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26,351 | I was studying for icing and a tailplane stall. I have looked up some internet pages and instrument flying handbook, and found the procedure below.
1. raise flaps to the previous setting. (To reduce down wash from the main wing so that reducing negative angle of attack of the tail and break the stall)
2. apply nose up... | 2016/03/23 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/26351",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/6831/"
] | Lets start with the very basic concepts....
In most aircraft, the Centre of Gravity (cg) is somewhat forward of the wing or mainplane Centre of Pressure. The exact distance between the cg and the Centre of pressure will depend on aircraft loading, configuration, thrust setting and drag. However, cg forward of the Cent... | For those recommended actions to be effective, two preconditions have been quietly assumed:
1. The tail surface produces downward lift and
2. The wing has positive camber.
Both can be assumed to be correct in almost any case. Now let’s look at the three recommendations in detail:
>
> raise flaps to the previous set... |
26,351 | I was studying for icing and a tailplane stall. I have looked up some internet pages and instrument flying handbook, and found the procedure below.
1. raise flaps to the previous setting. (To reduce down wash from the main wing so that reducing negative angle of attack of the tail and break the stall)
2. apply nose up... | 2016/03/23 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/26351",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/6831/"
] | Lets start with the very basic concepts....
In most aircraft, the Centre of Gravity (cg) is somewhat forward of the wing or mainplane Centre of Pressure. The exact distance between the cg and the Centre of pressure will depend on aircraft loading, configuration, thrust setting and drag. However, cg forward of the Cent... | I have a theory on applying the backstick on a tail stall induced while lowering the flaps. OP’s comment:
>
> apply nose up elevator pressure (I don't get it. The nose up pressure will make the elevator to go up and wouldn't this increase the negative angle of attack and worsen the stall?)
>
>
>
If the tail stall... |
77,133 | There seems to be a lot of software to control (or emulate) mouse input through the keyboard, but what about the opposite?
Basically I'm looking for a way to emulate up/down/left/right clicks with mouse movement, at a fast rate (i.e. lots of very short and quick right clicks while I move the mouse to the right)
If I ... | 2009/11/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/77133",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/19668/"
] | OK, hopefully supplying a *useful* answer this time, instead of the inverse of the actual answer you wanted...
How about an AutoHotkey script for [mouse gestures](http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/MouseGestures.htm)? You haven't indicated what sort of control you require, so perhaps a set of gestures is adequate.... | If you want something where you can type with your mouse, then I suggest you take a look at [Dasher](http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/).
That is, if I take your question title as the question. As I really don't quite understand your question. |
77,133 | There seems to be a lot of software to control (or emulate) mouse input through the keyboard, but what about the opposite?
Basically I'm looking for a way to emulate up/down/left/right clicks with mouse movement, at a fast rate (i.e. lots of very short and quick right clicks while I move the mouse to the right)
If I ... | 2009/11/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/77133",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/19668/"
] | If you're on Windows, what about the On-Screen Keyboard?
It's found under **All Programs -> Accessories -> Accessibility** on XP (similar for Vista+)
 | If you want something where you can type with your mouse, then I suggest you take a look at [Dasher](http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/).
That is, if I take your question title as the question. As I really don't quite understand your question. |
77,133 | There seems to be a lot of software to control (or emulate) mouse input through the keyboard, but what about the opposite?
Basically I'm looking for a way to emulate up/down/left/right clicks with mouse movement, at a fast rate (i.e. lots of very short and quick right clicks while I move the mouse to the right)
If I ... | 2009/11/30 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/77133",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/19668/"
] | OK, hopefully supplying a *useful* answer this time, instead of the inverse of the actual answer you wanted...
How about an AutoHotkey script for [mouse gestures](http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/MouseGestures.htm)? You haven't indicated what sort of control you require, so perhaps a set of gestures is adequate.... | If you're on Windows, what about the On-Screen Keyboard?
It's found under **All Programs -> Accessories -> Accessibility** on XP (similar for Vista+)
 |
8,499 | I am writing an application, running on a server, where multiple users access data from a database which is AES encrypted with a master secret. The master secret itself is initially randomly generated, and then AES encrypted with a user-secret to yield a 'user-hash'. The master secret is never stored, but the user-hash... | 2013/05/30 | [
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/8499",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/users/7065/"
] | If a user has a copy of both the encrypted and decrypted data, he is in a position to perform at least a [known-plaintext attack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext_attack). If users can submit arbitrary plaintexts for encryption, they can conduct a [chosen-plaintext attack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chose... | Your master secret is **never** secure, at least not as you have described it. As a user, I know my private secret. When I use your application, my private secret decrypts the master secret right there in the application. With modest technical skills, I can examine the memory of the process or machine and read the mast... |
2,055,713 | In his book "Men of Mathematics", Eric Temple Bell repeatedly makes the point that a student of mathematics must read the classics.
My question is what are some classic books in mathematics ( Dictionary definition : judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.) that can be use... | 2016/12/12 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2055713",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
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] | 1. Feller's first volume for Probability Theory.
2. Arnold's ODE for differential equations.
3. Cartan's Elementary Theory of Analytic Functions of One or Several Complex Variables for Complex Analysis | It's a bit more advanced than the topics you asked about, but Milnor's *Morse Theory* and Milnor and Stasheff's *Characteristic Classes* are astoundingly good. (There's a pattern here: Milnor's *Lectures on the h-Cobordism Theorem* is pretty good too!)
At a somewhat lower level, I find Spivak's *Calculus* (which many ... |
2,055,713 | In his book "Men of Mathematics", Eric Temple Bell repeatedly makes the point that a student of mathematics must read the classics.
My question is what are some classic books in mathematics ( Dictionary definition : judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.) that can be use... | 2016/12/12 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2055713",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I don’t agree with Bell on this point: one may well learn better and more easily from a book that is *not* generally considered a classic. For example, most people have never even heard of John Greever’s modified Moore method textbook *Theory and Examples of Point-Set Topology*, but for me it was the ideal introduction... | It's a bit more advanced than the topics you asked about, but Milnor's *Morse Theory* and Milnor and Stasheff's *Characteristic Classes* are astoundingly good. (There's a pattern here: Milnor's *Lectures on the h-Cobordism Theorem* is pretty good too!)
At a somewhat lower level, I find Spivak's *Calculus* (which many ... |
2,055,713 | In his book "Men of Mathematics", Eric Temple Bell repeatedly makes the point that a student of mathematics must read the classics.
My question is what are some classic books in mathematics ( Dictionary definition : judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.) that can be use... | 2016/12/12 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2055713",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | 1. Feller's first volume for Probability Theory.
2. Arnold's ODE for differential equations.
3. Cartan's Elementary Theory of Analytic Functions of One or Several Complex Variables for Complex Analysis | In the early '70s, I used two teaching books that I consider ''classic'':
*Foundations of modern analysis* of J. Dieudonné (at least in Europe).
*Algebra* of S. Mac Lane and G. Birkoff
At a different level, I think that an ''evergreen'' is:
*Methods of Mathematical physics* of R. Courant and D. Hilbert. |
2,055,713 | In his book "Men of Mathematics", Eric Temple Bell repeatedly makes the point that a student of mathematics must read the classics.
My question is what are some classic books in mathematics ( Dictionary definition : judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.) that can be use... | 2016/12/12 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2055713",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I don’t agree with Bell on this point: one may well learn better and more easily from a book that is *not* generally considered a classic. For example, most people have never even heard of John Greever’s modified Moore method textbook *Theory and Examples of Point-Set Topology*, but for me it was the ideal introduction... | 1. Feller's first volume for Probability Theory.
2. Arnold's ODE for differential equations.
3. Cartan's Elementary Theory of Analytic Functions of One or Several Complex Variables for Complex Analysis |
2,055,713 | In his book "Men of Mathematics", Eric Temple Bell repeatedly makes the point that a student of mathematics must read the classics.
My question is what are some classic books in mathematics ( Dictionary definition : judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.) that can be use... | 2016/12/12 | [
"https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2055713",
"https://math.stackexchange.com",
"https://math.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I don’t agree with Bell on this point: one may well learn better and more easily from a book that is *not* generally considered a classic. For example, most people have never even heard of John Greever’s modified Moore method textbook *Theory and Examples of Point-Set Topology*, but for me it was the ideal introduction... | In the early '70s, I used two teaching books that I consider ''classic'':
*Foundations of modern analysis* of J. Dieudonné (at least in Europe).
