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97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from ab... | 2018/07/02 | [
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] | It depends on the clause of the Direct Deposit agreement.
Some Direct Deposit agreements include a clause including permission to make withdrawals, the actionary phrase may be as simple as 'I permit {organisation} to deposit and withdraw on my account'.
If there is no withdrawal authorization provided, such things as... | No, direct deposit doesn't permit withdrawal. But keep in mind that every company or person performing transactions can file for a withdrawal of same amount that they deposit. However their is a limited time period after which banks will revoke the ability to even reverse the transition. [ Won't apply if court or polic... |
97,064 | I vaguely know that a good credit score is very important in the US (we do not have such concept in France for individuals).
I was wondering whether such credit score can be boosted through some kind of sponsorship?
A real life scenario would be a company absolutely willing to bring in a very senior employee from ab... | 2018/07/02 | [
"https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/97064",
"https://money.stackexchange.com",
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] | Usually, when you sign up for direct deposit you have to sign a form giving your consent. This contains a clause which allows the company to make withdrawals up to the paycheck amount, in order to correct any errors.
In short, if you signed up for direct deposit then you have already given your consent for them to fix... | No, direct deposit doesn't permit withdrawal. But keep in mind that every company or person performing transactions can file for a withdrawal of same amount that they deposit. However their is a limited time period after which banks will revoke the ability to even reverse the transition. [ Won't apply if court or polic... |
45,399 | I live in Denmark and have Danish citizenship. That means I am not allowed to obtain another citizenship otherwise I will lose the danish one. My question is then: Can I get the kosovo ID card, without losing the danish citizenship, does the ID-card mean citizenship? | 2015/03/30 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/45399",
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] | I’d suggest taking a look at the website of the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau, which has a [page titled “Places to visit at night in Paris”](http://en.parisinfo.com/discovering-paris/themed-guides/paris-by-night/practical-guide/places-to-visit-at-night-in-paris). It lists a number of places (mostly museums, some... | Fortunately [ParisInfo](https://en.parisinfo.com/) (the official tourism website of Paris) has a great few pieces on this:
* [Places to visit at night in Paris](http://en.parisinfo.com/discovering-paris/themed-guides/paris-by-night/practical-guide/places-to-visit-at-night-in-paris) - many museums, theatres and more ar... |
79,217 | I'm using Pi 3
I have a line that gives 12V. I need to invoke something on Pi, when the line goes High.
As I cannot connect the 12V to GPIO, I thought of using a relay, that will trigger on 12V, and then connect the 3v3 to a GPIO.
This will happen periodically, for almost a second.
I know that the 3v3 will have cur... | 2018/02/14 | [
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] | Use a voltage divider, or a 10V zener diode. My 10V zeners drop 9.49V, and would in your case yield 2.51V; a HIGH on PI. Optionally use a PNP+NPN pair to close the connection from the 12V line to the Pi when polling the voltage, or there will be a bit of leakage. | First you need to implement a De-bounce circuit, it will prevent the mechanical contact that can bounce when they touch together and be read as multiple contacts.
There is no "unused" current, the circuit will draw as much current as it need and the output will deliver it, if it can. |
79,217 | I'm using Pi 3
I have a line that gives 12V. I need to invoke something on Pi, when the line goes High.
As I cannot connect the 12V to GPIO, I thought of using a relay, that will trigger on 12V, and then connect the 3v3 to a GPIO.
This will happen periodically, for almost a second.
I know that the 3v3 will have cur... | 2018/02/14 | [
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] | Use a voltage divider, or a 10V zener diode. My 10V zeners drop 9.49V, and would in your case yield 2.51V; a HIGH on PI. Optionally use a PNP+NPN pair to close the connection from the 12V line to the Pi when polling the voltage, or there will be a bit of leakage. | It is simple to interface a higher voltage indicator to the Pi, provided they can share a common ground connection.
Using relays is sledgehammer solution which introduces a number of other problems.
The simplest approach uses a voltage divider. Do **NOT** attempt to produce 3.3V, anything over 2.2V will reliably trig... |
79,217 | I'm using Pi 3
I have a line that gives 12V. I need to invoke something on Pi, when the line goes High.
As I cannot connect the 12V to GPIO, I thought of using a relay, that will trigger on 12V, and then connect the 3v3 to a GPIO.
This will happen periodically, for almost a second.
I know that the 3v3 will have cur... | 2018/02/14 | [
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/79217",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com",
"https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/users/80931/"
] | Use a voltage divider, or a 10V zener diode. My 10V zeners drop 9.49V, and would in your case yield 2.51V; a HIGH on PI. Optionally use a PNP+NPN pair to close the connection from the 12V line to the Pi when polling the voltage, or there will be a bit of leakage. | See my answer to another question here [regarding the use of an interposing relay](https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/107149/56181).
In the answer I posted I made mention to use a pull down resistor, and a current limiting resistor in series with the GPIO. This would look something like this.
 to hot wallet(online system) for submission. Usb stick is suitable for an individual user mining but is not suitable in an exchange environment.
One option I am proposed is to build an api that sends tx over eth... | 2014/05/05 | [
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/25106",
"https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com",
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] | I would reroute all incoming deposits to cold storage, which I would keep in small portions on different addresses.
Then I'd import some cold storage addresses to my hot wallet whenever my hot wallet is running low, keeping the amount in my hot wallet in the range between "not empty" and "what I'm comfortable having ... | I'd recommend using multisig for your 'hot' wallet (selfish plug to bitgo). Then you can periodically manually transfer from your cold storage savings, but have most of your coins be protected with signatures from at least 2 systems. |
38,348 | When you're selling a product, do you think it's important to offer the users various themes (in order for them to choose the one they like most or to customize it to their brand)?
What are the advantages of having this option? Should I just offer one theme? My question is related to website makers, like WordPress and... | 2013/04/19 | [
"https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/38348",
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] | Customization in consumer products has always been targeted at "making it yours". We're all unique so even if we all have an iPhone and we're all on Facebook, we like that unicity to shine through somewhere. Some services used to overdo that (*ahem* myspace *ahem*). Facebook and Twitter on the other hand have a nice ba... | Multiple themes for designers who would design their websites using WordPress are absolutely a requirement as the designer needs freedom of expression and variety to choose from or they wouldn't feel they have "designed". Variety is a sense of change, interest and adventure that we all **\**need*\*** in order to feel a... |
104,889 | When taking photos with my iPhone, the phone's camera does a great job of protecting the highlights from blowing out. When using my Canon 5D mark ii, on the other hand, it seems to map a much narrower dynamic range into the jpg files.
Example pictures from both cameras, where I metered of the flower pot in both cases:... | 2019/02/07 | [
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] | What you seem to be after is a metering mode that places the highest priority on not blowing the highlights. This is important for many photographers and many lighting situations. But there are also other times when getting the shadows or the midtones properly exposed is more important to the photographer. At those poi... | The setting you're likely looking for is **Highlight Tone Priority** (HTP). This makes the camera expose for highlights, to avoid blowing them out, and brings back shadows to normal with processing. Other cameras may refer to this as Dynamic Range Expansion/Optimization.
Other settings you might find helpful:
* Auto ... |
104,889 | When taking photos with my iPhone, the phone's camera does a great job of protecting the highlights from blowing out. When using my Canon 5D mark ii, on the other hand, it seems to map a much narrower dynamic range into the jpg files.
Example pictures from both cameras, where I metered of the flower pot in both cases:... | 2019/02/07 | [
"https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/104889",
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] | What you seem to be after is a metering mode that places the highest priority on not blowing the highlights. This is important for many photographers and many lighting situations. But there are also other times when getting the shadows or the midtones properly exposed is more important to the photographer. At those poi... | You're using a much wider aperture on the second photograph : the buildings in the background - and even the window frame - would be out of focus irrespective of any highlights.
Cameras are great at exposing for something in focus, but even with spot metering an out of focus background might affect the picture. In thi... |
35,080 | 1) Does it mean if I commit shirk right now, I will never enter paradise?
or
2) Does it mean if I die in the state of shirk, I will never enter paradise?
In my opinion, it should mean the second one. Because if it's the first one, that would mean that after a person commits shirk, there is no point in being a good p... | 2016/08/27 | [
"https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/35080",
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] | Here's some of what is written on this matter:
Shirk is forgiveable if one repents
-----------------------------------
>
> Say, "O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merci... | Ofcourse it means the second , otherwise the SAHABA the prophet's companions will not enter paradise ,because before islam they were at shirk.
The aya means that in the day of judgment Allah will not forgive shirk and would forgive other than that on his will subhanahu we taala and he is the most kind and mercifull.
