with welding rod negative, the steel object work is positive, and...

The example below shows the difference between +v type argument and the verbatim environment. % arara: lualatex: {synctex: yes} \documentclass{article} \NewDocumentCommand{\foo}{+v}{{\ttfamily #1}} \begin{document} \noindent This is non-indented text. \foo{ This line is indented by \parindent....

My Xiaomi earbuds have terrible microphone noise cancellation (they actually seem to amplify noise). Is there any way (preferably an app) to improve microphone noise cancellation system-wide on Android, so that all apps, including video/audio calls, have better noise suppression?

The equity forward price formula is: $F(T) = S_{t}\cdot e^{(r_{f} - r_{repo}-div)\cdot (T-t)}$ where $S_{t}$ is the spot price, $r_{f}$ is the risk-free rate and $r_{repo}$ is the repo rate and $T$ is the maturity $div$ is the dividend rate. How to interpret the repo rate here? For example, in th...

In Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition, 2024, XP are given for killing monsters or otherwise solving an encounter successfully. The amount given is based on the Challenge Rating (CR). However, unlike older generations, XP do not seem to be given for gold, magic items, or artifacts. Am I cor...

What are the differences between the use of Μὴ and Οὐ? Do these differences have any implications for 1 Timothy 2:9? In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; [1 Timothy 2:9 KJ...

Sometimes it will just boot fine after I manually cycle power (this sometimes happens during use and when doing anything I get input-output errors including when trying to run the reboot command in the shell) but other times it will go into the 'install an os on this raspberry pi' thing that it d...

I have a game object with a Kinematic body and a sprite. The object's "draw" method will always position the sprite to match a position of actual body, so the sprite is completely passive. Now, I have a situation where I want to hold a mouse button (or touch) over that body and draw that body to ...

$\DeclareMathOperator\C{\mathbb{C}}$ What is an example of a unital topological algebra $A$ over $\C$ with separately continuous multiplication, with the property that every maximal left ideal of $A$ is dense in $A$? If there is an example, does there exist a locally convex example?

I've found that using TVPs to pass multiple values to a stored procedure is much easier and faster, especially when dealing with a few columns and a few hundred rows, as it eliminates the need for additional data parsing. Why might someone choose XML or JSON over TVPs? In what use cases do they o...

Lets take the function $f(x) = x + (x^2-x)\frac{1+\sin{7x}}{2}$. This function oscillates between $x$ and $x^2$. So it is $O(x^2)$ and $\Omega(x)$ and these are the tightest upper and lower bounds. But we could easily say this function is $O(x^{2.6})$ and $\Omega(\log\log x)$. And this function i...

What is this style of drill bit called? All 1/2-inch. Inherited from someone who was in the undercoating/oiling business. So the bits might have been used to drill holes in the body of vehicles to spray oil into. No other text on them other than "1/2" and "Made in U.S.A.". I want to determine the...

Previously, I asked whether it was possible to copy a golem using the simulacrum spell in 3.5e, and was told that it was possible. And when each golem receives a magic attack of a certain attribute, it heals itself accordingly. So, can those characteristics be passed on to a golem copy made with ...

I'm trying to identify this TV show released on cable between 2018 and 2022 (I think). The main character is the head of the police (sheriff?). I think he is an alcoholic, but I am not sure about this. Each of the other officers is slightly dysfunctional, and each has their own powers and are a d...

Our movie takes place in the future, as far as I remember, there is a team of 2 people, one male and one female. The male one go out of the base and go to repair things. They report every day . During the report, the person they report to asks if they are working together in harmony. Woman opera...

I have just learned about Zener diodes and was surprised by how its analysis is almost identical to how one would analysis a common diode, like the bias voltage, the current-limiting resistor, two diodes in series, etc. the only difference being that while a common diode operates in forward bias,...

Let $m = p(p-1)/2$, the number of edges in $K_p$, the complete graph on $p$ vertices. Is the number of graphs with $p$ vertices and $e$ edges equal to $\sum_{q=0}^e (1,\xi_q)_p$ for $e\leqslant m/2$, where $(1,\xi_q)_p$ is defined below? Let $S_p^{(2)}$ be the subgroup (isomorphic to $S_p$) of th...

