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70,499 | I really can't get this. With such a strong feudalism, does kneeling down mean so much? I think there is not much difference between being 'King in the North' or 'Warden of the North'. The difference is only symbolic.
Why did the North rebel when they are practically independent and why did the İron Throne go to war fo... | 2014/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70499",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33559/"
] | The North rebelled against the Iron Throne because Joffrey killed Ned Stark. Maybe before that there wasn't much difference between King and Warden of the North, and that's why the Starks bent their knee to the Targaryens so many years ago and never rebelled against them after that.
But when Robb found out that the Ki... | The Northern Rebellion's key failing was that they were unclear on whether they were after independence for the North, or vengeance for the death of Eddard Stark.
If the goal was Northern independence, they should have put a garrison at Moat Cailin and started building fleets to guard the coasts, then withdrawn back h... |
70,499 | I really can't get this. With such a strong feudalism, does kneeling down mean so much? I think there is not much difference between being 'King in the North' or 'Warden of the North'. The difference is only symbolic.
Why did the North rebel when they are practically independent and why did the İron Throne go to war fo... | 2014/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70499",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33559/"
] | The actual catalyst for the rebellion was the imprisoning of Ned Stark for the crime of conspiring to hijack the Iron Throne. It was this event that lead to Robb calling his banners. Ned Stark was not only the Warden of the North, thus the overlord of all the Northern lands north of the Neck, he was *very* popular. His... | The Northern Rebellion's key failing was that they were unclear on whether they were after independence for the North, or vengeance for the death of Eddard Stark.
If the goal was Northern independence, they should have put a garrison at Moat Cailin and started building fleets to guard the coasts, then withdrawn back h... |
70,499 | I really can't get this. With such a strong feudalism, does kneeling down mean so much? I think there is not much difference between being 'King in the North' or 'Warden of the North'. The difference is only symbolic.
Why did the North rebel when they are practically independent and why did the İron Throne go to war fo... | 2014/10/12 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70499",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33559/"
] | The motivation for Northern independence goes much deeper than Eddard's death.
Eddard Stark was the **third** member of his family in less than twenty years to be executed by the King on the Iron Throne. Eddard's older brother Brandon and father Rickard were both killed by Aerys the Mad King.
A generation earlier, th... | The Northern Rebellion's key failing was that they were unclear on whether they were after independence for the North, or vengeance for the death of Eddard Stark.
If the goal was Northern independence, they should have put a garrison at Moat Cailin and started building fleets to guard the coasts, then withdrawn back h... |
78,061 | If I'm making a single call to a SQL Server database over a high-latency network, will table locks occur due to that latency? Say I query table A for some records, and SQL Server has to return that data over a slow network - will there be a read lock on table A while the server sends the response over the network, or d... | 2014/09/30 | [
"https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/78061",
"https://dba.stackexchange.com",
"https://dba.stackexchange.com/users/48443/"
] | Mark's answer cleared up a lot of my confusion, but I wanted to post my findings after I tested this using NetBalancer to emulate latency.
I had my local machine call a remote SQL server and execute both SELECTs and INSERTs on a table within a small transaction. On the remote machine, I connected to the local SQL inst... | >
> If I'm making a single call to an MSSQL database over a high-latency network, will table locks occur due to that latency?
>
>
>
When a query is fired and completed by SQL Server it produces the the results ,place it in output buffer and send it to client which then fetch the result from the Output buffer. SQL ... |
152,838 | I want to find jquery code and execute order processing when click on place order in checkout page beacuse i logged in and when I select shipping address and switch to payment step and unchecked of same as shipping address in billing and add new billing address and when I click place order button it automatically check... | 2017/01/03 | [
"https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/152838",
"https://magento.stackexchange.com",
"https://magento.stackexchange.com/users/31354/"
] | These two files.
PATH:
>
> html/vendor/magento/module-checkout/view/frontend/web/js/action/place-order.js:12
>
>
>
.
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> html/vendor/magento/module-checkout/view/frontend/web/js/view/review/actions/default.js:17
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> | PATH :
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> magento2/pub/static/frontend/Magento/{{THEME}}/en\_US/Magento\_Checkout/js/action/place-order.js
>
>
> |
70 | I think the question is relevant, was the answer incorrect?
[How was the faulty ShadowCash implementation of ring signatures repaired in February 2016?](https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/98/how-was-the-faulty-shadowcash-implementation-of-ring-signatures-repaired-in-febr?rq=1)
In particular, questions like th... | 2016/08/30 | [
"https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com/users/152/"
] | I downvoted this [one](https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1414/how-does-shadowcash-compare-to-monero) too, it was my understanding that only other [CryptoNote coins are allowed](https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3/are-questions-about-other-cryptonote-coins-considered-off-topic). Also I dont think ... | Most of the downvotes for the [first question](https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/98/how-was-the-faulty-shadowcash-implementation-of-ring-signatures-repaired-in-febr?rq=1) came prior to the edits that improved its wording (original question shown below):
>
> How Shen Noether fixed the implementation of ring s... |
70 | I think the question is relevant, was the answer incorrect?
[How was the faulty ShadowCash implementation of ring signatures repaired in February 2016?](https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/98/how-was-the-faulty-shadowcash-implementation-of-ring-signatures-repaired-in-febr?rq=1)
In particular, questions like th... | 2016/08/30 | [
"https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70",
"https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com/users/152/"
] | I downvoted this [one](https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1414/how-does-shadowcash-compare-to-monero) too, it was my understanding that only other [CryptoNote coins are allowed](https://monero.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3/are-questions-about-other-cryptonote-coins-considered-off-topic). Also I dont think ... | The question was originally written in a misleading way , and several changes made after comments made to correct the problems kept being misleading. I have no idea whether it was meant to be misleading or not, but the difficulty in getting the question to not be was probably what triggered those votes. |
44,624 | With my previous bike I followed the general recommandation for maintainance of drivetrain.
This usually goes like the following: replace chain every 3K Kms, replace rear cassette every 6K Kms and after 22K Kms I replaced the chainring as it started to show shark fin teeth.
I am asking what is the most effective meth... | 2017/01/08 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/44624",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/7327/"
] | Make the small investment in a chain checker ( I like park tools CC-3.2). I would generally recommend one of them that measures the chain based on length rather than lateral deflection. Each manufacturer will probably have it's own recommendation, but a safe bet is to always replace your chain before '.75' (75% wear). ... | The approach would work, in the sense that it would maximise the kilometers per dollar. On the other hand, you will be riding a noisy and poorly shifting drivetrain for the most of time.
You also need to check the numbers. I think it is very improbable that a chain that needs replacing at 3K would somehow be usable af... |
44,624 | With my previous bike I followed the general recommandation for maintainance of drivetrain.
This usually goes like the following: replace chain every 3K Kms, replace rear cassette every 6K Kms and after 22K Kms I replaced the chainring as it started to show shark fin teeth.
I am asking what is the most effective meth... | 2017/01/08 | [
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/44624",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com",
"https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/7327/"
] | Make the small investment in a chain checker ( I like park tools CC-3.2). I would generally recommend one of them that measures the chain based on length rather than lateral deflection. Each manufacturer will probably have it's own recommendation, but a safe bet is to always replace your chain before '.75' (75% wear). ... | Even if we ignore the decreased performance by not maintaining the drivetrain, it is largely false economy to assume avoiding maintenance and changing everything at once will reduce costs (see [Why bother changing a chain?](https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/29216/why-bother-changing-a-chain/29220#29220)).
Y... |
2,667 | This morning I stumbled upon a change in the review system, the reputation requirements have been raised.
With this change **only 42 users** (162 with the old threshold) can do Close, Reopen & Low Quality reviews.
What exactly is the point behind this?
---
*I created a [data query](https://data.stackexchange.com/an... | 2015/11/06 | [
"https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2667",
"https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11469/"
] | This was a bug. Specifically, entirely my fault - I renamed the setting that overrides normal privilege thresholds for graduated sites and keeps them at the public beta levels. I forgot that the setting values don't get moved over in the rename, so the thresholds jumped up.
I restored the correct settings here and on ... | **Note:** It seems that this change was a bug; see [this answer](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2669/24). While my answer below is not really valid, we can still expect that this change will happen eventually, and when it does the logic presented here will still be just as valid, so I am leaving it here.
---
... |
62,790 | In *I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House* (2016), everything is laid out in the first few minutes.
The main character will die at some point, and there is a ghost named "Polly".
There is a back-story to the house: The builder of the house supposedly made it for his fiancee, and they both disappeared the nigh... | 2016/11/04 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/62790",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/1583/"
] | Polly was playing an early 19th-century game, probably a variation of hide and seek. Nineteenth-century parlor games were weird by today's standards and some of them involved blindfolds. As for her murder, that was more than obvious: it was right there before you. Watch it again. The groom smacks her with an ax and the... | I think what she is asking is why did the husband kill Polly. If you remember he isn’t some mysterious man that just happened to axe her to death. Polly is the bride that disappeared. She does appear to be playing a version of hide-and-seem. Presumably looking for her new husband, but as she runs her hands against the ... |
2,165,120 | I'm also using [GhostDoc](http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx) in Visual Studio 2008. How do I view all to-do items and if that's a function already in Visual Studio or in GhostDoc (the documentation tool that I use)? | 2010/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2165120",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/93468/"
] | If you are referring to TODOs that are defined with the **// TODO** comments, open the Task List and set it to the Comments filter.
