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1,112,536 | I have a game implemented in Java that was having a problem when running too much code from scripts: depending on the script language, the game could have these "hiccups" where the game would freeze for a couple frames every now and then, making the game "jerky" at times.
After some research, I discovered that was hap... | 2009/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1112536",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
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] | You can definitely do this with [JNLP](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/javaws/developersguide/syntax.html), which can be configured to add a shortcut to the desktop and automatically keep jars up to date, among other things. | One option - I always wondered - is to re-run the jar program with Runtime.exec() call when the parameters are inadequate? Never tried it but seems possible. |
1,112,536 | I have a game implemented in Java that was having a problem when running too much code from scripts: depending on the script language, the game could have these "hiccups" where the game would freeze for a couple frames every now and then, making the game "jerky" at times.
After some research, I discovered that was hap... | 2009/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1112536",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/132611/"
] | You can definitely do this with [JNLP](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/javaws/developersguide/syntax.html), which can be configured to add a shortcut to the desktop and automatically keep jars up to date, among other things. | From just a jar file, you can't do this. Adding [Java WebStart](http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/index.jsp) can allow you to add java VM commands. If you are not against wrapping the jar in an executable [Launch4J](http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/) will wrap the jar in a executable as well. ... |
1,112,536 | I have a game implemented in Java that was having a problem when running too much code from scripts: depending on the script language, the game could have these "hiccups" where the game would freeze for a couple frames every now and then, making the game "jerky" at times.
After some research, I discovered that was hap... | 2009/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1112536",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/132611/"
] | From just a jar file, you can't do this. Adding [Java WebStart](http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/index.jsp) can allow you to add java VM commands. If you are not against wrapping the jar in an executable [Launch4J](http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/) will wrap the jar in a executable as well. ... | Besides Java Web Start, you could consider wrapping with JSMooth. It gives an EXE which in turn invokes the JVM - you can provide arguments there. |
1,112,536 | I have a game implemented in Java that was having a problem when running too much code from scripts: depending on the script language, the game could have these "hiccups" where the game would freeze for a couple frames every now and then, making the game "jerky" at times.
After some research, I discovered that was hap... | 2009/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1112536",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/132611/"
] | No, there's no way to do that. VM arguments can only be supplied as command-line parameters to JVM invocation: [Java Tool](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/java.html) | From just a jar file, you can't do this. Adding [Java WebStart](http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/index.jsp) can allow you to add java VM commands. If you are not against wrapping the jar in an executable [Launch4J](http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/) will wrap the jar in a executable as well. ... |
1,112,536 | I have a game implemented in Java that was having a problem when running too much code from scripts: depending on the script language, the game could have these "hiccups" where the game would freeze for a couple frames every now and then, making the game "jerky" at times.
After some research, I discovered that was hap... | 2009/07/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1112536",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/132611/"
] | From just a jar file, you can't do this. Adding [Java WebStart](http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/index.jsp) can allow you to add java VM commands. If you are not against wrapping the jar in an executable [Launch4J](http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/) will wrap the jar in a executable as well. ... | I don't know of too many java apps outside of internal coorporate or dev stuff that people run via clicking a jar. Even a shortcut can specify this. Fancier options exist that let you create an exe, run as a service, or even wrap the whole thing in an installer... if we are talking windows, similar things exist for lin... |
23,297 | For two different, but similar purposes I need some software to assist me.
In the first case I need to take pictures of a lot of swimmers (could be anything - in this case it's portraits). I have a list of names, and the swimmers enters in a random order. Here the task is to keep track of images taken mapped to the na... | 2012/05/11 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/23297",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/6776/"
] | I'm not sure this answers the first part of your question but here's what I've seen done for the second part (in this case at youth hockey tournaments):
The photographer snaps away during the games. After each game, all the shots are placed on a server. Anyone wanting to purchase photos can browse on one of several la... | I've had to do something similar in a non-photographic situation for case 1. What I would do is have each swimmer write his name, and any other info on a piece of paper as they come in. Place each piece of paper in a box. That gives you the order in which your swimmers will appear in the images, which should let you so... |
24,448 | My textbook for a historical geography class mentions a couple of geological features it calls "basalt sills" (the sill of Rosh Pinah and one other).
I'm a total newbie to geology, but the term basalt sill is confusing me. As best I can tell... 1. basalt is an extrusive rock but 2. a sill is an intrusive formation. Is... | 2022/10/22 | [
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/24448",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com",
"https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/users/27836/"
] | I think I know where the confusion comes from. You need at least two criteria to define a magmatic rock: a composition, and a texture. A magma of the same composition can yield two different rocks depending on the texture. For instance, a mafic melt can yield a gabbro if the texture is coarse-grained, or a basalt if it... | [Basalt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basalt) is an [igneous rock](https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-igneous-rocks) - derived from a molten rock. When molten basalt is injected, or simply enters an underground void, or when it enters between two easily separable geological layers, it intrudes into the existing geolog... |
19,433 | I have several Ferry-Morse seed packets, which, on the back, show what the expected "Days to Harvest" is. I am wondering if this "Days to Harvest" should be measured from the date I planted the seeds or the date I saw the sprouts first coming up? | 2015/05/18 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/19433",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/11211/"
] | It varies by type of plant and sometimes between seed sellers. It could mean from when you sow your seeds or when you transplant. Burpee is one of the seeds merchants that is pretty clear about what they mean and in general appears to follow the following pattern:
When seeds are primarily directly sown in your garden ... | Usually means after germination and the plants start into growth, although the actual length of time to harvest can vary somewhat according to growing conditions. |
19,433 | I have several Ferry-Morse seed packets, which, on the back, show what the expected "Days to Harvest" is. I am wondering if this "Days to Harvest" should be measured from the date I planted the seeds or the date I saw the sprouts first coming up? | 2015/05/18 | [
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/19433",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com",
"https://gardening.stackexchange.com/users/11211/"
] | It varies by type of plant and sometimes between seed sellers. It could mean from when you sow your seeds or when you transplant. Burpee is one of the seeds merchants that is pretty clear about what they mean and in general appears to follow the following pattern:
When seeds are primarily directly sown in your garden ... | I recommend calling the telephone number on the package, and asking for directions about your specific seeds. [Park Seed](http://parkseed.com) offers the option to speak with a horticulturist or a master gardener. If you have any questions about something they sell, even if you haven't purchased it from them, they're h... |
33,343 | I know the meaning of the idiomatic phrase "the winning horse take the cakes", but is "take the cakes" instead of "takes the cakes" old English? I am talking about "s" in takes.
Source from an [ELU question](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/150456/clearing-the-air-about-taking-the-cake) :
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> They got up ... | 2014/09/13 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/33343",
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] | This is a subjunctive form of the verb used to describe a future possibility.
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> We shall overcome this foe, *come* hell or high water!
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>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxs3jGy9k9w
Let the winning horse take the cake.
Winner take all. | The "cakes" is "British speak" for the **prizes.** So the sentence should read, "the winning horse takes the prizes (usually a sum of money, and for his master.
Kentucky was a "southern" state, and in 1847, one of the more Anglophilic parts of the United States. |
17,723 | Hypothetically, why could the current Dragon not be used for carrying astronauts **from** space? Since there is always some research material in Dragon, I believe this vehicle has e.g. heat shields.
Is it just a matter of equipment (seats, belts, etc.), or in material used and structure as well? | 2016/08/11 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/17723",
"https://space.stackexchange.com",
"https://space.stackexchange.com/users/16590/"
] | AFAIK there is no life support system on board. The air in the capsule is not enough to support a human for the ~4 hours it takes from leaving the station to landing.
You'd also have to install seats designed to handle the G loads (i.e. contoured to properly support the body, and on springs to soften the touchdown). | It is only equipped to go into space but not out of space, you would need much more than just a room and parachutes to touch down safely. |
17,723 | Hypothetically, why could the current Dragon not be used for carrying astronauts **from** space? Since there is always some research material in Dragon, I believe this vehicle has e.g. heat shields.
Is it just a matter of equipment (seats, belts, etc.), or in material used and structure as well? | 2016/08/11 | [
"https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/17723",
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] | There is a minimal life support system, in the sense that it is pressurized and they carry animal experiments that do not have their own life support systems. But it is not designed to handle the load a full crew were generate.
