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215,358 | What do you call a ship that's not in water and therefore cannot be mobilized? For example, if a ship is under repair at a port and is on land, what adjective do you use? I thought about landlocked, but I am not sure if it can be used this way. I usually see it used to describe countries without access to the sea, and ... | 2019/06/20 | [
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] | A ship that has been removed from the water for repair is **in dry dock**.
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dry-dock>
To my knowledge, it is not at all common to say that a ship is "landlocked," whether it has been decommissioned or not; as you have noted, "landlocked" commonly describes countries (or sta... | If you're asking for a word meaning the ship is not currently on water, perhaps "Ashore" or "Onshore" will do?
<https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/ashore#ashore__4>
<https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/onshore#onshore__1>
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> Onshore / Ashore: on land, and not on the sea
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>
... |
105,855 | One bright Monday morning, I drove to work and parked my car in Lot A. That morning, others also parked in Lot A, and we all found each other’s parking jobs to be satisfactory.
That afternoon, a co-worker, who was a nervous driver, and who was my neighbor at home, asked me to ride with her to provide moral support. Sh... | 2020/12/19 | [
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] | A possibility is that on Monday your parking lot was
>
> covered in snow. Cars were parked aligned with each other, but not exactly with the painted parking lines. The snow may also explain why your co-worker was concerned. Then, after the other cars in Lot A left later on Monday, the snow was cleared, leaving your ... | Perhaps,
>
> You parked the car correctly but the lot got repainted and since you were the only one not driving back in your car, it got misplaced.
>
>
> |
105,855 | One bright Monday morning, I drove to work and parked my car in Lot A. That morning, others also parked in Lot A, and we all found each other’s parking jobs to be satisfactory.
That afternoon, a co-worker, who was a nervous driver, and who was my neighbor at home, asked me to ride with her to provide moral support. Sh... | 2020/12/19 | [
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] | This happened to me in a commuter parking lot in New England in January.
>
> When you parked either it was snowing or some snow on the ground. Everyone parked as they saw fit but not knowing where the actual spaces were. You parked parallel to the other cars. Next day the snow had been melted (or the lot was cleaned... | Perhaps,
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> You parked the car correctly but the lot got repainted and since you were the only one not driving back in your car, it got misplaced.
>
>
> |
105,855 | One bright Monday morning, I drove to work and parked my car in Lot A. That morning, others also parked in Lot A, and we all found each other’s parking jobs to be satisfactory.
That afternoon, a co-worker, who was a nervous driver, and who was my neighbor at home, asked me to ride with her to provide moral support. Sh... | 2020/12/19 | [
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] | A possibility is that on Monday your parking lot was
>
> covered in snow. Cars were parked aligned with each other, but not exactly with the painted parking lines. The snow may also explain why your co-worker was concerned. Then, after the other cars in Lot A left later on Monday, the snow was cleared, leaving your ... | This happened to me in a commuter parking lot in New England in January.
>
> When you parked either it was snowing or some snow on the ground. Everyone parked as they saw fit but not knowing where the actual spaces were. You parked parallel to the other cars. Next day the snow had been melted (or the lot was cleaned... |
5,756 | Which one of the following statements is correct:
>
> 1. I deployed something to the test server.
> 2. I deployed something on the test server.
>
>
> | 2010/11/28 | [
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] | I would say it depends where you are deploying. Deploying "to" the test server implies a remote operation - HTTP / ssh / ftp, amongst others. Deploying "on" the test server implies that you are at the console/GUI of the server, whether it be physically (touching the keyboard and mouse) or virtually (VNC or similar appl... | Your examples require articles:
>
> I deployed something to *the* test server.
>
> I deployed something on *the* test server.
>
Otherwise, these two are exactly equivalent. |
297,291 | I am looking for an answer that is just a bit deeper than "because copper has a full 3d shell, thus no unpaired electrons".
Iron has a magnetic moment of 2.2 bohr magnetons per atom. You can explain this by starting with the number of valence electrons in an isolated iron atom (8) and then using Hall voltage measureme... | 2016/12/08 | [
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] | Your starting point here seems to be something like the Stoner model of band ferromagnetism. The [Stoner criterion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_criterion) involves the dispersion of the band, which is much greater for the Cu *4sp* band than for the transition-metal *3d* bands.
But that is not the way I think ... | Ferromagnetism is not all about the magnetic moment of atoms constituting the solid/material. If that would be the case, then not only would copper be ferromagnetic but a lot of other atoms would, too.
There must be an [exchange interaction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_interaction) which allows nearby atom... |
32,266 | Is it a wife's duty to have sex after marriage? If yes, could you please quote which Hindu scripture says so? | 2019/01/28 | [
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] | >
> Is a wife duty bound to do sex after marriage?
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>
>
**Yes, both husband and wife are required to have sex in marriage after every menstrual period.**
Verses from various [*Dharma Shastras*](https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/manusmriti-with-the-commentary-of-medhatithi/d/doc199821.html#comparative-notes... | [Brihadâranyaka Upanishad](http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15098.htm)
Yes, wife has to go by husband's desires and not the vice-versa.
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> 1. Verily, of created things here earth is the essence; of earth, water; of water, plants; of plants, flowers; of flowers, fruits; of
> fruits, man (purusa); of man, se... |
1,326 | Upon observing swimming competitions in the Olympics, it is not clear to me whether one of the eight lanes is more advantageous versus another. I've seen vague claims but nothing backed up with science.
**In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another? Furthermore, does the stroke (ie: ... | 2012/08/03 | [
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] | >
> In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another?
>
>
>
**No.** Lane 4 has always been believed to be the "fastest" lane, but there is **[no scientific evidence](http://www.swimcoachingbrain.com/the-ten-myths-of-swimming/)** of such.
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Michael Phelps on [being in lane 8](http:... | It used to be that lanes 1 and 8 were considered slower due to reflected waves off the side, but modern pools have wave reduction systems so this is no longer the case. |
1,326 | Upon observing swimming competitions in the Olympics, it is not clear to me whether one of the eight lanes is more advantageous versus another. I've seen vague claims but nothing backed up with science.
**In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another? Furthermore, does the stroke (ie: ... | 2012/08/03 | [
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] | >
> In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another?
>
>
>
**No.** Lane 4 has always been believed to be the "fastest" lane, but there is **[no scientific evidence](http://www.swimcoachingbrain.com/the-ten-myths-of-swimming/)** of such.
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Michael Phelps on [being in lane 8](http:... | The reason the fastest swimmer is placed in the center lanes is because it's believed to be the "coveted" lane. This is due to the fact that from lanes 4-5, you have the greatest visibility of swimmers in the other lanes. This is an advantage because in competitive races, athletes are known to perform better when they ... |
1,326 | Upon observing swimming competitions in the Olympics, it is not clear to me whether one of the eight lanes is more advantageous versus another. I've seen vague claims but nothing backed up with science.
**In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another? Furthermore, does the stroke (ie: ... | 2012/08/03 | [
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] | >
> In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another?
>
>
>
**No.** Lane 4 has always been believed to be the "fastest" lane, but there is **[no scientific evidence](http://www.swimcoachingbrain.com/the-ten-myths-of-swimming/)** of such.
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Michael Phelps on [being in lane 8](http:... | Apart from the physical differences, swimmers may gain psychological advantages, and the lane in which this happens depends on the swimmer.
I have met professional swimmers who like to swim in lanes that are near the side, stating reasons which include being able to monitor all 7 other swimmers during 1 breath, as opp... |
1,326 | Upon observing swimming competitions in the Olympics, it is not clear to me whether one of the eight lanes is more advantageous versus another. I've seen vague claims but nothing backed up with science.
**In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another? Furthermore, does the stroke (ie: ... | 2012/08/03 | [
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] | The reason the fastest swimmer is placed in the center lanes is because it's believed to be the "coveted" lane. This is due to the fact that from lanes 4-5, you have the greatest visibility of swimmers in the other lanes. This is an advantage because in competitive races, athletes are known to perform better when they ... | It used to be that lanes 1 and 8 were considered slower due to reflected waves off the side, but modern pools have wave reduction systems so this is no longer the case. |
1,326 | Upon observing swimming competitions in the Olympics, it is not clear to me whether one of the eight lanes is more advantageous versus another. I've seen vague claims but nothing backed up with science.
**In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another? Furthermore, does the stroke (ie: ... | 2012/08/03 | [
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] | It used to be that lanes 1 and 8 were considered slower due to reflected waves off the side, but modern pools have wave reduction systems so this is no longer the case. | Apart from the physical differences, swimmers may gain psychological advantages, and the lane in which this happens depends on the swimmer.
