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wuwfew | [MCU] Spoilers: She-Hulk. Why did Bruce Banner need to stay in human form? After Endgame, Hulk's arm was injured due to using the gauntlet. In his appearance on Shang-chi, Banner is in human form, with the arm still seemingly injured. In the first episode of She-Hulk, he reveals that he has an inhibitor device on his a... | We hear the tail end of Bruce's explanation. The first thing we hear is pretty much the last thing Bruce says in that context "...my arm started to heal... and it's all because of this device which keeps me in human form" So, prior to any of this, well before Endgame. Let's say Bruce gets injured... call it a 'minor' w... | We only get part of the conversation in She-Hulk. He was talking about his arm healing, but then he gets interrupted. The problem is, we're seeing it through Jenn Walters' perspective, and she's not really listening to Bruce. He told her all the important info you're after, and it went in one ear and out the other. She... | answer_1 |
wuwfew | [MCU] Spoilers: She-Hulk. Why did Bruce Banner need to stay in human form? After Endgame, Hulk's arm was injured due to using the gauntlet. In his appearance on Shang-chi, Banner is in human form, with the arm still seemingly injured. In the first episode of She-Hulk, he reveals that he has an inhibitor device on his a... | In order for a bone to heal it has to be set properly. It's possible that Hulk's skin and muscles are simply too strong and tough to get the bone to stay in the proper place long enough to heal. | We only get part of the conversation in She-Hulk. He was talking about his arm healing, but then he gets interrupted. The problem is, we're seeing it through Jenn Walters' perspective, and she's not really listening to Bruce. He told her all the important info you're after, and it went in one ear and out the other. She... | answer_1 |
wuwfew | [MCU] Spoilers: She-Hulk. Why did Bruce Banner need to stay in human form? After Endgame, Hulk's arm was injured due to using the gauntlet. In his appearance on Shang-chi, Banner is in human form, with the arm still seemingly injured. In the first episode of She-Hulk, he reveals that he has an inhibitor device on his a... | The damage was caused by *too much gamma*. For comics Hulk this is impossible - no amount of Gamma Radiation can ever harm him - but clearly MCU Hulk is a bit different; or the gamma given off by MCU Infinity Stones is different [more similar to comic Cosmic Rays which are effectively anti-gamma]. Whatever the case, th... | Absolute spitball: I think part of their “working it out” was an arrangement similar to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes; Hulk gets Banner’s smarts and skills and gets to be in the front seat, provided that Banner himself gets a bit of time where he can be himself. Hence the inhibitor. | answer_1 |
wuwfew | [MCU] Spoilers: She-Hulk. Why did Bruce Banner need to stay in human form? After Endgame, Hulk's arm was injured due to using the gauntlet. In his appearance on Shang-chi, Banner is in human form, with the arm still seemingly injured. In the first episode of She-Hulk, he reveals that he has an inhibitor device on his a... | To fit in the car? | We only get part of the conversation in She-Hulk. He was talking about his arm healing, but then he gets interrupted. The problem is, we're seeing it through Jenn Walters' perspective, and she's not really listening to Bruce. He told her all the important info you're after, and it went in one ear and out the other. She... | answer_1 |
wuwfew | [MCU] Spoilers: She-Hulk. Why did Bruce Banner need to stay in human form? After Endgame, Hulk's arm was injured due to using the gauntlet. In his appearance on Shang-chi, Banner is in human form, with the arm still seemingly injured. In the first episode of She-Hulk, he reveals that he has an inhibitor device on his a... | Absolute spitball: I think part of their “working it out” was an arrangement similar to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes; Hulk gets Banner’s smarts and skills and gets to be in the front seat, provided that Banner himself gets a bit of time where he can be himself. Hence the inhibitor. | Maybe because the damage was done to him in Hulk form, it was easier to heal as Bruce Banner? | answer_2 |
1612733 | Including non-Python files with setup.py <sep> How do I make <code>setup.py</code> include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the packag... | It is 2019, and here is what is working - despite advice here and there, what I found on the internet halfway documented is using <code>setuptools_scm</code>, passed as options to <code>setuptools.setup</code>. This will include any data files that are versioned on your VCS, be it git or any other, to the wheel package... | Here is a simpler answer that worked for me. First, per a Python Dev's comment above, setuptools is not required: <code>package_data is also available to pure distutils setup scripts since 2.3. ric Araujo </code> That's great because putting a setuptools requirement on your package means you will have to install it als... | answer_1 |
1612733 | Including non-Python files with setup.py <sep> How do I make <code>setup.py</code> include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the packag... | This works in 2020! As others said create "MANIFEST.in" where your setup.py is located. Next in manifest include/exclude all the necessary things. Be careful here regarding the syntax. Ex: lets say we have template folder to be included in the source package. in manifest file do this : <code>recursive-include template ... | Here is a simpler answer that worked for me. First, per a Python Dev's comment above, setuptools is not required: <code>package_data is also available to pure distutils setup scripts since 2.3. ric Araujo </code> That's great because putting a setuptools requirement on your package means you will have to install it als... | answer_1 |
1612733 | Including non-Python files with setup.py <sep> How do I make <code>setup.py</code> include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the packag... | I wanted to post a comment to one of the questions but I don't enough reputation to do that >.> Here's what worked for me (came up with it after referring the docs): <code>package_data={ 'mypkg': ['../*.txt'] }, include_package_data: False </code> The last line was, strangely enough, also crucial for me (you can also o... | Here is a simpler answer that worked for me. First, per a Python Dev's comment above, setuptools is not required: <code>package_data is also available to pure distutils setup scripts since 2.3. ric Araujo </code> That's great because putting a setuptools requirement on your package means you will have to install it als... | answer_1 |