*Algebra* of S. Mac Lane and G. Birkoff
At a different level, I think that an ''evergreen'' is:
*Methods of Mathematical physics* of R. Courant and D. Hilbert. |
3,195,720 | I know the question has been asked thousands of times, but I'll ask it again: is there a way (even patchy) to write/read a dumb text file with Javascript or Protoype ?
This is only for debug purposes, and is not designed for production. The thing is I need it to work with (at least) both Firefox and IE (preferably und... | 2010/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3195720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277128/"
] | Writing to a file is not possible, you'd have to write a server-side script and make a request to that script. Reading is possible if you use an iframe with the text file's location as source, and reading the iframe contents. | Javascript in browsers doesn't allow you to write local files, for **security reasons**. This **may change with time**, but as for now you have to **deal with it**. |
3,195,720 | I know the question has been asked thousands of times, but I'll ask it again: is there a way (even patchy) to write/read a dumb text file with Javascript or Protoype ?
This is only for debug purposes, and is not designed for production. The thing is I need it to work with (at least) both Firefox and IE (preferably und... | 2010/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3195720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277128/"
] | Writing to a file is not possible, you'd have to write a server-side script and make a request to that script. Reading is possible if you use an iframe with the text file's location as source, and reading the iframe contents. | Only with a server side javascript interpreter, but that isn't the typical environment you run javascript in. |
3,195,720 | I know the question has been asked thousands of times, but I'll ask it again: is there a way (even patchy) to write/read a dumb text file with Javascript or Protoype ?
This is only for debug purposes, and is not designed for production. The thing is I need it to work with (at least) both Firefox and IE (preferably und... | 2010/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3195720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277128/"
] | Writing to a file is not possible, you'd have to write a server-side script and make a request to that script. Reading is possible if you use an iframe with the text file's location as source, and reading the iframe contents. | What about cookies? It is accessible via javascript, it is on your client and it is a plain text file. Only issue is the size of it (4k max if I remember well).
What you can do as well is use your browser localStorage / userData / globalStorage (depending on your browser version). It acts like cookies (new webStorage ... |
3,195,720 | I know the question has been asked thousands of times, but I'll ask it again: is there a way (even patchy) to write/read a dumb text file with Javascript or Protoype ?
This is only for debug purposes, and is not designed for production. The thing is I need it to work with (at least) both Firefox and IE (preferably und... | 2010/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3195720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277128/"
] | **It *is* possible to read/write to a local file via JavaScript**: take a look at [TiddlyWIki](http://www.tiddlywiki.com/). *(Caveat: only works for local documents.)*
I have actually written a [Single Page Application](http://softwareas.com/towards-a-single-page-application-framework) (SPA) using [twFile](http://jque... | Javascript in browsers doesn't allow you to write local files, for **security reasons**. This **may change with time**, but as for now you have to **deal with it**. |
3,195,720 | I know the question has been asked thousands of times, but I'll ask it again: is there a way (even patchy) to write/read a dumb text file with Javascript or Protoype ?
This is only for debug purposes, and is not designed for production. The thing is I need it to work with (at least) both Firefox and IE (preferably und... | 2010/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3195720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277128/"
] | Javascript in browsers doesn't allow you to write local files, for **security reasons**. This **may change with time**, but as for now you have to **deal with it**. | What about cookies? It is accessible via javascript, it is on your client and it is a plain text file. Only issue is the size of it (4k max if I remember well).
What you can do as well is use your browser localStorage / userData / globalStorage (depending on your browser version). It acts like cookies (new webStorage ... |
3,195,720 | I know the question has been asked thousands of times, but I'll ask it again: is there a way (even patchy) to write/read a dumb text file with Javascript or Protoype ?
This is only for debug purposes, and is not designed for production. The thing is I need it to work with (at least) both Firefox and IE (preferably und... | 2010/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3195720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277128/"
] | **It *is* possible to read/write to a local file via JavaScript**: take a look at [TiddlyWIki](http://www.tiddlywiki.com/). *(Caveat: only works for local documents.)*
I have actually written a [Single Page Application](http://softwareas.com/towards-a-single-page-application-framework) (SPA) using [twFile](http://jque... | Only with a server side javascript interpreter, but that isn't the typical environment you run javascript in. |
3,195,720 | I know the question has been asked thousands of times, but I'll ask it again: is there a way (even patchy) to write/read a dumb text file with Javascript or Protoype ?
This is only for debug purposes, and is not designed for production. The thing is I need it to work with (at least) both Firefox and IE (preferably und... | 2010/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3195720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277128/"
] | Only with a server side javascript interpreter, but that isn't the typical environment you run javascript in. | What about cookies? It is accessible via javascript, it is on your client and it is a plain text file. Only issue is the size of it (4k max if I remember well).
What you can do as well is use your browser localStorage / userData / globalStorage (depending on your browser version). It acts like cookies (new webStorage ... |
3,195,720 | I know the question has been asked thousands of times, but I'll ask it again: is there a way (even patchy) to write/read a dumb text file with Javascript or Protoype ?
This is only for debug purposes, and is not designed for production. The thing is I need it to work with (at least) both Firefox and IE (preferably und... | 2010/07/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3195720",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277128/"
] | **It *is* possible to read/write to a local file via JavaScript**: take a look at [TiddlyWIki](http://www.tiddlywiki.com/). *(Caveat: only works for local documents.)*
I have actually written a [Single Page Application](http://softwareas.com/towards-a-single-page-application-framework) (SPA) using [twFile](http://jque... | What about cookies? It is accessible via javascript, it is on your client and it is a plain text file. Only issue is the size of it (4k max if I remember well).
What you can do as well is use your browser localStorage / userData / globalStorage (depending on your browser version). It acts like cookies (new webStorage ... |
223,590 | Where does this meme come from (as in a *trip down memory lane*) ?
Is it from a book ? | 2015/01/25 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/223590",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/64820/"
] | Christine Ammer, *The Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés*, second edition (2006) has this entry for the phrase "down memory lane":
>
> **down memory lane** Looking back on the past. Often put in a nostalgic way, this term may have originated as the title of a popular song of 1924, "Memory Lane," words by Bud de Sylv... | Merriam-Webster claims it was first used in 1903. There are mentions here:
[memory lane](https://www.google.it/search?lr=lang_en&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22memory%20lane%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_min:Jan%201_2%201903,cd_max:Jan%2031_2%201906&num=10&gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=-czEVLWpEZPZaseYgZAB),
that go back almost that far. Many of them r... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | There are many fundamental errors in your question itself. I really suggest you go back and read the books because your understanding of both the Hallows and Harry's resurrection is wrong.
Firstly, Harry was the owner of Elder Wand having won it from Draco Malfoy when he escaped from Malfoy Manor. Draco became the ow... | >
> he passes the cloak to harry but he still own it
>
>
>
No, Dumbledore never **owned** it. Harry's father owned it, and and passed it along with everything else to Harry. Dumbledore was simply in possession of it because he had **borrowed** it before Harry's parents were killed.
I don't have the exact quote, b... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | >
> he passes the cloak to harry but he still own it
>
>
>
No, Dumbledore never **owned** it. Harry's father owned it, and and passed it along with everything else to Harry. Dumbledore was simply in possession of it because he had **borrowed** it before Harry's parents were killed.
I don't have the exact quote, b... | Dumbledore was never the master of death.
At the time he was in possession of the Elder Wand and the Resurrection Stone, Harry was in possession of the Cloak of Invisibility.
Harry was not the master of death when he 'died', as he did not possess the Elder Wand. There is no concrete answer as to why Harry survived. ... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | >
> he passes the cloak to harry but he still own it
>
>
>
No, Dumbledore never **owned** it. Harry's father owned it, and and passed it along with everything else to Harry. Dumbledore was simply in possession of it because he had **borrowed** it before Harry's parents were killed.
I don't have the exact quote, b... | Dumbledore *was* dead. Harry wasn't. That's established by the text itself:
>
> “But you’re dead.” said Harry. “Oh yes,” said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. “Then . . . I’m dead too?” “Ah,” said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. “That is the question, isn’t it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.”