I have met professional swimmers who like to swim in lanes that are near the side, stating reasons which include being able to monitor all 7 other swimmers during 1 breath, as opp... |
1,326 | Upon observing swimming competitions in the Olympics, it is not clear to me whether one of the eight lanes is more advantageous versus another. I've seen vague claims but nothing backed up with science.
**In competitive swimming, is there an advantage to being in one lane or another? Furthermore, does the stroke (ie: ... | 2012/08/03 | [
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] | The reason the fastest swimmer is placed in the center lanes is because it's believed to be the "coveted" lane. This is due to the fact that from lanes 4-5, you have the greatest visibility of swimmers in the other lanes. This is an advantage because in competitive races, athletes are known to perform better when they ... | Apart from the physical differences, swimmers may gain psychological advantages, and the lane in which this happens depends on the swimmer.
I have met professional swimmers who like to swim in lanes that are near the side, stating reasons which include being able to monitor all 7 other swimmers during 1 breath, as opp... |
167,192 | Looking for a word: essentially, it should be a noun. Described as: turning well-intended actions into ill-intended actions in rhetoric (i.e., by committing intentional fallacies or disrupting the counterpart). Possible definition: "the process by which descriptions of actions are turned into accusations". Also, a good... | 2014/04/30 | [
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] | I think the simple answer to your question is **perversion**.
>
> the process of affecting something good or right in a negative way so
> that it becomes something bad or wrong
>
>
>
But I also think the general term **distortion** (or twist) works here too but it can go both ways.
>
> the action of giving a m... | ... vilify ... I guess ... you need context to say that .. heheh
Don't vilify me! Your compassion is revolting. I would rather you say so much as doing. |
167,192 | Looking for a word: essentially, it should be a noun. Described as: turning well-intended actions into ill-intended actions in rhetoric (i.e., by committing intentional fallacies or disrupting the counterpart). Possible definition: "the process by which descriptions of actions are turned into accusations". Also, a good... | 2014/04/30 | [
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] | I think the simple answer to your question is **perversion**.
>
> the process of affecting something good or right in a negative way so
> that it becomes something bad or wrong
>
>
>
But I also think the general term **distortion** (or twist) works here too but it can go both ways.
>
> the action of giving a m... | Someone can *put the worst possible construction* on your action, *see it in a negative light* or *intentionally misinterpret* it. They can also *set you up to fail* or *frame* you. They can *denigrate, slander, smear, badmouth, defame* and *libel* you. They can also *project their failures / faults / shortcomings* ont... |
167,192 | Looking for a word: essentially, it should be a noun. Described as: turning well-intended actions into ill-intended actions in rhetoric (i.e., by committing intentional fallacies or disrupting the counterpart). Possible definition: "the process by which descriptions of actions are turned into accusations". Also, a good... | 2014/04/30 | [
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] | I think the simple answer to your question is **perversion**.
>
> the process of affecting something good or right in a negative way so
> that it becomes something bad or wrong
>
>
>
But I also think the general term **distortion** (or twist) works here too but it can go both ways.
>
> the action of giving a m... | You might want to consider "**diabolization**" and "**denigration**."
>
> [**diabolize**](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diabolize): to represent as or make diabolical.
>
>
> [**denigrate**](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/denigrate): to treat or represent as lacking in value or importance,; belit... |
167,192 | Looking for a word: essentially, it should be a noun. Described as: turning well-intended actions into ill-intended actions in rhetoric (i.e., by committing intentional fallacies or disrupting the counterpart). Possible definition: "the process by which descriptions of actions are turned into accusations". Also, a good... | 2014/04/30 | [
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] | I think the simple answer to your question is **perversion**.
>
> the process of affecting something good or right in a negative way so
> that it becomes something bad or wrong
>
>
>
But I also think the general term **distortion** (or twist) works here too but it can go both ways.
>
> the action of giving a m... | This sounds like **[innuendo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innuendo)**.
>
> An innuendo is an **insinuation or intimation** about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or a derogatory nature. It can also be a remark or question, typically disparaging (also called insinuation), that works obliquely by allusio... |
115,298 | Why I can't change the network to Ropsten Test Network? It doesn't show up in pop up menu.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/w8rRi.png) | 2021/12/09 | [
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] | It's off by default, in extended settings.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R50Ku.png) | 1..Go to setting.
2. advanced
3. Show test networks "checkbox enabled"
4. Now you can network. |
230,653 | Context: I'm constructing a CNN classifier for text categorization. I have a dataset with 20 different classes and approximately 20,000 labeled features (the 20 News Group dataset for those interested).
I'm wondering if I'm training my model on too many epochs, which would make it really good at categorizing the featu... | 2016/08/19 | [
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] | Pankaj Daga's expansion is great, I'll take care of the illustration. Here is a typical curve when training a neural networks:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fS5V0.png)
The reported F1-score for the test set should to be the F1-score of the test set of... | Your comment regarding the epoch is true. So, if you use too few epoches, you may underfit and using too many epoches can result in overfitting. As you know you can always increase the *training accuracy* arbitrarily by increasing model complexity and increasing the number of epoch steps. One way to try and alleviate t... |
126,785 | >
> Captain, if they attack us , what do we do?
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>
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I am a bit confused over whether or not "what do we do?" Is correct in the previous context. Do we
use the future simple tense instead? | 2017/04/17 | [
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] | **"How do you do?"** is technically a question, but really, it's just an expression. One person says, **"How do you do?"**, and the other person does not answer, because no answer is needed.
If you prefer, you can answer, but you have to say, *"Very well, thank you, and you?"*. You aren't allowed to launch into an exp... | "**How do you do?**" a formal greeting for someone that you have not met before. It's not a question but a fixed expression. It was once commonplace, especially among the English upper classes. It's not a question asking about someone's health.
If somebody says "**How do you do?**" to you, the polite way to reply is "... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | The Rules
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It is always good to go back to first principles and look at what the rules actually say. From the [Basic Rules (pp. 33-34)](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/personality-and-background#Alignment) (Player's Handbook is identical I believe; p. 122), I have highlighted what I consider to ... | Stealing (from the general public or from other PCs) isn't necessarily evil (if what and how much you steal does no harm, it's no worse than neutral on the good vs. evil spectrum), but it's certainly chaotic (putting your own needs or desires ahead of those of the group you've chosen to join). One can be genuinely evil... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | **Mechanically speaking alignment has little to no bearing on play as per the 5e rules.**
The PHB and basic rules mention alignment a lot, and its specifically described in detail in chapter 4 of the PHB, but how to implement it beyond a notation on a Player's character sheet is not given any space.
There a few opti... | Stealing (from the general public or from other PCs) isn't necessarily evil (if what and how much you steal does no harm, it's no worse than neutral on the good vs. evil spectrum), but it's certainly chaotic (putting your own needs or desires ahead of those of the group you've chosen to join). One can be genuinely evil... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | These are evil acts, but not necessarily out of character.
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Stealing is chaotic, and stealing for your own gain (which both of these cases are) is evil. However, alignment does not dictate a character's actions, it reflects them. If your players frequently take... | **Whether or not you obey the law in and of itself is measured on a scale of Lawful to Chaotic. Your motivations for (not?) obeying the law are what determines the Good to Evil axis.**
An evil character can steal from the rich and give to the poor - not because he cares about the poor, but he really wanted to see how... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | The Rules
---------
It is always good to go back to first principles and look at what the rules actually say. From the [Basic Rules (pp. 33-34)](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/personality-and-background#Alignment) (Player's Handbook is identical I believe; p. 122), I have highlighted what I consider to ... | These are evil acts, but not necessarily out of character.
==========================================================
Stealing is chaotic, and stealing for your own gain (which both of these cases are) is evil. However, alignment does not dictate a character's actions, it reflects them. If your players frequently take... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | The Rules
---------
It is always good to go back to first principles and look at what the rules actually say. From the [Basic Rules (pp. 33-34)](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/personality-and-background#Alignment) (Player's Handbook is identical I believe; p. 122), I have highlighted what I consider to ... | I think a better question here would be, is "is being greedy and being good a good combination", as it has less to do with the lawful/chaos scale if you ask me.
Being greedy means you take things that other people possess because you want it, which is not always a problem on the law / chaos scale (a tyrant taxing poo... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | The Rules
---------
It is always good to go back to first principles and look at what the rules actually say. From the [Basic Rules (pp. 33-34)](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/personality-and-background#Alignment) (Player's Handbook is identical I believe; p. 122), I have highlighted what I consider to ... | In general terms, lawfulness of an action by itself has no bearing on goodness. As it says in the PHB 122, alignment is a combination of two things. One is personal morality and the other is how they act in society and order. So, in terms of stealing, the reason behind the stealing is what matters to determine if the a... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | TL;DR: Deceiving party members and taking more than his fair share of loot is out of alignment for a good character, even if it is lawful for him to do so.