In... |
2,084,021 | what is the difference between creating ordinary tables using 'dbo' and creating tables using schemas.How this schema works & supports the tables | 2010/01/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2084021",
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] | `dbo` *is* a schema. | See if [this](http://www.sqlteam.com/article/understanding-the-difference-between-owners-and-schemas-in-sql-server) helps.
Schema seems to be a way of categorizing objects (tables/stored procs/views etc).
Think of it as a bucket to organize related objects based on functionality.
I am not sure, how logged in SQL u... |
2,084,021 | what is the difference between creating ordinary tables using 'dbo' and creating tables using schemas.How this schema works & supports the tables | 2010/01/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2084021",
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] | A schema is just a container for DB objects - tables, views etc. It allows you to structure a very large database solution you might have. As a sample, have a look at the newer AdventureWorks sample databases - they have a number of schemata included, like "HumanResources" and so forth.
A schema can be a security boun... | `dbo` *is* a schema. |
2,084,021 | what is the difference between creating ordinary tables using 'dbo' and creating tables using schemas.How this schema works & supports the tables | 2010/01/18 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/2084021",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/219876/"
] | A schema is just a container for DB objects - tables, views etc. It allows you to structure a very large database solution you might have. As a sample, have a look at the newer AdventureWorks sample databases - they have a number of schemata included, like "HumanResources" and so forth.
A schema can be a security boun... | See if [this](http://www.sqlteam.com/article/understanding-the-difference-between-owners-and-schemas-in-sql-server) helps.
Schema seems to be a way of categorizing objects (tables/stored procs/views etc).
Think of it as a bucket to organize related objects based on functionality.
I am not sure, how logged in SQL u... |
28,991,562 | Looking to add a span tag around every word in the block title. I need to have the last two words in my title be a larger font, and also a different color. | 2015/03/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/28991562",
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"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3308716/"
] | You should consider using Hibernate Search for your requirement. You can use [This link](http://hibernate.org/search/documentation/getting-started/) to get started. As you are using tables for your application, you will have lot of facilities like ORM and also Full Text Search through this module. If you want to use Ap... | I think you can use Solr in your case and you will get the data faster and accurate. About the latest...there would be some lag there...
as data needs to added/updated in solr index.
I have used Solr in my application...(I have used DataImportHandler)
I am updating the Solr index after 20 mins...
that means there is 2... |
5,616,490 | I created some graphic layouts by photoshop and made it the background for my website.
But I am clueless as to how I can put html elements in the right place. The problem is, the positions of html elements change by the size of the browser. How can I solve this problem? Any clues? Thanks in advance! | 2011/04/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5616490",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/673656/"
] | [You need to learn CSS](http://sixrevisions.com/css/20_websites_learn_master_css/).
* Be patient.
* Be persistent.
* Learn what IE versions baulk at what. | You must know how to use CSS specially the html elements positioning.
* [Positioning HTML Elements with Cascading Style Sheets](http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-positioning-970131)
* [Positioning schemes](http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#positioning-scheme)
Also be careful with different browser because the display resu... |
5,616,490 | I created some graphic layouts by photoshop and made it the background for my website.
But I am clueless as to how I can put html elements in the right place. The problem is, the positions of html elements change by the size of the browser. How can I solve this problem? Any clues? Thanks in advance! | 2011/04/11 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5616490",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/673656/"
] | [You need to learn CSS](http://sixrevisions.com/css/20_websites_learn_master_css/).
* Be patient.
* Be persistent.
* Learn what IE versions baulk at what. | start here: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwQMnpUsj8I>
Once you understand the basics, check out grid systems like this: <http://960.gs/> |
339 | What should the separator be?
* System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Apply System-Wide
* System → Preferences → Keyboard → Layouts → Apply System-Wide
* System --> Preferences --> Keyboard --> Layouts --> Apply System-Wide
* System | Preferences | Keyboard | Layouts | Apply System-Wide
* System/Preferences/Keyb... | 2010/09/20 | [
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] | Voting should be encouraged but voting *for the sake of voting* should be dissuaded.
### Voting on answers is pretty self explanatory
It's easy to notice a good answer amongst less-good answers even if it's competing with your own answer.
I know it's very easy for the person with the most points on the site to say "... | Yes - voting is a very **very** important act on this site. It's what drives the content - and it needs to be stressed - especially as the majority of this communities user base comes from outside the existent StackExchange community. The system of this style isn't one that's frequently used (Think of it as most users ... |
339 | What should the separator be?
* System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Apply System-Wide
* System → Preferences → Keyboard → Layouts → Apply System-Wide
* System --> Preferences --> Keyboard --> Layouts --> Apply System-Wide
* System | Preferences | Keyboard | Layouts | Apply System-Wide
* System/Preferences/Keyb... | 2010/09/20 | [
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/339",
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] | Yes - voting is a very **very** important act on this site. It's what drives the content - and it needs to be stressed - especially as the majority of this communities user base comes from outside the existent StackExchange community. The system of this style isn't one that's frequently used (Think of it as most users ... | Yes. IMHO, even if one is not personally interested in a particular question (if he is, he will usually not only vote, but also star it), he should vote it if he finds it interesting and/or probable to be practically useful.
I think for each n votes one should to be given a reputation gain. The only issue here is to r... |
339 | What should the separator be?
* System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Apply System-Wide
* System → Preferences → Keyboard → Layouts → Apply System-Wide
* System --> Preferences --> Keyboard --> Layouts --> Apply System-Wide
* System | Preferences | Keyboard | Layouts | Apply System-Wide
* System/Preferences/Keyb... | 2010/09/20 | [
"https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/339",
"https://meta.askubuntu.com",
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] | Voting should be encouraged but voting *for the sake of voting* should be dissuaded.
### Voting on answers is pretty self explanatory
It's easy to notice a good answer amongst less-good answers even if it's competing with your own answer.
I know it's very easy for the person with the most points on the site to say "... | Yes. IMHO, even if one is not personally interested in a particular question (if he is, he will usually not only vote, but also star it), he should vote it if he finds it interesting and/or probable to be practically useful.
I think for each n votes one should to be given a reputation gain. The only issue here is to r... |
169,680 | I am installing a simple IKEA ceiling light fixture.
The new light fixture has a neutral wire, a live wire, and a ground wire.
My current old light fixture has 4 wires: white, red, dark blue or black, and copper wire.
And here is how it is connected: The white from ceiling to the white in an old fixture. The black ... | 2019/07/22 | [
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] | Do you have a double switch on the wall? The red and black wires in a three core at a light fitting are usually intended to be separate feeds for a fan plus lighting fixture. If you look behind the switch you may find the red and black commoned together there too, if a double switch wasn't fitted. Usually the unused on... | The yellow plate in the ceiling and the wiring leads me to believe a ceiling fan was originally there. The black wire would usually be the live wire, the white wire would usually be the neutral and the copper wire would usually be the ground. The red wire would usually be a live wire controlled by a switch. You should ... |
169,680 | I am installing a simple IKEA ceiling light fixture.
The new light fixture has a neutral wire, a live wire, and a ground wire.
My current old light fixture has 4 wires: white, red, dark blue or black, and copper wire.
And here is how it is connected: The white from ceiling to the white in an old fixture. The black ... | 2019/07/22 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169680",
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] | What not to do
--------------
We get people who find 4-12 non-ground wires they don't understand, and so they *take them all apart*. I call this "trying to learn electrical by disassembling your house". Every wire is now separated and splayed all over the box, and they ask "how does this hook up?" And we tell them
W... | Do you have a double switch on the wall? The red and black wires in a three core at a light fitting are usually intended to be separate feeds for a fan plus lighting fixture. If you look behind the switch you may find the red and black commoned together there too, if a double switch wasn't fitted. Usually the unused on... |
169,680 | I am installing a simple IKEA ceiling light fixture.
The new light fixture has a neutral wire, a live wire, and a ground wire.
My current old light fixture has 4 wires: white, red, dark blue or black, and copper wire.
And here is how it is connected: The white from ceiling to the white in an old fixture. The black ... | 2019/07/22 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/169680",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/104190/"
] | What not to do
--------------
We get people who find 4-12 non-ground wires they don't understand, and so they *take them all apart*. I call this "trying to learn electrical by disassembling your house". Every wire is now separated and splayed all over the box, and they ask "how does this hook up?" And we tell them
W... | The yellow plate in the ceiling and the wiring leads me to believe a ceiling fan was originally there. The black wire would usually be the live wire, the white wire would usually be the neutral and the copper wire would usually be the ground. The red wire would usually be a live wire controlled by a switch. You should ... |
109,559 | 
I have tried unscrewing the top four screws and the bottoms four. I have no ideas left on how to take the glass off eithlut basically completely disassembling the fan. | 2017/03/02 | [
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] | You are correct in that no sane manufacturer would build something that would require disassembly of the fan to change the light bulbs.
