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67,476 | In my story, anyone who uses magic has to shut down their autonomic nervous system in order to gain enough control of their bodies and minds. What are the autonomic processes most immediately necessary for survival that a mage needs to consciously control while casting magic? Is there anything beyond breathing and hear... | 2017/01/11 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/67476",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/25678/"
] | If you are in a very cold or very hot location, regulating the body temperature would also be essential for survival. Irreversible frostbite damage could happen within minutes if the mage neglected the peripheral circulation, and hypothermia could set in quite rapidly if the mage didn't properly constrict the blood ves... | Well unless they were careful they might shit and piss themselves as the automatic nervous system controls amongst other things the anal sphincter and detrusor muscle. Avoiding such a misfortune is for many (including myself) absolutely necessary for moment-to-moment survival.
Jokes aside, **yes** besides being in con... |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | VMDK is a virtual disk file, what you need is a VMX file. Cruise on over to [EasyVMX](http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml) and have it create one for you, then just replace the VMDK file it gives you with the Cnrome OS one.
EasyVMX is good since VMWare Player has no VM creation stuff in it (at least in version 2, not... | Generally, [this](http://infosecprogramming.webnode.in/news/running-backtrack-with-vmdk-files/) is how you open an OS folder containing a bunch of vdmk files on VMware Player. |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | you can also use vmware-mount from VMwares VDDK (Virtual Disk Development Kit):
<http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/developer/forums/vddk>
this allows you to mount VMDK files as disk drives in windows or linux | Generally, [this](http://infosecprogramming.webnode.in/news/running-backtrack-with-vmdk-files/) is how you open an OS folder containing a bunch of vdmk files on VMware Player. |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | I was looking for a way to play VMDK files without the vmx file in VMware Player 5 and didn't find any explicit tutorial to do it. So after some time messing around with VMware PLayer 5, it turned out to be pretty simple, but not so intuitive. Here it is:
Create a new virtual machine from VMware Player 5;
There's no n... | you can also use vmware-mount from VMwares VDDK (Virtual Disk Development Kit):
<http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/developer/forums/vddk>
this allows you to mount VMDK files as disk drives in windows or linux |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | I was looking for a way to play VMDK files without the vmx file in VMware Player 5 and didn't find any explicit tutorial to do it. So after some time messing around with VMware PLayer 5, it turned out to be pretty simple, but not so intuitive. Here it is:
Create a new virtual machine from VMware Player 5;
There's no n... | VMDK is a virtual disk file, what you need is a VMX file. Cruise on over to [EasyVMX](http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml) and have it create one for you, then just replace the VMDK file it gives you with the Cnrome OS one.
EasyVMX is good since VMWare Player has no VM creation stuff in it (at least in version 2, not... |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | you can also use vmware-mount from VMwares VDDK (Virtual Disk Development Kit):
<http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/developer/forums/vddk>
this allows you to mount VMDK files as disk drives in windows or linux | WinMount provides an easiest way to mount VMDK as a virtual disk. You can read or write to the vmdk file without loading the virtual system.
Here shows you how to do: <http://www.winmount.com/mount_vmdk.html> |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | VMDK is a virtual disk file, what you need is a VMX file. Cruise on over to [EasyVMX](http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml) and have it create one for you, then just replace the VMDK file it gives you with the Cnrome OS one.
EasyVMX is good since VMWare Player has no VM creation stuff in it (at least in version 2, not... | For me my vmdk file was accompanied by a vmx file. Opening the vmx file worked for vmware player. |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | I was looking for a way to play VMDK files without the vmx file in VMware Player 5 and didn't find any explicit tutorial to do it. So after some time messing around with VMware PLayer 5, it turned out to be pretty simple, but not so intuitive. Here it is:
Create a new virtual machine from VMware Player 5;
There's no n... | WinMount provides an easiest way to mount VMDK as a virtual disk. You can read or write to the vmdk file without loading the virtual system.
Here shows you how to do: <http://www.winmount.com/mount_vmdk.html> |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | This is for vmware workstation 6.5
It is pretty far down.
select Create new virtual machine ->
select custom ->
on compatibility page take defaults ->
check I will install os later
-> click through several pages choosing other for OS, give it a name, make sure it IS NOT in the same folder as the VMDK file. Ch... | WinMount provides an easiest way to mount VMDK as a virtual disk. You can read or write to the vmdk file without loading the virtual system.
Here shows you how to do: <http://www.winmount.com/mount_vmdk.html> |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | Create a new Virtual machine in Virtual box,
Select OS type Other and version Other/Unknown
On the Virtual Hard Disk screen, select "Use existing hard disk" and enter the path to the VMDK file.
It should boot your Chrome OS just fine....
BTW Chrome OS goes from VBOX bios screen to login in 7 seconds on my system!!! | Generally, [this](http://infosecprogramming.webnode.in/news/running-backtrack-with-vmdk-files/) is how you open an OS folder containing a bunch of vdmk files on VMware Player. |
1,778,456 | As you all know, Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File, VMDK.
I've downloaded it , however, I couldn't open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player.
Also I've tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
Thus, How could I get it? | 2009/11/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1778456",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2438460/"
] | Create a new Virtual machine in Virtual box,
Select OS type Other and version Other/Unknown
On the Virtual Hard Disk screen, select "Use existing hard disk" and enter the path to the VMDK file.
It should boot your Chrome OS just fine....
BTW Chrome OS goes from VBOX bios screen to login in 7 seconds on my system!!! | you can also use vmware-mount from VMwares VDDK (Virtual Disk Development Kit):
<http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/developer/forums/vddk>
this allows you to mount VMDK files as disk drives in windows or linux |
84,733 | I bought a big box vanity with sink etc already attached. It was 1/4" off from being flush at the back so I decided to reseat it. Knifed and sawed the thing off then scraped the silicone off the sink/counter top.
Problem is, the wood sides are particle board and I can't get the silicone off. Nor can I cut or sand it ... | 2016/02/19 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/84733",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/50435/"
] | We generally don't recommend self leveling alternatives on a substrate other than concrete, vibrations over time can affect their stability. Best option is shims and plywood.
That being said, you're asking for a self leveling option. Your best bet would self leveling concrete, you'll need to pay attention to the subst... | If you have a 1.5” pour why not use fine aggregate cement? If your radiant heat is water tube based tack your tubes to the subfloor and pour.
If it is electrical, make sure to follow the MFG recommendations. Some tapes can be bedded in the cement and this helps even out the heat. One tape I used had to be covered and t... |
84,733 | I bought a big box vanity with sink etc already attached. It was 1/4" off from being flush at the back so I decided to reseat it. Knifed and sawed the thing off then scraped the silicone off the sink/counter top.
Problem is, the wood sides are particle board and I can't get the silicone off. Nor can I cut or sand it ... | 2016/02/19 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/84733",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/50435/"
] | We generally don't recommend self leveling alternatives on a substrate other than concrete, vibrations over time can affect their stability. Best option is shims and plywood.
That being said, you're asking for a self leveling option. Your best bet would self leveling concrete, you'll need to pay attention to the subst... | I prefer the high performance cement for these applications.
<https://m.lowes.com/pd/High-Performance-Cement-by-Quikrete-Cement-Mix/50146060> |
72,718,725 | I'm currently working on a project. I did my first commit and then other people changed a lot from the beginning. When I go into iTerm i'm on the main branch and can see everything from the folder. Then I want to change something and go to my personal branch, but some files are deleting from the local folder.
