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968 | I'm working on a world where, with very few exceptions, metalwork is not possible/unwanted, and I'm trying to figure out what major differences one might see in daily life, and what would be necessary for a culture to continue to go without metal.
Considering a culture that is premodern but relatively advanced:
* Is ... | 2014/10/03 | [
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] | I think that this question is leaning too heavily on preconceived notions of "how things work" and overlooking possible solutions that are outside of its box. Just because human technology developed in a particular way, that does not limit technological societies to developing in exactly that way.
For example, a socie... | You can look at the old societies pre 3500-1200BC to get a pretty good idea of what they could and could not do without metal.
If metallurgy was replaceable by magic on earth a vast majority of people would choose to use magic. If they themselves could not use magic but a shaman could then they could pay/barter with h... |
968 | I'm working on a world where, with very few exceptions, metalwork is not possible/unwanted, and I'm trying to figure out what major differences one might see in daily life, and what would be necessary for a culture to continue to go without metal.
Considering a culture that is premodern but relatively advanced:
* Is ... | 2014/10/03 | [
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] | I think that this question is leaning too heavily on preconceived notions of "how things work" and overlooking possible solutions that are outside of its box. Just because human technology developed in a particular way, that does not limit technological societies to developing in exactly that way.
For example, a socie... | Just a brief comment on the glassblowing...
Naturally occurring stone tubes form in limestone caves, as water drips through the centre of the tube... like a thin, hollow stalactite. I think they are called straws.
They aren't usually very big, and you have scope within fiction to modify this in many ways.
So that gi... |
968 | I'm working on a world where, with very few exceptions, metalwork is not possible/unwanted, and I'm trying to figure out what major differences one might see in daily life, and what would be necessary for a culture to continue to go without metal.
Considering a culture that is premodern but relatively advanced:
* Is ... | 2014/10/03 | [
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] | I agree with certain aspects of many of the answers, but feel like by default we are limiting ourselves to preconceptions of how technologies were unlocked, perfected or utilized.
Think of many of the things we are discovering the unique material properties of today and apply that to a people who have survived off th... | Many of the other answers already cover most of what I wanted to say, but there's a few points I wanted to add here.
The first would depend on your definition of "no metals" would be. Imagine a world where metals of any sort were extremely rare, life as we know it would be completely different assuming it could still ... |
968 | I'm working on a world where, with very few exceptions, metalwork is not possible/unwanted, and I'm trying to figure out what major differences one might see in daily life, and what would be necessary for a culture to continue to go without metal.
Considering a culture that is premodern but relatively advanced:
* Is ... | 2014/10/03 | [
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] | Assuming there's only trace amounts of metals (enough for life but not enough to work with), there's some stuff that could possibly be replaced:
* Blades and cutting implements could be fashioned out of volcanic rock. Since the flexibility of molding isn't readily available, they would be limited to shapes and sizes t... | Just a brief comment on the glassblowing...
Naturally occurring stone tubes form in limestone caves, as water drips through the centre of the tube... like a thin, hollow stalactite. I think they are called straws.
They aren't usually very big, and you have scope within fiction to modify this in many ways.
So that gi... |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
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] | Red light preserves your night vision.
--------------------------------------
Red lights are used in photography dark rooms, military bunkers, submarines, and anywhere you might find yourself working in the dark. It gives you light to see by, while at the same time keeping your eyes adjusted for the dark.
![enter ima... | The automatic f-stop mechanism (iris) in your eye is less sensitive to red light than the shorter wavelengths. Therefore, red light provides some illumination, but doesn't trigger your eye to stop down and make you temporarily blind when you shut the light off. There are also other ways your eyes adapt to ambient brigh... |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
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] | The automatic f-stop mechanism (iris) in your eye is less sensitive to red light than the shorter wavelengths. Therefore, red light provides some illumination, but doesn't trigger your eye to stop down and make you temporarily blind when you shut the light off. There are also other ways your eyes adapt to ambient brigh... | Night vision and, if you're camping with a partner, a nice way to not blind them around camp.
It is also a way to see in the dark without disturbing animals you're hunting, or the fish if you're night fishing. |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
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] | The automatic f-stop mechanism (iris) in your eye is less sensitive to red light than the shorter wavelengths. Therefore, red light provides some illumination, but doesn't trigger your eye to stop down and make you temporarily blind when you shut the light off. There are also other ways your eyes adapt to ambient brigh... | In addition to the answers already mentioned, I prefer red light while outdoors in the summer because it seems to attract fewer insects. I always seem to have more insects flying around my face if I use white, and fewer with red. |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
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] | The automatic f-stop mechanism (iris) in your eye is less sensitive to red light than the shorter wavelengths. Therefore, red light provides some illumination, but doesn't trigger your eye to stop down and make you temporarily blind when you shut the light off. There are also other ways your eyes adapt to ambient brigh... | The focus is preserved by using red light.
Human eyes adjust faster to red light than to white light when shifting from darkness to light.
Emergency personnel and first responders also use red lights. They aid in the preservation of night vision and the reduction of overall light signature in low-light environments. R... |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
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] | Red light preserves your night vision.
--------------------------------------
Red lights are used in photography dark rooms, military bunkers, submarines, and anywhere you might find yourself working in the dark. It gives you light to see by, while at the same time keeping your eyes adjusted for the dark.
![enter ima... | Night vision and, if you're camping with a partner, a nice way to not blind them around camp.
It is also a way to see in the dark without disturbing animals you're hunting, or the fish if you're night fishing. |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
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] | Red light preserves your night vision.
--------------------------------------
Red lights are used in photography dark rooms, military bunkers, submarines, and anywhere you might find yourself working in the dark. It gives you light to see by, while at the same time keeping your eyes adjusted for the dark.
![enter ima... | In addition to the answers already mentioned, I prefer red light while outdoors in the summer because it seems to attract fewer insects. I always seem to have more insects flying around my face if I use white, and fewer with red. |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/8089",
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] | Red light preserves your night vision.
--------------------------------------
Red lights are used in photography dark rooms, military bunkers, submarines, and anywhere you might find yourself working in the dark. It gives you light to see by, while at the same time keeping your eyes adjusted for the dark.
![enter ima... | The focus is preserved by using red light.
Human eyes adjust faster to red light than to white light when shifting from darkness to light.
Emergency personnel and first responders also use red lights. They aid in the preservation of night vision and the reduction of overall light signature in low-light environments. R... |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/8089",
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] | Night vision and, if you're camping with a partner, a nice way to not blind them around camp.
It is also a way to see in the dark without disturbing animals you're hunting, or the fish if you're night fishing. | The focus is preserved by using red light.
Human eyes adjust faster to red light than to white light when shifting from darkness to light.
Emergency personnel and first responders also use red lights. They aid in the preservation of night vision and the reduction of overall light signature in low-light environments. R... |
8,089 | I'm planning my first road trip with a friend. We're going from UK through France, probably Germany or maybe Belgium to Denmark and over to Sweden, back down to central France and then back home.
We'll be over the channel for 5 weeks all in all. I have a gas camp cooker. We'll be travelling from mid-June until mid-Ju... | 2015/04/01 | [
"https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/8089",
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] | In addition to the answers already mentioned, I prefer red light while outdoors in the summer because it seems to attract fewer insects. I always seem to have more insects flying around my face if I use white, and fewer with red. | The focus is preserved by using red light.
Human eyes adjust faster to red light than to white light when shifting from darkness to light.
Emergency personnel and first responders also use red lights. They aid in the preservation of night vision and the reduction of overall light signature in low-light environments. R... |
1,892,510 | How does a formal architecture specification fit in with agile development - if at all?
I'm thinking specifically of Scrum, which makes no mention of an architecture amongst the official artifacts.
Do you just let the architecture evolve "accidentally" (so to speak), do you spec it informally, or is there room for ... | 2009/12/12 | [
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] | Agile is often described as "only do what you need to do now, and you can refactor later if more things are needed".
This is rather misleading. It can be read as "bodge something in quickly now, and then work out how to upgrade it to do more things in the future". Which will lead to a world of pain and technical debt.... | Depends on your scope. Could be a given, could be green-field. Just enough architecture, just in time. You need something to be able write your first tests, do continuous integration.
It is a document, so who is going to need it, and to do what?
* your team needs something to describe where to put functionality and ... |
1,892,510 | How does a formal architecture specification fit in with agile development - if at all?
I'm thinking specifically of Scrum, which makes no mention of an architecture amongst the official artifacts.
Do you just let the architecture evolve "accidentally" (so to speak), do you spec it informally, or is there room for ... | 2009/12/12 | [
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] | Agile is often described as "only do what you need to do now, and you can refactor later if more things are needed".
This is rather misleading. It can be read as "bodge something in quickly now, and then work out how to upgrade it to do more things in the future". Which will lead to a world of pain and technical debt.... | Scrum is mainly a project management technique, that's the reason why it does not mention architecture.
As much as possible the architecture is defined incrementally. Implementation done end-to-end rather than layer by layer helps in that regard: it leads to implement a part in each layer.