Also be careful with GhostDoc. Always read the comment that was generated. I remember that older versions wou... | [ReSharper](http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/) has a nice ToDo explorer to get an overview of all todos -or custom keywords- comments. |
2,165,120 | I'm also using [GhostDoc](http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx) in Visual Studio 2008. How do I view all to-do items and if that's a function already in Visual Studio or in GhostDoc (the documentation tool that I use)? | 2010/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2165120",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/93468/"
] | If you are referring to TODOs that are defined with the **// TODO** comments, open the Task List and set it to the Comments filter.
Also be careful with GhostDoc. Always read the comment that was generated. I remember that older versions wou... | Note that in Express versions like *Visual Web Developer 2010 Express* and *Visual C# Express 2010*, you need to be in Expert mode to enable the task list. Expert mode is at menu *Tools* → *Settings* → *Expert Mode*.
Then the option to open the list is in menu *View* → *Task List*. |
2,165,120 | I'm also using [GhostDoc](http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx) in Visual Studio 2008. How do I view all to-do items and if that's a function already in Visual Studio or in GhostDoc (the documentation tool that I use)? | 2010/01/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2165120",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/93468/"
] | [ReSharper](http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/) has a nice ToDo explorer to get an overview of all todos -or custom keywords- comments. | Note that in Express versions like *Visual Web Developer 2010 Express* and *Visual C# Express 2010*, you need to be in Expert mode to enable the task list. Expert mode is at menu *Tools* → *Settings* → *Expert Mode*.
Then the option to open the list is in menu *View* → *Task List*. |
386,324 | tl;dr: There ***is*** no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it.
I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective on this whole matter. What I can definitively say is, at least it gave me that new perspective...
I've been meaning... | 2019/06/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1079354/"
] | In all honesty my biggest complaint for SO is the fact that we are still trying to change Stack Overflow to be more welcoming.
I wasn't there back in 2009, so people may have been rude back then, but when I asked my question in 2017-2018, people left helpful and nice comments to me. However, this came with downvotes a... | Your mistake is that you only see Stack Overflow for your own needs.
Since you are a highly experienced Java/Spring coder, you find basic or broad questions annoying. For the rest of the world out there, who are googling to try and find an answer to a problem, the search engine results that come from Stack Overflow ar... |
386,324 | tl;dr: There ***is*** no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it.
I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective on this whole matter. What I can definitively say is, at least it gave me that new perspective...
I've been meaning... | 2019/06/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1079354/"
] | In all honesty my biggest complaint for SO is the fact that we are still trying to change Stack Overflow to be more welcoming.
I wasn't there back in 2009, so people may have been rude back then, but when I asked my question in 2017-2018, people left helpful and nice comments to me. However, this came with downvotes a... | My biggest complaint about Stack Overflow is that it rewards speed more than it rewards effort. The flow of the site pushes virtually all question answering and answer upvoting activity to the questions posted in the most recent few minutes.
Good answers to complex questions may take time to write. There is little inc... |
386,324 | tl;dr: There ***is*** no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it.
I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective on this whole matter. What I can definitively say is, at least it gave me that new perspective...
I've been meaning... | 2019/06/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1079354/"
] | I totally agree with *everything* you've said.
I joined Stack Overflow about eight months ago, and I admittedly struggled to first participate. I posted multiple questions that were not well received in the slightest. What I initially experienced was a bunch of the diamond moderators, in my eyes, yelling at me about t... | My biggest complaint about Stack Overflow is that it rewards speed more than it rewards effort. The flow of the site pushes virtually all question answering and answer upvoting activity to the questions posted in the most recent few minutes.
Good answers to complex questions may take time to write. There is little inc... |
386,324 | tl;dr: There ***is*** no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it.
I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective on this whole matter. What I can definitively say is, at least it gave me that new perspective...
I've been meaning... | 2019/06/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1079354/"
] | The question mentions these two concerns:
>
> Closing questions is something seen as "unfriendly", which seems to be the buzzword of the year.
> Downvoting poor questions or answers is also seen as "unfriendly".
>
>
>
If I understand, part of the problem is that users who do what is required to make the site use... | Really, Stack Overflow has become the giant site for newbies in programming. I too, when I had got an interest in new technologies, heard about HTML, CSS, Java, etc., started reading some books. *The starter pages of two books I bought included this text*:
>
> While reading this book, so many new libraries and tools ... |
386,324 | tl;dr: There ***is*** no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it.
I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective on this whole matter. What I can definitively say is, at least it gave me that new perspective...
I've been meaning... | 2019/06/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1079354/"
] | My biggest complaint about Stack Overflow is that it rewards speed more than it rewards effort. The flow of the site pushes virtually all question answering and answer upvoting activity to the questions posted in the most recent few minutes.
Good answers to complex questions may take time to write. There is little inc... | I'm a relative newbie to Stack Overflow and I won't pretend that I'm on SO except to get some very simple solutions like how to use Vim for some specific mundane task that an experienced user would find laughable is even inquired about.
However, the good thing usually is that these so-called inane queries have already... |
386,324 | tl;dr: There ***is*** no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it.
I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective on this whole matter. What I can definitively say is, at least it gave me that new perspective...
I've been meaning... | 2019/06/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1079354/"
] | In all honesty my biggest complaint for SO is the fact that we are still trying to change Stack Overflow to be more welcoming.
I wasn't there back in 2009, so people may have been rude back then, but when I asked my question in 2017-2018, people left helpful and nice comments to me. However, this came with downvotes a... | >
> Quality of Life features for moderation are simply not a priority. The big thing that seems to be on the interest of moderation at all is a synonym dashboard. And that was only just this June.
>
>
>
Well, if we think about it - a good chunk of the SE platform has been static, and somewhat cob-web covered for y... |
386,324 | tl;dr: There ***is*** no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it.
I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective on this whole matter. What I can definitively say is, at least it gave me that new perspective...
I've been meaning... | 2019/06/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1079354/"
] | I totally agree with *everything* you've said.
I joined Stack Overflow about eight months ago, and I admittedly struggled to first participate. I posted multiple questions that were not well received in the slightest. What I initially experienced was a bunch of the diamond moderators, in my eyes, yelling at me about t... | In all honesty my biggest complaint for SO is the fact that we are still trying to change Stack Overflow to be more welcoming.
I wasn't there back in 2009, so people may have been rude back then, but when I asked my question in 2017-2018, people left helpful and nice comments to me. However, this came with downvotes a... |
386,324 | tl;dr: There ***is*** no tl;dr. If you don't wish to read the entire thing, then don't worry about it.
I was hoping my month off would've cooled me off a bit or at least given me a different perspective on this whole matter. What I can definitively say is, at least it gave me that new perspective...
I've been meaning... | 2019/06/21 | [
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/386324",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com",
"https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1079354/"
] | I started writing this as a comment and it soon became clear there were too many words.
Don't read this unless you want to see your own frustration poured out uncensored.
This is full of exclamation marks and ranty. I'm sorry. I'm tired of trying to craft a decent response or question on here about this, as nothing ... | >
> Quality of Life features for moderation are simply not a priority. The big thing that seems to be on the interest of moderation at all is a synonym dashboard. And that was only just this June.
>
>
>
Well, if we think about it - a good chunk of the SE platform has been static, and somewhat cob-web covered for y... |
3,628,258 | Okay I'm a little confused on how to do this due to the fact that I'm new to Joomla.
I have a site where users need to be logged in to view certain articles. I want restricted articles to basically pick up weather or not the user is logged in, if so proceed as normal, else display a login/registration form.
I looked... | 2010/09/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3628258",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/220007/"
] | NO... You do not need plugin for this AT ALL.
In Joomla you have "Access Type" for modules/articles/pretty much everything.
* Public - Visitors
* Registered - logged in users
* Special - back-end users
In Back-End go to Modules and create new Log-In module. In the access type selected "Public".
When you create arti... | I found a solution that works for me. I downloaded and installed JUMI. Jumi is a Joomla extension that allows you to include files such as php and then executes the code in those files. Through PHP I check user access and do redirects accordingly.
JUMI can be downloaded [here](http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/... |
278,650 | An industrial site needs to link 3 seperate areas in a building in such a way that all the switches are on the same network and sharing the same wan link. The wan link will only be coming in from one of the sites and attached to the switch.
ie
SITE 01--SITE 02------WAN LINK
| /
| /
| /
SITE 03
The distance betwee... | 2011/06/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/278650",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/77796/"
] | Xinetd is a service that manage internet connection type. It's a version more securised than inetd.
Xinetd is often used for monitoring (nagios, cacti, zabix, etc...)