>
>
>
Harr... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | >
> he passes the cloak to harry but he still own it
>
>
>
No, Dumbledore never **owned** it. Harry's father owned it, and and passed it along with everything else to Harry. Dumbledore was simply in possession of it because he had **borrowed** it before Harry's parents were killed.
I don't have the exact quote, b... | Even if Dumbledore would be able to come back, he wouldn't. This is one of the primary points of the books.
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Although I agree with the other answers that the questioner seems to have misunderstood the Hallows, I ... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | There are many fundamental errors in your question itself. I really suggest you go back and read the books because your understanding of both the Hallows and Harry's resurrection is wrong.
Firstly, Harry was the owner of Elder Wand having won it from Draco Malfoy when he escaped from Malfoy Manor. Draco became the ow... | Dumbledore was never the master of death.
At the time he was in possession of the Elder Wand and the Resurrection Stone, Harry was in possession of the Cloak of Invisibility.
Harry was not the master of death when he 'died', as he did not possess the Elder Wand. There is no concrete answer as to why Harry survived. ... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | There are many fundamental errors in your question itself. I really suggest you go back and read the books because your understanding of both the Hallows and Harry's resurrection is wrong.
Firstly, Harry was the owner of Elder Wand having won it from Draco Malfoy when he escaped from Malfoy Manor. Draco became the ow... | Dumbledore *was* dead. Harry wasn't. That's established by the text itself:
>
> “But you’re dead.” said Harry. “Oh yes,” said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. “Then . . . I’m dead too?” “Ah,” said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. “That is the question, isn’t it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.”
>
>
>
Harr... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | There are many fundamental errors in your question itself. I really suggest you go back and read the books because your understanding of both the Hallows and Harry's resurrection is wrong.
Firstly, Harry was the owner of Elder Wand having won it from Draco Malfoy when he escaped from Malfoy Manor. Draco became the ow... | Even if Dumbledore would be able to come back, he wouldn't. This is one of the primary points of the books.
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Although I agree with the other answers that the questioner seems to have misunderstood the Hallows, I ... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | Dumbledore was never the master of death.
At the time he was in possession of the Elder Wand and the Resurrection Stone, Harry was in possession of the Cloak of Invisibility.
Harry was not the master of death when he 'died', as he did not possess the Elder Wand. There is no concrete answer as to why Harry survived. ... | Even if Dumbledore would be able to come back, he wouldn't. This is one of the primary points of the books.
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Although I agree with the other answers that the questioner seems to have misunderstood the Hallows, I ... |
177,933 | Harry Potter chose to come back from the dead because he was the master of death. But how could he be the master of death as he never had the Elder Wand?
If Harry could come back does that mean that Dumbledore could come back from the dead too? Why/why not?
After all, Dumbledore did have the three Deathly Hallows. He... | 2018/01/02 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177933",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93971/"
] | Dumbledore *was* dead. Harry wasn't. That's established by the text itself:
>
> “But you’re dead.” said Harry. “Oh yes,” said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. “Then . . . I’m dead too?” “Ah,” said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. “That is the question, isn’t it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.”
>
>
>
Harr... | Even if Dumbledore would be able to come back, he wouldn't. This is one of the primary points of the books.
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Although I agree with the other answers that the questioner seems to have misunderstood the Hallows, I ... |
95,207 | How does a Stack Overflow moderator know about sock puppet accounts?
How do they trap the user? | 2011/06/15 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95207",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/161645/"
] | I am not going to answer this directly, for reasons that should be obvious.
However; this isn't a "trap" - it is our attempt at *enforcing reasonable behaviour*; using a sock-puppet for *any purpose* (most commonly, but not exclusively: upvoting yourself) is unacceptable.
If you want the vote of the masses; write goo... | They have ways of finding pretty much any kind of sock puppets using their sites...
 |
95,207 | How does a Stack Overflow moderator know about sock puppet accounts?
How do they trap the user? | 2011/06/15 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95207",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/161645/"
] | I am not going to answer this directly, for reasons that should be obvious.
However; this isn't a "trap" - it is our attempt at *enforcing reasonable behaviour*; using a sock-puppet for *any purpose* (most commonly, but not exclusively: upvoting yourself) is unacceptable.
If you want the vote of the masses; write goo... | Actions speak louder than IP address… Possibly even a “view” of a question is an action. |
95,207 | How does a Stack Overflow moderator know about sock puppet accounts?
How do they trap the user? | 2011/06/15 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95207",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/161645/"
] | I am not going to answer this directly, for reasons that should be obvious.
However; this isn't a "trap" - it is our attempt at *enforcing reasonable behaviour*; using a sock-puppet for *any purpose* (most commonly, but not exclusively: upvoting yourself) is unacceptable.
If you want the vote of the masses; write goo... | You know, throughout your posts here, you keep referring to this as a "bug" or a "trap". It's not a bug at all; it's a *feature* designed to prevent people from abusing the site. **Which is exactly what you were doing.**
In your comments on Marc's answer, you complain that your friend "Nahid" got her account merged du... |
95,207 | How does a Stack Overflow moderator know about sock puppet accounts?
How do they trap the user? | 2011/06/15 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95207",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/161645/"
] | They have ways of finding pretty much any kind of sock puppets using their sites...
 | Actions speak louder than IP address… Possibly even a “view” of a question is an action. |
95,207 | How does a Stack Overflow moderator know about sock puppet accounts?
How do they trap the user? | 2011/06/15 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95207",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/161645/"
] | You know, throughout your posts here, you keep referring to this as a "bug" or a "trap". It's not a bug at all; it's a *feature* designed to prevent people from abusing the site. **Which is exactly what you were doing.**
In your comments on Marc's answer, you complain that your friend "Nahid" got her account merged du... | Actions speak louder than IP address… Possibly even a “view” of a question is an action. |
1,336,337 | I've got my first RoR app deployed to Dreamhost and it's using Passenger. The one note on Dreamhost's wiki about slow response mentioned changing a RewriteRules line in the public/.htaccess file to use FastCGI. But I assume this will have no effect if I'm using Passenger, is that right?
I've looked at the logs and com... | 2009/08/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1336337",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/26270/"
] | You must be running in Development mode. Try running in Production mode to see if it is still slow.
Post below may help:
[Ruby On Rails is slow...?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/566401/ruby-on-rails-is-slow) | [New Relic](http://www.newrelic.com/) is a Rails performance monitoring app. I haven't personally used it, but I hear their name a lot and it looks like they have a free lite version that you could try. From my experience profiling other applications, a tool like this is worth using because the slow parts of your appli... |
2,855 | Consider an application that currently uses a combination of license file and/or subscription to verify which features to activate. I can use a smart contract instead of the license file, and potentially the subscription. But today, the subscription check requires an online validation and associated credential check.
... | 2016/04/10 | [
"https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/2855",
"https://ethereum.stackexchange.com",
"https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/users/1161/"
] | When your app is able to sync with the blockchain (network connection available), the check the blockchain and update your app settings file to allow use for up to e.g. 1 week after the blockchain subscription check. Just tell the user that they have to sync before the period is up.
One extra feature you can add:
* Y... | If you want to get up-to-date information from the Ethereum blockchain then you'll need a node somewhere that's synced up. However, in theory you could do this with either a trusted server or a more lightweight proof so you wouldn't necessarily need the whole chain to be downloaded to the client.
If you can tolerate p... |
4,605,482 | I want my marker to appear not in the center of the screen, but 25% of the way up to give extra room for the popup box. Although sticking an offset in is easy, the offset depends on the zoom level as if you're zoomed far out, you'll want to center the map quite far up (such as 50km). If you're really zoomed in, then yo... | 2011/01/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4605482",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/174375/"
] | Try this:
Take the height of the plugin and get 25% of that.
Then you need to multiply that by the degrees or kilometres per pixel scale at that height (if you can't get it straight from the plugin then I guess do the math), then centre the screen at that point on the globe. | I am not sure as it has been a while since I messed around with the API, but I think you can create a custom marker object with its own pixel based offset, and display that instead of the default marker.