Musk has said that had a person been aboard they would have been fine, on earlier Dragon fl... | It is only equipped to go into space but not out of space, you would need much more than just a room and parachutes to touch down safely. |
52,261 | My son knows how to use Weebly, but he is not familiar with Wordpress. He has been asked to create some static pages on an existing wordpress site (I believe it is Wordpress.org because he was given log-in information to get into the site.) Is there any way that he can create his pages using Weebly and have them redire... | 2012/05/16 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/52261",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
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] | You can use an iFrame to display a Weebly page in a Wordpress page, but that's it; display only. There's no direct data sharing. See <http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_iframe.asp> | Presuming that every time you said weekly you meant weebly, then no, it is entirely impossible to share content between weebly and wordpress. You can setup redirects or URL rewriting on the wordpress site to point to a weebly site, but there's no way to have weebly submit content to wordpress.
Just a note for future q... |
52,261 | My son knows how to use Weebly, but he is not familiar with Wordpress. He has been asked to create some static pages on an existing wordpress site (I believe it is Wordpress.org because he was given log-in information to get into the site.) Is there any way that he can create his pages using Weebly and have them redire... | 2012/05/16 | [
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/52261",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com",
"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/16166/"
] | You can use an iFrame to display a Weebly page in a Wordpress page, but that's it; display only. There's no direct data sharing. See <http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_iframe.asp> | <http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-web-scrapper/>
You can use page scraping to filter and disply content on your wordpress blog. |
38,283,294 | I want to submit an iOS app to Apple that doesn't have in-app-purchase enabled.
When I go to iTunes Connect and look at the In App Purchases section for my app I cannot see anywhere where I can remove the in-app-purchase option for my app.
I need to do this because Apple complains when I submit my app that there is n... | 2016/07/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/38283294",
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] | In iTunes connect, you need to go to your product and set it to "Remove from Sale". You can then delete it.
Also, In Your Project --> Target --> Capabilities --> Turn In App purchases to off.
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> Removing Products from Sale You can choose to stop an In-App Purchase
> product from being sold in an app. If you do, th... | This could be related to your App Id identifier setup which together with the iOS certficate is your provisioning profile which you use to sign your app.
If you have created an Explicit App Id ( no wildcard in Bundle Id ) then "Game Center" and "In-App Purchase" services are automatically enabled and cannot be disable... |
83,999 | Is there a tool for Linux (and preferably free) to remove some given text from all the tag fields of all MP3 files in a batch process? | 2022/09/11 | [
"https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/83999",
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] | This is a summary of how to solve your issue, which have been mostly discussed in the comments above. This is how I do it myself on my Android phone for thousands of contacts:
* I use the native contacts App in Android. I then use a free app called [MyPhoneExplorer](https://www.fjsoft.at/en/) to automatically sync the... | I use **[Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/)** for this with its [Contacts app](https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/contacts) and the native addressbook/contacts app that ships with my ROM (LineageOS). On Android, I can select via my labels when tapping the Hamburger menu at the left:
[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WUssb.p... |
69,541 | **Scene One: Charlie meets Benny**
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> ADAM: Charlie, I'd like you to meet my friend Benny.
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> BENNY: Hi! Nice to meet you!
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> CHARLIE: Nice to meet you Benny! So, where are you from?
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> BENNY: I'm from [*my country*].
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> CHARLIE: Hehe, I have no idea where that is. Is it near [*other country*]? ... | 2018/08/14 | [
"https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/69541",
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] | Let me try:
Benny:
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> Dhaka, Bangladesh
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> Big city, population: 8,063,000 vs LA: 3,976,322
> Many people speak English here
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> Bangalor, India
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> Bangalor sounds a bit like Bangladesh
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> India is a huge country with many languages. Bengali is spoken only in a small ... | The question has already been answered, but I'd just like to suggest that maybe, by "LA", Charlie wasn't referring to
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> Los Angeles (as I have initially assumed),
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> LAgos, Nigeria which has a population of around 17 million
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35,905 | I'm starting a company and I have investors willing to lend my business partner and I some early capital, but they want a debt convertible instrument in the form of a convertible promissory note. I wanted to know if its possible to sign on behalf of the company I'm incorporating before its officially founded.
And if ... | 2019/01/03 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/35905",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/23596/"
] | You can easily create a company with practically no money (in the UK, it costs you maybe £20 or £40, plus you want say £100 share capital), so there is no reason not to create the company before you have funding.
Your problem is that these investors most likely won't accept a "convertible promissory note" from the co... | >
> I wanted to know if its possible to sign on behalf of the company I'm incorporating before its officially founded
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If you are in Australia, yes. I can't speak for other jurisdictions. Of course, company formation in Australia takes less than 48 hours so it might be easier to wait.
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> can I sign the con... |
6,715 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
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> [Can I manage the fonts that appear on Illustrator's Type drop down](https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/6684/can-i-manage-the-fonts-that-appear-on-illustrators-type-drop-down)
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My image menu in illustrator is messed up. There are double spaces some places, an... | 2012/03/27 | [
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/6715",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com",
"https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/users/3056/"
] | You don't have "odd spaces." You have non-Roman alphabets trying to display in WYSIWYG.
The bracketed fonts are either not available to Illustrator because they're the wrong type, or they are the name of the font which can't display properly.
If you want to remove them, you either have to take them out of your Fonts... | use some font manager like Suitcase to update and fix your font problems. |
11,414 | What should we do with comments in languages other than English? This isn't about referencing specific non-English terms. It's about comments that are completely written in a language or languages other than English. For [example](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/445392/what-is-the-word-for-the-plastic-cover... | 2018/05/09 | [
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] | Dan Bron’s comment on the question is very practical:
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> Comments aren’t meant to be private conversations between individual participants, but a public conversation about the post they’re attached to, which anyone can contribute to. Given, yes, the “E” in “EL&U”, the only language we can rely on all participants he... | No restrictions on language choice whatsoever please, so long as the content of the language is appropriate. United States and UK are the exception as far as it being unusual for people to mix languages in their discussions, and I see no a priori reason to treat a peculiarity of these two societies as a default rule of... |
11,414 | What should we do with comments in languages other than English? This isn't about referencing specific non-English terms. It's about comments that are completely written in a language or languages other than English. For [example](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/445392/what-is-the-word-for-the-plastic-cover... | 2018/05/09 | [
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] | Dan Bron’s comment on the question is very practical:
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> Comments aren’t meant to be private conversations between individual participants, but a public conversation about the post they’re attached to, which anyone can contribute to. Given, yes, the “E” in “EL&U”, the only language we can rely on all participants he... | Per the [Help Center](https://english.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment),
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11,414 | What should we do with comments in languages other than English? This isn't about referencing specific non-English terms. It's about comments that are completely written in a language or languages other than English. For [example](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/445392/what-is-the-word-for-the-plastic-cover... | 2018/05/09 | [
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> * Add relevant but mino... | No restrictions on language choice whatsoever please, so long as the content of the language is appropriate. United States and UK are the exception as far as it being unusual for people to mix languages in their discussions, and I see no a priori reason to treat a peculiarity of these two societies as a default rule of... |
33,328 | Case 1:
Player 1 has [Leovold, Emissary of Trest](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bLeovold%2c%20Emissary%20of%20Trest%5d) and [Teferi's Puzzle Box](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bTeferi%27s%5d%2b%5bPuzzle%5d%2b%5bBox%5d) on the Battlefield.
Player 2 ... | 2016/12/08 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/33328",
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] | Even though the phrase "beginning of the draw step" suggests otherwise, those abilities trigger after the turn-based action of drawing a card for the turn.
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> **504.** Draw Step
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> **504.1.** First, the active player draws a card. This turn-based action doesn’t use the stack.
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> **504.2.** Second, the acti... | The draw happens at the beginning of your draw step, then the ability of Teferi's Puzzle Box is put on the stack. Therefore, Player 2 will draw a card, then put all his/her cards on the bottom of their library in any order and not draw any more cards.
Yes, it is very unfortunate. |
290,090 | ***Hypothetical Case***
There are 2 types of cars that move at constant velocity on the road.
The first type move at velocity 90 (km/hr), and the second type move at velocity 95 (km/hr).
How it is proper in the formal writing:
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> The cars move at velocities 90 (km/hr), and 95 (km/hr).
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or
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> The cars m... | 2021/06/28 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/290090",
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] | That's a needless problem. When you say X km/h, that's a velocity. Just say
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> The cars move at 90 km/hr and 95 km/hr.
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However, if you want to include the word *velocity*, a more idiomatic expression would be
The cars move at **velocities of** 90 and 95 km/hr.
Note that the units don't need to be repea... | What is clearest is to write
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> The first and second cars move at speeds of 90 and 95 km/hr respectively
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The so-called velocities that you are talking about are irrelevant because what is ... |
76,191 | So, I have been playing quite a bit of The Secret World over the weekend and have worked my way through the main story line in Kingsmouth.