**Goodness and Lawfulfulness are entirely seperate character traits, are therefore each is measured on its own axis: Good vs Evil, and Lawful vs Chaotic.**
Being ... | In general terms, lawfulness of an action by itself has no bearing on goodness. As it says in the PHB 122, alignment is a combination of two things. One is personal morality and the other is how they act in society and order. So, in terms of stealing, the reason behind the stealing is what matters to determine if the a... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | **Whether or not you obey the law in and of itself is measured on a scale of Lawful to Chaotic. Your motivations for (not?) obeying the law are what determines the Good to Evil axis.**
An evil character can steal from the rich and give to the poor - not because he cares about the poor, but he really wanted to see how... | **You seem to be making the assumption that Lawful is the same as Good.** Were it so, there could be no Chaotic Good, no Lawful Evil.
Imagine a society dedicated to the rule of law, upon which a charismatic political bloc comes to hold sway. This bloc utilizes some culturally compelling arguments to select a smaller s... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
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] | I think a better question here would be, is "is being greedy and being good a good combination", as it has less to do with the lawful/chaos scale if you ask me.
Being greedy means you take things that other people possess because you want it, which is not always a problem on the law / chaos scale (a tyrant taxing poo... | **You seem to be making the assumption that Lawful is the same as Good.** Were it so, there could be no Chaotic Good, no Lawful Evil.
Imagine a society dedicated to the rule of law, upon which a charismatic political bloc comes to hold sway. This bloc utilizes some culturally compelling arguments to select a smaller s... |
53,418 | We have a group of three characters: The lawful good paladin (acolyte), the lawful good fighter (soldier) and the chaotic good druid (criminal). All try to help NPCs in need, won't fight between themselves, but of course have different alignments and personalities. The druid is greedy, but otherwise a good guy. This br... | 2014/12/21 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/53418",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
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] | Stealing (from the general public or from other PCs) isn't necessarily evil (if what and how much you steal does no harm, it's no worse than neutral on the good vs. evil spectrum), but it's certainly chaotic (putting your own needs or desires ahead of those of the group you've chosen to join). One can be genuinely evil... | As many of the other answers pointed out there is no mechanical requirements to how you roleplay your alignment in 5E D&D. Previous editions included things like massive experience loss and other potential punishments as disincentives for alignment changes.
**Stealing isn't really greed**
Is the character pushing for... |
181,137 | Request: The question must assumed to be hypothetical and answers be limited to technical only. (no ethics and other things)
I am in an organization (school) that has very strict network policies. We can access internet only through a squid proxy. Stackoverflow is banned and I want to access it somehow.
Now I own a... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/181137",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/53506/"
] | Do you know for a fact that the proxy server is in fact Squid? The nature of the proxy server changes the approach.
School law can get quite complicated (and IANAL), but the bottom line is that the school district is responsible for making a best effort to appropriately filter content (which is the reverse of standard... | Do you need a website on that server? If not, why not run sshd on port 80 and then use an SSH tunnel? If that's not possible, [this](http://sites.google.com/site/luizluca/port-forward-over-http) may be of interest but I've not tried it. |
181,137 | Request: The question must assumed to be hypothetical and answers be limited to technical only. (no ethics and other things)
I am in an organization (school) that has very strict network policies. We can access internet only through a squid proxy. Stackoverflow is banned and I want to access it somehow.
Now I own a... | 2010/09/14 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/181137",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/53506/"
] | Do you know for a fact that the proxy server is in fact Squid? The nature of the proxy server changes the approach.
School law can get quite complicated (and IANAL), but the bottom line is that the school district is responsible for making a best effort to appropriately filter content (which is the reverse of standard... | If your box is running something like Apache Httpd, you could probably configure a path on your box to relay the requests to the server of your choice using `mod_proxy` and its reverse proxy functions. |
145,583 | I'm wondering how much Covid-19 affected scientific productivity, if it affected productivity negatively at all (c.f. Newton actually did a lot of his most important work while the University of Cambridge was closed due to plague).
I'm using the rate at which papers are published on arXiv as a proxy for "scientific pr... | 2020/03/19 | [
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] | ArXiv posts its monthly submission statistics [here](https://arxiv.org/stats/monthly_submissions). It's noisy data even in the absence of viruses, so I can't tell if there's an effect yet or not. Then again, I'm no statistician. Extrapolating the March data as of today (March 19th), it's at least set to be larger than ... | I think your assumption that scientific productivity can be measured by arXiv uploads is flawed. Surely it can measure that the usual workflow has been changed - but especially for short periods of time, productivity cannot be measured by number of papers.
Taking myself as an example. I am using my time at home to do ... |
145,583 | I'm wondering how much Covid-19 affected scientific productivity, if it affected productivity negatively at all (c.f. Newton actually did a lot of his most important work while the University of Cambridge was closed due to plague).
I'm using the rate at which papers are published on arXiv as a proxy for "scientific pr... | 2020/03/19 | [
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] | I think it will be interesting to study this 5 years from now, but right now is way too soon. At least in math, people don’t post papers at a steady, constant rate. I personally post around 3 papers per year, and most of those represent work that is at least a year old (often much longer than that) by the time I get ar... | I think your assumption that scientific productivity can be measured by arXiv uploads is flawed. Surely it can measure that the usual workflow has been changed - but especially for short periods of time, productivity cannot be measured by number of papers.
Taking myself as an example. I am using my time at home to do ... |
145,583 | I'm wondering how much Covid-19 affected scientific productivity, if it affected productivity negatively at all (c.f. Newton actually did a lot of his most important work while the University of Cambridge was closed due to plague).
I'm using the rate at which papers are published on arXiv as a proxy for "scientific pr... | 2020/03/19 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/145583",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/84834/"
] | ArXiv posts its monthly submission statistics [here](https://arxiv.org/stats/monthly_submissions). It's noisy data even in the absence of viruses, so I can't tell if there's an effect yet or not. Then again, I'm no statistician. Extrapolating the March data as of today (March 19th), it's at least set to be larger than ... | I think it will be interesting to study this 5 years from now, but right now is way too soon. At least in math, people don’t post papers at a steady, constant rate. I personally post around 3 papers per year, and most of those represent work that is at least a year old (often much longer than that) by the time I get ar... |
239,271 | I had a driver completely fail on me so I have to restore my computer from a system image backup. I used an installation DVD to run the Re-Image utility on there, but after 8 hours of "preparing the image" to be restored, it began restoring to my hard drive. After 12 hours there, it was 5-8% complete.
I figured I must... | 2011/01/29 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/239271",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/61214/"
] | It sounds like you are trying to do it correctly, all I can think of is if the image is on the Esata drive, try connecting via USB.
It is possible that Windows PE (The recovery environment) doesn't have a good driver for the external drive and the I/O speed is low, but the fact it was working and not coming up with an... | I would test your hard drive and memory.
Make a memtest disk and boot from it to test your memory
<http://www.memtest.org/>
Some OEM PCs have a built in hardware tester, you can use that for the hard drive, or determine the manufacturer of the hard drive then use one of their utilities to test it.
Hitachi
<http://w... |
83,011 | I was rewatching DS9 recently and I realized that, in light of Bashir's genetically modified status.
For example, his statement
>
> [Doctors] seemed to know everything. It was as if they held the power of
> life and death in their hands. I used to think that if I didn't
> behave, they'd make sure I got sick. Then ... | 2015/03/03 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83011",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | No.
---
---
As stated on the Memory-Alpha page for Bashir in the [Background Information](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Julian_Bashir#Background_information):
>
> **Making Bashir genetically engineered in "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" was a last-minute decision.** As Ira Steven Behr explains, "at the time we were wo... | No.
---
---
According to an interview with DS9 writer [Jimmy Diggs](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Jimmy_Diggs) in the [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine_Companion), the concept of Julian Bashir being a genetically modified human was something that was i... |
76,719 | I have finished my BSc and I am considering applying for a Msc. I have no idea about the etiquite of applying for grad school. Do I apply using the online form or should one send an email to the proffesors and doctors?
If they are important, what does one say!?
Thanks, and any advice you have is welcome! | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/76719",
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] | Although referring the concerned institution guidelines for application should be self-sufficient, it wouldn't be wrong to ask a professor of the related department for any clarifications. But just make sure you go refer the guidelines first before you send a request-for-clarifications email. | If you have a genuine question that is not answered by any of the course literature or website then by all means contact the course in question.