Architectural decisions ca... |
40,331 | In my story, my narrator has only recently met other humans and the biggest creature she has ever interacted with are dogs. In the survivors' camp, she encounters their horses and is pretty freaked out, but I don't really know how to describe them in the way that someone would if they'd never seen them before. Help? | 2018/11/23 | [
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] | You could look at how children perceive animals that they do not yet know. What they do is subsume animals that look alike into the same category. At first every animal is called a "dog" (if a dog is the first animal a child knows). Then different classes of animals are differentiated, as the parents give names to the ... | Horses are very much like ramped up dogs; the long face, the legs. They have hooves instead of paws. You have to add on manes and hairy tails. But if somebody has seen large dogs, like a Labrador Retriever or Greyhound, the horse is very similar.
I'd look through breeds of dogs and see which one looks MOST like a hors... |
40,331 | In my story, my narrator has only recently met other humans and the biggest creature she has ever interacted with are dogs. In the survivors' camp, she encounters their horses and is pretty freaked out, but I don't really know how to describe them in the way that someone would if they'd never seen them before. Help? | 2018/11/23 | [
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] | **She would focus on both the familiar and the parts that are out of place.**
Familiar:
\* It's an animal (mammal) (4 legs, hairy)
\* It works in a helper capacity to humans
Bizarre:
\* Its size! This is probably her first impression.
\* It can be ridden. If this is part of her first view, it will likely ... | Horses are very much like ramped up dogs; the long face, the legs. They have hooves instead of paws. You have to add on manes and hairy tails. But if somebody has seen large dogs, like a Labrador Retriever or Greyhound, the horse is very similar.
I'd look through breeds of dogs and see which one looks MOST like a hors... |
40,331 | In my story, my narrator has only recently met other humans and the biggest creature she has ever interacted with are dogs. In the survivors' camp, she encounters their horses and is pretty freaked out, but I don't really know how to describe them in the way that someone would if they'd never seen them before. Help? | 2018/11/23 | [
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] | **She would focus on both the familiar and the parts that are out of place.**
Familiar:
\* It's an animal (mammal) (4 legs, hairy)
\* It works in a helper capacity to humans
Bizarre:
\* Its size! This is probably her first impression.
\* It can be ridden. If this is part of her first view, it will likely ... | You could look at how children perceive animals that they do not yet know. What they do is subsume animals that look alike into the same category. At first every animal is called a "dog" (if a dog is the first animal a child knows). Then different classes of animals are differentiated, as the parents give names to the ... |
11,662 | Let's say I have a digital system of basic combinational logic with feedback (I do). That is, the value of the gates' inputs depend in some way on the value of their outputs.
Depending on the system, particular combinations of gate inputs would be unstable, meaning that the outputs of the gates, when they have that p... | 2011/03/18 | [
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] | In digital electronics, the initial state is usually defined as the *reset state*. When the *reset signal* is active, the state is forced to a *predefined value*.
The reset signal is active when the device is powered on. Often, '0' (or low voltage) is used to mean an active reset signal. As a capacitor charges, the v... | 1. Pull-ups might work, but they will constantly eat power
2. You may use capacitor to VCC - so that during powerup you'll get a short pulse, but it most cases power rises quite slowly...
3. Just make reset signal, which resets everything to required state, and add BOD scheme to autoreset on powerup after vcc reache le... |
11,662 | Let's say I have a digital system of basic combinational logic with feedback (I do). That is, the value of the gates' inputs depend in some way on the value of their outputs.
Depending on the system, particular combinations of gate inputs would be unstable, meaning that the outputs of the gates, when they have that p... | 2011/03/18 | [
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] | Instead of an RC reset circuit, you might want to consider a microprocessor supervisory circuit such as the Micrel [MIC1810](http://www.micrel.com/_PDF/mic1810.pdf). It generates a 100 ms reset pulse on startup, and whenever VCC falls below a set threshold (so it functions as a BOD also). Although designed for micropro... | 1. Pull-ups might work, but they will constantly eat power
2. You may use capacitor to VCC - so that during powerup you'll get a short pulse, but it most cases power rises quite slowly...
3. Just make reset signal, which resets everything to required state, and add BOD scheme to autoreset on powerup after vcc reache le... |
11,662 | Let's say I have a digital system of basic combinational logic with feedback (I do). That is, the value of the gates' inputs depend in some way on the value of their outputs.
Depending on the system, particular combinations of gate inputs would be unstable, meaning that the outputs of the gates, when they have that p... | 2011/03/18 | [
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] | Instead of an RC reset circuit, you might want to consider a microprocessor supervisory circuit such as the Micrel [MIC1810](http://www.micrel.com/_PDF/mic1810.pdf). It generates a 100 ms reset pulse on startup, and whenever VCC falls below a set threshold (so it functions as a BOD also). Although designed for micropro... | In digital electronics, the initial state is usually defined as the *reset state*. When the *reset signal* is active, the state is forced to a *predefined value*.
The reset signal is active when the device is powered on. Often, '0' (or low voltage) is used to mean an active reset signal. As a capacitor charges, the v... |
165,816 | When I crate a Webform I do have an option to make it available as a block as well. But in this case it creates a node as well.
How can I create a Webform as a block only? | 2015/07/17 | [
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] | You will need to create a webform as node. Edit the node and navigate to:
Webform tab -> Form Settings tab -> Advance Settings (located at the bottom of the page).
Check the checkbox for **Available as block** and your webform will be a block. | I'm not aware of a solution different from the "create a webform as node" (+ make available as block).
However, to avoid anybody would want to visit that "node of the webform" (cfr. your "*I don't need people get on node of this Webform*"), you migt want to consider a variation of the approach detailed in the answer t... |
252,153 | I was trying to make a spherical object like that to have like a mosaic texture ([Like in this tutorial](https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/251927/is-there-a-way-to-make-a-sphere-made-of-equilateral-triangles)), but I have problem applying boolean modifier to separate two objects and texture them[![enter image... | 2022/01/29 | [
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] | As common\_goldfish already mentioned:
1. switch to cycles + rendered view
2. add 2 boolean modifiers to cube.005:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ykDqZ.png)
i created a new sphere for that by basically just copying cube.004 and deleted the wireframe m... | *Set Color ramp Material*
Follow the tutorial exactly using the edge split and solidify modifier.
Concentrate only on testing the inner sphere.
a. Use the color ramp with the distribute stops in the drop down menu. Use a **principled BDSF** with a high transmission value.
b.Switch to render view in **Cycles**.
I a... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
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] | I don't know of a specific name for this idea, but it certainly has been proposed. As one example, it was the center pillar of the arguments developed by CS Lewis in the book *Mere Christianity*. In the book, he appeals to an innate sense of right and wrong in simple social situations, such as when someone bumps you wa... | I am answering this question from an Islamic scholar from the Shia sect named [Ja'far ibn Sadiq](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%27far_al-Sadiq) but with will try to only speak in plain English
All human beings are born with [senses of good and wrong](http://www.spiritualresistance.com/index.php/articles/wisdom/ite... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
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] | I don't know of a specific name for this idea, but it certainly has been proposed. As one example, it was the center pillar of the arguments developed by CS Lewis in the book *Mere Christianity*. In the book, he appeals to an innate sense of right and wrong in simple social situations, such as when someone bumps you wa... | It would seem to me that morality can't actually be 'innate' in any meaningful sense, by which I mean we are born with an innate sense of what actions are moral or immoral.Because we are born with essentially no concept of mind, reality, or thought, let alone rationality or morality, it doesn't seem rational to indicat... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
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] | I don't know of a specific name for this idea, but it certainly has been proposed. As one example, it was the center pillar of the arguments developed by CS Lewis in the book *Mere Christianity*. In the book, he appeals to an innate sense of right and wrong in simple social situations, such as when someone bumps you wa... | Yes, there is innate morality.
* (Many) monkeys will starve themselves rather than do something that hurts another monkey but allows them to get food.
* People have mirror neurons that fire in sympathy with what other people are feeling as well as when they have it themselves.
* People very frequently balk at imperati... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
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] | I don't know of a specific name for this idea, but it certainly has been proposed. As one example, it was the center pillar of the arguments developed by CS Lewis in the book *Mere Christianity*. In the book, he appeals to an innate sense of right and wrong in simple social situations, such as when someone bumps you wa... | One place to look for a theory and evidence justifying innate moral intuition is [Moral Foundations Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory) (MFT):
>
> *Moral foundations theory* is a social psychological theory intended to explain the origins of and variation in human moral reasoning on the ba... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
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] | I am answering this question from an Islamic scholar from the Shia sect named [Ja'far ibn Sadiq](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%27far_al-Sadiq) but with will try to only speak in plain English
All human beings are born with [senses of good and wrong](http://www.spiritualresistance.com/index.php/articles/wisdom/ite... | It would seem to me that morality can't actually be 'innate' in any meaningful sense, by which I mean we are born with an innate sense of what actions are moral or immoral.Because we are born with essentially no concept of mind, reality, or thought, let alone rationality or morality, it doesn't seem rational to indicat... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/28247",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/933/"
] | Yes, there is innate morality.
* (Many) monkeys will starve themselves rather than do something that hurts another monkey but allows them to get food.