I have noticed two things. First is that when I run into something that can squash me, usually by accident, I have a very hard time getting away. Second is that you can not kite a ... | 2012/07/09 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/76191",
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] | I've found one of the most effective ways to deal with hostiles following you that you're uninterested in dealing with is to kite them to the nearest encampment of friendly NPC's who can handle them for you. In Kingsmouth, the Sheriff's office is your best bet, for example, but Norma Rae, and Eddie in his dogs in the S... | mostly distance related. Each mob knows its 'area', so you can in theory 'circle-kite', though in practice I find it hard to do since there are usually other mobs around.
Also, I noticed they go back if they realize they can't get to you. Like I was shooting at a mob from atop some garbage container, and got it to lik... |
15,354,690 | I am working on a Java application. I have assigned Xms=3gb and Xmx =4gb. I want to check that how much memory is assigned to young generation and old generation and survivor space. I have not explicitly defined the -XX:NewRatio or -XX:NewSize. I am using jdk 1.6 | 2013/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15354690",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2113898/"
] | You can use the [jmap](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jmap.html) command line tool:
jmap -heap <process id> | [JVisualvm](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/share/jvisualvm.html) is what are you looking for. |
15,354,690 | I am working on a Java application. I have assigned Xms=3gb and Xmx =4gb. I want to check that how much memory is assigned to young generation and old generation and survivor space. I have not explicitly defined the -XX:NewRatio or -XX:NewSize. I am using jdk 1.6 | 2013/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15354690",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2113898/"
] | [JVisualvm](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/share/jvisualvm.html) is what are you looking for. | Try [JConsole](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/management/jconsole.html):
The JConsole graphical user interface is a monitoring tool that complies to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification. JConsole uses the extensive instrumentation of the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM) to provide in... |
15,354,690 | I am working on a Java application. I have assigned Xms=3gb and Xmx =4gb. I want to check that how much memory is assigned to young generation and old generation and survivor space. I have not explicitly defined the -XX:NewRatio or -XX:NewSize. I am using jdk 1.6 | 2013/03/12 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/15354690",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2113898/"
] | You can use the [jmap](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jmap.html) command line tool:
jmap -heap <process id> | Try [JConsole](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/management/jconsole.html):
The JConsole graphical user interface is a monitoring tool that complies to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification. JConsole uses the extensive instrumentation of the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM) to provide in... |
6,726,581 | Is there a way I can get the information whether the c2dm message was sent to a device or still in queue somewhere on App Engine side? The device won't get the messages if it's on some WiFi access point (random behavior).
I want to implement time limit to the notification messages. If the time is up, the messages make... | 2011/07/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6726581",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/802421/"
] | You shouldn't be sending information, however small, directly to your users through C2DM. C2DM is designed to be used as a way to alert your device that there is new information on the server. Your client should then connect with the server to download the relevant information. If you follow this design pattern, then b... | Please note that Glendon has the best solution. Another way would be to include the time sent with the message. Then calculate how far in the past that message was sent when received on the phone, taking no action if it is too old. |
79,844 | For every new Google Docs I would like to change the line spacing to 1.5. | 2015/07/02 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/79844",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/35393/"
] | **Update:** As Rubén points out, there is a way to set default line spacing, but here are two other ways as well.
1. You can create a blank document with the line spacing already changed, and just copy that Doc instead of creating a new one.
2. You can submit a template with the line spacing you want, and then create ... | After searching in the official Google Doc Help documents it looks like that they don't have any option for default text formatting.
You may try searching for Google Docs add-ons that might help you set a default line spacing value for every doc you create, alternatively you may create your own Docs add-on to have it... |
79,844 | For every new Google Docs I would like to change the line spacing to 1.5. | 2015/07/02 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/79844",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/35393/"
] | From [Add titles, headings and customize the style of your document - Docs editors Help](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/116338?hl=en)
>
> Customize titles, subtitles, headings and text style
> ====================================================
>
>
> With styles, you
> can quickly customize the look of tex... | After searching in the official Google Doc Help documents it looks like that they don't have any option for default text formatting.
You may try searching for Google Docs add-ons that might help you set a default line spacing value for every doc you create, alternatively you may create your own Docs add-on to have it... |
79,844 | For every new Google Docs I would like to change the line spacing to 1.5. | 2015/07/02 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/79844",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/35393/"
] | From [Add titles, headings and customize the style of your document - Docs editors Help](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/116338?hl=en)
>
> Customize titles, subtitles, headings and text style
> ====================================================
>
>
> With styles, you
> can quickly customize the look of tex... | **Update:** As Rubén points out, there is a way to set default line spacing, but here are two other ways as well.
1. You can create a blank document with the line spacing already changed, and just copy that Doc instead of creating a new one.
2. You can submit a template with the line spacing you want, and then create ... |
997,728 | If you need to minimize concurrency as much as possible, which isolation level (repeatable read, serializable, read committed, read uncomitted) would work best? | 2009/06/15 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/997728",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1/"
] | Serializable gives the most isolation, thus least concurrency.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_(database_systems)> | I'm guessing you really want to *maximize* concurrency as much as possible here, to increase performance. Unfortunately, simply choosing an isolation mode won't do the trick. The real question about those isolation modes is, can you use them in your particular application?
That really depends on the intimate details o... |
332,419 | At the moment, it is suggested to users that they should downvote if
>
> This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful
>
>
>
This is a pretty lax criterion. Also, it overlaps with the causes for closing a question (officially-listed ones and perhaps also the meta-rationale for when... | 2019/08/19 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/332419",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/196834/"
] | Votes are not meant for the person posting the question/answer; they are meant for people who might read it. They are not a corrective measure (per se). They are a signpost saying how many people think the question is worthwhile or not. They tell you whether you should bother reading it.
Voting and closing are two dis... | Please no. As explained by Nicol Bolas, overlap between the two is fine; it's even more than fine, actually.
Closed questions with a positive score are less subject to automatic removal. Nicely written duplicates apart (and then again...), most closed and abandoned questions are... Just not helpful. And not worth keep... |
70,948,798 | I'm currently using Azure Key vault .net SDK to encrypt/decrypt some data. Azure SDK for .net has a build-in Class called "**CryptographyClient**" and it has built-in method for doing that:
[CryptographyClient.decrypt](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/java/api/com.azure.security.keyvault.keys.cryptography.cryptography... | 2022/02/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/70948798",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13244128/"
] | Operations that use the public key - if they can download the public get i.e., caller has the "get" permission - will happen on the client. They public key is download and operation performed. If the caller doesn't have the "get" permission on that key, the operation will be performed on the service.
These operations ... | All of the encryption/decryption occurs on the server side since that’s where the private key lives.
The CryptographyClient API is based on REST :
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/keyvault/keys/encrypt>
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/keyvault/keys/decrypt/decrypt>
You can run a Fiddler trace... |
23,134,240 | I need to make an auto loan calculator that is only able to calculate 2.3% interest for 84 months. I've never made a calculator that didn't allow a user to input these amounts, so how do I code that part of the calc? | 2014/04/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23134240",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3543734/"
] | There isn't 300 ways to download data, so you'll basically have to call your API and get the data. For obvious performance reasons, I would avoid XML and prefere JSON instead. So once you've got your JSON file, you parse it and put it in the locale database. I also would suggest you to use service as it won't be interu... | I would offload the work to some sort of [service](http://developer.android.com/guide/components/services.html). Services have the benefit of running in the background without interacting with the application. You would still need to create another thread to do the work. When the download is finished, it will simply de... |
23,134,240 | I need to make an auto loan calculator that is only able to calculate 2.3% interest for 84 months. I've never made a calculator that didn't allow a user to input these amounts, so how do I code that part of the calc? | 2014/04/17 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/23134240",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3543734/"
] | There isn't 300 ways to download data, so you'll basically have to call your API and get the data. For obvious performance reasons, I would avoid XML and prefere JSON instead. So once you've got your JSON file, you parse it and put it in the locale database. I also would suggest you to use service as it won't be interu... | Data should be downloaded anyway whatever method you use, maybe you may prepare the initial data as XML file, download it the first time and store the data in the database showing a progress bar to the user |
326,070 | If I have a circuit as shown below, does it mean that the polarity of capacitor is fixed(irrespective of the direction of current through it)? I have to write the differential equation for this network and then find other quantities. So, the sign of voltage drop (in the equation) across the capacitor depends on this in... | 2017/08/27 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/326070",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/147249/"
] | At 1.44mA the transistor has a Re of 25/1.44 = about 17 ohms.