If there is a generic email address or online form for questions then use that, it will most likely be answered by a member of support staff who will hopefully be able to hel... |
12,229,364 | Can anyone point me to any sort of documentation for how to implement binary on socket.io? Its listed that they have added the support a few months ago, but i cant find any documentation for it. | 2012/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12229364",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/997945/"
] | Socket.IO doesn't support binary data as not all transports support this. What you should do instead is taking a look at <http://binaryjs.com/>
If you do not want to such a solution you will have to pack all your binary data in to a string and decode it again on the client side.. But this is basically the same that bi... | There's one more module which helps greatly for sending binary dta with socket.io
Try deliveryjs
>
> <https://github.com/liamks/Delivery.js>
>
>
>
which provides the means of binary data communication between clients and server via socket.io. (but uses base64 conversion method) |
12,229,364 | Can anyone point me to any sort of documentation for how to implement binary on socket.io? Its listed that they have added the support a few months ago, but i cant find any documentation for it. | 2012/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12229364",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/997945/"
] | Socket.IO doesn't support binary data as not all transports support this. What you should do instead is taking a look at <http://binaryjs.com/>
If you do not want to such a solution you will have to pack all your binary data in to a string and decode it again on the client side.. But this is basically the same that bi... | Updating for people who get here, take a look at [socket.io-stream](https://www.npmjs.org/package/socket.io-stream "socket.io-stream") |
12,229,364 | Can anyone point me to any sort of documentation for how to implement binary on socket.io? Its listed that they have added the support a few months ago, but i cant find any documentation for it. | 2012/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12229364",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/997945/"
] | Socket.IO doesn't support binary data as not all transports support this. What you should do instead is taking a look at <http://binaryjs.com/>
If you do not want to such a solution you will have to pack all your binary data in to a string and decode it again on the client side.. But this is basically the same that bi... | As of now, [since 2014 (v1.0) Socket.IO supports binary files](http://socket.io/blog/introducing-socket-io-1-0/#binary). I also wrote a [blog post](http://blog.castillobg.co/programming/tutorial/golang/2015/11/10/socket-io-file-transfer.html) about how to use it (since I found the docs to be somewhat lacking) |
12,229,364 | Can anyone point me to any sort of documentation for how to implement binary on socket.io? Its listed that they have added the support a few months ago, but i cant find any documentation for it. | 2012/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12229364",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/997945/"
] | As of now, [since 2014 (v1.0) Socket.IO supports binary files](http://socket.io/blog/introducing-socket-io-1-0/#binary). I also wrote a [blog post](http://blog.castillobg.co/programming/tutorial/golang/2015/11/10/socket-io-file-transfer.html) about how to use it (since I found the docs to be somewhat lacking) | There's one more module which helps greatly for sending binary dta with socket.io
Try deliveryjs
>
> <https://github.com/liamks/Delivery.js>
>
>
>
which provides the means of binary data communication between clients and server via socket.io. (but uses base64 conversion method) |
12,229,364 | Can anyone point me to any sort of documentation for how to implement binary on socket.io? Its listed that they have added the support a few months ago, but i cant find any documentation for it. | 2012/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12229364",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/997945/"
] | As of now, [since 2014 (v1.0) Socket.IO supports binary files](http://socket.io/blog/introducing-socket-io-1-0/#binary). I also wrote a [blog post](http://blog.castillobg.co/programming/tutorial/golang/2015/11/10/socket-io-file-transfer.html) about how to use it (since I found the docs to be somewhat lacking) | Updating for people who get here, take a look at [socket.io-stream](https://www.npmjs.org/package/socket.io-stream "socket.io-stream") |
143,876 | I'm looking for excellent geostatistics courses all over the world, including online courses. In particular, I would like to learn more about the kriging method. Can anyone give me some suggestions? | 2015/04/24 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/143876",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/51026/"
] | Take a look at <http://geostat-course.org/node> - they have lots of courses, great resources.
I would recommend taking a look at a couple of very good books:
* [Elementary Statistics for Geographers, Third Edition](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1572304847)
* [Practical Statistics for Geographers and Earth ... | Coursera has a lot of great courses. I know that they had a geostatistics course in the past. Maybe something will appear soon.
<https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=statistics> |
282,759 | Does at the proverbial last minute have a special meaning ?
or the word proverbial is used in its usual meaning?
What is the difference if it has a special meaning between
at the last minute and
at the proverbial last minute ? | 2015/10/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/282759",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/144449/"
] | The word [***proverbial***](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/proverbial) is defined as:
>
> Well known, especially so as to be ***stereotypical***: ‘the Welsh people,
> whose hospitality is proverbial’
>
>
>
When you look at the following examples, you will notice that the word is placed bef... | The expression [the last minute](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/last--minute) used referring to "*the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.*" is quite common, and in that respect it is said to be "proverbial".
[Ngram](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=until%20th... |
282,759 | Does at the proverbial last minute have a special meaning ?
or the word proverbial is used in its usual meaning?
What is the difference if it has a special meaning between
at the last minute and
at the proverbial last minute ? | 2015/10/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/282759",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/144449/"
] | The word [***proverbial***](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/proverbial) is defined as:
>
> Well known, especially so as to be ***stereotypical***: ‘the Welsh people,
> whose hospitality is proverbial’
>
>
>
When you look at the following examples, you will notice that the word is placed bef... | The word proverbial is used in it's normal meaning here:
>
> **proverbial:** that has become a proverb or byword : **commonly spoken of**
>
>
> Example: *the proverbial restlessness of sailors*
>
>
>
(Webster's Unabridged)
>
> **Widely referred to**, as if the subject of a proverb; **famous**.
>
>
>
([Ame... |
209,395 | Is there a word to express the idea of everything one could need? I'm trying to figure out if there is a single word that best communicates this idea. | 2014/11/20 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/209395",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | You can consider ***needs.*** It can cover all needs including basic, intermediate and advanced needs.
>
> Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as disfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psycho... | The noun *[necessaries](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/necessaries)* (“Necessary or indispensable items” - wiktionary) comes close to answering the question. An example sentence:
>
> Have you got all the necessaries?
>
>
>
As AE suggested in a comment, one might refer to *[bare necessities](http://dictionary.refer... |
209,395 | Is there a word to express the idea of everything one could need? I'm trying to figure out if there is a single word that best communicates this idea. | 2014/11/20 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/209395",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
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] | You can consider ***needs.*** It can cover all needs including basic, intermediate and advanced needs.
>
> Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as disfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psycho... | To a person in a so-called "third world country" where the per capita income is perhaps $600 a year, what an average American considers to be a *need* (e.g., a car) looks more like a *greed*! And the same goes for an average American with an average income to whom the luxury sports car belonging to a superstar athlete ... |
17,989,417 | I am getting this error on the Netbeans IDE with the codes.
Javadocs say that "asynchronous session bean invocation is not allowed in project targeting java ee 6 lite profile"
Javadocs say that "asynchronous session bean invocation is not allowed in project targeting java ee 6 lite profile" | 2013/08/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/17989417",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2637541/"
] | As Java EE 6 comes with different profiles (i.e. Web/Lite profile and Full) not all functionality is supported in the Web/Lite profile. Especially the web profile only supports "EJB Lite" which comes without support for asynchronous EJBs have a look at the following article [which comes with a table describing the feat... | It is solved by using Netbeans 7.2.1 Glassfish 3.1.2.2 bundled version.
Developer should be aware of version of Glassfish such as Web Profile or Full Platform.
If developers are working on EJB they should use Full Platform of Glassfish. |
67,966 | At Matthew 27:29 we see :
"..and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
I wish to know the name of the plant or the tree, the thorns of which were used by the soldiers to make the crown.... | 2019/01/06 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/67966",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
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] | I actually read an article recently that mentions in passing this concept (that Wisdom is Jesus.)
The article first speaks of the Greek Concept of Logos and mentions,
>
> “Beginning at least as early as the apologist Justin Martyr (A.D. 125), Christians, almost without exception, identified Sophia (the Greek equival... | *How can Wisdom be Jesus if Wisdom was created?*
**Short Answer:**
***Wisdom was "qanah or birthed or created" by the Holy Spirit***. The Spirit of Created Wisdom was birthed by the Holy Spirit as conceived by the love of the Father and the Begotten Son to the chosen woman destined to become the Theotokos and the Mot... |
67,966 | At Matthew 27:29 we see :
"..and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
I wish to know the name of the plant or the tree, the thorns of which were used by the soldiers to make the crown.... | 2019/01/06 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/67966",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/21496/"
] | I actually read an article recently that mentions in passing this concept (that Wisdom is Jesus.)