1612733 | Including non-Python files with setup.py <sep> How do I make <code>setup.py</code> include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the packag... | It is 2019, and here is what is working - despite advice here and there, what I found on the internet halfway documented is using <code>setuptools_scm</code>, passed as options to <code>setuptools.setup</code>. This will include any data files that are versioned on your VCS, be it git or any other, to the wheel package... | I wanted to post a comment to one of the questions but I don't enough reputation to do that >.> Here's what worked for me (came up with it after referring the docs): <code>package_data={ 'mypkg': ['../*.txt'] }, include_package_data: False </code> The last line was, strangely enough, also crucial for me (you can also o... | answer_1 |
1612733 | Including non-Python files with setup.py <sep> How do I make <code>setup.py</code> include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the packag... | This works in 2020! As others said create "MANIFEST.in" where your setup.py is located. Next in manifest include/exclude all the necessary things. Be careful here regarding the syntax. Ex: lets say we have template folder to be included in the source package. in manifest file do this : <code>recursive-include template ... | I just wanted to follow up on something I found working with Python 2.7 on Centos 6. Adding the package_data or data_files as mentioned above did not work for me. I added a MANIFEST.IN with the files I wanted which put the non-python files into the tarball, but did not install them on the target machine via RPM. In the... | answer_1 |
1612733 | Including non-Python files with setup.py <sep> How do I make <code>setup.py</code> include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the packag... | This works in 2020! As others said create "MANIFEST.in" where your setup.py is located. Next in manifest include/exclude all the necessary things. Be careful here regarding the syntax. Ex: lets say we have template folder to be included in the source package. in manifest file do this : <code>recursive-include template ... | In setup.py under setup( : <code>setup( name = 'foo library' ... package_data={ 'foolibrary.folderA': ['*'], # All files from folder A 'foolibrary.folderB': ['*.txt'] #All text files from folder B }, </code> | answer_1 |
1612733 | Including non-Python files with setup.py <sep> How do I make <code>setup.py</code> include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the packag... | I wanted to post a comment to one of the questions but I don't enough reputation to do that >.> Here's what worked for me (came up with it after referring the docs): <code>package_data={ 'mypkg': ['../*.txt'] }, include_package_data: False </code> The last line was, strangely enough, also crucial for me (you can also o... | I just wanted to follow up on something I found working with Python 2.7 on Centos 6. Adding the package_data or data_files as mentioned above did not work for me. I added a MANIFEST.IN with the files I wanted which put the non-python files into the tarball, but did not install them on the target machine via RPM. In the... | answer_1 |
1612733 | Including non-Python files with setup.py <sep> How do I make <code>setup.py</code> include a file that isn't part of the code? (Specifically, it's a license file, but it could be any other thing.) I want to be able to control the location of the file. In the original source folder, the file is in the root of the packag... | Step 1: create a <code>MANIFEST.in</code> file in the same folder with setup.py Step 2: include the relative path to the files you want to add in <code>MANIFEST.in</code> <code>include README.rst include docs/*.txt include funniest/data.json </code> Step 3: set <code>include_package_data=True</code> in the <code>setup(... | In setup.py under setup( : <code>setup( name = 'foo library' ... package_data={ 'foolibrary.folderA': ['*'], # All files from folder A 'foolibrary.folderB': ['*.txt'] #All text files from folder B }, </code> | answer_1 |
17383169 | Haskell: Double every 2nd element in list <sep> I just started using Haskell and wanted to write a function that, given a list, returns a list in which every 2nd element has been doubled. So far I've come up with this: <code>double_2nd :: [Int] -> [Int] double_2nd [] = [] double_2nd (x:xs) = x : (2 * head xs) : double_... | That's not bad, modulo the fixes suggested. Once you get more familiar with the base library you'll likely avoid explicit recursion in favor of some higher level functions, for example, you could create a list of functions where every other one is <code>*2</code> and apply (zip) that list of functions to your list of n... | Try it on an odd-length list: <code>Prelude> double_2nd [1] [1,*** Exception: Prelude.head: empty list </code> And you can see the problem with your code. The 'head' and 'tail' are never a good idea. | answer_1 |
17383169 | Haskell: Double every 2nd element in list <sep> I just started using Haskell and wanted to write a function that, given a list, returns a list in which every 2nd element has been doubled. So far I've come up with this: <code>double_2nd :: [Int] -> [Int] double_2nd [] = [] double_2nd (x:xs) = x : (2 * head xs) : double_... | Try it on an odd-length list: <code>Prelude> double_2nd [1] [1,*** Exception: Prelude.head: empty list </code> And you can see the problem with your code. The 'head' and 'tail' are never a good idea. | A little bit of necromancy, but I think that this method worked out very well for me and want to share: <code>double2nd n = zipWith (*) n (cycle [1,2]) </code> zipWith takes a function and then applies that function across matching items in two lists (first item to first item, second item to second item, etc). The func... | answer_2 |
31414 | How can I pass a command line argument into a shell script? <sep> I know that shell scripts just run commands as if they were executed in at the command prompt. I'd like to be able to run shell scripts as if they were functions... That is, taking an input value or string into the script. How do I approach doing this? | <code>$/shellscriptname.sh argument1 argument2 argument3 </code> You can also pass output of one shell script as an argument to another shell script. <code>$/shellscriptname.sh "$(secondshellscriptname.sh)" </code> Within shell script you can access arguments with numbers like <code>$1</code> for first argument and <co... | <code>./myscript myargument </code> <code>myargument</code> becomes <code>$1</code> inside <code>myscript</code>. | answer_1 |
31414 | How can I pass a command line argument into a shell script? <sep> I know that shell scripts just run commands as if they were executed in at the command prompt. I'd like to be able to run shell scripts as if they were functions... That is, taking an input value or string into the script. How do I approach doing this? | On a bash script, I personally like to use the following script to set parameters: <code>#!/bin/bash helpFunction() { echo "" echo "Usage: $0 -a parameterA -b parameterB -c parameterC" echo -e "\t-a Description of what is parameterA" echo -e "\t-b Description of what is parameterB" echo -e "\t-c Description of what is ... | <code>./myscript myargument </code> <code>myargument</code> becomes <code>$1</code> inside <code>myscript</code>. | answer_1 |
