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103,792 | We're planing a trip to Japan next year, and wanted to include the firefly squids of Toyama bay too. My problem is that I can't find any more information about the location/timing/possibilities besides that it's at night, probably on the eastern side of the bay and there is a museum that does cruises to which tickets s... | 2017/10/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103792",
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] | Here are a couple of candidates:
* ~~**Whitby** and other stations on the [Esk Valley Line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esk_Valley_line). The only mainline connection to this line is Middlesbrough, which currently has no direct service to London (it is planned to begin in 2021).~~ See comment below.
* **Thornton Abb... | Marlow in Buckinghamshire can only be reached via Bourne End, which can only be reached via Maidenhead - 2 changes from London Paddington.
I suspect this *could* be the nearest, about 30 miles away and less than 1 hour total journey time from London Paddington. |
103,792 | We're planing a trip to Japan next year, and wanted to include the firefly squids of Toyama bay too. My problem is that I can't find any more information about the location/timing/possibilities besides that it's at night, probably on the eastern side of the bay and there is a museum that does cruises to which tickets s... | 2017/10/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103792",
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] | The **West Highland Line** is famously about as remote as you can get and have a direct train to London, but it qualifies *one day a week* - there is a night sleeper service to Fort William through Glasgow Queen Street, but it doesn't run on Saturday nights. Queen Street has no other direct connections to London so you... | Eskdale in Cumbria would possibly count here - from London you'd have go up the West Coast Mainline and then change to the Cumbrian Coast Line at either Carnforth or Carlisle then from there go to Ravenglass and change to the Ravenglass & Eskdale Line. |
103,792 | We're planing a trip to Japan next year, and wanted to include the firefly squids of Toyama bay too. My problem is that I can't find any more information about the location/timing/possibilities besides that it's at night, probably on the eastern side of the bay and there is a museum that does cruises to which tickets s... | 2017/10/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103792",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
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] | You're asking for stations within the UK.
For any station in Northern Ireland, you'd need to change from train to ferry and from ferry to train. On either side, (direct) trains do not connect all the way to the ferry terminal, so that means more than one change even to reach Belfast, and more than two to reach any oth... | I think the stations between Kirkby and Wigan Wallgate don't have one-change services to London.
ie Rainford, Upholland, Orrell and Pemberton.
Their services run between Kirkby and Blackburn, via Wigan Wallgate and Manchester Victoria. There's no direct service from any of those stations to London, you can change at ... |
103,792 | We're planing a trip to Japan next year, and wanted to include the firefly squids of Toyama bay too. My problem is that I can't find any more information about the location/timing/possibilities besides that it's at night, probably on the eastern side of the bay and there is a museum that does cruises to which tickets s... | 2017/10/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103792",
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] | Living in Liverpool, I can't believe I missed the obvious fact the Merseyrail Northern Line trains don't go through Liverpool Lime Street - they run from Hunts Cross to either Southport or Ormskirk via Liverpool Central (and so you have to do 1 stop on the Wirral Line or walk to Lime Street). No station on this line ha... | You're asking for stations within the UK.
For any station in Northern Ireland, you'd need to change from train to ferry and from ferry to train. On either side, (direct) trains do not connect all the way to the ferry terminal, so that means more than one change even to reach Belfast, and more than two to reach any oth... |
103,792 | We're planing a trip to Japan next year, and wanted to include the firefly squids of Toyama bay too. My problem is that I can't find any more information about the location/timing/possibilities besides that it's at night, probably on the eastern side of the bay and there is a museum that does cruises to which tickets s... | 2017/10/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103792",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/7390/"
] | Here are a couple of candidates:
* ~~**Whitby** and other stations on the [Esk Valley Line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esk_Valley_line). The only mainline connection to this line is Middlesbrough, which currently has no direct service to London (it is planned to begin in 2021).~~ See comment below.
* **Thornton Abb... | You're asking for stations within the UK.
For any station in Northern Ireland, you'd need to change from train to ferry and from ferry to train. On either side, (direct) trains do not connect all the way to the ferry terminal, so that means more than one change even to reach Belfast, and more than two to reach any oth... |
103,792 | We're planing a trip to Japan next year, and wanted to include the firefly squids of Toyama bay too. My problem is that I can't find any more information about the location/timing/possibilities besides that it's at night, probably on the eastern side of the bay and there is a museum that does cruises to which tickets s... | 2017/10/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/103792",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/7390/"
] | The **West Highland Line** is famously about as remote as you can get and have a direct train to London, but it qualifies *one day a week* - there is a night sleeper service to Fort William through Glasgow Queen Street, but it doesn't run on Saturday nights. Queen Street has no other direct connections to London so you... | Marlow in Buckinghamshire can only be reached via Bourne End, which can only be reached via Maidenhead - 2 changes from London Paddington.
I suspect this *could* be the nearest, about 30 miles away and less than 1 hour total journey time from London Paddington. |
12,127 | We are trying to create custom analytics reports but are not able to show any data in charts.
Below are the steps followed to create a custom report,
1. Created custom dimensions and segments.
2. Created custom filter and added rule **where the interaction started at the Home** and attached filter to segment.
3. In c... | 2018/06/04 | [
"https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/12127",
"https://sitecore.stackexchange.com",
"https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/users/3786/"
] | Not all modules are available (yet) in the Sitecore Nuget feed. SXA for example is not there yet, and it seems like the Publishing service is also (still) missing.
For the moment, you'll need to refer your solution to the dll locally. You can always contact Sitecore (through [support](https://support.sitecore.net/hel... | SXA 4.8.0, JSS 12.0.0 and DataExchange 2.1.0 are available on MyGet for Sitecore 9.1.0 release: <https://sitecore.myget.org/gallery/sc-packages>
Also SIF (<https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-powershell/package/nuget/SitecoreInstallFramework>) and SI (<https://sitecore.myget.org/gallery/sc-identity>) were published on ... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
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] | Yes, you can use [**meet**](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meet) to mean "encounter" or "come into the presence of", and it is sometimes used with wild animals, for example
>
> [...when I met a coyote for the first time.](https://coyoteyipps.com/2009/12/21/join-my-pack-coyote-behavior/)
>
>
>
>
> [Du... | You can use it this way. If you explore the examples at [Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meet), you will see that "meet" has a variety of meanings. The most common sense is "to become acquainted with," but there are many more.
For example, we can say this of two streets that cross:
>
> Elm Street... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
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] | No, it isn't normal or idiomatic to use "meet" in any of the situations you describe, including the zoo. It can be done, but it would be unusual, and it would typically only be used by a native speakers in order to create an unusual emphasis, comparison with human encounters, or irony. Part of the problem is that "meet... | You can use it this way. If you explore the examples at [Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meet), you will see that "meet" has a variety of meanings. The most common sense is "to become acquainted with," but there are many more.
For example, we can say this of two streets that cross:
>
> Elm Street... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/137905/"
] | You can use it this way. If you explore the examples at [Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meet), you will see that "meet" has a variety of meanings. The most common sense is "to become acquainted with," but there are many more.
For example, we can say this of two streets that cross:
>
> Elm Street... | "What to do if you meet a bear" is so common it's almost a cliché, and "I was walking in the woods and met a deer" is also very idiomatic. In these contexts "encounter" is a direct replacement.
But it very much implies some level of interactivity, and also surprise, so it would be odd for me to hear it in reference to... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/137905/"
] | You can use it this way. If you explore the examples at [Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meet), you will see that "meet" has a variety of meanings. The most common sense is "to become acquainted with," but there are many more.
For example, we can say this of two streets that cross:
>
> Elm Street... | You can "meet" pretty-much anything, including wild animals, but almost never in a zoo. There, bars and fences get in the way.
You can "meet" not only animals but also bad weather or stormy seas, avalanches or crevasses, rock-falls or simple walls.
You can go to the zoo to "see", to "look at" or to "watch" animals bu... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/137905/"
] | Yes, you can use [**meet**](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meet) to mean "encounter" or "come into the presence of", and it is sometimes used with wild animals, for example
>
> [...when I met a coyote for the first time.](https://coyoteyipps.com/2009/12/21/join-my-pack-coyote-behavior/)
>
>
>
>
> [Du... | "What to do if you meet a bear" is so common it's almost a cliché, and "I was walking in the woods and met a deer" is also very idiomatic. In these contexts "encounter" is a direct replacement.
But it very much implies some level of interactivity, and also surprise, so it would be odd for me to hear it in reference to... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/137905/"
] | Yes, you can use [**meet**](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meet) to mean "encounter" or "come into the presence of", and it is sometimes used with wild animals, for example
>
> [...when I met a coyote for the first time.](https://coyoteyipps.com/2009/12/21/join-my-pack-coyote-behavior/)
>
>
>
>
> [Du... | You can "meet" pretty-much anything, including wild animals, but almost never in a zoo. There, bars and fences get in the way.
You can "meet" not only animals but also bad weather or stormy seas, avalanches or crevasses, rock-falls or simple walls.