* People have mirror neurons that fire in sympathy with what other people are feeling as well as when they have it themselves.
* People very frequently balk at imperati... | I am answering this question from an Islamic scholar from the Shia sect named [Ja'far ibn Sadiq](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%27far_al-Sadiq) but with will try to only speak in plain English
All human beings are born with [senses of good and wrong](http://www.spiritualresistance.com/index.php/articles/wisdom/ite... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/28247",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/933/"
] | I am answering this question from an Islamic scholar from the Shia sect named [Ja'far ibn Sadiq](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%27far_al-Sadiq) but with will try to only speak in plain English
All human beings are born with [senses of good and wrong](http://www.spiritualresistance.com/index.php/articles/wisdom/ite... | One place to look for a theory and evidence justifying innate moral intuition is [Moral Foundations Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory) (MFT):
>
> *Moral foundations theory* is a social psychological theory intended to explain the origins of and variation in human moral reasoning on the ba... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/28247",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/933/"
] | Yes, there is innate morality.
* (Many) monkeys will starve themselves rather than do something that hurts another monkey but allows them to get food.
* People have mirror neurons that fire in sympathy with what other people are feeling as well as when they have it themselves.
* People very frequently balk at imperati... | It would seem to me that morality can't actually be 'innate' in any meaningful sense, by which I mean we are born with an innate sense of what actions are moral or immoral.Because we are born with essentially no concept of mind, reality, or thought, let alone rationality or morality, it doesn't seem rational to indicat... |
28,247 | It was an insight of Chomsky who demonstrated that though language ability varied from man to man: one man speaking several languages and illiterate, and another speaking one language but literate; their capacity for learning language was innate, and that this capacity was structured in a certain general way.
And this... | 2015/09/21 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/28247",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/933/"
] | Yes, there is innate morality.
* (Many) monkeys will starve themselves rather than do something that hurts another monkey but allows them to get food.
* People have mirror neurons that fire in sympathy with what other people are feeling as well as when they have it themselves.
* People very frequently balk at imperati... | One place to look for a theory and evidence justifying innate moral intuition is [Moral Foundations Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory) (MFT):
>
> *Moral foundations theory* is a social psychological theory intended to explain the origins of and variation in human moral reasoning on the ba... |
30,980 | During Pain's destruction of Konoha, he fought Naruto. When fighting Naruto, Pain hurt Hinata which made Naruto get mad. After a couple of seconds of being mad Naruto started to transform into Kyuubi.
How many tails did he transform to? I've heard and seen people say that he only got six tails, but I always thought he... | 2016/03/30 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/30980",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/20270/"
] | We see Naruto reaching six tails and fighting Pain, that much is certain.
The wiki claims that after that, we see eight tails, here:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y3cwb.jpg)
And we later on see Yamato's hand with the number nine, to which he says... | When Naruto's fight with Pain reaches it's peak, Pain uses one of the Sage of Six Paths move called ***Chibaku Tensei*** and to overcome the Heavenly body that traps him, Naruto while in 6 tails form is tempted by Kyubi who offers him complete power of the 9 tails in exchange for ripping apart the seal and Naruto does ... |
30,980 | During Pain's destruction of Konoha, he fought Naruto. When fighting Naruto, Pain hurt Hinata which made Naruto get mad. After a couple of seconds of being mad Naruto started to transform into Kyuubi.
How many tails did he transform to? I've heard and seen people say that he only got six tails, but I always thought he... | 2016/03/30 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/30980",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/20270/"
] | We see Naruto reaching six tails and fighting Pain, that much is certain.
The wiki claims that after that, we see eight tails, here:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y3cwb.jpg)
And we later on see Yamato's hand with the number nine, to which he says... | Naruto fight with pain cause him to get nine tails. But when he got all nine, he didn’t die or turn into the Kyuubi, instead he was being controlled and forced to break the seal. Fortunately, minato sealed his remaining chakra into Naruto as a baby just in case for this specific situation so he’d reseal the Kyuubi. Sam... |
30,980 | During Pain's destruction of Konoha, he fought Naruto. When fighting Naruto, Pain hurt Hinata which made Naruto get mad. After a couple of seconds of being mad Naruto started to transform into Kyuubi.
How many tails did he transform to? I've heard and seen people say that he only got six tails, but I always thought he... | 2016/03/30 | [
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/30980",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/20270/"
] | When Naruto's fight with Pain reaches it's peak, Pain uses one of the Sage of Six Paths move called ***Chibaku Tensei*** and to overcome the Heavenly body that traps him, Naruto while in 6 tails form is tempted by Kyubi who offers him complete power of the 9 tails in exchange for ripping apart the seal and Naruto does ... | Naruto fight with pain cause him to get nine tails. But when he got all nine, he didn’t die or turn into the Kyuubi, instead he was being controlled and forced to break the seal. Fortunately, minato sealed his remaining chakra into Naruto as a baby just in case for this specific situation so he’d reseal the Kyuubi. Sam... |
605,681 | The speed of light, c, is the same for all inertial observers but no one has ever actually measured it in one direction. So taking an normal emitter, reflector, detector setup, can we do the following? Make the first measurement, and log the time. Put a medium that allows light through but "slows" it down slightly, put... | 2021/01/06 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/605681",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/247983/"
] | If the one way speed of light in vacuum varies in such a way that the 2 way speed of light is c, then the one way speed of light in a medium will necessarily vary in such a way that this measurement will get a null result.
The one way speed of light is not a physical fact. It is a convention. We choose the one way spe... | There is no way to measure one way speed of light using clock/ruler method, relativity don't allow this, so we need search for solutions in area where relativity does not apply - quantum universe ...
Imagine an hypothetical experiment, where we build hadron collider, in universe space, that is able to turn and hold wh... |
605,681 | The speed of light, c, is the same for all inertial observers but no one has ever actually measured it in one direction. So taking an normal emitter, reflector, detector setup, can we do the following? Make the first measurement, and log the time. Put a medium that allows light through but "slows" it down slightly, put... | 2021/01/06 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/605681",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/247983/"
] | If the one way speed of light in vacuum varies in such a way that the 2 way speed of light is c, then the one way speed of light in a medium will necessarily vary in such a way that this measurement will get a null result.
The one way speed of light is not a physical fact. It is a convention. We choose the one way spe... | To expand the explanation of Dale's answer a little: To measure a one-directional speed of anything you need to be able to define what 'at the same time' means between two locations because you need to agree what the start time was in order to measure a duration. Unfortunately, in a relativistic universe, there is no s... |
605,681 | The speed of light, c, is the same for all inertial observers but no one has ever actually measured it in one direction. So taking an normal emitter, reflector, detector setup, can we do the following? Make the first measurement, and log the time. Put a medium that allows light through but "slows" it down slightly, put... | 2021/01/06 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/605681",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/247983/"
] | To expand the explanation of Dale's answer a little: To measure a one-directional speed of anything you need to be able to define what 'at the same time' means between two locations because you need to agree what the start time was in order to measure a duration. Unfortunately, in a relativistic universe, there is no s... | There is no way to measure one way speed of light using clock/ruler method, relativity don't allow this, so we need search for solutions in area where relativity does not apply - quantum universe ...
Imagine an hypothetical experiment, where we build hadron collider, in universe space, that is able to turn and hold wh... |
12,428,142 | I'm trying to pull the Client Validation Rules from a ValidationAttribute. The validator in question has Client Validation Rules attached via a DataAnnotationsModelValidator attached as an adapter using DataAnnotationsModelValidatorProvider.RegisterAdapter.
However, I can't figure out for the life me how to get the ad... | 2012/09/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/12428142",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/653837/"
] | In this kind of situation your best shot would be using [dex2jar](http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/) tool to convert apk(actually dex in it) to jar file and inspecting it with java decompiler like [jd](http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui).
But JD sometimes produces misguiding java sources so you may have to refer ... | use axmlprinter 2 to decode your manifest (most of the cases apktool doesn't work )so use dex 2 jar and for using AXMLprinter2 you have to unzip the file |
57,190 | Jack Vance's *The Blue World* is about low-tech descendants of castaways on a planet that, as far as they know, has no dry land. (They live on giant lily pads.) What kinds of evidence should convince them that there is land somewhere?
* Dust in the wind (Gobi dust crosses the Pacific), or smoke of a forest fire
* Floa... | 2016/10/01 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/57190",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/14703/"
] | FYI: I am not a survivalist. The closest I've been to water is on a beach, both an oceanic one and on a riverbank fishing one time. If you find yourself in this situation, do not rely on the methods I suggest.
.
You nailed two of the big ones right off the bat: dust/smoke and biological debris. But there's several ot... | When current hits a rock, a calm area surrounded by two branches is created on the lee side, with eddies from the left side flowing clockwise and eddies from the right side flowing counterclockwise. This would be interesting if the people were to reason by analogy from smaller example of this phenomenon to reason that ... |
57,190 | Jack Vance's *The Blue World* is about low-tech descendants of castaways on a planet that, as far as they know, has no dry land. (They live on giant lily pads.) What kinds of evidence should convince them that there is land somewhere?