This looks like a split glass assembly, you might have a locking ring above the fan blades, if it is a locking ring type unscrew the locking ring and it would drop down and allow you... | Try finding the fan's model number on the housing. Look up the model information from the manufacturer's website. This may be a sealed LED light housing. Personally, I do not like sealed LED lights for ANYTHING. They NEVER last as long as they claim.
Ok, enough ranting - if it is a sealed LED light fixture your only op... |
18,900 | I've been trying to find out more about some of my Irish ancestors.
My 3rd great-grandparents **John Joseph McEvoy** and **Mary Murray** were living in Liverpool, England in the mid-1840s, but both were originally from Ireland. I have not been able to learn anything about their lives or the lives of their parents prio... | 2022/10/23 | [
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] | I can confirm that there are no passenger lists for travel between England & Ireland. It was a short domestic journey and no records have ever been kept for that sort of travel.
Check the 1851 English census for the family in case they indicated where they came from in Ireland. Often it will just say Ireland but somet... | You've alredy made a good start by gathering records in Liverpool and in the US. Extend your research and be on the lookout for more extended family members, associates and neighbors. This approach is called "cluster research" and more recently, Elizabeth Shown Mills refers to it as the FAN Principle or "FAN CLub Resea... |
18,900 | I've been trying to find out more about some of my Irish ancestors.
My 3rd great-grandparents **John Joseph McEvoy** and **Mary Murray** were living in Liverpool, England in the mid-1840s, but both were originally from Ireland. I have not been able to learn anything about their lives or the lives of their parents prio... | 2022/10/23 | [
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] | I can confirm that there are no passenger lists for travel between England & Ireland. It was a short domestic journey and no records have ever been kept for that sort of travel.
Check the 1851 English census for the family in case they indicated where they came from in Ireland. Often it will just say Ireland but somet... | A possible sister to your groom - marriage of a James Murphy and Catherine McEvoy same Church in Liverpool (St. Anthony's RC) 19th January 1843, looks like the same address..
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TkIyS.jpg)
Unfortunately the priest only filled in f... |
18,900 | I've been trying to find out more about some of my Irish ancestors.
My 3rd great-grandparents **John Joseph McEvoy** and **Mary Murray** were living in Liverpool, England in the mid-1840s, but both were originally from Ireland. I have not been able to learn anything about their lives or the lives of their parents prio... | 2022/10/23 | [
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] | I can confirm that there are no passenger lists for travel between England & Ireland. It was a short domestic journey and no records have ever been kept for that sort of travel.
Check the 1851 English census for the family in case they indicated where they came from in Ireland. Often it will just say Ireland but somet... | Interesting question - and i have exactly the same issue, tracing Irish ancestors who went via Liverpool in the 1800s. One possible clue that you may have already considered is that they often are recorded in the Liverpool registers under Latin names, so "John" is buried as "Johannes", etc. |
18,900 | I've been trying to find out more about some of my Irish ancestors.
My 3rd great-grandparents **John Joseph McEvoy** and **Mary Murray** were living in Liverpool, England in the mid-1840s, but both were originally from Ireland. I have not been able to learn anything about their lives or the lives of their parents prio... | 2022/10/23 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/18900",
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] | You've alredy made a good start by gathering records in Liverpool and in the US. Extend your research and be on the lookout for more extended family members, associates and neighbors. This approach is called "cluster research" and more recently, Elizabeth Shown Mills refers to it as the FAN Principle or "FAN CLub Resea... | Interesting question - and i have exactly the same issue, tracing Irish ancestors who went via Liverpool in the 1800s. One possible clue that you may have already considered is that they often are recorded in the Liverpool registers under Latin names, so "John" is buried as "Johannes", etc. |
18,900 | I've been trying to find out more about some of my Irish ancestors.
My 3rd great-grandparents **John Joseph McEvoy** and **Mary Murray** were living in Liverpool, England in the mid-1840s, but both were originally from Ireland. I have not been able to learn anything about their lives or the lives of their parents prio... | 2022/10/23 | [
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/18900",
"https://genealogy.stackexchange.com",
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] | A possible sister to your groom - marriage of a James Murphy and Catherine McEvoy same Church in Liverpool (St. Anthony's RC) 19th January 1843, looks like the same address..
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TkIyS.jpg)
Unfortunately the priest only filled in f... | Interesting question - and i have exactly the same issue, tracing Irish ancestors who went via Liverpool in the 1800s. One possible clue that you may have already considered is that they often are recorded in the Liverpool registers under Latin names, so "John" is buried as "Johannes", etc. |
184 | Now that this is avp, can we have some effort to remove obsolete "this is off-topic" comments on migrated questions?
I worry that this site will seem even more unwelcoming than SEs sometimes do if practically every question is painted with the off-topic brush.
Would it be considered OK for me (and others, obviously) ... | 2011/07/08 | [
"https://avp.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184",
"https://avp.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://avp.meta.stackexchange.com/users/707/"
] | Yes, flag these comments for removal.
Removing obsolete and resolved comment inquiries is useful and *explicitly* encouraged.
[**Should moderators delete obsolete comments?**](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77373/should-moderators-delete-make-correction-done-comments) | That would be helpful, that way we mods don't have to go find them all ourselves.
...Assuming everyone's ok with deleting these comments. So far I've just been adding an additional comment saying that the question is now on-topic. |
48,687 | I've acquired an old wooden desk that is just varnished wood. I would like to paint it but with the rubberised feel I have seen applied to some metals. I'm not sure if this paint exists for wood, but maybe it's possible to mix it manually? I've seen rubberised paint advertised for industrial uses like railings etc | 2014/09/10 | [
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] | There is a major consideration that must be investigated before this can be answered in the positive. That is - Is the fan / light combo unit designed to support separate wiring feeds for the light and the fan. Many units do support this whilst some may not.
If your unit does support this then there is a second consi... | With almost all relatively new (last 15 years) bath fan/light kits you will be able to do this. You simply wire vanity and light together with hot on switch and give fan timer.
To do you one better I have been installing lutron dimmers-timer in all of my new remodels. So the top half of the switch is simply a dimmer ... |
49,169,072 | I want to know if we can control the selection/deselection of checkboxes of the CAPL Test Modules via CAPL Scripts, either by setting some system variable or by calling certain events. Is this possible?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z0DC6.png) | 2018/03/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/49169072",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5047641/"
] | It is actually possible:
>
> Use Start to define when the test module is to be started:
>
>
> * Immediately after start of measurement.
> * When the defined environment variable switches to a value unequal to 0 during measurement. -When the defined system variable switches to
> a value unequal to 0 during measurem... | I think it is entirely impossible to change the selected tests **during** test execution. I suppose you could activate/deactivate test modules with the COM interface but certainly not during test execution. |
49,169,072 | I want to know if we can control the selection/deselection of checkboxes of the CAPL Test Modules via CAPL Scripts, either by setting some system variable or by calling certain events. Is this possible?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z0DC6.png) | 2018/03/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/49169072",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5047641/"
] | Right-click on the test module and select configuration
Use Start to define when the test module is to be started:
* define system variable: starts the test module if value unequal to 0 during measurement.
use the system variable wherever you want for e.g. create a panel and assign it to a button or a switch (don... | I think it is entirely impossible to change the selected tests **during** test execution. I suppose you could activate/deactivate test modules with the COM interface but certainly not during test execution. |
49,169,072 | I want to know if we can control the selection/deselection of checkboxes of the CAPL Test Modules via CAPL Scripts, either by setting some system variable or by calling certain events. Is this possible?
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z0DC6.png) | 2018/03/08 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/49169072",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5047641/"
] | It is actually possible:
>
> Use Start to define when the test module is to be started:
>
>
> * Immediately after start of measurement.
> * When the defined environment variable switches to a value unequal to 0 during measurement. -When the defined system variable switches to
> a value unequal to 0 during measurem... | Right-click on the test module and select configuration
Use Start to define when the test module is to be started:
* define system variable: starts the test module if value unequal to 0 during measurement.
use the system variable wherever you want for e.g. create a panel and assign it to a button or a switch (don... |
13,213,610 | Say for example if I receive an email to subscribe@mydomain.com, is there a way I can trigger that to make a GET or POST call to my own server?
Another use could be email a link and have my server download the link automatically if the email meets certain criteria.
Thanks | 2012/11/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/13213610",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1241489/"
] | Google Apps Script is perfect to achieve this. You need to use GmailApp, Script Triggers etc from Google Script to automate it.