The article first speaks of the Greek Concept of Logos and mentions,
>
> “Beginning at least as early as the apologist Justin Martyr (A.D. 125), Christians, almost without exception, identified Sophia (the Greek equival... | The answer is in the fact that Proverbs is writing of wisdom using *personification*. It is *only because of this* that it is *applied* to a person, namely the Son of God. The author of Proverbs is using poetic language (after all, "create me" before "[creation]" is a poetic and endearing way of saying God generated or... |
67,966 | At Matthew 27:29 we see :
"..and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
I wish to know the name of the plant or the tree, the thorns of which were used by the soldiers to make the crown.... | 2019/01/06 | [
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/67966",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com",
"https://christianity.stackexchange.com/users/21496/"
] | The answer is in the fact that Proverbs is writing of wisdom using *personification*. It is *only because of this* that it is *applied* to a person, namely the Son of God. The author of Proverbs is using poetic language (after all, "create me" before "[creation]" is a poetic and endearing way of saying God generated or... | *How can Wisdom be Jesus if Wisdom was created?*
**Short Answer:**
***Wisdom was "qanah or birthed or created" by the Holy Spirit***. The Spirit of Created Wisdom was birthed by the Holy Spirit as conceived by the love of the Father and the Begotten Son to the chosen woman destined to become the Theotokos and the Mot... |
23,658 | I am a PhD student in computer science and have submitted a paper to a conference which details my proposed architecture. However in the month or so since this paper has been submitted my architecture has undergone changes (relatively major), how is this normally dealt with?
If the paper is accepted do I present the w... | 2014/06/19 | [
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] | I believe you should do what is better to the audience.
In some disciplines/communities it is strongly assumed that conference participants read the abstracts/papers before the presentation, and expect the discussion to follow precisely the material that is published. In this case, of course, you could only comment b... | I agree with @dmitry-savostyanov in that you should do what's best for your audience.
They've come to hear something interesting and if your work changed, then that seems to indicate that information on why and how it changed would be very relevant to their interests.
In CS, conference papers have a different status ... |
23,658 | I am a PhD student in computer science and have submitted a paper to a conference which details my proposed architecture. However in the month or so since this paper has been submitted my architecture has undergone changes (relatively major), how is this normally dealt with?
If the paper is accepted do I present the w... | 2014/06/19 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23658",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/17638/"
] | I believe you should do what is better to the audience.
In some disciplines/communities it is strongly assumed that conference participants read the abstracts/papers before the presentation, and expect the discussion to follow precisely the material that is published. In this case, of course, you could only comment b... | In computer science, you have 2 options:
* In case your paper is accepted, you can update the paper for the final camera-ready version. If the changes are not too big, this can be a viable possibility and is actually no too uncommon.
* If the changes are too major, you can prepare an extended version of the conference... |
8,076 | I own a small production company and use a lot of hard drives to backup my data. I want to find an affordable solution for file storage.
What is the best way to achieve this? It doesn't need to be attached to a network nor 24/7 running. I imagine this as one huge hard drive where I can dump files from my editing comput... | 2017/09/12 | [
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"https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
"https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/users/6966/"
] | A Network Attached Storage (NAS) is something you may be interested in. There are several plug and play products available from companies such as Synology, Western Digital, etc. As well, there are a couple options for DIY'ers such as [Freenas](http://www.freenas.org/), Unraid, etc.
I have a Freenas machine that I buil... | Synology has a line of diskstations with every RAID discipline you could ever need. Their site has a customer wizard, just for you:
<https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/nas_selector> |
8,076 | I own a small production company and use a lot of hard drives to backup my data. I want to find an affordable solution for file storage.
What is the best way to achieve this? It doesn't need to be attached to a network nor 24/7 running. I imagine this as one huge hard drive where I can dump files from my editing comput... | 2017/09/12 | [
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] | As operating a professional data recovery service, I would not a advise using a NAS (see below why).
My golden rule is "KISS" : Keep It Simple, Stupid.
* Use preferably professional-grade hard drives (with 5 years warranty) if you can afford them.
You can buy them second hand if you want to reduce costs, but format t... | Synology has a line of diskstations with every RAID discipline you could ever need. Their site has a customer wizard, just for you:
<https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/nas_selector> |
8,076 | I own a small production company and use a lot of hard drives to backup my data. I want to find an affordable solution for file storage.
What is the best way to achieve this? It doesn't need to be attached to a network nor 24/7 running. I imagine this as one huge hard drive where I can dump files from my editing comput... | 2017/09/12 | [
"https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/8076",
"https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com",
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] | A Network Attached Storage (NAS) is something you may be interested in. There are several plug and play products available from companies such as Synology, Western Digital, etc. As well, there are a couple options for DIY'ers such as [Freenas](http://www.freenas.org/), Unraid, etc.
I have a Freenas machine that I buil... | As operating a professional data recovery service, I would not a advise using a NAS (see below why).
My golden rule is "KISS" : Keep It Simple, Stupid.
* Use preferably professional-grade hard drives (with 5 years warranty) if you can afford them.
You can buy them second hand if you want to reduce costs, but format t... |
23,206,158 | If I have an API of a WebService and i were asked to make a website for this WebService how can I do it using c#(Visual Studio) ?
Open a project like : visual c# -> ASP.NET Web Application? like programming a standard website ? or do I need to open a different type of project or configure other things ?
If any one g... | 2014/04/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23206158",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3142959/"
] | Here's a great tutorial that will teach you how to build an MVC website that uses a WebAPI:
<http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-aspnet-web-api/tutorial-your-first-web-api> | Did you heard about Webmatrix? <http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/>. Its a great tool to create websites within minutes. And they have also a lot of tutorials for beginners: <http://pluralsight.com/training/courses/tableofcontents?courseName=webmatrix-introduction>. |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | The colloquial understanding of music being in a particular major or minor key depends solely on the tonic ("home note") and whether the 3rd scale degree is a major 3rd (for major keys) or a minor 3rd (for minor keys) away. If both the major 3rd and minor 3rd for 3rd scale degrees appear, whether the resulting music is... | Your basic understanding of "in a key" is correct. Read the key signature, follow the accidentals to deviate from the key signature.
I suppose you could think of that as the "performance" understanding where you would play whatever accidentals are in the score, because that is what you are supposed to do.
Now that yo... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | Key means center. "This is in C major" means "this is centered on C major". C major is the center.
>
> As a musician, when I heard "X (song) is in the key of Y", this
> basically just resulted in me thinking in my head "okay, this means
> you're going to sharp all Cs, Fs, and As throughout this song unless
> marked o... | Your basic understanding of "in a key" is correct. Read the key signature, follow the accidentals to deviate from the key signature.
I suppose you could think of that as the "performance" understanding where you would play whatever accidentals are in the score, because that is what you are supposed to do.
Now that yo... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | Please don't think differently with your different hats on. The music probably hasn't changed. Key signatures are there to act as a guide, a reminder, as you state.
We regard (as listeners, players and composers) the key of a piece as the place it feels most at home, at rest. It won't always work for all pieces, but t... | Your basic understanding of "in a key" is correct. Read the key signature, follow the accidentals to deviate from the key signature.
I suppose you could think of that as the "performance" understanding where you would play whatever accidentals are in the score, because that is what you are supposed to do.
Now that yo... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | >
> As a musician, when I heard "X (song) is in the key of Y", this basically just resulted in me thinking in my head "okay, this means you're going to sharp all Cs, Fs, and As throughout this song unless marked otherwise", for example.
>
>
>
That's part of what 'key of Y' means. But not the most important part. T... | The colloquial understanding of music being in a particular major or minor key depends solely on the tonic ("home note") and whether the 3rd scale degree is a major 3rd (for major keys) or a minor 3rd (for minor keys) away. If both the major 3rd and minor 3rd for 3rd scale degrees appear, whether the resulting music is... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | Key means center. "This is in C major" means "this is centered on C major". C major is the center.
>
> As a musician, when I heard "X (song) is in the key of Y", this
> basically just resulted in me thinking in my head "okay, this means
> you're going to sharp all Cs, Fs, and As throughout this song unless
> marked o... | My advice is:
* write all your songs in the Key of C
* transpose your songs from C to G and F
* transpose your songs from G to Gb and from F to F# and see what is happening and what is different. Play them in G and Gb, in F and F# on a keyboard.
* transpose your songs from C to D and from D to E.
I think the system o... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | >
> As a musician, when I heard "X (song) is in the key of Y", this basically just resulted in me thinking in my head "okay, this means you're going to sharp all Cs, Fs, and As throughout this song unless marked otherwise", for example.