EDIT: Whoops read it again and realized you probably just wanted to move the whole map and not the marker. |
325,415 | (<https://webapps.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/111499> shows action by both.) [Edit: At first glance they both looked like special users. Not so.] | 2019/03/18 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/325415",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/218120/"
] | Community♦ is [a special user](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user). Community is credited for reviews when they are:
* Done by deleted users
* Improved, in which case Community is shown as having approved the edit
* Rejected and edited, in which case Community is shown as having r... | A key difference is that their real user numbers, respectively, are -1 for Community♦ and 186471 for user0 (on webapps, and thus *not* 0), as can be seen in the URL (classically displayed in a browser's status bar when mousing over the usernames) that clicking on the name opens.
[Community♦](https://stackexchange.com... |
83,635 | I'm a complete cooking newb. I saw on youtube the other day that you should cook steak in an oven before frying it. I think it makes it softer (not sure, please let me know).
But anyway, I never used an oven in my entire life. And I looked inside the oven and there are no trays in there. So I went to the store and th... | 2017/08/10 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/83635",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/60749/"
] | To answer your question directly, if the method of cooking is what I think it is, the pan you use should be fine, even if it has a nonstick coating on it. You can read the second section to see if my assumption about your cooking method is correct.
It's important that you don't use nonstick cookware for extremely high... | The method I think you are referring to is called "reverse sear". When I do a reverse sear, I use a standard [wire rack](http://dailydecor.foodiefriendsfridaydailydish.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/30b0052baa76.jpg) on top of a foil covered baking sheet. I'm not sure precisely what you mean by a dessert tray - but you... |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | I've certainly done my bit to try and get rid of that question, as well as similar ones, but the system is against us. If Jeff brought it back from the dead I'd love to hear his reasoning for doing so. The only reasoning I can think of is that it brings traffic due to Google and traffic translates to revenue and revenu... | Send it back from whence it came. |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye,
--------------------------
Three days have passed. Since then:
* 30% of our >10K users have voted to delete that question, independent of the vote going on here.
* 22 upvotes for sun-based disposal
* 4 upvotes for 'send it back from whence it came'
* Showers of hate upon 'Leave it'.
Based ... | Leave it, just keep it locked down. |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | Throw this question into the sun. | Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye,
--------------------------
Three days have passed. Since then:
* 30% of our >10K users have voted to delete that question, independent of the vote going on here.
* 22 upvotes for sun-based disposal
* 4 upvotes for 'send it back from whence it came'
* Showers of hate upon 'Leave it'.
Based ... |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | It needs to be burniated.
It adds nothing to the site. It was a "fun" question once upon a time *maybe* but we've moved on from that.
Perhaps it should be locked while its fate is being debated? | Send it back from whence it came. |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | Throw this question into the sun. | If it were my choice, I'd just hit the delete button on it here and be done with it.
Yes, by today's rules it is off topic both here and on Stack Overflow. I don't feel it adds *any* useful information to this site, or any on the Stack Exchange network. It goes no way towards the Stack Exchange mission of "make the in... |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | Throw this question into the sun. | I've certainly done my bit to try and get rid of that question, as well as similar ones, but the system is against us. If Jeff brought it back from the dead I'd love to hear his reasoning for doing so. The only reasoning I can think of is that it brings traffic due to Google and traffic translates to revenue and revenu... |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | Send it back from whence it came. | Leave it, just keep it locked down. |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye,
--------------------------
Three days have passed. Since then:
* 30% of our >10K users have voted to delete that question, independent of the vote going on here.
* 22 upvotes for sun-based disposal
* 4 upvotes for 'send it back from whence it came'
* Showers of hate upon 'Leave it'.
Based ... | It needs to be burniated.
It adds nothing to the site. It was a "fun" question once upon a time *maybe* but we've moved on from that.
Perhaps it should be locked while its fate is being debated? |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye,
--------------------------
Three days have passed. Since then:
* 30% of our >10K users have voted to delete that question, independent of the vote going on here.
* 22 upvotes for sun-based disposal
* 4 upvotes for 'send it back from whence it came'
* Showers of hate upon 'Leave it'.
Based ... | I've certainly done my bit to try and get rid of that question, as well as similar ones, but the system is against us. If Jeff brought it back from the dead I'd love to hear his reasoning for doing so. The only reasoning I can think of is that it brings traffic due to Google and traffic translates to revenue and revenu... |
2,015 | So this question... <https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names>
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (it's already been deleted once by the community).
I understand that it's being kept around for its historical signifi... | 2011/09/04 | [
"https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2015",
"https://meta.serverfault.com",
"https://meta.serverfault.com/users/33118/"
] | It needs to be burniated.
It adds nothing to the site. It was a "fun" question once upon a time *maybe* but we've moved on from that.
Perhaps it should be locked while its fate is being debated? | Leave it, just keep it locked down. |
115,769 | I have a 40 gallon (bladdered) pressure tank in the basement which keeps pressure to my office building, and a 2-inch 2 horsepower submersible pump in a dug well 450 feet away.
The pump is cycling waaay too fast, and the tank will hold pressure at 41 pounds to 43 pounds but not at 60 pounds at shut-off pressure. (The... | 2017/06/02 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/115769",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/70373/"
] | The bladder is there to flatten the pressure/volume curve so pressure doesn't change rapidly as water is pumped.
This allows for a longer duty cycle.
The expected symptom of a burst bladder is just as you describe. | It needs air.
Get hold of an air compressor and give it a charge. Be sure to be running water while charging, and the pump is off. Easy.
If you need to do this more than once a year there might be a problem with the bladder. |
334,167 | I am late game Alien Crossfire, attacking with gravitons aremed with [string disruptor](https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri/Weapon#String_Disruptor).
Unfortunately, the others have gotten wise and are building everything [AAA](https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri/Special_Ab... | 2018/06/24 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/334167",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/92813/"
] | Psi attack/defense is orthogonal to conventional weapons. Its result depends on *Morale* levels of attacking/defending units.
If an attacker/defender is a *Mind Worm*, they have their own class, plus both faction's *Planet (Green)* scores/attitudes largely affect the outcome of the fight.
**Answer:** see what's your ... | If you have dominant weapons, mixing in hovertanks and even air-dropped infantry will let you continue leveraging those dominant weapons.
Psi-combat is mostly useful when facing technologically superior enemies that your weapons cannot defeat. Switching from overwhelming firepower to psi-attack will make you lose as m... |
9,458,253 | Perhaps I am worrying over nothing. I desire for data members to closely follow the RAII idiom. How can I initialise a protected pointer member in an abstract base class to null?
I know it should be null, but wouldn't it be nicer to ensure that is universally understood?
Putting initialization code outside of the ini... | 2012/02/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9458253",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/866333/"
] | I have had this problem in the past - and fixed it.
The images you're displaying are much too large. I love using html or css to resize my images (because who wants to do it manually), but the fact remains that most browsers will hiccup when moving them around. I'm not sure why.
With the exception of Opera, which us... | Performance in JavaScript is slow, as you're going through many layers of abstraction to get any work done, and many manipulations with objects on the screen are happening in the background. Performance cannot be guaranteed from system to system.
You'll find that with all jQuery animation, you will get a higher "frame... |
24,220,365 | I have this SQL server instance which is shared by several client-processes. I want queries to finish taking as little time as possible.
Say a call needs to read 1k to 10k records from this shared Sql Server. My natural choice would be to use ExecuteReaderAsync to take advantage of async benefits such as reusing threa... | 2014/06/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/24220365",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298622/"
] | Whether you use sync or async to call SQL Server makes no difference for the work that SQL Server does and for the CPU-bound work that ADO.NET does to serialize and deserialize request and response. So no matter what you chose the difference will be small.
Using async is not about saving CPU time. It is about saving m... | The difference between the async approach and the sync approach is that the async call will cause the compiler to generate a state machine, whereas the sync call will simply block while the work agains't the database is being done.
IRL, the best way to choose is to benchmark both approaches. As usr said, usually those... |
37,455,599 | When I run my project on my iphone or in the simulator it works fine.
When I try to run it on an ipad I get the below error:
*file was built for arm64 which is not the architecture being linked (armv7)*
The devices it set to Universal.