Best Regards
[Apps Script Tutorials](https://sites.google.com/site/appsscripttutorial/) | Depending on what you're trying to achieve, a service like [ifttt](http://ifttt.com) might solve your problem without you having to write ay code. |
279,975 | I try to make a custom board for the STM32F303K8T6 and I am not sure if I do it right. Actually the design is oriented on the STM32F3Discovery. I will not run time critical applications so that I don't need an external oscillator. To flash and debug, I want to use the SWD, but there I am not sure, if I really need the ... | 2017/01/12 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/279975",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/77119/"
] | With SWD or JTAG you don't need to power the device for it to flash. But you do have to power the device somehow while flashing. I use JTAG and SWD and built a board with a jumper to either power it from the ST-link or use the power on the board (I think you might be able to buy these).
Its probably better to not use... | Whether you need 3.3V or not depends of course which debugger you use. But usually the debugger wants to use the same voltage levels when communicating with the target, so many debuggers do not work without VCC from target. It would also be a very bad debugger if it always assumed communication with 3.3V targets, as th... |
279,975 | I try to make a custom board for the STM32F303K8T6 and I am not sure if I do it right. Actually the design is oriented on the STM32F3Discovery. I will not run time critical applications so that I don't need an external oscillator. To flash and debug, I want to use the SWD, but there I am not sure, if I really need the ... | 2017/01/12 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/279975",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/77119/"
] | The purpose of the 3.3 V pin on the SWD connector is not to provide supply voltage but to monitor it.
If you have a look at the schematic of an [ST-Link's SWD connector](http://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/user_manual/70/fe/4a/3f/e7/e1/4f/7d/DM00039084.pdf/files/DM00039084.pdf/jcr:content/transla... | Whether you need 3.3V or not depends of course which debugger you use. But usually the debugger wants to use the same voltage levels when communicating with the target, so many debuggers do not work without VCC from target. It would also be a very bad debugger if it always assumed communication with 3.3V targets, as th... |
317,654 | It amazed me recently to have found 3 tiny Sot-232 transistors inside a 12V led controller. It can't be serious, but after digging and testing it with my 10 watts power LED mounted on a CPU heatsink for 30 minutes, the huge heatsink was hot to touch, yet when stupidly touching the tiny SOT-232 transistor, it was not ev... | 2017/07/16 | [
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/317654",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com",
"https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | >
> 1. AO3400 30V N-Channel MOSFET ...Can it switch 30V \* 5.8A = 174 watts?
>
>
>
* Yes that's the guideline assuming you consider heat and thermal resistance.
* based on Rds with drops with Vgs above threshold and often need 4x threshold.
>
> 2, but according to the datasheet, it can only dissipate 1.4 watt.
... | >
> It amazed me ...
>
>
>
nothing amazing here. the mosfet operates like a switch so what matters is its Rds when on - assuming that switching losses aren't a big factor here.
So if it has very low Rds(on), it can switch lots of current. its power dissipation has no relation to the amount of power being switched... |
80,977 | Is it possible to migrate a Windows Standard 2003 installation to a Windows Standard 2003 R2 installation.
We have a Domain controller that is currently on 2003 but wish to take advantage of some functionality that is only available in the R2 edition. We have the necessary licenses and media but not sure if it is poss... | 2009/11/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/80977",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66/"
] | You can't hide a site if its in the interweb DNS - would be like having an ex-directory phone number that *is* in the directory.
Of course you can run a server that is not associated with anything in DNS. | Perform a port scan using [nmap](http://nmap.org/book/man.html) and look for web servers. |
80,977 | Is it possible to migrate a Windows Standard 2003 installation to a Windows Standard 2003 R2 installation.
We have a Domain controller that is currently on 2003 but wish to take advantage of some functionality that is only available in the R2 edition. We have the necessary licenses and media but not sure if it is poss... | 2009/11/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/80977",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66/"
] | I don't think there's any way to do this from the outside. As long as your server configuration is secure (it should be anyway), there's no reasonable way to do it. Someone could always do an ip address lookup for every possible domain name and compare the ip addresses. There's no way you could prevent them from doing ... | Perform a port scan using [nmap](http://nmap.org/book/man.html) and look for web servers. |
80,977 | Is it possible to migrate a Windows Standard 2003 installation to a Windows Standard 2003 R2 installation.
We have a Domain controller that is currently on 2003 but wish to take advantage of some functionality that is only available in the R2 edition. We have the necessary licenses and media but not sure if it is poss... | 2009/11/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/80977",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66/"
] | This isn't programmatic, but this site attempts to answer that question. Here's the page for stackoverflow.com's IP
<http://onsamehost.com/69.59.196.211/>
EDIT: That is, it tries to answer your first question. | Perform a port scan using [nmap](http://nmap.org/book/man.html) and look for web servers. |
80,977 | Is it possible to migrate a Windows Standard 2003 installation to a Windows Standard 2003 R2 installation.
We have a Domain controller that is currently on 2003 but wish to take advantage of some functionality that is only available in the R2 edition. We have the necessary licenses and media but not sure if it is poss... | 2009/11/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/80977",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66/"
] | From the "outsite" or in an anonymous manner, there is no way to programatically request the list of domain names that are bound to a particular web server's IP address. Stock security built into IIS/Apache/others prevent such a thing from happening. The ability to have a web server listen for multiple domain names on ... | Perform a port scan using [nmap](http://nmap.org/book/man.html) and look for web servers. |
80,977 | Is it possible to migrate a Windows Standard 2003 installation to a Windows Standard 2003 R2 installation.
We have a Domain controller that is currently on 2003 but wish to take advantage of some functionality that is only available in the R2 edition. We have the necessary licenses and media but not sure if it is poss... | 2009/11/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/80977",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66/"
] | You can't hide a site if its in the interweb DNS - would be like having an ex-directory phone number that *is* in the directory.
Of course you can run a server that is not associated with anything in DNS. | Another site I have used with good results is <http://www.sitedossier.com/ip/69.59.196.211> |
80,977 | Is it possible to migrate a Windows Standard 2003 installation to a Windows Standard 2003 R2 installation.
We have a Domain controller that is currently on 2003 but wish to take advantage of some functionality that is only available in the R2 edition. We have the necessary licenses and media but not sure if it is poss... | 2009/11/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/80977",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66/"
] | I don't think there's any way to do this from the outside. As long as your server configuration is secure (it should be anyway), there's no reasonable way to do it. Someone could always do an ip address lookup for every possible domain name and compare the ip addresses. There's no way you could prevent them from doing ... | Another site I have used with good results is <http://www.sitedossier.com/ip/69.59.196.211> |
80,977 | Is it possible to migrate a Windows Standard 2003 installation to a Windows Standard 2003 R2 installation.
We have a Domain controller that is currently on 2003 but wish to take advantage of some functionality that is only available in the R2 edition. We have the necessary licenses and media but not sure if it is poss... | 2009/11/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/80977",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66/"
] | This isn't programmatic, but this site attempts to answer that question. Here's the page for stackoverflow.com's IP
<http://onsamehost.com/69.59.196.211/>
EDIT: That is, it tries to answer your first question. | Another site I have used with good results is <http://www.sitedossier.com/ip/69.59.196.211> |
80,977 | Is it possible to migrate a Windows Standard 2003 installation to a Windows Standard 2003 R2 installation.
We have a Domain controller that is currently on 2003 but wish to take advantage of some functionality that is only available in the R2 edition. We have the necessary licenses and media but not sure if it is poss... | 2009/11/03 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/80977",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/66/"
] | From the "outsite" or in an anonymous manner, there is no way to programatically request the list of domain names that are bound to a particular web server's IP address. Stock security built into IIS/Apache/others prevent such a thing from happening. The ability to have a web server listen for multiple domain names on ... | Another site I have used with good results is <http://www.sitedossier.com/ip/69.59.196.211> |
33,965 | I'm in Japan for 3 weeks, and then looking to go across to South Korea. I'm wondering if there's anyway to organise a tour of North Korea that departs from either Japan or South Korea?
Bearing in mind, I'm a NZ Citizen so would possibly require time to organise visas...depending on whether or not it goes through China... | 2014/07/16 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/33965",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/101/"
] | In a word (and a [meme](http://www.quickmeme.com/img/3d/3d8d5a4aa07e527aa8af1813f91e75f4489f6ad3fb455d6287735107830c5021.jpg)), **no**.
As you're probably aware, South and North Korea remain (in theory anyway) at a state of war and travel between the two is extremely restricted. In the past, there were organized tours... | There are no direct connections between North Korea and either Japan or South Korea, but it is of course possible to visit North Korea starting in either of the two other countries.
