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165,915 | I applied for a job and during the various stages of the job interview the hiring person told me that they will get back to me in a certain amount of time. However, after every round of the interview the hiring person overstepped that limit. One week turned into two, two weeks turned into five. **And this happened afte... | 2020/10/13 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/165915",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/120871/"
] | >
> Would you consider an offer from a company which always took more time
> to get back to you after every single round of the interview?
>
>
>
I would consider an offer from a company no matter how much time it took to get back to me. In the big scheme of things, that time is a sunk cost and isn't relevant to th... | Yes and no.
Yes since in normal times it would be obvious that you should get a proper estimate. No since hiring in Corona times may be more complicated and subject ton constantly changing rules (e.g. is there anybody on furlough who could do the work, prove to your boss that you checked, prove to working council that... |
165,915 | I applied for a job and during the various stages of the job interview the hiring person told me that they will get back to me in a certain amount of time. However, after every round of the interview the hiring person overstepped that limit. One week turned into two, two weeks turned into five. **And this happened afte... | 2020/10/13 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/165915",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/120871/"
] | So there are a number of things to consider here.
### Hiring takes longer than people think
Companies underestimating how long it will take to get back to a job candidate is far from rare. It's arguably more common than the opposite. *A lot* of people are involved in a hiring process and they are very often quite bus... | I would say that unless you apply for a job, the quality of their HR is not that important. Look for red flags with the people you are working with, they are more important. You can get an excellent job in a company with rubbish HR. |
165,915 | I applied for a job and during the various stages of the job interview the hiring person told me that they will get back to me in a certain amount of time. However, after every round of the interview the hiring person overstepped that limit. One week turned into two, two weeks turned into five. **And this happened afte... | 2020/10/13 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/165915",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/120871/"
] | So there are a number of things to consider here.
### Hiring takes longer than people think
Companies underestimating how long it will take to get back to a job candidate is far from rare. It's arguably more common than the opposite. *A lot* of people are involved in a hiring process and they are very often quite bus... | Yes and no.
Yes since in normal times it would be obvious that you should get a proper estimate. No since hiring in Corona times may be more complicated and subject ton constantly changing rules (e.g. is there anybody on furlough who could do the work, prove to your boss that you checked, prove to working council that... |
165,915 | I applied for a job and during the various stages of the job interview the hiring person told me that they will get back to me in a certain amount of time. However, after every round of the interview the hiring person overstepped that limit. One week turned into two, two weeks turned into five. **And this happened afte... | 2020/10/13 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/165915",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/120871/"
] | Yes and no.
Yes since in normal times it would be obvious that you should get a proper estimate. No since hiring in Corona times may be more complicated and subject ton constantly changing rules (e.g. is there anybody on furlough who could do the work, prove to your boss that you checked, prove to working council that... | I would say that unless you apply for a job, the quality of their HR is not that important. Look for red flags with the people you are working with, they are more important. You can get an excellent job in a company with rubbish HR. |
6,233,540 | Are there any client-side validation gems similar to client\_side\_validations (https://github.com/bcardarella/client\_side\_validations) for Rails 2.x? | 2011/06/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6233540",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/103709/"
] | I am actually in the process of backporting the current ClientSideValidations gem to Rails 2.x
<https://github.com/bcardarella/client_side_validations-rails_2>
It's not ready for public consumption yet, but you might want to keep an eye on it. It will inherit from the current gem and add the necessary functionality t... | Here is a project for [client side validations for rails 2](https://github.com/dnclabs/client_side_validations), it seems to be the same project that the one you refer but it was left in order to give full functionality to rails 3. There is also an [example for rails 2](https://github.com/dnclabs/client_side_validation... |
2,940,599 | In Eclipse, what is a "Package" explained in .NET terms? | 2010/05/30 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2940599",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/172861/"
] | A package in java is most comparable to a namespace in .NET.
EDIT:
As pointed out by R0MANARMY, in Java the folder structure & where classes are dictate which package they belong to. In .NET classes can be marked as belonging to any namespace regardless of the folder they are in. | A Java package is something like a namespace in .NET |
140,673 | I'm to test a programming idea I have in Blender. I need to combine multiple cubes. I want to create lots of duplicate cubes, and then delete all faces that are doubled.
I know there is the remove double faces, but that doesn't do what I want. It leaves a single face where two faces were.
[![Blender two cubes](http... | 2019/05/15 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/140673",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/74277/"
] | * 'Remove Doubles' (that refers to vertices, actually, not faces) as you already have..
* In the header *Select* menu: *Select All by Trait* > *Interior Faces*
* `X` > *Delete Faces* | To do that, turn on all vertex visibility,
Select all the Vertex at the point of contact, then look for "Loop Tool" under the editing panel in the "Tool Shelf"
Use either "Bridge" or "Loft" in the "Loop Tool" option.
It will join them together |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | **Company vs Design Bureau**
It's important to distinguish between a company and a design bureau. Organisations such as MiG (Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau), Yakolev (JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau), Tupolev (OKB-156 or Tupolev Design Bureau) and Sukhoi (OKB-51 / Sukhoi Design Bureau) where, as the names suggest,... | Ryszard Kapuscinski in "*Imperium*", makes the point that often the centrally-planned COMECON economies like the USSR had *more* competing companies, not *fewer*, as they company with the inferior products would not go bankrupt.
The example he gave was televisions, at the time, a high-tech, prestige product. Director... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | MiG, Sukhoi, Tupolev, Yakovlev, Ilyushin, Mil, Kamov, Beriev, Antonov were design bureaus, not manufacturers. It was totally common if a certain factory would produce planes of Tupolev and Ilyushin designs at the same time.
Why several design bureaus? Possibly because of different personalities and methods of the chi... | There is no difference between central planning and capitalism. You can see an overview here:
<http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/stalinmodel.htm>
Each firm in the Soviet economy resembled a capitalist firm, had to sell products, and bought intermediate goods and labor on the market. Although there were technically ... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | I can't speak to the specifics of the Soviet Union, but I want to address the opening assumption of the question.
>
> Generally, Communism believed in economic central planning, with each field being serviced by one "company" (to avoid waste).
>
>
>
This is untrue of (or at least unnecessary for) both communism a... | Let's put it simply, detailed answers have already been posted. Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG), Sukhoi (Su), Tupolev (Tu), Yakolev (Yak), Petlyakov (Pe), Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov (LaGG) and Ilyshin (Il), the most notable ones, were all design bureaus or teams. All manufacturing was done by state factories (same applies to sma... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | I'll leave the airplane manufacturers and Soviet Union but I think It will be stil valid. So let's move a bit western and southern from moscow to Czechslovak Socialistic Republic. It was part of [Comecon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comecon) and obeyed the orders from the Kremlin.
There were many factories competing... | There is no difference between central planning and capitalism. You can see an overview here:
<http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/stalinmodel.htm>
Each firm in the Soviet economy resembled a capitalist firm, had to sell products, and bought intermediate goods and labor on the market. Although there were technically ... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | I can't speak to the specifics of the Soviet Union, but I want to address the opening assumption of the question.
>
> Generally, Communism believed in economic central planning, with each field being serviced by one "company" (to avoid waste).
>
>
>
This is untrue of (or at least unnecessary for) both communism a... | I'll leave the airplane manufacturers and Soviet Union but I think It will be stil valid. So let's move a bit western and southern from moscow to Czechslovak Socialistic Republic. It was part of [Comecon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comecon) and obeyed the orders from the Kremlin.
There were many factories competing... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | I'll leave the airplane manufacturers and Soviet Union but I think It will be stil valid. So let's move a bit western and southern from moscow to Czechslovak Socialistic Republic. It was part of [Comecon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comecon) and obeyed the orders from the Kremlin.
There were many factories competing... | Ryszard Kapuscinski in "*Imperium*", makes the point that often the centrally-planned COMECON economies like the USSR had *more* competing companies, not *fewer*, as they company with the inferior products would not go bankrupt.
The example he gave was televisions, at the time, a high-tech, prestige product. Director... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | I can't speak to the specifics of the Soviet Union, but I want to address the opening assumption of the question.
>
> Generally, Communism believed in economic central planning, with each field being serviced by one "company" (to avoid waste).
>
>
>
This is untrue of (or at least unnecessary for) both communism a... | Ryszard Kapuscinski in "*Imperium*", makes the point that often the centrally-planned COMECON economies like the USSR had *more* competing companies, not *fewer*, as they company with the inferior products would not go bankrupt.
