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19,086 | So, a while back I created this icon from a game, but looking back on it behind a white background instead of an alpha-channel its edges are super choppy in some places while it's smooth in others, which is possibly due to the method I used to select certain regions before bucket-filling it. I was using GIMP and I was ... | 2013/06/26 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/19086",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/13630/"
] | ### Tracing
In case we can not easily recreate the original in a vector oriented application we may also trace the bitmap to a vector graphic.
Below example was done with **Inkscape** where I imported the bitmap to trace it with 2 color steps:
Thi... | For smaller projects, simply using the *blur* tool can do wonders. While this doesn't apply to this particular project, other people looking may find this solution expedient. |
19,086 | So, a while back I created this icon from a game, but looking back on it behind a white background instead of an alpha-channel its edges are super choppy in some places while it's smooth in others, which is possibly due to the method I used to select certain regions before bucket-filling it. I was using GIMP and I was ... | 2013/06/26 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/19086",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/13630/"
] | There is a really simple way to do this by using the fuzzy select tool to create a path. There is a short example on how to do it at [Fixing Jagged Image Edges with Gimp](http://jafty.com/blog/fixing-jagged-image-edges-with-gimp/). | For smaller projects, simply using the *blur* tool can do wonders. While this doesn't apply to this particular project, other people looking may find this solution expedient. |
155,145 | **[This](https://stackoverflow.com/q/284797/871050)** question is known for the famous Jon-Skeet-made-a-1-byte-program-to-output-"Hello World", it's currently locked under Stack Overflow, however, this question is valid in my eyes over on Code Golf.
Shouldn't the question be migrated there and unlocked? | 2012/11/09 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155145",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/166899/"
] | No.
This can lead to fun and even interesting discussions but there is no contest. And it's clearly not constructive, whatever the site, and Jon's answer only points to this fact (it is, in my opinion, a perfectly valid answer even if he could have made it 0 byte). | Questions that are more than 60 days old cannot be migrated, not even from moderators.
Apart that, the question already has 31 answers, and the highest voted one has a score of 398. Even supposing it still possible to add a new answer that says something new, the new answer would not probably reach the first page of ... |
88,445 | The collard greens that I have received are red. Is this normal/healthy? Image attached.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Eo1Z8.jpg)
Google searching this gives me zero results that are anywhere near relevant. I also can't find any images of red collard greens, th... | 2018/03/19 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/88445",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/39928/"
] | No, that is not normal for collards. Enlarging the picture, the discoloration looks to be a brownish-red. Those leaves look to be very old and quite possibly have been frozen (while still in the field), especially the one on the right. I would be tossing those. | Ours are red too. Green toward the middle/newer part of plant and more red on the lower leaves and tips of green leaves. Usually, they get better with cold (live in SC), especially if it snows - makes them sweet.
This year it may be a couple reasons. One is variety. This year we have Georgua collards. Past years have ... |
51,410 | Many of students need to learn a new language to impove their job prospects but some of them **are learning** a new language purely for pleasure. | 2015/02/23 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/51410",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/17665/"
] | Option 1 is correct for your desired meaning: Mr. A will be responsible for paying all the costs associated with making the new Bill book. So if Mr. B orders a new book, and Mr. C drives 10 miles to pick it up, Mr. A will pay for the book and the travel expenses.
Option 2 is also a valid sentence, but it does not have... | Number 1 is correct but number 2 is not. But #1 is a little wordy. We don't need "during the process of" because the progressive tense already conveys the idea of process.
*Mr A will bear all expenses incurred in making the new Bill Book.* |
329,312 | My CPU usage is very high by default. As soon as I starts a program it touches the maximum. After some time it becomes normal. I have a doubt that my disk is infected. So I tried to install MalwareBytes and Kasperkey to scan it. But they consume most of the CPU.
My entire system hangs and I can't scan my system. It r... | 2011/08/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/329312",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/52026/"
] | There are three explanations for your problem:
1. **Heat.** If your CPU is getting hot, it will throttle. With fewer working cycles available, everything will take much more CPU time to get work done. It could be that your CPU fan failed or the thermal interface material cracked due to mishandling.
2. **Malware.** Mal... | **Your concern is unclear and actually could be normal behavior, depending on your system.**
Your CPU should clock all the way to 100% regularly. If it didn't, you won't need such a fast one! It used to my job to make sure CPU usage was 100% as often as possible :)
Whenever a program is busy doing something and it no... |
18,565,920 | I have to run my Android app on another platform, such as Nokia Symbian or Java. Is there any solution for such a conversion? | 2013/09/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/18565920",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1929078/"
] | No. The APIs are far too intertwined with the Android OS. Symbian or Java will not offer the same set of classes for display, OS integration, apps, accelerometor/sensors, and almost anything else.
You can, however, refactor OS-agnostic code into new classes and reuse those for Java platforms. | You better try sencha phone gap to create application run on different platforms.. |
51,706 | What can be changed in signed bitcoin transaction?
I mean how is possible to modify transaction to change its hash, but keep transaction valid, without need to have sign private keys? | 2017/02/28 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/51706",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/40279/"
] | Here is the list of known sources of malleability from BIP62 (which has been withdrawn, and is no longer up to date, but does give some insight):
1. **DER encoded ECDSA signatures** Right now, the Bitcoin reference client uses OpenSSL to validate signatures. As OpenSSL accepts more than serializations that strictly ad... | No! The algorithms are generated by the first block created by bitcoin so if you change the hash, the transaction will not be recognized and invalid. |
51,706 | What can be changed in signed bitcoin transaction?
I mean how is possible to modify transaction to change its hash, but keep transaction valid, without need to have sign private keys? | 2017/02/28 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/51706",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/40279/"
] | Here is the list of known sources of malleability from BIP62 (which has been withdrawn, and is no longer up to date, but does give some insight):
1. **DER encoded ECDSA signatures** Right now, the Bitcoin reference client uses OpenSSL to validate signatures. As OpenSSL accepts more than serializations that strictly ad... | **TL;DR**
Today - nothing
In fact, there are several sources for malleability. Most of them (not all) are already fixed by changed consensus rules, others become transaction non-standard.
But. **Are you an attacker or a defender?**
You **can** create transaction which can be malleated by any person without invalidat... |
36,773,837 | First I'll describe my case.
I have to do HTTPS requests to several APIs from my application and they should be ran concurrently.
I want to know if I should use a separate HTTP client per goroutine or I can share one client across all goroutines. Of course I'd like to enjoy connection reusing/pooling offered by the HTT... | 2016/04/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/36773837",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5934834/"
] | Http clients are thread safe according to the docs (<https://golang.org/src/net/http/client.go>):
>
> Clients are safe for concurrent use by multiple goroutines.
>
>
> | The other question was should you use one client or one per request. You should use one client as per
<https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#pkg-overview>
"Clients and Transports are safe for concurrent use by multiple goroutines and for efficiency should only be created once and re-used" |
286 | I was looking into ways to implement multiple lights shading and I've noticed [Unity uses multiple passes to achieve it](http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/RenderTech-ForwardRendering.html). It performs a base pass to apply the brightest directional pixel light + 4 vertex lights + SHs and an additional pass for each pixel ... | 2015/08/19 | [
"https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/286",
"https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com",
"https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/users/250/"
] | It's completely possible to do all pixel lights in the fragment shader (or, say, do 4 at a time) by looping over an array. However, this comes at a great performance cost: You're going to be calculating lighting for every light on every fragment of the scene, even if that geometry isn't actually affected by the light's... | If you would do all lights in a single pass then you would need to loop over all lights in the shader. You would also need to get all information to the GPU at the same time.
GPUs are limited in the number of uniforms you can pass into an invocation. This limitation has lessened with UBOs and SSBOs.
However you are s... |
182,520 | For transparency, I would like to share my accepted papers' **anonymous** peer reviews, if my coauthors unanimously agree. Some journals partner with websites such as openreview.net (which share reviews even for rejected papers), others may have that included in their process, but in most cases, nothing is said about s... | 2022/02/18 | [
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"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
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] | Unless it is an explicit part of the reviewing process, or there is some rare overriding concern, you musn't publish the referee reports you've received.