Does anybody have an idea about what else I should check? | 2016/05/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/37455599",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5367540/"
] | Just in case somebody has the same problem as me. Some of my target projects had different iOS Deployment target and that is why the linking failed. After moving them all to the same the problem was solved. | I should have added armv6 for iPad 2. Done that and it works now |
24,010 | UPDATE
Have included an image. As you can see, LED is ON when base is floating. This is a 2N222A transistor.
---
Playing with an NPN bipolar transistor. The Collector is connect... | 2011/12/21 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/24010",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/4336/"
] | Okay, looking at the picture I think you may have the transistor the wrong way round.
Try turning it round.
See this picture for reference:
As you can see the collector is on the right with the flat part facing you, so you have the collector con... | Please answer:
* What colour LED are you using?
* What is your transistor type. ?
---
You should look at some of the 10's of thousands of diagrams available on the net before connecting a transistor to try to do this job and/or look at the transistor's data sheet.
All transistors have a maximum Vbe rating and you ... |
4,882,465 | I am quite a noob when it comes to deploying a Django project. I'd like to know what are the various methods to deploy Django project and which one is the most preferred. | 2011/02/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4882465",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277848/"
] | Use the Nginx/Apache/mod-wsgi and you can't go wrong.
If you prefer a simple alternative, just use Apache.
There is a very good deployment document: <http://lethain.com/entry/2009/feb/13/the-django-and-ubuntu-intrepid-almanac/> | I myself have faced a lot of problems in deploying Django Projects and automating the deployment process. Apache and mod\_wsgi were like curse for Django Deployment. There are several tools like [Nginx](http://wiki.nginx.org/Main), [Gunicorn](http://gunicorn.org/), [SupervisorD](http://supervisord.org/) and Fabric whic... |
3,551 | I have a chunk of text I need to paste into Illustrator. No matter what I do, I can't resize the text area without scaling the text. I want to resize the area and have the text wrap (font size to remain the same).
How can I do this? I'm using CS5.1 | 2011/09/06 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/3551",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/2357/"
] | Select your `Type` tool. Instead of clicking on your canvas, click and drag to draw a box. Put whatever copy you want inside the type box and when you resize the box it will reflow the text instead of changing the font.
You can also link multiple type boxes together to flow text across multiple points on your artboard... | Here's a great article, **["Make Illustrator behave!"](http://www.creativepro.com/article/make-illustrator-behave-)** that explains it all in in full.
Figuring out under what circumstances Illustrator scales the many types of text object and when it scales the bounding box, wrapping the text, is a common frustration.... |
11,240,180 | I want to run a .exe file (or) any application from pen drive on insert in to pc. I dont want to use Autorun.inf file, as all anti virus software's blocks it. I have used portable application launcher also, that also using autorun only. so once again anti virus software blocks it. Is there any alternative option, such ... | 2012/06/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11240180",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1487797/"
] | Anti-virus programs block autorun.inf on the solely purpose not to allow some .exe-s to start automatically on pen drive insert. So, basically, what you're asking is impossible. | I havent used Windows in a long time, but I am fairly sure there is a setting in Windows to enable/disable autorunning executeables on mounted drives. That and changing such setting in your antivirus application (or get a new, saner one) would be my best guess.
Good luck! |
151,322 | Recently, I read a lot of good articles about how to do good encapsulation. And when I say "good encapsulation", I am not talking about hiding private fields with public properties; I am talking about preventing users of your API from doing wrong things.
Here are two good articles about this subject:
<http://blog.plo... | 2012/06/02 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/151322",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/44035/"
] | Answer: When you have your interface complete, then automatically you are done with encapsulation. It does not matter if implemenation or consumption part is incomplete, you are done since interface is accepted as final.
**Proper development tools should reduce cost more than tools cost themself.**
You suggest that i... | Encapsulation exists to protect your class invariants. This is the primary measure for 'how much is enough'. Any way to break invariants breaks class semantics and is bad (tm).
A secondary concern is limiting visibility and as such the number of places that can/will access data and thus increase coupling and/or number... |
151,322 | Recently, I read a lot of good articles about how to do good encapsulation. And when I say "good encapsulation", I am not talking about hiding private fields with public properties; I am talking about preventing users of your API from doing wrong things.
Here are two good articles about this subject:
<http://blog.plo... | 2012/06/02 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/151322",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/44035/"
] | The fact that your code is not being written as a public API is not really the point--the maintainability you mention is.
Yes, application development is a cost center, and the customer does not want to pay for unnecessary work. However, a badly designed or implemented application is going to cost the customer a lot m... | Encapsulation exists to protect your class invariants. This is the primary measure for 'how much is enough'. Any way to break invariants breaks class semantics and is bad (tm).
A secondary concern is limiting visibility and as such the number of places that can/will access data and thus increase coupling and/or number... |
230,264 | I was reading about CMS and ERP. And got confused at this point that whether a system can both be an ERP and a CMS? is it possible? | 2014/02/25 | [
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As for whether having an ERP/CMS hybrid makes sense or already exists - I don't think so. There are some vague similarities and overlaps in that both will typically allow you to define your own entities with fields ("document... | An example, though maybe a contrived one but one I encounterd in the wild a long time ago:
An application was built that would store incoming documents pertaining to required reports sent in by customers of a financial services company.
The same application also served to automatically send out reminder letters t... |
230,264 | I was reading about CMS and ERP. And got confused at this point that whether a system can both be an ERP and a CMS? is it possible? | 2014/02/25 | [
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An application was built that would store incoming documents pertaining to required reports sent in by customers of a financial services company.
The same application also served to automatically send out reminder letters t... |
230,264 | I was reading about CMS and ERP. And got confused at this point that whether a system can both be an ERP and a CMS? is it possible? | 2014/02/25 | [
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As for whether having an ERP/CMS hybrid makes sense or already exists - I don't think so. There are some vague similarities and overlaps in that both will typically allow you to define your own entities with fields ("document... |
230,264 | I was reading about CMS and ERP. And got confused at this point that whether a system can both be an ERP and a CMS? is it possible? | 2014/02/25 | [
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As for whether having an ERP/CMS hybrid makes sense or already exists - I don't think so. There are some vague similarities and overlaps in that both will typically allow you to define your own entities with fields ("document... | In most cases this would not make very much sense,ERP system generally use in business management.An CMS able to edit not only content but the entire design can be edited.Information that is not important for business prospective are edited by CMS. |
230,264 | I was reading about CMS and ERP. And got confused at this point that whether a system can both be an ERP and a CMS? is it possible? | 2014/02/25 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/230264",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/121236/"
] | In a very theoretical sense yes. But in most cases this would not make very much sense. The basic functionality of an ERP system is business management. The data produced here may become part of the data displayed on a web site. But normally the data here is pure text and numbers, like definitions of products, orders, ... | In most cases this would not make very much sense,ERP system generally use in business management.An CMS able to edit not only content but the entire design can be edited.Information that is not important for business prospective are edited by CMS. |
6,527,788 | In Objective C I want to create a simple application that posts a string to a php file using ASIHTTPRequest.
I have no need for an interface and am finding it hard to find any example code. Does anyone know where I can find code, or can anyone give me an example of such code? | 2011/06/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6527788",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/559142/"
] | The ASIHTTPRequest documentation covers this. Specifically, [Sending a form POST with ASIFormDataRequest](http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/How-to-use#sending_a_form_post_with_ASIFormDataRequest). | [This site](http://www.webdesignideas.org/2011/08/18/simple-login-app-for-iphone-tutorial/comment-page-1/#comment-34811) has a really great walkthrough on how to use ASIHTTPREQUEST to authenticate data against a database. the walkthrough breaks the entire process down file by file for you. |
62,853 | Also, if there is truth behind Republican support to make voting more restrictive for people in general, how long ago might this party have started advocating legislation with more restrictions?
Why
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Listening to the video on [this post](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/politics/supreme-court-brnovich-v-dnc-case-ana... | 2021/03/03 | [
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] | Speaking nationally, Democrats currently have a 6%-7% advantage over Republicans in terms of voter representation. In fact, Democrats have a lead among every demographic group except *white males without a college education*. However, Democratic voters tend to be clustered in urban and suburban areas, which attenuates ... | >
> How long ago might this party have started advocating legislation with more restrictions?
