I found the following translated example: 除了没有电梯，其他的都很满意。 Chúle méiyǒu diàntī, qítā de dōu hěn mǎnyì. I am satisfied with everything except for there is no elevator. I have a question about the subject of the second part of the sentence. Which of the following interpretations is correct? The s...

In a DW report today, the following 2 sentences appeared: Mehrere Hundert Demonstranten haben in Bulgarien den sofortigen Rücktritt der Regierung von Präsident Boiko Borissow gefordert. Original sentence: Andernfalls würden sie das Parlament bei einer Sondersitzung an diesem Donnerstag blockie...

This is a short short I remember reading, part of an anthology, possibly near the front. The main character is a member of an 'atomic priesthood', a monkish order charged in ancient times with keeping people safe from a substance, that they now consider holy. They go around to various roadside sh...

Found it on a quiz worded this way. No other details unfortunately. I can only assume it has to do with the heated element materials of tungsten or molybdenum reaction with film layer materials. Perhaps it is a coating to reflect nothing but infrared. Hope to explain to students taking aviation m...

I am a research scientist with a state university in the United States. I am an at-will employee, not tenured or tenure-track. Currently I am in the process of developing an academic book in my area of expertise, which is also the area I work extensively in for my employer. The book will be deve...

I hate smartphones, don't own one, but have a 6th gen iPod with iOS 12. I want to listen to music with it using AirPods without an Internet connection using the Bluetooth connection. I want to double check that this is possible.

Is there a way to compute the last digits of an arbitrarily large Fibonacci number? For the $10^n$th Fibonacci number we can just find the $2^n$th Fibonacci number (if that isn't too large) mod n, and then use the Chinese remainder theorem since we know it is a multiple of $5^n$ (the Pisano perio...

What package or command should I use to achieve this (bolded?) style of LaTeX math? Instead of this (regular) style. I know the color is gray in this second picture, but the style is completely different.

I am looking at an older circuit, and I was wondering why the designer added these two resistors in series with the input voltage of this 5v regulator. The regulator would be powering a system that pulls 30 mA MAX. I think I had seen that some people add resistors to try to dissipate heat, but th...

I am reading “The Magic Lantern”, the autobiography of Ingmar Bergman. In it, he describes a castle of a musicians' patron: Every summer before the war [World war II], they were invited close to Stuttgart, in a castle, situated in an area with exceptional beauty, with a superb view to the mounta...

Time complexity can't be any lower than space complexity (at least one operation is required to use a unit of memory), so what are some algorithms where space actually tends to be the limiting factor? It puts a hard upper bound on what you can do, whereas time is only a factor if you're 'impatien...

Consider the sentence: Einerseits, weil es halt einfach so ist , und andererseits, weil es auf Wikipedia steht. Should one put the second comma? On one hand I often hear that there shouldn't be a comma in front of "und". On the other hand, it would be plausible to break the quoted sentence into...

I am looking for information on a training language called "WhatDoesItDo". It was used in 1978 at Austin Community College on a Motorola 6800 CPU. If anyone has any information, I would appreciate it very, very much.

So, I'm wanting to create this homebrewed God called "The Crow Lord" (basically a less depressing and edgy version of the Raven Queen) and I'm fairly new to D&D and I'm a bit confused. My little-to-no experience in D&D has told me one thing (mainly my DM saying it): that you can't be a servant/fo...

If a character has gained immunity to all piercing damage, would that character also be immune to the pull effect of Thorn Whip? For reference: Thorn Whip Transmutation cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (the stem of a plant with thorns) Duration: Instantaneous You...

I found numerous examples in the opposite direction, food which Jews may not eat but which is permissible to non-Jews, but nothing in the direction I'm looking at

My prefix does not have an end My suffix is an insect being. My infix wants to be your friend. My whole is a human being.

When you hold a loose string by its two ends, and just let it dangle in space, it looks an awful lot like a parabola. I mean, on first sight, who wouldn't have thought that? It was only upon closer inspection that we realized in fact the shape formed is not a parabola, but a catenary (see the gra...