Like ewwhite said, the install of xinted depend of what you do with your server. I did installed it on my servers, but on those where i don't need it 2... | This depends on if you need to run any xinetd services, like telnet. |
25,425 | I'm planning to make this overflow for my tank. the goal is to drain from bottom.
in theory it will work but in real world i'm a bit worried about the noise that "air in" is going to make and where water level is going to be when power goes off.
[](https://i.stack.imgur... | 2019/05/16 | [
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/25425",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com",
"https://pets.stackexchange.com/users/15856/"
] | There should not be any noise at the point that you have marked "air in", maybe just the sound of water trickling. It's vital in this design to have that unsealed air in point at the top, otherwise your tank will siphon and drain completely.
In the event that the power goes out, the water will not drain lower than the... | Yes, but there's a number of pitfalls with a system like this.
First off, it provides no redundancy, so if you clog your drain line, you're going to overflow your tank. Personally, I would never even consider running an overflow without redundancy.
Second, because it's a bottom drain, it will have a much higher ris... |
44,438 | Can anyone provide a list of the spirits usable in the distillery in Bastion, as well as the Narrator's flavor text for each one?
For example:
* **Leechade** - "Leechade's so sour, it’ll perk you right up when you’re feeling low."
I'm looking to have a Bastion-themed drinking party with friends, and would like a han... | 2011/12/28 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/44438",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6772/"
] | I already got stuck in several places around skyrim.
You can either try :
* Whirlwind Sprint Shout, this can maybe unstuck you,
* Load a previously saved game (or autosaved, or quicksaved).
Good Luck | You can also try going into third person view. This has allowed me to get out of some stuck situations where I could not while in first person view. |
44,438 | Can anyone provide a list of the spirits usable in the distillery in Bastion, as well as the Narrator's flavor text for each one?
For example:
* **Leechade** - "Leechade's so sour, it’ll perk you right up when you’re feeling low."
I'm looking to have a Bastion-themed drinking party with friends, and would like a han... | 2011/12/28 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/44438",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6772/"
] | I already got stuck in several places around skyrim.
You can either try :
* Whirlwind Sprint Shout, this can maybe unstuck you,
* Load a previously saved game (or autosaved, or quicksaved).
Good Luck | A way I do it is try to move backwards and start jumping backwards or go to the last save which respawns you at a door or start! |
44,438 | Can anyone provide a list of the spirits usable in the distillery in Bastion, as well as the Narrator's flavor text for each one?
For example:
* **Leechade** - "Leechade's so sour, it’ll perk you right up when you’re feeling low."
I'm looking to have a Bastion-themed drinking party with friends, and would like a han... | 2011/12/28 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/44438",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6772/"
] | You can also try going into third person view. This has allowed me to get out of some stuck situations where I could not while in first person view. | A way I do it is try to move backwards and start jumping backwards or go to the last save which respawns you at a door or start! |
51,895 | Are 128 and 256bit AES encryption considered weak?
I wanted to archive files and i figure i can write an app to automatically do it with winrar or 7z. Winrar uses AES-128 and 7z uses AES-256. I was wondering if that's easily breakable now that the market have quad cores? Some of these files are small like 10kb and eve... | 2009/08/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51895",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/-1/"
] | Short answer: no. For the moment at least.
There was a published attack against AES128 that if I remember rightly knocked a bit or so off the effective strength of the algorithm and key size combination used.
The more recent attack vectors identified against AES256 are potentially more serious as they could theoretic... | The answer is "it depends". The US Government consider them secure enough for "non-classified" information (<http://www.cnss.gov/Assets/pdf/cnssp_15_fs.pdf>) so unless you're storing stuff like what's *really* going on in Area 51 they should be sufficient. I believe that *potential* attacks (in unlikely scenarios) agai... |
51,895 | Are 128 and 256bit AES encryption considered weak?
I wanted to archive files and i figure i can write an app to automatically do it with winrar or 7z. Winrar uses AES-128 and 7z uses AES-256. I was wondering if that's easily breakable now that the market have quad cores? Some of these files are small like 10kb and eve... | 2009/08/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51895",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/-1/"
] | Short answer: no. For the moment at least.
There was a published attack against AES128 that if I remember rightly knocked a bit or so off the effective strength of the algorithm and key size combination used.
The more recent attack vectors identified against AES256 are potentially more serious as they could theoretic... | Bruce Schneier discussed this on his [blog](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html) on 2009-07-30. Superficially, it appears that AES-192 and AES-256 may be less strong than AES-128. Although the algorithms are secure for the time being, as David Spillet says in his answer, there are questio... |
51,895 | Are 128 and 256bit AES encryption considered weak?
I wanted to archive files and i figure i can write an app to automatically do it with winrar or 7z. Winrar uses AES-128 and 7z uses AES-256. I was wondering if that's easily breakable now that the market have quad cores? Some of these files are small like 10kb and eve... | 2009/08/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51895",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/-1/"
] | A recent AES-256 break described by Bruce Schneier in his July 30, 2009 posting,
[**Another New AES Attack**](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html)
>
> There are three reasons **not** to panic:
>
>
> 1. The attack exploits the fact that the key schedule for 256-bit version
>
> i... | Short answer: no. For the moment at least.
There was a published attack against AES128 that if I remember rightly knocked a bit or so off the effective strength of the algorithm and key size combination used.
The more recent attack vectors identified against AES256 are potentially more serious as they could theoretic... |
51,895 | Are 128 and 256bit AES encryption considered weak?
I wanted to archive files and i figure i can write an app to automatically do it with winrar or 7z. Winrar uses AES-128 and 7z uses AES-256. I was wondering if that's easily breakable now that the market have quad cores? Some of these files are small like 10kb and eve... | 2009/08/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51895",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/-1/"
] | Bruce Schneier discussed this on his [blog](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html) on 2009-07-30. Superficially, it appears that AES-192 and AES-256 may be less strong than AES-128. Although the algorithms are secure for the time being, as David Spillet says in his answer, there are questio... | The answer is "it depends". The US Government consider them secure enough for "non-classified" information (<http://www.cnss.gov/Assets/pdf/cnssp_15_fs.pdf>) so unless you're storing stuff like what's *really* going on in Area 51 they should be sufficient. I believe that *potential* attacks (in unlikely scenarios) agai... |
51,895 | Are 128 and 256bit AES encryption considered weak?
I wanted to archive files and i figure i can write an app to automatically do it with winrar or 7z. Winrar uses AES-128 and 7z uses AES-256. I was wondering if that's easily breakable now that the market have quad cores? Some of these files are small like 10kb and eve... | 2009/08/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51895",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/-1/"
] | A recent AES-256 break described by Bruce Schneier in his July 30, 2009 posting,
[**Another New AES Attack**](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html)
>
> There are three reasons **not** to panic:
>
>
> 1. The attack exploits the fact that the key schedule for 256-bit version
>
> i... | The answer is "it depends". The US Government consider them secure enough for "non-classified" information (<http://www.cnss.gov/Assets/pdf/cnssp_15_fs.pdf>) so unless you're storing stuff like what's *really* going on in Area 51 they should be sufficient. I believe that *potential* attacks (in unlikely scenarios) agai... |
51,895 | Are 128 and 256bit AES encryption considered weak?
I wanted to archive files and i figure i can write an app to automatically do it with winrar or 7z. Winrar uses AES-128 and 7z uses AES-256. I was wondering if that's easily breakable now that the market have quad cores? Some of these files are small like 10kb and eve... | 2009/08/09 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/51895",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/-1/"
] | A recent AES-256 break described by Bruce Schneier in his July 30, 2009 posting,
[**Another New AES Attack**](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html)
>
> There are three reasons **not** to panic:
>
>
> 1. The attack exploits the fact that the key schedule for 256-bit version
>
> i... | Bruce Schneier discussed this on his [blog](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html) on 2009-07-30. Superficially, it appears that AES-192 and AES-256 may be less strong than AES-128. Although the algorithms are secure for the time being, as David Spillet says in his answer, there are questio... |
9,618 | Not sure if that's on-topic, but I'm converting an old barrel into a tap system. Essentially a Keezer, except that I don't like something that still looks like an appliance - a barrel is just more authentic.
The problem: How do I cool the kegs inside? Since it's not needed to be permanently one (it's for a weekly or b... | 2013/03/24 | [
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/9618",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com",
"https://homebrew.stackexchange.com/users/2028/"
] | You could buy or build a [jockey box](http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Jockey-Box-Beer-tapcooler/). It's just a coil of stainless steel or copper immersed in ice with a spigot at one end a quick release at the other, all inside an insulated container.
It doesn't cool the keg down, but rather cools the beer as you'... | Not really, unfortunately. Heating is a much easier mechanical process than cooling is, and as a result cooling applications tend to be more involved and more expensive.
You have two options:
1) You could get a glycol chiller of some sort. A glycol chiller is usually a standard refrigerator compressor used to circula... |
10,337,215 | I'm looking to build a rather robust application with NodeJS, however (being new to Node) I'd like some input from more experienced developers.