To this you must add the 50 ohm of R5, which you forgot ;)
So the gain would be 5000/(50+17) = 74.
Common base amplifiers have very low input impedance, and it depends on bias current, so the gain will depend on the output impedance of the source, which m... | I've looked at your circuit. I'm not a formula guy. You should realize that almost all of the emitter current will have been coming from the collector. That's the idea of a transistor.
So when the input pulls your emitter down by some small voltage (we're doing small signal analysis here!) the current will move away ... |
326,070 | If I have a circuit as shown below, does it mean that the polarity of capacitor is fixed(irrespective of the direction of current through it)? I have to write the differential equation for this network and then find other quantities. So, the sign of voltage drop (in the equation) across the capacitor depends on this in... | 2017/08/27 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/326070",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/147249/"
] | At 1.44mA the transistor has a Re of 25/1.44 = about 17 ohms.
To this you must add the 50 ohm of R5, which you forgot ;)
So the gain would be 5000/(50+17) = 74.
Common base amplifiers have very low input impedance, and it depends on bias current, so the gain will depend on the output impedance of the source, which m... | 1. the bypass caps and the base cap you can put higher caps like 1 uf; reason is that you want the transistor not affected (at lower frequencies; no need to cut off).
2. Since the gain is Av= gmRc, since Rc is actually Rc in parrallel with the load this will affect the gain as well, so you should use a higher impedance... |
25,270 | It wasn't until I reached 10K rep that I realized when you delete a post, it really only hides it from the thread... Unless of course you are 10K+ or a moderator... Since the delete is not occurring, I think it would be interesting to consider changing the text to Hide. Undelete can become "Show"...
I'm guessing that ... | 2009/10/09 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25270",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/55747/"
] | It means delete for the vast majority of users. Even on SO, there are only 8 full pages of 10K users, compared with over 1500 pages of users with at least 11 rep... and then of course there are the vast hordes browsing without an account at all.
Put it this way - it means "Delete" just as much as the "Delete" option o... | I think this will cause more confusion then is neccessary. Delete means I no longer want my answer to appear. The ability to vote for deletion by those that can ensures that answers or questions that are truly valuable is not lost.
I have on occassion undeleted someone's answer because it was really good, however they... |
25,270 | It wasn't until I reached 10K rep that I realized when you delete a post, it really only hides it from the thread... Unless of course you are 10K+ or a moderator... Since the delete is not occurring, I think it would be interesting to consider changing the text to Hide. Undelete can become "Show"...
I'm guessing that ... | 2009/10/09 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25270",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/55747/"
] | I think this will cause more confusion then is neccessary. Delete means I no longer want my answer to appear. The ability to vote for deletion by those that can ensures that answers or questions that are truly valuable is not lost.
I have on occassion undeleted someone's answer because it was really good, however they... | Delete should not be replaced with hide in this situation.
It *is* a deletion operation: it's only that is what is often termed a 'soft-delete'.
From [Answers.com](http://www.answers.com/topic/soft-delete):
>
> To mark a record in a database for deletion or to temporarily prevent it from being selected. In order t... |
25,270 | It wasn't until I reached 10K rep that I realized when you delete a post, it really only hides it from the thread... Unless of course you are 10K+ or a moderator... Since the delete is not occurring, I think it would be interesting to consider changing the text to Hide. Undelete can become "Show"...
I'm guessing that ... | 2009/10/09 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25270",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/55747/"
] | I think this will cause more confusion then is neccessary. Delete means I no longer want my answer to appear. The ability to vote for deletion by those that can ensures that answers or questions that are truly valuable is not lost.
I have on occassion undeleted someone's answer because it was really good, however they... | Its true that `delete` on the Internet doesn't mean what most people would assume it means.
Show/hide would be more *truthful*, but I don't necessarily believe it would be more *useful*, or usable. Once you figure out things don't really delete, you go "Oh." |
25,270 | It wasn't until I reached 10K rep that I realized when you delete a post, it really only hides it from the thread... Unless of course you are 10K+ or a moderator... Since the delete is not occurring, I think it would be interesting to consider changing the text to Hide. Undelete can become "Show"...
I'm guessing that ... | 2009/10/09 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25270",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/55747/"
] | It means delete for the vast majority of users. Even on SO, there are only 8 full pages of 10K users, compared with over 1500 pages of users with at least 11 rep... and then of course there are the vast hordes browsing without an account at all.
Put it this way - it means "Delete" just as much as the "Delete" option o... | Delete should not be replaced with hide in this situation.
It *is* a deletion operation: it's only that is what is often termed a 'soft-delete'.
From [Answers.com](http://www.answers.com/topic/soft-delete):
>
> To mark a record in a database for deletion or to temporarily prevent it from being selected. In order t... |
25,270 | It wasn't until I reached 10K rep that I realized when you delete a post, it really only hides it from the thread... Unless of course you are 10K+ or a moderator... Since the delete is not occurring, I think it would be interesting to consider changing the text to Hide. Undelete can become "Show"...
I'm guessing that ... | 2009/10/09 | [
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25270",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/55747/"
] | It means delete for the vast majority of users. Even on SO, there are only 8 full pages of 10K users, compared with over 1500 pages of users with at least 11 rep... and then of course there are the vast hordes browsing without an account at all.
Put it this way - it means "Delete" just as much as the "Delete" option o... | Its true that `delete` on the Internet doesn't mean what most people would assume it means.
Show/hide would be more *truthful*, but I don't necessarily believe it would be more *useful*, or usable. Once you figure out things don't really delete, you go "Oh." |
106,095 | I have the Nikon Sigma 85mm 1.4 and I've noticed some inconsistency with focus. I setup a tripod, and a lens calibration card in an attempt to micro adjust the focus. However, what I noticed was that when the aperture is wide open, frame to frame the focus changes slightly from back focusing to front focusing. Its only... | 2019/03/22 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/106095",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/82816/"
] | I would not be surprised at all to see slight variation in very precise measurement of focus from shot to shot. The market for digital cameras is a fiercely competitive one, and making a system with the degree of precision you're looking for would increase cost. Even relatively high-end consumer (and I'm including prof... | I actually suspect the issue may be related to using lenses not made by the camera manufacturer.
These lenses are always reverse-engineered, and thus, may not perform as well as Nikon lenses would perform in a Nikon body.
Autofocus is exactly where I would suspect issues, because it's the most complex thing that the ... |
106,095 | I have the Nikon Sigma 85mm 1.4 and I've noticed some inconsistency with focus. I setup a tripod, and a lens calibration card in an attempt to micro adjust the focus. However, what I noticed was that when the aperture is wide open, frame to frame the focus changes slightly from back focusing to front focusing. Its only... | 2019/03/22 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/106095",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com",
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/users/82816/"
] | >
> Is it normal to see focus inconsistency frame-to-frame with an f/1.4 lens?
>
>
>
It is normal to see slight AF inconsistency from frame-to-frame with every AF lens ever made. More precisely, it is normal to see at least slight AF inconsistency from frame-to-frame for every cameras/lens combination ever made.
... | I actually suspect the issue may be related to using lenses not made by the camera manufacturer.
These lenses are always reverse-engineered, and thus, may not perform as well as Nikon lenses would perform in a Nikon body.
Autofocus is exactly where I would suspect issues, because it's the most complex thing that the ... |
16,754,805 | I am trying to build a neural network simulation running on several high-CPU diskless instances. I am planning to use a persistent disk to store my simulation code and training data and mount them on all server instances. It is basically a map reduce kind of task (several nodes working on the same training data, the re... | 2013/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16754805",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/695760/"
] | Google Cloud Storage is a great way to permanently store information in the Google Cloud. All you need to do is enable that product for your project, and you'll be able to access Cloud Storage directly from your Compute Engine virtual machines. If you create your instances with the 'storage-rw' service account, access ... | If you want to stay in the google product space, how about [google cloud storage](https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage)?
Otherwise, I've used S3 and [boto](https://code.google.com/p/boto/) for these kinds of tasks |
16,754,805 | I am trying to build a neural network simulation running on several high-CPU diskless instances. I am planning to use a persistent disk to store my simulation code and training data and mount them on all server instances. It is basically a map reduce kind of task (several nodes working on the same training data, the re... | 2013/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16754805",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/695760/"
] | Marc's answer is definitely best for long-term storage of results. Depending on your I/O and reliability needs, you can also set up one server as an NFS server, and use it to mount the volume remotely on your other nodes.
Typically, the NFS server would be your "master node", and it can serve both binaries and configu... | If you want to stay in the google product space, how about [google cloud storage](https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage)?