* Dust in the wind (Gobi dust crosses the Pacific), or smoke of a forest fire
* Floa... | 2016/10/01 | [
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/57190",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com",
"https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/14703/"
] | If you ever find yourself lost at sea or in a watery world and you want to find land, the following tips may be helpful:
>
> * Deep water is dark green or dark blue. Lighter color indicates shallow water, which may mean land is near.
> + Vegetation or wood floating might indicate proximity of land.
> + Birds are us... | When current hits a rock, a calm area surrounded by two branches is created on the lee side, with eddies from the left side flowing clockwise and eddies from the right side flowing counterclockwise. This would be interesting if the people were to reason by analogy from smaller example of this phenomenon to reason that ... |
22,800 | This article from [2013](http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/future-flight-planes-will-be-printed) states that about 30 parts of the Dreamliner are 3-D printed, mostly air ducts and hinges.
I wonder
1. what other parts are produced by direct manufacturing?
2. why it was deemed essential to resort to prin... | 2015/11/09 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22800",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/337/"
] | External cameras for diagnosing aircraft issues are not used on any current aircraft. As mentioned in another [answer](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/22796/1696) and [question](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3459/which-aircraft-feature-stock-exterior-cameras), some aircraft do have external cameras,... | The [A380 has a camera mounted in the tail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK1Al4WxoU) that provides a view of the top of the aircraft as well as the upper surface of the plane. Apparently it's there to help [navigate at airports](http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/2189954), you can s... |
22,800 | This article from [2013](http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/future-flight-planes-will-be-printed) states that about 30 parts of the Dreamliner are 3-D printed, mostly air ducts and hinges.
I wonder
1. what other parts are produced by direct manufacturing?
2. why it was deemed essential to resort to prin... | 2015/11/09 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22800",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/337/"
] | The [A380 has a camera mounted in the tail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK1Al4WxoU) that provides a view of the top of the aircraft as well as the upper surface of the plane. Apparently it's there to help [navigate at airports](http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/2189954), you can s... | They already do.
A light sensor is a camera which transmits just one pixel of information. The same goes for a thermal sensor, instead of transmitting an infrared thermal image of many thousands of pixels, it only sends one pixel of thermal information each time it cycles.
And that pixel itself could contain many d... |
22,800 | This article from [2013](http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-06/future-flight-planes-will-be-printed) states that about 30 parts of the Dreamliner are 3-D printed, mostly air ducts and hinges.
I wonder
1. what other parts are produced by direct manufacturing?
2. why it was deemed essential to resort to prin... | 2015/11/09 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22800",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/337/"
] | External cameras for diagnosing aircraft issues are not used on any current aircraft. As mentioned in another [answer](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/22796/1696) and [question](https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3459/which-aircraft-feature-stock-exterior-cameras), some aircraft do have external cameras,... | They already do.
A light sensor is a camera which transmits just one pixel of information. The same goes for a thermal sensor, instead of transmitting an infrared thermal image of many thousands of pixels, it only sends one pixel of thermal information each time it cycles.
And that pixel itself could contain many d... |
21,875,061 | I recently had a debate with a colleague and he is adamant that having as few commits as possible is better, due to merge conflicts. I argue that the more detail you have by using as many commits as possible, the better.
Is it better to have more commits, or less, and why? | 2014/02/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21875061",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/146366/"
] | If your colleague discourages many commits because that somehow causes more merge conflicts, then that is incorrect, the number of commits alone has nothing to do with merge conflicts. If your code is going to conflict when you merge a branch into another, it won't matter if that branch has 1 commit or 1,000, it's goin... | Commit early, commit often. [Good article on this topic by Seth Robertson.](http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/)
I don't understand the fear of merge conflicts argument for committing seldom. The bigger the commits the more likely you are to have merge conflicts, and the harder they are to resolve. |
21,875,061 | I recently had a debate with a colleague and he is adamant that having as few commits as possible is better, due to merge conflicts. I argue that the more detail you have by using as many commits as possible, the better.
Is it better to have more commits, or less, and why? | 2014/02/19 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21875061",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/146366/"
] | If your colleague discourages many commits because that somehow causes more merge conflicts, then that is incorrect, the number of commits alone has nothing to do with merge conflicts. If your code is going to conflict when you merge a branch into another, it won't matter if that branch has 1 commit or 1,000, it's goin... | Try and commit one logical block of work. Both of the following commit messages are bad practices:
**Corrected spelling in the feature X** (especially when the last commit made was related to X)
**Updated files for feature X, deleted bogus files and add some more unrelated files**
No one is stopping you from committ... |
53,591 | Imagine that I have someone in Bejing who offers me his supercomputer for processing an intensive job.
How does it compare sending job from Berlin to Bon,to sending the same job to Beijing?
I am aware that the latency for communicating between Berlin and China is orders of magnitude higher but are there any ohter is... | 2018/09/28 | [
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/53591",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/users/50464/"
] | Especially with China, you'd have to cope with the GFW, rendering reasonable data exchange unreliable at best and impossible at worst. We've pretty much given up working seriously with China on a technical basis.
Everything else is "just" a matter of bandwidth and latency. | With any supplier, you also have to consider commercial and legal constraints; when those suppliers are in a different country, even more so.
If the data is originating in the European Union, there are numerous data privacy obligations which specifically cover sending certain kinds of information outside the EU. (See ... |
312,530 | [Cisco antenna explanation](http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless-mobility/wireless-lan-wlan/82068-omni-vs-direct.html)
Here it says that antenna is passive device which doesn't offer any added power to the signal. But at same time it says that antenna is responsible for increasing the amount of energy to... | 2017/06/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/312530",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/152875/"
] | An antenna is a passive device.
The gain of an antenna refers to its directivity times efficiency compared to an isotropic antenna.
An isotropic antenna is a theoretical antenna that radiates equally in all directions. If this antenna were encapsulated in the center of a sphere, it would illuminate all parts of the s... | It is passive, in that there are no electronics in it and it requires no power supply.
However the shape and size of the antenna affects the shape and size of the radiation pattern that is emitted from it.
At the heart all antennae are just a "dipole" - that is, two conductors heading away from each other (or a monop... |
312,530 | [Cisco antenna explanation](http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless-mobility/wireless-lan-wlan/82068-omni-vs-direct.html)
Here it says that antenna is passive device which doesn't offer any added power to the signal. But at same time it says that antenna is responsible for increasing the amount of energy to... | 2017/06/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/312530",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/152875/"
] | That's a good observation.
The confusion comes from what "gain" is understood to mean in the special case of antennas. For ordinary circuits, gain is generally the output power divided by the input power. You are right that passive components therefore can't have "gain" (in this case used to imply gain > 1).
However,... | It is passive, in that there are no electronics in it and it requires no power supply.
However the shape and size of the antenna affects the shape and size of the radiation pattern that is emitted from it.
At the heart all antennae are just a "dipole" - that is, two conductors heading away from each other (or a monop... |
312,530 | [Cisco antenna explanation](http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless-mobility/wireless-lan-wlan/82068-omni-vs-direct.html)
Here it says that antenna is passive device which doesn't offer any added power to the signal. But at same time it says that antenna is responsible for increasing the amount of energy to... | 2017/06/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/312530",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/152875/"
] | An antenna is a passive device.
The gain of an antenna refers to its directivity times efficiency compared to an isotropic antenna.
An isotropic antenna is a theoretical antenna that radiates equally in all directions. If this antenna were encapsulated in the center of a sphere, it would illuminate all parts of the s... | That's a good observation.
The confusion comes from what "gain" is understood to mean in the special case of antennas. For ordinary circuits, gain is generally the output power divided by the input power. You are right that passive components therefore can't have "gain" (in this case used to imply gain > 1).
However,... |
4,122,222 | I was wondering where it is possible to find implementation as illustrative examples for commonly used architectural patterns/idioms
For example
1. Logging
2. Exception Handling
3. Archiving/Caching
4. User/Role/Policy/Permissions
5. Business Rules/Constraints
6. Data Access Objects
7. Objects dirty/update
etc. | 2010/11/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4122222",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/464629/"
] | Have a look at this: <http://cs.mum.edu/courses/cs525/Refs/VOD-12-27-99.PDF>
It has wide variety of examples of different implementation patterns in the field of software engineering. | I would recommend this to [C# Architectural Patterns](https://dotnetcodr.com/architecture-and-patterns/) everyone! |
206,166 | 
How can I add shortcut icon to Panel? I use Ubuntu 12.10
Thanks. | 2012/10/25 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/206166",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/27680/"
] | Try connecting the phone with the computer first.
Then change the connection type to mass-storage.
Wait for some time like 5 minutes.
If it is still not working then try this..
Pull the usb cable just a little bit out from the computer side.. ( just a tiny bit) and wait for a couple of minutes..
if it starts work... | I had the same problem with my Sony Ericsson Xperia ray connected by usb with my laptop running Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10. Tested with Suse 12.2 and (*brrrrr*) Windows XP - no problem there.
After the news that Canonical would take over responsibility for kernel 3.5, I got the idea to update to a kernel from the 3.6-bra... |
206,166 | 
How can I add shortcut icon to Panel? I use Ubuntu 12.10
Thanks. | 2012/10/25 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/206166",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/27680/"
] | Try connecting the phone with the computer first.