You can go to the zoo to "see", to "look at" or to "watch" animals bu... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/137905/"
] | No, it isn't normal or idiomatic to use "meet" in any of the situations you describe, including the zoo. It can be done, but it would be unusual, and it would typically only be used by a native speakers in order to create an unusual emphasis, comparison with human encounters, or irony. Part of the problem is that "meet... | "What to do if you meet a bear" is so common it's almost a cliché, and "I was walking in the woods and met a deer" is also very idiomatic. In these contexts "encounter" is a direct replacement.
But it very much implies some level of interactivity, and also surprise, so it would be odd for me to hear it in reference to... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/137905/"
] | No, it isn't normal or idiomatic to use "meet" in any of the situations you describe, including the zoo. It can be done, but it would be unusual, and it would typically only be used by a native speakers in order to create an unusual emphasis, comparison with human encounters, or irony. Part of the problem is that "meet... | You can "meet" pretty-much anything, including wild animals, but almost never in a zoo. There, bars and fences get in the way.
You can "meet" not only animals but also bad weather or stormy seas, avalanches or crevasses, rock-falls or simple walls.
You can go to the zoo to "see", to "look at" or to "watch" animals bu... |
291,522 | I have a question whether you can use "meet" when you see wild animals.
Someone wants to see a wild deer and perhaps take some photographs of it. When you know a road around which deer are seen very often, can you say this sentence?
You can meet deer around the road.
I think you can go to the zoo to "meet" animals, ... | 2021/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/291522",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/137905/"
] | "What to do if you meet a bear" is so common it's almost a cliché, and "I was walking in the woods and met a deer" is also very idiomatic. In these contexts "encounter" is a direct replacement.
But it very much implies some level of interactivity, and also surprise, so it would be odd for me to hear it in reference to... | You can "meet" pretty-much anything, including wild animals, but almost never in a zoo. There, bars and fences get in the way.
You can "meet" not only animals but also bad weather or stormy seas, avalanches or crevasses, rock-falls or simple walls.
You can go to the zoo to "see", to "look at" or to "watch" animals bu... |
46,356,704 | I want uniformity across Western and Asian fonts because I have to type multilingual documents.
This happens in other Office programs as well:
1. In PowerPoint, it automatically switches to Yu Gothic Light.
2. In Excel, it's Microsoft Yahei, but it displays as Calibri.
This doesn't happen when I'm typing Japanese in ... | 2017/09/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/46356704",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7271141/"
] | Please remove the "AttributesToGet" and try. | Your code is correct. However, I am on the Cognito team and we don't support search on custom attributes at this point. |
983,762 | I'm looking for a good, fully featured C++ assert macro for VisualStudio. With features like be able to ignore an assert once or always, to be able to break exactly where the macro gets called (and not inside macro code), and getting a stack trace.
Before I have to hunker down and write one, I figured I'd ask if anyon... | 2009/06/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/983762",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/93802/"
] | Here's a link to an article I wrote for DDJ that described, among other things, a library that does much of what you're looking for. Although I don't just use macros, I also implement functions in a DLL.
<http://www.ddj.com/architect/184406106>
The article from a few years ago and, although I have made many additions... | [OpenOffice has some assertion code](http://www.krugle.org/kse/entfiles/framework/openoffice.org/head/framework/framework/inc/macros/debug/assertion.hxx#2) that has an option of logging to a message box. Probably not exactly what you want, but instructive maybe? |
983,762 | I'm looking for a good, fully featured C++ assert macro for VisualStudio. With features like be able to ignore an assert once or always, to be able to break exactly where the macro gets called (and not inside macro code), and getting a stack trace.
Before I have to hunker down and write one, I figured I'd ask if anyon... | 2009/06/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/983762",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/93802/"
] | See [Charles Nicholson's blog](http://cnicholson.net/2009/02/stupid-c-tricks-adventures-in-assert/) for a good discussion of an `assert` macro. His solution breaks the debugger at the faulting line of code (and not inside the failed assertion handler), and he also solves the problem of not getting warnings about unused... | [OpenOffice has some assertion code](http://www.krugle.org/kse/entfiles/framework/openoffice.org/head/framework/framework/inc/macros/debug/assertion.hxx#2) that has an option of logging to a message box. Probably not exactly what you want, but instructive maybe? |
983,762 | I'm looking for a good, fully featured C++ assert macro for VisualStudio. With features like be able to ignore an assert once or always, to be able to break exactly where the macro gets called (and not inside macro code), and getting a stack trace.
Before I have to hunker down and write one, I figured I'd ask if anyon... | 2009/06/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/983762",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/93802/"
] | See [Charles Nicholson's blog](http://cnicholson.net/2009/02/stupid-c-tricks-adventures-in-assert/) for a good discussion of an `assert` macro. His solution breaks the debugger at the faulting line of code (and not inside the failed assertion handler), and he also solves the problem of not getting warnings about unused... | Here's a link to an article I wrote for DDJ that described, among other things, a library that does much of what you're looking for. Although I don't just use macros, I also implement functions in a DLL.
<http://www.ddj.com/architect/184406106>
The article from a few years ago and, although I have made many additions... |
5,883 | In the days of mainframes and minicomputers, a common user interface was a serial terminal where each keystroke was sent to the computer, which could respond with an update to the contents of the screen.
At some point, IBM at least - maybe also other manufacturers - invented smart terminals, which had enough processin... | 2018/03/05 | [
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] | Arguably the prototypical smart terminal was the IBM 3270. According to this link [IBM History](http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/dpd50/dpd50_chronology4.html) the 3270 was first demonstrated on May 23, 1971. While the Intel 4004 was shipping already at that time, the 3270 didn't use it - and the 4004 really w... | A typical video display terminal includes a means of taking received bytes and storing them into a buffer while the contents of that buffer are being repeatedly read out and used to drive a CRT (typically by generating an associated sequence of pixels). Although typically the only things sent to a remote device would b... |
5,883 | In the days of mainframes and minicomputers, a common user interface was a serial terminal where each keystroke was sent to the computer, which could respond with an update to the contents of the screen.
At some point, IBM at least - maybe also other manufacturers - invented smart terminals, which had enough processin... | 2018/03/05 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5883",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
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] | Arguably the prototypical smart terminal was the IBM 3270. According to this link [IBM History](http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/dpd50/dpd50_chronology4.html) the 3270 was first demonstrated on May 23, 1971. While the Intel 4004 was shipping already at that time, the 3270 didn't use it - and the 4004 really w... | 1970s - as pointed out above, 1971 was the advent of the IBM 3270, which I think qualifies as what you are asking.
But you are still making assumptions about how things work which is leading you to wonder something that isn't quite true - i.e., didn't they need a microprocessor?
3270 terminals had some intelligence i... |
5,883 | In the days of mainframes and minicomputers, a common user interface was a serial terminal where each keystroke was sent to the computer, which could respond with an update to the contents of the screen.
At some point, IBM at least - maybe also other manufacturers - invented smart terminals, which had enough processin... | 2018/03/05 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5883",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
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] | Arguably the prototypical smart terminal was the IBM 3270. According to this link [IBM History](http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/dpd50/dpd50_chronology4.html) the 3270 was first demonstrated on May 23, 1971. While the Intel 4004 was shipping already at that time, the 3270 didn't use it - and the 4004 really w... | The SABRE reservation system introduced 'smart' terminals, or at least semi-smart, block mode terminals (like 3270, but ALC bisync multidrop protocol) such as the Sperry Unimatic in the mid to late 60s. One could argue as well that the operator console of SABREs progenitor, the SAGE early warning system, is a smart-ter... |
657,802 | I have googled, the closest thing I have found so far is another SF question here: [Azure Storage limitations](https://serverfault.com/questions/512725/azure-storage-limitations)
The Goal:
Move approx 50TB of storage to the cloud, present that storage as a standard Windows File Share and have it relatively easily ext... | 2015/01/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/657802",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/219400/"
] | Try to investigate Microsoft DFS namespaces and start segregating data within Azure - I've done a similar project. Where by you add a small separate VHD then mount further 1TB VHD's as mount points under the first drive e.g.
100GB disk Mount as D:
Then the Nth 1TB VHD would mount under D:\Disk1 ... D:\Disk50 then wit... | [Azure File Service](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx) may be useful to you. Also as HBrujn notes above, 1TB is much more than 50GB you are looking for. |
657,802 | I have googled, the closest thing I have found so far is another SF question here: [Azure Storage limitations](https://serverfault.com/questions/512725/azure-storage-limitations)
The Goal:
Move approx 50TB of storage to the cloud, present that storage as a standard Windows File Share and have it relatively easily ext... | 2015/01/07 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/657802",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/219400/"
] | Try to investigate Microsoft DFS namespaces and start segregating data within Azure - I've done a similar project. Where by you add a small separate VHD then mount further 1TB VHD's as mount points under the first drive e.g.