How can ... | 2022/06/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/72718725",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18622426/"
] | Producer? No, apart from auto-create capability - when actually producer requests a metadata of a topic that does not exist, and that caused the backend to create a topic with default configuration (if enabled). Similar with consumers (fun fact: they can be configured [not to create topics](https://kafka.apache.org/31/... | By default, producer API also will auto create topics, when a topic doesn't exist, and a producer trying to publish a message for the first time. But it is not recommended, as it may be created with default configuration values set at broker side.
When auto.create.topics.enable is set to true in Kafka configuration, t... |
2,306,423 | I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's [Keyboard Layout Creator](http... | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2306423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/246886/"
] | Overall, I think having a good text editor and knowing how to use it is better than trying to improve your typing speed. Being able to record and replay macros is sometimes a lifesaver, and a selection of shortcut-assigned code snippets can be handy because there's normally language-imposed limits on what can be turned... | Changing the keyboard layout is a bad idea since it would (perhaps) boost your typing speed on one keyboard, but severely damage your typing speed on other keyboards or on computers where you don't have your special keyboard layout. I've found that it is often better to adjust yourself to the defaults, that having to c... |
2,306,423 | I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's [Keyboard Layout Creator](http... | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2306423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/246886/"
] | I still hold that typing speed is not the main factor in the time it takes for a project to be completed. If it is, there is a big problem (Weeks of coding saves us hours of planning).
Regarding your question I prefer using the standard layout as it means I don't have to spend the first 10 minutes looking stupid when... | Make a simple key logger, then count the number of times each key is pressed. Run it for a day or two, then save the output to a text file. Do this every once and a while. It doesn't matter what layout you are using, as you are just seeing which keys are being used the most.
If you want to make a good layout, you can'... |
2,306,423 | I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's [Keyboard Layout Creator](http... | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2306423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/246886/"
] | I would approach your question in the following way.
The task is to organise a keyboard in such way as to minimise key strokes and hand movement for given text.
Steps toward a possible solution.
Make a program that:
1. Takes a text file with source code. (The bigger the better and from various sources!)
2. Counts t... | Overall, I think having a good text editor and knowing how to use it is better than trying to improve your typing speed. Being able to record and replay macros is sometimes a lifesaver, and a selection of shortcut-assigned code snippets can be handy because there's normally language-imposed limits on what can be turned... |
2,306,423 | I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's [Keyboard Layout Creator](http... | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2306423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/246886/"
] | I still hold that typing speed is not the main factor in the time it takes for a project to be completed. If it is, there is a big problem (Weeks of coding saves us hours of planning).
Regarding your question I prefer using the standard layout as it means I don't have to spend the first 10 minutes looking stupid when... | Changing the keyboard layout is a bad idea since it would (perhaps) boost your typing speed on one keyboard, but severely damage your typing speed on other keyboards or on computers where you don't have your special keyboard layout. I've found that it is often better to adjust yourself to the defaults, that having to c... |
2,306,423 | I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's [Keyboard Layout Creator](http... | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2306423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/246886/"
] | I would approach your question in the following way.
The task is to organise a keyboard in such way as to minimise key strokes and hand movement for given text.
Steps toward a possible solution.
Make a program that:
1. Takes a text file with source code. (The bigger the better and from various sources!)
2. Counts t... | Make a simple key logger, then count the number of times each key is pressed. Run it for a day or two, then save the output to a text file. Do this every once and a while. It doesn't matter what layout you are using, as you are just seeing which keys are being used the most.
If you want to make a good layout, you can'... |
2,306,423 | I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's [Keyboard Layout Creator](http... | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2306423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/246886/"
] | I still hold that typing speed is not the main factor in the time it takes for a project to be completed. If it is, there is a big problem (Weeks of coding saves us hours of planning).
Regarding your question I prefer using the standard layout as it means I don't have to spend the first 10 minutes looking stupid when... | Overall, I think having a good text editor and knowing how to use it is better than trying to improve your typing speed. Being able to record and replay macros is sometimes a lifesaver, and a selection of shortcut-assigned code snippets can be handy because there's normally language-imposed limits on what can be turned... |
2,306,423 | I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's [Keyboard Layout Creator](http... | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2306423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/246886/"
] | I still hold that typing speed is not the main factor in the time it takes for a project to be completed. If it is, there is a big problem (Weeks of coding saves us hours of planning).
Regarding your question I prefer using the standard layout as it means I don't have to spend the first 10 minutes looking stupid when... | I would approach your question in the following way.
The task is to organise a keyboard in such way as to minimise key strokes and hand movement for given text.
Steps toward a possible solution.
Make a program that:
1. Takes a text file with source code. (The bigger the better and from various sources!)
2. Counts t... |
2,306,423 | I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's [Keyboard Layout Creator](http... | 2010/02/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2306423",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/246886/"
] | Make a simple key logger, then count the number of times each key is pressed. Run it for a day or two, then save the output to a text file. Do this every once and a while. It doesn't matter what layout you are using, as you are just seeing which keys are being used the most.
If you want to make a good layout, you can'... | Changing the keyboard layout is a bad idea since it would (perhaps) boost your typing speed on one keyboard, but severely damage your typing speed on other keyboards or on computers where you don't have your special keyboard layout. I've found that it is often better to adjust yourself to the defaults, that having to c... |
17,858 | I have a [1-wire sensor](https://store.brewpi.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1800x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/t/e/temp-sensor-threaded-ds18b20-2.jpg) which has the design I need and a hardware for working with PT100/PT1000 sensors. Can I turn the 1-wire sensor into a PT100/PT1000 sensor easily?
Note: th... | 2016/06/07 | [
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/17858",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/users/13774/"
] | you may want to ask this on the electronics stack exchange.
but to answer this here.
no, you cant replace a PT100 sensor, with a 1-wire temp sensor.
PT100/1000 are analog sensors, 1 wire sensors are digital.
as to convert a 1 wire, to an analog sensor, all depends on your knowledge of electronics, easy if you kn... | Sorry, the two are very different - to make a OneWire sensor look like a PT100 sensor, you'd have to find some way to recreate the resistance in the wire that varies with temperature, which is how a PT100 works. The simplest way to do that would be to use a real PT100 sensor - emulating a PT100 sensor would be much har... |
160,071 | I'm trying to figure out how to control the color in the LED 5050 RGB strips--how are the 4 contact points usually mapped (my strip does not indicate). I'd also like to ratchet down the brightness--the strip currently runs on 12V/5 amps. To ratchet down the brightness, is that a reduction of voltage or amperage; how fa... | 2015/03/16 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/160071",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/70075/"
] | The 4 conctact points are usually R/G/B anode/cathode and the 4th is common cathode/anode.
AFAIK both variations exist.
To control the brightness, the normal way is to use PWM - switch on the required power for a short period of time, switch it off. Do this at a high frequency.
By altering the time it is on/off, you ... | Simple rgb led strips with four conductors come in both Common Anode (V+) or Common Cathode (Ground) options, with the other three conductors being the individual color pins. They also come in 12V nominal and 24v versions.
You can adjust brightness with a PWM controller, but a simple method for a constant brightness ... |
6,315 | I have a question regarding the initial part of stop consonants in English.
Let's take /b/, the voiced bilabial stop consonant, as an example. When I produce this consonant, prior to the stop release, my lips are closed so airflow through my mouth is completely blocked. To vibrate the vocal cords, I send air through m... | 2014/01/05 | [
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/6315",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com",
"https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/users/2979/"
] | There are different kinds of stop consonant /b/.
1. Prevoiced /b/: this occurs in Spanish, French, Russian, etc; has a negative VOT. In other words, voicing starts before the closure. You can call it 'voice lagging time'.