Then change the connection type to mass-storage.
Wait for some time like 5 minutes.
If it is still not working then try this..
Pull the usb cable just a little bit out from the computer side.. ( just a tiny bit) and wait for a couple of minutes..
if it starts work... | I faced the same problem with my Xperia Ray ICS because USB-connection mode was not set to mass storage. Now it works. |
766,278 | I'm looking to reformat my laptop that is running Vista, and I had planned on burning an ISO to a DVD-R and installing Vista to the laptop from that after reformatting, but I don't have any blank DVD-R and was wondering if it is possible to do the same thing from a flash drive, just burning to ISO to it and installing ... | 2014/06/08 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/766278",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/331586/"
] | There is a tool for windows that allows you to easily burn an ISO image to a USB device. It can be found here:
<http://rufus.akeo.ie/>
It provides a simple interface for you to select the ISO image and the USB device to burn to. After burning, just select the USB device from the boot menu. | A vista forum have done this:
It involves extracting the Vista ISO and putting the contents onto the USB and making it bootable.
Read more: <http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/181538-usb-bootable-vista-installation-flash-thumb-drive.html> |
9,848,892 | I have multiple threads (about 40) accessing persistent variables (strings and longs) for several hundred users in a java application. What is the best way to store these variables? Reading and writing to the variables could occur at any time, and i want to not only minimize CPU load but also reduce the effects when a ... | 2012/03/24 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9848892",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/499481/"
] | You know, I'm going to go out on a limb and say use a ConcurrentHashMap. It is one of the best ways to minimize contention with lots of concurrent info barring a Disruptor. Since you are considering a HashMap anyway, the benefit here is that the locking that occurs is limited to the individual hash rows--two items that... | If your variables need to be stored (ie. non-volatile) I think you should just use an ACID DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL or whichever you prefer) and just let the DBMS handle the concurrency.
If you fear I/O will be a performance problem, most ORM frameworks provide both lazy reading mechanism and read/write caches that are... |
7,951,129 | Are there any Java -> C/C++ Converters? Well I expect a no.
But I know Java works by converting the Java Byte Code, into code that the OS can understand using JIT. So is there any way to get this "converted code"?
Thanks.
---
Thanks to Baltasarq, who set me on the right course, I starting looking for Ahead of Time ... | 2011/10/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7951129",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/306913/"
] | >
> But I know Java works by converting the Java Byte Code, into code that the OS can understand using JIT. So is there any way to get this "converted code"?
>
>
>
You're talking about compiling code "ahead of time", or at least that's the name it receives in the Mono project (free implementation of .NET/C#). If y... | I do not know if there is a way to get the JIT code issued ~ it is a runtime conversion that is done after like 1000 or 10,000 through some part of the code path - I am sure one can get this "converted code"! but what you are talking about is source-code and anyway the JVM runs on the byte code for 1000 or 10,000 befor... |
7,951,129 | Are there any Java -> C/C++ Converters? Well I expect a no.
But I know Java works by converting the Java Byte Code, into code that the OS can understand using JIT. So is there any way to get this "converted code"?
Thanks.
---
Thanks to Baltasarq, who set me on the right course, I starting looking for Ahead of Time ... | 2011/10/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7951129",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/306913/"
] | >
> But I know Java works by converting the Java Byte Code, into code that the OS can understand using JIT. So is there any way to get this "converted code"?
>
>
>
You're talking about compiling code "ahead of time", or at least that's the name it receives in the Mono project (free implementation of .NET/C#). If y... | >
> Are there any Java -> C/C++ Converters? Well I expect a no.
>
>
>
Well, there are some projects, but none I know of that are production-quality. Mostly they translate to C, as the additional features that C++ offers do not align very well with what Java does. A Google search will give you quite a few projects.... |
59,254 | So I just formally accepted a position with a new company (Company A). I haven't begun work with them yet. I informed another company that I was in talks with (Company B) that I had accepted the position. Company B hadn't made an offer yet, but decided to counter-offer once they learned of Company A's offer.
I feel li... | 2015/12/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59254",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/44937/"
] | **Don't "inform" them simply for the sake of being polite.**
If you do, the ***perception*** is going to be that you're asking for a counter-offer. I would normally say that it's a perfectly acceptable negotiation technique, however, you've ***already signed*** with them.
If you do decide to leave no one can stop you... | >
> Also, it doesn't seem right to re-open negotiations
>
>
>
Listen to that inner voice - it's correct.
You negotiated in good faith with Company A and accepted a position with them.
Since Company A seems a good fit, just let the compensation difference pass (unless it's huge, like double).
If you go back to ... |
59,254 | So I just formally accepted a position with a new company (Company A). I haven't begun work with them yet. I informed another company that I was in talks with (Company B) that I had accepted the position. Company B hadn't made an offer yet, but decided to counter-offer once they learned of Company A's offer.
I feel li... | 2015/12/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59254",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/44937/"
] | >
> Also, it doesn't seem right to re-open negotiations
>
>
>
Listen to that inner voice - it's correct.
You negotiated in good faith with Company A and accepted a position with them.
Since Company A seems a good fit, just let the compensation difference pass (unless it's huge, like double).
If you go back to ... | As the other comments have said, it's best to not mention it to Company A. You have already accepted a position, which is the end of negotiations. Consider how you would react if, after having negotiated and both parties agreed, Company A then tried to renegotiate with you for a lower salary.
One thing I *would* do is... |
59,254 | So I just formally accepted a position with a new company (Company A). I haven't begun work with them yet. I informed another company that I was in talks with (Company B) that I had accepted the position. Company B hadn't made an offer yet, but decided to counter-offer once they learned of Company A's offer.
I feel li... | 2015/12/11 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/59254",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/44937/"
] | **Don't "inform" them simply for the sake of being polite.**
If you do, the ***perception*** is going to be that you're asking for a counter-offer. I would normally say that it's a perfectly acceptable negotiation technique, however, you've ***already signed*** with them.
If you do decide to leave no one can stop you... | As the other comments have said, it's best to not mention it to Company A. You have already accepted a position, which is the end of negotiations. Consider how you would react if, after having negotiated and both parties agreed, Company A then tried to renegotiate with you for a lower salary.
One thing I *would* do is... |
128,361 | If someone asks "What day are you leaving?", would it be grammatically correct to answer with "On the 8th April." for example? Or does it have to be "On Monday."? | 2017/05/03 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/128361",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/54723/"
] | You have two wonderful choices:
* Me neither
* Neither have I
And more:
* Nor have I | I believe it is indeed correct to reply to your colleague's statement with "Neither have I". |
42,373 | Some products are illegal in some countries, or cannot be legally imported. If I attempt to carry such a product into the country, but then honestly declare it at the border (*I would like to declare 50 g of marijuana, sir*), can I be prosecuted for attempted smuggling? Or will I simply be faced with the choice of turn... | 2019/06/24 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/42373",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/3569/"
] | It will depend on the exact language on the registration form that you submitted, but it may well constitute a contract. A physical, pen and ink, signature is not required to form a contract, and online document can do so, provided that there was agreement.
If the form created a contract, you are probably bound by the... | **Ignoring** this invoice is a very bad idea. But it is a good idea to check if there is a valid contract and if you can get out of it. If you "signed up" to the training online, you may benefit from consumer protection regulations on internet sales.
You are in France, the company is in Germany, right? Check which law... |
895,576 | Windows recognizes and gives my fedora partition a drive letter, but it shows it as blank. Is there a way to get windows to read ext3 filesystem? Its a Fedora 10 partition. | 2009/05/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/895576",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/107205/"
] | I'd take a look at [EXT2 IFS for Windows](http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html).
Several things to keep in mind with this.
* Ext3 is backwards compatible with Ext2, it just doesn't write to the journal
* NTFS is case insensitive, this may screw with you depending on what you are moving
* Some filenames that are valid ... | See the answers to my similar question on ServerFault.com:
* [What Windows ext3 driver should I use?](https://serverfault.com/questions/3038/what-windows-ext3-driver-should-i-use)
Summary of the best answer I got (and other answers were later deleted, I assume by their authors): Use ntfs-3g to access the NTFS filesys... |
895,576 | Windows recognizes and gives my fedora partition a drive letter, but it shows it as blank. Is there a way to get windows to read ext3 filesystem? Its a Fedora 10 partition. | 2009/05/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/895576",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/107205/"
] | I'd take a look at [EXT2 IFS for Windows](http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html).
Several things to keep in mind with this.
* Ext3 is backwards compatible with Ext2, it just doesn't write to the journal
* NTFS is case insensitive, this may screw with you depending on what you are moving
* Some filenames that are valid ... | I know that you want to mount your Fedora partition but from experience I have found that the best way to share a partition with Windows is to format as NTFS and use ntfs-3g to access it in Linux.
I tried using the ext2 Windows app mentioned by JensenDied a couple of years ago and ended up having problems accessing da... |
26,094 | Is there a way to automatically add videos to your "Watch Later" list if you are subscribed to a channel?