I've read some good things about flatiron, express / zappa, and others. Sadly it doesn't seem as though anything like <http://ruby-toolbox.com> exists for Node at the moment t... | 2012/04/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/10337215",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/320681/"
] | If you're coming from Rails, I'd recommend taking a look at <http://towerjs.org/>:
>
> Tower.js is built on top of Node's Connect and Express, modeled after Ruby on Rails. Built for the client and server from the ground up.
>
>
>
Here's the thing: Node.js is less than three years old. It's attracted enormous atte... | Yes there are a lot of great sounding but now defunct projects out there.
In terms of finding good active projects, this page is a good place to start: <https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules>
Some of the modules I recommend include
Async
Forever
n
moment
Otherwise, express is virtually universal, and I haven'... |
12,127 | In a recent email I received was this line: "Be under no illusion that 2011 is Our Year."
From what I understand "Be under no illusion" means the same as "Don't be fooled". So I would expect that it would be followed by comments such as "It's going to be tough, but we can do it together" or some similar sentiment. How... | 2011/02/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12127",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/2143/"
] | I agree with you that this, at best, is an unusual use of the phrase "be under no illusion", while not saying that it's necessarily wrong.
The phrase implies that someone might develop, or has already developed, an illusion (a distorted view) of something. So perhaps if the conventional wisdom was "2011 is *not* going... | Interesting question, xiao: running over the possible implications of the phrase, I think it contains both positive and negative allusions.
Thus, "don't be fooled ...it's going to be tough" is a legitimate reading, and the one that I'd have arrived at first.
Equally, it can be seen as "don't be fooled [by the naysa... |
12,127 | In a recent email I received was this line: "Be under no illusion that 2011 is Our Year."
From what I understand "Be under no illusion" means the same as "Don't be fooled". So I would expect that it would be followed by comments such as "It's going to be tough, but we can do it together" or some similar sentiment. How... | 2011/02/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12127",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/2143/"
] | I agree with you that this, at best, is an unusual use of the phrase "be under no illusion", while not saying that it's necessarily wrong.
The phrase implies that someone might develop, or has already developed, an illusion (a distorted view) of something. So perhaps if the conventional wisdom was "2011 is *not* going... | As a native (US) speaker, I find the phrase odd-sounding. I don't believe I've ever encountered it. Despite that, I wouldn't interpret that phrase as inherently positive or negative; the clause that follows would determine that. However, I would interpret 'don't be fooled' the same way. In each case, the speaker is try... |
12,127 | In a recent email I received was this line: "Be under no illusion that 2011 is Our Year."
From what I understand "Be under no illusion" means the same as "Don't be fooled". So I would expect that it would be followed by comments such as "It's going to be tough, but we can do it together" or some similar sentiment. How... | 2011/02/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12127",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/2143/"
] | As a native (US) speaker, I find the phrase odd-sounding. I don't believe I've ever encountered it. Despite that, I wouldn't interpret that phrase as inherently positive or negative; the clause that follows would determine that. However, I would interpret 'don't be fooled' the same way. In each case, the speaker is try... | Interesting question, xiao: running over the possible implications of the phrase, I think it contains both positive and negative allusions.
Thus, "don't be fooled ...it's going to be tough" is a legitimate reading, and the one that I'd have arrived at first.
Equally, it can be seen as "don't be fooled [by the naysa... |
120,900 | We are getting issues while migrating only profiles. When we are trying to migrate through force.com IDE its fetching blank profiles as not object is chosen.
Is there any way by which we can easily transfer only profiles? | 2016/05/06 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/120900",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/29281/"
] | Profile metadata is dependent on lot of other components .Hence no surprise you are not able to form the proper metadata XML without the objects .
I would suggest you to retrieve everything and go through the metadata to understand dependencies of profile .
If you want to just System permissions to be transferred ,yo... | Change sets. You will have to move the objects as well though, as well as anything inside the profile you want moved.
Salesforce treats profiles like a junction object, so you have to include the objects for the profiles to reference. That is why you are getting blank profiles. |
32,151,282 | I have Table1 which shows the child and parent relationships between products. How to I get the output table with sql? Basically, Input table shows that B is a child of A and B1 and B2 are child of B. The output would need to show that as well, and also that B1 and B2 are child of A. | 2015/08/22 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/32151282",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4250213/"
] | After playing around with some changes, I finally discovered the solution. What I did was add the Article objects to the list in the main fragment's onCreateView method. Additionally, I instantiated CardView in the ViewHolder, though that didn't help me see the cards initially.
So, if you're ever in a similar predica... | You need to call notifyDataSetChanged(); inside onCreateViewHolder after adding the new articles so that the itemcount is updated |
2,804,134 | Can anyone recommend a free tool for generating Charts compatible with ASP.NET MVC? | 2010/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2804134",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/66708/"
] | Use [Google Chart Tools](http://code.google.com/apis/chart/image_charts.html).
To clarify, GCT isn't specific to ASP.NET MVC. It's a hosted thing that you can call with Javascript. I've use it in MVC and regular ASP.NET project alike. Very clean and nice.
For instance, open your browser and go here:
<https://chart.a... | [Google charts](http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/)
The advantages of the Google Chart Tools are:
* A rich gallery of visualizations provided as:
+ Image charts - using a simple URL request to a Google chart server
+ Interactive charts - using a Google developed JavaScript library
+ Can read live data from a ... |
2,804,134 | Can anyone recommend a free tool for generating Charts compatible with ASP.NET MVC? | 2010/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2804134",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/66708/"
] | Take a look at this free web control from Microsoft:
<http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx>
I tried it with regular web application, not MVC though. Works alright, a little finicky in some details.
What kind of charts you need to d... | Use [Google Chart Tools](http://code.google.com/apis/chart/image_charts.html).
To clarify, GCT isn't specific to ASP.NET MVC. It's a hosted thing that you can call with Javascript. I've use it in MVC and regular ASP.NET project alike. Very clean and nice.
For instance, open your browser and go here:
<https://chart.a... |
2,804,134 | Can anyone recommend a free tool for generating Charts compatible with ASP.NET MVC? | 2010/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2804134",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/66708/"
] | Use [Google Chart Tools](http://code.google.com/apis/chart/image_charts.html).
To clarify, GCT isn't specific to ASP.NET MVC. It's a hosted thing that you can call with Javascript. I've use it in MVC and regular ASP.NET project alike. Very clean and nice.
For instance, open your browser and go here:
<https://chart.a... | you can use google chart tool. its easy to use and woks good.
for refrence you can go through below url
<http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization>
hope i would help you. |
2,804,134 | Can anyone recommend a free tool for generating Charts compatible with ASP.NET MVC? | 2010/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2804134",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/66708/"
] | Take a look at this free web control from Microsoft:
<http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx>
I tried it with regular web application, not MVC though. Works alright, a little finicky in some details.
What kind of charts you need to d... | [Google charts](http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/)
The advantages of the Google Chart Tools are:
* A rich gallery of visualizations provided as:
+ Image charts - using a simple URL request to a Google chart server
+ Interactive charts - using a Google developed JavaScript library
+ Can read live data from a ... |
2,804,134 | Can anyone recommend a free tool for generating Charts compatible with ASP.NET MVC? | 2010/05/10 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2804134",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/66708/"
] | Take a look at this free web control from Microsoft:
<http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx>
I tried it with regular web application, not MVC though. Works alright, a little finicky in some details.
What kind of charts you need to d... | you can use google chart tool. its easy to use and woks good.
for refrence you can go through below url
<http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization>
hope i would help you. |
226 | So what's unclear about [this one](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/882/is-there-a-biological-cause-that-may-be-contributing-to-increased-divorce-rates), about potential biological factors impacting divorce rate? It cites and challenges a woo (that only sociological factors contribute to a divorce rate). It... | 2011/03/15 | [
"https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/226",
"https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Well, this answer was really born out of the conversation in the comments, but for what it's worth, since your question here is about how to improve your question, I'll have a stab at summing up my thoughts.
I think the biggest problem with the question is what is made explicit in your comment to it, that it is lookin... | The social changes in the 60s were drastic. In Québec, for example, it was called the [Quiet Revolution](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution). The social norms changed a lot, and quickly. As such, the social changes alone seem like a reasonable explanation. Moreover, biological changes don't usually happen so... |
26,386 | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [Is it possible for web crawlers to see static pages without following a link to them?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/21499/is-it-possible-for-web-crawlers-to-see-static-pages-without-following-a-link-to)
>
>
>
I have some URLs (some pdfs and static HTML files) ... | 2012/02/24 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/26386",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/12670/"
] | Usually no but you have to be really sure that the URL is not present anywhere on the web, in your sitemap if you are publishing it. You also have to be careful on web server access statistics if you make them public.
In addition You can always use the `robot.txt` file to tell Google not to crawl the URLs.
**But** th... | As long as there is no incoming link or anything that can point google towards the file (sitemap, open directory structure, etc..) then I believe that it shouldn't be indexed. alternatively you could put the files in a folder and block it through the robots file. |
66,892,481 | I already have the lambda python function written and the perl script written. I just can't figure out how to call the python function from perl. I would put the perl script in a custom lambda runtime but my perl script runs for a lot longer that 15 minutes. If someone could point me in the right direction I would be v... | 2021/03/31 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/66892481",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14333906/"
] | You can [invoke a lambda](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/API_Invoke.html) with a web request.