This is actually a rare situation where copyright law and academic norms coincide. Basically, you cannot publish stuff other people have written unless there is some... | I think the trouble is then that people would rely on the reviews instead of reading the article. These are only in place to allow for formal acceptance or formal rejection, the reviewers can miss very obvious and important mistakes.
An expert reader will not care much about these reviews as they can read the article ... |
182,520 | For transparency, I would like to share my accepted papers' **anonymous** peer reviews, if my coauthors unanimously agree. Some journals partner with websites such as openreview.net (which share reviews even for rejected papers), others may have that included in their process, but in most cases, nothing is said about s... | 2022/02/18 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/182520",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/153583/"
] | Unless it is an explicit part of the reviewing process, or there is some rare overriding concern, you musn't publish the referee reports you've received.
This is actually a rare situation where copyright law and academic norms coincide. Basically, you cannot publish stuff other people have written unless there is some... | It is NOT a good idea to do this:
1. you risk identifying referees through their writing or formatting styles. There might be specific turns of phrases or expressions specific to a referee (especially if the referee did not write in their native language) that could be tracable to papers authored by this referee.
2. W... |
182,520 | For transparency, I would like to share my accepted papers' **anonymous** peer reviews, if my coauthors unanimously agree. Some journals partner with websites such as openreview.net (which share reviews even for rejected papers), others may have that included in their process, but in most cases, nothing is said about s... | 2022/02/18 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/182520",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/153583/"
] | Unless it is an explicit part of the reviewing process, or there is some rare overriding concern, you musn't publish the referee reports you've received.
This is actually a rare situation where copyright law and academic norms coincide. Basically, you cannot publish stuff other people have written unless there is some... | Aside from copyright issues, there is the issue of basic politeness and kindness.
If you're sharing a piece of writing someone wrote privately, you should get agreement **from that person**. Not from your coauthors. If you cannot get agreement from that person, you should not share it.
If a journal partners with open... |
182,520 | For transparency, I would like to share my accepted papers' **anonymous** peer reviews, if my coauthors unanimously agree. Some journals partner with websites such as openreview.net (which share reviews even for rejected papers), others may have that included in their process, but in most cases, nothing is said about s... | 2022/02/18 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/182520",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/153583/"
] | I think the trouble is then that people would rely on the reviews instead of reading the article. These are only in place to allow for formal acceptance or formal rejection, the reviewers can miss very obvious and important mistakes.
An expert reader will not care much about these reviews as they can read the article ... | Aside from copyright issues, there is the issue of basic politeness and kindness.
If you're sharing a piece of writing someone wrote privately, you should get agreement **from that person**. Not from your coauthors. If you cannot get agreement from that person, you should not share it.
If a journal partners with open... |
182,520 | For transparency, I would like to share my accepted papers' **anonymous** peer reviews, if my coauthors unanimously agree. Some journals partner with websites such as openreview.net (which share reviews even for rejected papers), others may have that included in their process, but in most cases, nothing is said about s... | 2022/02/18 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/182520",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/153583/"
] | It is NOT a good idea to do this:
1. you risk identifying referees through their writing or formatting styles. There might be specific turns of phrases or expressions specific to a referee (especially if the referee did not write in their native language) that could be tracable to papers authored by this referee.
2. W... | Aside from copyright issues, there is the issue of basic politeness and kindness.
If you're sharing a piece of writing someone wrote privately, you should get agreement **from that person**. Not from your coauthors. If you cannot get agreement from that person, you should not share it.
If a journal partners with open... |
20,670,969 | I am using ExecutorService to launch multiple threads.
* Thread A
* Thread B
* Thread C
and
* Thread D
* ....
* ....
Thread N
All thread started concurrently.
I am using a ConcurrentHashMap to store result of Thread A , Thread B , Thread C which can be used by Thread D in future.
Now it may happen that Thread A is ... | 2013/12/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/20670969",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3117282/"
] | I suggest having three tasks producing results which are queued into the same Executor or another executor. This way Thread D only does work when there is something to do.
A better option might be for Thread A to process its own work immediately (and the same for Thread B & C) in which case you don't need Thread D. | Sounds like you want to use join. Joining threads after starting will effectively make your program run in a liniear fashion. Thread A runs, Then B, then C then D will look for the results of the first 3 threads once thread C has finished. |
2,445 | I was just reading this question regarding [Money saving questions being on topic](https://lifehacks.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2439/are-questions-about-doing-something-cheaper-on-topic) and general premise was:
>
> IF the question can reasonably be answered with an uncommon, inexpensive solution, I wholehearte... | 2015/03/08 | [
"https://lifehacks.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2445",
"https://lifehacks.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2089/"
] | Would such a tag classify a question?
No, not really. All questions on this site are to some extent asking how to do things without spending too much money. This tag would not “identify questions asking about money saving solutions” [sic] — they all are.
“Looking for cheaper alternatives” is a matter of how the quest... | Why not. I see no harm in adding a cost-reduction tag for those times when it's obvious this would be the effect. The ability to reduce cost is hackish. |
71,841 | I would like to prepare a photo to display it on a webpage. I would like to compress this image such that most of the image is compressed to lower quality, to reduce download size, but **a few small areas are compressed in high quality**.
The photo is an outdoor scene most of which shows foilage, but there are eight p... | 2015/12/14 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/71841",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
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] | Compose the compressed images in a SVG file
-------------------------------------------
SVG images are [well-supported in modern browsers](http://svgtutorial.com/svg-browser-support/). You can either embed the bitmap images in the SVG file, or have the SVG link to them. Note that embedding uses base-64 encoding which ... | Using PHP and Imagick
Imagick crop : <http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.cropimage.php>
Imagick Compress:
<http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.setcompressionquality.php>
<http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.setimagecompression.php>
Imagick overlaying(merge): <http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/> (or you can use css t... |
71,841 | I would like to prepare a photo to display it on a webpage. I would like to compress this image such that most of the image is compressed to lower quality, to reduce download size, but **a few small areas are compressed in high quality**.
The photo is an outdoor scene most of which shows foilage, but there are eight p... | 2015/12/14 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/71841",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/14253/"
] | Compose the compressed images in a SVG file
-------------------------------------------
SVG images are [well-supported in modern browsers](http://svgtutorial.com/svg-browser-support/). You can either embed the bitmap images in the SVG file, or have the SVG link to them. Note that embedding uses base-64 encoding which ... | Save the image once as high and once as low quality. Use these as working copies for the operations below, but keep the original version separate.
Merge the parts of the high quality image you want into the low quality image. You'd use an editor like GIMP or Photoshop and a layer mask for this.
Save the resulting ima... |
71,841 | I would like to prepare a photo to display it on a webpage. I would like to compress this image such that most of the image is compressed to lower quality, to reduce download size, but **a few small areas are compressed in high quality**.
The photo is an outdoor scene most of which shows foilage, but there are eight p... | 2015/12/14 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/71841",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/14253/"
] | The approach of making a single merged image (@StephenG) will create an image with some areas at low quality and some at high, BUT it's not going to drastically reduce the download size.
The final image needs saving at 'high quality' to preserve the detail areas (faces) but this will increase the file size of the low-... | Save the image once as high and once as low quality. Use these as working copies for the operations below, but keep the original version separate.
Merge the parts of the high quality image you want into the low quality image. You'd use an editor like GIMP or Photoshop and a layer mask for this.
Save the resulting ima... |
71,841 | I would like to prepare a photo to display it on a webpage. I would like to compress this image such that most of the image is compressed to lower quality, to reduce download size, but **a few small areas are compressed in high quality**.
The photo is an outdoor scene most of which shows foilage, but there are eight p... | 2015/12/14 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/71841",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/14253/"
] | Using PHP and Imagick
Imagick crop : <http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.cropimage.php>
Imagick Compress:
<http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.setcompressionquality.php>
<http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.setimagecompression.php>
Imagick overlaying(merge): <http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/> (or you can use css t... | Save the image once as high and once as low quality. Use these as working copies for the operations below, but keep the original version separate.
Merge the parts of the high quality image you want into the low quality image. You'd use an editor like GIMP or Photoshop and a layer mask for this.