v27m0f | How do you keep yourself from giving up on your work? Trying this again, lol How do you keep yourself from giving up on your work? So I like my plot, my characters, and I love writing and the little bit of worldbuilding I get to do with the setting I have picked out. I’m more of a pantser than a planner, because if I m... | >I'm more of a pantser than a planner, because if I make a whole outline I'm just going to second-guess my story and never finish it. Isn't that what you're doing anyway? So pantsing or planning, you're still encountering the same issue: self-doubt and self-deprecation, and the same result: you quit working on the proj... | My advice because I'm struggling with it a lot is to just not worry about exactly how much progress you make. I get myself down because I do a lot of dialogue and I've got this impossible standard that I set for 5 pages a day if possible. I call my outline my side work because calling it an outline makes me not want to... | answer_1 |
v27m0f | How do you keep yourself from giving up on your work? Trying this again, lol How do you keep yourself from giving up on your work? So I like my plot, my characters, and I love writing and the little bit of worldbuilding I get to do with the setting I have picked out. I’m more of a pantser than a planner, because if I m... | >I'm more of a pantser than a planner, because if I make a whole outline I'm just going to second-guess my story and never finish it. Isn't that what you're doing anyway? So pantsing or planning, you're still encountering the same issue: self-doubt and self-deprecation, and the same result: you quit working on the proj... | Read "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. It's a classic for a reason, and it really works if you let it! 🌿 | answer_1 |
v27m0f | How do you keep yourself from giving up on your work? Trying this again, lol How do you keep yourself from giving up on your work? So I like my plot, my characters, and I love writing and the little bit of worldbuilding I get to do with the setting I have picked out. I’m more of a pantser than a planner, because if I m... | My advice because I'm struggling with it a lot is to just not worry about exactly how much progress you make. I get myself down because I do a lot of dialogue and I've got this impossible standard that I set for 5 pages a day if possible. I call my outline my side work because calling it an outline makes me not want to... | Read "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. It's a classic for a reason, and it really works if you let it! 🌿 | answer_1 |
or1t05 | If our ears locate the direction which a sound comes from by the time lag between our two ears, how does it determine if it's in front or behind of us? | The shape of the ears also changes the pitch of the sound and what the sound generally sounds like, your brain automatically adjusts to the change in the sound so you can kind of know where the sound is coming from | A few good responses already and it's a combination of all of them really. Movement of the head if the sound of continuous. Earlobes are also pretty key in this - studies have been done placing artificial earlobes on ones head at first causes confusion pinpointing the direction of sound. After about a day the brain rea... | answer_1 |
lpvhq1 | Were books from around 1800 as hard to read for the people back then as they are for us nowadays? (And vice versa?) I'm (trying) to read Kant right now (I'm German by the way) and I find it rather difficult to understand. It is not that he is using old words that do not exist anymore but rather that the sentences are i... | Is it possible that rather than language as a whole having been more complicated in the past, it was more of a popular stylistic choice to write in long, complicated sentences (even though the spoken language didn't use such complicated structures)? And the difference is that in current times, such a style has merely b... | Hello! Thank you for posting your question to /r/asklinguistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post must be academic and ... | answer_1 |
lpvhq1 | Were books from around 1800 as hard to read for the people back then as they are for us nowadays? (And vice versa?) I'm (trying) to read Kant right now (I'm German by the way) and I find it rather difficult to understand. It is not that he is using old words that do not exist anymore but rather that the sentences are i... | Hello! Thank you for posting your question to /r/asklinguistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post must be academic and ... | the answers thus far are all really good and point out important nuances. but I feel like they're overlooking one simple fact: who were the writers and readers back then vs. now? Kant, as well as any contemporary who would have read him, was classically trained in Latin, Greek, rhetoric etc etc etc. Many of these old t... | answer_2 |
lpvhq1 | Were books from around 1800 as hard to read for the people back then as they are for us nowadays? (And vice versa?) I'm (trying) to read Kant right now (I'm German by the way) and I find it rather difficult to understand. It is not that he is using old words that do not exist anymore but rather that the sentences are i... | I've long heard that German students prefer to read Kant in English translation because they find that the translation smooths out some of the complexity. | Hello! Thank you for posting your question to /r/asklinguistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post must be academic and ... | answer_1 |
lpvhq1 | Were books from around 1800 as hard to read for the people back then as they are for us nowadays? (And vice versa?) I'm (trying) to read Kant right now (I'm German by the way) and I find it rather difficult to understand. It is not that he is using old words that do not exist anymore but rather that the sentences are i... | I mean, Kant and Hegel are literary the worst writers to read. And long sentences were generally more in back then. I like the explanations in the other comments | Hello! Thank you for posting your question to /r/asklinguistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post must be academic and ... | answer_1 |
z2t4lo | Why does my cat bring me the same toy every night? So, my husband and I adopted 2 kittens a little over a year ago. A boy and a girl, they’re a little over a year old now. We also moved about 5 months ago and ever since getting into our new apartment, our male cat, Pippin, has been doing this thing where he’ll bring us... | He’s hunting! My cat brings me her favorite today every night and it’s my favorite thing. I usually give her a groggy “good job baby” and go back to sleep | Is your female cat named Merry, by any chance?? (I definitely thought about that combo for my brother/sister duo!) I have three cats that all engage in this behavior. They each have their own specific, earmarked toys that are brought upstairs daily (or even more than daily, if I do my job and put them back to be re-hun... | answer_2 |