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For the Republican party in particular it began with [the Southern strategy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) to wrest control of southern states from the Democrats by attracting conservative white v... |
62,853 | Also, if there is truth behind Republican support to make voting more restrictive for people in general, how long ago might this party have started advocating legislation with more restrictions?
Why
---
Listening to the video on [this post](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/politics/supreme-court-brnovich-v-dnc-case-ana... | 2021/03/03 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/62853",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/7229/"
] | Speaking nationally, Democrats currently have a 6%-7% advantage over Republicans in terms of voter representation. In fact, Democrats have a lead among every demographic group except *white males without a college education*. However, Democratic voters tend to be clustered in urban and suburban areas, which attenuates ... | Not necessarily.
If any once dominant political party wishes to win more elections without imposing "voting restrictions", they might also consider changing with the times to better represent the wider preferences of the general public. |
62,853 | Also, if there is truth behind Republican support to make voting more restrictive for people in general, how long ago might this party have started advocating legislation with more restrictions?
Why
---
Listening to the video on [this post](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/politics/supreme-court-brnovich-v-dnc-case-ana... | 2021/03/03 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/62853",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/7229/"
] | >
> How long ago might this party have started advocating legislation with more restrictions?
>
>
>
For the Republican party in particular it began with [the Southern strategy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) to wrest control of southern states from the Democrats by attracting conservative white v... | Not necessarily.
If any once dominant political party wishes to win more elections without imposing "voting restrictions", they might also consider changing with the times to better represent the wider preferences of the general public. |
165,197 | I was once asked the following question by a student I was tutoring; and I was stumped by it:
When one throws a stone why does it take the same amount of time for a stone to rise to its peak and then down to the ground?
* One could say that this is an experimental observation; after one could envisage, hypothetically... | 2015/02/15 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/165197",
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> When one throws a stone....
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Your arm is capable of propelling an object at up to around 150km/h (and that's with some practice). At that speed the many factors like air resistance are negligible.
Let’s load a 16-inch shell into a gun (you will find several on the USS Iowa), aim it 45 degrees up and pres... | **Assuming that the only forces acting on the stone are the initial force exerted by the hand on the stone AND the force of gravity**, we have the following situation:
Immediately after throwing, the stone has a kinetic energy in the x-direction that never changes (**conservation of energy**) and the stone has a kinet... |
165,197 | I was once asked the following question by a student I was tutoring; and I was stumped by it:
When one throws a stone why does it take the same amount of time for a stone to rise to its peak and then down to the ground?
* One could say that this is an experimental observation; after one could envisage, hypothetically... | 2015/02/15 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/165197",
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] | I think its because both halves of a projectile's trajectory are symmetric in every aspect. The projectile going from its apex position to the ground is just the time reversed version of the projectile going from its initial position to the apex position. | A lot of things have to hold to get that symmetry. You have to neglect air resistance. You either have to throw it straight up, or the ground over there has to be at the the same altitude as the ground over here. You have to through it slowly enough that it comes back down (watch out for escape velocity)
But if you ha... |
165,197 | I was once asked the following question by a student I was tutoring; and I was stumped by it:
When one throws a stone why does it take the same amount of time for a stone to rise to its peak and then down to the ground?
* One could say that this is an experimental observation; after one could envisage, hypothetically... | 2015/02/15 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/165197",
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] | I would say that it is a result of time reversal symmetry. If you consider the projectile at the apex of its trajectory then all that changes under time reversal is the direction of the horizontal component of motion. This means that the trajectory of the particle to get to that point and its trajectory after that poin... | Conservation of momentum!
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### Force × Time = Impulse = Δ Momentum
Since the average force is the same going up and down, and since the momentum change is the same going up and down as well, the time during which the force is applied must also be the same. |
165,197 | I was once asked the following question by a student I was tutoring; and I was stumped by it:
When one throws a stone why does it take the same amount of time for a stone to rise to its peak and then down to the ground?
* One could say that this is an experimental observation; after one could envisage, hypothetically... | 2015/02/15 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/165197",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
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] | (Non-kinematics math attempt but just some principles)
It is a partial observation in that
* It hits the ground with same speed.
* Angle by which it hits the ground is the same (maybe a direction change)
* It takes equal time to reach to the peak and then hit the ground
They are equally strange coincidences. Which ... | **Assuming that the only forces acting on the stone are the initial force exerted by the hand on the stone AND the force of gravity**, we have the following situation:
Immediately after throwing, the stone has a kinetic energy in the x-direction that never changes (**conservation of energy**) and the stone has a kinet... |
165,197 | I was once asked the following question by a student I was tutoring; and I was stumped by it:
When one throws a stone why does it take the same amount of time for a stone to rise to its peak and then down to the ground?
* One could say that this is an experimental observation; after one could envisage, hypothetically... | 2015/02/15 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/165197",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/7993/"
] | I would consider that since acceleration is a constant vector pointing downward, that the time the projectiles downward component takes to accelerate from V(initial) to 0 would be the same as the time it takes to accelerate the object from 0 to V(final) | **Assuming that the only forces acting on the stone are the initial force exerted by the hand on the stone AND the force of gravity**, we have the following situation:
Immediately after throwing, the stone has a kinetic energy in the x-direction that never changes (**conservation of energy**) and the stone has a kinet... |
165,197 | I was once asked the following question by a student I was tutoring; and I was stumped by it:
When one throws a stone why does it take the same amount of time for a stone to rise to its peak and then down to the ground?
* One could say that this is an experimental observation; after one could envisage, hypothetically... | 2015/02/15 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/165197",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/7993/"
] | I think its because both halves of a projectile's trajectory are symmetric in every aspect. The projectile going from its apex position to the ground is just the time reversed version of the projectile going from its initial position to the apex position. | Conservation of momentum!
=========================
### Force × Time = Impulse = Δ Momentum
Since the average force is the same going up and down, and since the momentum change is the same going up and down as well, the time during which the force is applied must also be the same. |
165,197 | I was once asked the following question by a student I was tutoring; and I was stumped by it:
When one throws a stone why does it take the same amount of time for a stone to rise to its peak and then down to the ground?
* One could say that this is an experimental observation; after one could envisage, hypothetically... | 2015/02/15 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/165197",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/7993/"
] | I think its because both halves of a projectile's trajectory are symmetric in every aspect. The projectile going from its apex position to the ground is just the time reversed version of the projectile going from its initial position to the apex position. | **Assuming that the only forces acting on the stone are the initial force exerted by the hand on the stone AND the force of gravity**, we have the following situation:
Immediately after throwing, the stone has a kinetic energy in the x-direction that never changes (**conservation of energy**) and the stone has a kinet... |
1,749,232 | What naming conventions do you use for everyday code? I'm pondering this because I currently have a project in Python that contains 3 packages, each with a unique purpose. Now, I've been putting general-purpose, 'utility' methods into the first package I created for the project, however I'm contemplating moving these m... | 2009/11/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1749232",
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] | In general, you should follow the naming convention of the language you're using. It doesn't matter if you like or prefer the standards of another language. Consistency within the context of the language helps make your code more readable, maintainable, and usable by others. In Python, that means you use [PEP 8](http:/... | Unless you have some good reason not to, you should follow the guidelines presented in [PEP 8](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/). See, in particular, "Prescriptive: Naming Conventions". |
521 | Has anyone seen this site? <http://answermagento.com/>
I know this subject has been briefly discussed but this isn't another site using a StackExchange-clone platform. This site consists entirely of scraped content from Magento SE.
[Frequently linked-to site ripping off Magento Stack Exchange](https://magento.meta.st... | 2015/02/23 | [
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/521",
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com/users/324/"
] | The content is CC share-alike, but this site isn't properly crediting the origin.
Not important though because the domain name infringes our mark. I've sent a note to our legal team to C&D the owner. | Thats a common problem with stackoverflow/stackexchange content. Usually you dont find it on google anymore, as the duplicate content restrictions are good enough to recognize them.
If you still see such things, you can report them to the StackExchange Team via one of the communication ways.
I for example sent a mail... |
521 | Has anyone seen this site? <http://answermagento.com/>
I know this subject has been briefly discussed but this isn't another site using a StackExchange-clone platform. This site consists entirely of scraped content from Magento SE.