Otherwise, I've used S3 and [boto](https://code.google.com/p/boto/) for these kinds of tasks |
16,754,805 | I am trying to build a neural network simulation running on several high-CPU diskless instances. I am planning to use a persistent disk to store my simulation code and training data and mount them on all server instances. It is basically a map reduce kind of task (several nodes working on the same training data, the re... | 2013/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16754805",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/695760/"
] | Google Cloud Storage is a great way to permanently store information in the Google Cloud. All you need to do is enable that product for your project, and you'll be able to access Cloud Storage directly from your Compute Engine virtual machines. If you create your instances with the 'storage-rw' service account, access ... | As a more general option, you're asking for some sort of general object store. Google, as noted in previous responses, makes a nice package, but nearly all cloud providers provide some storage option. Make sure your cloud provider has BOTH key options -- a volume store, a store for data similar to a virtual disk, and a... |
16,754,805 | I am trying to build a neural network simulation running on several high-CPU diskless instances. I am planning to use a persistent disk to store my simulation code and training data and mount them on all server instances. It is basically a map reduce kind of task (several nodes working on the same training data, the re... | 2013/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16754805",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/695760/"
] | Google Cloud Storage is a great way to permanently store information in the Google Cloud. All you need to do is enable that product for your project, and you'll be able to access Cloud Storage directly from your Compute Engine virtual machines. If you create your instances with the 'storage-rw' service account, access ... | Marc's answer is definitely best for long-term storage of results. Depending on your I/O and reliability needs, you can also set up one server as an NFS server, and use it to mount the volume remotely on your other nodes.
Typically, the NFS server would be your "master node", and it can serve both binaries and configu... |
16,754,805 | I am trying to build a neural network simulation running on several high-CPU diskless instances. I am planning to use a persistent disk to store my simulation code and training data and mount them on all server instances. It is basically a map reduce kind of task (several nodes working on the same training data, the re... | 2013/05/25 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/16754805",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/695760/"
] | Marc's answer is definitely best for long-term storage of results. Depending on your I/O and reliability needs, you can also set up one server as an NFS server, and use it to mount the volume remotely on your other nodes.
Typically, the NFS server would be your "master node", and it can serve both binaries and configu... | As a more general option, you're asking for some sort of general object store. Google, as noted in previous responses, makes a nice package, but nearly all cloud providers provide some storage option. Make sure your cloud provider has BOTH key options -- a volume store, a store for data similar to a virtual disk, and a... |
1,006,423 | I want to connect my virtual machine (running Kali Linux) to wifi networks so I can do testing on the network (not through NAT). I have a Asus USB-AC56 wireless adapter but even with this I cannot seem to get wifi and so no wlan0 on programs that need that.
I have tried both Virtual Box and VMware environments.
Thank... | 2015/11/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1006423",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/527341/"
] | To save the file without fetching from remote server again, do *Print-> Save as PDF*. | Possible related issue to double-download has been [fixed recently](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=587709&can=1&q=component%3AInternals%3EPlugins%3EPDF%20save&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified).
As to disabling automatic opening of... |
1,006,423 | I want to connect my virtual machine (running Kali Linux) to wifi networks so I can do testing on the network (not through NAT). I have a Asus USB-AC56 wireless adapter but even with this I cannot seem to get wifi and so no wlan0 on programs that need that.
I have tried both Virtual Box and VMware environments.
Thank... | 2015/11/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1006423",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/527341/"
] | To save the file without fetching from remote server again, do *Print-> Save as PDF*. | Move your mouse on the screen and a menu should appear on top of the page. You should see an image of a printer on the right side of it. click on that and then under Destination click on change and choose save as PDF from the menu.
It will work even if you don't have an internet connection. |
1,006,423 | I want to connect my virtual machine (running Kali Linux) to wifi networks so I can do testing on the network (not through NAT). I have a Asus USB-AC56 wireless adapter but even with this I cannot seem to get wifi and so no wlan0 on programs that need that.
I have tried both Virtual Box and VMware environments.
Thank... | 2015/11/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1006423",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/527341/"
] | To save the file without fetching from remote server again, do *Print-> Save as PDF*. | I think op needs this answer:
>
> This behavior can be switched off, only the setting is a bit hidden:
>
>
> 1. Go to chrome://settings/content
> 2. Scroll down to "PDF Documents"
> 3. Uncheck "Open PDF files in the default PDF viewer application"
>
>
>
Taken from: <https://superuser.com/a/1177756> |
1,006,423 | I want to connect my virtual machine (running Kali Linux) to wifi networks so I can do testing on the network (not through NAT). I have a Asus USB-AC56 wireless adapter but even with this I cannot seem to get wifi and so no wlan0 on programs that need that.
I have tried both Virtual Box and VMware environments.
Thank... | 2015/11/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1006423",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/527341/"
] | I think op needs this answer:
>
> This behavior can be switched off, only the setting is a bit hidden:
>
>
> 1. Go to chrome://settings/content
> 2. Scroll down to "PDF Documents"
> 3. Uncheck "Open PDF files in the default PDF viewer application"
>
>
>
Taken from: <https://superuser.com/a/1177756> | Possible related issue to double-download has been [fixed recently](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=587709&can=1&q=component%3AInternals%3EPlugins%3EPDF%20save&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Component%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified).
As to disabling automatic opening of... |
1,006,423 | I want to connect my virtual machine (running Kali Linux) to wifi networks so I can do testing on the network (not through NAT). I have a Asus USB-AC56 wireless adapter but even with this I cannot seem to get wifi and so no wlan0 on programs that need that.
I have tried both Virtual Box and VMware environments.
Thank... | 2015/11/28 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1006423",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/527341/"
] | I think op needs this answer:
>
> This behavior can be switched off, only the setting is a bit hidden:
>
>
> 1. Go to chrome://settings/content
> 2. Scroll down to "PDF Documents"
> 3. Uncheck "Open PDF files in the default PDF viewer application"
>
>
>
Taken from: <https://superuser.com/a/1177756> | Move your mouse on the screen and a menu should appear on top of the page. You should see an image of a printer on the right side of it. click on that and then under Destination click on change and choose save as PDF from the menu.
It will work even if you don't have an internet connection. |
321,526 | We have studied the solar system for a long time and have detailed 3 dimensional knowledge of all the various bodies in the solar system and how they move in space in relation to one another and also other stars. My question relates to the accuracy of this knowledge. Do we know the accuracy to +/- 1km, 10km, 100km or w... | 2017/03/26 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/321526",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
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] | This one is tricky unless you know the magic term: [ephemeris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris). An ephemeris gives the position of celestial bodies over time. Once you know that one, finding out [information](https://syrte.obspm.fr/jsr/journees2010/pdf/Folkner.pdf) about their uncertainties is easier.
The unc... | This question can't really be answered without a timeframe. As @PyRulez implied in the comments, the n-body problem is very complicated. In particular, when n > 2, the system is chaotic, meaning that your error margins will grow exponentially with time. [This answer](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/137350/h... |
321,526 | We have studied the solar system for a long time and have detailed 3 dimensional knowledge of all the various bodies in the solar system and how they move in space in relation to one another and also other stars. My question relates to the accuracy of this knowledge. Do we know the accuracy to +/- 1km, 10km, 100km or w... | 2017/03/26 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/321526",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
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] | This one is tricky unless you know the magic term: [ephemeris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeris). An ephemeris gives the position of celestial bodies over time. Once you know that one, finding out [information](https://syrte.obspm.fr/jsr/journees2010/pdf/Folkner.pdf) about their uncertainties is easier.
The unc... | NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) at JPL is responsible for knowing the exact positions of all the planets and their astroids, many asteroids, and every space mission bigger than a toy pop rocket. [JPL NAIF site](https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/index.html)
NAIF provides data and software tools... |
1,978 | I was wondering if anyone knew the technique or how to place dynamic information into a produced video?
The idea is that you could, say connect to facebook, and then display your friends faces in a movie about missing persons or similar. It's the same principle as the [Intel Museum of Me](http://www.intel.com/museumof... | 2011/07/29 | [
"https://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/1978",
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] | You should try googling for something like [green screen software](http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1007&bih=610&q=green%20screen%20software&oq=green%20screen%20so&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=1422l4952l0l6468l19l13l1l0l0l0l609l1860l0.2.2.0.1.1l6l0) or [chromakey software](http://www.google.co.uk/... | If you don't need to do anything too complicated, you might be able to overlay data or photographic elements on video in Adobe Flash (cringe). You'd create a flash object, and send it variables that would control what would be overlaid on it.