I want to utilize my "Watch Later" list to play through my subscriptions so that I can leave the window running in the background during my workday without constantly going back to the YouTube tab in my browser to... | 2012/04/26 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/26094",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/17743/"
] | I made a Google Apps Script that will do this exact thing. If interested you can check it out here: [Automatically add new YouTube videos to Watch Later list](https://chirav.substack.com/p/videos-auto-to-watch-later?utm_campaign=rebecca&utm_medium=web&utm_source=stackexchange).
Basically, the script will go through th... | Grew tired of this too. Currently browsing the web for such requests and wanted to share this userscript.
<https://github.com/ackoujens/youtube-subcriptions-watch-later> |
92,647 | After I boil and strain pasta it tastes watery unlike rice which can be dry if you don't use too much water.
Is there a way to make pasta dry too? | 2018/10/04 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/92647",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/7945/"
] | Because one of the properties of pasta is the amount of glutens present, the consistency of the pasta is controlled by how long it is boiled... Al dente pasta is achieved by boiling the pasta to the requisite time, and this managing to attain the "almost cooked to the core" quality which will be firm but yet soft and s... | You could cook your pasta, drain it, and spread it on a sheet pan. The moisture will flash off, and it will be drier. Of course, it will also be stickier than rice, so you might create a new, unwanted problem. Much depends on what you will do with it once cooked. |
242,335 | I have a circuit in which I want a pre-built stereo amplifier kit (with + and - outputs for each speaker) to drive a speaker and an LED in parallel. The circuit works, however is there any way to stop the LED flashing with the audio output? In the circumstances the LED drive has to come from the amp, and therefore has ... | 2016/06/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/242335",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/114743/"
] | Ultimately, no, you can't keep the LED on steady. Think about it. When there is no sound at all, there is no power available to run the LED from.
You can harvest power from the audio signal and store any excess that isn't needed to immediately run the LED. When the audio level gets too low to provide enough power to r... | The output of an audio amplifier is a voltage that varies with the sound content, so the LED *will* flash with the sound. |
242,335 | I have a circuit in which I want a pre-built stereo amplifier kit (with + and - outputs for each speaker) to drive a speaker and an LED in parallel. The circuit works, however is there any way to stop the LED flashing with the audio output? In the circumstances the LED drive has to come from the amp, and therefore has ... | 2016/06/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/242335",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/114743/"
] | Ultimately, no, you can't keep the LED on steady. Think about it. When there is no sound at all, there is no power available to run the LED from.
You can harvest power from the audio signal and store any excess that isn't needed to immediately run the LED. When the audio level gets too low to provide enough power to r... | As Olin mentioned in his answer, the LED will be off if there is no audio output. The best compromise I can think of involves inserting a 1N4007 diode in series with a speaker (+) output. The end of the diode with a white line goes to a 1K ohm 5 watt resistor, then to the (+) wire of a 470uF 150vdc capacitor.
From ... |
242,335 | I have a circuit in which I want a pre-built stereo amplifier kit (with + and - outputs for each speaker) to drive a speaker and an LED in parallel. The circuit works, however is there any way to stop the LED flashing with the audio output? In the circumstances the LED drive has to come from the amp, and therefore has ... | 2016/06/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/242335",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/114743/"
] | Ultimately, no, you can't keep the LED on steady. Think about it. When there is no sound at all, there is no power available to run the LED from.
You can harvest power from the audio signal and store any excess that isn't needed to immediately run the LED. When the audio level gets too low to provide enough power to r... | Yes, you can simply use a rectifier circuit and a smoothing/filter capacitor. You can adjust the value of the resistor and capacitor to suit your particular conditions.
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.imgur.com%2fF2AIB.png) – Sch... |
242,335 | I have a circuit in which I want a pre-built stereo amplifier kit (with + and - outputs for each speaker) to drive a speaker and an LED in parallel. The circuit works, however is there any way to stop the LED flashing with the audio output? In the circumstances the LED drive has to come from the amp, and therefore has ... | 2016/06/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/242335",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/114743/"
] | As Olin mentioned in his answer, the LED will be off if there is no audio output. The best compromise I can think of involves inserting a 1N4007 diode in series with a speaker (+) output. The end of the diode with a white line goes to a 1K ohm 5 watt resistor, then to the (+) wire of a 470uF 150vdc capacitor.
From ... | The output of an audio amplifier is a voltage that varies with the sound content, so the LED *will* flash with the sound. |
242,335 | I have a circuit in which I want a pre-built stereo amplifier kit (with + and - outputs for each speaker) to drive a speaker and an LED in parallel. The circuit works, however is there any way to stop the LED flashing with the audio output? In the circumstances the LED drive has to come from the amp, and therefore has ... | 2016/06/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/242335",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/114743/"
] | Yes, you can simply use a rectifier circuit and a smoothing/filter capacitor. You can adjust the value of the resistor and capacitor to suit your particular conditions.
[simulate this circuit](/plugins/schematics?image=http%3a%2f%2fi.stack.imgur.com%2fF2AIB.png) – Sch... | The output of an audio amplifier is a voltage that varies with the sound content, so the LED *will* flash with the sound. |
8,768 | Does anyone know what is the meaning of the numbers in punch cards? I need an example of any language, it's important for me to understand which information could be manipulated. | 2019/01/16 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8768",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/11592/"
] | Fundamentally the card is just an 80x12 array of bits (punch = 1, no punch = 0) and it's up to the system reading the card to interpret them. For example, the [IBM 701](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701) could read a card in "binary" mode, which interpreted the card as 12 rows of 72 bits (the rightmost 8 columns we... | The answer may depend on which format you are referring to. For the IBM 80-column punched card, I found this information from this [wiki link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#Card_formats)
>
> ...alphabetic and special characters was added through the use of columns
> and zones. The top three positions of... |
8,768 | Does anyone know what is the meaning of the numbers in punch cards? I need an example of any language, it's important for me to understand which information could be manipulated. | 2019/01/16 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8768",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/11592/"
] | Just as a FYI, prior to buying a handful of Apple ][s, our school programming lessons used marked cards. In essence these were similar to punched cards except that you used something like a 2B or 4B pencil rather than making a hole. This had the advantage that, when the inevitable syntax/programming errors were returne... | The answer may depend on which format you are referring to. For the IBM 80-column punched card, I found this information from this [wiki link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#Card_formats)
>
> ...alphabetic and special characters was added through the use of columns
> and zones. The top three positions of... |
8,768 | Does anyone know what is the meaning of the numbers in punch cards? I need an example of any language, it's important for me to understand which information could be manipulated. | 2019/01/16 | [
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8768",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com",
"https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/users/11592/"
] | Fundamentally the card is just an 80x12 array of bits (punch = 1, no punch = 0) and it's up to the system reading the card to interpret them. For example, the [IBM 701](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701) could read a card in "binary" mode, which interpreted the card as 12 rows of 72 bits (the rightmost 8 columns we... | Just as a FYI, prior to buying a handful of Apple ][s, our school programming lessons used marked cards. In essence these were similar to punched cards except that you used something like a 2B or 4B pencil rather than making a hole. This had the advantage that, when the inevitable syntax/programming errors were returne... |
1,673,618 | I need to fully understand the IPSec Phase 1 negotiation.
now, I break this to 3 steps:
1. Algorithm negotiations
2. Key Exchange Data
3. Identification
I'm using Wireshark to investigate the process and so far I fully understand the first part (Algorithm Negotiations).
My current problem lies in the 2nd part: Key E... | 2009/11/04 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/1673618",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/202594/"
] | See [draft-kivinen-ipsecme-ikev2-minimal-01](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-kivinen-ipsecme-ikev2-minimal-01). It does a pretty good job explaining on what is needed for IKEv2 protocol
ISAKMP / IKEv1 / IPSec phase 1 is a bit more complicated, but most things in IKEv2 are somewhat analogous to the older ve... | [This page](http://unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-ipsec.html) should help to understand IPSec. |
443,527 | Consider a sentence that ends with a dotted abbreviation, like `inc.`.
[According to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation#Lowercase_letters), the sentence should end with a single dot, but I did not find a more formal reference to that rule.
Should the sentence be ended with one dot or two? | 2018/04/26 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/443527",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/6855/"
] | "Being who she was" simply means that in Petunia's mind Lily was behaving the exactly way Petunia would expect her to behave, that is, she was "acting in character".
In this particular case it also conveys some disapproval, but the phrase could equally well imply approval, admiration, scorn, or any other attitude: "J... | She was referring to how she thought Lily was a "freak". |
335,757 | When connecting two batteries in series the voltage is increased.
For example: Connecting two 5V batteries in series will produce 10V voltage but the current will be the same.
According to Ohm's Law `V = IR` the voltage is directly proportional to the current. Then why is the current not increases when voltage is incr... | 2017/10/22 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/335757",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/38491/"
] | If you model a battery as an ideal voltage source in series with a resistance, then putting batteries in series will increase the open-circuit voltage by n times the number of batteries in series, but the **short-circuit** current will not change because the internal resistance also increases by n times.