Also, there's [Can an AWS Lambda function call another](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31714788/can-an-aws-lambda-function-call-another), among with many other resources out there (and on this site even), t... | Have you tried Inline::Python?[1](https://metacpan.org/pod/Inline%3A%3APython) |
202,276 | The tutorial that I am following sets the power of a Area Light object to 500W and even turns down the distance. When I do this, the light barely shows, I have to crank it up to like 5000-50,000 for it to be noticeable. Is there any reason for this? Again, I am a beginner so this might be a bad question. Also I am in r... | 2020/11/18 | [
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/202276",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com",
"https://blender.stackexchange.com/users/111136/"
] | The long and short of it is that the values for lights in cycles don't directly correspond to values you'd use in everyday life. Sun lamps are expressed in irradiance, for example. Things in blender also have default values that are often set to meet the needs/expectations of the greatest number of people and may not n... | I'd recommend you use a sunlamp with a small brightness (maybe around 0.1-0.9), with the area lamp so that you get a more noticeable light source. Sun lamps emit light as if a 'sun' is shining infinitely far away with a same brightness from whichever direction you have the sun lamp pointing towards. An area lamp is bas... |
332,056 | I would like to take a screenshot of the KDE Plasma 5 splash screen as I am creating a new splash theme. But pressing `PrtSc` during the splash doesn't launch spectacle (my screenshooter) until after the splash screen is gone and the screenshot it takes is of the desktop as it appears *after* the splash screen. | 2016/12/22 | [
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332056",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com",
"https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/27613/"
] | It depends critically on HOW the application handles log.txt.
If the application just opens the existing file and writes to it then as described in other answers you can symlink it to /dev/null, symlink it somewhere else, hardlink it somewhere else (though hardlinks can't be cross filesystem so there isn't a lot of po... | Consider making the file an actual null device. A file "log.txt" created with mknod, with the right file type and same minor and major numbers, will act as a null device because it is. |
58,206,128 | I would like to create an application for industrial automation to do the following functionalities:
1. Read values from PLC, SCADA, and DCA
2. Process those values and notify failures to Supervisor and Technician
I am new to the Industrial Automation industry and IoT, and I knew that we have OPC UA in place to rescu... | 2019/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/58206128",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1662244/"
] | >
> Where should I need to write logic to read values? OPC Server or Client?
>
>
>
In OPC UA a Server is generally speaking a device or a component which provides data to OPC UA Clients. In your case the OPC UA Server is the SIMATIC S7. **An OPC UA Client is then used to read variable values from this server.**
F... | Forget about previous versions of OPC (OPC DA, OPC A&E, OPC HDA) they are outdated versions and replaced by OPC UA.
In addition, the outdated versions are based on Windows DCOM and therefore could only be installed on a Windows computer.
In contrast, OPC UA is platform independent and can even be installed in the PLC... |
58,206,128 | I would like to create an application for industrial automation to do the following functionalities:
1. Read values from PLC, SCADA, and DCA
2. Process those values and notify failures to Supervisor and Technician
I am new to the Industrial Automation industry and IoT, and I knew that we have OPC UA in place to rescu... | 2019/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/58206128",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1662244/"
] | >
> Where should I need to write logic to read values? OPC Server or Client?
>
>
>
In OPC UA a Server is generally speaking a device or a component which provides data to OPC UA Clients. In your case the OPC UA Server is the SIMATIC S7. **An OPC UA Client is then used to read variable values from this server.**
F... | If you are not limited on either side, I would like to suggest you the Siemens
S7-[300](https://devicebase.net/en/siemens-s7-300)/[400](https://devicebase.net/en/siemens-s7-400)/[1200](https://devicebase.net/en/siemens-s7-1200)/[1500](https://devicebase.net/en/siemens-s7-1500) controller series.
You can integrate them... |
58,206,128 | I would like to create an application for industrial automation to do the following functionalities:
1. Read values from PLC, SCADA, and DCA
2. Process those values and notify failures to Supervisor and Technician
I am new to the Industrial Automation industry and IoT, and I knew that we have OPC UA in place to rescu... | 2019/10/02 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/58206128",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1662244/"
] | Forget about previous versions of OPC (OPC DA, OPC A&E, OPC HDA) they are outdated versions and replaced by OPC UA.
In addition, the outdated versions are based on Windows DCOM and therefore could only be installed on a Windows computer.
In contrast, OPC UA is platform independent and can even be installed in the PLC... | If you are not limited on either side, I would like to suggest you the Siemens
S7-[300](https://devicebase.net/en/siemens-s7-300)/[400](https://devicebase.net/en/siemens-s7-400)/[1200](https://devicebase.net/en/siemens-s7-1200)/[1500](https://devicebase.net/en/siemens-s7-1500) controller series.
You can integrate them... |
169,531 | Is the position of the adverbial YESTERDAY in the sentence below correct or not?
>
> She told me **yesterday** that she had been to Russia three times before.
>
>
>
If there are better placements, share it please. | 2018/06/14 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/169531",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/76760/"
] | >
> She told me **yesterday** that she had been to Russia three times before.
>
>
>
is fine.
---
You can use different word order:
>
> **Yesterday**, she told me that she had been to Russia three times before.
>
>
> | No one can say: "*It is grammatically incorrect.*", however, we can discuss its level of accuracy.
"*Yesterday*" is an adverb expressing when the action was performed, which means that it is not a verb complement, but it is just an extra information.
"*That she had been to Russia three times before*" is a noun clause... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | As demonstrated in other answers, most people have preconceived and incorrect notions of what constitutes bribery, in general, and there could be further misconceptions that what constitutes bribery in a criminal context also defines and limits the broader term.
Given the well-coordinated propaganda machinery that in... | Republicans have been accused of basing the Impeachment defense on distractions and false narratives [(1)](https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/11/why-are-republicans-so-obsessed-with-the-whistleblower-heres-why/)[(2)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/04/republican-squawking-cant-distract-democrat... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | The most logical explanation would be: the House has no evidence of bribery.
While impeachment doesn't exactly follow the rules of jurisprudence, there should be some basis for the charges preferred, lest those making them end up looking rather foolish.
Remember that the entire House is re-elected every two years, so... | It's not uncommon for the articles of impeachment that pass to be focused on the most-serious crimes. It was pretty clear that Nixon committed tax fraud, but the house decided to focus on the bigger issues and [didn't include that in the articles of impeachment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_process_against... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | The answer to this one is simple - the only logical reason to drop this article of impeachment is because there is no evidence that bribery, as it is **legally defined**, took place. Adam Schiff's definition of bribery is wholly irrelevant and it's baffling to see that answer receive any up-votes at all. If the evidenc... | Republicans have been accused of basing the Impeachment defense on distractions and false narratives [(1)](https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/11/why-are-republicans-so-obsessed-with-the-whistleblower-heres-why/)[(2)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/04/republican-squawking-cant-distract-democrat... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | As demonstrated in other answers, most people have preconceived and incorrect notions of what constitutes bribery, in general, and there could be further misconceptions that what constitutes bribery in a criminal context also defines and limits the broader term.
Given the well-coordinated propaganda machinery that in... | It's not uncommon for the articles of impeachment that pass to be focused on the most-serious crimes. It was pretty clear that Nixon committed tax fraud, but the house decided to focus on the bigger issues and [didn't include that in the articles of impeachment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_process_against... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | The house heard no evidence that that the President explicitly solicited a bribe from Ukraine. The closest they got was Sondland's testimony that [he assumed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sondland#Public_testimony) it was bribery based on information relayed to him. Furthermore an aide to Ukraine's President Ze... | These are the articles of impeachment that the House is going to give to the Senate, and the House would really, really like the Senate to actually deliberate them on their merits instead of dismissing them outright on a partisan basis. You'll note that 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' isn't the actual charge either, it'... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | These are the articles of impeachment that the House is going to give to the Senate, and the House would really, really like the Senate to actually deliberate them on their merits instead of dismissing them outright on a partisan basis. You'll note that 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' isn't the actual charge either, it'... | Republicans have been accused of basing the Impeachment defense on distractions and false narratives [(1)](https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/11/why-are-republicans-so-obsessed-with-the-whistleblower-heres-why/)[(2)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/04/republican-squawking-cant-distract-democrat... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | Schiff himself [thought that this was bribery](https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784368506/rep-adam-schiff-the-uncontested-facts-show-this-president-solicited-a-bribe)
>
> "I don't think there's any question that the uncontested facts show this president solicited a bribe," Schiff told NPR's Steve Inskeep in an intervie... | These are the articles of impeachment that the House is going to give to the Senate, and the House would really, really like the Senate to actually deliberate them on their merits instead of dismissing them outright on a partisan basis. You'll note that 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' isn't the actual charge either, it'... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | Schiff himself [thought that this was bribery](https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784368506/rep-adam-schiff-the-uncontested-facts-show-this-president-solicited-a-bribe)
>
> "I don't think there's any question that the uncontested facts show this president solicited a bribe," Schiff told NPR's Steve Inskeep in an intervie... | It's not uncommon for the articles of impeachment that pass to be focused on the most-serious crimes. It was pretty clear that Nixon committed tax fraud, but the house decided to focus on the bigger issues and [didn't include that in the articles of impeachment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_process_against... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | The house heard no evidence that that the President explicitly solicited a bribe from Ukraine. The closest they got was Sondland's testimony that [he assumed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sondland#Public_testimony) it was bribery based on information relayed to him. Furthermore an aide to Ukraine's President Ze... | As demonstrated in other answers, most people have preconceived and incorrect notions of what constitutes bribery, in general, and there could be further misconceptions that what constitutes bribery in a criminal context also defines and limits the broader term.