100GB disk Mount as D:
Then the Nth 1TB VHD would mount under D:\Disk1 ... D:\Disk50 then wit... | Azure File Storage service allows you to create file-shares up to 5TB in size, with each file being up to 1TB. This is effectively an SMB volume, with an underlying REST API. You can access this share from both Azure resources and on-premises resources.
Since you're dealing with 50TB, you'd need to create multiple Fil... |
37,898,857 | I have the following tables:
* products
* companies
* purchases (has one company, has many products)
I need to be able to create invoices based on the above 3 tables.
The problem I'm facing is that **since the products are editable one could change the price, thus making the invoice invalid: the price of the product ... | 2016/06/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/37898857",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2810177/"
] | The way to solve this is very simple, I deal with prices , products and invoices everyday.
Create a product\_price table, where you store product id, current price, and dates that let you check the time period when each price was valid. So you will have a one product to many prices, each of one reflecting validity dat... | Just create a new column in the purchasing table called PurchaseSnapshot and insert all necessary values that have the potential of changing in the future. Not sure what your UI is like, but you could change the code to go off the snapshot values (price) rather easily, or you could load the snapshot info into a simple ... |
37,898,857 | I have the following tables:
* products
* companies
* purchases (has one company, has many products)
I need to be able to create invoices based on the above 3 tables.
The problem I'm facing is that **since the products are editable one could change the price, thus making the invoice invalid: the price of the product ... | 2016/06/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/37898857",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | The way to solve this is very simple, I deal with prices , products and invoices everyday.
Create a product\_price table, where you store product id, current price, and dates that let you check the time period when each price was valid. So you will have a one product to many prices, each of one reflecting validity dat... | It sounds like what you want to do is version some of your data. The details of versioning is much too long to try to provide in a simple answer. [Here](https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/114580/best-way-to-design-a-database-and-table-to-keep-records-of-changes/114738#114738) is an answer I gave to a similar quest... |
57,269 | I've a Google document and it has one header throughout. On a couple of the pages I want to use a different header and footer. For instance:
* pages 1-14 I want **Header + Footer A**
* pages 15-20 I want **Header + Footer B**
* pages 21-30 I want **Header + Footer A**
or for instance:
* page 1 I want NO header or F... | 2014/02/20 | [
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] | From the [Google Drive Help documentation](https://support.google.com/drive/answer/86629?hl=en):
>
> Deleting a single header or footer will delete all headers/footers on each page of your document, just as editing the text in a single header or footer will change the text in the header/footer on each page of the doc... | In my experience, I would like to have the header/footer on only one page, but since this feature is not yet added, I have to say that you cannot have a header/footer on only one page, but if you press different header/footer on the first page, you can have a different header/footer for 2-infinity. |
57,269 | I've a Google document and it has one header throughout. On a couple of the pages I want to use a different header and footer. For instance:
* pages 1-14 I want **Header + Footer A**
* pages 15-20 I want **Header + Footer B**
* pages 21-30 I want **Header + Footer A**
or for instance:
* page 1 I want NO header or F... | 2014/02/20 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/57269",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/21773/"
] | From the [Google Drive Help documentation](https://support.google.com/drive/answer/86629?hl=en):
>
> Deleting a single header or footer will delete all headers/footers on each page of your document, just as editing the text in a single header or footer will change the text in the header/footer on each page of the doc... | You can only do make the first page different. But you can make it work by inserting a table at the top or bottom of each page where you want it to be different. It's a workaround, but it works. Just make a sufficient top margin and start your page off with a textbox/table. Copy and paste it on all similar pages and th... |
57,269 | I've a Google document and it has one header throughout. On a couple of the pages I want to use a different header and footer. For instance:
* pages 1-14 I want **Header + Footer A**
* pages 15-20 I want **Header + Footer B**
* pages 21-30 I want **Header + Footer A**
or for instance:
* page 1 I want NO header or F... | 2014/02/20 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/57269",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/21773/"
] | You can only do make the first page different. But you can make it work by inserting a table at the top or bottom of each page where you want it to be different. It's a workaround, but it works. Just make a sufficient top margin and start your page off with a textbox/table. Copy and paste it on all similar pages and th... | In my experience, I would like to have the header/footer on only one page, but since this feature is not yet added, I have to say that you cannot have a header/footer on only one page, but if you press different header/footer on the first page, you can have a different header/footer for 2-infinity. |
84,811 | Tor is fully secure only if I use HTTPS, right? But not every site supports it, so I had an idea - some online anonymizers support HTTPS, so if I connect via Tor (Tor -> anonymyzer -> site), will that be the same? | 2015/03/29 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/84811",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/69939/"
] | In that case the connection between anonymizer and webserver would be just as unencrypted as the connection between exit node and webserver. It would still be possible to eavesdrop on it.
All you get from this is that you get an additional layer in your onion circuit (the outer layer is the https connection between yo... | You should use something like that: <https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere> It's created in colloboration with Tor developers, so you can rely on that if you already decided to trust Tor itself.
**Edited:**
My bad. Yes, SSL Everywhere addon won't provide you secure connection in case the target website doesn't support ... |
84,811 | Tor is fully secure only if I use HTTPS, right? But not every site supports it, so I had an idea - some online anonymizers support HTTPS, so if I connect via Tor (Tor -> anonymyzer -> site), will that be the same? | 2015/03/29 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/84811",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/69939/"
] | No and No to both of your questions. In reference to your first question google TOR DNS leak just as an example. While this is simply an example a good question to pose to yourself is "how secure is acceptable?"
In reference to your second question, in this situation you would simply moving one end-point of the encryp... | You should use something like that: <https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere> It's created in colloboration with Tor developers, so you can rely on that if you already decided to trust Tor itself.
**Edited:**
My bad. Yes, SSL Everywhere addon won't provide you secure connection in case the target website doesn't support ... |
84,811 | Tor is fully secure only if I use HTTPS, right? But not every site supports it, so I had an idea - some online anonymizers support HTTPS, so if I connect via Tor (Tor -> anonymyzer -> site), will that be the same? | 2015/03/29 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/84811",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/69939/"
] | In that case the connection between anonymizer and webserver would be just as unencrypted as the connection between exit node and webserver. It would still be possible to eavesdrop on it.
All you get from this is that you get an additional layer in your onion circuit (the outer layer is the https connection between yo... | No and No to both of your questions. In reference to your first question google TOR DNS leak just as an example. While this is simply an example a good question to pose to yourself is "how secure is acceptable?"
In reference to your second question, in this situation you would simply moving one end-point of the encryp... |
40,473 | In the case that storage is not a problem: are there actually any good reasons for doing incremental backups instead of just doing full backups?
**Edit**
This could actually refer to any database with full & incremental backups. In this case we use a Progress OpenEdge RDBMS with support for both backup plans as wel... | 2013/04/19 | [
"https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/40473",
"https://dba.stackexchange.com",
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] | Time for the backup to run is a reason for doing incremental backup on Progress. My backup is running fast enough that I did not need to use this function and I'm still doing only full backups.
It also depends on your requirements. For example, if you have heavy financial transactions and you want to keep a backup eve... | If space is not a problem, time can be. An incremental backup will usually take less time than a full backup. Many DBAs do not have maintenance windows long enough to do full backups during the week (if the full one takes a couple of hours for example) and have to resort to incremental backup every night.
If you want ... |
40,473 | In the case that storage is not a problem: are there actually any good reasons for doing incremental backups instead of just doing full backups?
**Edit**
This could actually refer to any database with full & incremental backups. In this case we use a Progress OpenEdge RDBMS with support for both backup plans as wel... | 2013/04/19 | [
"https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/40473",
"https://dba.stackexchange.com",
"https://dba.stackexchange.com/users/22794/"
] | Time for the backup to run is a reason for doing incremental backup on Progress. My backup is running fast enough that I did not need to use this function and I'm still doing only full backups.
It also depends on your requirements. For example, if you have heavy financial transactions and you want to keep a backup eve... | What RDBMS are you refering to ? MS SQL Server does not have "Incremental backup". It just have full, differential and transaction Log backups.
You can equate (loosly) transaction Log backups as Incremental backup as it will require a FULL backup and all the increments (which are nothing but
transaction backups) unt... |
281,006 | Any resources on what might've changed in API 37 that wasn't present in 36 that could be causing the issue I'm seeing?
If I update every other apex class in my org to 46 and leave the test class at 36, the test passes. If I bump the test class to 37, the test class fails.
We're essentially testing our email services... | 2019/10/11 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/281006",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/72832/"
] | It seems [Enhanced Email](https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/summer16/release-notes/rn_sales_productivity_email_platform_features.htm) was introduced in API 37 which is what's causing the issue. Before that, the emails we forwarded in the code did not create an emailMessage record. Now, they do as the set *... | Just a shot in the dark, but I think it has something to do with Enhanced Email and it being enabled in version 37 [Invalid type: Schema.EmailMessageRelation](https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/248276/invalid-type-schema-emailmessagerelation) |
4,766 | I noticed some strange damage on my rear tire, where there appear to be diagonally cuts going around the entire wheel. I have no idea what might have caused this damage. I first saw it a few months ago, but didn't think anything of it because I had just replaced my tires with these relatively fancy Panaracer kevlar tir... | 2011/07/10 | [
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] | Looks to me like the tire's been run flat. If not that then I'd say the tire's defective -- that the factory left out a layer of cord or some such.