z2t4lo | Why does my cat bring me the same toy every night? So, my husband and I adopted 2 kittens a little over a year ago. A boy and a girl, they’re a little over a year old now. We also moved about 5 months ago and ever since getting into our new apartment, our male cat, Pippin, has been doing this thing where he’ll bring us... | My cat does the exact same thing, he brings us a wand toy (or multiple toys) at bed time while howling, pretty much every night. I'm not really sure why but I think he thinks he is bringing us a present. | Is your female cat named Merry, by any chance?? (I definitely thought about that combo for my brother/sister duo!) I have three cats that all engage in this behavior. They each have their own specific, earmarked toys that are brought upstairs daily (or even more than daily, if I do my job and put them back to be re-hun... | answer_2 |
z2t4lo | Why does my cat bring me the same toy every night? So, my husband and I adopted 2 kittens a little over a year ago. A boy and a girl, they’re a little over a year old now. We also moved about 5 months ago and ever since getting into our new apartment, our male cat, Pippin, has been doing this thing where he’ll bring us... | My female cat does this and so does my parents' girl cat. They always bring us their favourite toys - it's like a present, really - the way they'd bring you a kill as a 'gift'. Only neither of these cats hunt so they bring their favourite toys instead. Both have a very specific meow they use as they're coming into the ... | My elderly cat does this. It took him about 5 years to play with anything. But he’ll occasionally bring me a toy or two, making a big fuss about it when he does. But usually it’s his favorite Christmas themed mouse toy with a bell. Personally I think it’s just his way of being like “Look Ma, I killed it. This is for yo... | answer_1 |
z2t4lo | Why does my cat bring me the same toy every night? So, my husband and I adopted 2 kittens a little over a year ago. A boy and a girl, they’re a little over a year old now. We also moved about 5 months ago and ever since getting into our new apartment, our male cat, Pippin, has been doing this thing where he’ll bring us... | My cat does this with a fuzzy piece of fabric that was attached to a teaser pole. She brings it to me in the middle of the night and has a specific meow. It’s not a toy she plays with, she just brings it around the house and will drop it places for me. I call it her lovie, reminds me of a little kid with a blankie. | We have two cats. The youngest has done this since she first came home with a plastic spring. She trained me into throwing it, and we play fetch every night for 1-2 hours once I get in bed… pretty much never any other time. In between throws when she knocks it around, she yowls. Some people would find it annoying, but ... | answer_1 |
z2t4lo | Why does my cat bring me the same toy every night? So, my husband and I adopted 2 kittens a little over a year ago. A boy and a girl, they’re a little over a year old now. We also moved about 5 months ago and ever since getting into our new apartment, our male cat, Pippin, has been doing this thing where he’ll bring us... | My tortie does this with her carrot toy. We just give her a ton of praise, lots of pets, and say thank you for being such a good hunter. | My elderly cat does this. It took him about 5 years to play with anything. But he’ll occasionally bring me a toy or two, making a big fuss about it when he does. But usually it’s his favorite Christmas themed mouse toy with a bell. Personally I think it’s just his way of being like “Look Ma, I killed it. This is for yo... | answer_2 |
z2t4lo | Why does my cat bring me the same toy every night? So, my husband and I adopted 2 kittens a little over a year ago. A boy and a girl, they’re a little over a year old now. We also moved about 5 months ago and ever since getting into our new apartment, our male cat, Pippin, has been doing this thing where he’ll bring us... | My seven year old cat does this. Sometimes with a sock she has hunted out of the laundry basket, sometimes with a brown rectangular toy she brought with her from the rescue when we got her and her brother, we call it her sausage. We tell her what a good hunter she is and thank her for her contribution to the food suppl... | My cat does this with one of his toys daily. He never wants to play with it I think he just wants to let us know about it. It's like his security blanket we think anyway. He just carries it around and is sort of like "hey look at it". | answer_2 |
2734692 | AVL tree vs. B-tree <sep> How is an AVL tree different from a B-tree? | An AVL tree is a self-balancing binary search tree, balanced to maintain O(log n) height. A B-tree is a balanced tree, but it is not a binary tree. Nodes have more children, which increases per-node search time but decreases the number of nodes the search needs to visit. This makes them good for disk-based trees. For m... | Both the AVL tree and the B-tree are similar in that they are data structures that, through their requirements, cause the height of their respective trees to be minimized. This "shortness" allows searching to be performed in O(log n) time, because the largest possible number of reads corresponds to the height of the tr... | answer_2 |
325766 | What do you call a partner that you don't live with? <sep> Married people are called "spouses" and people that are in a romantic relationship and live together without being married are called "cohabitants" but what do you call people who are in a romantic relationship that is, for all intents and purposes, the same as... | The problem here is that there are two separate concepts involved: your legal status and your living arrangements. When I started filling out forms you gave you the choice single/married/widowed/divorced. Then it was realised that many people were in long-term relationships so co-habiting or partner became included but... | Logically, it would seem that the opposite of "live-in partner" would be a "live-out partner", but I think most people wouldn't follow. In polyamory circles, a partner one lives with is a "nesting partner", so one one doesn't live with would be a "non-nesting partner". Most people would likely not be familiar with the ... | answer_2 |