Given the well-coordinated propaganda machinery that in... |
48,630 | [YouGov's *multilevel regression and post-stratification* (MRP) model](https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/11/03/yougov-2020-mrp-model-forecasts) is seen as one of the most reliable pre-election predictors of what results will look like in the UK. Their turnout predictions by age are as follo... | 2019/12/12 | [
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48630",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com",
"https://politics.stackexchange.com/users/23000/"
] | The house heard no evidence that that the President explicitly solicited a bribe from Ukraine. The closest they got was Sondland's testimony that [he assumed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sondland#Public_testimony) it was bribery based on information relayed to him. Furthermore an aide to Ukraine's President Ze... | The answer to this one is simple - the only logical reason to drop this article of impeachment is because there is no evidence that bribery, as it is **legally defined**, took place. Adam Schiff's definition of bribery is wholly irrelevant and it's baffling to see that answer receive any up-votes at all. If the evidenc... |
18,208 | Is there a way to control volume of a remote system via ssh? we have a media center server and we want to remotely control the volume. | 2010/12/20 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/18208",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/4455/"
] | Thought it's not a command per-se, `alsamixer` is great for this kind of thing. It's part of the [alsa-utils](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-utils) package
 | You can also write a bash script using pacmd utility of PulseAudio sound system.
I have found an example script for you: [pulsevol.sh](http://gzn.pastebin.com/wpxZG4Tu) |
48,909 | Related: [In Skyrim, how many followers can I have? And where do I get them?](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36714/in-skyrim-how-many-followers-can-i-have-and-where-do-i-get-them)
Most of the answers in the above question seem to be addressing how many followers you can get through normal means. However, I... | 2012/01/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48909",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6274/"
] | So here's what I know you can do (name followed by the quest you should start but not complete):
**People**
* Any normal [follower](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Followers) (or, hey, [Aranea Ienith](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Aranea_Ienith) can summon an atronach)
* [Delphine](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:D... | You can use mods, like Skyrim EverPlayer, to have virtually unlimited followers. However, they would probably get in your way! I prefer to have only two followers (companions). However, sometimes it's fun to have an army and just wreak havok. |
48,909 | Related: [In Skyrim, how many followers can I have? And where do I get them?](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36714/in-skyrim-how-many-followers-can-i-have-and-where-do-i-get-them)
Most of the answers in the above question seem to be addressing how many followers you can get through normal means. However, I... | 2012/01/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48909",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6274/"
] | So here's what I know you can do (name followed by the quest you should start but not complete):
**People**
* Any normal [follower](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Followers) (or, hey, [Aranea Ienith](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Aranea_Ienith) can summon an atronach)
* [Delphine](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:D... | In addition to [what Bryan posted](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/48935/13090):
**People**
* Maurice Jondrelle - **The Blessings of Nature**
* Farkas or Vilkas - **Purity**
**Followers who summons**
* Belrand (familiar)
* Brelyna Marion (atronach)
* Eola (atronach and reanimate corpse)
**Other**
Apparently, t... |
48,909 | Related: [In Skyrim, how many followers can I have? And where do I get them?](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36714/in-skyrim-how-many-followers-can-i-have-and-where-do-i-get-them)
Most of the answers in the above question seem to be addressing how many followers you can get through normal means. However, I... | 2012/01/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48909",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6274/"
] | So here's what I know you can do (name followed by the quest you should start but not complete):
**People**
* Any normal [follower](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Followers) (or, hey, [Aranea Ienith](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Aranea_Ienith) can summon an atronach)
* [Delphine](http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:D... | Lucien lachance
Lione + atronach staff
Lione`s stalker
Serana + atronach staff
Ciscero + attanoch staff
Dbi + atranoch staff
Dbi + Atranoch staff
Thrall + atranoch staff
Thrall + atranoch staff
Delphine
Esbern
Farkas or Vilkas
Karliah
Brynjalf
Shadowmere
Arvak
Cosmetic w... |
48,909 | Related: [In Skyrim, how many followers can I have? And where do I get them?](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36714/in-skyrim-how-many-followers-can-i-have-and-where-do-i-get-them)
Most of the answers in the above question seem to be addressing how many followers you can get through normal means. However, I... | 2012/01/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48909",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6274/"
] | In addition to [what Bryan posted](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/48935/13090):
**People**
* Maurice Jondrelle - **The Blessings of Nature**
* Farkas or Vilkas - **Purity**
**Followers who summons**
* Belrand (familiar)
* Brelyna Marion (atronach)
* Eola (atronach and reanimate corpse)
**Other**
Apparently, t... | You can use mods, like Skyrim EverPlayer, to have virtually unlimited followers. However, they would probably get in your way! I prefer to have only two followers (companions). However, sometimes it's fun to have an army and just wreak havok. |
48,909 | Related: [In Skyrim, how many followers can I have? And where do I get them?](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/36714/in-skyrim-how-many-followers-can-i-have-and-where-do-i-get-them)
Most of the answers in the above question seem to be addressing how many followers you can get through normal means. However, I... | 2012/01/29 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48909",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/6274/"
] | In addition to [what Bryan posted](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/48935/13090):
**People**
* Maurice Jondrelle - **The Blessings of Nature**
* Farkas or Vilkas - **Purity**
**Followers who summons**
* Belrand (familiar)
* Brelyna Marion (atronach)
* Eola (atronach and reanimate corpse)
**Other**
Apparently, t... | Lucien lachance
Lione + atronach staff
Lione`s stalker
Serana + atronach staff
Ciscero + attanoch staff
Dbi + atranoch staff
Dbi + Atranoch staff
Thrall + atranoch staff
Thrall + atranoch staff
Delphine
Esbern
Farkas or Vilkas
Karliah
Brynjalf
Shadowmere
Arvak
Cosmetic w... |
4,722,474 | I have speed problems with my Website (1.3MB).
The problem is particularly relevant in the Internet Explorer (7,8).
Now I'am searching a tool for measuring the rendering time (HTML, JavaScript, CSS).
Thanks for help !
best regards | 2011/01/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4722474",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/403085/"
] | If you use Google chrome, it has some excellent profiling tools.
See here for more info:
<http://google-chrome-browser.com/google-chrome-developer-tools-profiling-and-optimizing> | Chrome, Safari (basically all WebKit-based browsers) do provide the Inspector which you can open by right-clicking on any place on a web site and choose "Inspect Element". |
4,722,474 | I have speed problems with my Website (1.3MB).
The problem is particularly relevant in the Internet Explorer (7,8).
Now I'am searching a tool for measuring the rendering time (HTML, JavaScript, CSS).
Thanks for help !
best regards | 2011/01/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4722474",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/403085/"
] | I believe you want a profiling tool for IE. Knowing how popular IE is with web designers/developers, I am not surprised that there are not many tools. I used to use [YSlow](http://yslow.org/) from Yahoo in Mozilla browsers. When I had to test only in IE, (when my client insisted on it), I came across [MSFAST](http://ms... | If you use Google chrome, it has some excellent profiling tools.
See here for more info:
<http://google-chrome-browser.com/google-chrome-developer-tools-profiling-and-optimizing> |
4,722,474 | I have speed problems with my Website (1.3MB).
The problem is particularly relevant in the Internet Explorer (7,8).
Now I'am searching a tool for measuring the rendering time (HTML, JavaScript, CSS).
Thanks for help !
best regards | 2011/01/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4722474",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/403085/"
] | One tool I found interesting is called *Speed Tracer*. It can be used to figure out, why your page loads that long. It differs from YSlow in the way that you see, what the Browser actually is doing. When it starts drawing the website on your screen, CSS evaluation, JavaScript execution and so on.
<https://developers.g... | If you use Google chrome, it has some excellent profiling tools.
See here for more info:
<http://google-chrome-browser.com/google-chrome-developer-tools-profiling-and-optimizing> |
4,722,474 | I have speed problems with my Website (1.3MB).
The problem is particularly relevant in the Internet Explorer (7,8).
Now I'am searching a tool for measuring the rendering time (HTML, JavaScript, CSS).