What pressure have you been running (and how much do you weigh)? | First of all, you're right about replacing the tire--if you have any cracks in the sidewall and/or a bulging tube, a tire MUST be replaced. Judging by those pictures, I would replace the tire immediately.
Depending on the tire, and what you're doing with it, a year may or may not be an unreasonable length of time for ... |
4,766 | I noticed some strange damage on my rear tire, where there appear to be diagonally cuts going around the entire wheel. I have no idea what might have caused this damage. I first saw it a few months ago, but didn't think anything of it because I had just replaced my tires with these relatively fancy Panaracer kevlar tir... | 2011/07/10 | [
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] | Yes, you are right that the tire must be replaced.
No, the tires are not defective. This type of cross hatching is caused by age and weather deterioration. It appears like diagonal cuts because the weave of the cloth start breaking threads, and they are woven diagonally.
The tire is either at least 3-5 years old, o... | First of all, you're right about replacing the tire--if you have any cracks in the sidewall and/or a bulging tube, a tire MUST be replaced. Judging by those pictures, I would replace the tire immediately.
Depending on the tire, and what you're doing with it, a year may or may not be an unreasonable length of time for ... |
4,766 | I noticed some strange damage on my rear tire, where there appear to be diagonally cuts going around the entire wheel. I have no idea what might have caused this damage. I first saw it a few months ago, but didn't think anything of it because I had just replaced my tires with these relatively fancy Panaracer kevlar tir... | 2011/07/10 | [
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] | First of all, you're right about replacing the tire--if you have any cracks in the sidewall and/or a bulging tube, a tire MUST be replaced. Judging by those pictures, I would replace the tire immediately.
Depending on the tire, and what you're doing with it, a year may or may not be an unreasonable length of time for ... | I have had several rear tyres fail this way (most recently a Schwalbe racing ralph)
Oddly the tyre "cuts" perfectly align with the spokes in a diagnonal away from each spoke. I ride a lot of canal paths so the crusty dry dust makes these patterns on the sidewall even when the tyre is brand new. I am wondering whether ... |
4,766 | I noticed some strange damage on my rear tire, where there appear to be diagonally cuts going around the entire wheel. I have no idea what might have caused this damage. I first saw it a few months ago, but didn't think anything of it because I had just replaced my tires with these relatively fancy Panaracer kevlar tir... | 2011/07/10 | [
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] | Looks to me like the tire's been run flat. If not that then I'd say the tire's defective -- that the factory left out a layer of cord or some such.
What pressure have you been running (and how much do you weigh)? | Yes, you are right that the tire must be replaced.
No, the tires are not defective. This type of cross hatching is caused by age and weather deterioration. It appears like diagonal cuts because the weave of the cloth start breaking threads, and they are woven diagonally.
The tire is either at least 3-5 years old, o... |
4,766 | I noticed some strange damage on my rear tire, where there appear to be diagonally cuts going around the entire wheel. I have no idea what might have caused this damage. I first saw it a few months ago, but didn't think anything of it because I had just replaced my tires with these relatively fancy Panaracer kevlar tir... | 2011/07/10 | [
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"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
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] | Looks to me like the tire's been run flat. If not that then I'd say the tire's defective -- that the factory left out a layer of cord or some such.
What pressure have you been running (and how much do you weigh)? | I have had several rear tyres fail this way (most recently a Schwalbe racing ralph)
Oddly the tyre "cuts" perfectly align with the spokes in a diagnonal away from each spoke. I ride a lot of canal paths so the crusty dry dust makes these patterns on the sidewall even when the tyre is brand new. I am wondering whether ... |
4,766 | I noticed some strange damage on my rear tire, where there appear to be diagonally cuts going around the entire wheel. I have no idea what might have caused this damage. I first saw it a few months ago, but didn't think anything of it because I had just replaced my tires with these relatively fancy Panaracer kevlar tir... | 2011/07/10 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/4766",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/1796/"
] | Yes, you are right that the tire must be replaced.
No, the tires are not defective. This type of cross hatching is caused by age and weather deterioration. It appears like diagonal cuts because the weave of the cloth start breaking threads, and they are woven diagonally.
The tire is either at least 3-5 years old, o... | I have had several rear tyres fail this way (most recently a Schwalbe racing ralph)
Oddly the tyre "cuts" perfectly align with the spokes in a diagnonal away from each spoke. I ride a lot of canal paths so the crusty dry dust makes these patterns on the sidewall even when the tyre is brand new. I am wondering whether ... |
5,178 | I take Tae Kwon Do 2 days a week and I also jog in the morning.
I need a gym work out plan for the rest of the week. I need it to supplement body fitness and do specific strength supportive exercises for better ability in TKD.
Experts! guide me please. PS by profession I am a software engineer so no physical activi... | 2015/06/18 | [
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] | I was in your situation - I was a programmer (now a dev manager) and I put on 20 lbs in 2 years sitting around eating badly. However, I did have the advantage of a life of sports (including nearly 30 years in martial arts now) and a college degree in kinesiology to help me turn that around.
You are already doing TKD t... | I preferred cycling to running, but that's not important. What's important is that you do interval training (search on Google for examples). You'll want to do lots of muscle conditioning too. Use lighter weights, and go for more reps and sets. You want to build lean, toned, fast-twitch muscle.
I can't give you a speci... |
5,178 | I take Tae Kwon Do 2 days a week and I also jog in the morning.
I need a gym work out plan for the rest of the week. I need it to supplement body fitness and do specific strength supportive exercises for better ability in TKD.
Experts! guide me please. PS by profession I am a software engineer so no physical activi... | 2015/06/18 | [
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/5178",
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] | I was in your situation - I was a programmer (now a dev manager) and I put on 20 lbs in 2 years sitting around eating badly. However, I did have the advantage of a life of sports (including nearly 30 years in martial arts now) and a college degree in kinesiology to help me turn that around.
You are already doing TKD t... | At home I do a 20-10 workout, get a partner to hold pads (or wear gloves) on their hips (height can be adjusted as you get used to it - i go a little higher than that to ensure above belt height), kick (45 kicks) as many times as you can in 20 seconds take 10 seconds rest and kick again.
If your sparring bouts last 90... |
5,178 | I take Tae Kwon Do 2 days a week and I also jog in the morning.
I need a gym work out plan for the rest of the week. I need it to supplement body fitness and do specific strength supportive exercises for better ability in TKD.
Experts! guide me please. PS by profession I am a software engineer so no physical activi... | 2015/06/18 | [
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/5178",
"https://martialarts.stackexchange.com",
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] | I was in your situation - I was a programmer (now a dev manager) and I put on 20 lbs in 2 years sitting around eating badly. However, I did have the advantage of a life of sports (including nearly 30 years in martial arts now) and a college degree in kinesiology to help me turn that around.
You are already doing TKD t... | Training for TaeKwonDo involves largely the same strength exercises every athlete should be doing: weighted lunges, squats, and deadlifts for the lower body and core strength. For the upper body, some form of appropriately-loaded upper body pushing and pulling is needed, whether that takes the form of push-ups, overhea... |
966,996 | I was looking for a powerful Notebook and found the Asus VivoBook N580VD-DM070T. I've done some research about problems with Ubuntu, but could not find anything for this model. Does anyone have experience with Ubuntu on this model? | 2017/10/21 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/966996",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/749865/"
] | I have been using Asus N580VD with Windows 10 for some time. Today I had some time to install Ubuntu 17.10 and test. Everything works OK, except one little glitch: I can't power off or reboot without manually holding power button pressed, when I pick power off from the UI or run `poweroff` from terminal, all applicatio... | I suggest (but now it is too late) to no to buy this model. It has a BIOS deeply customized, Ubuntu 17 doesn't work well, the computer is not able to logout properly (I don't know if it's a problem of the Ubuntu version or of the hardware), and if you want to log out you cant't, the screen gets stuck. This happened aft... |
132,517 | Has anyone considered making a *Dragonlance* movie? Even just the original *Chronicles* and *Legends* trilogies could yield six very good films. | 2016/06/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132517",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | They *did* make a Dragonlance film in 2008, named [Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance:_Dragons_of_Autumn_Twilight) and based on the novel of the same name.
It was [dire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825245/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt), lost pots of money even on its tiny $1.5m ... | It would seem that there already is a Dragonlance movie. Made in 2008 Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (animated) was directed by Will Meugniot, adapted for the screen by George Strayton (*whose credits include "Cleopatria 2525", "Xena: Warrior Princess" and "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"*), the film was pro... |
132,517 | Has anyone considered making a *Dragonlance* movie? Even just the original *Chronicles* and *Legends* trilogies could yield six very good films. | 2016/06/21 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132517",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | They *did* make a Dragonlance film in 2008, named [Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance:_Dragons_of_Autumn_Twilight) and based on the novel of the same name.