2. Partially voiced /b/: this occurs in aspirating languages, and intially. has non-negative VOT ... | If you let air escape through the nasal cavity during the oral closure, then yes--the first part of your /b/ is being articulated in the same way as an /m/.
This is not the standard way for native speakers of English to articulate stop consonants. If a native speaker actually (phonetically) voices her stops (i.e. if ... |
60,211,290 | I have a AWS EC2 Instance running with a PEM file kept at a safe place.
Now I want to give sftp access to one of the user to a particular directory. For this they have given me the private key file of their system. Is it possible to somehow import that private key on AWS Instance? | 2020/02/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60211290",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/410389/"
] | In general, private keys should not be distrubuted. You need the users public key. You can then place that public key in the ~/.ssh/authorized\_keys file for the user you want to allow access to. Note that you can use both sftp and scp to retrieve files from as server in a secure fashion. In my opintion, scp is easier ... | If you need is share a directory, you can associate your EC2 instances to an EFS clúster and share a directory between two or more instances and you could have a private instance (only you will have ssh access) and other public (other users can access to this instance by ssh or sftp). |
60,211,290 | I have a AWS EC2 Instance running with a PEM file kept at a safe place.
Now I want to give sftp access to one of the user to a particular directory. For this they have given me the private key file of their system. Is it possible to somehow import that private key on AWS Instance? | 2020/02/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/60211290",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/410389/"
] | In general, private keys should not be distrubuted. You need the users public key. You can then place that public key in the ~/.ssh/authorized\_keys file for the user you want to allow access to. Note that you can use both sftp and scp to retrieve files from as server in a secure fashion. In my opintion, scp is easier ... | Create public key and placed in ~/.ssh/authorized\_keys file for anyone user need to access.
You should using sftp instead of scp for secure purpose. |
276,257 | I recently decided to reinstall my Mythbuntu system, as it had been upgraded in phases from version 10.x and was throwing up fairly frequent errors.
The situation as was: Mythbuntu 12.something, running MythTV 0.26. Recordings are stored on a different drive to everything else, including the database.
How I proceeded... | 2013/03/30 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/276257",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/133298/"
] | To answer my own question:
I was barking up the wrong tree. Mythbuntu's backup and restore correctly backs up and restores the password for the database with the database, but apparently not quite everywhere that it's needed (not in ~mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml). Manually editing the password in there to match the other... | In my experience, when installing a secondary frontend, I grab the DB password from the backend (stored in the mythtv user's ~/.mythtv/config.xml) and use that for configuring the DB on the secondary frontend. It's always been working, so I assume this is a legitimate way to get the needed password. |
13,585 | I wanted to address this question [Is the electron actually a standing wave?](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/638202/is-the-electron-actually-a-standing-wave/638205#638205) , but as already today I wasted time and then the question was deleted, I wanted to make sure I would not waste more time , I started a... | 2021/05/22 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13585",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | If your placeholder answer had *actually answered the question*, it would have stayed in place. It’s totally fine to write a partial answer and then edit it later to be longer or more detailed. But it should actually answer the question the entire time.
For example, *this* answer, whose [first version](https://physics... | The premise of this question is flawed. You seem to believe that your placeholder answer would prevent the question from being closed or deleted, and that is not generally true.
The OP of a question can choose to delete their own question (together with your answer) at any time until one of several criteria are met to... |
166,622 | when a server is receiving data from another computer, lets say that that data transmission was incomplete, and half of the file was sent. now where is this stored on a computer and is it stored on the main storage. basically what i want to ask is: are data packets stored individually on a computer one by one or all to... | 2017/08/02 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/166622",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | There is no single way these data will be handeled, i.e. it depends on the application receiving the data:
* If you have for example a web application with some way to upload data these data will probably be accumulated first into some temporary file on disk in some default or configuration dependent folder. Of course... | TCP is the most common protocol for internet communication as it is reliable (no data loss because a packet or two went missing) unlike other faster protocols like UDP (something that might be used for voice data, where its more important to keep the stream going than replay a 0.1s burst of static).
>
> Are data pack... |
87,560 | Many times I have used a dial-type meat thermometer, making sure it is not touching bone, and when it indicates it has reached the desired temperature (internal), I take the meat out and wait ten minutes, then find it is not fully cooked. I am inserting the thermometer, putting the meat into the pre-heated oven, and le... | 2018/02/05 | [
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"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
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] | My experience with metal probes left in meat for the cooking period, if it is not a short cooking time, can give higher than accurate readings unless the item is large enough to bury a high percentage of the probe and still hit that optimal middle of thickest area without hitting bone. If too shallow, the metal can tra... | It depends on the type of thermometer. Typically all metal/glass probes you would leave in, and plastic you certainly would not. However, if your thermometer is telling you internal temp is reached and 10 mins later you find it isn't, then something is wrong:
- you are not testing correctly. Make sure that you are inse... |
87,560 | Many times I have used a dial-type meat thermometer, making sure it is not touching bone, and when it indicates it has reached the desired temperature (internal), I take the meat out and wait ten minutes, then find it is not fully cooked. I am inserting the thermometer, putting the meat into the pre-heated oven, and le... | 2018/02/05 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/87560",
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] | I think the common advice about not touching a bone is incorrect - and as a consequence of that advice, inaccurate ideal temperatures have been published.
I think the part of the meat internally touching a bone is always the last part to become done. Think of the cup of undercooked meat in the bone pocket in a T-bone,... | It depends on the type of thermometer. Typically all metal/glass probes you would leave in, and plastic you certainly would not. However, if your thermometer is telling you internal temp is reached and 10 mins later you find it isn't, then something is wrong:
- you are not testing correctly. Make sure that you are inse... |
87,560 | Many times I have used a dial-type meat thermometer, making sure it is not touching bone, and when it indicates it has reached the desired temperature (internal), I take the meat out and wait ten minutes, then find it is not fully cooked. I am inserting the thermometer, putting the meat into the pre-heated oven, and le... | 2018/02/05 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/87560",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
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] | My experience with metal probes left in meat for the cooking period, if it is not a short cooking time, can give higher than accurate readings unless the item is large enough to bury a high percentage of the probe and still hit that optimal middle of thickest area without hitting bone. If too shallow, the metal can tra... | I think the common advice about not touching a bone is incorrect - and as a consequence of that advice, inaccurate ideal temperatures have been published.
I think the part of the meat internally touching a bone is always the last part to become done. Think of the cup of undercooked meat in the bone pocket in a T-bone,... |
87,560 | Many times I have used a dial-type meat thermometer, making sure it is not touching bone, and when it indicates it has reached the desired temperature (internal), I take the meat out and wait ten minutes, then find it is not fully cooked. I am inserting the thermometer, putting the meat into the pre-heated oven, and le... | 2018/02/05 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/87560",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
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] | My experience with metal probes left in meat for the cooking period, if it is not a short cooking time, can give higher than accurate readings unless the item is large enough to bury a high percentage of the probe and still hit that optimal middle of thickest area without hitting bone. If too shallow, the metal can tra... | I would not leave a dial-type meat thermometer in the cooking vessel (oven, smoker, etc.). I have two reasons for this.
First, by leaving it in the cooking vessel, you are heating the entire thermometer rather than just the probe tip, which could produce the off results you're seeing.
Second, the thermometer face pla... |
87,560 | Many times I have used a dial-type meat thermometer, making sure it is not touching bone, and when it indicates it has reached the desired temperature (internal), I take the meat out and wait ten minutes, then find it is not fully cooked. I am inserting the thermometer, putting the meat into the pre-heated oven, and le... | 2018/02/05 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/87560",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/64953/"
] | I think the common advice about not touching a bone is incorrect - and as a consequence of that advice, inaccurate ideal temperatures have been published.