Thanks for help !
best regards | 2011/01/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4722474",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/403085/"
] | I believe you want a profiling tool for IE. Knowing how popular IE is with web designers/developers, I am not surprised that there are not many tools. I used to use [YSlow](http://yslow.org/) from Yahoo in Mozilla browsers. When I had to test only in IE, (when my client insisted on it), I came across [MSFAST](http://ms... | Chrome, Safari (basically all WebKit-based browsers) do provide the Inspector which you can open by right-clicking on any place on a web site and choose "Inspect Element". |
4,722,474 | I have speed problems with my Website (1.3MB).
The problem is particularly relevant in the Internet Explorer (7,8).
Now I'am searching a tool for measuring the rendering time (HTML, JavaScript, CSS).
Thanks for help !
best regards | 2011/01/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4722474",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/403085/"
] | One tool I found interesting is called *Speed Tracer*. It can be used to figure out, why your page loads that long. It differs from YSlow in the way that you see, what the Browser actually is doing. When it starts drawing the website on your screen, CSS evaluation, JavaScript execution and so on.
<https://developers.g... | Chrome, Safari (basically all WebKit-based browsers) do provide the Inspector which you can open by right-clicking on any place on a web site and choose "Inspect Element". |
28,407,291 | I want to use some tools (free is better) or languages to help me do the following two tasks:
**Task 1:**
1. Read the specification file (text file) the user gives as input. To the user, the format of the specification file is designed by me and the user must follow it.
2. Use the specification input to generat... | 2015/02/09 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28407291",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2358969/"
] | What OP wants in general is a [program transformation system (PTS)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_transformation). PTS are generally capable of accepting an arbitrary syntax specification, building a parser producing ASTs from that syntax, applying source-to-source transforms to map the parsed AST to other ASTs,... | The POET (Parameterized Optimization for Empirical Tuning, <http://www.cs.uccs.edu/~qyi/poet>) script language is one candidate. Are there any other tools or language? |
480,716 | I was thinking of having a sentence that goes like:
>
> This situation presents the paradox of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
>
>
>
Basically, I want to say that it's ironic that the worst human rights abuses can be traced back to World Bank but at the same time, World Bank declares the human rights issues to be completely ou... | 2019/01/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/480716",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/331467/"
] | There is an idiom that seems to be appropriate here:
***sail under false colors***
According to Collin's Dictionary:
To behave deceptively;
the “colors” of a ship are its
identifying flags:
“It turned out
that the door-to-door sales rep
was sailing
under false
colors and was
actually a swindler.” | I would call Company X a **[wolf in sheep's clothing](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/wolf-in-sheeps-clothing)**.
>
> a malicious person in a harmless or benevolent disguise
>
>
> * Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
>
>
> |
480,716 | I was thinking of having a sentence that goes like:
>
> This situation presents the paradox of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
>
>
>
Basically, I want to say that it's ironic that the worst human rights abuses can be traced back to World Bank but at the same time, World Bank declares the human rights issues to be completely ou... | 2019/01/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/480716",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/331467/"
] | One would say that Company X keeps their hands clean. | I would call Company X a **[wolf in sheep's clothing](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/wolf-in-sheeps-clothing)**.
>
> a malicious person in a harmless or benevolent disguise
>
>
> * Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
>
>
> |
480,716 | I was thinking of having a sentence that goes like:
>
> This situation presents the paradox of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
>
>
>
Basically, I want to say that it's ironic that the worst human rights abuses can be traced back to World Bank but at the same time, World Bank declares the human rights issues to be completely ou... | 2019/01/10 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/480716",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/331467/"
] | One would say that Company X keeps their hands clean. | There is an idiom that seems to be appropriate here:
***sail under false colors***
According to Collin's Dictionary:
To behave deceptively;
the “colors” of a ship are its
identifying flags:
“It turned out
that the door-to-door sales rep
was sailing
under false
colors and was
actually a swindler.” |
72,357 | It seems that if most transactions are valid, a miner could save a little time and increase its chance of mining a block by not validating. Is the reason that there are enough invalid transactions to make this an ineffective strategy, because the risk of having mined an invalid block is not worth the time savings?
I h... | 2018/03/14 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/72357",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/78829/"
] | >
> Why do miners validate transactions?
>
>
>
Because they want to create blocks, that contain valid transactions. After sending the block to the network, other nodes verify the block for correctness. If the block is rejected, the possibility to "win" is lost...
>
> invalid transactions
>
>
>
you seem to p... | The miners validate transactions to secure the network and in turn get rewarded for doing so. The miners are what prevent double spending and actually deliver the payments through the blockchain. Without the miners I could sent the same bitcoin to as many different people as I want. Who would stop me? .. well the miner... |
72,357 | It seems that if most transactions are valid, a miner could save a little time and increase its chance of mining a block by not validating. Is the reason that there are enough invalid transactions to make this an ineffective strategy, because the risk of having mined an invalid block is not worth the time savings?
I h... | 2018/03/14 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/72357",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/78829/"
] | While invalid transactions are uncommon, transaction and block validation is a minuscule effort in comparison to the effort expended on mining that can be easily parallelized with the mining process.
The cost of including an invalid transaction or building on top of an invalid block, however, is potentially losing a b... | >
> Why do miners validate transactions?
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Because they want to create blocks, that contain valid transactions. After sending the block to the network, other nodes verify the block for correctness. If the block is rejected, the possibility to "win" is lost...
>
> invalid transactions
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you seem to p... |
72,357 | It seems that if most transactions are valid, a miner could save a little time and increase its chance of mining a block by not validating. Is the reason that there are enough invalid transactions to make this an ineffective strategy, because the risk of having mined an invalid block is not worth the time savings?
I h... | 2018/03/14 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/72357",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/78829/"
] | While invalid transactions are uncommon, transaction and block validation is a minuscule effort in comparison to the effort expended on mining that can be easily parallelized with the mining process.
The cost of including an invalid transaction or building on top of an invalid block, however, is potentially losing a b... | The miners validate transactions to secure the network and in turn get rewarded for doing so. The miners are what prevent double spending and actually deliver the payments through the blockchain. Without the miners I could sent the same bitcoin to as many different people as I want. Who would stop me? .. well the miner... |
82,245 | I just bought an Ethernet hard drive. Everything works, but not as I expected.
When I copy a file with this hard drive, only 50% of the network bandwidth is used. As my computer only handles 100 Mbps network speed, the transfer speed is about 5.5 M/s. It could be twice more with a better usage of my bandwidth.
My com... | 2009/12/12 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/82245",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/21115/"
] | According to your description, it can be either: router, hard disk, external disk, network card.
You could try to connect directly to your external disk, to find out if the bottleneck is the hard disk or the external disk. If it isn't, then you could connect directly thru ethernet to another computer to find out if it... | Low end network drives sometimes are the bottleneck. Have a look [here](http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_nas&Itemid=&chart=11) to see if this could apply in you case. |
7,511 | I just read [this answer to a popular question here](https://law.stackexchange.com/a/4560), where it explains why lawyers aren't allowed in juries most of the time; here's an excerpt:
>
> If a lawyer is in the jury, that person will undoubtedly be able to
> explain exactly what the law requires for a finding, or ex... | 2016/03/02 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/7511",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/4604/"
] | Jurors are given clear and concise instructions; that is what the judge's summing up is for.
In a jury trial the judge's job is to decide what the law is and the jury's job is to decide what the facts are. The judge will instruct the jury (essentially) that if you believe the facts are A the law requires an acquittal ... | I give you a couple of problems with lawyers on juries. In criminal cases, Jury nullification is perfectly legal and has a long history. Some states include jury nullification in their instructions while others do not. A lawyer on a jury is going to know about jury nullification whether instructed or not.
In New Jerse... |
7,511 | I just read [this answer to a popular question here](https://law.stackexchange.com/a/4560), where it explains why lawyers aren't allowed in juries most of the time; here's an excerpt:
>
> If a lawyer is in the jury, that person will undoubtedly be able to
> explain exactly what the law requires for a finding, or ex... | 2016/03/02 | [
"https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/7511",
"https://law.stackexchange.com",
"https://law.stackexchange.com/users/4604/"
] | While it is true that jury instructions are typically less than optimal, it is ideological hyperbole or cynicism to claim that instructions are *purposely* confusing. The ultimate source of the confusion is that the legal system has to assume (pretend) that it has clear-cut rules that any reasonable person can easily u... | I give you a couple of problems with lawyers on juries. In criminal cases, Jury nullification is perfectly legal and has a long history. Some states include jury nullification in their instructions while others do not. A lawyer on a jury is going to know about jury nullification whether instructed or not.
In New Jerse... |
53,644,060 | I find the blaze ecosystem\* amazing because it covers most of the data engineering use cases. There was definitely a lot of interest on these projects during the period 2015-2016, but of late it has been ignored. I say this looking at the commits on the github repos.
So my question to the community are
- What happe... | 2018/12/06 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/53644060",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5992714/"
] | I can give some part of the picture, although others were more involved.
Blaze was both an umbrella project for incubating data-engineering ideas into released oss packages, and a package itself focussing on symbolic manipulations of data-frames and translating these into various backend execution engines, particularly... | I was looking for a project similar to odo for loading csv data to various sources. An odo issue (<https://github.com/blaze/odo/issues/614>) recommended [d6tstack](https://github.com/d6t/d6tstack), which appears to be currently maintained.