The example he gave was televisions, at the time, a high-tech, prestige product. Director... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | Economy was indeed centralized but not absolutely. This applies not only to airplanes but to cars and to many other items. There were usually more than one manufacturer.
Speaking of the airplanes one has to distinguish the plants and design bureaus. There were really many airplane designers, and there was a severe co... | The reason for it is that "manufacturing airplanes" is misleading in terms of suggesting that it's like uniform activity regardless of plane category. It's not, manufacturing a bomber might very well require a different experience, skillset and tooling than manufacturing a fighter.
This is counter-intuitive, but joint... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | **Company vs Design Bureau**
It's important to distinguish between a company and a design bureau. Organisations such as MiG (Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau), Yakolev (JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau), Tupolev (OKB-156 or Tupolev Design Bureau) and Sukhoi (OKB-51 / Sukhoi Design Bureau) where, as the names suggest,... | Economy was indeed centralized but not absolutely. This applies not only to airplanes but to cars and to many other items. There were usually more than one manufacturer.
Speaking of the airplanes one has to distinguish the plants and design bureaus. There were really many airplane designers, and there was a severe co... |
32,732 | Has there ever a period in history when people were nice to each other and not killing each other?
In other words, since humans arrived, have the inhabitants of this planet ever enjoyed ***world peace***?
To answer this, we first have to define *period*. Let's define *period* as a minimum of 50 years. If there are an... | 2016/09/12 | [
"https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32732",
"https://history.stackexchange.com",
"https://history.stackexchange.com/users/16595/"
] | **Company vs Design Bureau**
It's important to distinguish between a company and a design bureau. Organisations such as MiG (Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau), Yakolev (JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau), Tupolev (OKB-156 or Tupolev Design Bureau) and Sukhoi (OKB-51 / Sukhoi Design Bureau) where, as the names suggest,... | hmm,
The country here is not really important. This happens in USA and other countries that want to support aircraft builders.
From what I remember from MIG / Sukhov / Illushin documentaries, they always competed between each other.
BUT, MIG and SU from 60s until now started to make DIFFERENT types of fighters made... |
1,266,084 | That has reg expression checks for phone, zip, email.
Comparison checks for email and password.
Bonus: masking and forcing letters and numbers only options.
I would like one that works well with this:
**<http://www.malsup.com/jquery/form/>**
This is a multistage sign-up and would work when step 1 is complete(the form... | 2009/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1266084",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/312842/"
] | The best validation plugin is Jorns [here](http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/). Coupled with the [metadata](http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Metadata) plugin it provides a powerful clientside validation framework.
Multipart form demo [here](http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/multipart... | You can try bValidator: <http://code.google.com/p/bvalidator/> |
1,266,084 | That has reg expression checks for phone, zip, email.
Comparison checks for email and password.
Bonus: masking and forcing letters and numbers only options.
I would like one that works well with this:
**<http://www.malsup.com/jquery/form/>**
This is a multistage sign-up and would work when step 1 is complete(the form... | 2009/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1266084",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/312842/"
] | The best validation plugin is Jorns [here](http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/). Coupled with the [metadata](http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Metadata) plugin it provides a powerful clientside validation framework.
Multipart form demo [here](http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/multipart... | I want my error messages to float independently of my HTML forms. Here's another validation alternative that looks promising:
<https://github.com/posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine> |
1,266,084 | That has reg expression checks for phone, zip, email.
Comparison checks for email and password.
Bonus: masking and forcing letters and numbers only options.
I would like one that works well with this:
**<http://www.malsup.com/jquery/form/>**
This is a multistage sign-up and would work when step 1 is complete(the form... | 2009/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1266084",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/312842/"
] | The best validation plugin is Jorns [here](http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/). Coupled with the [metadata](http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Metadata) plugin it provides a powerful clientside validation framework.
Multipart form demo [here](http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/multipart... | I like jQuery tools validator, it uses html 5 input types, support for server validation and a lot of other resources. <http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/validator/index.html> |
1,266,084 | That has reg expression checks for phone, zip, email.
Comparison checks for email and password.
Bonus: masking and forcing letters and numbers only options.
I would like one that works well with this:
**<http://www.malsup.com/jquery/form/>**
This is a multistage sign-up and would work when step 1 is complete(the form... | 2009/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1266084",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/312842/"
] | You can try bValidator: <http://code.google.com/p/bvalidator/> | I like jQuery tools validator, it uses html 5 input types, support for server validation and a lot of other resources. <http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/validator/index.html> |
1,266,084 | That has reg expression checks for phone, zip, email.
Comparison checks for email and password.
Bonus: masking and forcing letters and numbers only options.
I would like one that works well with this:
**<http://www.malsup.com/jquery/form/>**
This is a multistage sign-up and would work when step 1 is complete(the form... | 2009/08/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1266084",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/312842/"
] | I want my error messages to float independently of my HTML forms. Here's another validation alternative that looks promising:
<https://github.com/posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine> | I like jQuery tools validator, it uses html 5 input types, support for server validation and a lot of other resources. <http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/validator/index.html> |
22,029 | There has been a very toxic person to the community of a multiplayer Minecraft server I'm a moderator on (I'll call them Mr Toxic from now on). Apart from using really irritating cheats (the cheats that Mr Toxic used really broke the game for other users) they have caused shitstorms on a multitude of different chats an... | 2019/06/11 | [
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/22029",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com",
"https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users/24560/"
] | In cases where you have to tell someone things that they probably don't want to hear, these are the principles that I generally try to abide by, and they have served me well.
* Be clear but not unkind. Try not to leave the door open for her to misinterpret the situation.
* Avoid lying or making excessive or elaborate ... | I've never been in your position with someone that I previously had a physical relationship with, but I have had the need in the past to make it clear to someone that when they are staying over, sex is not on the table. The way I have done this is to mention the sleeping arrangements when telling them they can stay ove... |
14,676 | This [question](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/358641/are-there-any-working-item-duplication-glitches-on-a-minecraft-1-14-4-server-run) asked about how to do item duplication in Minecraft, which on most servers would probably be considered cheating. But is a blanket ban on all exploits in multiplayer games ... | 2019/10/29 | [
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14676",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/223992/"
] | It seems to me that there are two main factors when it comes to whether a glitch/bug/cheat/exploit/etc is acceptable or not.
1. What is the *counterplay*? If it's just something else that other players can watch out for and reasonably react to, that seems fine. If there's nothing that other players can do about it, or... | In my opinion, the question "What is a glitch and what is a cheat?" is not as important as "What sorts of glitches should we support in questions?", but I will give my opinion on both these topics.
What is the line between a glitch and a cheat?
==============================================
Naively, a cheat is someth... |
73,895 | Using Vinagre on Ubuntu 11.10, when I RDC into a remote Windows XP machine, I only get a 800x600 resolution on the remote display. I can't increase it on the Windows machine, it's stuck at 800x600. Any way to customise?
If I use Terminal Server Client on Ubuntu instead of Vinagre, I can adjust the res. Any way to fix ... | 2011/10/30 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/73895",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/14396/"
] | I couldn't figure it out either. I'm now using remmina based on this post: <http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=3411>
remmina has more (or easier to find) settings, right when you set up the connection.
-Amir | Remmina → Vinagre, if only because it allows different RDP resolutions, and it includes a feature to import `tsclient` config files. |
18,362 | We'd like to log all transactional emails within a customers Salesforce account. I'm looking at things like Mandrill (as marketing is already using Mailchimp) and SendGrid.
Before jumping into this more and using Mandrill simply because we have our foot half in there already, does anyone have any experience with Sales... | 2013/10/18 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/18362",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/4155/"
] | There are definitely a myriad of options. I'm not quite as familiar with pricing, but ExactTarget did just get purchased by Salesforce, and provides an AppExchange app to keep track of your send results in Salesforce.
I have worked with Mailchimp and Mandrill with regards to Salesforce. While I think Mailchimp has rel... | We've been using mandrill in production and have been very happy with it. We use a custom object and webhooks. Works great. Let me know if you need tips on implementing. It took a fair amount of custom apex. |
18,362 | We'd like to log all transactional emails within a customers Salesforce account. I'm looking at things like Mandrill (as marketing is already using Mailchimp) and SendGrid.