I think the part of the meat internally touching a bone is always the last part to become done. Think of the cup of undercooked meat in the bone pocket in a T-bone,... | I would not leave a dial-type meat thermometer in the cooking vessel (oven, smoker, etc.). I have two reasons for this.
First, by leaving it in the cooking vessel, you are heating the entire thermometer rather than just the probe tip, which could produce the off results you're seeing.
Second, the thermometer face pla... |
20,962,339 | Hello i'm new to slick (and lwjgl) and was wondering if its best to stick to one class or multiple when I used straight java I used multiple classes but wasn't shoure about slick | 2014/01/07 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/20962339",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3150675/"
] | Please do use multiple classes. Classes keep things organized, and it is easier to document. Also, you can use an ArrayList to have a lot of class instantiated and use them later on. The most important thing about multiple classes is that it is organized. It is hard to use only one class for a game, because there will ... | Java is an object-oriented language for a reason, and classes are there to help you. Using multiple classes will allow you to break down the game logic and view it as the interactions between objects of different classes, limiting complexity and making the game easier to understand. I'm not sure what kind of game you'r... |
20,509,252 | I am unable to checkout code from <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cxf/trunk> as i am getting error
>
> svn: E175011: Repository moved permanently; please relocate
>
>
>
But i dont see any alternate location | 2013/12/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/20509252",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/949827/"
] | I got redirected to <http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/trunk>
what client are you using that doesn't redirect? | On your SVN client give the URL as <http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/trunk/>
ViewVC may or may not give you extact details while performing a checkout. |
45,550 | Which is the best software for drawing below picture?
 | 2015/01/09 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/45550",
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] | You can try using CorelDraw X7 which is the software I use, it allows you to easily create vectors and retrace bitmaps images to vectors, also using line strokes it's pretty easy.
Inkscape It's a free software that it's used to edit SVG's so you can also try it. | This would be a breeze in Illustrator, especially with the stroke options that you can use to ad in the arrow heads. That is what I would use, although, you could probably get away with some way more basic software. |
45,550 | Which is the best software for drawing below picture?
 | 2015/01/09 | [
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] | This would be a breeze in Illustrator, especially with the stroke options that you can use to ad in the arrow heads. That is what I would use, although, you could probably get away with some way more basic software. | You can try Adobe Illustrator! Its amazing tools to draw sketch and illustrate. |
45,550 | Which is the best software for drawing below picture?
 | 2015/01/09 | [
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] | You can try using CorelDraw X7 which is the software I use, it allows you to easily create vectors and retrace bitmaps images to vectors, also using line strokes it's pretty easy.
Inkscape It's a free software that it's used to edit SVG's so you can also try it. | You can try Adobe Illustrator! Its amazing tools to draw sketch and illustrate. |
285,477 | I have a PC that controls some equipment, such as, cameras, solenoids, and DACs. There is also a 45KW nitrogen laser. The laser has its own service installed, but, when it turns on, there is a voltage spike that disrupts the USB devices on the PC. The PC is on a surge protector, but the spike still affects the PC in th... | 2017/02/09 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/285477",
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] | Apparently your system is suffering from susceptibility to EMI and low immunity to transients. Obviously your overall setup (with all USB devices and associated USB cables) was never tested to IEC 61000-4-x standards, especially to 4-4 EFT ([fast transient](https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Technology/Documents/Events2013/C... | Your PC is probably suffering from a brown-out, a surge protector will not help with this issue.
If you do not need steep edges on your laser (a 45 kW laser is probably not modulated for communications?), then limit the inrush current to the laser. There are some thermistor based limiters available for the mains conne... |
285,477 | I have a PC that controls some equipment, such as, cameras, solenoids, and DACs. There is also a 45KW nitrogen laser. The laser has its own service installed, but, when it turns on, there is a voltage spike that disrupts the USB devices on the PC. The PC is on a surge protector, but the spike still affects the PC in th... | 2017/02/09 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/285477",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/54929/"
] | Apparently your system is suffering from susceptibility to EMI and low immunity to transients. Obviously your overall setup (with all USB devices and associated USB cables) was never tested to IEC 61000-4-x standards, especially to 4-4 EFT ([fast transient](https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Technology/Documents/Events2013/C... | **Scenario 1: Brownout**
Hypothesis: switching on the laser lowers mains voltage for a short time.
You don't say if your USB devices are bus-powered or self-powered. Even if the PC does not crash from a brownout, any USB device powered from mains could also experience a transient loss of power. Its internal microcont... |
604,215 | I am looking for a way to disable the animations for keyboard shortcut selection in Office 2013, especially Excel 2013. When you select a keyboard shortcut using Alt and a key sequence (e.g. Alt->H->O->H to change row height), each key-press causes an animation as the options become available. I use shortcuts **a lot**... | 2013/06/05 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/604215",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/229304/"
] | This worked perfectly for me:
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> Windows Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools > Adjust Visual Effects
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>
>
Uncheck the first option: Animate controls and elements inside windows.
Note however that disabling this will also disable any animations regarding Windows' buttons, scollbars, taskbar icons ... | Disable Hardware Graphics Acceleration.
Excel > File > Options > Advanced.
Scroll down to the Display section and then enable the: *Disable Hardware Graphics Acceleration setting.*
If you have updated Office you can also look in:
Windows Control Panel > Performance Information and Tools > Adjust Visual Effects
Un... |
72,627 | I have an old house that's built on pillars and has shifted a little over time. We are remodeling the kitchen and just ripped up many layers of creatively installed flooring. We are down to the bottom layer of plywood and it dips on one side of the room (8"x 15" room) and then kind of comes back up.
We aren't sure ho... | 2015/08/29 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/72627",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/41957/"
] | You did hear correctly: the floor must be as flat as possible (and as rigid) in order to support the tile. You mentioned the floor being supported on posts. If there is enough head room a better repair is to shim-up the low spot from below. Depending on how severe the floor depression is this may entail hammering some ... | The concrete board and extra mud will be all you need. Lay the concrete board, then fill in where needed. |
729,335 | At the largest scale in the universe exist formations called filaments which form something like a spider web along the whole universe. But they seem to be quite static. So my question is about the fact that as planets and stars need to orbit around each other to not to collide and cause a collapse why then these megas... | 2022/09/26 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/729335",
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] | We live in a specific time and gather cosmological observations which we model with the mathematical theories proven successful up to now. These theories predict and explain stable gravitational states, as planetary systems, due to the conservation laws and mathematics of gravitational attraction, so these filaments ma... | Because dark energy stabilizes matter from such fast collapsing as it should be. Comparing to gravity, influence of dark energy is as stronger as further we look in telescopes, but gravity becomes weaker with distance. On the other side, even without dark energy in the beginning of existance our universe was very homog... |
1,539,505 | A very flowery title indeed.
I have a PHP web application that is in the form of a web based wizard. A user can run through the wizard and select options, run process (DB queries) etc. They can go backwards and forwards and run process again and again.
I am trying to work out how to best save the state of what users ... | 2009/10/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1539505",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/51649/"
] | Using a database is probably the way to go. Just create a simple table, that tracks actions by session id. Don't index anything, as you want inserting rows to be a low-cost operation (you can create a temp table, add indexes, and run reports on it later).