Save the resulting ima... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127069",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44184/"
] | [Spider-Man (aka Iron Spider)](http://spiderman.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Spider_Armor)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rBKbd.jpg)
This suit was first seen in Amazing Spider-Man... | In *What If?* (1977) #3, we saw an entire team of Avengers wearing Stark armor.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gt2Xw.png)
In this alternate reality, when the Hulk left the Avengers after their second adventure, the team actually broke up: Iron Man fel... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127069",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44184/"
] | Pepper pots receives a suit of armor in the comics and is a recurring Hero as [Rescue](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Virginia_Potts_(Earth-616)) [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UPYPC.jpg)
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KrjV5.jp... | Squirrelgirl and Tippy Toe also wore the Iron Man suit in "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl". [(related)](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/98878/why-could-squirrel-girl-access-the-iron-man-suit)
They use the suit to defeat Whiplash and Galactus. [wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl#The_U... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127069",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | ### One of the first suits of armor ever made by Tony Stark to be worn by anyone else was the [Guardsman](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Guardsman_Armor) suit of armor. First appearance: Iron Man #43, (November, 1971). The Guardsman armor was made as, first a backup suit of armor for Stark and then later sold as a low-po... | In *What If?* (1977) #3, we saw an entire team of Avengers wearing Stark armor.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gt2Xw.png)
In this alternate reality, when the Hulk left the Avengers after their second adventure, the team actually broke up: Iron Man fel... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127069",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44184/"
] | [Spider-Man (aka Iron Spider)](http://spiderman.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Spider_Armor)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rBKbd.jpg)
This suit was first seen in Amazing Spider-Man... | Black Widow wore a black suit of Iron Man armour for a while in the Ultimates as well
[Natalia Romanova (Earth-1610)](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Natalia_Romanova_(Earth-1610))
>
> After accepting a marriage proposal from Tony Stark, he presented her with a black suit of Iron Man armor as an engagement present, alo... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127069",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44184/"
] | During the "Dark Reign" story arc, Norman Osborne wears a Stark-designed armour in his incarnation as the Iron Patriot (as compared to the movie Iron Patriot piloted by Rhodes)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/H8nDl.jpg)
Another related one would be the American Son... | Squirrelgirl and Tippy Toe also wore the Iron Man suit in "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl". [(related)](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/98878/why-could-squirrel-girl-access-the-iron-man-suit)
They use the suit to defeat Whiplash and Galactus. [wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl#The_U... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127069",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44184/"
] | During the "Dark Reign" story arc, Norman Osborne wears a Stark-designed armour in his incarnation as the Iron Patriot (as compared to the movie Iron Patriot piloted by Rhodes)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/H8nDl.jpg)
Another related one would be the American Son... | Black Widow wore a black suit of Iron Man armour for a while in the Ultimates as well
[Natalia Romanova (Earth-1610)](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Natalia_Romanova_(Earth-1610))
>
> After accepting a marriage proposal from Tony Stark, he presented her with a black suit of Iron Man armor as an engagement present, alo... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
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] | ### One of the first suits of armor ever made by Tony Stark to be worn by anyone else was the [Guardsman](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Guardsman_Armor) suit of armor. First appearance: Iron Man #43, (November, 1971). The Guardsman armor was made as, first a backup suit of armor for Stark and then later sold as a low-po... | Squirrelgirl and Tippy Toe also wore the Iron Man suit in "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl". [(related)](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/98878/why-could-squirrel-girl-access-the-iron-man-suit)
They use the suit to defeat Whiplash and Galactus. [wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl#The_U... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
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] | ### One of the first suits of armor ever made by Tony Stark to be worn by anyone else was the [Guardsman](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Guardsman_Armor) suit of armor. First appearance: Iron Man #43, (November, 1971). The Guardsman armor was made as, first a backup suit of armor for Stark and then later sold as a low-po... | Black Widow wore a black suit of Iron Man armour for a while in the Ultimates as well
[Natalia Romanova (Earth-1610)](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Natalia_Romanova_(Earth-1610))
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> After accepting a marriage proposal from Tony Stark, he presented her with a black suit of Iron Man armor as an engagement present, alo... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
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] | Pepper pots receives a suit of armor in the comics and is a recurring Hero as [Rescue](http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Virginia_Potts_(Earth-616)) [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UPYPC.jpg)
[ #3, we saw an entire team of Avengers wearing Stark armor.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gt2Xw.png)
In this alternate reality, when the Hulk left the Avengers after their second adventure, the team actually broke up: Iron Man fel... |
127,069 | Tony Stark is not the only person to wear a suit of Iron Man-like armor made by Tony Stark.
[War Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine) wears one. In [Avengers Assemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_%28TV_series%29), Falcon wears one, although it's not as robust as the ones worn by Iron... | 2016/05/05 | [
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] | [Spider-Man (aka Iron Spider)](http://spiderman.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Spider_Armor)
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rBKbd.jpg)
This suit was first seen in Amazing Spider-Man... | Squirrelgirl and Tippy Toe also wore the Iron Man suit in "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl". [(related)](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/98878/why-could-squirrel-girl-access-the-iron-man-suit)
They use the suit to defeat Whiplash and Galactus. [wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl#The_U... |
265,617 | I am planning to build a mini zip wire for my son in our garage. The use case for this for him to safely practice grinds and jumps without falling and injuring himself.
A similar approach has been used by another skater here: <https://www.northwestskater.com/harness.html> which shows a skate harness in use.
Here is a... | 2023/01/27 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/265617",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/162133/"
] | If the cable is meant to catch your son falling you have to think about the forces of that. It's not fixed weight such as of a punching bag, or of your son (e.g. there are lots of questions here about installing chin-up bars). If he begins falling and is caught after attaining some speed, the force on the cable will be... | Install blocking, similar to the punching bag example provided, that is deeper or offset and thus protrudes beyond the bottom of the joists.
Fasten to joists with end nails or end screws (use structural screws).
Hangers -as in the example- will not be possible due to the desired protrusion, and are an odd way to over... |
230,840 | I have a flash drive and I want to recover some files from it. Can I take a dd image of the device and perform the recovery operation on dd image instead? Does it have the same results when performing recovery using software on physical flash drive? | 2020/04/30 | [
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] | >
> Can Company A read/redirect/mitm the traffic of company B?
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Not on a professional VPN service. Secure network configuration is a basic property of those services. So I believe that any reputable VPN service will configure their networks in a way that this attack is not possible.
>
> What happens if both... | Each VPN connection involves the main risk that both company A and company B are trusting the service provider, the service provider is also trusting them.
Ideally there will be a firewall ruleset at the service provider that restricts the network / application access that each company has in the service provider's ne... |
10,461 | i tried to search, but not much luck.
hey,
i have noticed some people on the internet suggest buying a PTHD9 license on ebay rather than buying PT9 (as for the price you get the feature set of PT9 + the complete production toolkit) for roughly the same price as PT9 by itself.
now, im still a student for a few more we... | 2011/09/21 | [
"https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/10461",
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"https://sound.stackexchange.com/users/1117/"
] | I recently purchased a DOA MBox 2 Mini and CPTK1 license specifically for the upgrade path to PT9 + CPTK2. It saved me about $800US. iLok licenses were transferred and re-registered to my account. It was a completely legit transaction, everything runs smoothly, it just required a little bargain hunting.
For me, the fe... | The biggest differences between 9(HD) and 9 with the CPTK are TDM processing, input monitoring, system latency, and reliable track count.
TDM processing is great for mixing, but you will obviously pay more for it. You will also pay more for plug-ins that are designed to work with the TDM chips versus what you would fo... |
13,615,391 | I know how to pull, commit, and push in git to update my local in repository of bitbucket, but I don't have an idea about how to update my website that's located in host using git. | 2012/11/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13615391",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/875192/"
] | if the server allows you install/configure git you may like use post hooks.
Pretty much configure origin to your running host and on pushing to certain branches make it also push to origin and compile if needed. | If your server has git (can allow you to install git) (you can also install a 'portable' version of git that doesn't require elevated privileges), you can 'use' git to do your deployment (in a way).