Before jumping into this more and using Mandrill simply because we have our foot half in there already, does anyone have any experience with Sales... | 2013/10/18 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/18362",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/4155/"
] | There are definitely a myriad of options. I'm not quite as familiar with pricing, but ExactTarget did just get purchased by Salesforce, and provides an AppExchange app to keep track of your send results in Salesforce.
I have worked with Mailchimp and Mandrill with regards to Salesforce. While I think Mailchimp has rel... | Since no one has yet weighed in with a sendgrid opinion, I thought I'd throw in my 2c.
There is already a sendgrid integration package that you can purchase called mass mailer. [MassMailer AppExchange Link](https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000005uxj5EAA)
This makes it pretty trivial to ... |
18,362 | We'd like to log all transactional emails within a customers Salesforce account. I'm looking at things like Mandrill (as marketing is already using Mailchimp) and SendGrid.
Before jumping into this more and using Mandrill simply because we have our foot half in there already, does anyone have any experience with Sales... | 2013/10/18 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/18362",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/4155/"
] | Since no one has yet weighed in with a sendgrid opinion, I thought I'd throw in my 2c.
There is already a sendgrid integration package that you can purchase called mass mailer. [MassMailer AppExchange Link](https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000005uxj5EAA)
This makes it pretty trivial to ... | We've been using mandrill in production and have been very happy with it. We use a custom object and webhooks. Works great. Let me know if you need tips on implementing. It took a fair amount of custom apex. |
42,516 | I have a quest that requires me to collect 10 "Dwarven Cogs". However, I've yet to find such a thing in my adventures.
To be clear, I've covered a good bit of territory here already. I've got over 70 hours of gameplay logged already, am now at level 28, and have discovered countless dozens of locations all over the ma... | 2011/12/19 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/42516",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6274/"
] | In The Elder Scrolls franchise, Dwarves are an extinct sub-race of elves (the species of which is collectively known as "mer").
So "Dwarf" is to "Dwemer" just the same as "Dark Elf" is to "Dunmer" or "Wood Elf" is to "Bosmer".
So if someone told you to collect "Dwarven Cogs", they really meant for you to collect "Dw... | If you are talking about the quest from [Arniel Gane](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Arniel%27s_Endeavor_%28A%29), yes Dwarven Cogs are Dwemer Cogs. |
39,249 | The opposite of a budget deficit is a budget surplus
But what is the opposite of public debt?
Instead of govt/state being in debt, having the government have extra money to keep or to lend it to banks or companies.
Say the extra money are kept Instead of being lent. What is the name of such a surplus?
It would be th... | 2020/08/17 | [
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/39249",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com",
"https://economics.stackexchange.com/users/5161/"
] | Such government would be called net lender. However, note that for a country to be net lender it is not required that debt is zero, only that the amount it is lending is higher than its liabilities (debt). A country can chose to have some level of debt even if it is not necessary for it to have it because its revenues ... | The opposite of liabiliteis, i.e. debt and own equity, is assets. The net of outstanding financial assets and liabilities is by definition zero as one party's financial asset is by definition the counterparty's debt. The net of libilities and assets in a balance sheet is also by definition zero. A government can keep a... |
389,549 | I've got an older iMac running macOs Mojave. It is terribly slow and I am interested to see if we can improve the performance. Can you recommend steps to consider to improve the performance?
The performance issues I see impact the operating system and all applications. It's not specific to a single app.
When viewing... | 2020/04/26 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/389549",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/373153/"
] | The only two things you can realistically do are change the HD to an SSD & upgrade the RAM.
Some iMacs have GPUs that can be upgraded [slightly] but that's not really going to gain you much.
A 1TB SSD can be bought these days for the price your 1TB HD would have cost back then, approx $£€ 100.
According to [Everym... | There are basically two things you can do:
* Get more RAM. There are two free slots, so adding 2x4 GB is easy and having 16 GB instead of 8 GB will make a difference
* [Replace the drive](https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/imac-aluminum-tapered-edge-faq/how-to-upgrade-imac-hard-drive-aluminum-2012-2013.html) with... |
389,549 | I've got an older iMac running macOs Mojave. It is terribly slow and I am interested to see if we can improve the performance. Can you recommend steps to consider to improve the performance?
The performance issues I see impact the operating system and all applications. It's not specific to a single app.
When viewing... | 2020/04/26 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/389549",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/373153/"
] | The only two things you can realistically do are change the HD to an SSD & upgrade the RAM.
Some iMacs have GPUs that can be upgraded [slightly] but that's not really going to gain you much.
A 1TB SSD can be bought these days for the price your 1TB HD would have cost back then, approx $£€ 100.
According to [Everym... | 1. Replace the hard drive with an SSD. I recommend an SSD of at least 1 TB again. Not sure about if this is possible with your iMac either but I had my original 1 TB drive left inside my mid-2011 27” iMac. I am now happily using both drives. My iMac boots from the SSD which has the OS and the programs while my pics, vi... |
389,549 | I've got an older iMac running macOs Mojave. It is terribly slow and I am interested to see if we can improve the performance. Can you recommend steps to consider to improve the performance?
The performance issues I see impact the operating system and all applications. It's not specific to a single app.
When viewing... | 2020/04/26 | [
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/389549",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com",
"https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/373153/"
] | There are basically two things you can do:
* Get more RAM. There are two free slots, so adding 2x4 GB is easy and having 16 GB instead of 8 GB will make a difference
* [Replace the drive](https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/imac-aluminum-tapered-edge-faq/how-to-upgrade-imac-hard-drive-aluminum-2012-2013.html) with... | 1. Replace the hard drive with an SSD. I recommend an SSD of at least 1 TB again. Not sure about if this is possible with your iMac either but I had my original 1 TB drive left inside my mid-2011 27” iMac. I am now happily using both drives. My iMac boots from the SSD which has the OS and the programs while my pics, vi... |
200,964 | I have been going everywhere for some tips on Pokemon ORAS and everyone is saying that Pokemon GTS is unsafe.
I want to know why because I've been thinking of putting up Shiny Pokemon, and I don't want anything to happen to them (except a person taking the shiny and giving me a good Pokemon!) | 2015/01/08 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/200964",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/99025/"
] | GTS is **very** simplistic in how you can request Pokemon, the only things that you can specifically restrict are:
* Pokemon Gender (if the Pokemon you are requesting has one)
* Pokemon Level (you can request that a Pokemon be within a certain 10-level range, but not 'Levels > 50' or 'Level 100 only' etc.
Thus stuff ... | Gts trading is not bad you cannot get cheated. If you are trying to get Mew you cannot trade it but it is on the game. If you wanted to trade a higher leveled shiny Pokemon put the setting to 91 or higher because some people will give it to you within like 10 minutes or so.
I traded my groudon level 48 for a level 98 ... |
6,403,813 | What are the differences between NowJS and Pusher? | 2011/06/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6403813",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/435951/"
] | NowJS is currently Node.js-only, even though you can use it with other platforms like Rails with simple requests between the two server stacks.
Pusher can be used on a variety of platforms.
NowJS is free, while Pusher is not.
Pusher is a cloud service, where they host the servers for you. NowJS, and their enterprise ... | There are naturally lots of differences, but mainly:
Pusher is a framework that can be used with several platforms (Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, and lots more) and uses a centralized server at pusher.com with your account that handles the Comet-technology stack.
NowJS is all node and runs on your own server. |
6,403,813 | What are the differences between NowJS and Pusher? | 2011/06/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6403813",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/435951/"
] | As an addendum, here's RMSN - a drop in replacement for Pusher that I've written using NowJS.
<https://github.com/leppert/RMSN> | There are naturally lots of differences, but mainly:
Pusher is a framework that can be used with several platforms (Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, and lots more) and uses a centralized server at pusher.com with your account that handles the Comet-technology stack.
NowJS is all node and runs on your own server. |
6,403,813 | What are the differences between NowJS and Pusher? | 2011/06/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6403813",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/435951/"
] | NowJS is currently Node.js-only, even though you can use it with other platforms like Rails with simple requests between the two server stacks.
Pusher can be used on a variety of platforms.
NowJS is free, while Pusher is not.
Pusher is a cloud service, where they host the servers for you. NowJS, and their enterprise ... | As an addendum, here's RMSN - a drop in replacement for Pusher that I've written using NowJS.