XML files could also work -- you'd want to write a separate fil... | If you're talking about a large number of users doing there operations simultaneously, and you'd want to trace their steps, I think it's better to go for a database-oriented approach. The database server can optimize data flow and disk writes, leading to a better concurrent performance than constantly writing files on ... |
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I know I've had my differences with some of you in the past on meta but hopefully with the understanding that it's a difficult volunteer position. I'm continuously grateful for the work you do, all of you, and thanks so much and ... |
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Congratulations especially to ohwilleke, I’m looking for... | Thank you for showing us moderators your continuous trust and support by reelecting all three of us pro-tempore moderators.
And welcome to the team, ohwilleke. |
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Congratulations especially to ohwilleke, I’m looking for... | Welcome aboard (and back)! I've always felt this site was extremely well moderated and deserving of losing its Beta badge. Well earned and congrats on now being fully 'elected' moderators. |
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Oh well. I'll try to figure out how to do this in the next little bit.
>
> They will be replacing the "old" pro-tem crew as "regular" mods
> shortly (though most of them were that "old" crew anyway) — please
> thank them for volunteering, both for running in ... | Welcome aboard (and back)! I've always felt this site was extremely well moderated and deserving of losing its Beta badge. Well earned and congrats on now being fully 'elected' moderators. |
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Oh well. I'll try to figure out how to do this in the next little bit.
>
> They will be replacing the "old" pro-tem crew as "regular" mods
> shortly (though most of them were that "old" crew anyway) — please
> thank them for volunteering, both for running in ... | I want to take the opportunity to congratulate everyone, winners and and others that didn't get selected as mods in this election. Those that didn't get selected, please don't feel bad. We are here as a community. Everyone's voice is heard, whatever you feel wrong just say it.
And next time please participate. :)
You... |
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Oh well. I'll try to figure out how to do this in the next little bit.
>
> They will be replacing the "old" pro-tem crew as "regular" mods
> shortly (though most of them were that "old" crew anyway) — please
> thank them for volunteering, both for running in ... | I would imagine that this has to be one of if not *the most* difficult stack to moderate.
I know I've had my differences with some of you in the past on meta but hopefully with the understanding that it's a difficult volunteer position. I'm continuously grateful for the work you do, all of you, and thanks so much and ... |
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I'm happy to welcome ohwilleke to the team and I'm sure we'll have a good time moderating the site. :) | I want to take the opportunity to congratulate everyone, winners and and others that didn't get selected as mods in this election. Those that didn't get selected, please don't feel bad. We are here as a community. Everyone's voice is heard, whatever you feel wrong just say it.
And next time please participate. :)
You... |
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Oh well. I'll try to figure out how to do this in the next little bit.
>
> They will be replacing the "old" pro-tem crew as "regular" mods
> shortly (though most of them were that "old" crew anyway) — please
> thank them for volunteering, both for running in ... | Thank you for showing us moderators your continuous trust and support by reelecting all three of us pro-tempore moderators.
And welcome to the team, ohwilleke. |
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I'm happy to welcome ohwilleke to the team and I'm sure we'll have a good time moderating the site. :) | I would imagine that this has to be one of if not *the most* difficult stack to moderate.
I know I've had my differences with some of you in the past on meta but hopefully with the understanding that it's a difficult volunteer position. I'm continuously grateful for the work you do, all of you, and thanks so much and ... |
2,608 | There was a bit of a tussle earlier about a specific question related to why a specific line of JavaScript code was crafted the way that it was:
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> [What's the point of initializing a variable with the same value twice?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122378/whats-the-point-of-initializing-a... | 2011/11/29 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2608",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I personally think that these kinds of questions, and this question in particular, is a better fit for Stack Overflow, as it deals specifically with code syntax and usage. Had it been a more "conceptual" question (in the vein of "How is this technique useful in my software design?"), I would consider it a better fit he... | JoeMo asked:
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> What's happening here and how are these two declarations different?
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I see this as asking :
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> "What does this code do?"
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**NOT**
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> Why the code was designed that way?
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That is why i voted for the migration... Just my 2 cents. |
2,608 | There was a bit of a tussle earlier about a specific question related to why a specific line of JavaScript code was crafted the way that it was:
>
> [What's the point of initializing a variable with the same value twice?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122378/whats-the-point-of-initializing-a... | 2011/11/29 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2608",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | JoeMo asked:
>
> What's happening here and how are these two declarations different?
>
>
>
I see this as asking :
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> "What does this code do?"
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>
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**NOT**
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> Why the code was designed that way?
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>
That is why i voted for the migration... Just my 2 cents. | I think they are off-topic here. They aren't about the whiteboard-level design questions. Once you move from system architecture and design to having your IDE open, you move from Programmers to Stack Overflow.
I also don't see which category of on-topic question the JavaScript snippit question falls under. In your quo... |
2,608 | There was a bit of a tussle earlier about a specific question related to why a specific line of JavaScript code was crafted the way that it was:
>
> [What's the point of initializing a variable with the same value twice?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122378/whats-the-point-of-initializing-a... | 2011/11/29 | [
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"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
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] | JoeMo asked:
>
> What's happening here and how are these two declarations different?
>
>
>
I see this as asking :
>
> "What does this code do?"
>
>
>
**NOT**
>
> Why the code was designed that way?
>
>
>
That is why i voted for the migration... Just my 2 cents. | I think part of the problem with this particular question is that the title didn't match the body. The title asked a conceptual design question, but the body asked a syntax question. An edit to make them match one way or the other would make things much more clear.
The reason I voted to migrate was because without the... |
2,608 | There was a bit of a tussle earlier about a specific question related to why a specific line of JavaScript code was crafted the way that it was:
>
> [What's the point of initializing a variable with the same value twice?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122378/whats-the-point-of-initializing-a... | 2011/11/29 | [
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] | I personally think that these kinds of questions, and this question in particular, is a better fit for Stack Overflow, as it deals specifically with code syntax and usage. Had it been a more "conceptual" question (in the vein of "How is this technique useful in my software design?"), I would consider it a better fit he... | I think they are off-topic here. They aren't about the whiteboard-level design questions. Once you move from system architecture and design to having your IDE open, you move from Programmers to Stack Overflow.
I also don't see which category of on-topic question the JavaScript snippit question falls under. In your quo... |
2,608 | There was a bit of a tussle earlier about a specific question related to why a specific line of JavaScript code was crafted the way that it was:
>
> [What's the point of initializing a variable with the same value twice?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122378/whats-the-point-of-initializing-a... | 2011/11/29 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2608",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I personally think that these kinds of questions, and this question in particular, is a better fit for Stack Overflow, as it deals specifically with code syntax and usage. Had it been a more "conceptual" question (in the vein of "How is this technique useful in my software design?"), I would consider it a better fit he... | I think part of the problem with this particular question is that the title didn't match the body. The title asked a conceptual design question, but the body asked a syntax question. An edit to make them match one way or the other would make things much more clear.
The reason I voted to migrate was because without the... |
2,608 | There was a bit of a tussle earlier about a specific question related to why a specific line of JavaScript code was crafted the way that it was:
>
> [What's the point of initializing a variable with the same value twice?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122378/whats-the-point-of-initializing-a... | 2011/11/29 | [
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2608",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I think part of the problem with this particular question is that the title didn't match the body. The title asked a conceptual design question, but the body asked a syntax question. An edit to make them match one way or the other would make things much more clear.
The reason I voted to migrate was because without the... | I think they are off-topic here. They aren't about the whiteboard-level design questions. Once you move from system architecture and design to having your IDE open, you move from Programmers to Stack Overflow.