I've got a story I've started, and realized I have no explanation as to why the main character has a wearable flamethrower. Right now, I'm leaving it as 'He's a youtuber who makes stupid stuff so people will watch and give him money', but would like the explanation to be less unique to him so tha...

Let's say we have a vector space V with a basis $\{x_1,x_2,...,x_n\}$ then is $\{x_1+x_2,x_2+x_3,...,x_{n-1}+x_n,x_n+x_1\}$ a basis too? My Answer: For n=2 clearly this is false because of the following counter example: \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix} If we apply the above to get th...

I want to change the first line of hundreds of files recursively in the most efficient way possible. An example of what I want to do is to change #!/bin/bash to #!/bin/sh, so I came up with this command: find ./* -type f -exec sed -i '1s/^#!\/bin\/bash/#!\/bin\/sh/' {} \; But, to my understandin...

If we have $X(k)\sim Pois(2k)$ and $Y \sim Exp(15)$ and $Z=X(5Y)$. How can we determine $E(Z)$, $Var(Z)$ and $P(Z = z)$. So far I'm thinking $$\begin{align*} E(Z) &= E(X(5Y)) \\ &= E(Pois(10Y)) \\ &= E(10Y) \\ &= 10E(Y) \\ &= \frac{10}{15} \end{align*}$$ Similarly for Variance: $$\begin{align*} V...

The CGI (Cosmic Gateway Interface) System is a set of commands which (nearly?) anyone anywhere can intone in order to trigger some kind of alien tech (which exists somewhere far away), which opens a wormhole between two points, with the size of the gate and the locations of its end points defined...

How do I determine what version of Bluetooth my iPhone supports (4.2, 5, etc.)? Is it determined by my hardware (such as iPhone SE)? Or is it all in the OS version (such as mine that's iOS 13.5.1)? What Bluetooth version do these values map to?

Some weeks ago, I bought a new pair of AAA rechargeable batteries, Ni-MH. Its package shows "Panasonic eneloop" model with up to 800mAh. First I connected them in series and connected two resistors of 10 ohms in parallel to the series of batteries, the voltage measured was 2.2V with around 440mA ...

My world is a medieval high fantasy setting. Dragons are one of the many denizens of the world. They speak a complicated language. Humans and other common races know most dragons to be cunning, intelligent, wise. Dragons consider most races to be subordinate to them. Does it make sense for the co...

Eight identical unit cubes are stacked to form a $2\times2\times2$ cube, as shown. A "short path" from vertex $A$ to vertex $B$ is defined as one that consists of six one-unit moves either right, up or back along any of the six faces of the $2$-unit cube. How many "short paths" are possible ...

Some years ago I read that Kolmogorov was so enraged that Karatsuba disproved one of his conjectures that he terminated the seminar shortly thereafter. The wikipedia article claims that Komogorov was just "very excited". Do we have any testimony of what really happened?

The following works: git -C ~/dotfiles status But this fails: git status -C ~/dotfiles Why is this?

If you haven't heard yet, we're doing a big split of the Minecraft BE NBT question. We're splitting it into separate questions for each workaround. View the proposal and its list of changes. I'm used to creating Java Edition Minecraft maps, where NBT can be used to set many different block, item...

I read on https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/how-robinhood-makes-money-on-customer-trades-despite-making-it-free.html (mirror): Before, when brokers charged commissions for each trade, they often were promising a best possible execution, meaning they prioritized time and therefore share price of a ...

I have read the guide found here: How Emacs Finds Your Init File I cannot find any .emacs directory in my home directory. I have show hidden files selected. I also cannot find the init.el file in Emacs home directory. Since I have been unable to find the init.el file, is it reasonable to think t...

Is there a way to offset the line path in illustrator? I want to evenly stagger the lines horizontally lines, I am trying to draw an escalator. I've tried offset path but it creates a stroke on the lines.