For more mod... | If you connect two same batteries in series you're doubling the voltage while keeping the same capacity(Ah) rating. But if you're connecting batteries in parallel you are in fact doubling the capacity of the battery while maintaining the voltage same as one of the individual batteries.
Think of a battery as a water r... |
31,443 | I have this little annoying problem at my workplace. I work as web developer, mostly with a system backend. Most of my work revolves around thinking about security issues and validations, and data processing logic, which is quite hard.
I have a colleague who can't contain his emotions when something goes wrong or he g... | 2014/07/29 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31443",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25687/"
] | Implicitly throughout your question and explicitly in your comments you've called this particular programmer childish. Is the problem that he is doing this near you? Or is the problem that he is doing this at all? Overtly you've said the first but throughout your comments it seems like it is the second. This is particu... | >
> Should I talk about to my manager? or the person himself. I don't want
> to ruin work relationships and heart somebodies feelings. But I want
> this to stop, what would be the best approach to this annoying
> problem?
>
>
>
First, get clear in your own mind why this is such a problem for you. Something is h... |
31,443 | I have this little annoying problem at my workplace. I work as web developer, mostly with a system backend. Most of my work revolves around thinking about security issues and validations, and data processing logic, which is quite hard.
I have a colleague who can't contain his emotions when something goes wrong or he g... | 2014/07/29 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31443",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25687/"
] | >
> Should I talk about to my manager? or the person himself. I don't want
> to ruin work relationships and heart somebodies feelings. But I want
> this to stop, what would be the best approach to this annoying
> problem?
>
>
>
First, get clear in your own mind why this is such a problem for you. Something is h... | This may not be a very helpful suggestion to you but:
I, as one of the active programmers for lack of a better phrase, do mumble to myself, get angry at my computer under my breath, and give a victory pump when deserved. I don't believe my actions are as verbose as your persons but still, i could see how it would be a... |
31,443 | I have this little annoying problem at my workplace. I work as web developer, mostly with a system backend. Most of my work revolves around thinking about security issues and validations, and data processing logic, which is quite hard.
I have a colleague who can't contain his emotions when something goes wrong or he g... | 2014/07/29 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31443",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25687/"
] | >
> Should I talk about to my manager? or the person himself. I don't want
> to ruin work relationships and heart somebodies feelings. But I want
> this to stop, what would be the best approach to this annoying
> problem?
>
>
>
First, get clear in your own mind why this is such a problem for you. Something is h... | How's about:
"Excuse me. I noticed that you code with your headphones on, and sometimes you get a little upset and starting swearing out loud. It's becoming disruptive for me. Could you try and keep it down?"
This makes him person aware of both his behavior and the impact. There's no need to involve a manager unless ... |
31,443 | I have this little annoying problem at my workplace. I work as web developer, mostly with a system backend. Most of my work revolves around thinking about security issues and validations, and data processing logic, which is quite hard.
I have a colleague who can't contain his emotions when something goes wrong or he g... | 2014/07/29 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31443",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25687/"
] | Implicitly throughout your question and explicitly in your comments you've called this particular programmer childish. Is the problem that he is doing this near you? Or is the problem that he is doing this at all? Overtly you've said the first but throughout your comments it seems like it is the second. This is particu... | This may not be a very helpful suggestion to you but:
I, as one of the active programmers for lack of a better phrase, do mumble to myself, get angry at my computer under my breath, and give a victory pump when deserved. I don't believe my actions are as verbose as your persons but still, i could see how it would be a... |
31,443 | I have this little annoying problem at my workplace. I work as web developer, mostly with a system backend. Most of my work revolves around thinking about security issues and validations, and data processing logic, which is quite hard.
I have a colleague who can't contain his emotions when something goes wrong or he g... | 2014/07/29 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31443",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25687/"
] | Implicitly throughout your question and explicitly in your comments you've called this particular programmer childish. Is the problem that he is doing this near you? Or is the problem that he is doing this at all? Overtly you've said the first but throughout your comments it seems like it is the second. This is particu... | How's about:
"Excuse me. I noticed that you code with your headphones on, and sometimes you get a little upset and starting swearing out loud. It's becoming disruptive for me. Could you try and keep it down?"
This makes him person aware of both his behavior and the impact. There's no need to involve a manager unless ... |
31,443 | I have this little annoying problem at my workplace. I work as web developer, mostly with a system backend. Most of my work revolves around thinking about security issues and validations, and data processing logic, which is quite hard.
I have a colleague who can't contain his emotions when something goes wrong or he g... | 2014/07/29 | [
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/31443",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com",
"https://workplace.stackexchange.com/users/25687/"
] | How's about:
"Excuse me. I noticed that you code with your headphones on, and sometimes you get a little upset and starting swearing out loud. It's becoming disruptive for me. Could you try and keep it down?"
This makes him person aware of both his behavior and the impact. There's no need to involve a manager unless ... | This may not be a very helpful suggestion to you but:
I, as one of the active programmers for lack of a better phrase, do mumble to myself, get angry at my computer under my breath, and give a victory pump when deserved. I don't believe my actions are as verbose as your persons but still, i could see how it would be a... |
101,979 | I had a lively discussion with a person about black holes recently, and was making the point about gravitational acceleration in GR being paralleled by speed in SR. One thing that I know people talk about with special relativity, is that if you could reach a speed faster than the speed of light then time would reverse ... | 2014/03/04 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/101979",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/41829/"
] | The event horizon of a black hole is a very weird and complicated place. According to my undergrad GR course, at the event horizon of a black hole, time becomes a space-like coordinates, and space becomes a time-like coordinate.
From what I remember, a time-like coordinate is one in which you absolutely have to move fo... | So as we from the outside of the black hole observe matter approach the event horizon, we will see time slow for the falling matter. Conversely, an observer falling into a black hole would see external events speed up (possibly, not sure about light travelling from external objects).
At the event horizon objects will ... |
101,979 | I had a lively discussion with a person about black holes recently, and was making the point about gravitational acceleration in GR being paralleled by speed in SR. One thing that I know people talk about with special relativity, is that if you could reach a speed faster than the speed of light then time would reverse ... | 2014/03/04 | [
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] | The event horizon of a black hole is a very weird and complicated place. According to my undergrad GR course, at the event horizon of a black hole, time becomes a space-like coordinates, and space becomes a time-like coordinate.
From what I remember, a time-like coordinate is one in which you absolutely have to move fo... | According to one coordinate system for a Schwarzschild black hole, space can be treated as though it is flowing towards the singularity in an approximately Newtonain way and is flowing faster than light beyond the event horizon. Since we can derive anything from a contradiction, we can deduce from the assumption that a... |
32,519 | I know that to be really safe, especially with really hot peppers or large quantities, gloves are the way to go. But often I don't really need gloves: I have a small quantity of something not too hot (jalapeños or serranos), and I have a reasonable tolerance. How should I chop or mince them, minimizing the amount of ca... | 2013/03/08 | [
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] | I won't claim that this is universal, and I probably wouldn't try it with scotch bonnets or ghost peppers, but this is what I do with poblanos, seranos, jalapenos, and the like:
* Treat them like any other vegetable when you prep, using good knife skills, and a well sharpened knife—good skills minimize how much you to... | Just use a scrap of paper to hold the chile with
A 100 mm square-ish piece would suffice to hold most chiles. Just lay the paper over it on the cutting board, and pinch it gently
If the paper gets wet or oily, grab another piece
Any scrap paper would do, but glossy "junk mail" types would tend to be more water proof... |
32,519 | I know that to be really safe, especially with really hot peppers or large quantities, gloves are the way to go. But often I don't really need gloves: I have a small quantity of something not too hot (jalapeños or serranos), and I have a reasonable tolerance. How should I chop or mince them, minimizing the amount of ca... | 2013/03/08 | [
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] | I have used this method with Scotch Bonnets and Habaneros. Jalapenos are tame in comparison. All bets are off with Ghost Peppers. Those are weapons grade.:
* Before dealing with the pepper, rub oil (olive is fine) on your fingers making sure you get it embedded around your finger nails.
Besides that, the simple ways ... | Just use a scrap of paper to hold the chile with
A 100 mm square-ish piece would suffice to hold most chiles. Just lay the paper over it on the cutting board, and pinch it gently
If the paper gets wet or oily, grab another piece
Any scrap paper would do, but glossy "junk mail" types would tend to be more water proof... |
5,450,003 | Well, the question is self-explicative. Suppose I want to implement some special syntax just for fun. Is it possible? What tools should I use? | 2011/03/27 | [
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] | There is no such meta-syntax in the Haskell standard, but there is in GHC. You can make almost any notation you want using the GHC "quasi-quotation" facilities (which are different from GHC's "Template Haskell" facility).
The [GHC user guide](http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/template-haskell.htm... | I guess, the best way would be to write a custom preprocessor. Several syntactic extensions started out from this approach. For instance, see:
* [DrIFt](http://repetae.net/computer/haskell/DrIFT/): Automatized generation of type class instances
* [arrowp](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/arrowp): Preprocessor for ar... |
557,140 | I know rephrasing, using semicolon, or just splitting it into two sentences are probably the possible options here (the best choice, however, is my side question). Consider the following as examples:
* Please tell us the best choice. Why is that?