I also don't see which category of on-topic question the JavaScript snippit question falls under. In your quo... |
544,986 | The sentence is -
"A story of detention is a catalogue of things destroyed: not just years lost to captivity, but all of life's labour from before"
I get the meaning through context but what I have never read "from before" used in such a manner. Could you please help me understand what does it mean and how to use it i... | 2020/08/27 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/544986",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/359708/"
] | It's dangerous to apply the grammar of prose to poetry. Here's, the punctuation changes the poet's observations on the nature of love. With periods, she has solved the mysteries of the heart. With question marks she at least acknowledges she might be just as lost as the rest of us. | They're rhetorical questions.
And even though they're effectively answering themselves, they're still in the form of a question, so should end with question marks.
Another way to phrase them that makes the questioning nature clearer would be
>
> Is love anything but than the passion I feel in my heart?
>
> Is pa... |
319,170 | I just "failed" this review audit.
<https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/11663700>
Apparently I should have labeled this answer as spam. Except that... it clearly wasn't.
The question in itself is one from 2011 that wouldn't pass current standards because it is asking for product recommendations. All t... | 2016/03/17 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/319170",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/981744/"
] | Firstly, as Chris mentions in his [answer](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/319176) it's always best to be wary of new answers to old questions - however, this is a bit of a weird one which I'll try to explain without too much boring detail.
The answer in this audit was spam flagged by six community members which caus... | The wrinkle here is that this was a **new** answer (Feb 2016) to an **old** question (May 2011) that **had already been deleted through spam flags**.
This means that the system will automatically pick it as an audit candidate. You may not agree with spam flags, but the system thinks that it is and that's all that the ... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | The usual logic for such tall low-gravity creatures is that we tend to assume taller is better, and low gravity removes some very real shackles which make tallness unstable.
I think one of the most fundamental advantages of such tall creatures is the ability to put sensor apparatus such as eyes and ears and noses far ... | >
> So to me, a low gravity person with normal sized (but thinner) bones and the expected skinny muscles seems a far more sensible solution for natural (or artificial) selection to have produced.
>
>
>
As a general rule, increased height of humans who colonize low-gravity is produced not by natural or artificial ... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | Considering that all those lower-gravity environments have **artificial life support**, which (presumably) is kept at a nice, even temperature, then **if we presuppose** that the temperature is slightly warmer than what a human on earth in the natural environment experience (in other words, nobody **ever freezes or fee... | I think this may be a combination of some natural effects of low gravity and an opposite of the "Heavy Worlder" trope.
For the first; astronauts actually do "grow" when spending time in Zero G. True, this is just a matter of the spine expanding a bit (just 2" or so total) in the absence of gravity, but it would be eas... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | First, I think writers like Niven and Smith before him found it obvious without question that a **heavy-gravity person would be short and squat**: Smith wrote of the [Family D'Alembert](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?35449) starting in 1963, who were adapted to a 3G world. Later Niven (perhaps an homage) wrote of ... | I kind of assumed it was a side effect of growth in low gravity... That is, normal growth represents a balance among biological and external forces including gravity, and lower gravity could allow the bones to overgrow, becoming long but perhaps fragile. But I may be crediting Niven with scientific prescience. :-)
(On... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | Considering that all those lower-gravity environments have **artificial life support**, which (presumably) is kept at a nice, even temperature, then **if we presuppose** that the temperature is slightly warmer than what a human on earth in the natural environment experience (in other words, nobody **ever freezes or fee... | First, I think writers like Niven and Smith before him found it obvious without question that a **heavy-gravity person would be short and squat**: Smith wrote of the [Family D'Alembert](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?35449) starting in 1963, who were adapted to a 3G world. Later Niven (perhaps an homage) wrote of ... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | Considering that all those lower-gravity environments have **artificial life support**, which (presumably) is kept at a nice, even temperature, then **if we presuppose** that the temperature is slightly warmer than what a human on earth in the natural environment experience (in other words, nobody **ever freezes or fee... | Maybe the trope about people raised in low gravity being tall is not about being tall for a particular purpose, but about growing taller because that is just how growth under low gravity works given the genetic makeup their ancestors brought from originally evolving in an higher-gravity environment |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | Being taller gives you a whole set of advantages:
* You can easily reach to fruit produced above ground (fruits, leave)
* You get a way better field of view.
* Assuming your members are proportionated, you can move faster.
Of course, these are offset by two disavantages:
* Weight increase, which means your body cons... | >
> So to me, a low gravity person with normal sized (but thinner) bones and the expected skinny muscles seems a far more sensible solution for natural (or artificial) selection to have produced.
>
>
>
As a general rule, increased height of humans who colonize low-gravity is produced not by natural or artificial ... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | Considering that all those lower-gravity environments have **artificial life support**, which (presumably) is kept at a nice, even temperature, then **if we presuppose** that the temperature is slightly warmer than what a human on earth in the natural environment experience (in other words, nobody **ever freezes or fee... | Disclaimer: out-of-universe answer:
I think it's mere extrapolation of Earthen observation that humans are getting taller generation after generation. Basically we don't understand why taller is better, but our experience shows us **it is**.
An intuitive understanding is that in low-gravity environment the costs of b... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | I think this may be a combination of some natural effects of low gravity and an opposite of the "Heavy Worlder" trope.
For the first; astronauts actually do "grow" when spending time in Zero G. True, this is just a matter of the spine expanding a bit (just 2" or so total) in the absence of gravity, but it would be eas... | >
> So to me, a low gravity person with normal sized (but thinner) bones and the expected skinny muscles seems a far more sensible solution for natural (or artificial) selection to have produced.
>
>
>
As a general rule, increased height of humans who colonize low-gravity is produced not by natural or artificial ... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | First, I think writers like Niven and Smith before him found it obvious without question that a **heavy-gravity person would be short and squat**: Smith wrote of the [Family D'Alembert](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?35449) starting in 1963, who were adapted to a 3G world. Later Niven (perhaps an homage) wrote of ... | Disclaimer: out-of-universe answer:
I think it's mere extrapolation of Earthen observation that humans are getting taller generation after generation. Basically we don't understand why taller is better, but our experience shows us **it is**.
An intuitive understanding is that in low-gravity environment the costs of b... |
43,928 | I totally get why humans who have colonised a low gravity environment (Mars or an asteroid, for instance) are **skinny**. Muscles doing less work, square cube law, force output of a muscle proportional to its cross-sectional area, etc, etc.
But I don't get where the trope of them being **tall** comes from? Why would b... | 2016/06/05 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/43928",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/21340/"
] | >
> So to me, a low gravity person with normal sized (but thinner) bones and the expected skinny muscles seems a far more sensible solution for natural (or artificial) selection to have produced.
>
>
>
As a general rule, increased height of humans who colonize low-gravity is produced not by natural or artificial ... | I kind of assumed it was a side effect of growth in low gravity... That is, normal growth represents a balance among biological and external forces including gravity, and lower gravity could allow the bones to overgrow, becoming long but perhaps fragile. But I may be crediting Niven with scientific prescience. :-)
(On... |
175,195 | I have a MacBook Air running Yosemite.
I have an external SD drive that I save files to frequently.
Info on SD drive says it's READ-ONLY **all of a sudden**? I am the ONLY person that uses this drive and **it worked literally minutes ago**! | 2015/03/03 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/175195",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/53589/"
] | Some SD cards' firmware will lock the device to read-only if any write error occurs.
If this happens, the only solution is to copy all data off it & discard.
SD/flash is not worth the effort of trying to fix, once it starts to go wrong.