From Pyŏngyang, there are only direct flights to a handful of cities in China and Russia: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Vladivostok. I... |
203,652 | I am wondering if anyone might have some suggestions on solving this drainage issue with our vinyl deck.
We used to have 2 separate decks but upon rebuild we have them joined with a narrow walkway. There was previously a downspout where the new walkway currently is. Initially, we were going to redirect this downspout ... | 2020/09/18 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/203652",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/56753/"
] | You could install a main breaker (what you're calling a main shutoff) but that REALLY shouldn't be done live, by anyone. You'd have to lift your feeders and land them on the new main breaker terminals.
When the disconnect is not where you can keep an eye on it while you're working, like in your building, it should be ... | Yeah, there really needs to be a way to lockout/tagout the electric service to this panel.
This looks to me like a convertible panel; that's quite common these days. It's almost impossible to buy non-convertibles anymore. You buy an add-on main breaker of whichever size you please. (That's also how you get a 100A 40-s... |
51,889 | >
> OzForex Foreign Exchange dealer Michael Judge said the dollar could go
> above US79¢ on Tuesday should the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate,
> which is currently at 2.25 per cent.
>
>
>
(<http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/currencies/australian-dollar-dips-in-anticipation-of-rba-rate-call-20150302-13ssqy.h... | 2015/03/02 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/51889",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/15943/"
] | I see four main parts to this sentence:
1. A declarative sentence: "OzForex Foreign Exchange dealer, Michael Judge, said..."
2. Paraphrased quote, another declarative sentence: "the dollar could go above US79¢ on Tuesday..."
3. A conditional clause: "should the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate"
4. A subordinate clause: ... | You may be able to replace ***should*** with ***if***, but that is not the context of the passage from the original article that you sourced.
Before the author wrote those lines, he spoke to many other people who all stated that they expected the Reserve Bank to cut the rate. One actually stated that it was not a matt... |
51,889 | >
> OzForex Foreign Exchange dealer Michael Judge said the dollar could go
> above US79¢ on Tuesday should the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate,
> which is currently at 2.25 per cent.
>
>
>
(<http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/currencies/australian-dollar-dips-in-anticipation-of-rba-rate-call-20150302-13ssqy.h... | 2015/03/02 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/51889",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/15943/"
] | "can "should the Reserve Bank cut...." be expressed as "if the Reserve Bank cut..."?"
Almost. "We don't have enough cans of beer should Jim visit us, who is known to be very thirsty." can be expressed as "We don't have enough cans of beer if Jim **visits** us, who is known to be very thirsty." Both mean almost exactly... | I see four main parts to this sentence:
1. A declarative sentence: "OzForex Foreign Exchange dealer, Michael Judge, said..."
2. Paraphrased quote, another declarative sentence: "the dollar could go above US79¢ on Tuesday..."
3. A conditional clause: "should the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate"
4. A subordinate clause: ... |
51,889 | >
> OzForex Foreign Exchange dealer Michael Judge said the dollar could go
> above US79¢ on Tuesday should the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate,
> which is currently at 2.25 per cent.
>
>
>
(<http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/currencies/australian-dollar-dips-in-anticipation-of-rba-rate-call-20150302-13ssqy.h... | 2015/03/02 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/51889",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/15943/"
] | "can "should the Reserve Bank cut...." be expressed as "if the Reserve Bank cut..."?"
Almost. "We don't have enough cans of beer should Jim visit us, who is known to be very thirsty." can be expressed as "We don't have enough cans of beer if Jim **visits** us, who is known to be very thirsty." Both mean almost exactly... | You may be able to replace ***should*** with ***if***, but that is not the context of the passage from the original article that you sourced.
Before the author wrote those lines, he spoke to many other people who all stated that they expected the Reserve Bank to cut the rate. One actually stated that it was not a matt... |
1,275,951 | I listened to my egghead hubby because he wanted to go back to Windows 7 from Windows 10. Windows 7 had been preloaded to the laptop when purchased so we did not have a disc or even a recovery disc to go backwards. We came across a website that allows you to download files to load Windows 7 provided you have a product ... | 2017/12/10 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/1275951",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/851847/"
] | To change boot settings, you'll need to go into the BIOS and change it to HDD in the same way that you changed it to USB.
As for creating a bootable USB disk, you can either use Rufus which can be found here: <https://rufus.akeo.ie/>
Or my favorite, ZOTAC, which can be found here: <http://download.cnet.com/Zotac-WinU... | My best guess is you weren't successful in creating a bootable USB drive. Try using this software, it's worked for me before: <https://rufus.akeo.ie/>
You could also try burning the files onto a DVD disc and set the laptop to boot from CD drive. |
11,998 | If you are developing your own architecture or heavily use anothers vendors API, how do you promote awareness to the programming staff? For example, say you use Infragistics controls for you C# winforms apps - the controls have boatloads of methods, some quirks, and a best way to use them for your application. How do y... | 2010/10/14 | [
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/11998",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com",
"https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/4759/"
] | Documentation seems like the most reasonable place to inform your development team regarding implementation and usage of external libraries/API.s
Emails get lost, are not read.
Wikis are for interlinked content.
Blogs are usually for individuals.
Documentation is for communicating evidence of something.
Althoug... | Use a combination of formats, appropriate for each knowledge function.
* Blogs and RSS feeds can be used to announce updates, news items, etc.
* Wikis can be used to document current standards, policies, processes, how-tos, APIs, etc. The content can be structured, given a table of contents and index, support the deve... |
43,319 | A lot of recipes recommend removing the outer leaves from Brussels Sprouts.
I understand why'd you remove brown or damaged leaves but I've always thought the leaves that just fall off are perfectly fine to eat.
Any advice appreciated. | 2014/04/06 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/43319",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/4030/"
] | The ones that fall off because you've accidentally trimmed off too much stem are fine to cook, although likely to overcook when treated the same as full size sprouts. | There is no safety reason not to cook them, but if they are falling off the little brussel sprout head, they probably are past their prime and won't be as good s the ones still firmly attached. It should be a fairly small loss; I would recommend discarding them. |
43,319 | A lot of recipes recommend removing the outer leaves from Brussels Sprouts.
I understand why'd you remove brown or damaged leaves but I've always thought the leaves that just fall off are perfectly fine to eat.
Any advice appreciated. | 2014/04/06 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/43319",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/4030/"
] | There is no safety reason not to cook them, but if they are falling off the little brussel sprout head, they probably are past their prime and won't be as good s the ones still firmly attached. It should be a fairly small loss; I would recommend discarding them. | finely chop some bacon and toss in the pan. When bacon is about finished toss in the extra leaves to cook down sightly. Not the healthiest of servings but a fantastic flavor! Or mince bacon and leaves and ad to a dip for a festive holiday piece of happiness. |
43,319 | A lot of recipes recommend removing the outer leaves from Brussels Sprouts.
I understand why'd you remove brown or damaged leaves but I've always thought the leaves that just fall off are perfectly fine to eat.
Any advice appreciated. | 2014/04/06 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/43319",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/4030/"
] | The ones that fall off because you've accidentally trimmed off too much stem are fine to cook, although likely to overcook when treated the same as full size sprouts. | finely chop some bacon and toss in the pan. When bacon is about finished toss in the extra leaves to cook down sightly. Not the healthiest of servings but a fantastic flavor! Or mince bacon and leaves and ad to a dip for a festive holiday piece of happiness. |
40,741 | In Norway, the strongest liquor allowed to buy is 60% (120proof?). I try to flambé my Crème Brûlée as suggested in [Can I make Crème Brûlée using a flambé?](https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/7345/can-i-make-creme-brulee-using-a-flambe).
Problem is that my tests on a pre-made chocolate pudding with the 60% al... | 2013/12/31 | [
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/40741",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.stackexchange.com/users/22206/"
] | It's been a long time since I actually did this, but my recollection is that the result **will** leave some residual water. It's not an ideal environment for a flambé, but that's OK because you're not actually trying to cook with it, it's more of a show technique that generates just enough heat to produce a caramel-lik... | I think you may be confusing the flambe method with the traditional method of making Creme Brulee, which is done using a blow torch, not alcohol. Have you considered using a propane torch? These can usually be purchased at hardware stores, with a small tank of propane, for not much money. Then you can melt and carameli... |
27,483 | In Genesis 19 (NRSV),
>
> 30 Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on **earth** to come in to us after the manner... | 2017/03/23 | [
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/27483",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com",
"https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/19004/"
] | The confusion in this story is caused by the NRSV's overly literal translation methodology and its under adherence to that methodology in verse 31.