An alternative would be to create a script to render a video, and then play... |
1,978 | I was wondering if anyone knew the technique or how to place dynamic information into a produced video?
The idea is that you could, say connect to facebook, and then display your friends faces in a movie about missing persons or similar. It's the same principle as the [Intel Museum of Me](http://www.intel.com/museumof... | 2011/07/29 | [
"https://avp.stackexchange.com/questions/1978",
"https://avp.stackexchange.com",
"https://avp.stackexchange.com/users/1227/"
] | You should try googling for something like [green screen software](http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1007&bih=610&q=green%20screen%20software&oq=green%20screen%20so&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=c&gs_upl=1422l4952l0l6468l19l13l1l0l0l0l609l1860l0.2.2.0.1.1l6l0) or [chromakey software](http://www.google.co.uk/... | usualy, this types of tricks are done in flash, video overlayed with your custom data in a separate container.
if you do it offline, you can script after effects with you prepared video, to render the sequences with your custom data in it. Its a trick with coma delimited spaces...excel export to coma delimited, get a ... |
12,014,610 | Is there any way I can implement Androids Calendar app into an app I am making? I would like to have it so i can switch between Month view and week view just like in the calendar app. Do I have to code this all or does google provide something to help me do this?
Hey guys i fouond something that should help anyone tha... | 2012/08/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12014610",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1572848/"
] | As far as I know, you have to implement it yourself.
But don't forget Android is open-source, you can always look at the Calendar source code and reuse it. | Hey guys i fouond something that should help anyone that is looking at this thread
<https://github.com/karabaralex/android-calendar-view/blob/master/README.md> |
4,393,660 | Can anyone direct me to a place where I can learn a little bit about creating a .xslx file in code behind then populating it. I would need to create new worksheets as well.
I would be using a text box and parsing the data therein to populate the excel spreadsheet.
Thanks in advance. | 2010/12/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4393660",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/329330/"
] | Check out the [Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6E744E5-36E9-45F5-8D8C-331DF206E0D0&displaylang=en). It provides a slightly higher level API than simply the formidable Open XML specification. Download both packages - the tools are useful for experimenti... | I used a few SDK's when I had to do it, and unfortunately many of them worked but had issues with some security when you open it in Excel again.
I eventually settled for good old COM interop with Excel.
This [Interop Arcticle](http://dotnetperls.com/excel-interop) will help you get started.
I just created a nice Exc... |
90,690 | They call him "the other guy", "the guy in blue", "my cousin", "him", "the male", etc. but they are clearly avoiding referring to him as "Superman". Is it a production choice to keep focus on this show? Is it a legal issue? (The answer must be out of universe because it's clear from the show he is known by that name, i... | 2015/05/25 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90690",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
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] | Out-of-universe, it's likely just a technique used to prevent viewers from dwelling on the humongous 'elephant in the room' (e.g. where's Superman and **why aren't we watching him instead?**).
They do actually [reference him](http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=297&t=18484) by *all* of his comic-bo... | Around the 2:20 minute mark:
"When I arrived I was still a 13 year old girl. But in that same time my cousin, Kal-El, had grown up and revealed himself to your world... as Superman. The most powerful man in the Universe."
That's the first of at least three mentions of "Superman" (and Kal-El is said even from the firs... |
20,751 | There's a domain that I've been looking to acquire that is expiring on the 30th of this month. I don't think it is very popular, and the guy hasn't seemed to update the website in two years now.
So, I was doing some research and came across [this site](http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-a... | 2011/10/08 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/20751",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/10741/"
] | This website is from 2005-03 ... things have changed ..
Domains are not easy to snatch, read about the grace and redemption period.
This biggest problem now is mostly Domain Tasting .. ...
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting> | You must be aware of the redemption period. Depending on the TLD, there's a specific period after the domain expiration where the domain can be renewed only from the original registrant.
You said the domain is expiring the 30th of this month. I suggest you to wait at least the 1st of the next month to check whether th... |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | For me, it wasn't just unit tests that changed my life, but Test Driven Development (TDD). I liken it to a religious experience in my blog post (shameless, I know) [My Year with TDD](http://www.houseofbilz.com/archive/2008/10/23/my-year-with-tdd.aspx).
Getting into testing has been a career changing experience for me... | I've done quite a bit of work in java, and a year in Ruby.
In Ruby we used extensive testing (TDD). This was ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED. You can write nearly complete garbage into a Ruby file, and if you don't hit that specific line of code, you'll never know, so your tests need near 100% coverage.
In Java, I've never neede... |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | Now that I foster to test-drive my code, **I know when I'm done** with a function, a component, or a feature. Therefore I can **report progress accurately**.
I know it's not bug free code, but it is functional enough to be integrated, built and delivered to QA. I'm **confident** they'll be able to start testing witho... | Unit test advantages are multiple. To be more specific of how it makes my life better, well, I think that it's increase the confidence in change and give me the possibility to change a lot faster a code later. It increase my life in the long run.
Of course, I can tell that in short time that it's a little bit of more ... |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | the biggest thing unit tests give you is confidence in your code. You know stuff works at a certain level of quality, and you know you can go in and change or rewrite something and not have things fail all over the place where you dont expect to. Verification is only a testrun away. | Unit test advantages are multiple. To be more specific of how it makes my life better, well, I think that it's increase the confidence in change and give me the possibility to change a lot faster a code later. It increase my life in the long run.
Of course, I can tell that in short time that it's a little bit of more ... |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | I must say that I think the improvements in VS 2010, such as Ctrl+Enter (I think that was what it was) that can allow you to quickly stub the interface of a class while writing test (first) is going to make this ALOT easier for me. | When you get to some critical mass of tests, a nice side-effect is often that if you are about to introduce a bug, it is likely to make some test fail, even if the tests aren't directly against the new, buggy code you are writing.
So you will be alerted to the bug you are about to commit before doing so, and you can t... |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | Okay, as nobody else has stepped up to the plate to play devil's advocate, I'll do it.
Automated unit testing can have good benefits for some projects, but can also have many of the following issues:
* It sucks down a ton of engineering resources.
* It can take many man-hours to remove environment and setup issues fr... | It saves me time, because when I run code TDD, it usually just works when it comes to integration time, so no need to spend agonizing hours debugging.
It also gives me confidence having a conversation with other developers claiming that API I created has bugs. |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | the biggest thing unit tests give you is confidence in your code. You know stuff works at a certain level of quality, and you know you can go in and change or rewrite something and not have things fail all over the place where you dont expect to. Verification is only a testrun away. | Unit testing is not a silver bullet. But it does have benefits, and it is very satisfying.
I find it means my code gets executed a lot earlier, since before I wrote unit tests, it took a lot of coding before there was enough functionality to try out in the application.
I'm also very grateful for my suite of unit test... |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | Can't speak for everyone, but I started writing tests because of a fellow developer that wrote tests that were a big help to me when I was learning the system.
I've also found that tests are a good way to verify assumptions when working with a new code base. | I've done quite a bit of work in java, and a year in Ruby.
In Ruby we used extensive testing (TDD). This was ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED. You can write nearly complete garbage into a Ruby file, and if you don't hit that specific line of code, you'll never know, so your tests need near 100% coverage.
In Java, I've never neede... |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | Unit tests are really helpful when you start debugging as well. If your tests fail, then you know where the bug is almost immediately. If they all run, then you know where the bugs *aren't* (most of the time).
Another area where unit tests help: migrating software. I'm finding that it's a lot easier to prepare Python ... | I must say that I think the improvements in VS 2010, such as Ctrl+Enter (I think that was what it was) that can allow you to quickly stub the interface of a class while writing test (first) is going to make this ALOT easier for me. |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | As Elie said, unit-testing is a great way to flush out "stupid" or simple bugs very early.
For me, it changes the way I think about code; making my code testable makes it less brittle and more flexible (e.g. depenceny injection/inversion of control came quite naturally to me because it's something I did for testing pur... | I'm currently in the process of trying to jump on the bandwagon. Work mates are already doing it before they've written a line of functional code. I'm still writing a full program before I've even run it through the main, let alone unit test it :/
I'll get there in the end I'm sure. But at the moment, I am of ill heal... |
341,251 | Ok let me be honest, I haven't written more than 10 unit tests in my life probably.
I am embarking on a new project, and being the sole programmer means **I should be scared ... very scared**.
The idea that I can **pseudo guarantee** that my software works brings about a sense of joy.
Sure I will miss a ton of case... | 2008/12/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/341251",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39677/"
] | Unit testing is not a silver bullet. But it does have benefits, and it is very satisfying.
I find it means my code gets executed a lot earlier, since before I wrote unit tests, it took a lot of coding before there was enough functionality to try out in the application.