Things to try…
* Double-check the physical lock has not been flipped by acciden... | All of my SD cards are suddenly giving this erroneous Read-Only message. It started wit the 10.10.3 update. Before that they worked fine. I have cards from different brands and sizes. The problem is with the MacOS X update having a bug. Older computers that do not have the 10.10.3 update do not have the problem. |
175,195 | I have a MacBook Air running Yosemite.
I have an external SD drive that I save files to frequently.
Info on SD drive says it's READ-ONLY **all of a sudden**? I am the ONLY person that uses this drive and **it worked literally minutes ago**! | 2015/03/03 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/175195",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/53589/"
] | Some SD cards' firmware will lock the device to read-only if any write error occurs.
If this happens, the only solution is to copy all data off it & discard.
SD/flash is not worth the effort of trying to fix, once it starts to go wrong.
Things to try…
* Double-check the physical lock has not been flipped by acciden... | What worked for me is putting my SD card into a camera (canon 60d) and using its format utility. It worked for me and the card works normally now. |
71,191 | I have a Vacation Rental By Owner (VRBO) rental in a city that the company I work for (large company - W2) requires I travel to regularly. I am authorized to use either hotels or VRBO/AirB&B rentals when I travel.
Is there any financial / tax reason NOT to stay at my own VRBO rental? Any negative I'm not thinking of?
... | 2016/09/28 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/71191",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
"https://money.stackexchange.com/users/29496/"
] | Your biggest problem is that this may be seen as a **conflict of interest** - in other words there is potential for you to make decisions about company money that benefit *you*, rather than the company. Fortunately **it's not a very big problem, handled rightly.**
In order to prevent any possibility that this might be... | I am assuming United States based on the mention of W2.
It will depend on what documentation the company requires. Generally they will either require a receipt, or they will give you a rate based on IRS regulation or government per diem for that city.
I know that in the past one of my employers gave a set percentage ... |
1,941 | Someone has copypasting Wikipedia's contents into tag wikis verbatim ([Tibet](https://history.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/9980), [Chile](https://history.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/9978), [World-War-1](https://history.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/9982), [World-War-2](https://histor... | 2014/08/07 | [
"https://history.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1941",
"https://history.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4935/"
] | Here's a question from Meta.Stackexchange, the network-wide meta site:
* [Can we do anything against tag wikis copy-pasted from Wikipedia?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/102314/can-we-do-anything-against-tag-wikis-copy-pasted-from-wikipedia)
and here is some similar discussion we've had over on SciFi.SE:
... | I've gone and nuked the edits for the Chile and Tibet tags. (Although I did leave in the picture references for Chile)
I had problems with them for almost exactly the reasons Avner listed, although I'm not sure I'd put it quite that mildly.
Neither was doing much of the main job of a tag description, which is to help... |
39,761 | I found terms like "forward secrecy", "future secrecy", "backwards secrecy" and "perfect forward secrecy" and I would like to know their definitions and to understand the differences among them.
I found several confusing definitions online, especially mixing up the meanings of forward secrecy with perfect forward secre... | 2016/09/03 | [
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/39761",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com",
"https://crypto.stackexchange.com/users/39071/"
] | In cryptography, [forward secrecy = perfect forward secrecy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy), [backward secrecy = future secrecy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm).
First, recall some background. The above terms are often discussed in the setting of secure channel establishment pro... | **Forward secrecy:** When a node (user) leaves the network, it
must not read any future messages after its departure.
**Backward secrecy:** When a new node (user) joins in the
network, it must not read any previously transmitted message. [Crytographics properties](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/projects/sec/node6.ht... |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | I haven't used this but saw the demo video yesterday. The IDE is called [code bubbles](http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm) and has a unique way of showing and grouping related code together.
That said I find the intellitrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 quite innovative. | I'll go for [Scratch](http://scratch.mit.edu/), though I wouldn't want to write a banking system using it :-) |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | Palm's Project Ares: <http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html>
It's the IDE for the Palm webOS phones, that runs entirely as a web app. You build and run your app inside the browser, and when you're done, you deploy straight to the cloud. | Some cool videos of [structured editor prototype](http://blogs.msdn.com/kirillosenkov/archive/2009/09/08/first-videos-of-the-structured-editor-prototype.aspx) that will let you directly code the [AST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree).
This is a prototype only and I have no idea if it is still being d... |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | This is by far the coolest set of coding tools yet!
<http://vimeo.com/36579366> | Palm's Project Ares: <http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html>
It's the IDE for the Palm webOS phones, that runs entirely as a web app. You build and run your app inside the browser, and when you're done, you deploy straight to the cloud. |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | I haven't used this but saw the demo video yesterday. The IDE is called [code bubbles](http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm) and has a unique way of showing and grouping related code together.
That said I find the intellitrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 quite innovative. | Palm's Project Ares: <http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html>
It's the IDE for the Palm webOS phones, that runs entirely as a web app. You build and run your app inside the browser, and when you're done, you deploy straight to the cloud. |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | I'd put my bet on [Meta Programming System](http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/) by Jetbrains. The concept is not new but it's the first time it has been implemented on such a huge scale with great IDE support. You create a DSL first, then write programs in that DSL and finally generate code in a target language. | One interesting IDE I have seen only on video is [Code Bubbles](http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm). It opens code snippets as a graph of visual "bubbles". It is really interesting and definitely something I want to try. |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | I'd put my bet on [Meta Programming System](http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/) by Jetbrains. The concept is not new but it's the first time it has been implemented on such a huge scale with great IDE support. You create a DSL first, then write programs in that DSL and finally generate code in a target language. | Some cool videos of [structured editor prototype](http://blogs.msdn.com/kirillosenkov/archive/2009/09/08/first-videos-of-the-structured-editor-prototype.aspx) that will let you directly code the [AST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree).
This is a prototype only and I have no idea if it is still being d... |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | I'll go for [Scratch](http://scratch.mit.edu/), though I wouldn't want to write a banking system using it :-) | One interesting IDE I have seen only on video is [Code Bubbles](http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm). It opens code snippets as a graph of visual "bubbles". It is really interesting and definitely something I want to try. |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | Palm's Project Ares: <http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html>
It's the IDE for the Palm webOS phones, that runs entirely as a web app. You build and run your app inside the browser, and when you're done, you deploy straight to the cloud. | One interesting IDE I have seen only on video is [Code Bubbles](http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm). It opens code snippets as a graph of visual "bubbles". It is really interesting and definitely something I want to try. |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | This is by far the coolest set of coding tools yet!
<http://vimeo.com/36579366> | I'll go for [Scratch](http://scratch.mit.edu/), though I wouldn't want to write a banking system using it :-) |
2,431,509 | As every programmer knows tools are important and there is no tool more important for a developer than the IDE you use to code. In the last few years the IDE-s fall into standards and it is not common to see innovation in this area. What IDE-s you can recommend as innovative and what new ideas and paradigms they introd... | 2010/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2431509",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/236831/"
] | I haven't used this but saw the demo video yesterday. The IDE is called [code bubbles](http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm) and has a unique way of showing and grouping related code together.
That said I find the intellitrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 quite innovative. | Some cool videos of [structured editor prototype](http://blogs.msdn.com/kirillosenkov/archive/2009/09/08/first-videos-of-the-structured-editor-prototype.aspx) that will let you directly code the [AST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree).