[Frequently linked-to site ripping off Magento Stack Exchange](https://magento.meta.st... | 2015/02/23 | [
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/521",
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com/users/324/"
] | The content is CC share-alike, but this site isn't properly crediting the origin.
Not important though because the domain name infringes our mark. I've sent a note to our legal team to C&D the owner. | **Meet "Alan Storm"**
This is another website ripping Magento SE, compare this:
* Ours: [Inline translate Chrome Bug?](https://magento.stackexchange.com/q/6435/3326)
* Theirs: <http://worldofcoder.com/question/12459/how-to-inline-translate-chrome-bug.html>
They l... |
521 | Has anyone seen this site? <http://answermagento.com/>
I know this subject has been briefly discussed but this isn't another site using a StackExchange-clone platform. This site consists entirely of scraped content from Magento SE.
[Frequently linked-to site ripping off Magento Stack Exchange](https://magento.meta.st... | 2015/02/23 | [
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/521",
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://magento.meta.stackexchange.com/users/324/"
] | Thats a common problem with stackoverflow/stackexchange content. Usually you dont find it on google anymore, as the duplicate content restrictions are good enough to recognize them.
If you still see such things, you can report them to the StackExchange Team via one of the communication ways.
I for example sent a mail... | **Meet "Alan Storm"**
This is another website ripping Magento SE, compare this:
* Ours: [Inline translate Chrome Bug?](https://magento.stackexchange.com/q/6435/3326)
* Theirs: <http://worldofcoder.com/question/12459/how-to-inline-translate-chrome-bug.html>
They l... |
27,771,899 | Our .net application supports AD authentication, so our application will read from the GC connection string and credentials. We now have a client who has ADFS in their on-premise and wants to create a trust with our server which hosts the application. Do I need to write a separate code to setup as a claims-aware (or) c... | 2015/01/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/27771899",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2024422/"
] | you've answered your own question : "Our .net application supports AD authentication..." This is not the same s being claims aware, so yes you will need to modify the app. Once your app is claims aware they will create a relying party (that's your app) trust with some data that you will provide after it's been made cla... | You should ask this on <https://stackoverflow.com/>
If you do consider converting the app to be claims aware, I suggest you implement AD FS in your environment and create a trust between your AD FS and the client's ADFS. Your app will then needs to be converted to be claims aware and configure a trust between your app... |
42,099,915 | I don't mean collapse, I mean hide. For example for single line comments it'd completely hide it, the editor entirely skipping the comment's line number.
I'm entirely self-taught when it comes to programming, so I'm sure I've picked up numerous bad habits, one of which is almost entirely forgoing commenting. I dislike... | 2017/02/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/42099915",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2868017/"
] | I am not sure, whether I would recommend working without comments. However, you could switch between two schemes. The first one would be the one you are currently working with. The other would be a copy of it, but with the -distracting- comments matching the background color.
[For instance like this](https://i.stack.i... | "CTRL SLASH" will comment the current line.
"CTRL SHIFT SLASH" will comment all that is currently selected.
To hide multiple commented lines simply use the minus/minimize arrows on the left side of the code window (right side of the line numbers).
To see the hidden lines use the add/maximize blocks. |
13,624 | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9pJC6.jpg)
This is a picture of a jet of particles exiting the supermassive black hole in the center of Pictor A galaxy at nearly the speed of light. [Source](http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/02/blast-from-black-hole-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away?utm_so... | 2016/02/09 | [
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/13624",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com",
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/users/7926/"
] | This is a clear example of an [astrophysical jet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet), in this case, most likely a relativistic jet. In short, an accretion disk forms around a black hole (supermassive or otherwise). Matter is pulled towards the black hole and further energized, before being accelerated int... | It's infalling matter, as described in [the article](http://futurism.com/distant-supermassive-black-hole-emits-giant-death-rays-larger-galaxy/):
>
> The new image shows how the material being consumed by the black hole—stars, planets, interstellar gas, unwary astronauts (kidding)—releases a tremendous surplus of ener... |
253,869 | I upgraded my service to 200 amp from 100 amp, but the new panel is 15 ft. away. In order to connect the existing wires to the new breakers in the new panel, will just a simple connection with higher guage wire and wire nut be fine or does it require a different approach?
thanks | 2022/07/31 | [
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] | Extending the existing circuits from the old panel to the new one with the same gauge wire is acceptable. There is no need to upsize the wire. If you have an excess of larger gauge wire that you are trying to use up then you can use it, provided the breakers in the new panel are listed for use with that gauge.
Your ol... | Not clear from the question. Is this about *service* or *branch circuits*?
### Service
Since you upgraded the *service*, you need larger feed wires to match. Instead of 2 sections of wire and a splice, get wires to go the whole distance.
If you are simply putting in a bigger panel (based on a previous question, I th... |
251,927 | What is the proper way to fuse and switch a power supply consisting of a bunch of SMPS like the following:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qd2vI.jpg)
There would be up to 5 separate output voltages. The outputs shown are about 35W each. Other outputs would be less... | 2016/08/12 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/251927",
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] | >
> So currently I have a mock-up that has a single fuse and a single switch on the AC load line. Is this safe?
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The majority of devices found in the home or office are wired this way and there are few issues. The problem is that if you live in a land of non-polarised mains plugs which when reversed, can make... | I would use a single switch and fuse as you have shown, particularly if the supplies have internal fuses.
Whether the individual supplies should be switched will depend on the application. |
258,422 | I have developed two web services. The main service is a RESTful service (using DB), and another UI service that uses the RESTful service.
Say I want to test the UI for now (integration tests), every test will makes changes in the prod DB. More then that, if in the RESTful service, there are one-way functions for secu... | 2014/10/08 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/258422",
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] | First of all, you shouldn't be testing against your production database. If you ever need to rerun your tests after the application has gone live (and you *will* need to do that), you run a serious risk of losing or corrupting data that is vital to the business.
So, instead of testing against the production database, ... | Given HATEOAS, you only need to change the base URL for your RESTful service to point the UI service to another implementation of it. So set up a staging version of your UI and test it against a staging version of the data service, making that one change. |
258,422 | I have developed two web services. The main service is a RESTful service (using DB), and another UI service that uses the RESTful service.
Say I want to test the UI for now (integration tests), every test will makes changes in the prod DB. More then that, if in the RESTful service, there are one-way functions for secu... | 2014/10/08 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/258422",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/110245/"
] | Since you have to do unit testing for the REST API, I would assume you are using mock objects for those, rather than interact directly with the database. This should give you a framework of proper "valid" responses from the API already - what I'm getting at is that when you test, you should know you're in "test mode" (... | Given HATEOAS, you only need to change the base URL for your RESTful service to point the UI service to another implementation of it. So set up a staging version of your UI and test it against a staging version of the data service, making that one change. |
258,422 | I have developed two web services. The main service is a RESTful service (using DB), and another UI service that uses the RESTful service.
Say I want to test the UI for now (integration tests), every test will makes changes in the prod DB. More then that, if in the RESTful service, there are one-way functions for secu... | 2014/10/08 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/258422",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/110245/"
] | First of all, you shouldn't be testing against your production database. If you ever need to rerun your tests after the application has gone live (and you *will* need to do that), you run a serious risk of losing or corrupting data that is vital to the business.
So, instead of testing against the production database, ... | Since you have to do unit testing for the REST API, I would assume you are using mock objects for those, rather than interact directly with the database. This should give you a framework of proper "valid" responses from the API already - what I'm getting at is that when you test, you should know you're in "test mode" (... |
28,492 | How does IE register ActiveX controls for use in the browser?