Let $V$ be a real inner product space. Let $u, v_1, ..., v_m \in V$ such that $$\langle u, v_i \rangle > 0, \ \forall{i}$$ $$ \langle v_i, v_j \rangle \leq 0, \ \forall i \neq j.$$ Prove that vectors $v_1, ..., v_m$ are linearly independent. There is a hint which says if a linear combination of t...

So I've writing a paper for school on deriving the cubic formula. As of now I have written the cubic formula as a system of two equations in terms of original coefficients $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$. The system is below: $$z=\sqrt[3]{\frac{9abc-2b^3-27a^2d}{54a^3}\pm\sqrt{\frac{4ac^3+27a^2d^2-18abcd-...

I’ve heard a few people imagine an alternate history where people are completely free to live in whatever country they choose to. Countries/city states would have to maintain a high standard of living in order to keep people from moving away, creating an almost free market where nations compete t...

I'm working on a software for which I need to write up a LaTeX template. I've been able to glue together the rest of the template somehow since I'm a beginner. But I'm facing huge difficulty in getting the Table of Contents right. I personally like the layout of the TOC used in G.F. Simmon's book...

I'm applying the Green Leaf Index (GLI) to a multi-temporal set of RGB raster images to generate false colour overlays of the sections of the hay field. I can create GLI layers using the raster calculator and the RGB channels manually in the raster calculator. I'd like to speed up the process. I'...

What's the probability of getting a total of 7 or 11 when a pair of fair dice is tossed? I already looked it up on the internet and my answer matched the same answer on a site. However, though I am confident that my solution is right, I am curious if there's a method in which I could compute th...

The imperatives of sum/esse (to be) are sg. es/esto and pl. este. When do we use es? And when esto?

Disclaimer: I studied math at college, but it was decades ago; my current level is "idiot," and my question is probably about a well-known problem. However, I've tried extensive web searches, to no avail. Any help is appreciated! For a game I'm developing, I need to generate/evaluate small multis...

For positive reals $x$ and $y$ such that $x+y=1$, prove that $$(2x)^{\frac 1 x}+(2y)^{\frac 1 y}\leq 2$$ I have tried using Jensen’s inequality but it won’t cover all the possible choices for $x$ and $y$ since the concavity varies. I am trying to find a neat solution so that a generalization coul...

I am wondering if there's a verb that means "pour water" such that I don't have to mention "water" and can just mention the thing I am pouring water onto as a direct object of the verb. I am __ the flowers.

NASA's plan is to use two separate missions to bring home the drill core samples that the Perseverance rover will take. The samples will in plan be picked up by a landed mission and launched to Mars orbit. There the samples will dock with another spacecraft that brings them to Earth. Why not inst...

I have been poking a little at the flowers but they are not what I am used to. I've hand pollinated many other plants with success but this flower structure is more closed off and I can't seem to locate the pollen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_quitoense

I am looking for a ballpark estimate as to how many miles I have left on this rear tire:

Dear Puzzling, Remember me? I have some exciting news for you. I'm starting on a new journey to visit a few wonderful landmarks around the world. In case you want to follow my travels, I'll send you a crossword puzzle from each destination and you can guess where in the world I'm travelling. Eve...

Background I have a function I would like to execute inside a ParallelTable. One of the arguments of this function is another function. So it looks something like this: myfunction[function_,param1_,someotherparameter_]:=(x=function[param1]; (*some evaluation using x and someotherparameter*)) (*I...

Example: I had by doubts about someone that he is a kleptomaniac and the other day I saw him stealing something and that action further strengthens my belief that he is a kleptomaniac. Any idiom for this type?

I'm trying to prove the inequality $$\int_{0}^{1}xf(x)dx \leq \frac{2}{3}\int_{0}^{1}f(x)dx$$ for all continuous concave functions $f: [0,1]\rightarrow [0,\infty)$. I've been working on this for a while and would just love a hint if anyone can see something obvious that I'm missing. What I've tri...

I am reading about embedding/automation of modal logics in classical higher order logic (http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/cbenzmueller/papers/C46.pdf) and Goedels proof of God's existence is prominent example here https://www.isa-afp.org/entries/GoedelGod.html (as encoded for Isabelle/HOL). This embed...