This is a prototype only and I have no idea if it is still being d... |
74,700 | If you tune in a NAV frequency into your G1000 the ID of the Nav Aid will be shown next to the frequency after some time. In this example `SEA`:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LezjZ.jpg)
Source: <http://krepelka.com>
How does this work? Because we know... | 2020/02/19 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/74700",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/17636/"
] | Garmin doesn't explicitly state the method in the documentation I can find, but I believe the answer is #1. It decodes the Morse code and displays that value. I say that for two reasons:
First; Garmin, like most successful aviation companies, makes it a habit to reuse technology where it can. Volumes are low and cert... | Since the only way to verify that you are receiving the correct signal from a working VOR is to listen to the Morse Code, it is very likely that the G1000 is decoding the Morse Code. If it were only using the database, the pilot is likely to miss a test code or the fact the code is missing all together in the case of a... |
74,700 | If you tune in a NAV frequency into your G1000 the ID of the Nav Aid will be shown next to the frequency after some time. In this example `SEA`:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LezjZ.jpg)
Source: <http://krepelka.com>
How does this work? Because we know... | 2020/02/19 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/74700",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/17636/"
] | Garmin doesn't explicitly state the method in the documentation I can find, but I believe the answer is #1. It decodes the Morse code and displays that value. I say that for two reasons:
First; Garmin, like most successful aviation companies, makes it a habit to reuse technology where it can. Volumes are low and cert... | [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1hOA0.jpg)
This is the only I do I could find. It states that it will identify regardless of the Morse code. |
28,695 | We have a web site hosting Office documents behind IIS6 Basic authentication.
IE has an authentication token for basic auth, which it presents to download the file. The user clicks "Open", and then Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery does a HTTP OPTIONS request on the directory the file was served from. However, Offic... | 2009/06/19 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/28695",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/5724/"
] | Is the draconian approach of just denying the OPTIONS verb in IIS globally a possibility? You could install [URLScan](http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326444) and put *OPTIONS* in the **[DenyVerbs]** configuration. | I think you can disable WebDAV for a web site using appcmd.exe. Could you create a separate web site to hold the documents and disable WebDAV on it? That shouldn't affect any Sharepoint sites running on the same server.
JR |
28,695 | We have a web site hosting Office documents behind IIS6 Basic authentication.
IE has an authentication token for basic auth, which it presents to download the file. The user clicks "Open", and then Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery does a HTTP OPTIONS request on the directory the file was served from. However, Offic... | 2009/06/19 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/28695",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/5724/"
] | Is the draconian approach of just denying the OPTIONS verb in IIS globally a possibility? You could install [URLScan](http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326444) and put *OPTIONS* in the **[DenyVerbs]** configuration. | Perhaps, you should verify your iis6 configuration.
in the website configuration ->home dir -> configuration ->mappings
Do you have a mapping to the .doc extension.
another thing:
website configuration ->home dir -> configuration ->mappings -> options:
the enable session state option, is it active?
another thing:
A... |
11,091,624 | I want to make a FileIO class which will provide some methods like write or read. Also I want to hide the implementation of FileIO (currently, it just derives from std::fstream). The problem is that std::fstream could throw some exceptions but I don't want my FileIO class to throw std::fstream exceptions, I want to thr... | 2012/06/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/11091624",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1239545/"
] | The "elegant" way to do this is to not reinvent the wheel. Especially this wheel, which has traveled to and from the Moon thousands of times. It's tried and true. You don't need to invent this *there*. | There's no way around it - you have to put a try/catch block around any function call that can generate an exception if you want to rethrow a different exception.
Rather than using inheritance, you should use encapsulation - have your class own an object that you can propagate your calls to. This allows you to simplif... |
9,788 | I have a new Samsung Epic 4G which has a clock on the top of the unlock screen. For some reason, however, most of the date gets cut off. So what I see is "Fri May." and the time. It seems like a font problem, but the phone is brand new.
I'm not even sure where to look for fixes or insights. | 2011/05/27 | [
"https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/9788",
"https://android.stackexchange.com",
"https://android.stackexchange.com/users/3550/"
] | This was resolved. Unfortunately, I don't have any recollection of *how* it was resolved. Presumably a software update? | You could download a third party customizable lock screen such as magic lock or go locker, both free. |
13,447 | I'm looking for a capacitor to use as the output capacitor with the [LDO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-dropout_regulator) regulator [SP6205EM5-L-3-3](http://uk.farnell.com/exar/sp6205em5-l-3-3/ic-v-reg-ldo-0-5a-3-3v-smd-6205/dp/9388338). It says it requires a 2.2 µF capacitor, with an [ESR](https://en.wikipedia.org... | 2011/04/24 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/13447",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/3975/"
] | The part's datasheet says "Unconditionally Stable with 2.2μF Ceramic", so I think you're good.
(Ceramics have lower ESR than tantalum or aluminum electrolytics.)
Notice the note about increasing the capacitance if you decouple the BYP pin. | The linked page does specify ESR, 300 milliOhm |
13,447 | I'm looking for a capacitor to use as the output capacitor with the [LDO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-dropout_regulator) regulator [SP6205EM5-L-3-3](http://uk.farnell.com/exar/sp6205em5-l-3-3/ic-v-reg-ldo-0-5a-3-3v-smd-6205/dp/9388338). It says it requires a 2.2 µF capacitor, with an [ESR](https://en.wikipedia.org... | 2011/04/24 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/13447",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/3975/"
] | The ESR of a ceramic capacitor is so low it is fairly common to disregard it altogether for practical purposes in DC regulators. The main reason I find to use tantalum instead of ceramics as output caps is if you have problems with piezoelectric ringing in the ceramic caps. | The linked page does specify ESR, 300 milliOhm |
13,447 | I'm looking for a capacitor to use as the output capacitor with the [LDO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-dropout_regulator) regulator [SP6205EM5-L-3-3](http://uk.farnell.com/exar/sp6205em5-l-3-3/ic-v-reg-ldo-0-5a-3-3v-smd-6205/dp/9388338). It says it requires a 2.2 µF capacitor, with an [ESR](https://en.wikipedia.org... | 2011/04/24 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/13447",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/3975/"
] | The part's datasheet says "Unconditionally Stable with 2.2μF Ceramic", so I think you're good.
(Ceramics have lower ESR than tantalum or aluminum electrolytics.)
Notice the note about increasing the capacitance if you decouple the BYP pin. | The ESR of a ceramic capacitor is so low it is fairly common to disregard it altogether for practical purposes in DC regulators. The main reason I find to use tantalum instead of ceramics as output caps is if you have problems with piezoelectric ringing in the ceramic caps. |
12,485 | In the first X-Men movie, Senator Kelly apparently dissolves into nothingness. But when Storm recounts his death later to Magneto, he asks:
"Are you sure you saw what you saw?"
This always implied to me that he thought that perhaps Senator Kelly was still alive, appearances notwithstanding. Maybe he thought that Kell... | 2012/03/04 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12485",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1150/"
] | He may have been referring to the fact that Mystique continues to impersonate Senator Kelly even after his "death"/dissolving. He may simply be trying to imply that while the real Senator is dead, that's not how it appears to most people. | I'm pretty sure he was implying that Professor X was possibly playing with her perceptions.
After all he was trying to persuade the other mutants to leave X, and join his "noble" cause. |
8,780 | What should be proper validations for text fields like country, State, city
i.e. can it be only characters or alphanumeric or can it also include special characters | 2014/06/04 | [
"https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/8780",
"https://sqa.stackexchange.com",
"https://sqa.stackexchange.com/users/6797/"
] | At least, it should be alphanumeric, plus ',', '.', '-', '#', '/' (e.g. "Washington, D.C", or "New-York"). Possibly there could be more special characters, and in some cases it could allow hieroglyphs.
The most accurate answer for your question should be in specification of the product you test. And if there is none, t... | please check this link from w3schools.....
[java script validations](http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_form_validation.asp)
thanks
**Prakash Nanda** |
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