h00e8v | A little under a year ago, I woke up to half my eyebrow having fallen off, and it continued to worse for a month. The eyebrow has not regrown at all. Are there explanations for this / should I be concerned? Age: 22 Sex: male Height: 5’11” Weight: 165 lbs Race: Caucasian Primary Complaint: missing half eyebrow Duration:... | I was gonna say go get it checked by a dermatologist. Might be a skin infection that’s preventing new hair growth. Anyone else in your family have similar issues? | Thank you for your submission. **Please note that a response does not constitute a doctor-patient relationship.** This subreddit is for informal second opinions and casual information. The mod team does their best to remove bad information, but we do not catch all of it. Always visit a doctor in real life if you have a... | answer_1 |
gu44sc | Any idea why the velocity of money has been falling generally since 2000? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V i understand the basic concept of velocity of money. trying to understand the big picture of why its gone down since 1997 | Rob and Lawerence have covered the idea that money is a normal good and that lower inflation means the opportunity cost of money has gone down. These are important factors but I don't have much to add to their comments. I think a very underrated issue is measurement problems. The M2 money supply index that you're citin... | !ping MONEY And more specifically u/BainCapitalist I'm sure there's a monetarist explanation for this. | answer_1 |
q0kn1p | Asking for experiences from other engineers who blew the whistle. What happened? Hi all, I have an ethical decision weighing on me this weekend that likely will be surfacing Monday. Just wanted to get some thoughts as to if anyone has encountered this. Using a throwaway account for reasons. I work as a test engineer at... | If it really fails... tell your management. If it is just a question of configuration and the test is not well defined, state the conditions clearly in the test report. I have done test reports, where there is an aging under temperature, but the temperature is not defined.... So if it fails at 70degC, you better do you... | Talk to your management if you're not comfortable doing something, get it in writing from a superior. That way when it comes back there is a paper trail. If they won't create a paper trail they don't want it done. I doubt a trusted independent test lab is going to put up with fudging the data. | answer_1 |
htd67a | Is it worth getting a Master's degree for getting more & higher paying jobs? Also is it possible to do a non-thesis (course related) master's degree immediately after your bachelor's degree? Hello fellow engineer's, as the economy looks depressing currently (and probably for the next year or two) I am considering conti... | I didn't read all the other comments, but: I did a non-thesis Masters as a BS/MS program with the same college. This let me double-count some classes (taken at MS level), and was only 1 year in addition to the BS. The most helpful part of the MS to me was the specific classes that I took -- A Power System Protection cl... | A master workout a thesis doesn't sound like a master to me. In my opinion courses are usually simple in the sense that you just follow the curriculum. A proper master degree should also display your abilities to deliver work /science in a proper way. You might as well do the online courses with certificate of your not... | answer_1 |
uk0r11 | Who were some anti-slavery Southerners in Civil War era? Any plantation owners who transitioned to other means of support? | Welcome to /r/AskHistorians. **Please Read Our Rules before you comment in this community**. Understand that rule breaking comments get removed. #Please consider **Clicking Here for RemindMeBot** as it takes time for an answer to be written. Additionally, for weekly content summaries, **Click Here to Subscribe to our W... | /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov has previously written about: * Confederate deserters * The postwar career of James Longstreet * Was the average Confederate soldier a strong proponent of white supremacy? * On the idea of "nice" or "good" slave owners in the American South For more on the economics of US slavery, read If a single sl... | answer_2 |
fwlwhk | Why did the language North Koreans speak differ so much and so fast from south Korea? I was thinking about how Spanish can still be understood in every country after 400 years of separation. Yet I have heard the notion that south Koreans only understand like 30% of what North Koreans say and they can't really communica... | If you watch the drama **Crash Landing on You** on Netflix you will see that they can understand each other just fine. Among the writers of the drama were also North Koreans. The North Koreans use more the formal -ida- and -ikka- ending, while the South Koreans use the slightly more familiar / normally polite -yo -endi... | Hello! Thank you for posting your question to /r/asklinguistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post must be academic and ... | answer_1 |
miycfm | What is the inverse of "xenophobe"? I know that "xenophile" is one opposite of "xenophobe", as xenophiles love foreigners and foreign cultures, while xenophobes hate foreigners and foreign cultures, but that's not the word I'm looking for. And then "patriot" is one who loves their own country and culture. So what I wan... | An Italian who hates everything italian is called italian. Source: am italian, I know my fellows. | Hello! Thank you for posting your question to /r/asklinguistics. Please remember to flair your post. This is a reminder to ensure your recent submission follows all of our rules, which are visible in the sidebar. If it doesn't, your submission may be removed! ___ All top-level replies to this post must be academic and ... | answer_1 |
zth8ct | How did the modern idea of pirate speech patters in movies come to be? Is this based on real pirate/sailor speech from some time period? I'm curious about the stereotypical "arrrg" "shiver me timbers" "ahoy" words and phrases | Unsurprisingly, “shiver me timbers” comes from Treasure Island, like most of our stereotypes about pirates. It’s very likely that a lot of other pirateisms could be directly attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson’s characters as well. | I don’t know about those specific phrases, but the accent comes from the southwest of England, because a lot of the pirates came from Bristol. | answer_1 |
4htojv | I find moral error theory attractive. Why am I the laughingstock of the metaethics community? I've encountered people who have told me it isn't a legitimate position, that it's pure sophistry, etc. Why all the hate? | I'm not an error-theorist, and I think there are good reasons for my views...but that being said, plenty of very smart moral philosophers *are* error-theorists, and have their own good reasons. Error theory is absolutely a viable position in contemporary metaethics, held by plenty of strong contemporary thinkers (Shell... | Its not that its not a legitimate position. Its that there being no form of moral imperatives is a position that is seen as unplausible, and a damaging idea that people generally hold for the wrong reasons. | answer_1 |