Does it just run regsvr32 for the DLL? | 2009/08/24 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/28492",
"https://superuser.com",
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] | My understanding is that it uses some of the underlying APIs that regsvr32 uses, but it doesn't call the regsvr.exe. ActiveX controls are composed of a file on disk, typically a .DLL file, and some registry entries. The registry entries are used to lookup the the location of the actual executable code since the browser... | It actually doesn't have to do any of these things; the CAB file specifies what it will actually do. It may use DllRegisterServer, and indeed this is the most common thing, but it could also launch an MSI or EXE installer that may register the ActiveX control in another way. |
488,019 | For most ML models we say they suffer from high bias or high variance, then we correct for it. However, in DL do neural networks suffer from the same concept in the sense that they initially have high bias or high variance and then you correct through regularization and/or dropout? I would argue they initially suffer f... | 2020/09/18 | [
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] | In general NNs are prone to overfitting the training set, which is case of a [high variance](https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/45578/why-underfitting-is-called-high-bias-and-overfitting-is-called-high-variance). Your train of thought is generally correct in the sense that the proposed solutions (regulariz... | Neural networks, including DNNs, don't *by themselves* suffer from high variance any more than other machine learning algorithms. It is just that we find it easier to start the training with more complex networks and control for variance by the techniques you mentioned, than to start with simpler (less expressive) netw... |
192,935 | I want to say :
>
> Analysis **conducted at a** insurance company showed that...
>
> or
>
> Analysis **into a** insurance company showed that...
>
>
>
What is the best way to phrase this? | 2014/08/23 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/192935",
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] | I would make it slightly less passive:
*"An analysis performed by the insurance company ..."*
or other material to indicate *who* performed the analysis and *where* it was performed as well as the issue being analyzed. If you or your associates performed the analysis, you might phrase it:
*"An analysis performed by ... | Use:
>
> The analysis that the company made says that \_\_\_.
>
>
> |
344,872 | It hadn’t properly registered yet with Arthur that the council wanted to knock it down" - what's the meaning of register with someone here? | 2016/08/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/344872",
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] | This would be dependent on whether the speaker was referring to the group/entity of the Club or to the location of Sunnyside Country Club.
For instance if you removed the words 'Sunnyside' and 'Country' and just left the word Club, a speaker would be more likely to choose the term "to".
I was accepted for membership... | See my comment to JA's answer.
Membership prepositions per the [Ngram viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=for%20membership%20*%2Cfor%20membership%20at%2Cfor%20membership%20into&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Cfor%20membership%20%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bfo... |
344,872 | It hadn’t properly registered yet with Arthur that the council wanted to knock it down" - what's the meaning of register with someone here? | 2016/08/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/344872",
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] | This would be dependent on whether the speaker was referring to the group/entity of the Club or to the location of Sunnyside Country Club.
For instance if you removed the words 'Sunnyside' and 'Country' and just left the word Club, a speaker would be more likely to choose the term "to".
I was accepted for membership... | I would suggest this is more of a US v UK English issue. I live in the UK and until about five years ago I had never heard the phrase 'membership to' - it was always 'membership of'. Suddenly, 'membership to' has become ubiquitous. As a Brit, 'membership to' makes no sense to me, but had I grown up in the USA it would ... |
344,872 | It hadn’t properly registered yet with Arthur that the council wanted to knock it down" - what's the meaning of register with someone here? | 2016/08/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/344872",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | This would be dependent on whether the speaker was referring to the group/entity of the Club or to the location of Sunnyside Country Club.
For instance if you removed the words 'Sunnyside' and 'Country' and just left the word Club, a speaker would be more likely to choose the term "to".
I was accepted for membership... | I would suggest this is more of a US v UK English issue. UK dictionaries use 'of' when defining membership. Moreover, I've lived in the UK for over 50 years and until about five years ago I had never heard the phrase 'membership to' - it was always 'membership of'. Suddenly, 'membership to' has become ubiquitous. As a ... |
66,802 | And in particular, when you play with 2 players do you deal out all the cards the from the deck? Or is there some undealt part that players draw from during the game? I mean, if you deal them all then you'll just know what's in your opponent's hand?
This is going to sound trivial, but actually it's part of this theory... | 2022/05/14 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/66802",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
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] | **Yes, it is possible to play *Shichi Narabe* with only 2 players.**
First of all, there is no exact requirement for the number of players, though most sites recommend at least 3 or 4 players:
* [English Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_(card_game)): 3-7 (intro body) / 3-8 (infobox)
* [Japanese Wikiped... | This game may be played with two players. It becomes less of a strategic battle and more of a time-killer.
If you trust Wikipedia as a source, the [Japanese Wikipedia article](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%E4%B8%A6%E3%81%B9#%E4%BA%BA%E6%95%B0) says it could even be played by one player.
I can imagine playing this g... |
17,525,935 | i have created an application called "xyz.msi" and installed. Now i created another application called "abc.msi" and trying to install.
But my question is if "xyz.msi" is installed already then it shouldn't allow to install "abc.msi".
Thanks in advance | 2013/07/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17525935",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | Take a look at the [Upgrade table](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa372379%28v=vs.85%29.aspx). You can use this to define the search criteria along with the msidbUpgradeAttributesOnlyDetect attribute to cause your action property to be assigned the ProductCode property that is found. Then you c... | You are asking how MSI detect an installed application. Its since each MSI will have a unique Product Code
(Refer to this: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370854(v=vs.85).aspx>)
whenever you try to install a product it looks up at the product code if it matches it lets you do the re instal... |
83,697 | In X-Men Origins, Scott Summers lost his eyes, which were then put into Deadpool. After this event, in X-Men 1 through X-Men 3 Scott was still able to fire lasers, implying that the mutant ability was not related to the eyes? Yet Deadpool was able to fire the lasers with Scott's eyes. In addition Deadpool was able to c... | 2015/03/12 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83697",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | >
> Why is Deadpool able to shoot lasers with eyes and Cyclops without? Why is Deadpool able to control the lasers without the technology Cyclops has?
>
>
>
Because Cyclops origin story involves trauma (either mental psychological trauma, or actual head injury) that prevents him from controlling his powers. His br... | the reason is because Hollyweird butt-pulled a bunch of powers for him because they didn't do any research before making the character in the film. This is why Deadpool could shoot beams from his eyes, and had other powers he never had in the Marvel universe. They weren't doing any research and, at the time, had no pla... |
6,346 | I hope to observe planets like Jupiter and Saturn, and moons. I am a novice when it comes to telescopes and I know images in magazines are not taken with at least 12-inch telescope in a middle of nowhere. Is it possible to view Saturn in little yellowish and Mars in little reddish using following telescopes? I am going... | 2014/09/13 | [
"https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/6346",
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] | Go with Option 1 (135mm) as it has bigger light collecting area, i.e. diameter of primary mirror. It will enable you to see faint objects and it will also help you to see the dim objects under a greater zoom eyepiece, e.g. 4mm or 10mm.
Also, don't fool yourself with the bigger numbers advertized by telescope vendors l... | >
> Is it possible to view Saturn in little yellowish and Mars in little
> reddish using following telescopes?
>
>
>
It is definitely possible to observe the rings of Saturn with telescopes this size. Even the Cassini division should sometimes appear visible, if the instruments are well collimated and seeing is n... |
123,285 | I have a 20 amp circuit going directly from the panel to the kitchen with 20 amp receptacles and subsequent 12 gauge wire. There are only 4 outlets on that circuit (one being a GFI). I am installing under-cabinet lights and lights above the sink, well within the total amperage and volts allowed for the 20 amp circuit. ... | 2017/09/13 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/123285",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/75416/"
] | Switches are not circuit breakers (overcurrent protection). They cannot protect wire and do not make it ok to use smaller wire past them.
If any 14AWG wire is used, you must downgrade the breaker to 15A, and downgrade the countertop receptacles to 15A. The other wire can remain 12AWG. This will mean it is not one of ... | If you have any #14 wire in the circuit, you have to put a 15 A breaker on it. So, to keep your 20 A breaker, you should use #12 wire everywhere, and run #12 to the switch and lights. |
118,606 | I am a 15-year-old female, and I am currently a high soprano. I can currently sing from a low C4 to a high F above the bar. Is there a way I could get higher and become a coloratura soprano or gain an octave? | 2021/11/18 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/118606",
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] | You already have a full soprano range: C4 to F6. Coloratura is a vocal quality, not a range. Coloratura voices generally have a light quality to them, as opposed to the more powerful voice of a dramatic soprano. Coloraturas specialize in highly decorative passages with lots of runs, trills, and other ornaments.
So col... | You dont just simply add a octave. Most singers range is between an octave and maybe a 10th. Even then a 10th is extraordinary.
Singing around middle C is hard for soprano and very few ever get to the fabled nessum dorma high B.
Your range will gravitate between the E above middle C to the G a tenth above it. That is... |
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