I recently tried to build .deb package and a PPA for Droidcam(turns phone camera into webcam), and mentioned it in a related GitHub issue for feedback. The developer replied I am going to ask that you NOT package and distribute a PPA. My stance in general is against 3rd party packages, all you'r...

Often, I come across sentences like below, where the subject is missing and the object is placed instead. 证件带了吗？ （Instead of 你带了证件吗？) I am wondering if there is a name to such grammatical structure, and if there are any conditions to be aware of when I want to use such structure. Thank you!

I live in Canada, but I follow American politics to some degree, as do most of the people I know. However, I do it as a hobby and realize that American politics really don't have much of an effect on day-to-day life in Canada. Canadian news agencies (CBC, Global, etc) all cover the American Feder...

Let's posit you're university student. I don't posit degree level...you can be under graduate or post graduate. You must NOT overstep essay's word limit what ever it is. You lose marks if you overstep. Your word limit is too short to elaborate an argument or idea. How do academics write that w...

I am looking at ChaCha20Poly1305 WolfSSL. It is noted that the ChaCha20Poly1305 AEAD construction has the property, that it only outputs the plaintext, if the verification of the MAC (Authentication Tag) was successful. I am asking myself whether AES-GCM also can provide this (from a security per...

I'm a beginner piano player and came across the following notation in a booklet: in a beginner's arrangement for Fauré's "Sicilienne". My question is regarding the bow on the bottom staff. I'm pretty sure that that is not a slur but is intended to be a tie. This is because the bottom staff is no...

The Sun is said to become a red giant at the end of its life (before that it will become an orange subgiant first and then an orange giant or so) and after ejecting its outer layers it should become a white dwarf. If yellow dwarfs like the Sun become red giants, what do red dwarfs become? Even re...

On page 1/2 of xfp package we see x >? y as a valid comparison operator. Is it different from x>y? I think they are equivalent based on my following code, but not sure: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{,xfp} \begin{document} \edef\x{5} \edef\y{6} \fpeval{\x>? \y}\\ \fpeval{\x> \y} \end{do...

Hello Magento Experts, I was just wondering about the question below for observer implementation - Question : In a code review of a merchant site you have discovered that there are multiple observers for the checkout_submit_all_after event. After closer inspection, you notice one of these observe...

i am trying to design an efficient cooling solution for my project. I planned placing a IoT computer in an aluminum housing which is completely closed. In this case, do I really need fins and large surface areas INSIDE the aluminium housing when my main goal is to dissipate the heat to the housin...

I'm British, due to travel to the south of France for a week, flying from London to Turin (Italy) and driving across the border (it's the closest airport to my destination in France) The UK has just (14 Aug) brought in travel restrictions requiring travelers from France to self-isolate. Technical...

I used a * in a bsmallmatrix and found a curious effect. If I write \\* the * is not printed whereas with \\ * it is. Do you guys know why this happens? My tiny example and screenshot follow below. Kind regards, nopx \documentclass[12pt]{article}%, border=2pt]{standalone} \usepackage{mathtools} ...

I'm a developer with 5 years of experience, looking for another employer. An employer wants me to write about 3 helpful books in programming I read to my resume. But I almost never read a book after graduation. I honed my skill from googling, documentation, blogs, videos, or Q&As. I can write abo...

Find all solutions of the congruence $$3x^2 + 5x + 2 \equiv 0 \pmod{2537}$$ My approach: Solve $3x^2 + 5x + 2 = 0$. The solutions are $-1, \frac{-4}{6}$. $6^{-1}\pmod{2537} = 423.$ $-4\cdot 423 \equiv 845 \pmod{2537}$ Hence the answer should be $-1 + 2537k, 845 + 2537k, k \in Z$. Is this correct?