<https://github.com/leppert/RMSN> |
410,828 | I'm hoping to restore a backup from SQL Server 2008 into a Sql Server 2005 instance. Is there a way to have Sql 2008 back up in a format that 2005 will understand? | 2012/07/24 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/410828",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66848/"
] | Short answer:
No
--
You cannot restore to a lower major version of SQL Server.
You can however [Generate Scripts](http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/29/sql-server-2008-copy-database-with-data-generate-t-sql-for-inserting-data-from-one-table-to-another-table/) from your database for SQL Server 2005, just choose to... | No, the formats are incompatible. In order to go backward you will need to script out your database and create it via script in the older version.
Note that you could run into incompatabilities due to new features and datatypes in SQL 2008 that weren't available in 2005. |
410,828 | I'm hoping to restore a backup from SQL Server 2008 into a Sql Server 2005 instance. Is there a way to have Sql 2008 back up in a format that 2005 will understand? | 2012/07/24 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/410828",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66848/"
] | No, the formats are incompatible. In order to go backward you will need to script out your database and create it via script in the older version.
Note that you could run into incompatabilities due to new features and datatypes in SQL 2008 that weren't available in 2005. | You can use a tool like Talend to migrate your tables. It has a GUI interface and can work with SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 and is OSS/Free
<http://www.talend.com> |
410,828 | I'm hoping to restore a backup from SQL Server 2008 into a Sql Server 2005 instance. Is there a way to have Sql 2008 back up in a format that 2005 will understand? | 2012/07/24 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/410828",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66848/"
] | Short answer:
No
--
You cannot restore to a lower major version of SQL Server.
You can however [Generate Scripts](http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/07/29/sql-server-2008-copy-database-with-data-generate-t-sql-for-inserting-data-from-one-table-to-another-table/) from your database for SQL Server 2005, just choose to... | You can use a tool like Talend to migrate your tables. It has a GUI interface and can work with SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 and is OSS/Free
<http://www.talend.com> |
129,968 | My coworker is ruining what's otherwise a great job. I love all my other coworkers and the benefits are great, but this guy is incredibly offensive and rude. Here's some highlights:
* He'll make comments about my body, like saying that he likes that my shirt is low-cut or that I have "nice forearms".
* He tries to sta... | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129968",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Every time he starts talking to you in a way that is offensive, shut him down.
If he makes a comment about your body or clothes: "Please don't comment on my body."
If he starts talking politics: "I would rather not hear political talk at work, so please stop."
If he starts putting down people based on race: "Please ... | Is your coworker autistic? If so, does HR know?
If so, then you need to tread lightly, as you could get an ADA action against you if you are not careful.
If you tell him to not do a specific thing, and he stops, then does something else similar, then he's doing **EXACTLY** what you are telling him.
Full disclosure, ... |
129,968 | My coworker is ruining what's otherwise a great job. I love all my other coworkers and the benefits are great, but this guy is incredibly offensive and rude. Here's some highlights:
* He'll make comments about my body, like saying that he likes that my shirt is low-cut or that I have "nice forearms".
* He tries to sta... | 2019/02/22 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/129968",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Every time he starts talking to you in a way that is offensive, shut him down.
If he makes a comment about your body or clothes: "Please don't comment on my body."
If he starts talking politics: "I would rather not hear political talk at work, so please stop."
If he starts putting down people based on race: "Please ... | Like all the above answers have said, yes, you should strictly tell him to stop making personal comments about you, you don't like him interrupting in meetings and when he makes racist comments.
Any sane person will understand and will respect your preferences and opinion. If the behaviour still continues it is a red ... |
6,868 | I was reading some clickbait "cleaning hacks" article, and it mentioned cleaning a mattress by using vodka in a spray bottle, then leaving it to air dry.
Is this actually effective? If so, I'd rather use something with even more alcohol, like everclear (190 proof).
Are there any other more effective ways to clean a m... | 2015/05/05 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/6868",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/4785/"
] | The idea of using alcohol is that the alcohol will evaporate quickly. So the more alcohol content will help but you need careful about the smell.
This might help
[Wiki - Clean a Mattress](http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-a-Mattress) | If you have a steam cleaner (for cleaning bathrooms/ovens etc) they are ideal for also cleaning a mattress as long as you can air it out afterwards to allow it to dry.
Simply move it over the surface of the mattress, the steam will kill any organics within the mattress and the water will cause dirt to wash away/lift o... |
6,868 | I was reading some clickbait "cleaning hacks" article, and it mentioned cleaning a mattress by using vodka in a spray bottle, then leaving it to air dry.
Is this actually effective? If so, I'd rather use something with even more alcohol, like everclear (190 proof).
Are there any other more effective ways to clean a m... | 2015/05/05 | [
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/6868",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com",
"https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/4785/"
] | Alcohol solutions are used for removal of living tissue and oils. The ideal blend is 70% alcohol to 30% water. The alcohol damages the cell wall, and the water causes the living cell to rupture.
The best solution is prevention, or a sacrificial top to the mattress. A separate layer of high density foam at the top of t... | If you have a steam cleaner (for cleaning bathrooms/ovens etc) they are ideal for also cleaning a mattress as long as you can air it out afterwards to allow it to dry.
Simply move it over the surface of the mattress, the steam will kill any organics within the mattress and the water will cause dirt to wash away/lift o... |
13,227 | In 2012, when the first incarnation of Astronomy SE closed, the community at Physics SE felt compelled to give a home to astronomy questions and overwhelmingly [voted](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1197/75633) to expand the scope of the site.
Not long after, however, Astronomy SE [was "reopened"](https://ph... | 2020/11/24 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13227",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/75633/"
] | Both of the existing answers seem to be based on a mischaracterization of how migration and off-topic closures are related, particularly with things like
>
> I would like to see Astronomy SE added to the list of options to migrate a question to, but not to make questions like this completely off-topic here. [...] I d... | >
> Is it time to rethink that decision a bit, and make off topic here questions about technical astronomical topics such as observation and equipment?
>
>
>
I would like to see Astronomy SE added to the list of options to migrate a question to, but not to make questions like this completely off-topic here.
This ... |
13,227 | In 2012, when the first incarnation of Astronomy SE closed, the community at Physics SE felt compelled to give a home to astronomy questions and overwhelmingly [voted](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1197/75633) to expand the scope of the site.
Not long after, however, Astronomy SE [was "reopened"](https://ph... | 2020/11/24 | [
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13227",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/75633/"
] | Both of the existing answers seem to be based on a mischaracterization of how migration and off-topic closures are related, particularly with things like
>
> I would like to see Astronomy SE added to the list of options to migrate a question to, but not to make questions like this completely off-topic here. [...] I d... | Yes, I think it is. But I would prefer to migrate them rather than say they were off-topic.
I think there is a reasonably clear distinction between questions about astrophysics and questions about astronomy.
I do agree that questions about astronomy would be better to migrate to Astronomy SE.
Maybe the distinction h... |
7,378 | I am underweight and only able to do 3 pushups at best. I am wondering what I should focus on: getting stronger or gaining weight? | 2012/07/20 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/7378",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/3892/"
] | Focus on getting stronger.
You may also gain weight (if you're underweight), but it will just happen naturally when you lift weights and feed yourself enough to support your strength gains. | Well by gaining weight and not strength essentially means you'll be gaining fat???!! Meaning you may not be able to do those 3 press ups at all.
Focus on strength - check out my answer on a previous question:
[Is this program good to achieve functional strength and fitness?](https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions... |
7,378 | I am underweight and only able to do 3 pushups at best. I am wondering what I should focus on: getting stronger or gaining weight? | 2012/07/20 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/7378",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/3892/"
] | I think this also depends on your age. But putting that aside you should treat yourself to whatever you can get your hands on and eat the motherload out of it. Then get yourself in the weight room, decrease the cardio to a minimum, and hit some solid weights. Don't worry about any strict programming in training, merely... | Focus on getting stronger.
You may also gain weight (if you're underweight), but it will just happen naturally when you lift weights and feed yourself enough to support your strength gains. |
7,378 | I am underweight and only able to do 3 pushups at best. I am wondering what I should focus on: getting stronger or gaining weight? | 2012/07/20 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/7378",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/3892/"
] | Focus on getting stronger.
You may also gain weight (if you're underweight), but it will just happen naturally when you lift weights and feed yourself enough to support your strength gains. | Honestly, I think whether you are over or under-weight it is never healthy to fixate on the scale. Total body weight is like a thermometer, it only tells you if something is wrong--but it doesn't tell you what it could be.