I need the following symbols for my research. one symbol is \perp and other one is [*]. Kindly suggest the latex code to create such symbols

I'm trying to calculate the reading on a voltmeter connected to the following set of batteries, where each battery is of $1.5$ volts. These batteries are NOT rechargeable, so I'd really appreciate it if you could also shed light on potential risks. The two batteries in series is equivalent to ...

In Chapter 16, when Mustapha Mond said But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. It has given us the stablest equilibrium in history. China's was hopelessly insecure by comparison; even the primitive matriarchies weren't steadier than we are. But Ch...

I am currently studying rotating reference frames. I am reading the book "Nonlinear approaches in engineering applications" by L. Dai and Reza N. Jazar. In chapter 2 (available here) they write: "It is shown in the published work of Jazar that the Razi acceleration is a novel finding in classical...

Finder has a functionality "Empty the Trash without confirmation dialog.". I want disable it completely or disable the shortcut to this functionality The reason I want to disable it is that it is bound to a keyboard shortcut (OptShift Cmd Delete )and I cannot find a way to disable the shortcut (...

I recently stumbled across a claim that researchers can avoid having to use correction for multiple comparisons by just pre-registering a hypothesis for every possible test they will perform. Is this correct? The statement did not cite any references and I honestly have not read that explicitly a...

we’re playing a game where you’re allowed to use the base arithmetic operations, $x!$, $x!!$, $\binom{x}{y}$, $x^y$, $log_x(y)$ to combine 4 cards to reach 37. No other operations allowed. The goal is to reach 37 by using each card exactly once. The current cards are: 3,7,9,9. Is anyone able to f...

I am using linux (Ubuntu) and bash. I made a simple Go program. Literally infinite for-loop that prints text every 20 seconds. package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func main() { for { fmt.Println("Hi from program 1") time.Sleep(time.Second * 20) } } First, I reg...

Okay, so I have this story that me and my friend are writing and we had a problem where my characters' memories were erased so that they wouldn't know my friend's characters. One of my characters (we'll call them Era for now) tried doing something to get their and their peoples' memories back, bu...

Recently, I saw a video where a plastic figure with teeth on its surface was used. A circle was rolled along the surface, and a line was drawn—a combination of epitrochoids.
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After numerous passes with a pencil, a magnificent figure appeared, matching the shape of the described deta...

Mathematics Stack Exchange contributor Jean Marie found a cubic polynomial function $f(x):=x(x+15)(x-9)$ such that the zeros of $f$ and its derivatives $f'$ and $f''$ are distinct integers. See https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5027304/cubic-function-with-integer-vertices-and-roots Moreove...

I was reading this AoPS post. The problem: $E$ is a point on the side $AB$ and $F$ is a point on the side $CD$ of a square $ABCD$ such that when the square is folded along $EF$, the new position $A’$of $A$ lies on $BC$. Let $D’$ denote the new position of $D$ and let $G$ be the point of intersec...

I am trying to set up and solve a stochastic optimal control problem with two goods. In the HJB equation, one typically needs to compute the following quantity: $$ \widetilde{U}(b, c) = \sup_{x, y \geq 0} [U(x, y) - x a - y b]\ . $$ I worked with Cobb-Douglas for a while (for which the above opt...

I’m new to quantum computing and Qiskit (using version 1.3.1), and I’m working on implementing a circuit where I need to apply CNOT (CX) gates between qubits from two different quantum circuits (qc1 and qc2). I’m stuck on how to make this work and would really appreciate some help! I have the fol...

I have the following initial state $$ |\psi\rangle=\frac{1}{\sqrt{5}}(|00\rangle+\sqrt{2}|10\rangle+\sqrt{2}|11\rangle) $$ and I am trying to find the right "circuit" as combination of quantum gates (within the pool of Hadamard, CNOT, Pauli-X/Y/Z and S) to transform that state to: $$ |\psi'\rangl...

1 Samuel 11:8 (NIV) When Saul mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and those of Judah thirty thousand. Why are Israel and Judah mentioned separately? The kingdom of Israel didn't split until Rehoboam. At this point they aren't even a kingdom, and David hadn'...

Is it possible to have 2 primary outcomes in a non-inferiority clinical trial? And choose the sample size based on the largest one, if we have defined the same non-inferiority margin for both outcomes. For example, a drug that reduces both pain and inflammation. Thank you