I created this using shader nodes. now i want to taper the bottom instead of straight lines. which nodes will help me to achieve that? Please advise, Thank you,

As a not very experienced reviewer, I often find myself stressing over recommending rejection, even for the articles which I think are clearly low-quality and unsuitable for publication in a strong journal. I imagine how the authors might feel (especially if I suspect they are PhD students/postdo...

I want to perform HSE06 band-structure calculation of a WS2 monolayerwhich has the following POSCAR with 17Ang vacuum: W2S4 1.00000000000000 3.1912863255000001 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 -1.5956425563000001 2.763734828100000...

I am currently using p4vasp for drawing DOS and band-structure plots, but it is not much handy in modifying the OUTPUTS. Could you please suggest any other good software or tools for that?

I am trying to work out where I can modify a schedule for a backup job that is running. The SQL Server was setup by a team before it was handed to us. We have a set of Maintenance jobs in our SQL Server Agent which I can modify, but looking through the Server Logs there is another Full backup tha...

Since the Staff of Power says: While holding this staff, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it Can you expend additional changes to cast a spell at higher level? Example: With the Staff of Power you can cast Magic Missile of level 1...

Code: \documentclass[pdftitle=abc]{article} \usepackage[unicode]{hyperref} \begin{document} abc \end{document} Log: Package hyperref Warning: XeTeX driver only supports unicode. (hyperref) Enabling option `unicode'. I'm not sure why hyperref warns me when I have passed unicode op...

Write the shortest possible program to remove all partial matched duplicates from a list and only retain the longest lines. Sort order does not matter. For following inputs, the intent is to search for the string reminder followed by a number and retain the longest unique reminder + number lines....

As per the instructions on the oatmeal package, I make it like this: I take a bowl. I put 1 dl oatmeal into it. I put 2 dl water on top of it. I put 0.65 grams of salt on top of it. I mix them together with a spoon. I microwave it at 750 watts for 2 minutes. I take it out and mix it with the spo...

The Claim Scott Adams recently made the claim that the majority of doctors in the USA support the use of hydroxychloroquine. Normally a cartoonist's podcast would not be a notable source for a claim so it is worth reviewing the background. Context and background There is clearly a great deal of c...

I recently decided to build my first drone and bought Eachine Tyro 129 KIT. It has a 5.8GHz video transmitter - xf5804 which is supposed to send video to 5.8GHz goggles. I don't have goggles and I'm not sure I want to buy it. My laptop (Debian10 Linux) has WiFi that can operate on 5.8GHz frequenc...

The code below results in the image below. \documentclass{beamer} \usetheme{Montpellier} \usecolortheme[named=gray]{structure} \usepackage{colortbl} \usepackage{array} \newcommand{\gr}[1]{\textcolor{gray}{#1}} \begin{document} \definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.92} \frame{ %\arrayrulecolor{light-gr...

I'm looking to find the translation of devom. I have looked for a translation online and in dictionaries and come up empty. In Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan he quotes an inscription: DEVOMNODENTi FLAvIVSSENILISPOSSVit PROPTERNVPtias quaSVIDITSVBVMBra and translated it as "To the great god ...

Well, I thought masking tape is used for painting on paper because it can come off easily. I simply put masking tape on a drawing sheet and just to see whether it comes off easily or not, I started peeling it from paper - slowly. It tore paper. A layer of paper came off with the tape. Is there so...

How much minimal vertical distance is required between the kitchen counter top and window frame for placing an electrical outlet? We are starting a kitchen remodel.

For a rigid body rotating with a constant angular speed, the points near the axis must have lower linear velocity than the points farther away. If they have different linear velocities, they must have a non-zero relative velocity. If they have a non-zero relative velocity, the distance between th...

What's the objective of Appointment? Is it kind of Wanted poster?

Apparently the first microcomputer capable of working with the Chinese language in Chinese characters was the Microprofessor II (or MPF-II-C), a Taiwanese Apple II clone from 1982. Now I'm 99% sure that there were early microcomputers capable of working with the Japanese language in only katakana...