Gaining muscle requires that you work hard, and eat a lot of food. For some reason, there are pe... |
7,378 | I am underweight and only able to do 3 pushups at best. I am wondering what I should focus on: getting stronger or gaining weight? | 2012/07/20 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/7378",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/3892/"
] | I think this also depends on your age. But putting that aside you should treat yourself to whatever you can get your hands on and eat the motherload out of it. Then get yourself in the weight room, decrease the cardio to a minimum, and hit some solid weights. Don't worry about any strict programming in training, merely... | Well by gaining weight and not strength essentially means you'll be gaining fat???!! Meaning you may not be able to do those 3 press ups at all.
Focus on strength - check out my answer on a previous question:
[Is this program good to achieve functional strength and fitness?](https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions... |
7,378 | I am underweight and only able to do 3 pushups at best. I am wondering what I should focus on: getting stronger or gaining weight? | 2012/07/20 | [
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/7378",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com",
"https://fitness.stackexchange.com/users/3892/"
] | I think this also depends on your age. But putting that aside you should treat yourself to whatever you can get your hands on and eat the motherload out of it. Then get yourself in the weight room, decrease the cardio to a minimum, and hit some solid weights. Don't worry about any strict programming in training, merely... | Honestly, I think whether you are over or under-weight it is never healthy to fixate on the scale. Total body weight is like a thermometer, it only tells you if something is wrong--but it doesn't tell you what it could be.
Gaining muscle requires that you work hard, and eat a lot of food. For some reason, there are pe... |
973,067 | We have around 50 AWS accounts and each account is connect to ON premise , Data centers , some other AWS Accounts.
Sometimes due to misconfig , the connectivity gets lost and then developers tell us later on.
I want o build monitoring solution where i have something running in each subnet in each account which can pi... | 2019/06/27 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/973067",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/529419/"
] | Please check **AWS Organizations**, <https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/announcing-aws-organizations-centrally-manage-multiple-aws-accounts/>
Other way could be using cloud watch on all account(or centrally) with lambda. | There are two tools which I believe can fit in this scenario but you will have to install their agents on nodes.
* Monit - It can monitor network and trigger based on any malfunction.
* Zabbix - An enterprise level monitoring tool
I have been using both Monit and Zabbix for our servers (both local data center and AW... |
20,622,503 | I'm not clear about below queries and curious to know what is the different between them even though both retrieves same results. (Database used sports2000).
FOR EACH Customer WHERE State = "NH",
FIRST Order OF Customer:
DISPLAY Customer.Cust-Num NAME Order-Num Order-Date.
END.
FOR EACH Customer WHERE Sta... | 2013/12/16 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/20622503",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2884486/"
] | As AquaAlex says your first snippet is a join (the "," part of the syntax makes it a join) and has all of the pros and cons he mentions. There is, however, a significant additional "con" -- the join is being made with FIRST and FOR ... FIRST should never be used.
[FOR LAST - Query, giving wrong result](https://stackov... | Your first statement is a join statement, which means less network traffic. And you will only receive records where both the customer and order record exist so do not need to do any further checks. (MORE EFFICIENT)
The second statement will retrieve each customer and then for each customer found it will do a find on o... |
221,476 | After update, old Eclipse plugins remain in "plugins" folder (there are also leftovers in "features" folder).
Is there a way to remove those automatically? | 2008/10/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/221476",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5817/"
] | To get rid of the old plugins you have to clear the Installation History. Go to Help | About Eclipse | Installation Details | Installation History and select all the old stuff. Then click delete and restart. Voila. This works with Eclipse Helios (3.6) | Eclipse allows you to revert back to any previous configuration (go to the Help menu, then "Software Updates"). My guess is that Eclipse won't remove these old versions, or this functionality would no longer work.
If when you restart Eclipse you provide the "-clean" argument, it performs various cleanup operations, bu... |
64,305 | I ran across a [deleted answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3695396/what-is-the-best-way-to-run-your-program-code-after-fixed-intervals/3695447#3695447) to a question that, although not helpful to the questioner's particular situation, may be helpful to others who find themselves in similar situations.
We can'... | 2010/09/12 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64305",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/140234/"
] | Votes on deleted posts affect rep until your next reputation recalculates — which you can request from a moderator by flagging one of your own posts and asking nicely. You can preview what the recalculated rep will be through /reputation, as you saw. (So there's not much point if it's close to what you have now.)
**Ba... | * You would gain 6 rep per hour. The effect of flagging [depends on the type of flag](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22174/how-does-the-offensive-flag-work/22175#22175).
* You lose the rep, but not
permenantly. You can get it back by flagging one of your posts for moderator attention
and asking for a rep reca... |
180,451 | The GDPR changes a lot of data protection law, but how will it affect dumped databases of passwords?
At the moment these can be used to work out the most common passwords, and sites can use this knowledge to prevent people choosing overly common passwords.
Will this still be allowed under GDPR, as the password databa... | 2018/02/24 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/180451",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/159064/"
] | GDPR relates specifically to personally identifiable information, that is information that could be reasonably used to identify a person, like address, email address, user names, IP address.
If the password dump contains only a password and no username, account details or IP address, it is likely that they would not ... | While this is indeed mostly a legal question, as to what of it pertains to the practicalities of security:
* Storing accounts+passwords would be information relating to an identifiable person, so definitely personal under GDPR.
* You only need to store hashes of passwords to catch collisions. This doesn't change wheth... |
1,519,944 | How could a UPS switch between battery and AC wall socket fast from around 4 ms to 12 ms. What make it especial to switch in that very low time. As far as I know it has relays inside it to perform the switching action, but the relay itself can't switch as fast. I am asking this because I need something to switch betwee... | 2020/01/24 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1519944",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/1126501/"
] | Answer you don't switch AT all.
You connect the battery and AC/DC converter at the same time.
The battery is constantly being charged so discharge is not a problem.
If you feel like it you can add a couple diodes to prevent back flow of electricity from the PC to the battery. In fact you could add 2 sets of diodes, bu... | The reason a UPS switches over "fast enough" is exactly that it switches the AC side: The PSU in your PC is a switching power supply, this means, that it stores a significant amount of energy in itself.
Desktop power supplies are typically designed to store enough energy, that loss of a single half-wave on the input s... |
12,151,953 | VB6 came with `WinDiff`.
Is there a free modern version of WinDiff available that is able to ignore case? | 2012/08/28 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12151953",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/327528/"
] | Along with WinMerge and the WinDiff from the latest SDK, I also have SourceGear's free DiffMerge.
I use WinMerge (which hasn't changed for a while either -- don't ignore blank lines; that exercises bugs) most, especially its ability to open two blank editable pages and you can paste anything, such as from a Remote Des... | WinDiff is part of the Windows SDK, it still ships with it. But no, the SDK is targeted to programmers that write code in case-sensitive languages, C and C++.
The source code of WinDiff was once part of the SDK samples. You can still get it from [this web page](http://www.grigsoft.com/download-windiff.htm), assuming y... |
339,468 | Actually we have following setup for our website that gets traffic around the world:
All JS, Images, Photos are stored on a CDN: Cloud Files ("Akamai light" powered).
The WebApp server who send the dynamic content out are located in Switzerland, the average page size is around 14KB (3-5KB after GZip).
70% of the tra... | 2011/12/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/339468",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/50554/"
] | If you have many cachable contents, it will be much better in terms of response time and bandwidth usage to use a proxy server between your web server and your clients.
The proxy server will server the pages/objects very quickly without contacting the original servers while the cached objects are not expired. Moving t... | IF 70% of the traffic is in US then it would make great sense to place the app server here. From that point using some HA delivery system would be advisable.
I have a set target for experience of under 1 second for my app to service a client. Whatever needs to happen to make that target is my job. |
339,468 | Actually we have following setup for our website that gets traffic around the world:
All JS, Images, Photos are stored on a CDN: Cloud Files ("Akamai light" powered).
The WebApp server who send the dynamic content out are located in Switzerland, the average page size is around 14KB (3-5KB after GZip).
70% of the tra... | 2011/12/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/339468",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/50554/"
] | If you have many cachable contents, it will be much better in terms of response time and bandwidth usage to use a proxy server between your web server and your clients.