In practice, it is often just as easy to roll your own csv loader, in which ca... |
307,969 | You're my last hope stackoverflowers. | 2008/11/21 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/307969",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3966/"
] | No that is not possible on iphone. | No.
You need to go through the itunes connect web site for that |
147,857 | For SharePoint development, I am used to placing all the images/CSS/JS files into the mapped layouts folder (..\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS) using Visual Studio. Recently, I saw my colleague using the STYLES folder in the layouts to store the CSS files.
Are there any implications or diff... | 2015/07/01 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/147857",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/29906/"
] | If you use file system then during system backup those files will not get backed up. This is the same case with system migration. All files in file system needs to be moved separately.
On the other hand if you use libraries then those files will be placed in the content database and will be included in backup as well ... | To me, it depends on what you are doing. If you are deploying a branding feature, then I would deploy it to the file system. This way you don't have hundreds of copies of your CSS and JS files lingering around. One place, easier to update should changes be necessary.
If the feature is site or site collection scoped, t... |
147,857 | For SharePoint development, I am used to placing all the images/CSS/JS files into the mapped layouts folder (..\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS) using Visual Studio. Recently, I saw my colleague using the STYLES folder in the layouts to store the CSS files.
Are there any implications or diff... | 2015/07/01 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/147857",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/29906/"
] | If you use file system then during system backup those files will not get backed up. This is the same case with system migration. All files in file system needs to be moved separately.
On the other hand if you use libraries then those files will be placed in the content database and will be included in backup as well ... | The answer, as always, is it depends.
The first thing to consider is scope. Where are these files going to be used? If they are going to be used farm-wide then it makes most sense to deploy them to the \_layouts folder. If they need to be visible at the site collection level then style library or site assets makes sen... |
147,857 | For SharePoint development, I am used to placing all the images/CSS/JS files into the mapped layouts folder (..\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS) using Visual Studio. Recently, I saw my colleague using the STYLES folder in the layouts to store the CSS files.
Are there any implications or diff... | 2015/07/01 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/147857",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/29906/"
] | Considering you are not interested in the whole document library VS mapped folder discussion, I believe that the main reason for placing branding elements (aka CSS) in the "Styles" mapped folder, instead of the parent, "Layouts" is mainly when you want to use the [Themable engine](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra... | To me, it depends on what you are doing. If you are deploying a branding feature, then I would deploy it to the file system. This way you don't have hundreds of copies of your CSS and JS files lingering around. One place, easier to update should changes be necessary.
If the feature is site or site collection scoped, t... |
147,857 | For SharePoint development, I am used to placing all the images/CSS/JS files into the mapped layouts folder (..\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS) using Visual Studio. Recently, I saw my colleague using the STYLES folder in the layouts to store the CSS files.
Are there any implications or diff... | 2015/07/01 | [
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/147857",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com",
"https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/users/29906/"
] | Considering you are not interested in the whole document library VS mapped folder discussion, I believe that the main reason for placing branding elements (aka CSS) in the "Styles" mapped folder, instead of the parent, "Layouts" is mainly when you want to use the [Themable engine](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libra... | The answer, as always, is it depends.
The first thing to consider is scope. Where are these files going to be used? If they are going to be used farm-wide then it makes most sense to deploy them to the \_layouts folder. If they need to be visible at the site collection level then style library or site assets makes sen... |
158,958 | I have two groups of people, group A (62 people) and group B (8 people), and each person in each group responded to a test with the same 8 questions where the answer to each question was one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 (5-point Likert scale).
I want to be able to express how similar each group was at answering the... | 2015/06/27 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/158958",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/42760/"
] | The limitation of Cohen's Kappa is that it is meant to compare two *raters* with usually two categories. A weighted version of Cohen's Kappa is available that allows you to expand the two category formulation, but the issue of multiple raters is largely unexplored in the statistical world.
The *bigger* issue is that ... | So i understand that your data is ordinal, correct? If so, i would suggest for instance the measure mentioned by Marek Walesiak in his paper "distance measure for ordinal data". However, since the formula is too complex to write it down, i think the best is to look it up here. |
3,621,792 | >
> **Possible Duplicates:**
>
> [When pass-by-pointer is preferred to pass-by-reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550377/when-pass-by-pointer-is-preferred-to-pass-by-reference-in-c)
>
> [Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/que... | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3621792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/375828/"
] | FYI this was asked in a slightly diff way earlier today:
[When to pass by reference and when to pass by pointer in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3613065/when-to-pass-by-reference-and-when-to-pass-by-pointer-in-c/3613109#3613109)
Canonical advice is "pass by ref to const unless a v good reason for another ... | While I like references, there are a few common cases where you can't use them:
* You want to store an object reference/pointer in a member variable but don't want to require that object in your class constructor
* You want to store an object reference/pointer in a member variable and change the instance at runtime
* ... |
3,621,792 | >
> **Possible Duplicates:**
>
> [When pass-by-pointer is preferred to pass-by-reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550377/when-pass-by-pointer-is-preferred-to-pass-by-reference-in-c)
>
> [Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/que... | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3621792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/375828/"
] | The main difference is that a reference cannot be NULL (at least not without some malicious programming). For syntactical sugar and when an argument is required, I'd pass by reference. If I had a situation where the argument were optional, I'd pass by pointer.
There are always exceptions. If it conforms to the current... | If your choice is pointers vs. references, use references. They have all the advantages of pointers without the danger of dereferencing an uninitialized pointer.
And don't worry too much about implementing a uniform approach early-- in this case it really isn't difficult to go back and forth between the two (one funct... |
3,621,792 | >
> **Possible Duplicates:**
>
> [When pass-by-pointer is preferred to pass-by-reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550377/when-pass-by-pointer-is-preferred-to-pass-by-reference-in-c)
>
> [Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/que... | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3621792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/375828/"
] | FYI this was asked in a slightly diff way earlier today:
[When to pass by reference and when to pass by pointer in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3613065/when-to-pass-by-reference-and-when-to-pass-by-pointer-in-c/3613109#3613109)
Canonical advice is "pass by ref to const unless a v good reason for another ... | Personally I like passing by pointer because it offers some level of consistency in my code. I automatically know that my object Foo is a pointer. The same would apply with a reference so be sure to pick one and stick with it. |
3,621,792 | >
> **Possible Duplicates:**
>
> [When pass-by-pointer is preferred to pass-by-reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550377/when-pass-by-pointer-is-preferred-to-pass-by-reference-in-c)
>
> [Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/que... | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3621792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/375828/"
] | Prefer pass by reference. If for nothing else I do it because a reference simply can't be `NULL`. It puts an end to so many stupid bugs, debates, contract checks, memory responsibility questions, etc ... | If your choice is pointers vs. references, use references. They have all the advantages of pointers without the danger of dereferencing an uninitialized pointer.
And don't worry too much about implementing a uniform approach early-- in this case it really isn't difficult to go back and forth between the two (one funct... |
3,621,792 | >
> **Possible Duplicates:**
>
> [When pass-by-pointer is preferred to pass-by-reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550377/when-pass-by-pointer-is-preferred-to-pass-by-reference-in-c)
>
> [Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/que... | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3621792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/375828/"
] | Prefer pass by reference. If for nothing else I do it because a reference simply can't be `NULL`. It puts an end to so many stupid bugs, debates, contract checks, memory responsibility questions, etc ... | While I like references, there are a few common cases where you can't use them:
* You want to store an object reference/pointer in a member variable but don't want to require that object in your class constructor
* You want to store an object reference/pointer in a member variable and change the instance at runtime
* ... |
3,621,792 | >
> **Possible Duplicates:**
>
> [When pass-by-pointer is preferred to pass-by-reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550377/when-pass-by-pointer-is-preferred-to-pass-by-reference-in-c)
>
> [Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/que... | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3621792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/375828/"
] | Prefer pass by reference. If for nothing else I do it because a reference simply can't be `NULL`. It puts an end to so many stupid bugs, debates, contract checks, memory responsibility questions, etc ... | Personally I like passing by pointer because it offers some level of consistency in my code. I automatically know that my object Foo is a pointer. The same would apply with a reference so be sure to pick one and stick with it. |
3,621,792 | >
> **Possible Duplicates:**
>
> [When pass-by-pointer is preferred to pass-by-reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550377/when-pass-by-pointer-is-preferred-to-pass-by-reference-in-c)
>
> [Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?](https://stackoverflow.com/que... | 2010/09/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/3621792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/375828/"
] | The main difference is that a reference cannot be NULL (at least not without some malicious programming). For syntactical sugar and when an argument is required, I'd pass by reference. If I had a situation where the argument were optional, I'd pass by pointer.
There are always exceptions. If it conforms to the current... | While I like references, there are a few common cases where you can't use them:
* You want to store an object reference/pointer in a member variable but don't want to require that object in your class constructor
* You want to store an object reference/pointer in a member variable and change the instance at runtime
* ... |
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