You have your dev code in a branch. Clone this repo onto your server. Branch this code with a name such as 'production'.... |
22,691 | I found some sheets of zinc sulfide in my basement that phosphoresce green for up to 24 hours or so after exposure to bright light in the violet range or shorter. One of the first things I tried was drawing on it with a violet laser pointer (405nm, 5mW) and as expected it draws bright lines. What I found more surprisin... | 2012/03/22 | [
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] | Thanks to @Manishearth for the edit
In normal phosphorescence, the atoms are in a "metastable" state--where electrons are in a higher energy level, but do not immediately come to ground state due to partial stability. The electrons come down slowly, giving rise to the (relatively) long lasting glow.
The IR light free... | I'm not sure of this one, comments appreciated.
*Update: See @pcr's answer--it links to the correct explanation. In this, the IR rays, instead of doing stimulated emission as I said,* promote *the trapped electron to a higher non-metastable state. From there, it comes back down. The rest is similar to my answer--subst... |
22,691 | I found some sheets of zinc sulfide in my basement that phosphoresce green for up to 24 hours or so after exposure to bright light in the violet range or shorter. One of the first things I tried was drawing on it with a violet laser pointer (405nm, 5mW) and as expected it draws bright lines. What I found more surprisin... | 2012/03/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/22691",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/7111/"
] | I'm not sure of this one, comments appreciated.
*Update: See @pcr's answer--it links to the correct explanation. In this, the IR rays, instead of doing stimulated emission as I said,* promote *the trapped electron to a higher non-metastable state. From there, it comes back down. The rest is similar to my answer--subst... | It is notable that this phenomena is actually described going all the way back to the late 19th century in the literature. And here is a nice paper back to 1911 that describes it in some detail. (And available for free!)
<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1911ApJ....34..173I> |
22,691 | I found some sheets of zinc sulfide in my basement that phosphoresce green for up to 24 hours or so after exposure to bright light in the violet range or shorter. One of the first things I tried was drawing on it with a violet laser pointer (405nm, 5mW) and as expected it draws bright lines. What I found more surprisin... | 2012/03/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/22691",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/7111/"
] | Thanks to @Manishearth for the edit
In normal phosphorescence, the atoms are in a "metastable" state--where electrons are in a higher energy level, but do not immediately come to ground state due to partial stability. The electrons come down slowly, giving rise to the (relatively) long lasting glow.
The IR light free... | It is notable that this phenomena is actually described going all the way back to the late 19th century in the literature. And here is a nice paper back to 1911 that describes it in some detail. (And available for free!)
<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1911ApJ....34..173I> |
75,536 | I am having issues both with filezilla and with gftp.
Basically, when I attempt an upload or a download, Filezilla just crashes and closes down, while gftp sometimes says it cannot open the destination folder although what I'm trying to upload is a file.
Any suggestion on how to solve this?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 | 2011/11/04 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/75536",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/25835/"
] | I fixed it by following this [guide](http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian):
basically i needed to upgrade/update my wxwidgets | I can say you that is a [bug when you drag and drog](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/filezilla/+bug/886315) a file and using gnome-shell.
just do it the follow :
* Right click on the file
* add file to queue
then double click on the fil... |
75,536 | I am having issues both with filezilla and with gftp.
Basically, when I attempt an upload or a download, Filezilla just crashes and closes down, while gftp sometimes says it cannot open the destination folder although what I'm trying to upload is a file.
Any suggestion on how to solve this?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 | 2011/11/04 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/75536",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/25835/"
] | I fixed it by following this [guide](http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian):
basically i needed to upgrade/update my wxwidgets | It depends on wxwidgets version. You should install 2.8.12, instead of 2.8.11 provided in Oneiric official repos.
Find the source on <http://wxwidgets.org/> (you'll have to compile it by yourself) or type the following in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo... |
72,314 | I recently went to a conference for a software product we utilize at my company. During one of the presentations they stated that users should not allow the individual .mdb files to grow above 64GB, and referenced a MS article as their source stating that you should create a second data file before allowing your databa... | 2009/10/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/72314",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13972/"
] | [This](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432.aspx) indicates 16 terabytes as the max. Was their product some type of backup product for SQL? | If that is true, we're totally stuffed. We have an MDB that's well and truly > 64gb.
That said, there are compelling reasons to split it up if you have massive tables that have easilly partitionable information (i.e. all records A-K on one disk, L-Z on another). I set this up many many years ago and I don't remember m... |
72,314 | I recently went to a conference for a software product we utilize at my company. During one of the presentations they stated that users should not allow the individual .mdb files to grow above 64GB, and referenced a MS article as their source stating that you should create a second data file before allowing your databa... | 2009/10/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/72314",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13972/"
] | First, SQL Server uses MDF, NDF, and LDF files. Access uses MDB files. Just be clear you're using SQL Server as the database and not Access.
According to the maximum capacity specifications, the file size limit is 16TB for data files (mdf, ldf) and 2TB for log files (ldf). <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms14... | [This](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432.aspx) indicates 16 terabytes as the max. Was their product some type of backup product for SQL? |
72,314 | I recently went to a conference for a software product we utilize at my company. During one of the presentations they stated that users should not allow the individual .mdb files to grow above 64GB, and referenced a MS article as their source stating that you should create a second data file before allowing your databa... | 2009/10/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/72314",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13972/"
] | [This](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432.aspx) indicates 16 terabytes as the max. Was their product some type of backup product for SQL? | All the database files on my server are well over 64 Gigs. DB is about 1 TB over a few drives. |
72,314 | I recently went to a conference for a software product we utilize at my company. During one of the presentations they stated that users should not allow the individual .mdb files to grow above 64GB, and referenced a MS article as their source stating that you should create a second data file before allowing your databa... | 2009/10/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/72314",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13972/"
] | First, SQL Server uses MDF, NDF, and LDF files. Access uses MDB files. Just be clear you're using SQL Server as the database and not Access.
According to the maximum capacity specifications, the file size limit is 16TB for data files (mdf, ldf) and 2TB for log files (ldf). <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms14... | If that is true, we're totally stuffed. We have an MDB that's well and truly > 64gb.
That said, there are compelling reasons to split it up if you have massive tables that have easilly partitionable information (i.e. all records A-K on one disk, L-Z on another). I set this up many many years ago and I don't remember m... |
72,314 | I recently went to a conference for a software product we utilize at my company. During one of the presentations they stated that users should not allow the individual .mdb files to grow above 64GB, and referenced a MS article as their source stating that you should create a second data file before allowing your databa... | 2009/10/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/72314",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/13972/"
] | First, SQL Server uses MDF, NDF, and LDF files. Access uses MDB files. Just be clear you're using SQL Server as the database and not Access.
According to the maximum capacity specifications, the file size limit is 16TB for data files (mdf, ldf) and 2TB for log files (ldf). <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms14... | All the database files on my server are well over 64 Gigs. DB is about 1 TB over a few drives. |
81,230 | I can play harmonium and now, I want to learn piano. Both are keyboard instruments. Are both the instruments played in the same way or do I need to learn something more to play a piano? | 2019/03/10 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/81230",
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] | Piano most certainly is not a reed instrument but a percussive string instrument. "Piano" is short for "pianoforte" and means that the instrument will sound with different loudness depending on how hard you strike the key. The tone will decay on its own with a comparatively long sustain or it can be cut off by releasin... | Both are KEYBOARD instruments.
I play a tracker organ, acoustic piano, electronic organ and electric piano every week for various jobs and I play them exactly the same, from the weight of my arm. Arm weight equalizes everything. On the organ I leave just enough weight to "rest up" yet sustain the tone but really, it ... |
81,230 | I can play harmonium and now, I want to learn piano. Both are keyboard instruments. Are both the instruments played in the same way or do I need to learn something more to play a piano? | 2019/03/10 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/81230",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/58121/"
] | Piano most certainly is not a reed instrument but a percussive string instrument. "Piano" is short for "pianoforte" and means that the instrument will sound with different loudness depending on how hard you strike the key. The tone will decay on its own with a comparatively long sustain or it can be cut off by releasin... | Portable harmoniums are often played with one hand while the other pumps the bellows. Obviously, this isn't necessary on piano so you would have both hands available at all times. |
81,230 | I can play harmonium and now, I want to learn piano. Both are keyboard instruments. Are both the instruments played in the same way or do I need to learn something more to play a piano? | 2019/03/10 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/81230",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/58121/"
] | Both are KEYBOARD instruments.