So there are **two** problems with the translation.
The first problem is that the Hebrew idiom דרך כל הארץ, which the NRSV translates as "the manner of all the world", is... | Good question.
In Genesis 13:10 we get some context of the geography
>
> And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
>
>
>
So ... |
27,483 | In Genesis 19 (NRSV),
>
> 30 Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on **earth** to come in to us after the manner... | 2017/03/23 | [
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] | The confusion in this story is caused by the NRSV's overly literal translation methodology and its under adherence to that methodology in verse 31.
So there are **two** problems with the translation.
The first problem is that the Hebrew idiom דרך כל הארץ, which the NRSV translates as "the manner of all the world", is... | If they thought it was okay then why the need to get their father so drunk that he didn’t know when they laid with him and when they left. Also remember.... the angel had to literally take them by their hands and drag them out of the city. I used to think they were righteous and that his wife was just being wistful. Af... |
27,483 | In Genesis 19 (NRSV),
>
> 30 Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on **earth** to come in to us after the manner... | 2017/03/23 | [
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] | The confusion in this story is caused by the NRSV's overly literal translation methodology and its under adherence to that methodology in verse 31.
So there are **two** problems with the translation.
The first problem is that the Hebrew idiom דרך כל הארץ, which the NRSV translates as "the manner of all the world", is... | There are various explanations for Lot's daughters unwillingness to look elsewhere to continue their lineage:
* Not that they imagined the whole human race to have perished in the destruction of the valley of Siddim, but because they were afraid that no man would link himself with them, the only survivors of a country... |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | Use the simple past, if you're describing events of the day. An excerpt by Lewis Carroll:
>
> July 4, 1862
>
>
> I made an expedition up the river to Godstowe with the three Liddells, we had tea on the bank there, and did not reach Christ Church till half-past eight. ([source](http://www.victorianstation.com/author... | I found these responses very interesting and still relevant to this day, almost 8 years after the original posting.
This is because I am finishing my own journal that I have started 22 years ago on the events that happened 23 year ago. It has been a puzzle to me what would be the best form to present it. Do I present a... |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | Past tense is my instinct. Yet it depends on what you are writing and the writing's purpose. If it's an adventure story or something with more of a fast pace then clearly present tense might be best. "What was that? Rustling in the bushes nearby. Footsteps just beyond--sound like a person, a large person. I must move o... | You can use past or present tense but it depends on the author's purpose. In a diary, if someone will read it, use present tense to make the reader feel like are in the same situation. Otherwise, if it's personal, there's no rules needed to follow. Good Luck:) |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | Past tense is my instinct. Yet it depends on what you are writing and the writing's purpose. If it's an adventure story or something with more of a fast pace then clearly present tense might be best. "What was that? Rustling in the bushes nearby. Footsteps just beyond--sound like a person, a large person. I must move o... | Are you planning on sharing this with anyone else or is it just for you? If it is just for you then write what comes naturally to you and what feels comfortable at the moment. It is after all your innermost feelings and your tense may change from entry to entry depending on your mood. Personally there is no way I would... |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | Past tense is my instinct. Yet it depends on what you are writing and the writing's purpose. If it's an adventure story or something with more of a fast pace then clearly present tense might be best. "What was that? Rustling in the bushes nearby. Footsteps just beyond--sound like a person, a large person. I must move o... | Use the simple past, if you're describing events of the day. An excerpt by Lewis Carroll:
>
> July 4, 1862
>
>
> I made an expedition up the river to Godstowe with the three Liddells, we had tea on the bank there, and did not reach Christ Church till half-past eight. ([source](http://www.victorianstation.com/author... |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | I find these answers interesting because to me, a *diary* is a place you confess your innermost thoughts, while a *journal* is something you write in every day to talk about what you did. (note the *jour-* root, meaning "day")
That having been said, if I'm reporting on what I did today, or yesterday, I'd use past ten... | It all depends on you. You can use the present tense to give an effect of continuation, for example: Wed June 8th- "The alarm clock rings. I wake up and groggily shake off the vestiges of sleep. My eyes slowly focus on the surroundings. ....." and so on. You can continue in the same tense for the next day to get that c... |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | It's a unique mix of past and present with future occasionally thrown in - while normal novels are almost universally written "from viewpoint after the end of the book" which means they will be completely "past", each journal entry describes very recent events - many of them ongoing or stretching into the future relati... | It all depends on you. You can use the present tense to give an effect of continuation, for example: Wed June 8th- "The alarm clock rings. I wake up and groggily shake off the vestiges of sleep. My eyes slowly focus on the surroundings. ....." and so on. You can continue in the same tense for the next day to get that c... |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | Past tense is my instinct. Yet it depends on what you are writing and the writing's purpose. If it's an adventure story or something with more of a fast pace then clearly present tense might be best. "What was that? Rustling in the bushes nearby. Footsteps just beyond--sound like a person, a large person. I must move o... | I found these responses very interesting and still relevant to this day, almost 8 years after the original posting.
This is because I am finishing my own journal that I have started 22 years ago on the events that happened 23 year ago. It has been a puzzle to me what would be the best form to present it. Do I present a... |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | Use the simple past, if you're describing events of the day. An excerpt by Lewis Carroll:
>
> July 4, 1862
>
>
> I made an expedition up the river to Godstowe with the three Liddells, we had tea on the bank there, and did not reach Christ Church till half-past eight. ([source](http://www.victorianstation.com/author... | I find these answers interesting because to me, a *diary* is a place you confess your innermost thoughts, while a *journal* is something you write in every day to talk about what you did. (note the *jour-* root, meaning "day")
That having been said, if I'm reporting on what I did today, or yesterday, I'd use past ten... |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | It's a unique mix of past and present with future occasionally thrown in - while normal novels are almost universally written "from viewpoint after the end of the book" which means they will be completely "past", each journal entry describes very recent events - many of them ongoing or stretching into the future relati... | You can use past or present tense but it depends on the author's purpose. In a diary, if someone will read it, use present tense to make the reader feel like are in the same situation. Otherwise, if it's personal, there's no rules needed to follow. Good Luck:) |
6,118 | I'm in the process of translating a book (scientific publication) for private use. If I ever decide to publish it: what is the procedure? Who is the right person to ask for publishing rights and translation approval?
Two of three authors are deceased, and I still need to find out what is the situation with the third o... | 2012/07/25 | [
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] | Are you planning on sharing this with anyone else or is it just for you? If it is just for you then write what comes naturally to you and what feels comfortable at the moment. It is after all your innermost feelings and your tense may change from entry to entry depending on your mood. Personally there is no way I would... | You can use past or present tense but it depends on the author's purpose. In a diary, if someone will read it, use present tense to make the reader feel like are in the same situation. Otherwise, if it's personal, there's no rules needed to follow. Good Luck:) |
2,631 | Is there any way to view the number of users online at any given time (or even an approximation)? This could be really useful to provide an indication of whether your question is likely to get answered any time soon.
It could also provide a bit of an indication for why your question is getting very low views - if ther... | 2009/07/06 | [
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One of the instantaneous results will be that the low times will get fewer and fewer questions, an... | But there are so many more details available why limit yourself to just the number of people on? :)
How about the number of on-line users who have been active in the area your questions is in? Or take this further to show how many of these users have high rep through actually answering a lot of questions? |
2,631 | Is there any way to view the number of users online at any given time (or even an approximation)? This could be really useful to provide an indication of whether your question is likely to get answered any time soon.
It could also provide a bit of an indication for why your question is getting very low views - if ther... | 2009/07/06 | [
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] | We do that for Chat, but it makes sense for chat: how many people are talking in real-time?
It makes less sense for a Q&A site; while it may appear to operate in real-time, it doesn't, really. Each post stands on its own, and participants for each post come and go as they please. The number of participants to the sit... | But there are so many more details available why limit yourself to just the number of people on? :)
How about the number of on-line users who have been active in the area your questions is in? Or take this further to show how many of these users have high rep through actually answering a lot of questions? |
171,319 | Is there any easy and safe way to convert the high voltage AC (60Hz, 10kV, such as the voltage on the overhead line) to 5V DC that can be used to power up a micro controller (around 1W power)? We do have a ground in the AC system. What is the easiest way? Are there any COTS products or components available? | 2015/05/19 | [
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] | The answer is economy.
The optimal processes for CPU and RAM are different, so when both are on the same chip some compromise must be found. For a small chip (not that much RAM) this does not hurt so much, less than adding an external RAM and using a lot of IO pins to interface to it. For a large RAM (currently the s... | DRAM modules need a memory controller in order to both trigger refreshes and arbitrate access. That controller comes at a cost in wafer real estate, power consumption, and pin count.