It was [dire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825245/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt), lost pots of money even on its tiny $1.5m ... | I realize this is a much older question, but I was recently doing some investigation on the topic and found this article on the GeekAndSundry page: [What Joe Manganiello's Possible Dragonlance Movie Might Contain](https://geekandsundry.com/delving-into-a-possible-dragonlance-movie/).
>
> It’s recently come to light t... |
10,734,197 | Which one of these is the best ORM for PHP in terms of performance? I'd like to use it in Codeigniter framework as well. I'm trying php-activerecord right now, and it doesn't act bad. I took a look to Doctrine2, DataMapper and stuff, but I cannot tell anything about performances until I build a big project (and at that... | 2012/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10734197",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1406257/"
] | [Here is a link to GAS ORM vs PHP Active Record](http://taufanaditya.com/gas-orm-new-design-and-benchmark) (scroll to the bottom)
Result? Gas ORM is way more efficient than PHP Active Record | When you start a new project you can get Objects in and out of the database fast, without worrying how you do it. You can also switch DBMS very fast from SQLite on your local dev machine, to MySQL on your testing or staging servers. When the performance part kicks in, your application has already matured a bit, models ... |
10,734,197 | Which one of these is the best ORM for PHP in terms of performance? I'd like to use it in Codeigniter framework as well. I'm trying php-activerecord right now, and it doesn't act bad. I took a look to Doctrine2, DataMapper and stuff, but I cannot tell anything about performances until I build a big project (and at that... | 2012/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10734197",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1406257/"
] | If your goal is performance, then use of ORM is the wrong choice to begin with.
ORMs are focused on forcing relational structure to act like objects, which is the source of the problem (the loss of performance, and limitations of API). This is why performance is the thing on which ORMs are NOT focused on. What ORMs a... | When you start a new project you can get Objects in and out of the database fast, without worrying how you do it. You can also switch DBMS very fast from SQLite on your local dev machine, to MySQL on your testing or staging servers. When the performance part kicks in, your application has already matured a bit, models ... |
10,734,197 | Which one of these is the best ORM for PHP in terms of performance? I'd like to use it in Codeigniter framework as well. I'm trying php-activerecord right now, and it doesn't act bad. I took a look to Doctrine2, DataMapper and stuff, but I cannot tell anything about performances until I build a big project (and at that... | 2012/05/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10734197",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1406257/"
] | If your goal is performance, then use of ORM is the wrong choice to begin with.
ORMs are focused on forcing relational structure to act like objects, which is the source of the problem (the loss of performance, and limitations of API). This is why performance is the thing on which ORMs are NOT focused on. What ORMs a... | [Here is a link to GAS ORM vs PHP Active Record](http://taufanaditya.com/gas-orm-new-design-and-benchmark) (scroll to the bottom)
Result? Gas ORM is way more efficient than PHP Active Record |
319,920 | What is the best word to refer to the thing in the image below?
I want a word that is super clear so when I tell someone to take the key inside it, they know what I am talking about.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QJ32i.p... | 2022/07/30 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/319920",
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] | That's a lock box. For a bit more precision you can call it a door combination lock box.
See for example:
* [Key Lock Box, Combination Lockbox with Code for House Key Storage, Combo Door Locker](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B07D8RYGVY)
* [Key Safe Lock Box For Your Front Door](https://youtube.com/wat... | It's called a **lock box**.
It's often used by real estate agents to store the keys for a house so that any agent with the combination can get the keys. It's sometimes used with AirBnB properties as well. |
16,723,347 | Why does the package upload speed differ so much between the various upload methods.
The methods I've used to deploy are
1. Within VS2013: Very slow uploads
2. Powershell Commandlets: Again very slow
3. Azure Portal: Blazingly fast
I would not complain if the speed differed by a few seconds or heck a minute or two, ... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16723347",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/986753/"
] | I can confirm the issue with deployment from Visual Studio taking much longer than direct upload of the package and as far as I know this is a [known](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5080445/why-does-azure-deployment-take-so-long) and [common](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4483670/how-to-speed-up-azure-deploy... | From what I've seen of Azure publishing using Visual Studio vs the Azure Portal, there seems to be no significant difference except for the time it takes to upload the package. As the original poster stated, the Portal is extremely fast; whereas, Visual Studio takes forever to upload the package. I didn't realize the d... |
16,723,347 | Why does the package upload speed differ so much between the various upload methods.
The methods I've used to deploy are
1. Within VS2013: Very slow uploads
2. Powershell Commandlets: Again very slow
3. Azure Portal: Blazingly fast
I would not complain if the speed differed by a few seconds or heck a minute or two, ... | 2013/05/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16723347",
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] | I can confirm the issue with deployment from Visual Studio taking much longer than direct upload of the package and as far as I know this is a [known](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5080445/why-does-azure-deployment-take-so-long) and [common](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4483670/how-to-speed-up-azure-deploy... | I think I've seen why Visual Studio takes so long to do the upload. If you start up Fiddler while the update is happening you'll see that Visual Studio is uploading the package in 65k blocks in sequence. As you're in NZ you get our wonderful high latency to US servers, so sending lots of smallish requests is not optima... |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | Suppose that you'd instead asked "Why does paper tear so well?" It would be completely obvious that you meant "Why is it so easy to tear paper?" and not "Why does paper tear other things so well?" In that case, the second parsing doesn't really make sense. However, in the case of "cut", both parsings make sense and som... | I suggest that this is an example of the confusion between transitive and intransitive verbs found in American speech. If the sentence had contained an object of the verb cut there would have been no confusion. |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | It might have to do with the describing construction that exists in English in the form of:
>
> *Object* + *Applicable action* + *Adverb*
>
>
>
In this case, let me change the verb *cut* to *shred*.
Consider this passage, then:
>
> Paper shreds well. Glass, however, doesn't. It shatters before it can be shred,... | Suppose that you'd instead asked "Why does paper tear so well?" It would be completely obvious that you meant "Why is it so easy to tear paper?" and not "Why does paper tear other things so well?" In that case, the second parsing doesn't really make sense. However, in the case of "cut", both parsings make sense and som... |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | This kind of construction has been called an "internal argument as subject" construction, but is more broadly known as a "**middle construction**," as in between active and passive. It strikes me as not particularly unusual, if maybe a little bit literary.
For example, from Massam (1991), where "\_" marks the empty s... | I suggest that this is an example of the confusion between transitive and intransitive verbs found in American speech. If the sentence had contained an object of the verb cut there would have been no confusion. |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | This kind of construction has been called an "internal argument as subject" construction, but is more broadly known as a "**middle construction**," as in between active and passive. It strikes me as not particularly unusual, if maybe a little bit literary.
For example, from Massam (1991), where "\_" marks the empty s... | This is an interesting case. The difficulty is often spotting such things in your own writing, or when editing work from someone with the same viewpoint. This is just as true for native speakers, in fact we may be more likely to pick up on a second meaning with a slang or idiomatic background.
It is of course easily ... |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | As somebody who also got the wrong meaning of your question.
There is another reason: how expected a concept is.
As the other posters have said your sentence is constructed in a way that was ambiguous, so people use their experience to asses what you are asking.
It is much much much more common to discuss cutting pa... | This is an interesting case. The difficulty is often spotting such things in your own writing, or when editing work from someone with the same viewpoint. This is just as true for native speakers, in fact we may be more likely to pick up on a second meaning with a slang or idiomatic background.
It is of course easily ... |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | This kind of construction has been called an "internal argument as subject" construction, but is more broadly known as a "**middle construction**," as in between active and passive. It strikes me as not particularly unusual, if maybe a little bit literary.
For example, from Massam (1991), where "\_" marks the empty s... | As somebody who also got the wrong meaning of your question.
There is another reason: how expected a concept is.
As the other posters have said your sentence is constructed in a way that was ambiguous, so people use their experience to asses what you are asking.
It is much much much more common to discuss cutting pa... |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | It might have to do with the describing construction that exists in English in the form of:
>
> *Object* + *Applicable action* + *Adverb*
>
>
>
In this case, let me change the verb *cut* to *shred*.
Consider this passage, then:
>
> Paper shreds well. Glass, however, doesn't. It shatters before it can be shred,... | I suggest that this is an example of the confusion between transitive and intransitive verbs found in American speech. If the sentence had contained an object of the verb cut there would have been no confusion. |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | This kind of construction has been called an "internal argument as subject" construction, but is more broadly known as a "**middle construction**," as in between active and passive. It strikes me as not particularly unusual, if maybe a little bit literary.