I have an EV charger that uses a NEMA 14-50 outlet with 6 AWG back to a 50 amp breaker. The outlet is in a location where there are no nearby 120v outlets and it would be convenient to occasionally to have 120v there instead. Functionally it is possible with just a dryer plug, a 20 amp duplex ou...

Q: An amusement park proprietor wishes to design a rollercoaster with a vertical circular loop in the track, of radius $R = 20\, \rm m$. Before the cars reach the loop, they descend from a maximum height h, at which they have zero velocity. Assuming the cars roll freely (no motor and no friction...

I have two questions about reported. First I came across such a sentence which I needed to transform from reported speech in direct speech. Jack told me that he would be here at seven. That's what I have "I’ll be here at seven". Having checked the answers, I have found such a variant as "I’ll b...

I know that the function that I search is a sine wave of the form $$A \;sin(x) $$ where my $A$ is unknown. I have samples of the sine wave at discrete points within an interval that's shorter then $\lambda/2$ represented by the red line in the plot. It must be possible to somehow determine $A=1$...

I am not a GIS expert, and this change caused quite some errors in our analysis. So my question is, why this was changed: From rgdal 1.4.8 to 1.5.16, the +towgs84=0,0,0 disappeard in the output of sp::CRS. I hope for an answer, which is comprehensive to a non-GIS-expert. Reproducible example if y...

So, I was thinking. Modern combat relies a lot on intel and speed, but also luck. Now there is a problem. You see, in most video games, even hardcore ones, like Lobotomy Corporation, there are certain safeguards that prevent unavoidable instakill. I'd obviously lose it if Finn or McKenna died on ...

this was my first thing i made on my own without any help. im sure theres a lot of improvement that could be made, i dont feel too confident about this. how can i make it shorter and more efficient? should this entire thing be rewritten in some other way? refactored? keep in mind if i wanted to a...

The spell immovable object from Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (pg. 187) says: You touch an object that weighs no more than 10 pounds and cause it to become magically fixed in place. You and the creatures you designate when you cast this spell can move the object normally. [...] [...] a creature...

Think yoda. Small. Agile. Powerful. Think Hutts. Big. Slow. Powerful. Is this realistic? I was thinking about making a race of small (yoda sized) species that had a lot of power in the galaxy. I mean, for them to be powerful, they would likely need to have weapons, or an army of some kind. But if...

The new ore added in 1.16 is very rare and everyone wants to get their hands on it. During my early game beds were an obvious choice for how inexpensive it was. But now that I'm late game, I would like to mine ancient debris the most efficient way. What is the least time consuming way to get debr...

Which url do you use: api.stripe.com or api.stripe.com/v3? I'm wondering why - even though it works fine - I have this url because I can't find any reference to /v3 in the Stripe documentation.

I want to find a sample path of the following stochastic process: $$dx(t)=f(x(t))dt+g(x(t))dB(t)$$ where $B$ is the Brownian motion. Let $x_0$ be an initial condition. Can I discrete the process as follows $$X_{n+1}-X_{n}=f(x(t_n))\Delta T+g(x(t_n))W(t_n)\Delta T$$ where $W(t_n)$ is a Gaussian ...

I don't really have a problem. But, it's my first time using Kotlin for any project, so I want to know if there is any problem in my code or my code can be made cleaner. This is an arithmetic parser made in Kotlin. It can evaluate a expression like "(6+4)/(2+3)" to 2.0 This handles operations lik...

Anyone know what kind of connector is this?The female connector size is around 18x7 millimeters

I have a closed curve. I am trying to enclose this closed curve with another closed curve, which looks identical in the shape of the first closed curve, but slightly bigger. How to do this? pts = {{-1, 0}, {-1, 1}, {0, 0}, {1, 1}, {1, 0}}; Graphics[{Thick, BSplineCurve[pts, SplineClosed -> True]}]

When, if ever, as a DM would you ask players to make an ability check without allowing them to apply a skill proficiency? The Player's Handbook (p. 174) says: The DM calls for an ability check when a character or monster attempts an action (other than an attack) that has a chance of failure. Whe...