I play a tracker organ, acoustic piano, electronic organ and electric piano every week for various jobs and I play them exactly the same, from the weight of my arm. Arm weight equalizes everything. On the organ I leave just enough weight to "rest up" yet sustain the tone but really, it ... | Portable harmoniums are often played with one hand while the other pumps the bellows. Obviously, this isn't necessary on piano so you would have both hands available at all times. |
10,323,047 | Our IT folks are telling us (the dev group) we shall not have ANY files stored on our local hard drives, including our TFS working folders. This is ridiculous for a variety of reasons but until I'm convinced it's a good idea, I'll play along and when no one is looking make a local working folder.
Does anyone does hav... | 2012/04/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10323047",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1180652/"
] | On a TFS point of view it's working without issue, but stay away from the Local Workspace of TFS/VS11.
I strongly feel for you on the compiling point of view, compiling a solution stored over the network is absolutely a disaster in term of performances.
You did not mention it but I assume your Network Share uses a Ne... | While it's not something I would typically recommend, if that is the policy and you have to adhere to it, it might be worthwhile to consider simply having server-side development VM's that your devs RDP into. I've seen companies do this before, and the big downside is that if your not connected to the network you can't... |
185,699 | I cannot interact with it at all after I opened the cage, neither talk nor use other skills. Wiki says it will follow you after released it. But all I can see is that it's standing there and do nothing.
Is it a bug? Am I missing something? | 2014/10/01 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/185699",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/79457/"
] | I talked to him, but did not have any "candy" at the time. He still followed me.
The "candy" he asks for is any meat (human, animal, etc., including items like Gila Skins). You can talk to him any time after he's released, and open a trade interface to give him "candy".
If you give him enough, eventually he announces... | IIRC, you need to feed "candy" to him first. And by "candy" he means "meat". After that he follows you around. I don't remember if he actually engages in combat, I think he doesn't. So he just follows you around. Since he's very tough (at least he was in the beta) you won't get rid of him easily. |
185,699 | I cannot interact with it at all after I opened the cage, neither talk nor use other skills. Wiki says it will follow you after released it. But all I can see is that it's standing there and do nothing.
Is it a bug? Am I missing something? | 2014/10/01 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/185699",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/79457/"
] | talk to it to give it "Meat candy" and when it goes to sleep hit it for about 1/3 of its health bar in damage, and it will explode, for a decent chunk of XP, like 3600? you got a whopping 36000 for killing them in wastelands 1, and make sure you feed it and it goes to sleep first, or you'll end up getting like 30xp and... | IIRC, you need to feed "candy" to him first. And by "candy" he means "meat". After that he follows you around. I don't remember if he actually engages in combat, I think he doesn't. So he just follows you around. Since he's very tough (at least he was in the beta) you won't get rid of him easily. |
185,699 | I cannot interact with it at all after I opened the cage, neither talk nor use other skills. Wiki says it will follow you after released it. But all I can see is that it's standing there and do nothing.
Is it a bug? Am I missing something? | 2014/10/01 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/185699",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/79457/"
] | I talked to him, but did not have any "candy" at the time. He still followed me.
The "candy" he asks for is any meat (human, animal, etc., including items like Gila Skins). You can talk to him any time after he's released, and open a trade interface to give him "candy".
If you give him enough, eventually he announces... | talk to it to give it "Meat candy" and when it goes to sleep hit it for about 1/3 of its health bar in damage, and it will explode, for a decent chunk of XP, like 3600? you got a whopping 36000 for killing them in wastelands 1, and make sure you feed it and it goes to sleep first, or you'll end up getting like 30xp and... |
39,386 | Is there anything out there that can work as a Dropbox style service and also serve select pages you uploaded which have server-side code?
Maybe also having some kind of integrated client - similar to how Dropbox has a folder on your local PC which will sync stuff to the cloud once you're connected to the internet?
... | 2017/02/09 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/39386",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/24441/"
] | It might be worth taking a look at [EsherPad](http://lesquare.escherpad.com/@yang.ge/A-Collaborative-Real-time-iPython-Jupyter-Client-for-Self-hosted-Jupyter-Servers-tcwtda0jqgbb) which is a project developing a real time collaborative Jupyter notebook system.
As a Jupyter Notebook you can write markdown, code in mult... | If you like Gists, try [GistBox](http://www.gistboxapp.com/). There are tons of features and it's searchable! Obviously it's code oriented.
If you like Wikis, try [RedMine](http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine). It's not as flashy but if you want to add a lot of non-code documentation it might work better. |
838 | I understand the actions tendencies for fear and anger. For example: We might verbally insult someone when we are angry. We might feel like running away when we are afraid.
According to [appraisal theory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appraisal_theory), each specific emotion leads us to make assessment or evaluations. ... | 2012/05/05 | [
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/838",
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com",
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/users/694/"
] | Examples of appraisals which evoke the emotion of [Fear](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear) may include dangerous and harmful situations which results people to experience fear. Appraisal of unfair treatment is one cause of [Anger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger) which may lead people to behave in an uncertain or u... | By some theories (Carver and Scheier), positive emotions result when you are making progress towards a goal and negative emotions when you are not making progress towards a goal.
They differentiate between approach goals (desired end-states) and avoidance goals (undesired end-states that need to be avoided) and their ... |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/5844",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/3506/"
] | You will have to do some pathfinding. I'd suggest something like this: Choose grace distance, the shorter, the harder the game may be. When you add a new row fist find out in what places the player may be after travelling the grace distance. You can use an [A\*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2a_search_algorithm) searc... | Just use the last 'top-row' as reference, and generate a valid row from there (for each block, pick one at random, if it's invalid, do it again). Now valid is something you'll have to define, but my guess is 'valid' would be reachable from any of the three neighboring blocks from the reference row. |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
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] | You will have to do some pathfinding. I'd suggest something like this: Choose grace distance, the shorter, the harder the game may be. When you add a new row fist find out in what places the player may be after travelling the grace distance. You can use an [A\*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2a_search_algorithm) searc... | Quick idea written during compile-time(curse you c++):
When placing a block make sure that the top half of the map has three columns next to each other which are free. Do that by summing up the number of black squares in each column. Then iterate through the column sums three at a time.
First check will sum column 0... |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/5844",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
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] | You will have to do some pathfinding. I'd suggest something like this: Choose grace distance, the shorter, the harder the game may be. When you add a new row fist find out in what places the player may be after travelling the grace distance. You can use an [A\*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2a_search_algorithm) searc... | i know im really really REALLY late but wouldnt the simplest way to do this be to change the car so that its only 1 block thick? leaving only an incredibly small chance that the game will give you something impassable? |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/5844",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
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] | Just use the last 'top-row' as reference, and generate a valid row from there (for each block, pick one at random, if it's invalid, do it again). Now valid is something you'll have to define, but my guess is 'valid' would be reachable from any of the three neighboring blocks from the reference row. | Quick idea written during compile-time(curse you c++):
When placing a block make sure that the top half of the map has three columns next to each other which are free. Do that by summing up the number of black squares in each column. Then iterate through the column sums three at a time.
First check will sum column 0... |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/5844",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
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] | Rather than try to generate a field to play in that you need to check to keep valid for play, instead generate a path the vehicle can follow, then randomly add obstructions to the parts of the map not filled in by the vehicle path generated.
1D Brownian motion: (<http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/randfrac/brownian/Brow... | Just use the last 'top-row' as reference, and generate a valid row from there (for each block, pick one at random, if it's invalid, do it again). Now valid is something you'll have to define, but my guess is 'valid' would be reachable from any of the three neighboring blocks from the reference row. |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/5844",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/3506/"
] | Just use the last 'top-row' as reference, and generate a valid row from there (for each block, pick one at random, if it's invalid, do it again). Now valid is something you'll have to define, but my guess is 'valid' would be reachable from any of the three neighboring blocks from the reference row. | i know im really really REALLY late but wouldnt the simplest way to do this be to change the car so that its only 1 block thick? leaving only an incredibly small chance that the game will give you something impassable? |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/5844",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/3506/"
] | Rather than try to generate a field to play in that you need to check to keep valid for play, instead generate a path the vehicle can follow, then randomly add obstructions to the parts of the map not filled in by the vehicle path generated.