7ua3wr | How common are illnesses such as the cold or the flu in other animals? and if they aren't common, why? | I see some people citing psychological stuff, personally kinda skeptical that they "hide the symptoms" of disease. As a soon-to-be-graduated microbiologist, ive seen it being just a case of "it happens a shitton in animals, we just don't care enough to study it" leading to a large gap in information in animal diseases ... | Though im not 100% sure this fully awnsers the question at hand it helps shed some light in the right direction . Some animals are susceptible to the human cold and can experience most, if not all the symptoms associated with humans. While dogs are not known to catch the human cold virus, cats occasionally do and will ... | answer_1 |
62x3d1 | Batman] Why is there so much useless signage in the (Adam West-era) Batcave? [To the Batcave via the Batpoles Compressed Steam Batpole Lift Signage Everywhere The Batextension Giant Lighted Lucite Map of Gotham City Does Batman have some kind of cognitive disability? Does he not remember what any of these devices are f... | Robin... Isn't the brightest bird of the feathers, if you know what I mean. | Batman was always developing new devices and frequently instructed Alfred in their use via the Batphone while out on missions in Gotham City. Labeling all equipment, whether old or brand new, ensured that Alfred would always be able to efficiently and accurately follow his instructions even if they invoked unfamiliar e... | answer_2 |
2khesw | In Phantom Menace why does the droid army have ranks? Why would the droid army need a command structure if they are all controlled from a command ship? | The ships farm out orders to the high ranking droids (might not even be the droids, could be computers in the transports, who farm it out to the others and so on. Take out the ships at the top while the bots below are in battle mode (reduced individual initiative sacrificed for better cohesiveness) and they go into dea... | It's because the army is still structured like an army, so you still need different units in different rolls. The command ship is the Admiral, who distributes orders to commanders, who distribute to squad leaders, who distribute to individual soldiers. The reality is a little more complicated than that, but that's the ... | answer_1 |
qa4iym | How much weight to give one study? (See description) Often, when the media reports on social science findings, they will cite a single study as evidence for a claim. I do not come from a social science background, but I do remember being told in Psychology 101 that no single study is authoritative. Given, that average ... | The media tends to report studies which have been press-released. Notoriously unreliable (and not just for being single studies) but you shouldn't be using the media as a source of scientific information in the first place. Systematic reviews aim to identify all the relevant studies published (and sometimes also unpubl... | Thanks for your question to /r/AskSocialScience. All posters, please remember that this subreddit requires peer-reviewed, cited sources (Please see Rule 1 and 3). All posts that do not have citations will be removed by AutoMod. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of ... | answer_1 |
t0csb3 | Is there a correlation between political beliefs, SES, and estimates of upward mobility of those in poverty? I have a hypothesis that progressives, and possibly the poor themselves, underestimate upward mobility among those in poverty. Is there any research looking into how well calibrated these groups estimations are ... | > I have a hypothesis that progressives, and possibly the poor themselves, underestimate upward mobility among those in poverty. Research such as "Mobility Regimes and Parental Wealth: The United States, Germany, and Sweden in Comparison." shows us the opposite: >In sum, the independent associations found between paren... | Thanks for your question to /r/AskSocialScience. All posters, please remember that this subreddit requires peer-reviewed, cited sources (Please see Rule 1 and 3). All posts that do not have citations will be removed by AutoMod. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of ... | answer_1 |
yhadh | [Economics] Is there a way to use economic methods to determine which is the better candidate in elections? Virtually all of politics is based on opinion, as to how people vote and how how candidates decide their issues, but is it possible to take a fact only based approach to political candidates? Assuming if the ulti... | Not at the current point in time. I could imagine that the Predictocracy ideas could catch on, though. As I recall, intrade had some conditional markets in 2008, so you could bet on things like "Unemployment rate conditional on [democratic]/[republican] President. As I recall, it was highly illiquid. Doesn't seem to be... | We could rank candidates with algorithms, but everything depends on how you create it and what data would you feed it. There will be always bias, so why would anyone even try? You can look at recommendation for example on steam, last.fm, imdb.com or any dating site. They have huge databases and they employ hundreds or ... | answer_1 |
1ww8rm | Are there any predictors of revolution? | Revolution is difficult to pin down because you need a working definition of revolution that everyone agrees to. If we agree it is a mass movement of some kind that changes society, you can learn a lot from the study of social movements, the study of democratization, and models of rational choice. Revolutions also suff... | http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/we-are-now-one-year-and-counting-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say--2 | answer_1 |
qbqsht | I think my diabetic cat may be experiencing terminal agitation. It's late night and he's pacing, asking for food but not eating much, going to his water but not drinking much. He seemed fine just hours ago. I'm willing to euthanize him when it's time, but I'm not sure that's right now. (First: I have plenty of records,... | If he's not eating, do not give him insulin. Can you describe what he is doing in more detail? Does he seem dazed? Is he showing any muscle twitching, weakness, wobbliness while walking, incoordination while walking? | Do you have equipment for testing Spike's blood sugar? Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) from too much insulin can cause agitation. | answer_1 |
fvx41n | If a plane was hit with an EMP, would it go down? I was just watching a movie where an EMP goes off and suddenly a plane comes crashing down. I assumed airplanes had mechanisms to allow them to run, or at least glide safely if all the electronic systems were to fail. I don’t know anything about planes so is this accura... | Even without power, an airliner is still a huge, mediocre glider. They can still be flown and landed, if the pilot knows what they're doing. Look up the Gimli Glider. | On modern aircraft, safety critical systems use shielded wiring and EMI hardened components to protect from transient and indirect lightning effects. This includes FADECs and all fly-by-wire systems. This would likely offer some protection for those systems in the case of EMP. Meaning you would likely keep engine contr... | answer_1 |