>
>
>
That's part of what 'key of Y' means. But not the most important part. T... | My advice is:
* write all your songs in the Key of C
* transpose your songs from C to G and F
* transpose your songs from G to Gb and from F to F# and see what is happening and what is different. Play them in G and Gb, in F and F# on a keyboard.
* transpose your songs from C to D and from D to E.
I think the system o... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | Please don't think differently with your different hats on. The music probably hasn't changed. Key signatures are there to act as a guide, a reminder, as you state.
We regard (as listeners, players and composers) the key of a piece as the place it feels most at home, at rest. It won't always work for all pieces, but t... | My advice is:
* write all your songs in the Key of C
* transpose your songs from C to G and F
* transpose your songs from G to Gb and from F to F# and see what is happening and what is different. Play them in G and Gb, in F and F# on a keyboard.
* transpose your songs from C to D and from D to E.
I think the system o... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | It is possible for a musician to develop facility on an instrument, learn how to read music and play scales in different keys of varying numbers of sharps or flats and even play pieces without really having any knowledge of what a key actually is beyond “this key has these sharp notes”, etc.
In order to understand wha... | Your basic understanding of "in a key" is correct. Read the key signature, follow the accidentals to deviate from the key signature.
I suppose you could think of that as the "performance" understanding where you would play whatever accidentals are in the score, because that is what you are supposed to do.
Now that yo... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | Please don't think differently with your different hats on. The music probably hasn't changed. Key signatures are there to act as a guide, a reminder, as you state.
We regard (as listeners, players and composers) the key of a piece as the place it feels most at home, at rest. It won't always work for all pieces, but t... | Key means center. "This is in C major" means "this is centered on C major". C major is the center.
>
> As a musician, when I heard "X (song) is in the key of Y", this
> basically just resulted in me thinking in my head "okay, this means
> you're going to sharp all Cs, Fs, and As throughout this song unless
> marked o... |
124,629 | When I was younger, for years, I played musical instruments such as the french horn, violin, acoustic ("standing") bass, electric bass, piano, and electric guitar. During these years, I also learned to read sheet music/music notation.
I've taken many years away from reading music notation, however I still remember qui... | 2022/08/27 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/124629",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/88323/"
] | >
> As a musician, when I heard "X (song) is in the key of Y", this basically just resulted in me thinking in my head "okay, this means you're going to sharp all Cs, Fs, and As throughout this song unless marked otherwise", for example.
>
>
>
That's part of what 'key of Y' means. But not the most important part. T... | Key means center. "This is in C major" means "this is centered on C major". C major is the center.
>
> As a musician, when I heard "X (song) is in the key of Y", this
> basically just resulted in me thinking in my head "okay, this means
> you're going to sharp all Cs, Fs, and As throughout this song unless
> marked o... |
198,349 | As a plasma-based force field would simply feel really really hot and consuming end up burning anybody who touched it, a cold plasma-based force field would seem to be more in order. For convenience, cold plasma is when "where the temperature of the individual constituents is different from each other. Electrons are at... | 2021/03/24 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/198349",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/83401/"
] | **Don't keep your hand in the gas**
I assume that you're citing this: [Summary](https://www.science.lu/fr/my-research-90-seconds/cold-plasma-what-it-and-how-can-it-be-used)
Your "forcefield" consists of a gas cloud, contained in a small area. It's a plasma because you've dissociated one or more electrons from each at... | Its ouch time.
* An acid burns by donating ions to its surroundings. These ions will try to share or rip electrons of(f) other materials.
* plasma is a substance so hot the electrons leave the atoms turning them into ions.
* as long as the plasma cannot reabsorb its electrons as it cools down it functions like a batte... |
415,040 | I have received a form by email that has to be filled in and either printed or sent back by email. When I type, the characters move everything to the right like when you use the space key. Can't figure out why this is. What do I do to stop everything moving like that whenI type?
By the way, this is a Microsoft Word 97... | 2012/04/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/415040",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/129463/"
] | Press [`Insert`](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_key) to replace the existing text instead of moving it away.
Otherwise, print the document, fill it out by hand and scan it. | The form was created with tab stops, go to menu bar, format then tabs from the tab pop-up window click clear all |
283,083 | Every so often we encounter a problem where we cannot get an IPSEC VPN tunnel to work. Sometimes we know the local authorities restrict use of IPSEC (e.g. Bangladesh), and have to get some kind of exemption. Other times the ISP changes something and the connection drops (e.g. Haiti).
I assume there are a bunch of thin... | 2011/06/22 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/283083",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/31143/"
] | Drawing on [Chapter 4 of IPsec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals](http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/1114-ch4-ipsec-vpn.html?page=6) the following architectural issues can disrupt IPsec traffic:
* Firewall not allowing required protocols
+ ISAKMP (Port 500)
+ ESP (IP Protocol 50)
+ AH (IP Protocol 51)
* F... | There's really not much we can do to answer this "question" -- they can block IKE, they can block L2TP/GRE/other tunneling protocols, they can block any packet that looks like it might be using ESP/AH, etc.
-- The exhaustive list of ways things can break is (usually) infinite: Without details of how your VPNs are set... |
191,770 | I'm just starting to work with KiCAD. One of the [video tutorial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3rDhJqMu0) shows that 3D view should incorporate components placed on the board:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6wuks.png)
However in my case I can see o... | 2015/09/23 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/191770",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/35875/"
] | I solved this issue doing this:
* Run Eeschema
* Open CvPcb to associate components and footprints
* Open Preferences -> Configure Paths
* On "KISYS3DMOD" change the path to the correct one. "C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\modules\packages3d" in my case.
* Restart the program.
* Enjoy! | This problem seems to be resolved for more recent versions of KiCad. I did however run into the same symptoms but different cause with KiCad 5, which I'm posting here for any wanderers who find this thread looking for the solution.
Basically if you have run KiCad 4 on your computer and then installed KiCad 5, the libr... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | I would say "trivially, yes".
Yes, because music can be analyzed and is often created in ways that involve numbers and fundamentals of algebra (such as addition and multiplication), and once numbers become involved, and particularly when multiplication (and division) is involved, prime numbers become significant.
Tri... | YES! And it's a fascinating one.
The primes (>3) only ever occur at 6n+/-1 (next to a number divisible by six). This is because of the interaction between the products of the numbers 2 and 3. If you think of the number line as music in 6/8 time then the primes always occur on the second or last quaver of each bar. Th... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | YES! And it's a fascinating one.
The primes (>3) only ever occur at 6n+/-1 (next to a number divisible by six). This is because of the interaction between the products of the numbers 2 and 3. If you think of the number line as music in 6/8 time then the primes always occur on the second or last quaver of each bar. Th... | This is my answer (but it is not just a kind of Q-A (as I really didn't see this relationship before!)
Starting with the smallest primes:
They are **1,2,3,5,7,11** ...
That's what we have learnt in the primary school: **these numbers can only be divided by 1 and by themselves.**
the overtones, (harmonics) and the ... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | There is one observation with respect to primes. No prime power (except 0) is a power of any other prime. Thus no number of stacked fifths will be equal to any number of stacked octaves. (Taking a fifth to be a ratio of 3:2). Thus, any useful music over more than a few notes will need tempering.
"Pythagorean" tuning ... | YES! And it's a fascinating one.
The primes (>3) only ever occur at 6n+/-1 (next to a number divisible by six). This is because of the interaction between the products of the numbers 2 and 3. If you think of the number line as music in 6/8 time then the primes always occur on the second or last quaver of each bar. Th... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | I would say "trivially, yes".
Yes, because music can be analyzed and is often created in ways that involve numbers and fundamentals of algebra (such as addition and multiplication), and once numbers become involved, and particularly when multiplication (and division) is involved, prime numbers become significant.
Tri... | This is my answer (but it is not just a kind of Q-A (as I really didn't see this relationship before!)
Starting with the smallest primes:
They are **1,2,3,5,7,11** ...
That's what we have learnt in the primary school: **these numbers can only be divided by 1 and by themselves.**
the overtones, (harmonics) and the ... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | There is one observation with respect to primes. No prime power (except 0) is a power of any other prime. Thus no number of stacked fifths will be equal to any number of stacked octaves. (Taking a fifth to be a ratio of 3:2). Thus, any useful music over more than a few notes will need tempering.
"Pythagorean" tuning ... | I would say "trivially, yes".
Yes, because music can be analyzed and is often created in ways that involve numbers and fundamentals of algebra (such as addition and multiplication), and once numbers become involved, and particularly when multiplication (and division) is involved, prime numbers become significant.