1D Brownian motion: (<http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/randfrac/brownian/Brow... | Quick idea written during compile-time(curse you c++):
When placing a block make sure that the top half of the map has three columns next to each other which are free. Do that by summing up the number of black squares in each column. Then iterate through the column sums three at a time.
First check will sum column 0... |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/5844",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/3506/"
] | Quick idea written during compile-time(curse you c++):
When placing a block make sure that the top half of the map has three columns next to each other which are free. Do that by summing up the number of black squares in each column. Then iterate through the column sums three at a time.
First check will sum column 0... | i know im really really REALLY late but wouldnt the simplest way to do this be to change the car so that its only 1 block thick? leaving only an incredibly small chance that the game will give you something impassable? |
5,844 | I'm creating a simple top-scrolling racing game. The concept is quite simple - the player controls the car, which goes on a dynamically generated field with square blocks. Once the car hits a car, the game ends.
My first implementation was simply to put a few random blocks in each row being generated on the top of the... | 2010/11/21 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/5844",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com",
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/3506/"
] | Rather than try to generate a field to play in that you need to check to keep valid for play, instead generate a path the vehicle can follow, then randomly add obstructions to the parts of the map not filled in by the vehicle path generated.
1D Brownian motion: (<http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/randfrac/brownian/Brow... | i know im really really REALLY late but wouldnt the simplest way to do this be to change the car so that its only 1 block thick? leaving only an incredibly small chance that the game will give you something impassable? |
1,547,028 | Can a Usb to Sata adapter similar to this [USB 3.0 to SATA](https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32984039074.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.562d4e169PQs8T&s=p&ad_pvid=202004291056411766838294695000001002893_4&algo_pvid=771bcd1f-75b9-4d71-baff-e58c118ad3e2&algo_expid=771bcd1f-75b9-4d71-baff-e58c118ad3e2-3&btsid=0be3769015881... | 2020/04/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1547028",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/1131473/"
] | No. The hard drive needs to **receive** power from **both** of the USB cables. | Not easily. USB is a master-slave protocol.
Master connector is what you can see in your laptop. There is only a single master on an USB bus. You can connect directly a master and many slaves. There is no way to connect masters to masters, or slaves to slaves.
Also the phones have slave connectors.
There are devices... |
1,547,028 | Can a Usb to Sata adapter similar to this [USB 3.0 to SATA](https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32984039074.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.562d4e169PQs8T&s=p&ad_pvid=202004291056411766838294695000001002893_4&algo_pvid=771bcd1f-75b9-4d71-baff-e58c118ad3e2&algo_expid=771bcd1f-75b9-4d71-baff-e58c118ad3e2-3&btsid=0be3769015881... | 2020/04/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1547028",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/1131473/"
] | No. The hard drive needs to **receive** power from **both** of the USB cables. | The second cable is a power only cable meant for when a single port dosen't give enough power.
If you somehow managed to plug in a type A male cable to charge a phone (I guess you could with an OTG adaptor)... you still may not be charging it, and the drive might not have enough power to run correctly.
So... just do... |
1,547,028 | Can a Usb to Sata adapter similar to this [USB 3.0 to SATA](https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32984039074.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.562d4e169PQs8T&s=p&ad_pvid=202004291056411766838294695000001002893_4&algo_pvid=771bcd1f-75b9-4d71-baff-e58c118ad3e2&algo_expid=771bcd1f-75b9-4d71-baff-e58c118ad3e2-3&btsid=0be3769015881... | 2020/04/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1547028",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/1131473/"
] | The second cable is a power only cable meant for when a single port dosen't give enough power.
If you somehow managed to plug in a type A male cable to charge a phone (I guess you could with an OTG adaptor)... you still may not be charging it, and the drive might not have enough power to run correctly.
So... just do... | Not easily. USB is a master-slave protocol.
Master connector is what you can see in your laptop. There is only a single master on an USB bus. You can connect directly a master and many slaves. There is no way to connect masters to masters, or slaves to slaves.
Also the phones have slave connectors.
There are devices... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | Of course they could, but then they could also just email themselves every time you change your password.
Now, depending on the type of system, there are plenty of regulations, audits, reviews, and processes that might be relevant to ensure that the developers don't do this, or many other types of malicious activity.... | One way you can tell that they are able to get your password is if the forgotten password system is able to email you your old password. If it forces you to generate or set a new one then it's still possible that they have stored in plain text/2 way encryption though.
The other way you could tell is by signing up for ... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | You cannot know that someone will behave ethically or wisely, so:
1. Never re-use passwords across sites.
2. Decide how much information to share.
3. Withhold information that is not required, and suspect any website that asks for more info than is needed to give you a particular service.
I'm afraid that some develop... | One way you can tell that they are able to get your password is if the forgotten password system is able to email you your old password. If it forces you to generate or set a new one then it's still possible that they have stored in plain text/2 way encryption though.
The other way you could tell is by signing up for ... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | As others have said, you can't fully know what the developers are doing with your data once you hand it over. It may give you some confidence to examine how the site operates to see if they follow security best practices on the pieces of the system visible to you.
* Do they use HTTPS on pages with sensitive info (inc... | One way you can tell that they are able to get your password is if the forgotten password system is able to email you your old password. If it forces you to generate or set a new one then it's still possible that they have stored in plain text/2 way encryption though.
The other way you could tell is by signing up for ... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | Of course they could, but then they could also just email themselves every time you change your password.
Now, depending on the type of system, there are plenty of regulations, audits, reviews, and processes that might be relevant to ensure that the developers don't do this, or many other types of malicious activity.... | You cannot know that someone will behave ethically or wisely, so:
1. Never re-use passwords across sites.
2. Decide how much information to share.
3. Withhold information that is not required, and suspect any website that asks for more info than is needed to give you a particular service.
I'm afraid that some develop... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | Of course they could, but then they could also just email themselves every time you change your password.
Now, depending on the type of system, there are plenty of regulations, audits, reviews, and processes that might be relevant to ensure that the developers don't do this, or many other types of malicious activity.... | As others have said, you can't fully know what the developers are doing with your data once you hand it over. It may give you some confidence to examine how the site operates to see if they follow security best practices on the pieces of the system visible to you.
* Do they use HTTPS on pages with sensitive info (inc... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | Of course they could, but then they could also just email themselves every time you change your password.
Now, depending on the type of system, there are plenty of regulations, audits, reviews, and processes that might be relevant to ensure that the developers don't do this, or many other types of malicious activity.... | The only way how a website can prove it's NOT storing your password in plaintext is to never receive it in plaintext. This can be only achieved via client-side hashing script. Unless you can analyze website code and/or sniff traffic you have to assume that the admin has full knowledge of your password in plaintext.
Se... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | You cannot know that someone will behave ethically or wisely, so:
1. Never re-use passwords across sites.
2. Decide how much information to share.
3. Withhold information that is not required, and suspect any website that asks for more info than is needed to give you a particular service.
I'm afraid that some develop... | As others have said, you can't fully know what the developers are doing with your data once you hand it over. It may give you some confidence to examine how the site operates to see if they follow security best practices on the pieces of the system visible to you.
* Do they use HTTPS on pages with sensitive info (inc... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | You cannot know that someone will behave ethically or wisely, so:
1. Never re-use passwords across sites.
2. Decide how much information to share.
3. Withhold information that is not required, and suspect any website that asks for more info than is needed to give you a particular service.
I'm afraid that some develop... | The only way how a website can prove it's NOT storing your password in plaintext is to never receive it in plaintext. This can be only achieved via client-side hashing script. Unless you can analyze website code and/or sniff traffic you have to assume that the admin has full knowledge of your password in plaintext.
Se... |
91,006 | I am not asking why hashing should be done. Instead, I want to know how to prevent that developers record user passwords to hack their user's other accounts, especially their email.
Couldn't they store their user's passwords in plaintext without the users knowing?
Is there any way for a user to detect/prevent this? | 2015/06/07 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91006",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/78094/"
] | As others have said, you can't fully know what the developers are doing with your data once you hand it over. It may give you some confidence to examine how the site operates to see if they follow security best practices on the pieces of the system visible to you.