uvppho | Looking for a book about time-travel I’m looking for a book ( doesn’t matter if fiction or non-fiction ) that is based on mind-blowing time-travel paradoxes which will leave you deep in thought. Something not too hard to understand but also kind of a deep-dive. Maybe a bit philosophical too. | The New Time Travelers by David Toomey. Easy explanation of non-fiction, actual research on the topic | The first fifteen lives of Harry August | answer_2 |
rtu1nj | Silly question but why don't plant encyclopedic articles include compatible soil orders, mineral requirements and other parameters outside identification? Maybe I'm looking at the wrong articles on plants but most I find online will only describe plants by how they look and their taxa rank. Little information is found ... | First of all, the sort of information you're asking for falls under horticultural science, not really botany, which is strictly speaking a subject preoccupied with plant taxonomy, rather than cultural methods, hence a focus on identification. Second of all, money. You're asking for a lot of information which in order t... | No such thing as a silly question. I have a hydroponics and soils background so maybe I can help. So lettuce likes my garden soil at 6.5-7.5. But in hydroponics it better be 5.5-6 or else I get major issues. Soil is the “great equalizer”. It holds moisture, nutrients, and provides buffering capacity. In all honesty eve... | answer_1 |
pg61lq | Why do herbs and spices in Europe smell grassy, floral, etc. while most East Asian spices smell warm, sweet, or even peppery? | That is because most European herbs are from the mint family. Rosemary, thyme, oregano, marjoram, mint are all mint. East Asian herbs tend to come from a broad range of families of plants. | Just a friendly reminder: All posts must have either a botany related question, or a submission statement. This can be in either the title or the comments. Questions or submission statements must be about the scientific study of plants. More specifically, your submission statement or question needs to be about plant ph... | answer_1 |
th2md8 | Why does my cat keep trying to get me to take naps with her? She sleeps with me in my bed at night. And cats obviously sleep a lot more than humans. So during the daytime she'll often try to get me to follow her into my bed and lay down with her and nap. But I can't sleep as much a cat and my cat doesn't understand. Sh... | Well, this is beyond adorable :D | It sounds like she thinks you need more sleep! | answer_1 |
pzyr9q | I cannot for the life of me cook a damn chicken breast The title implies the frustration I feel from the last few months of cooking. I have tried cooking chicken everywhere from 350-450 degrees and for varying times from 20-45 min. However every time the breasts end up too tough and lack flavor. I’m never sure if I’m o... | One trick you can do with pretty much any poultry is to brine it before cooking. About an hour per inch of thickness is a good general rule of thumb for brines and marinades. This will lengthen your cooking time, but you will wind up with a VERY juicy piece of poultry. Cooking to a time is... less than ideal. Unless yo... | Get a decent digital thermometer; sounds like the one you have kind of sucks. Takes only a few seconds to get a reading, and that should give a decent estimate on if they need to go in for a bit longer or are ready to come out. Also, if you are opening and closing the oven a lot to check (or checking the temp with the ... | answer_1 |
9txtdc | Bored of eating the same old thing….. What are some quick, filling meals from your culture/background? Basically, what are some healthy, simple & flavourful meals that aren’t boring Western-typical stuff? I’m sick of pizza, pasta, mashed potatoes, canned veggies with butter, chicken soup, tuna sandwiches, breaded chick... | My mom recently introduced me to green Thai curry paste. Chop up a chicken breast (cm cubes) , dump a can of coconut milk in a pot with the chopped raw chicken and some curry paste. (I add chopped Thai peppers for heat). Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Dump it over some rice and eat. You’ll either love it or... | Moroccan Lentil Stew. I make it heartier by adding chicken, kale, and cauliflower. Pastalaya. | answer_1 |
y0gty7 | How are you preparing for a potential recession? It has really hit home lately that next year in my country(Canada) could be a pretty bad recession. Mind you, I'm just going off of news folks and hearsay from random people I talk to because I don't know anything about foretelling stuff like this. It's made me really ne... | In May of last year, I started my "preparation" by totally changing my field. I was in advertising, but during recession, this is the #1 sector that go down when things go crazy so I didn't wanted to be dependant on that. I learned to code from May to July, to start a SaaS company. I was spot on, because in September, ... | I double wipe my ass after poopin | answer_1 |
ybqpcc | Is it actually possible to make cafe quality espresso at home? I’m considering getting an ECM puristika and niche grinder but if the espresso won’t be fairly similar to your average hipster cafe espresso then I don’t think there’s a point. It would be great to confirm if this is actually possible otherwise I’d probably... | Your wife won't let you near any establishment that claims to prepare tasty coffee ever again. This may have something to do with at a certain point spending an hour and 50 minutes arguing over and A/B testing WDT methods, or another occurrence that ended up with you buying 14 bags of Ethiopian after hurting your hand ... | You can make more enjoyable coffee at home than 95% of third wave places. Perhaps not consistently better, but more enjoyable. It's rare to find a cafe that actually makes espresso that doesn't taste generic. They mostly all serve a basic third wave style espresso which is kinda chocolately but also a bit acidic for no... | answer_1 |
pdrje6 | How good is the Niche, really? I'm currently looking to upgrade from my Mignon Specialita. Browsing this sub regularly, I noticed something that got me curious: you see the Niche in basically every kind of setup, from a Gaggia Classic or Rancilio Silvia to a Decent, LMLM, or even GS3. When I got into this hobby, I've r... | The Niche is a great grinder. There are many people who prefer large conical burrs, despite how vocal some people can be about flat burrs being the best option. There are a couple of larger conical burr sets on the market, but going from 63mm Kony burrs to 68 or 83mm is similar to the jump from 80mm to 98mm flat burrs.... | I can attest to this, since I went Specialita to Niche myself. I kind of hated the Specialita: tiny dial was terrible with my decent to dial in, it’s retention was too high, flavors weren’t that great and it was fiddly to get the grind just right. Got the niche and night and day difference. Usability is miles better. I... | answer_1 |