SRAM modules do exist, but lose out to DRAM on both capacity (SRAM cells need 6 transistors versus DRAM's one transistor and one capacit... |
171,319 | Is there any easy and safe way to convert the high voltage AC (60Hz, 10kV, such as the voltage on the overhead line) to 5V DC that can be used to power up a micro controller (around 1W power)? We do have a ground in the AC system. What is the easiest way? Are there any COTS products or components available? | 2015/05/19 | [
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] | DRAM modules need a memory controller in order to both trigger refreshes and arbitrate access. That controller comes at a cost in wafer real estate, power consumption, and pin count.
SRAM modules do exist, but lose out to DRAM on both capacity (SRAM cells need 6 transistors versus DRAM's one transistor and one capacit... | At 2GB, that's ceased to be "micro" (in the present day). There are plenty of phones shipping with less than that. Are you sure you really have 2Gb of live data? Can you swap it out to Flash? What on earth is it doing?
Have a look at [What is a good choice for an ARM to interface with external memory?](https://electro... |
171,319 | Is there any easy and safe way to convert the high voltage AC (60Hz, 10kV, such as the voltage on the overhead line) to 5V DC that can be used to power up a micro controller (around 1W power)? We do have a ground in the AC system. What is the easiest way? Are there any COTS products or components available? | 2015/05/19 | [
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] | The answer is economy.
The optimal processes for CPU and RAM are different, so when both are on the same chip some compromise must be found. For a small chip (not that much RAM) this does not hurt so much, less than adding an external RAM and using a lot of IO pins to interface to it. For a large RAM (currently the s... | At 2GB, that's ceased to be "micro" (in the present day). There are plenty of phones shipping with less than that. Are you sure you really have 2Gb of live data? Can you swap it out to Flash? What on earth is it doing?
Have a look at [What is a good choice for an ARM to interface with external memory?](https://electro... |
18,709 | I have a MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo (Pre-unibody) running Snow Leopard that fails to stay in sleep mode when the battery is run down to 0%.
This problem just started a month ago. The battery is new. It runs down fine and I get a warning when the reserve battery kicks in at 10%, but when it reaches 0, it goes into ... | 2011/07/26 | [
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] | You may need to recalibrate for the new battery. Use the computer until you get the warning message. Then, shut down and plug it in. Let it charge fully before you turn it back on. Doing this will allow the system to calibrate for the new battery so that it can more accurately tell how much charge is remaining, which c... | The notebook is supposed to enter into safesleep mode once it goes to sleep with less than 10% battery remaining. It records everything to hard drive and fully powers down so it doesn't use more battery power keeping the memory alive.
However in your case it doesn't have enough energy left to spin the hard drive up an... |
3,465 | As we have heard in the summaries of the human ENCODE project, **80 per cent of junk DNA appears to have an essential function**. Many fish have a genome with only one tenth the size of a usual vertebrate genome. Why can fish have 1/10th of junk DNA and be still fully functional? What has a frog more than a fish has? I... | 2012/09/07 | [
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] | Genome size is a poor indicator of an organism's *complexity* (already an ill-defined term). We cannot assume by any means that a larger genome corresponds to a more "complex" organism. There are some plants whose genomes are larger than most mammals, and indeed [the largest eukaryotic genome](http://dx.doi.org/10.1111... | See [here](http://genomeinformatician.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/encode-my-own-thoughts.html) for an ENCODE author's reflections on their use of the word "functional". (I don't think anyone is using the word "essential".)
It is clear from this that, for them, one class of functional DNA is intronic DNA: i.e. introns are d... |
5,694 | I asked my self this simple question while reading ["Comment Abuse Classification with Deep Learning"](https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/reports/2762092.pdf) by Chu and Jue. Indeed, they say at the end of the that
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> *It is clear that RNNs, specifically LSTMs, and CNNs are state-of-the-art architectures for sen... | 2018/03/15 | [
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] | You are right. I think you are just misinterpreting the part of the sentence ('specifically LSTMs'). LSTMs are an example of a popular type of RNN.
RNNs and CNNs are different architectures but they can be used together.
Here is another sentence with the same structure:
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> It is clear than dogs, specifically corgis... | Both CNN and RNN fall into the super set of neural networks,however applications of the two matters.
So to branch them off in terms of applications,
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> I would say CNN’s are mainly used for vision related applications,
> whereas, RNN’s are mainly used for language processing applications.
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>
>
You can refer t... |
7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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] | To follow up further on Joel David Hamkins's answer on geometry, Frege’s last work (two despairing decades after Russell’s Paradox demolished his *Grundgesetze der Arithmetik*) was a brief unpublished paper entitled “Neuer Versuch der Grundlegun der Arithmetik,” based on geometry with “the final goal, the general compl... | I know from the logical end there is plural quantification developed and expounded to some extent by Boolos, Lewis and others that sidesteps the whole issue of set and gives first order logic the ability to talk about set-like objects without resorting to set theory. |
7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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Type theories are used in some proof assistants, like Coq, and they have nic... | I know from the logical end there is plural quantification developed and expounded to some extent by Boolos, Lewis and others that sidesteps the whole issue of set and gives first order logic the ability to talk about set-like objects without resorting to set theory. |
7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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Type theories are used in some proof assistants, like Coq, and they have nic... | To follow up further on Joel David Hamkins's answer on geometry, Frege’s last work (two despairing decades after Russell’s Paradox demolished his *Grundgesetze der Arithmetik*) was a brief unpublished paper entitled “Neuer Versuch der Grundlegun der Arithmetik,” based on geometry with “the final goal, the general compl... |
7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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+1 This is one of the most clear-minded things I have read on MO. It does not make a mockery of Foundations and still says something non-obvious.
I'm very skeptical of all this business with category theory being a foundatio... |
7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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] | Bill Lawvere has suggested axiomatizing the category of categories as a foundation of mathematics, and there is no sense in which this could be thought of as a set theory. Colin McLarty is one person who has done some work on achieving such an axiomatization. | This may not satisfy the request for something that is "not, in any sense, a set theory" but Oliver Deiser has worked out two versions of foundations, one based on lists and one on multisets. This is in his book "Orte, Listen, Aggregate" (and his Habilitationsschrift with the same title). |
7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
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] | If we adopt a historical attitude, then there is an extremely good answer, namely, **Geometry**. For approximately two thousand years, (Euclidean) geometry was taken to be the foundation of all mathematics. Numbers were regarded as lengths of line segments; quadratic equations were regarded as expressing the relationsh... | I believe the lambda calculus was originally intended as a foundation for mathematics. More recently it seems that both category theory and type theory seem to be gaining support. Although, I think type theory (a la Martil-Löf) could be viewed as another variation on the set-theoretic theme. |
7,627 | Every foundational system for mathematics I have ever read about has been a set theory, from ETCS to ZFC to NF. Are there any proposals for a foundational system which is not, in any sense, a set theory? Is there any alternative foundation which is not a set-theory? | 2009/12/03 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/7627",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/2266/"
] | Type theories form another class of foundations for mathematics, and are used in various places. For example, Martin-Löf type theory is a constructive foundation of mathematics, and a lot of constructive mathematics has been formulated in it.
Type theories are used in some proof assistants, like Coq, and they have nic... | This may not satisfy the request for something that is "not, in any sense, a set theory" but Oliver Deiser has worked out two versions of foundations, one based on lists and one on multisets. This is in his book "Orte, Listen, Aggregate" (and his Habilitationsschrift with the same title). |
289,259 | I'm currently a young, not-so-young mathematician, finishing its second postdoc. I developed an interest for rather different topics in the last few years but constantly, slowly converged towards something that has to do with (but at this point I'm quite unsure *is*) category theory and its applications. What motivated... | 2017/12/25 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/289259",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/118946/"
] | This is too long for a comment, but doesn't exactly answer the question. However, I've had enough eggnog this Christmas that I'm going to post it anyway (despite knowing almost nothing about category theory).
Reading the question and skimming over the comments, I see a lot of romantic descriptions of the practice of m... | I think the answer is obvious. If you want to stay in mathematics, quit HTT and go back to the basics of what got you interested in math in the first place. It's easy for young people to be seduced into highly abstract areas just because there is a community of senior mathematicians around them doing it, and I've seen ... |
289,259 | I'm currently a young, not-so-young mathematician, finishing its second postdoc. I developed an interest for rather different topics in the last few years but constantly, slowly converged towards something that has to do with (but at this point I'm quite unsure *is*) category theory and its applications. What motivated... | 2017/12/25 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/289259",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/118946/"
] | This is too long for a comment, but doesn't exactly answer the question. However, I've had enough eggnog this Christmas that I'm going to post it anyway (despite knowing almost nothing about category theory).