Tri... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | I would say "trivially, yes".
Yes, because music can be analyzed and is often created in ways that involve numbers and fundamentals of algebra (such as addition and multiplication), and once numbers become involved, and particularly when multiplication (and division) is involved, prime numbers become significant.
Tri... | The era of equal temperament ushered in by Bach has rendered ratios such as 3:2 obsolete. Music of the past couple centuries that uses a 12-note scale changes the frequency of each ascending note by multiplying the current note's frequency by 2^(1/12) which we call the twelfth root of 2. It makes sense because that is ... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | There is one observation with respect to primes. No prime power (except 0) is a power of any other prime. Thus no number of stacked fifths will be equal to any number of stacked octaves. (Taking a fifth to be a ratio of 3:2). Thus, any useful music over more than a few notes will need tempering.
"Pythagorean" tuning ... | This is my answer (but it is not just a kind of Q-A (as I really didn't see this relationship before!)
Starting with the smallest primes:
They are **1,2,3,5,7,11** ...
That's what we have learnt in the primary school: **these numbers can only be divided by 1 and by themselves.**
the overtones, (harmonics) and the ... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | The era of equal temperament ushered in by Bach has rendered ratios such as 3:2 obsolete. Music of the past couple centuries that uses a 12-note scale changes the frequency of each ascending note by multiplying the current note's frequency by 2^(1/12) which we call the twelfth root of 2. It makes sense because that is ... | This is my answer (but it is not just a kind of Q-A (as I really didn't see this relationship before!)
Starting with the smallest primes:
They are **1,2,3,5,7,11** ...
That's what we have learnt in the primary school: **these numbers can only be divided by 1 and by themselves.**
the overtones, (harmonics) and the ... |
90,031 | Is there a relationship between prime numbers and the series of overtones and their frequencies?
I've found links to Euler's research about math and about music, and I got goose bumps when I found that here is a whole universe of correlation.
Can someone breakdown this theory for dummies like me?
<http://www.tonals... | 2019/09/23 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/90031",
"https://music.stackexchange.com",
"https://music.stackexchange.com/users/56219/"
] | There is one observation with respect to primes. No prime power (except 0) is a power of any other prime. Thus no number of stacked fifths will be equal to any number of stacked octaves. (Taking a fifth to be a ratio of 3:2). Thus, any useful music over more than a few notes will need tempering.
"Pythagorean" tuning ... | The era of equal temperament ushered in by Bach has rendered ratios such as 3:2 obsolete. Music of the past couple centuries that uses a 12-note scale changes the frequency of each ascending note by multiplying the current note's frequency by 2^(1/12) which we call the twelfth root of 2. It makes sense because that is ... |
19,422 | During meditation, how do you let go? I focus on my meditation object but thoughts come in and with them is an attachment to any particular thought. Is this okay, should i just keep my focus on the object and eventually it will float away?
Thank you again my friends. | 2017/02/24 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/19422",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | The way you deal with it depends on the type of meditation. But for beginners, whether you cultivate Samata or Vipassana does not make so much difference in that respect.
It is usually advised to beginners to emphasize the application of alertness. Alertness is like a spy: it is a mind that check where you find yourse... | DeusIIXII, I believe that as long as your intentions are honorable, based on serious desire and morality, you will be guided from within as to what to do next. There is no rush, you have all eternity to work this out. Time is not measured by revolutions by the earth around the sun, but time is a concept and doesn't rea... |
19,422 | During meditation, how do you let go? I focus on my meditation object but thoughts come in and with them is an attachment to any particular thought. Is this okay, should i just keep my focus on the object and eventually it will float away?
Thank you again my friends. | 2017/02/24 | [
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] | The way you deal with it depends on the type of meditation. But for beginners, whether you cultivate Samata or Vipassana does not make so much difference in that respect.
It is usually advised to beginners to emphasize the application of alertness. Alertness is like a spy: it is a mind that check where you find yourse... | For a simple answer to your question:
What I do in order to let go of a thought is to recognize it as a thought and then simply think, "Let it go," with all of my conscious effort.
I think this in an actual way, feel it, and then notice whatever my thoughts are going on about fall away as the result.
Then I think so... |
19,422 | During meditation, how do you let go? I focus on my meditation object but thoughts come in and with them is an attachment to any particular thought. Is this okay, should i just keep my focus on the object and eventually it will float away?
Thank you again my friends. | 2017/02/24 | [
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] | The way you deal with it depends on the type of meditation. But for beginners, whether you cultivate Samata or Vipassana does not make so much difference in that respect.
It is usually advised to beginners to emphasize the application of alertness. Alertness is like a spy: it is a mind that check where you find yourse... | The question itself, "how do I let go?" is a sort of koan: if someone could tell you how, it would be a contradiction! The issue is the "I" that must let go, its perspective has to change. It is like me asking, "how can I move *your* arm?"
When you see that the *me* is not yours (or you just forget it) then it happens... |
19,422 | During meditation, how do you let go? I focus on my meditation object but thoughts come in and with them is an attachment to any particular thought. Is this okay, should i just keep my focus on the object and eventually it will float away?
Thank you again my friends. | 2017/02/24 | [
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] | For me, letting go is practised by directly being vigilant of the mind itself (and thus having no intention of observing any other meditation object such as the breath).
The path to letting go is practised by being vigilant of the mind itself to ensure it is not grasping at anything, not desiring anything or not judgi... | DeusIIXII, I believe that as long as your intentions are honorable, based on serious desire and morality, you will be guided from within as to what to do next. There is no rush, you have all eternity to work this out. Time is not measured by revolutions by the earth around the sun, but time is a concept and doesn't rea... |
19,422 | During meditation, how do you let go? I focus on my meditation object but thoughts come in and with them is an attachment to any particular thought. Is this okay, should i just keep my focus on the object and eventually it will float away?
Thank you again my friends. | 2017/02/24 | [
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] | For me, letting go is practised by directly being vigilant of the mind itself (and thus having no intention of observing any other meditation object such as the breath).
The path to letting go is practised by being vigilant of the mind itself to ensure it is not grasping at anything, not desiring anything or not judgi... | For a simple answer to your question:
What I do in order to let go of a thought is to recognize it as a thought and then simply think, "Let it go," with all of my conscious effort.
I think this in an actual way, feel it, and then notice whatever my thoughts are going on about fall away as the result.
Then I think so... |
19,422 | During meditation, how do you let go? I focus on my meditation object but thoughts come in and with them is an attachment to any particular thought. Is this okay, should i just keep my focus on the object and eventually it will float away?
Thank you again my friends. | 2017/02/24 | [
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] | For me, letting go is practised by directly being vigilant of the mind itself (and thus having no intention of observing any other meditation object such as the breath).
The path to letting go is practised by being vigilant of the mind itself to ensure it is not grasping at anything, not desiring anything or not judgi... | The question itself, "how do I let go?" is a sort of koan: if someone could tell you how, it would be a contradiction! The issue is the "I" that must let go, its perspective has to change. It is like me asking, "how can I move *your* arm?"
When you see that the *me* is not yours (or you just forget it) then it happens... |
19,422 | During meditation, how do you let go? I focus on my meditation object but thoughts come in and with them is an attachment to any particular thought. Is this okay, should i just keep my focus on the object and eventually it will float away?
Thank you again my friends. | 2017/02/24 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/19422",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | DeusIIXII, I believe that as long as your intentions are honorable, based on serious desire and morality, you will be guided from within as to what to do next. There is no rush, you have all eternity to work this out. Time is not measured by revolutions by the earth around the sun, but time is a concept and doesn't rea... | The question itself, "how do I let go?" is a sort of koan: if someone could tell you how, it would be a contradiction! The issue is the "I" that must let go, its perspective has to change. It is like me asking, "how can I move *your* arm?"
When you see that the *me* is not yours (or you just forget it) then it happens... |
19,422 | During meditation, how do you let go? I focus on my meditation object but thoughts come in and with them is an attachment to any particular thought. Is this okay, should i just keep my focus on the object and eventually it will float away?
Thank you again my friends. | 2017/02/24 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/19422",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | For a simple answer to your question:
What I do in order to let go of a thought is to recognize it as a thought and then simply think, "Let it go," with all of my conscious effort.
I think this in an actual way, feel it, and then notice whatever my thoughts are going on about fall away as the result.
Then I think so... | The question itself, "how do I let go?" is a sort of koan: if someone could tell you how, it would be a contradiction! The issue is the "I" that must let go, its perspective has to change. It is like me asking, "how can I move *your* arm?"