* Tell me your name. Where are you from?
Is it correct to say:
* Pleas... | 2021/01/10 | [
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] | There is, apparently, no rule carved in stone; rather, what dictates the use of coordination by means of "and" (bar some fundamental and rather stringent requirements as regard to parallelism) is a general precept that is referred to in CGEL § 13.22, p. 930.
>
> *And* is a coordinator which has the most general meani... | The answer is no, generally speaking. And the explanation is rather simple:
You have two independent clauses—one imperative, one interrogative—that, when coordinated, fight for sentence-ending punctuation.
To better see the problem, just reverse your example:
>
> **Original**: *\*Tell me your name, and where are yo... |
557,140 | I know rephrasing, using semicolon, or just splitting it into two sentences are probably the possible options here (the best choice, however, is my side question). Consider the following as examples:
* Please tell us the best choice. Why is that?
* Tell me your name. Where are you from?
Is it correct to say:
* Pleas... | 2021/01/10 | [
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] | >
> Is it correct to say:
>
>
> Please tell us the best choice, and why/why is that?
>
>
> Tell me your name, and where are you from?
>
>
>
No. The second clause of both should be expressed as an indirect question:
>
> Please tell us the best choice, and why/why **that is.**
>
>
> Tell me your name, and wh... | The answer is no, generally speaking. And the explanation is rather simple:
You have two independent clauses—one imperative, one interrogative—that, when coordinated, fight for sentence-ending punctuation.
To better see the problem, just reverse your example:
>
> **Original**: *\*Tell me your name, and where are yo... |
95,799 | I am wondering if there is a positive, formal counterpart to the slang "No strings attached" to describe, for example, a parent's unquestioned devotion to their children, or the virtue of someone's "a friend in need is a friend in deed", help first, question later mentality. | 2012/12/28 | [
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] | I think the word you are looking for is *altruism*
**altruism, n.**
*Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈaltrʊɪz(ə)m/ , U.S. /ˈæltrəˌwɪzəm/ , /ˈælˌtruˌɪzəm/*
*1. Disinterested or selfless concern for the well-being of others, esp. as a principle of action. Opposed to selfishness, egoism, or (in early use) egotism.*
OED | You might want to consider *altruism*, ‘Disinterested or selfless concern for the well-being of others’ in the OED’s definition. |
95,799 | I am wondering if there is a positive, formal counterpart to the slang "No strings attached" to describe, for example, a parent's unquestioned devotion to their children, or the virtue of someone's "a friend in need is a friend in deed", help first, question later mentality. | 2012/12/28 | [
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] | I think the word you are looking for is *altruism*
**altruism, n.**
*Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈaltrʊɪz(ə)m/ , U.S. /ˈæltrəˌwɪzəm/ , /ˈælˌtruˌɪzəm/*
*1. Disinterested or selfless concern for the well-being of others, esp. as a principle of action. Opposed to selfishness, egoism, or (in early use) egotism.*
OED | *Philanthropist* might be an alternative to *altruism* already suggested –
From Oxford English Dictionary (OED) –
>
> philanthropist, n.
>
>
> A benefactor of humankind; one who behaves benevolently towards others; a practitioner of philanthropy.
>
>
> |
130,228 | My tablet was not working correctly so i decided to do a factory reset when it booted up it was freezing so I powered it off and entered recovery mode but then I accidentally deleted the OS. This was a huge mistake TWRP was giving me options of booting it into download mode, power off or restarting it. After trying to ... | 2015/11/29 | [
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] | In short, MP3 is a **Compressed audio file format**, which means some details of Audio will be deleted to reduce the size. If you record your audio in MP3, **the quality will be low than recording in Other formats** such as ogg or aac.
Hardware is not a limitation. Recorded audio can be converted into any other forma... | In addition to the other answers MP3 also requires some CPU, not a lot by today's standards, but enough to make a difference especially when in the background with other applications competing for CPU time. |
112,595 | I am curious if faculty appointees (at various levels) should request their schools to send their official transcripts to the employer to get a faculty position? Or is it only required for students?
When I finish my PhD, do I still need to request my school to send an official transcript of my PhD for starting an assi... | 2018/07/12 | [
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] | In the United States, at least, the norm is that you send official transcripts once you are offered the job. At my university (and I believe by SACS regulation) the transcript(s)/degree(s) must be on file with the university for all faculty members, thus it is a requirement to be able to get the job.
During the applic... | It depends.
In my experience, I was required to list my degrees with where & when I obtained them. I was not required to get the official transcripts sent but I was also hired on where I completed graduate school (so they already had official transcripts on record).
My guess is that there is no single answer for **A... |
113,511 | "You must play not only what the composer wrote, but also what the composer did not write." That's a paraphrase of advice that's always stuck with me (but the source of which is long forgotten).
I know it relates to giving the music an interpretation beyond the mechanical adherence to the various notations given, but ... | 2021/04/08 | [
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] | There are a few different things this can mean, and they aren't always mutually exclusive. But they all relate to a fundamental weakness of musical notation: it's impossible to specify everything the performer should do without completely cluttering up the score.
1. **Understanding the implied style of performance.** ... | When I studied music in college, there was a term that was thrown around an awful lot: "intentional fallacy." The idea that the performance of a piece could be more authentic if you could understand the mind or intentions of the artist was very strongly resisted.
I'd agree with that about 70%. However, AS A PERFORMER,... |
113,511 | "You must play not only what the composer wrote, but also what the composer did not write." That's a paraphrase of advice that's always stuck with me (but the source of which is long forgotten).
I know it relates to giving the music an interpretation beyond the mechanical adherence to the various notations given, but ... | 2021/04/08 | [
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] | When I studied music in college, there was a term that was thrown around an awful lot: "intentional fallacy." The idea that the performance of a piece could be more authentic if you could understand the mind or intentions of the artist was very strongly resisted.
I'd agree with that about 70%. However, AS A PERFORMER,... | To me, the "why" and "how" part of the piece is the part which was not written, and maybe more specifically where are the most important points in the piece, how does the music build to those points, how should the important points be ranked. In other words, how does the music function which then means one's performanc... |
113,511 | "You must play not only what the composer wrote, but also what the composer did not write." That's a paraphrase of advice that's always stuck with me (but the source of which is long forgotten).
I know it relates to giving the music an interpretation beyond the mechanical adherence to the various notations given, but ... | 2021/04/08 | [
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] | When I studied music in college, there was a term that was thrown around an awful lot: "intentional fallacy." The idea that the performance of a piece could be more authentic if you could understand the mind or intentions of the artist was very strongly resisted.
I'd agree with that about 70%. However, AS A PERFORMER,... | The are some artworks that use a kind of nothingness to get the supposed art object to redirect a person's attention to the surrounding environment. Or at least that's one way to interpret such art.
Rauschenberg's *[White Paintings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg#The_White_Paintings,_black_paintings... |
113,511 | "You must play not only what the composer wrote, but also what the composer did not write." That's a paraphrase of advice that's always stuck with me (but the source of which is long forgotten).
I know it relates to giving the music an interpretation beyond the mechanical adherence to the various notations given, but ... | 2021/04/08 | [
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] | When I studied music in college, there was a term that was thrown around an awful lot: "intentional fallacy." The idea that the performance of a piece could be more authentic if you could understand the mind or intentions of the artist was very strongly resisted.
I'd agree with that about 70%. However, AS A PERFORMER,... | I've always considered "play what's not written" in three ways:
1. **Why did the composer write X instead of Y?** The composer wrote *forte* (for example). Why? Why not *piano* or *mezzo piano* or *fortissimo* or any other dynamic? Why, in the first place, was it important to be specific about any dynamic at that spot... |
113,511 | "You must play not only what the composer wrote, but also what the composer did not write." That's a paraphrase of advice that's always stuck with me (but the source of which is long forgotten).
I know it relates to giving the music an interpretation beyond the mechanical adherence to the various notations given, but ... | 2021/04/08 | [
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] | There are a few different things this can mean, and they aren't always mutually exclusive. But they all relate to a fundamental weakness of musical notation: it's impossible to specify everything the performer should do without completely cluttering up the score.
1. **Understanding the implied style of performance.** ... | To me, the "why" and "how" part of the piece is the part which was not written, and maybe more specifically where are the most important points in the piece, how does the music build to those points, how should the important points be ranked. In other words, how does the music function which then means one's performanc... |
113,511 | "You must play not only what the composer wrote, but also what the composer did not write." That's a paraphrase of advice that's always stuck with me (but the source of which is long forgotten).
I know it relates to giving the music an interpretation beyond the mechanical adherence to the various notations given, but ... | 2021/04/08 | [
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] | There are a few different things this can mean, and they aren't always mutually exclusive. But they all relate to a fundamental weakness of musical notation: it's impossible to specify everything the performer should do without completely cluttering up the score.
1. **Understanding the implied style of performance.** ... | The are some artworks that use a kind of nothingness to get the supposed art object to redirect a person's attention to the surrounding environment. Or at least that's one way to interpret such art.
Rauschenberg's *[White Paintings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg#The_White_Paintings,_black_paintings... |
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