The proxy server will server the pages/objects very quickly without contacting the original servers while the cached objects are not expired. Moving t... | I don't see how the proxy server will help, if all the pages have to be sent from Europe. It's just another hop with no benefits. You already have static resources on a CDN in the USA. If it's only one page hit of up to 180ms and all other resources are cached I think that's probably ok, it's if there's multiple hits o... |
339,468 | Actually we have following setup for our website that gets traffic around the world:
All JS, Images, Photos are stored on a CDN: Cloud Files ("Akamai light" powered).
The WebApp server who send the dynamic content out are located in Switzerland, the average page size is around 14KB (3-5KB after GZip).
70% of the tra... | 2011/12/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/339468",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/50554/"
] | I don't see how the proxy server will help, if all the pages have to be sent from Europe. It's just another hop with no benefits. You already have static resources on a CDN in the USA. If it's only one page hit of up to 180ms and all other resources are cached I think that's probably ok, it's if there's multiple hits o... | IF 70% of the traffic is in US then it would make great sense to place the app server here. From that point using some HA delivery system would be advisable.
I have a set target for experience of under 1 second for my app to service a client. Whatever needs to happen to make that target is my job. |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | It's not in the rules, but DMs have the latitude to allow it.
-------------------------------------------------------------
As you point out, I couldn't find anywhere in the rules to support an action like that. However, the system allows for DMs to make judgments about whether an action is reasonable/possible, as wel... | Would be within the scope. Depending on how the PC does it, the nitty-gritty would be up to the DM. However it should just be treated as a PC attempts to grapple the arms of an enemy. This would just constitute an Athletics check, as usual with grappling. However with the condition that the PC doing the grappling would... |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | Conditions
==========
Conditions aren't generally super easy to come by in 5e - especially those that can completely shut down a character.
If the barbarian is wanting to prevent the spellcaster from casting a spell *at all*, then from a 5e perspective that is removing their action (or ending their ability to have so... | Would be within the scope. Depending on how the PC does it, the nitty-gritty would be up to the DM. However it should just be treated as a PC attempts to grapple the arms of an enemy. This would just constitute an Athletics check, as usual with grappling. However with the condition that the PC doing the grappling would... |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | Using Opposed Ability Checks / Contests
---------------------------------------
Let's examine two cases of trying to do this: one with the Grappler Feat and one without.
### With the Grappler Feat
If the Barbarian has the Grappler Feat, the grapple does more than simply reduce speed to zero. It allows *a chance* to... | Would be within the scope. Depending on how the PC does it, the nitty-gritty would be up to the DM. However it should just be treated as a PC attempts to grapple the arms of an enemy. This would just constitute an Athletics check, as usual with grappling. However with the condition that the PC doing the grappling would... |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | Although the scope of this question was in regards to grabbing someone's arms in combat, it's worthwhile to note that grabbing someone's arms wouldn't *necessarily* prevent casting.
While there are some spells that explicitly state the somatic component required, many others do not.
For example, *fireball* [states](h... | Would be within the scope. Depending on how the PC does it, the nitty-gritty would be up to the DM. However it should just be treated as a PC attempts to grapple the arms of an enemy. This would just constitute an Athletics check, as usual with grappling. However with the condition that the PC doing the grappling would... |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | It's not in the rules, but DMs have the latitude to allow it.
-------------------------------------------------------------
As you point out, I couldn't find anywhere in the rules to support an action like that. However, the system allows for DMs to make judgments about whether an action is reasonable/possible, as wel... | Conditions
==========
Conditions aren't generally super easy to come by in 5e - especially those that can completely shut down a character.
If the barbarian is wanting to prevent the spellcaster from casting a spell *at all*, then from a 5e perspective that is removing their action (or ending their ability to have so... |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | It's not in the rules, but DMs have the latitude to allow it.
-------------------------------------------------------------
As you point out, I couldn't find anywhere in the rules to support an action like that. However, the system allows for DMs to make judgments about whether an action is reasonable/possible, as wel... | Using Opposed Ability Checks / Contests
---------------------------------------
Let's examine two cases of trying to do this: one with the Grappler Feat and one without.
### With the Grappler Feat
If the Barbarian has the Grappler Feat, the grapple does more than simply reduce speed to zero. It allows *a chance* to... |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | It's not in the rules, but DMs have the latitude to allow it.
-------------------------------------------------------------
As you point out, I couldn't find anywhere in the rules to support an action like that. However, the system allows for DMs to make judgments about whether an action is reasonable/possible, as wel... | Although the scope of this question was in regards to grabbing someone's arms in combat, it's worthwhile to note that grabbing someone's arms wouldn't *necessarily* prevent casting.
While there are some spells that explicitly state the somatic component required, many others do not.
For example, *fireball* [states](h... |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | Conditions
==========
Conditions aren't generally super easy to come by in 5e - especially those that can completely shut down a character.
If the barbarian is wanting to prevent the spellcaster from casting a spell *at all*, then from a 5e perspective that is removing their action (or ending their ability to have so... | Although the scope of this question was in regards to grabbing someone's arms in combat, it's worthwhile to note that grabbing someone's arms wouldn't *necessarily* prevent casting.
While there are some spells that explicitly state the somatic component required, many others do not.
For example, *fireball* [states](h... |
101,508 | Recently, my players faced off against an enemy spellcaster. During the fight, the barbarian stated that it was his intention to grab the spellcaster in a bearhug, pinning his arms to his sides to prevent him from casting spells with somatic or material components (unable to reach his component pouch).
I'm pretty sure... | 2017/06/13 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/101508",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/26124/"
] | Using Opposed Ability Checks / Contests
---------------------------------------
Let's examine two cases of trying to do this: one with the Grappler Feat and one without.
### With the Grappler Feat
If the Barbarian has the Grappler Feat, the grapple does more than simply reduce speed to zero. It allows *a chance* to... | Although the scope of this question was in regards to grabbing someone's arms in combat, it's worthwhile to note that grabbing someone's arms wouldn't *necessarily* prevent casting.
While there are some spells that explicitly state the somatic component required, many others do not.
For example, *fireball* [states](h... |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | The main difference is the route for 0.0.0.0/0 in the associated route table.
A private subnet sets that route to a NAT gateway/instance. Private subnet instances only need a private ip and internet traffic is routed through the NAT in the public subnet. You could also have no route to 0.0.0.0/0 to make it a truly **p... | As documented [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html)
**PUBLIC SUBNET** If a subnet's traffic is routed to an internet gateway, the subnet is known as a public subnet.
**PRIVATE SUBNET**If a subnet doesn't have a route to the internet gateway, the subnet is known as a private subnet. |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | The main difference is the route for 0.0.0.0/0 in the associated route table.
A private subnet sets that route to a NAT gateway/instance. Private subnet instances only need a private ip and internet traffic is routed through the NAT in the public subnet. You could also have no route to 0.0.0.0/0 to make it a truly **p... | The Topic of this question is different from the actual problem which is described above. This **topic is also important and highly searched over the Internet**, and just because of this, other websites have much higher views of the same topic as it is not well defined here, if both Public and Private Subnets can go To... |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | The main difference is the route for 0.0.0.0/0 in the associated route table.
A private subnet sets that route to a NAT gateway/instance. Private subnet instances only need a private ip and internet traffic is routed through the NAT in the public subnet. You could also have no route to 0.0.0.0/0 to make it a truly **p... | The distinction between "public" and "private" subnets in AWS VPC is determined only by whether the subnet has an Internet Gateway (IGW) attached to it. From [the AWS docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html):
>
> If a subnet is associated with a route table that has a route to... |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | The main difference is the route for 0.0.0.0/0 in the associated route table.
A private subnet sets that route to a NAT gateway/instance. Private subnet instances only need a private ip and internet traffic is routed through the NAT in the public subnet. You could also have no route to 0.0.0.0/0 to make it a truly **p... | The problem we are trying to solve is to make some resources "private", that is deny inbound traffic from outside your VPC, but still allow those private resouces to access the internet for e.g. updates.
There are a couple of ways to do this:
* You could *try* to use Network Access Control Lists (NACL) but these affe... |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | As documented [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html)
**PUBLIC SUBNET** If a subnet's traffic is routed to an internet gateway, the subnet is known as a public subnet.
**PRIVATE SUBNET**If a subnet doesn't have a route to the internet gateway, the subnet is known as a private subnet. | The distinction between "public" and "private" subnets in AWS VPC is determined only by whether the subnet has an Internet Gateway (IGW) attached to it. From [the AWS docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html):
>
> If a subnet is associated with a route table that has a route to... |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | As documented [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Subnets.html)
**PUBLIC SUBNET** If a subnet's traffic is routed to an internet gateway, the subnet is known as a public subnet.
**PRIVATE SUBNET**If a subnet doesn't have a route to the internet gateway, the subnet is known as a private subnet. | The problem we are trying to solve is to make some resources "private", that is deny inbound traffic from outside your VPC, but still allow those private resouces to access the internet for e.g. updates.