For example, from Massam (1991), where "\_" marks the empty s... | Suppose that you'd instead asked "Why does paper tear so well?" It would be completely obvious that you meant "Why is it so easy to tear paper?" and not "Why does paper tear other things so well?" In that case, the second parsing doesn't really make sense. However, in the case of "cut", both parsings make sense and som... |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | As somebody who also got the wrong meaning of your question.
There is another reason: how expected a concept is.
As the other posters have said your sentence is constructed in a way that was ambiguous, so people use their experience to asses what you are asking.
It is much much much more common to discuss cutting pa... | Suppose that you'd instead asked "Why does paper tear so well?" It would be completely obvious that you meant "Why is it so easy to tear paper?" and not "Why does paper tear other things so well?" In that case, the second parsing doesn't really make sense. However, in the case of "cut", both parsings make sense and som... |
464,223 | I have posted a question titled "Why does paper cut so well?" ([on the Physics stack exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/427827/why-does-paper-cut-through-things-so-well)). After a while, I noticed that over 40 people understood the question as "Why is it so easy to cut paper (with a pair of scissors)... | 2018/09/13 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/464223",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/315436/"
] | It might have to do with the describing construction that exists in English in the form of:
>
> *Object* + *Applicable action* + *Adverb*
>
>
>
In this case, let me change the verb *cut* to *shred*.
Consider this passage, then:
>
> Paper shreds well. Glass, however, doesn't. It shatters before it can be shred,... | This is an interesting case. The difficulty is often spotting such things in your own writing, or when editing work from someone with the same viewpoint. This is just as true for native speakers, in fact we may be more likely to pick up on a second meaning with a slang or idiomatic background.
It is of course easily ... |
6,140 | I have a task scheduling/assignment on machines problem (like a classic bin packing problem) with a twist in which the placement/assignment of one task affects the placement/assignment of other tasks (their placement needs to be jointly considered). I am trying to concurrently schedule the tasks and jointly consider th... | 2021/04/23 | [
"https://or.stackexchange.com/questions/6140",
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] | This is where decomposition algorithms (specifically Dantzig-Wolfe can be quite useful).
My thesis work and subsequent OSS in COIN provides APIs to do this kind of thing:
<https://projects.coin-or.org/Dip>
The basic idea is that the oracle is the graph implementation while the side constraints are modeled as the mast... | In general ILP solvers are not as efficient in solving the Maximum Matching problem. A comparison of efficient matching algorithm implementations, as well as an ILP formulation for the Maximum Cardinality Matching Problem and the Minimum Weight perfect matching problem can be found in Figures 5 and 6 of this paper:
Di... |
272,745 | *The police will be here any minute now, so **I'll** advise you to let her go.*
When I search Google I can see that **I'd** is much more used than **I'll** before **advise**, but will it sound unnatural to native speakers to use ***"I'll advise..."***
I'm asking because in my example I feel that using **I'd** would s... | 2021/01/20 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/272745",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
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] | Neither is particularly unnatural, but "I'd advise you" certainly is way more common. Both are grammatically correct.
"I'd advise you" would not be any less threatening here than "I'll advise you." Whether or not it felt threatening would depend entirely on the tone of voice and context (the context here certainly is ... | Yes, to a native speaker *I'll advise* sounds unusual, maybe even stilted or unnatural.
**I'll *(I will)* advise you** sounds like a statement about the future. But it's not clear why the speaker would be making a statement about the future in this context.
**I'd *(I would)* advise you** is a hypothetical, with an un... |
30,145 | Where should I start when learning logic? Should I start with syllogistic logic, predicate logic, etc? | 2015/12/01 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/30145",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
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] | In general, one starts with propositional logic. It is a 2-valued logic. Every statement can be proved with the help of truth tables. Propositional logic is also the logic we use in our every-day reasoning.
The study of propositional logic was initiated by Aristole, e.g. in his books of metaphysics.
You can learn pro... | I would start with first order predicate logic, which is foundational to others. Then move on to non-classical logics and modal logics.
If you want some book recommendations, I suggest Mendelson's Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Priest's Introduction to Non-Classical Logics, and Hughes and Cresswell's New Introdu... |
30,145 | Where should I start when learning logic? Should I start with syllogistic logic, predicate logic, etc? | 2015/12/01 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/30145",
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] | In standard logic courses, students start with simple **propositional logic** in order to familiarise with logical operators ("and", "or", " not", "if then"...) that connect propositions. They learn deduction rules for the operators and the truth tables associated with them. Then they go on and analyze propositions in ... | I would start with first order predicate logic, which is foundational to others. Then move on to non-classical logics and modal logics.
If you want some book recommendations, I suggest Mendelson's Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Priest's Introduction to Non-Classical Logics, and Hughes and Cresswell's New Introdu... |
927,874 | I've used CVS and SVN. The problem I run into with both of them is that you have to explicitly perform all of the add/delete/update/move etc. operations using a tool that remembers those actions so that they can be committed. Tools like TortoiseSVN make life easier, but not as easy as I would like. IDE integration is n... | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/927874",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681/"
] | [Dropbox](http://www.getdropbox.com/) is a nice versioned source control-style app that requires a little setup and zero maintenance. Reverting to old versions isn't as efficient as the usual source control, and it tracks *all* your changes (you can't choose whether to commit).
Basically, you create a Dropbox folder o... | Even though you've had some issues in the past with SVN. I still think its the way to go. VisualSVN server provides a simple interface for setting everything up and there are a ton of free or low cost tools to use. |
927,874 | I've used CVS and SVN. The problem I run into with both of them is that you have to explicitly perform all of the add/delete/update/move etc. operations using a tool that remembers those actions so that they can be committed. Tools like TortoiseSVN make life easier, but not as easy as I would like. IDE integration is n... | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/927874",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681/"
] | [Dropbox](http://www.getdropbox.com/) is a nice versioned source control-style app that requires a little setup and zero maintenance. Reverting to old versions isn't as efficient as the usual source control, and it tracks *all* your changes (you can't choose whether to commit).
Basically, you create a Dropbox folder o... | While this does not answer the question itself I'd strongly recommend training yourself in using the version control system of your choice for everything. Once using the VC system became a habit there isn't much risk in messing up your source folder accidentally anymore (of course, the human factor still remains) and y... |
927,874 | I've used CVS and SVN. The problem I run into with both of them is that you have to explicitly perform all of the add/delete/update/move etc. operations using a tool that remembers those actions so that they can be committed. Tools like TortoiseSVN make life easier, but not as easy as I would like. IDE integration is n... | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/927874",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681/"
] | [Dropbox](http://www.getdropbox.com/) is a nice versioned source control-style app that requires a little setup and zero maintenance. Reverting to old versions isn't as efficient as the usual source control, and it tracks *all* your changes (you can't choose whether to commit).
Basically, you create a Dropbox folder o... | Newer distributed source control systems like [GIT](http://git-scm.com/), [Bazaar](http://bazaar-vcs.org/), and [Mercurial](http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/) (aka: Hg) all tend to be better at detecting broad changes done in the file system such as moving directories, renaming files and even replacing large chunk... |
927,874 | I've used CVS and SVN. The problem I run into with both of them is that you have to explicitly perform all of the add/delete/update/move etc. operations using a tool that remembers those actions so that they can be committed. Tools like TortoiseSVN make life easier, but not as easy as I would like. IDE integration is n... | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/927874",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681/"
] | Newer distributed source control systems like [GIT](http://git-scm.com/), [Bazaar](http://bazaar-vcs.org/), and [Mercurial](http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/) (aka: Hg) all tend to be better at detecting broad changes done in the file system such as moving directories, renaming files and even replacing large chunk... | Even though you've had some issues in the past with SVN. I still think its the way to go. VisualSVN server provides a simple interface for setting everything up and there are a ton of free or low cost tools to use. |
927,874 | I've used CVS and SVN. The problem I run into with both of them is that you have to explicitly perform all of the add/delete/update/move etc. operations using a tool that remembers those actions so that they can be committed. Tools like TortoiseSVN make life easier, but not as easy as I would like. IDE integration is n... | 2009/05/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/927874",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/681/"
] | Newer distributed source control systems like [GIT](http://git-scm.com/), [Bazaar](http://bazaar-vcs.org/), and [Mercurial](http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/) (aka: Hg) all tend to be better at detecting broad changes done in the file system such as moving directories, renaming files and even replacing large chunk... | While this does not answer the question itself I'd strongly recommend training yourself in using the version control system of your choice for everything. Once using the VC system became a habit there isn't much risk in messing up your source folder accidentally anymore (of course, the human factor still remains) and y... |
2,243 | Briot and/or Cauchy are often said to have written the first papers on holomorphic functions, explicitly discussing them as such and their special properties.
Which papers are these? When and where were these published? | 2015/04/28 | [
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2243",
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com",
"https://hsm.stackexchange.com/users/163/"
] | [Stefano Bordoni](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefano_Bordoni/info)'s 2012 [***Taming Complexity***](http://garrigou.us.to/browse/book/4326) ([e-book from ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefano_Bordoni/publication/234081619_Taming_Complexity._Duhem%27s_third_pathway_to_Thermodynamics/file/7... | The following two books are also very good resources about this topic ; the first one has a more historical approach.