I'm also very grateful for my suite of unit test... | When you get to some critical mass of tests, a nice side-effect is often that if you are about to introduce a bug, it is likely to make some test fail, even if the tests aren't directly against the new, buggy code you are writing.
So you will be alerted to the bug you are about to commit before doing so, and you can t... |
390,595 | I frequently encounter situation where I have very basic tests, and if those fail, it doesn't make sense to run many other tests.
Therefore I want to declare a tree of dependencies between my tests, where tests are only run if all pre-conditions tests are passing.
two big advantages I can think of are:
1. During debu... | 2019/04/18 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/390595",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/330288/"
] | I see a couple of problems with this approach:
1. Unit tests are supposed to work independently of each other. Your proposal would couple them together.
2. Unit testing tools often use concurrency mechanisms and automation tools that ensure all of the tests complete on a regular basis and in a timely manner. These mec... | Most unit tests should execute very quickly, with tests taking ~1 second being slow. Unless you have a huge suite of tests, or your tests run slowly, executing all of the tests should not take a whole lot of time - maybe a minute or two. Therefore, executing tests that are going to fail is not that big of a problem. Na... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | I have seen cases where the instructor is given a module just two weeks before it starts, has no time to prepare, and might not have the proper background to teach it.
You might consider that the instructor is doing his/her best with what they have to work with. You might consider talking with the instructor to see w... | I haven't seen this suggested...
How connected are you to the other students in the course?
Is it possible for you to meet as a group with the department chair?
You've got little power in the situation, but one thing you do have in your favor is that a new instructor is unlikely to fail a huge proportion of the class... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | >
> *some have suggested complaining or going to some authority, but offer no specific suggestions about how to do this*
>
>
>
First, you need to understand how the authority chain is structured in academia. Your first course of action is to confront the instructor, which you've already done. The next step up woul... | I haven't seen this suggested...
How connected are you to the other students in the course?
Is it possible for you to meet as a group with the department chair?
You've got little power in the situation, but one thing you do have in your favor is that a new instructor is unlikely to fail a huge proportion of the class... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | >
> *some have suggested complaining or going to some authority, but offer no specific suggestions about how to do this*
>
>
>
First, you need to understand how the authority chain is structured in academia. Your first course of action is to confront the instructor, which you've already done. The next step up woul... | If you are about to finishing your master degree I strongly suggest not to postpone this course another year. Study for it with the material the professor gave you and if you find that something is missing or not clear speak with the professors.
Doing a master degree is not only about having good professors and learni... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | >
> *some have suggested complaining or going to some authority, but offer no specific suggestions about how to do this*
>
>
>
First, you need to understand how the authority chain is structured in academia. Your first course of action is to confront the instructor, which you've already done. The next step up woul... | *Warning:* my answer might be out of focus for you because it takes into account only the information on your question, while some of your comments complement that information.
Unfortunately, some instructor do waste students' time by doing a very poor job; I'll assume this is the case here (but note that sometimes st... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | I would not recommend going over your professor's head at this point. At least, it is not clear that you have done everything possible to turn the situation around. I'm hoping that your goal is to understand the content of the class so that you are not wasting the term.
I think that, instead of asking the professor to... | If you are about to finishing your master degree I strongly suggest not to postpone this course another year. Study for it with the material the professor gave you and if you find that something is missing or not clear speak with the professors.
Doing a master degree is not only about having good professors and learni... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | I have seen cases where the instructor is given a module just two weeks before it starts, has no time to prepare, and might not have the proper background to teach it.
You might consider that the instructor is doing his/her best with what they have to work with. You might consider talking with the instructor to see w... | If you are about to finishing your master degree I strongly suggest not to postpone this course another year. Study for it with the material the professor gave you and if you find that something is missing or not clear speak with the professors.
Doing a master degree is not only about having good professors and learni... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | I haven't seen this suggested...
How connected are you to the other students in the course?
Is it possible for you to meet as a group with the department chair?
You've got little power in the situation, but one thing you do have in your favor is that a new instructor is unlikely to fail a huge proportion of the class... | My thoughts:
First, you need to make sure that the problem is the instructor and not you. Are a large number of other students having the same problems? In my experience, it is also often the case that a class appears badly taught to a student who is missing something key about the material. For example, when I was a ... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | >
> *some have suggested complaining or going to some authority, but offer no specific suggestions about how to do this*
>
>
>
First, you need to understand how the authority chain is structured in academia. Your first course of action is to confront the instructor, which you've already done. The next step up woul... | I would not recommend going over your professor's head at this point. At least, it is not clear that you have done everything possible to turn the situation around. I'm hoping that your goal is to understand the content of the class so that you are not wasting the term.
I think that, instead of asking the professor to... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/600/"
] | I haven't seen this suggested...
How connected are you to the other students in the course?
Is it possible for you to meet as a group with the department chair?
You've got little power in the situation, but one thing you do have in your favor is that a new instructor is unlikely to fail a huge proportion of the class... | I would not recommend going over your professor's head at this point. At least, it is not clear that you have done everything possible to turn the situation around. I'm hoping that your goal is to understand the content of the class so that you are not wasting the term.
I think that, instead of asking the professor to... |
28,888 | I am nearly finished with my master's degree. Recently, I enrolled in a required course that is a terrible mess. I'd like to wait another year, and take it again with an instructor who has their stuff together and will actually answer student questions and prepare lessons that match the exams. Delaying graduation seems... | 2014/09/22 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/28888",
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] | I have seen cases where the instructor is given a module just two weeks before it starts, has no time to prepare, and might not have the proper background to teach it.
You might consider that the instructor is doing his/her best with what they have to work with. You might consider talking with the instructor to see w... | My thoughts:
First, you need to make sure that the problem is the instructor and not you. Are a large number of other students having the same problems? In my experience, it is also often the case that a class appears badly taught to a student who is missing something key about the material. For example, when I was a ... |
123,997 | In older scores that have been engraved by hand, it is very common to see something like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6h9Yy.jpg)
i.e. if there are many of the same tuplets in a row, the tuplet numb... | 2022/07/24 | [
"https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/123997",
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] | Uncluttered scores are always the best to read.
It is clear from the way the example is written, that bars 33 and 34 follow the same pattern - the timing can't have suddenly changed, and after all, a lot of music follows patterns - as there.
I'd be happier to see a bracket between 1st and 6th tuplet, although the phr... | In the old days when scores were hand copied of manually engraved, it took time and effort to put the numbers in, so they would mostly be left out where the meaning was obvious.
Nowadays scores are mostly computer engraved and it's more work to take the numbers out than leave them in, so they are usually left in, ex... |
2,813,395 | I am running TeamCity build 5.1.1 on a virtual machine that also hosts our SVN environment. A team I support has recently made the move from Visual Studio 2008/Silverlight 3.0 to Visual Studio 2010/Silverlight 4.0 and when investigating how to do continuous integration with Visual Studio 2010 solutions/projects, it is ... | 2010/05/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2813395",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/338597/"
] | I was able to find the following:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=711a2eef-b107-4784-9063-c978edc498cd&displaylang=en>
Looks like there is a beta for Web Deployment Projects in VS 2010 at this point. Still interested in if there is a way to ultimately accomplish this using the Publish/Packag... | Visual Studio® 2010 Web Deployment Projects - RTW
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=89f2c4f5-5d3a-49b6-bcad-f776c6edfa63&displaylang=en> |
91,058 | Let's say I have a double bond between carbons 6 and 1 on a 6 carbon cycle (the numbering is imposed because of the positions of the suffix functional groups), is the bond numbered 1 or 6?
6 seems logical because it is not ambiguous (clearly if it starts on 6 it ends on 1), but usually you must minimize numbers (howe... | 2018/02/21 | [
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] | >
> I've tried finding the official rule but haven't managed to.
>
>
>
Names with the highest locant for the double bond such as ‘cyclohex-6-ene-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid’ are formed analogous to the names of usual unsaturated cyclic compounds. This might be considered common sense. Also, most known chemical struct... | When using general IUPAC rules for locant number minimization, one might be tempted to use the compound locant for some rather simple cases like multi-substituted cyclohexenes, like
‘cyclohex-1(6)-ene-1,2,4-triol’ instead of
**cyclohex-6-e... |
490,528 | When I enlarge the font in a web page, sometimes the font gets thick, "black-ed", why is that?