* Do they use HTTPS on pages with sensitive info (inc... | The only way how a website can prove it's NOT storing your password in plaintext is to never receive it in plaintext. This can be only achieved via client-side hashing script. Unless you can analyze website code and/or sniff traffic you have to assume that the admin has full knowledge of your password in plaintext.
Se... |
25,647,889 | I'm trying to write some C# code to create a VM in Google Compute Engine and upload and run a different, computationally heavy bit of code on it. Is this possible? I can find plenty of support for creating instances but nowhere says how I might accomplish the second part. Any help or advice would be great.
Thanks! | 2014/09/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/25647889",
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"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4004612/"
] | <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hi8DDafrej7544mVEj1e4iEI-j6n6Vu2LttYaDYurOg/edit?usp=sharing>
The same addition works for the sheet above.
I formatted column A it as Currency $ and Column C as Currency British Pound (There is an option when you click at Format to add more currency and there you can pick Poun... | $ is a character used in formulas to anchor row or column references. Try writing the number without symbols at all, and instead set the format accordingly instead.
<http://www.gcflearnfree.org/googlespreadsheets/14.3> |
83,077 | Hello Music Community,
I just received my Chinese bamboo flute of key "D", that I want to learn to play. **I want to emphasize, that I have no experience playing musical instruments whatsoever.**
The thing is, that I want to learn to play this Chinese song *Painted Heart*, for which I have found the notes (See link o... | 2019/04/21 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/83077",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/59313/"
] | C instruments play music as it is written, and it comes out with those very notes. A 'D' instrument has to have the music written a whole tone lower, so when the player reads it, it comes out at the correct pitch.
There are two ways round the problem, assuming you can play notes as written on your instrument.
1. Sim... | First:
The note A# in your transcription is a Bb and the key the song that you’ve copied is written is Bb (respectively G Aeolian, I‘ve edited as the final note is G).
If you don‘t play with another instrument like piano or guitar it doesn‘t matter in which key you are playing and you don‘t have to mind the tuning o... |
42,521 | What tool do you suggest for automating and managing backups in MySQL?
I manage a 15GB database and I'm looking for a tool that performs the backup procedure as fast as SQL Server does in a similar sized database?
Using the default MySQL tools is too slow, what do you recommend to speed it up? | 2009/07/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/42521",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2221/"
] | Have you tried [xtrabackup](http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-xtrabackup:start)? Only supports InnoDB and XtraDB though.
Edit: As SaveTheRbtz has pointed out, it now appears to support MyISAM also. | I use SQLyog by [webyog](http://www.webyog.com/en/index.php) for my daily MySQL needs.
You can schedule backups to run through the Professional Edition of SQLyog and generally they're tools are a cut above MySQL's. |
42,521 | What tool do you suggest for automating and managing backups in MySQL?
I manage a 15GB database and I'm looking for a tool that performs the backup procedure as fast as SQL Server does in a similar sized database?
Using the default MySQL tools is too slow, what do you recommend to speed it up? | 2009/07/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/42521",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2221/"
] | Have you tried [xtrabackup](http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-xtrabackup:start)? Only supports InnoDB and XtraDB though.
Edit: As SaveTheRbtz has pointed out, it now appears to support MyISAM also. | LVM snapshots from Richard Bronosky's answer will work always. If all your tables are innoDB, you may get away with mysqldump --single-transaction --all-databases.
Dump style backups take less space but are generally slower to restore because the indexes need to be recreated. Pick your poison ;) |
42,521 | What tool do you suggest for automating and managing backups in MySQL?
I manage a 15GB database and I'm looking for a tool that performs the backup procedure as fast as SQL Server does in a similar sized database?
Using the default MySQL tools is too slow, what do you recommend to speed it up? | 2009/07/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/42521",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2221/"
] | Have you tried [xtrabackup](http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-xtrabackup:start)? Only supports InnoDB and XtraDB though.
Edit: As SaveTheRbtz has pointed out, it now appears to support MyISAM also. | It also depends what you're trying to backup against, if you're trying to protect against hardware-type failures rather than "oh-crap-what-did-I-just-DROP" moments, you can get instant (log based) off-server backups to different hardware with [MySQL replication](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html),... |
42,521 | What tool do you suggest for automating and managing backups in MySQL?
I manage a 15GB database and I'm looking for a tool that performs the backup procedure as fast as SQL Server does in a similar sized database?
Using the default MySQL tools is too slow, what do you recommend to speed it up? | 2009/07/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/42521",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2221/"
] | If it works for 22Gb, it will work for 15Gb. /snark Actually, this will work with any size data set. [Backing up a 22 GB MySQL database daily](https://serverfault.com/questions/9074/backing-up-22gb-mysql-db-daily/13310#13310)
I don't like tools for this kind of thing. I like processes. I script processes, then I have ... | I use SQLyog by [webyog](http://www.webyog.com/en/index.php) for my daily MySQL needs.
You can schedule backups to run through the Professional Edition of SQLyog and generally they're tools are a cut above MySQL's. |
42,521 | What tool do you suggest for automating and managing backups in MySQL?
I manage a 15GB database and I'm looking for a tool that performs the backup procedure as fast as SQL Server does in a similar sized database?
Using the default MySQL tools is too slow, what do you recommend to speed it up? | 2009/07/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/42521",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2221/"
] | If it works for 22Gb, it will work for 15Gb. /snark Actually, this will work with any size data set. [Backing up a 22 GB MySQL database daily](https://serverfault.com/questions/9074/backing-up-22gb-mysql-db-daily/13310#13310)
I don't like tools for this kind of thing. I like processes. I script processes, then I have ... | LVM snapshots from Richard Bronosky's answer will work always. If all your tables are innoDB, you may get away with mysqldump --single-transaction --all-databases.
Dump style backups take less space but are generally slower to restore because the indexes need to be recreated. Pick your poison ;) |
42,521 | What tool do you suggest for automating and managing backups in MySQL?
I manage a 15GB database and I'm looking for a tool that performs the backup procedure as fast as SQL Server does in a similar sized database?
Using the default MySQL tools is too slow, what do you recommend to speed it up? | 2009/07/18 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/42521",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/2221/"
] | If it works for 22Gb, it will work for 15Gb. /snark Actually, this will work with any size data set. [Backing up a 22 GB MySQL database daily](https://serverfault.com/questions/9074/backing-up-22gb-mysql-db-daily/13310#13310)
I don't like tools for this kind of thing. I like processes. I script processes, then I have ... | It also depends what you're trying to backup against, if you're trying to protect against hardware-type failures rather than "oh-crap-what-did-I-just-DROP" moments, you can get instant (log based) off-server backups to different hardware with [MySQL replication](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html),... |
146,274 | I live in Rwanda, an African country that is constantly being claimed as a "quickly developing country" by multiple sources to the point of even being compared to Singapore. However, the country's currency, the [Rwandan franc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_franc) has been slowly but surely depreciating ever sin... | 2021/11/13 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/146274",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/112930/"
] | I think inflation being higher in Rwanda than in the US is the main reason for Rwandan Frank (RWF) depreciating against USD over the long term. The annual inflation has averaged 5.2% from 2011 through 2020 in Rwanda whereas it has averaged 1.7% in the US during the same period according to the [World Bank data](https:/... | There could be a few explanations for this. It could be that Rwanda is actually not a quickly developing country and that the currency is slowly depreciating because the country is not doing well. It could also be that Rwanda is doing well, but that the value of the Rwandan franc is dropping because other currencies ar... |
12,414 | My cat particularly likes it when I bring out the cat-teaser (essentially a fake 'bird' on a stick). He makes a great deal of effort in catching it, and I assume he's enjoying himself.
Now my question is, what's going through the cat's mind? Does he know it's a game/practice for hunting, and is enjoying himself, or do... | 2016/06/02 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/12414",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/users/5587/"
] | If the cat is "hunting" when it isn't hungry, it's doing so for entertainment value.
A cat usually isn't interested in eating a bug, just catching it. A well-fed cat may not always be interested in killing larger prey; they just get carried away, play a bit too roughly, and break the toy.
There is no requirement tha... | If your cat continues to chase your cat-teaser time after time with no food reward, you should assume he is getting something other than food out of chasing it; either enjoyment at practice at hunting, or just burning off energy. Cats learn, and if food were his only motivation he would probably not chase it after the ... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | The answer is simple: people say ruby is slow because it *is* slow based on measured comparisons to other languages. Bear in mind, though, "slow" is relative. Often, ruby and other "slow" languages are plenty fast enough. | [Joel on Software - Ruby Performance Revisited](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/12.html)
quite well explains it. Might be outdated though...