When you see that the *me* is not yours (or you just forget it) then it happens... |
19,331 | See [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smm6WukI5ck) from 1:10. Bill Clinton says,
>
> "I continue to urge him to refrain from testing and I told them that I
> had done everything I could do to get other world leaders involved and
> both supporting him if he would refrain from testing and encouraging
> I... | 2017/05/29 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/19331",
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] | According to [UN Resolution 1172](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1172) on 6th June 1998, the UNSC condemned both India and Pakistans nuclear tests of 1998.
You are right however that India tested first, when they detonated the [Smiling Buddha/Pokhran-I](https://en.wikipedia.or... | This is a fundamentally flawed premise.
Bill Clinton, in Germany, on May 13, 1998, ***before*** Pakistan performed their own tests (quoted from Karl Inderfurth's Congressional testimony on May 13, 1998 regarding the India tests) -
>
> I think it is important that I make a comment about the nuclear tests by India. I... |
53,333,241 | I am not from a CS / software engineering background but recently I have started begin self studying on Flask web development with Python.
I am currently on the "Database" topic and upon doing further research on this topic on the internet, I have came across a few terminology, which are database, DBMS, database engin... | 2018/11/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/53333241",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10661325/"
] | A DBMS must always include a storage engine to play their role. That's modulo the in-memory-only systems that are deliberately designed to lose all data once switched off (and of which it might for that reason be considered questionable to call them 'DBMS' in the first place).
But a DBMS does more for a user than a me... | I would consider DBMS to refer to the software product as a whole - PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2 etc.
These are large, complex products, however. As is usual for complex software they are split into components, each with its own specific function and with well-defined interfaces between them. One component will deal with ... |
4,330,927 | When a bundle is updated (say to fix a bug), what happens to other bundles that are currently using the one being updated?
Say that there are two bundles service and dao. Say that classes in service bundle are using classes in dao bundle when I issue command to update dao layer. Will the class in service layer using d... | 2010/12/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4330927",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/528170/"
] | Bundles have 2 kind of dependencies:
* Services, and
* Connections between
class loaders, keyed by the package
names. Those connections are called
wires.
Services are easy to withdraw because that is intrinsic to their design. Wires are harder because they are intricately woven in your objects and those objects are ... | When a bundle is updated, a new revision (the bits of the bundle) is installed. If another bundle is wired to the prior revision of the updated bundle, that is, another bundle imported some package exported by the prior revision or another bundle required the bundle at the prior revision, then the OSGi framework will r... |
4,330,927 | When a bundle is updated (say to fix a bug), what happens to other bundles that are currently using the one being updated?
Say that there are two bundles service and dao. Say that classes in service bundle are using classes in dao bundle when I issue command to update dao layer. Will the class in service layer using d... | 2010/12/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4330927",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/528170/"
] | Bundles have 2 kind of dependencies:
* Services, and
* Connections between
class loaders, keyed by the package
names. Those connections are called
wires.
Services are easy to withdraw because that is intrinsic to their design. Wires are harder because they are intricately woven in your objects and those objects are ... | When you update a bundle, using the OSGi '***update***' command, it is most likely to have other dependent bundles that are relying on it and already capturing a set of loaded classes from the old version of this bundle. A situation that typically conforms to the problem you described in your question.
In order to av... |
384,051 | Should we close open applications before restarting a MacBook Pro with macOS Catalina? Or is it okay to be lazy and restart it without closing them? | 2020/03/10 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/384051",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/365231/"
] | Most applications from Apple, and some others, will save state and restart properly. Some will cause a pop-up saying "Application XYZ has canceled logout; quit and try again." (Not exact words.) Then if you're on "autopilot." you close the lid and when you next open it, it's still there.
To clarify that last confusin... | The Resume Feature, as far as I know, should still take into effect if you have the "Reopen Windows When logging back in" option check-marked in the restart window. It's the feature that reopens all windows and apps that you had open in your last session before you logged out and restarted your computer. So, yes it sho... |
16,255 | The gravity wave detections (GW150914 and GW151226) have both been ambiguous in their exact position, the LIGO papers ([GW150914](https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/ligo20160211b) and [GW151226](http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103)) give no precise information about the location of the origin... | 2016/06/16 | [
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] | ### Short answer
Three detectors would improve the ability to pinpoint the direction of the gravitational waves drastically.
### Long answer
Finding the direction of the source of a gravitational wave, as with most things in science, is harder than it might initially seem. I'd like to point out that the process used... | Firstly the skymap for the GW150914 event covers some 600 square degrees, of which the Large Magellanic cloud is only a small fraction of that, and furthermore the estimated distance to this merger is around 400Mpc, orders of magnitude larger than the distance to the LMC (~50kpc) [[source]](https://losc.ligo.org/s/even... |
16,255 | The gravity wave detections (GW150914 and GW151226) have both been ambiguous in their exact position, the LIGO papers ([GW150914](https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/ligo20160211b) and [GW151226](http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103)) give no precise information about the location of the origin... | 2016/06/16 | [
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] | ### Short answer
Three detectors would improve the ability to pinpoint the direction of the gravitational waves drastically.
### Long answer
Finding the direction of the source of a gravitational wave, as with most things in science, is harder than it might initially seem. I'd like to point out that the process used... | In order to pinpoint the original position of gravitational waves, you need more than 1 interferometer. These interferometers will detect gravitational waves at different timing. If we know the exact locations of our interferometers and the timming at which they pick up the waves, we can work out the exact location of ... |
382,608 | I run two external displays off my macbook pro 16" but when I'm not working, I much prefer disconnecting from them and using my MBP as my sole screen. Constantly disconnecting them from the ports is a pain in the butt (since i have one plugged into each side of the computer) and I fear it will wear on the jacks. I figu... | 2020/02/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/382608",
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] | One option is to use [SwtichResX](http://www.madrau.com/srx_download/download.html)
>
> SwitchResX is the most advanced tool for Apple computers to take
> control of any screen connected to the Mac. No matter whether a
> MacBook Screen, an external monitor, a Retina display, a TV set or a
> beamer: SwitchResX can... | Yeah, this is annoying. I use my external monitor for meetings, but otherwise prefer just the macbook screen. The mouse goes off the screen, and notifications go to the turned-off monitor.
The best I've come up with is making it easy to unplug the monitor with this outlet switch: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07... |
382,608 | I run two external displays off my macbook pro 16" but when I'm not working, I much prefer disconnecting from them and using my MBP as my sole screen. Constantly disconnecting them from the ports is a pain in the butt (since i have one plugged into each side of the computer) and I fear it will wear on the jacks. I figu... | 2020/02/20 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/382608",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/363049/"
] | One option is to use [SwtichResX](http://www.madrau.com/srx_download/download.html)
>
> SwitchResX is the most advanced tool for Apple computers to take
> control of any screen connected to the Mac. No matter whether a
> MacBook Screen, an external monitor, a Retina display, a TV set or a
> beamer: SwitchResX can... | With actual fork to Disable Monitor <https://github.com/epalzeolithe/DisableMonitor-3.0> |
68,698 | I've generated some 2nd order SH light-probes from cube-maps in my scene and I was surprised how strong artifacts are around the back of the dominant lights. I switched to a Lambert source plus ambient and got a result just like in the image below. Stupid SH Tricks (<http://www.ppsloan.org/publications/StupidSH36.pdf>)... | 2014/01/11 | [
"https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/68698",
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] | After skimming through a (beautiful) [paper](http://limbicsoft.com/volker/prosem_paper.pdf) I found a small explaination (at page 12) of a convolution in the sh domain.
Hope that helps :) | Hmmm. With regular Fourier transforms, window functions like the [Hanning window](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function#Hann_.28Hanning.29_window) are used to isolate a snippet of a signal (such as a 128-sample snippet out of a continuous audio signal for instance). Multiplying the snippet by a window function b... |
371,762 | I have seen this question and do not believe this to be a duplicate [What software models are appropriate for daily builds and continuous integration?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/160277/what-software-models-are-appropriate-for-daily-builds-and-continuous-integration) .
I don't fully unders... | 2018/05/29 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/371762",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/204858/"
] | I work on a very large project with dozens of software engineers, dozens of QA engineers, etc. Our codebase is several million lines of code. We have nightly builds and we have continuous builds. They serve different purposes:
1. Nightly builds are builds from scratch. The build server checks out the code and builds i... | I used to have a similar view. Now I think that there should be a daily build in addition to per-commit builds.
1. Extra Tasks: you can add extra tasks onto your cron build that you would not want on your per-commit build. For example, your cron build can scan dependencies for upgrades and auto-magically create a pull... |
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