And after a few mouse scrolls:
 | 2012/10/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/490528",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/73361/"
] | When the thickness of the strokes within the glyph shapes is near the size of the pixels on the rendering device, compromises have to be made. For example, suppose the thickness of one of the vertical strokes works out to 1.5 pixels. Even if the font renderer supports sub-pixel anti-aliasing, it might be better (in ter... | I think you have a conceptual issue here.
In most cases, if you enlarge just the width and height of the font, at a sufficiently big enough size the text no longer resembles that font. Larger font sizes feature thicker characters than smaller fonts.
What you're seeing looks like normal behaviour to me. |
24,633 | Attitude indicators (artificial horizons) use a gyro to display pitch and bank.
I was wondering if it would work to use a ball half full of liquid to replace the artificial horizon (using the water level as reference)? | 2016/01/25 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24633",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/7427/"
] | Nope. In a perfectly flown turn, the ball of liquid would appear to indicate level flight.
You might argue that it could replace the "ball" of a turn & bank indicator, but that's about it.
It would also be tough to read in turbulence.
See also this YouTube video showing [Bob Hoover pouring iced tea](https://www.yout... | This is similar to the "use a plumb bob / fuzzy dice" idea.
Happens all the time where VFR pilots fly into IMC, and rely on their sense of balance (from their inner ear) to keep the plain straight and level. The forces acting on the inner ear are the same as acting on the *plumb bob* at left. How are we doing?
[): | 2019/09/27 | [
"https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/52867",
"https://emacs.stackexchange.com",
"https://emacs.stackexchange.com/users/5327/"
] | Have a look at the [emojify](https://github.com/iqbalansari/emacs-emojify) package. | Yes, if you have the Symbola font installed, it will make use of it to render emojis:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BejPE.png) |
55,726 | So, I know rolling your own security is ill-advised, but for simplistic things like communicating with a home server, say, updating a grocery list, is a custom protocol fine? It won't be doing anything that needs to be secured, so it seems fine in that sense, but I guess someone could reverse engineer packets and send ... | 2014/04/14 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55726",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/40706/"
] | I suspect you answered your own question already.
The mere fact that you want to protect the data implies that it is sensitive and should not be modified or leaked. If this is not the case, why bother with protecting at all?
If the opposite is true (the data should be protected) then the "rule" stands that the use of... | You have to make a distinction between the *applicative protocol* and the *transport protocol*. SSL/TLS is a transport protocol: it ensures some security-related guarantees (confidentiality, integrity, some authentication) for a a bidirectional stream of bytes. What these bytes *mean* is what the "applicative protocol"... |
55,726 | So, I know rolling your own security is ill-advised, but for simplistic things like communicating with a home server, say, updating a grocery list, is a custom protocol fine? It won't be doing anything that needs to be secured, so it seems fine in that sense, but I guess someone could reverse engineer packets and send ... | 2014/04/14 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55726",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/40706/"
] | I suspect you answered your own question already.
The mere fact that you want to protect the data implies that it is sensitive and should not be modified or leaked. If this is not the case, why bother with protecting at all?
If the opposite is true (the data should be protected) then the "rule" stands that the use of... | I think you're asking if a hacker could cause trouble for your home servers if you're using an insecure protocol for data. This is completely dependent on how you handle the data and how you implement parsing the information packets.
If you're ONLY using the custom protocol for non-sensitive data and implementing good... |
55,726 | So, I know rolling your own security is ill-advised, but for simplistic things like communicating with a home server, say, updating a grocery list, is a custom protocol fine? It won't be doing anything that needs to be secured, so it seems fine in that sense, but I guess someone could reverse engineer packets and send ... | 2014/04/14 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55726",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/40706/"
] | By definition, if it doesn't matter if someone has access to or modifies your data, then it isn't sensitive and doesn't have to be secure. For things that have to be secure, then it is ill advised to use a custom protocol unless you can invest the huge amounts of time and resources necessary to ensure its security (mil... | You have to make a distinction between the *applicative protocol* and the *transport protocol*. SSL/TLS is a transport protocol: it ensures some security-related guarantees (confidentiality, integrity, some authentication) for a a bidirectional stream of bytes. What these bytes *mean* is what the "applicative protocol"... |
55,726 | So, I know rolling your own security is ill-advised, but for simplistic things like communicating with a home server, say, updating a grocery list, is a custom protocol fine? It won't be doing anything that needs to be secured, so it seems fine in that sense, but I guess someone could reverse engineer packets and send ... | 2014/04/14 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55726",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/40706/"
] | By definition, if it doesn't matter if someone has access to or modifies your data, then it isn't sensitive and doesn't have to be secure. For things that have to be secure, then it is ill advised to use a custom protocol unless you can invest the huge amounts of time and resources necessary to ensure its security (mil... | I think you're asking if a hacker could cause trouble for your home servers if you're using an insecure protocol for data. This is completely dependent on how you handle the data and how you implement parsing the information packets.
If you're ONLY using the custom protocol for non-sensitive data and implementing good... |
55,726 | So, I know rolling your own security is ill-advised, but for simplistic things like communicating with a home server, say, updating a grocery list, is a custom protocol fine? It won't be doing anything that needs to be secured, so it seems fine in that sense, but I guess someone could reverse engineer packets and send ... | 2014/04/14 | [
"https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55726",
"https://security.stackexchange.com",
"https://security.stackexchange.com/users/40706/"
] | You have to make a distinction between the *applicative protocol* and the *transport protocol*. SSL/TLS is a transport protocol: it ensures some security-related guarantees (confidentiality, integrity, some authentication) for a a bidirectional stream of bytes. What these bytes *mean* is what the "applicative protocol"... | I think you're asking if a hacker could cause trouble for your home servers if you're using an insecure protocol for data. This is completely dependent on how you handle the data and how you implement parsing the information packets.
If you're ONLY using the custom protocol for non-sensitive data and implementing good... |
14,691,158 | I'm building an application that streams live audio over udp online and I want to minimize latency. The audio is sent as its generated, meaning it takes one second to generate one second of audio, it cannot be sent faster than the audio-rate.
My initial idea was to send small packets of compressed audio so the client ... | 2013/02/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/14691158",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1478842/"
] | You will most definitely be buffering more than 5ms. 5ms is an extremely low buffer, even for the playback sound card itself. Only sound devices with special drivers (such as ASIO) are able to get that low, and that is about as low as they go. Are you sending those packets over your own LAN where you can control and pr... | I would recommend you use up to 534 bytes. That's the limit if you want to avoid fragmentation and therefore possible data loss on that ground. |
1,977,004 | I'm developing a personal project. The project is "finished", but now I want to add a social app. I think pinax is ready for this task. I would like to know something:
Can I use pinax in my project like a django app? Or do I need to rework my project using pinax?
Thanks guys. | 2009/12/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1977004",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/147424/"
] | There are two ways to approach what you're trying to do. As celopes said, since Pinax is made up of a bunch of reusable Django apps you can just pick and choose the ones you want and add those to your project.
The other approach would be to start from one of the [Pinax template projects](http://github.com/pinax/pinax/... | From the [Pinax](http://pinaxproject.com/) website:
>
> By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.
>
>
>
So Pinax is composed of reusable django apps. Use the ones you need.
[Documentation is here](h... |
863,812 | I am trying to make a sort of "inventory helper" spreadsheet that can track quantities. On the summary sheet, I want to be able to enter a quantity into a column called "On Hand" and then if that number is under an established threshold (which will be different depending on the item the row is for) a column further acr... | 2015/01/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/863812",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/407902/"
] | Basically this is called Conditional formatting in Excel. Since you are talking on different thresholds for each item, it will be best to have a threshold column as well so you can change what the threshold will be in the future easily. I could go into great detail on how to do this, however, there is a great place whe... | You're better off doing this in Microsoft Access. If you must use Excel, understand the [risks of using Excel](http://www.waspbarcode.com/buzz/4-reasons-excel-inventory-management-doesnt-work/), primarily data entry errors.
You want to think about some Excel columns here:
* ReOrder Point - when stock balance reach th... |
83,669 | I need to represent a stat for a weight loss stat. Right now I have this wording:
*2% weight loss*
the client hasn't think of the logical scenario of no weight loss or even worse, weight gain. So I'm working on this but still dubious on wording between these two:
**0% weight loss**
or
**No weight loss**
I reall... | 2015/08/26 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/83669",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com",
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/users/54669/"
] | Is there room for
**no weight change**
This is then easy to understand, and is clear that it's not any gain either.
Like the answer, I think you'd more than likely say something like "my weight hasn't changed since last week"
On a similar note, a 2% loss doesn't mean much to most, so would it be better to say
... | The most appropriate is **NO**
According to one of the 10 [Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design](http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/) by Nielsen:
>
> The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. ... |
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