Carlo Cercignani, *Ludwig Boltzmann. The man who trusted atoms.* Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. xviii+329 pp. ISBN: 0-19-850154-4
Giovanni Gallavotti, *Statistical mechanics. A short treatise.... |
21,378 | I can't seem to wrap my head around how a bunch of organic transistors (neurons) could possibly produce a wave? What exactly is a brain wave? If you graph a brain wave what exactly would your X and Y axis represent? For example a sound wave is graphed with X axis being time and Y axis being pressure. If someone told me... | 2018/12/29 | [
"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/21378",
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"https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/users/21169/"
] | In the general case of [EEG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography), the x-axis is time, and the y-axis is the voltage potential measured by an electrode placed on the scalp.
When others talk about "brain waves" they typically refer to oscillations visible in EEG electrode signals that have more power i... | The EEG (or Local Field Potential - LFP) is the result of currents flowing in and out of every neuron in the brain. As this current flows, a dipole is created which creates an electric field - this is what is measured at the electrode. There are details in [this excellent review](https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3241).
It i... |
45,539 | I've just put new pads on shimano deore disc brakes for the first time. I pushed the pistons right in until flush, popped in the new pads easily, but when I pull the lever the pads stay against the disc. It's a slight but continuous rub at the front, but the rear barely moves.
I'd recently flushed with worn-out pads, ... | 2017/03/03 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/45539",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/31740/"
] | Deore disc brakes (and most others) use a spring to apply pressure to the pads which helps the pistons and pads retract when you release the brakes (the primary return mechanism for the hydraulic system is a spring in the piston assembly in the lever, however as this only acts on the pistons the pad return spring is re... | If you did all of the above answers and it's still not quite right.
The next question would be have you ever changed your brake fluid?
Depending on riding style, conditions, etc. usually by the time you need new pads on a mineral oil type brake it is also time to change the fluid.
This is something that if you don't ha... |
1,617 | The problem with all encompassing policies is that people tend to use those instead of using the brain and determining whether a question possesses or not the bad qualities that make game-rec's toxic for the site.
What exactly is a game-rec? | 2011/01/18 | [
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"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | So, your typical game recommendation is a question that has two qualities.
1. **A shopping recommendation** - shopping recommendations are considered off-topic because of being too localized, often subjective, and tend to attract discussion. These kinds of questions solicit *opinions of what is a good buy, or if they ... | Lately, we're getting a lot of scuffles of the fashion of "These are kinda like game recs, what should we do about them?" for different kinds of list questions. There is a lot of back and forth on these, and in the mess of it, the concept of what is acceptable is getting lost. Some of these do qualify for all the same ... |
8,603 | I have planted a couple herbs 2 - 3 weeks ago and this is the result.
It seems the wild rocket has pretty much all come up, the others had similar number of seeds planted but not making a show.
2x basil, 1x mint, 1x sage, 1x rocket.
Its been on a windows sill, no direct sun but good light (for the UK at this time of... | 2013/10/27 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/8603",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/2855/"
] | Your plants need the UV light, so blocking 99% of it will be too much. You should stay at around 50-60%. | Where I used to work, we raised mostly bedding plants in a nursery about 50 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia (putting us a little north of the 34th parallel). We covered our greenhouse with shade cloth at the spring equinox and removed it at the autumn equinox. I don't have a record of how much light we blocked, but it ... |
116,596 | Most Bitcoin mining sites on Android either shut down or become unable to withdraw after a while.
Could there be a real mining site on android or is there a functioning one yet? | 2023/01/02 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/116596",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/139036/"
] | >
> **Could there be a real mining site on android**
>
>
>
No, because
* You can't mine Bitcoin using a mobile phone.
* Websites offering to mine Bitcoin for you are all scams (with only a tiny tiny room for doubt). | It is too late to mine bitcoin unless you have mining rig that hashes at at least 100 TH and can afford 2.5 kW/h.electricity costs, and can afford to hold your coin for about 5-10 years. Just saying approximately |
17,836 | I'm watching the Olympics. The skiers in the "classic" events like giant slalom or the downhill carry poles. But they never seem to use them for anything. I don't see the poles touch the ground unless it's part of falling. Some of the slalom skiers seem to use the guard on the pole to push the gates aside, but a big ri... | 2018/02/17 | [
"https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/17836",
"https://sports.stackexchange.com",
"https://sports.stackexchange.com/users/4832/"
] | The key thing poles are used for in downhill is the launch through the gate. But poles also provide balance, and help them keep or get out of trouble. | The question is legitimate by a person who has never skied.
The poles help professional skiers during the races (as amateur skiers) to maintain a better balance. With the sticks you can move the weight (and so also the center of gravity) to right and left also allowing to support a higher speed |
6,024 | I have a dilemma I've seen, both in other people's posts and in mine. Lots of people come up with lots of great, different ideas for solutions to different parts of the problem. But since no one person summarizes all of these subsets into one perfect solution, and no-one's solution "fragment" seems better than another,... | 2018/04/20 | [
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6024",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/users/49578/"
] | This seems to happen a lot on Worldbuilding SE. It certainly seems to happen a fair bit to me, particularly about acceptance.
I disagree with Secespitus in that especially on its own, **multiple valid answers isn't *necessarily* a sign that the question is poorly formed.** It *might* be one hint towards that, but it m... | In theory those are signs of a bad questions and bad answers.
A question should have clear criteria for what makes an answer better than another answer. And answers should answer the *complete* answer. If it's only possible to answer part of the problem in a reasonable answer the question is too broad and should be t... |
33,849 | I have a customer who has a very, very dark room that she wants to take portraits in. I'm photographing a 2 month old baby. What type of lighting should I use? | 2013/01/25 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/33849",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/15783/"
] | We take photos with light. You can't take photos in a very dark room.
The usual approach for babies is to bounce the flashes off the ceiling (if its white). This gives a nice soft light.
These photos of my grand-daughter were taken with three small strobes/speedlights bounced off the ceiling.
<http://www.flickr.com... | Well...
...first, you didn't say what kind of mood you'd like. Also, you left the question quite general. Hence I'll try to give you some *general* tips:
* *flash* (like the others said) bounced on the ceiling give a soft look, *but* usually this scares the babies which are so young, and I presume that the stark cont... |
568,162 | >
> The young perish and the old linger, withering.
>
> *[The Two Towers](https://www.google.it/books/edition/The_Two_Towers/12e8PJ2T7sQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The%20young%20perish%20and%20the%20old%20linger,%20withering%22&pg=PT74&printsec=frontcover)* by J.R.R. Tolkien
>
>
>
Is there a common English phrase for ... | 2021/05/31 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/568162",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | >
> The young perish and the old linger, withering.
>
>
>
Some consider this to be a [personal commentary on World War II](https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1264&context=mythlore)
As you may recall, both of Tolkien's sons were combatants in the war. It seems that as a worried parent he was possibly... | >
> Is there a common English phrase for when an old person, unfortunately, watches a young person die before them, even though the old one wishes it were the other way around?
>
>
>
Reading all of the above, it appears that the answer is *"No, there isn't."*
There is nothing more than phrases, some common, some ... |
32,507,762 | I have a form in MS Access (datasheet view) which is based on the output of a SQL Server query. Now this is used in a front end where the user needs to be able to select from a drop down the value for one of the columns, 'NAME'. I tried adding a combo box which is mapped to take distinct names from the SQL Server table... | 2015/09/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/32507762",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2556655/"
] | Just got the answer to my question. here are the steps I followed.
a) Add a combo box to the datasheet form in design view like Johnny Bones suggested.
b) Create a drop down with values.
c) Point the Control Source property to the field in the SQL Server table which needs to be updated, in this case NAME.
d) And vo... | In datasheet view, I think you'll need to set up the field in the table.
1. Open the table in Design View
2. Click on the specific field in question
3. At the bottom you will see 2 tabs; General and Lookup (I
apologize, my work doesn't allow me to upload pics, so I hope you
can visualize it)
4. On the Lookup tab, chan... |
3,227 | I need a database of malicious code for MIPS processor Assembly or C to inject in Mibench and evaluate my detection mechanism at run time. Is there anything like this for MIPS? what about for other processors?
I have shellcodes for MIPS and I want virus like codes for MIPS.
Don't we have any attack benchmark for this p... | 2013/12/19 | [
"https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3227",
"https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/users/3427/"
] | You are asking for a database of MIPS code for evaluating a detection technique, but I'm not sure that there are databases of embedded malware for public evaluation the same way that there are databases of desktop malware. If there are, I would love to know about them.
As an alternative (and I am sure you have done th... | If you want a database about malicious code, you may want to take a look at IDS and antivirus, like [ClamAV](http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/) or [Snort](http://snort.org/). |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | My answer proposes stepping back from the problem and taking a wider view. If that is more than is requested, my apologies and please skip to the next answer :)
Short answer: read [Magic Ink](http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/).