There are a couple of ways to do this:
* You could *try* to use Network Access Control Lists (NACL) but these affe... |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | The Topic of this question is different from the actual problem which is described above. This **topic is also important and highly searched over the Internet**, and just because of this, other websites have much higher views of the same topic as it is not well defined here, if both Public and Private Subnets can go To... | The distinction between "public" and "private" subnets in AWS VPC is determined only by whether the subnet has an Internet Gateway (IGW) attached to it. From [the AWS docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html):
>
> If a subnet is associated with a route table that has a route to... |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | The Topic of this question is different from the actual problem which is described above. This **topic is also important and highly searched over the Internet**, and just because of this, other websites have much higher views of the same topic as it is not well defined here, if both Public and Private Subnets can go To... | The problem we are trying to solve is to make some resources "private", that is deny inbound traffic from outside your VPC, but still allow those private resouces to access the internet for e.g. updates.
There are a couple of ways to do this:
* You could *try* to use Network Access Control Lists (NACL) but these affe... |
556,363 | When I launch a server with a security group that allows all traffic into my private subnet, it displays a warning that it may be open to the world.
If it is a private subnet, how can that be? | 2013/11/20 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/556363",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/192084/"
] | The distinction between "public" and "private" subnets in AWS VPC is determined only by whether the subnet has an Internet Gateway (IGW) attached to it. From [the AWS docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html):
>
> If a subnet is associated with a route table that has a route to... | The problem we are trying to solve is to make some resources "private", that is deny inbound traffic from outside your VPC, but still allow those private resouces to access the internet for e.g. updates.
There are a couple of ways to do this:
* You could *try* to use Network Access Control Lists (NACL) but these affe... |
5,414,967 | Does anyone have a good example of using CARingBuffer to buffer a large audio file and how to read it in a callback?
Should it be reading the audio file in a secondary thread? How do I pause loading the audio file until the loaded buffers have been played (how do I pre-queue the audio file)? CAPlayThrough seems close ... | 2011/03/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5414967",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/674321/"
] | You can find an example that uses this ring buffer if you download the example code of the [book](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321636848) *Learning Core Audio* [here](http://www.informit.com/store/learning-core-audio-a-hands-on-guide-to-audio-programming-9780321636843) (under the *downloads* tab). Jum... | Generally for audio playback anything that can block or take an unbounded amount of time (in particular file or disk IO) should be done in a secondary thread. So you want to read the audio file's data in a producer thread, and consume the data in your IOProc or RemoteIO callback.
Synchronization becomes an issue with ... |
89,610 | I’d like to know how to emboss or deboss a more complex logo/mesh into another flat surface/mesh as shown in the example:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1A6hI.gif)
What I have got so far is: transforming a logo into an \*.svg from Illustrator and impor... | 2017/09/05 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/89610",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/23939/"
] | Here's a quick guide for doing it with microdisplacement. Note this won't work for you if you actually need a good mesh, but it'll give a result similar to your reference image.
1) Enable Blender's experimental feature set:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.c... | I recommend to use a normal map instead of physically embossing or debossing the logo into a flat surface.
By using a normal map you should get a similar effect without all the problems of a messed up mesh.
You can use this freeware tool to create normal maps: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/ssbumpgenerator/>
In ord... |
89,610 | I’d like to know how to emboss or deboss a more complex logo/mesh into another flat surface/mesh as shown in the example:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1A6hI.gif)
What I have got so far is: transforming a logo into an \*.svg from Illustrator and impor... | 2017/09/05 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/89610",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/23939/"
] | I recommend to use a normal map instead of physically embossing or debossing the logo into a flat surface.
By using a normal map you should get a similar effect without all the problems of a messed up mesh.
You can use this freeware tool to create normal maps: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/ssbumpgenerator/>
In ord... | You could do this with two separate objects:
1. import your logo as svg, which will be a 2D curve in blender; add a bit of "bevel depth" and/or "extrude" in the *geometry* panel of the *data* tab.
2. add a plane mesh positioned just under you logo
Since they're two separate objects, you'll need to explicitly align th... |
89,610 | I’d like to know how to emboss or deboss a more complex logo/mesh into another flat surface/mesh as shown in the example:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1A6hI.gif)
What I have got so far is: transforming a logo into an \*.svg from Illustrator and impor... | 2017/09/05 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/89610",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/23939/"
] | Here's a quick guide for doing it with microdisplacement. Note this won't work for you if you actually need a good mesh, but it'll give a result similar to your reference image.
1) Enable Blender's experimental feature set:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.c... | You could do this with two separate objects:
1. import your logo as svg, which will be a 2D curve in blender; add a bit of "bevel depth" and/or "extrude" in the *geometry* panel of the *data* tab.
2. add a plane mesh positioned just under you logo
Since they're two separate objects, you'll need to explicitly align th... |
4,710,220 | I need to write a translator for vbscript to c#. What would be the basic steps invloved to translate **using ANTLR**? I am not very clear about whether to use grammar (lexer/parser? file or stringtemplate or AST or all.
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance. | 2011/01/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4710220",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/578074/"
] | Is this really possible?
I'm "translating" (read: rewriting) a MS Access/VBA application since two years to C# and found out that even the online available converters (like [this one](http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/vb-to-csharp/) which is more VB.NET, but anyway) fails at most basic conversions.
So my ... | The easiest way to translate VBScript to C# would be using VB.NET as an intermediate step. VBScript is very similar to VB.NET (there are some differences though), so all you need to do is copy-paste your code in a new solution in Visual Studio. After you make a few changes, the code will be able to compile.
You can le... |
4,710,220 | I need to write a translator for vbscript to c#. What would be the basic steps invloved to translate **using ANTLR**? I am not very clear about whether to use grammar (lexer/parser? file or stringtemplate or AST or all.
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance. | 2011/01/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4710220",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/578074/"
] | See [What kinds of patterns could I enforce on the code to make it easier to translate to another programming language?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3455456/how-to-translate-between-programming-languages) | The easiest way to translate VBScript to C# would be using VB.NET as an intermediate step. VBScript is very similar to VB.NET (there are some differences though), so all you need to do is copy-paste your code in a new solution in Visual Studio. After you make a few changes, the code will be able to compile.
You can le... |
162,409 | Is the Arcana Skill capable of influencing or affecting actual spells being cast or other spell-centred details? For example, are you able to influence the effect or characteristics of a spell by rolling a high enough Arcana check? Or does that fall primarily within relation to magic items and not cast spells? | 2020/01/06 | [
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/162409",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com",
"https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/59793/"
] | According to the D&D 5e *Basic Rules* (as published on [D&D Beyond](https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/using-ability-scores)), Arcana is defined as:
>
> Arcana
>
>
> Your Intelligence (Arcana) check measures your ability to
> recall lore about spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical
> traditions, ... | The closest to this the Arcana skill has is to identify a spell being cast
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
With the arcana ability, one can deduce what spell is being cast or has been cast. From *Xanathar's Guide to Everything*, pg. 85, under ["Identifying a Spell"](https://w... |
43,213 | In the Minority Report movie there are precogs who can predict some events that will occur in the near future. Why do precogs shiver before they make any prediction? | 2013/10/29 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43213",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/18957/"
] | It's precognition (hence pre-cog) also called future sight, and second sight. As they are receiving these "visions of murder", they are experiencing a number of powerful emotions. Bad emotions, which resonate in visual, auditory, physical, and emotional registers. All these things lead their bodies to shiver or shake. ... | its speculation but their precog abilities could be causing seizures
the precogs have had their brains altered in utero by their mothers using a drug while pregant while that particular drug somehow gave them their abilities its probable that it also altered them in other more damaging ways |
152,088 | So I have a boss from Ireland that works out of the UK. He tells me that he is on leave for a half term? What is he talking about? | 2014/02/14 | [
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] | Term as in part of an academic year, more often called semesters in the US, though strictly that only applies to two-term systems and Irish schools tend to use trimesters, though many third-level institutions changed to semesters relatively recently.