Reading the question and skimming over the comments, I see a lot of romantic descriptions of the practice of m... | Let me address something which is not explicitly mentioned in other answers. Job issues exist, and they exist not only for category-theorists or the like, even much more ''working'' (in the sense of MacLane) pure mathematicians are struggling. In my opinion, the reasons (and possibly the solutions) for this are socio-p... |
289,259 | I'm currently a young, not-so-young mathematician, finishing its second postdoc. I developed an interest for rather different topics in the last few years but constantly, slowly converged towards something that has to do with (but at this point I'm quite unsure *is*) category theory and its applications. What motivated... | 2017/12/25 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/289259",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/118946/"
] | Higher category theory is, roughly speaking, where category theory meets homotopy coherent mathematics. It is hence relevant to those problems in which categorical structures and homotopy coherent phenomena play a significant role. Many areas of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry have this property. There are al... | Questions about aesthetics are of course inherently subjective. In your third point you seem to be expressing a strong aesthetic preference for mathematics which starts from a smallish set of axioms and builds a large, unified theory, constructed with maximal generality. I can think of other areas of mathematics than A... |
289,259 | I'm currently a young, not-so-young mathematician, finishing its second postdoc. I developed an interest for rather different topics in the last few years but constantly, slowly converged towards something that has to do with (but at this point I'm quite unsure *is*) category theory and its applications. What motivated... | 2017/12/25 | [
"https://mathoverflow.net/questions/289259",
"https://mathoverflow.net",
"https://mathoverflow.net/users/118946/"
] | Higher category theory is, roughly speaking, where category theory meets homotopy coherent mathematics. It is hence relevant to those problems in which categorical structures and homotopy coherent phenomena play a significant role. Many areas of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry have this property. There are al... | I think the answer is obvious. If you want to stay in mathematics, quit HTT and go back to the basics of what got you interested in math in the first place. It's easy for young people to be seduced into highly abstract areas just because there is a community of senior mathematicians around them doing it, and I've seen ... |
6,472 | I play with some serious board gamers, but we have neglected Monopoly for a number of years, so our knowledge is mostly based on high school & house rules.
We played last week and enjoyed it, but there was a piece of contention. There are times where we decide that we don't like one of our friends for some reason and ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/6472",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/2445/"
] | The official rules don't state if you are able to sell properties at any time (in fact, it is one of the few rules that don't have the timing explictly stated), but I wouldn't put too much faith that this wasn't an oversight.
>
> Unimproved properties, railroads and utilities (but not buildings) may be sold to any p... | if a player owes to a landlord and does not have enough cash to pay the debt, but would be able to pay the debt in full after mortgaging properties they select, the player must do so (mortgage one or more properties) before making any deal with a third party to aquire funds for payment to the landlord that is owed.
O... |
6,472 | I play with some serious board gamers, but we have neglected Monopoly for a number of years, so our knowledge is mostly based on high school & house rules.
We played last week and enjoyed it, but there was a piece of contention. There are times where we decide that we don't like one of our friends for some reason and ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/6472",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/2445/"
] | Our house rule was that the player owing the money could try to AUCTION off one or more of their properties to remain solvent. Everyone, including the player who is owed the money, could bid. Each property was dealt with, in turn, until the amount of the rent was covered. The player owning the money got to pick the ord... | if a player owes to a landlord and does not have enough cash to pay the debt, but would be able to pay the debt in full after mortgaging properties they select, the player must do so (mortgage one or more properties) before making any deal with a third party to aquire funds for payment to the landlord that is owed.
O... |
6,472 | I play with some serious board gamers, but we have neglected Monopoly for a number of years, so our knowledge is mostly based on high school & house rules.
We played last week and enjoyed it, but there was a piece of contention. There are times where we decide that we don't like one of our friends for some reason and ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/6472",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/2445/"
] | From a link on boardgamegeek
<http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/26288/monopoly-world-championship-game-rules-pdf>
>
> To raise money to pay debts, only houses and hotels can be sold back
> to the bank (at half price) – never properties. If a debt is owed to
> another player, properties may be sold to a third p... | It's not a violation of the games rules, but it seems to clearly violate the spirit of the game. If you're at the point where you're willing to resort to such things to penalize player 1 to that extent, why even bother finishing the game? |
6,472 | I play with some serious board gamers, but we have neglected Monopoly for a number of years, so our knowledge is mostly based on high school & house rules.
We played last week and enjoyed it, but there was a piece of contention. There are times where we decide that we don't like one of our friends for some reason and ... | 2012/02/06 | [
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/6472",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com",
"https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/users/2445/"
] | From a link on boardgamegeek
<http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/26288/monopoly-world-championship-game-rules-pdf>
>
> To raise money to pay debts, only houses and hotels can be sold back
> to the bank (at half price) – never properties. If a debt is owed to
> another player, properties may be sold to a third p... | You are allowed to do this. But this kind of trade implies an agreement between the buyer and the vendor to make the player who is about to get the properties lose. So your case is a matter of fair play with the player who is about to get the properties.
In your case you decided to do such a thing against player 1 to ... |
4,555,682 | Imagine I have the two dimensional image of a hotdog. I can draw a straight line on the hotdog between its two ends. Call this the midline. One of its properties is that it is the axis about which the (2D) hotdog has the lowest moment of inertia.
Now if I bend the hotdog in an arc, this midline will also distort.
Gi... | 2010/12/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4555682",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/287289/"
] | If I understand your question, you want a line through your object where every point is in the middle of the object, i.e. if you start from any point on the midline and walk in a direction perpendicular to the midline, you have to walk the same distance in both directions until you meet the border of the object:
 your bent hotdog.
You first have to [thresold](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thresholding_%28image_processing%29) it, then use a thinning algorithm.
Here are some cool links:
<http://xphilipp.developpez.com/contribuez/Skeleton-Algorithm.pd... |
4,555,682 | Imagine I have the two dimensional image of a hotdog. I can draw a straight line on the hotdog between its two ends. Call this the midline. One of its properties is that it is the axis about which the (2D) hotdog has the lowest moment of inertia.
Now if I bend the hotdog in an arc, this midline will also distort.
Gi... | 2010/12/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4555682",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/287289/"
] | Maybe you can [skeletonize](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_skeleton) your bent hotdog.
You first have to [thresold](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thresholding_%28image_processing%29) it, then use a thinning algorithm.
Here are some cool links:
<http://xphilipp.developpez.com/contribuez/Skeleton-Algorithm.pd... | You're probably looking for the Voronoi diagram, which will give you all the points that are equidistant from the shape "hot dog" edges -- e.g. the path/spine/ridge/midline down the middle.
And here's an image to help visualize it: <http://vision.ai.uiuc.edu/~sintod/images/research/VoronoiDiag.png>
Mapping this image... |
4,555,682 | Imagine I have the two dimensional image of a hotdog. I can draw a straight line on the hotdog between its two ends. Call this the midline. One of its properties is that it is the axis about which the (2D) hotdog has the lowest moment of inertia.
Now if I bend the hotdog in an arc, this midline will also distort.
Gi... | 2010/12/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4555682",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/287289/"
] | If I understand your question, you want a line through your object where every point is in the middle of the object, i.e. if you start from any point on the midline and walk in a direction perpendicular to the midline, you have to walk the same distance in both directions until you meet the border of the object:
![Hot... | If the skeletonizing approach doesn't work, you are probably looking at a harder problem - which brings up a number of questions: how constrained are your shapes? are they always convex? etc. Depending upon the answers, you might consider parameterizing the shape.
For starters, I would consider computing a convex hull... |
4,555,682 | Imagine I have the two dimensional image of a hotdog. I can draw a straight line on the hotdog between its two ends. Call this the midline. One of its properties is that it is the axis about which the (2D) hotdog has the lowest moment of inertia.
Now if I bend the hotdog in an arc, this midline will also distort.
Gi... | 2010/12/29 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/4555682",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/287289/"
] | If the skeletonizing approach doesn't work, you are probably looking at a harder problem - which brings up a number of questions: how constrained are your shapes? are they always convex? etc. Depending upon the answers, you might consider parameterizing the shape.
For starters, I would consider computing a convex hull... | You're probably looking for the Voronoi diagram, which will give you all the points that are equidistant from the shape "hot dog" edges -- e.g. the path/spine/ridge/midline down the middle.
And here's an image to help visualize it: <http://vision.ai.uiuc.edu/~sintod/images/research/VoronoiDiag.png>
Mapping this image... |
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