I would recommend to just stick with it as you're used to Ruby on Rails,
if you ever meet a performance issue you might reconsider to use a different language and... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | >
> Why is Ruby considered slow?
>
>
>
Because if you run typical benchmarks between Ruby and other languages, Ruby loses.
>
> I do not find Ruby to be slow but then
> again, I'm just using it to make
> simple CRUD apps and company blogs.
> What sort of projects would I need to
> be doing before I find Ruby... | Obviously, talking about speed Ruby loses. Even though benchmark tests suggest that Ruby is not so much slower than PHP. But in return, you are getting easy-to-maintain DRY code, the best out of all frameworks in various languages.
For a small project, you wont feel any slowness (I mean until like <50K users) given t... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | Writing code is slow. Reading code is slow. Finding and fixing bugs is slow. Adding features and enhancements is slow. Anything that improves on the previous is a win. Very rarely is execution performance an issue. | Ruby performs well for developer productivity. Ruby by nature forces test driven development because of the lack of types. Ruby performs well when used as a high level wrapper for C libraries. Ruby also performs well during long running processes when it is JIT-compiled to machine code via JVM or Rbx VM. Ruby does not ... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | >
> Why is Ruby considered slow?
>
>
>
Because if you run typical benchmarks between Ruby and other languages, Ruby loses.
>
> I do not find Ruby to be slow but then
> again, I'm just using it to make
> simple CRUD apps and company blogs.
> What sort of projects would I need to
> be doing before I find Ruby... | [Joel on Software - Ruby Performance Revisited](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/12.html)
quite well explains it. Might be outdated though...
I would recommend to just stick with it as you're used to Ruby on Rails,
if you ever meet a performance issue you might reconsider to use a different language and... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | First of all, **slower with respect to what**? C? Python? Let's **get some numbers** at the [Computer Language Benchmarks Game](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/):
* [Ruby 1.9 vs. Python3](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/ruby.html) within the **same** order of magnitude
* [Ruby 1.9 vs. PHP](http://b... | Ruby is slower than C++ at a number of easily measurable tasks (e.g., doing code that is heavily dependent on floating point). This is not very surprising, but enough justification for some people to say that “Ruby is Slow” without qualification. They don't count the fact that it is far easier and safer to write Ruby c... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | Obviously, talking about speed Ruby loses. Even though benchmark tests suggest that Ruby is not so much slower than PHP. But in return, you are getting easy-to-maintain DRY code, the best out of all frameworks in various languages.
For a small project, you wont feel any slowness (I mean until like <50K users) given t... | Ruby performs well for developer productivity. Ruby by nature forces test driven development because of the lack of types. Ruby performs well when used as a high level wrapper for C libraries. Ruby also performs well during long running processes when it is JIT-compiled to machine code via JVM or Rbx VM. Ruby does not ... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | First of all, **slower with respect to what**? C? Python? Let's **get some numbers** at the [Computer Language Benchmarks Game](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/):
* [Ruby 1.9 vs. Python3](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/ruby.html) within the **same** order of magnitude
* [Ruby 1.9 vs. PHP](http://b... | Writing code is slow. Reading code is slow. Finding and fixing bugs is slow. Adding features and enhancements is slow. Anything that improves on the previous is a win. Very rarely is execution performance an issue. |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | The way to deal with Ruby's performance in Web application is the same as with any other programming language:
**ARCHITECTURE**
This is easier to do in Rails than in most other Web Frameworks.
*At the application level*, by caching whatever is supposed to be cached and by managing the access to the DB in an intellig... | Ruby performs well for developer productivity. Ruby by nature forces test driven development because of the lack of types. Ruby performs well when used as a high level wrapper for C libraries. Ruby also performs well during long running processes when it is JIT-compiled to machine code via JVM or Rbx VM. Ruby does not ... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | Here's what the creator of Rails, [David Heinemeier Hansson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson) has to say:
>
> Rails [Ruby] is for the vast majority
> of web applications Fast Enough. We
> got sites doing millions of dynamic
> page views per day. If you end up
> being with the Yahoo or Amazon... | Performance is almost always about good design and optimized database interactions. Ruby does what most web sites need quite fast, especially more recent versions; and the speed of development and ease of maintenance provides a large payoff in costs and in keeping customers happy. I find JAVA to have slow execution per... |
2,529,852 | I like Ruby on Rails and I use it for all my web development projects. A few years ago there was a lot of talk about Rails being a memory hog and about how it didn't scale very well but these suggestions were put to bed by Gregg Pollack **[here](http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails).**
Lately though, I've been h... | 2010/03/27 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2529852",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/227863/"
] | First of all, **slower with respect to what**? C? Python? Let's **get some numbers** at the [Computer Language Benchmarks Game](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/):
* [Ruby 1.9 vs. Python3](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/ruby.html) within the **same** order of magnitude
* [Ruby 1.9 vs. PHP](http://b... | First of all, do you care about what others say about the language you like? When it does the job it has to do, you're fine.
OO isn't the fastest way to execute code, but it does help in creating the code. Smart code is always faster than dumb code and useless loops. I'm an DBA and see a lot of these useless loops, dr... |
43,802 | I have this shrub - during the season it has bright green leaves with a white outline and has red stalks
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uCgTj.jpg) | 2019/03/09 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/43802",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/25005/"
] | This looks like a red twig dogwood shrub. The flowers are different than the dogwood trees that people think of when they hear dogwood. It's a shade-loving deciduous plant that averages 5 feet tall. I've found variegated varieties to be susceptible to fungus so watch for signs.
It's great for multi seasonal interest:... | I assume you live some where cold/north. It would be a red twig dogwood. They will grow farther north than Edmonton Canada. They also come in yellow. They like water, and can be invasive with the right conditions. They root readily from cuttings. The white-edged leaves is likely a developed hybrid. |
43,802 | I have this shrub - during the season it has bright green leaves with a white outline and has red stalks
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uCgTj.jpg) | 2019/03/09 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/43802",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/25005/"
] | This looks like a red twig dogwood shrub. The flowers are different than the dogwood trees that people think of when they hear dogwood. It's a shade-loving deciduous plant that averages 5 feet tall. I've found variegated varieties to be susceptible to fungus so watch for signs.
It's great for multi seasonal interest:... | Most likely Cornus alba sibirica 'variegata', or possibly Cornus alba 'elegantissima'; both have red stems and similar variegated leaves. The first one doesn't get too huge, reaching usually between 5 and 6 feet tall and wide, but the second gets much larger; it can reach easily over 10 feet tall and wide. If your plan... |
182,362 | **Question:** [Why is the SSMS GUI so slow and what can I do to fix it?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16815313/why-is-the-ssms-gui-so-slow-and-what-can-i-do-to-fix-it)
The question linked above received 2 close votes, I asked for comments regarding the issue and this morning I've found it's been voted to close ... | 2013/05/30 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/182362",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/163813/"
] | There are a number of phrases that are not really problems in a question, but are excellent markers of a problem in a question. When you search for these, you are likely to find something that needs editing (often vital information will be scattered in comments on other answers, for example) or closing.
I think a goo... | Is the problem just with the title? Is the question a good question, but with a wordy title? People can edit titles.
Is the question almost good? Could it be a good question if it was edited? People can edit questions.
Is the question a poor question? People can down-vote questions, and leave comments asking the aske... |
8,571,346 | With so much to learn and so frequent updates in MS ASP.NET MVC framework, I find it little challenging to grab it quickly and extend the learning upto expert level efficiently.
I need advise upon how to start with (Is there any best tutorial ) and how can I reach expert level ( any **roadmap** so that we can be there... | 2011/12/20 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/8571346",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/83965/"
] | The good thing about the MVC framework in .Net is that its fundamentals don't change and have not changed ever since its first version was released. What you'll notice is that certain things have been made easier to do in the later versions.
My suggestion is to ignore the versions for the time being and focus on lear... | NET MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and that gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET MVC includes many features that enable fast, TDD-friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that ... |
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