Schools often have a break in the middle of the term, called *half-... | From the Cambridge English dictionary:
in the UK, a short holiday in the middle of each of the three periods into which the school year is divided <http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/half-term?q=half-term> |
4,323 | Can anyone suggest an alternative to energy from a battery?
I'd like a system to replace my deep cycle leisure battery, I currently use [this](http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_264265_langId_-1_categoryId_165475) 110 AH leisure battery with a 1200W invert... | 2010/09/09 | [
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] | You could collect a lot of lumber (like >50kg), tie it all together and throw a long rope over a big tree branch. Then using several winches lift up all the lumber high in the air, and then utilise the energy of the timber slowly descending towards the ground. The winches would convert high torque to low torque but wit... | I don't think there's anything necessarily un-green about a battery, unless you're talking about the production methods of energy required to manufacture it. All of the materials in the battery were in the environment somewhere - all the manufacturing process has done is concentrate it into a small package.
If there's... |
4,323 | Can anyone suggest an alternative to energy from a battery?
I'd like a system to replace my deep cycle leisure battery, I currently use [this](http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_264265_langId_-1_categoryId_165475) 110 AH leisure battery with a 1200W invert... | 2010/09/09 | [
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] | You could collect a lot of lumber (like >50kg), tie it all together and throw a long rope over a big tree branch. Then using several winches lift up all the lumber high in the air, and then utilise the energy of the timber slowly descending towards the ground. The winches would convert high torque to low torque but wit... | How about solar power? |
4,323 | Can anyone suggest an alternative to energy from a battery?
I'd like a system to replace my deep cycle leisure battery, I currently use [this](http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_264265_langId_-1_categoryId_165475) 110 AH leisure battery with a 1200W invert... | 2010/09/09 | [
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] | You could collect a lot of lumber (like >50kg), tie it all together and throw a long rope over a big tree branch. Then using several winches lift up all the lumber high in the air, and then utilise the energy of the timber slowly descending towards the ground. The winches would convert high torque to low torque but wit... | One alterna-power answer might be fuel cells. A more old-fashioned and commonly available one would be a generator running off some liquid fuel (probably diesel). You might still want a buffer battery for that, of course, but you might be able to get rid of the inverter in some cases. |
4,323 | Can anyone suggest an alternative to energy from a battery?
I'd like a system to replace my deep cycle leisure battery, I currently use [this](http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_264265_langId_-1_categoryId_165475) 110 AH leisure battery with a 1200W invert... | 2010/09/09 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4323",
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] | I don't think there's anything necessarily un-green about a battery, unless you're talking about the production methods of energy required to manufacture it. All of the materials in the battery were in the environment somewhere - all the manufacturing process has done is concentrate it into a small package.
If there's... | One alterna-power answer might be fuel cells. A more old-fashioned and commonly available one would be a generator running off some liquid fuel (probably diesel). You might still want a buffer battery for that, of course, but you might be able to get rid of the inverter in some cases. |
4,323 | Can anyone suggest an alternative to energy from a battery?
I'd like a system to replace my deep cycle leisure battery, I currently use [this](http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_264265_langId_-1_categoryId_165475) 110 AH leisure battery with a 1200W invert... | 2010/09/09 | [
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] | How about solar power? | One alterna-power answer might be fuel cells. A more old-fashioned and commonly available one would be a generator running off some liquid fuel (probably diesel). You might still want a buffer battery for that, of course, but you might be able to get rid of the inverter in some cases. |
530,340 | To save board space I want to replace relays with SSRs where possible. Most of the relays I use don't need to carry a lot of current and don't to switch high voltages. Mostly slow 24V digital signals to connect to other devices working at other potentials.
Classically relays are use for this, but SSRs would be a lot m... | 2020/11/02 | [
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] | The TP4056 uses a **[pass transistor](https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/analogue_circuits/power-supply-electronics/linear-psu-series-regulator-circuit.php)** to regulate the charging voltage / current to the battery.
That pass transistor is controlled in a **linear** way, meaning a **gradual** on/off control.... | It is linear as in *linear power supply*. It works by using a pass element, whose resistance is modulated so either constant current or constant voltage is supplied to the battery, charging it correctly.
**Update:**
A pass element in a linear regulator is some form of a transistor, which is operated in its "linear"/"o... |
522,400 | [Touch panels](https://www.buydisplay.com/2-inch-4-wire-resistive-touch-panel-screen) seem to have a connector that has thin lines on a thin film.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EvkWX.png) [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2TIAa... | 2020/09/20 | [
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] | You could get one of these (picture) and solder a few cable to the pin holes which then connects to the Arduino/Raspberry Pi
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u6QOu.png)
Picture:
[https://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Adapter-Raspberry-Sealink-Equipment/dp/B081... | The things you refer to aren't called "Ribbon Cables". A ribbon cable looks like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZPJ9t.png)
They're made of many conductors, each a cyclinder in approximately cylindric insulators.
What you show is FPC cable, flexible print... |
522,400 | [Touch panels](https://www.buydisplay.com/2-inch-4-wire-resistive-touch-panel-screen) seem to have a connector that has thin lines on a thin film.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EvkWX.png) [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2TIAa... | 2020/09/20 | [
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] | You could get one of these (picture) and solder a few cable to the pin holes which then connects to the Arduino/Raspberry Pi
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u6QOu.png)
Picture:
[https://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Adapter-Raspberry-Sealink-Equipment/dp/B081... | From site referenced:
>
> The FPC is the soldering type, no need connector.
>
>
>
If you check the [datasheet for touchscreen](https://www.buydisplay.com/download/manual/ER-TP020-1_Drawing.pdf), pins appear to have a 0.8mm pitch (P).
[](https:/... |
522,400 | [Touch panels](https://www.buydisplay.com/2-inch-4-wire-resistive-touch-panel-screen) seem to have a connector that has thin lines on a thin film.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EvkWX.png) [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2TIAa... | 2020/09/20 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/522400",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
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] | The things you refer to aren't called "Ribbon Cables". A ribbon cable looks like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZPJ9t.png)
They're made of many conductors, each a cyclinder in approximately cylindric insulators.
What you show is FPC cable, flexible print... | From site referenced:
>
> The FPC is the soldering type, no need connector.
>
>
>
If you check the [datasheet for touchscreen](https://www.buydisplay.com/download/manual/ER-TP020-1_Drawing.pdf), pins appear to have a 0.8mm pitch (P).
[](https:/... |
79,999 | New here! Will say right off the bat car knowledge isn't my strongest suit but i've been trying to tackle my latest problem. I've got a 2004 Ford Fusion.
About a week ago when parking up i noticed a puddle under my car (under the driver foot well it seemed to be coming from). Enough liquid to start trickling down the ... | 2020/10/03 | [
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] | I would try purchasing either a battery charger or jump starter.
When purchasing a battery charger, the most important features to look for are (apart from the voltage which should be 12V for most cars):
1. Whether it has a mode to forcibly supply current to a battery at zero volts. A modern intelligent charger can s... | You will need an actual battery charger. Most battery maintainers will not charge a completely discharged battery. |
13,950,772 | I have found that certain android applications show my site, I think they use with webview,
How do I block all applications that can show my site ? | 2012/12/19 | [
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] | >
> How do I block all applications that can show my site ?
>
>
>
You have no means of conclusively determining what software is sending the HTTP request, and Web browsers are "applications". So, either take down your site, which will "block all applications that can show [your] site", or do not worry about what "... | I don't think there is a 100% secure way of doing this. What you can do is to attach a header property to your app browser with a server-validated key. Without this key, in combination with a [mobile browser detection library](http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/php_index.php) you'll know if the app is authorized or not.
But... |
37,651 | How to get from Langkawi (Malaysia) to Phuket (Thailand) either by ferry, land (train or bus) or by air?
What's the most convenient way?
It seems there are no direct flights and no obvious land routes. | 2014/10/18 | [
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] | Please bear in mind that it's a quite long whole day journey.
There are the following option to get from Langkawi to Phuket. I believe the same should work in reverse.
By ferry:
* [Tigerline](http://www.tigerlinetravel.com) (~3300-3700 THB)
>
> Service was launched at the end of 2012. High season route only (opera... | There is a direct flight from Hat Yai to Phuket with Bangkok Airways. Takes about 1 hr and costs around 1800 thb. From Satun to Hat Yai you can take bus or train or taxi. |
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