Long answer...
Why do we find software frustrating to use? Consider some cases:
* *Are you... | **Content**
Following the **Delivery** approach provides much greater leeway concerning content. Spell it out as necessary. People hate systems that make them feel stupid. Great way to make them feel stupid is putting them in situations where they end up guessing - wrongly.
**Grammar**: read *[Elements of Style](htt... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | **Content**
I tend to use multiple validation patterns, each with a short phrase, typically the sentence will describe the violation they made. "XXX cannot be empty."
**Grammar**
I don't personalize it like saying "you may not have an empty XXX", if you want to make it lighter you could treat the field as though it ... | My answer proposes stepping back from the problem and taking a wider view. If that is more than is requested, my apologies and please skip to the next answer :)
Short answer: read [Magic Ink](http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/).
Long answer...
Why do we find software frustrating to use? Consider some cases:
* *Are you... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | As you said the issue of validation is subjective. The reason behind this though is that it relates to user experience/usability which is not easily reducible to a finite number of do's or dont's. That said there are some general rules of thumb which can be used to make design/implementation decisions
1. **Content:** ... | **Content**
Following the **Delivery** approach provides much greater leeway concerning content. Spell it out as necessary. People hate systems that make them feel stupid. Great way to make them feel stupid is putting them in situations where they end up guessing - wrongly.
**Grammar**: read *[Elements of Style](htt... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | >
> Should I be describing what the user did correctly or incorrectly, or simply what was expected?
>
>
>
If you don't describe the "incorrectly" and "what was expected", the user is lost and cannot make a change. What they did correctly is obvious, since it's not invalid.
What they did incorrectly tells them wha... | Here are my 2 cents:
* content
I think you should describe why the value is not correct, like *"username cannot have special characters"*, so user knows what he did wrong and can fix it. error like *"bad username"* is making user fight the app(for example I once created 50char password with everything I could think o... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | >
> Should I be describing what the user did correctly or incorrectly, or simply what was expected?
>
>
>
If you don't describe the "incorrectly" and "what was expected", the user is lost and cannot make a change. What they did correctly is obvious, since it's not invalid.
What they did incorrectly tells them wha... | What I like to do when practical:
If the input field is categorically invalid I turn the background red. If it's currently invalid but could contain an incomplete version of a valid answer then I turn it yellow. I also display in a nearby location a message describing what's expected and if it's at all complex a messa... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | >
> Should I be describing what the user did correctly or incorrectly, or simply what was expected?
>
>
>
If you don't describe the "incorrectly" and "what was expected", the user is lost and cannot make a change. What they did correctly is obvious, since it's not invalid.
What they did incorrectly tells them wha... | My answer proposes stepping back from the problem and taking a wider view. If that is more than is requested, my apologies and please skip to the next answer :)
Short answer: read [Magic Ink](http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/).
Long answer...
Why do we find software frustrating to use? Consider some cases:
* *Are you... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | As you said the issue of validation is subjective. The reason behind this though is that it relates to user experience/usability which is not easily reducible to a finite number of do's or dont's. That said there are some general rules of thumb which can be used to make design/implementation decisions
1. **Content:** ... | Here are my 2 cents:
* content
I think you should describe why the value is not correct, like *"username cannot have special characters"*, so user knows what he did wrong and can fix it. error like *"bad username"* is making user fight the app(for example I once created 50char password with everything I could think o... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | The question you should be asking yourself is: How do I make my UI more usable and friendly overall? To do that, read books like "Don't make me think," and the other books [listed here.](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3964741/ui-usability-book-for-developer)
To answer your specific question about validating user ... | **Content**
Following the **Delivery** approach provides much greater leeway concerning content. Spell it out as necessary. People hate systems that make them feel stupid. Great way to make them feel stupid is putting them in situations where they end up guessing - wrongly.
**Grammar**: read *[Elements of Style](htt... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | **Content**
I tend to use multiple validation patterns, each with a short phrase, typically the sentence will describe the violation they made. "XXX cannot be empty."
**Grammar**
I don't personalize it like saying "you may not have an empty XXX", if you want to make it lighter you could treat the field as though it ... | Here are my 2 cents:
* content
I think you should describe why the value is not correct, like *"username cannot have special characters"*, so user knows what he did wrong and can fix it. error like *"bad username"* is making user fight the app(for example I once created 50char password with everything I could think o... |
32,953 | Data validation, whether it be domain object, form, or any other type of input validation, could theoretically be part of any development effort, no matter its size or complexity. I sometimes find myself writing informational or error messages that might seem harsh or demanding to unsuspecting users, and frankly I feel... | 2010/12/31 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32953",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/12162/"
] | >
> Should I be describing what the user did correctly or incorrectly, or simply what was expected?
>
>
>
If you don't describe the "incorrectly" and "what was expected", the user is lost and cannot make a change. What they did correctly is obvious, since it's not invalid.
What they did incorrectly tells them wha... | **Content**
Following the **Delivery** approach provides much greater leeway concerning content. Spell it out as necessary. People hate systems that make them feel stupid. Great way to make them feel stupid is putting them in situations where they end up guessing - wrongly.
**Grammar**: read *[Elements of Style](htt... |
12,056 | I have 3 programable logic controllers and other one which isn't part of my solution but I can access usefull data via modbus. I've setup windows service on a remote server to gather data and store it in a SQL Server.
But the problem is if the Internet fails? So I'm searching for a hardware data logger solution.
I saw ... | 2016/10/28 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/12056",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/8570/"
] | As mentioned in the comments you don't actually want high friction between gear teeth, the tooth profiles are designed to roll over each other indeed the ideal is to minimise any sliding friction between the teeth.
Obvious examples of devices which use sliding friction are brakes and friction clutches, these will hav... | Grinders, crushers, shredders, pulverisers ... |
12,056 | I have 3 programable logic controllers and other one which isn't part of my solution but I can access usefull data via modbus. I've setup windows service on a remote server to gather data and store it in a SQL Server.
But the problem is if the Internet fails? So I'm searching for a hardware data logger solution.
I saw ... | 2016/10/28 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/12056",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/8570/"
] | As mentioned in the comments you don't actually want high friction between gear teeth, the tooth profiles are designed to roll over each other indeed the ideal is to minimise any sliding friction between the teeth.
Obvious examples of devices which use sliding friction are brakes and friction clutches, these will hav... | As mentioned in the comments you don't want high friction between gear teeth, but if you're asking about the materials who exhibits higher friction with low wear rate, it depends on several parameters, such as, the nature of the two counterfaces, the environment, the applied load, the hardness, velocity, etc
In general... |
12,056 | I have 3 programable logic controllers and other one which isn't part of my solution but I can access usefull data via modbus. I've setup windows service on a remote server to gather data and store it in a SQL Server.
But the problem is if the Internet fails? So I'm searching for a hardware data logger solution.
I saw ... | 2016/10/28 | [
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/12056",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/8570/"
] | As mentioned in the comments you don't want high friction between gear teeth, but if you're asking about the materials who exhibits higher friction with low wear rate, it depends on several parameters, such as, the nature of the two counterfaces, the environment, the applied load, the hardness, velocity, etc
In general... | Grinders, crushers, shredders, pulverisers ... |
117,550 | Is there any reason why most non-governmental organizations (NGOs) tend to publish non-peer reviewed literature? I have seen some NGO scientists as co-authors, even in some important papers, but most of their production is reports which are not peer-reviewed. While it is true that most NGOs do not do basic research, so... | 2018/09/27 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/117550",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/4050/"
] | I can think of a couple of reasons:
1. Peer review is slow. NGOs want their paper to influence policy now, not in one or two years from now.
2. Peer review journals have a different audience than grey literature. NGOs typically want to communicate with people like policy makers or journalists, and these are less likel... | Expanding on the answer by @Maarten Buis:
I think it is fundamentally about why people in different settings do research.
NGO's usually do not do research for the sake of research. They generally have a social mission to accomplish, thus their research is conducted to that end. It is not to increase knowledge, as it ... |
117,550 | Is there any reason why most non-governmental organizations (NGOs) tend to publish non-peer reviewed literature? I have seen some NGO scientists as co-authors, even in some important papers, but most of their production is reports which are not peer-reviewed. While it is true that most NGOs do not do basic research, so... | 2018/09/27 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/117550",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/4050/"
] | I can think of a couple of reasons:
1. Peer review is slow. NGOs want their paper to influence policy now, not in one or two years from now.
2. Peer review journals have a different audience than grey literature. NGOs typically want to communicate with people like policy makers or journalists, and these are less likel... | Both NGO's and governments routinely commission and use non-peer reviewed work. Often because of the shorter turn around but mostly because it is intended for a different audience. I worked in a large government research organisation where this was a hot topic amongst the scientists. The organisation was routinely comm... |
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