xv8bfw | Is there a word in any language that points at the space/state before existence/creation? Not necessarily nothing, nothing can be within a void inside of creation, however something that is hard to discuss is necessarily in the discussions akin to "chicken and the egg" is the space in time before which there is/was any... | Many of Australia's First Nations' languages and cultures have a concept that gets translated into English as the Dreaming or the Dreamtime - it tends to be the context within which the cultures' creation myths happen, and the myths themselves describe things like how the landscape came to be the way it now is, or how ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohu_wa-bohu | answer_1 |
ocpuqc | I huge list (1400) of people with birth and death dates. I want to find which exact date had the most people alive on. I was trying to think of how I could use the COUNTIF or SUMIF functions but honestly can't think of an efficient way of doing so. I know that I can use the COUNTIF function to see if a specific date is... | There are a few ways to do this. One fairly logical way is to create a list of dates from the earliest to latest and the create two subsequent columns.the first column will be 'born after' and the next column will be 'died before'. The use the COUNTIF function to populate the value for each date. Born after would be =c... | I would probably use Power Query for this. With a start and end date in each row, you can add a column that creates a list of every date in the range, then you can expand that list to new rows, which then will give you one row of data per person per living day, and from there it's a simple pivot table to get the highes... | answer_1 |
z17kln | Is it possible to auto-insert rows within a data set based on the known value of a cell within the row? Howdy Spreadsheet Warriors! I have inherited a data set that needs some rearranging; looking for some ideas as to the best way to go about doing this: * The Current State: Current State of Data Set \(I manually added... | /u/Nussy_Slayer - Your post was submitted successfully. * Once your problem is solved, reply to the **answer(s)** saying `Solution Verified` to close the thread. * Follow the **[submission rules](/r/excel/wiki/sharingquestions)** -- particularly 1 and 2. To fix the body, click edit. To fix your title, delete and re-pos... | is the first/yellow 'stuff' in one cell or five? the lack of borders makes me ask- actual borders would help a lot. | answer_2 |
649xhh | Explain like I'm five years old: Why is it okay to eat/drink stuff in a US supermarket before paying for it? This doesn't really happen in my home country (Finland) | Hy-Vee (local grocery chain) has fruit at the entrances to give to kids for free. We never open anything before paying, but we do take them up on the free apple or banana. | Look, it's a really freaking long wait in the line to get checked out. I just want to eat one of the cookies in the package I'm buying. If the store cares that much, they can hire more checkers. | answer_1 |
5vgfjx | Explain like I'm five years old: Why does every radio station seem like they go on commercial break at the same time? | It's intentional, so that the competitors/various radio stations don't "cannibalize" their own industry. MSM does the same. Channel surfing during commercials=more commercials=go back to the original channel. Idk if I explained that very well... hope it makes sense. | It probably has to do with most songs and commericals being relatively similar in length and most stations likely play the same number of songs and then commercials. | answer_1 |
naszt4 | Why are trout so much more fragile than other fish? Proper fish handling is important for all species, but trout just don’t seem to be able to handle anything. | Aside from the softer mouths they are also a colder water fish so can be much more susceptible when water temps get above 65F. | they rely on a slime coating that stops/lowers infections. | answer_1 |
8c3byb | Obligatory, I can't catch any fish post. [Help] This is my second season attempting to catch fish and I have not even had so much as a nibble. I'm just casting lures into the water and reeling them in with nothing to show for it. First year I tried using night crawlers and a bobber. I fished 4 different pond/lakes and ... | Download fishbrain to see if people are logging catches in those places. I'd also recommend looking up the Ned Rig. Zman finesse TRD (or TRD Hogz, those were great for me yesterday) in green pumpkin, coppertruce, and black and blue. Put them on a zman 1/15oz Shroomz head and also get some 1/8oz bullet weight and 1/0 EW... | Do you see anyone catch fish there? Do you see any very small fish in the water? It is quite possible you're fishing in dead water. A pond can look lovely but if temperature or PH get out of whack there won't be any fish to catch. | answer_1 |
z45k96 | I want to talk about frugal coffee. Please share your tips for shopping and brewing! I enjoy my daily coffee habit, but I'm not very frugal about it. Coffee grounds are getting more and more expensive, and we go through a lot of coffee grounds. I usually buy large containers of brand names. Other times I'll get store b... | I recently come across lidl deluxe single origin coffee. It's like £2 / 100g which is cheap compared to nescafe at the moment £3.50 - £5 / 100g And it tastes good too. Otherwise I always thought grinding your own beans was the cheapest and tastiest method of consumption, correct me if I'm wrong ? | I use a boring little coffee maker that makes just enough for me - the coffee maker costs about $15 and is cheaply made but works for years on end. I buy just normal brand coffee, preferably on sale (or the big can of Kirkland from Costco when I can get someone to pick it up for me), and I buy a big can instead of the ... | answer_1 |
uz16ve | How do you force players to use the resources they have? You know the phenomenon of hoarding potions until the end of some game. Before you realize it, you've finished the game without using them. How do you actually prevent that and force the player's hand to use all the resources they have till the very end? | Flip it the other way. *Why* don't you use consumable resources when you're playing a game? You're generally concerned you'll waste it now when you need it later - smallest healing potion you have heals for 10, you're only down 6, so why waste it? That fireball scroll can clear out these rats, but what if there's an ic... | My first question would be: why do you need potions in your game? If the answer is something along the lines "to heal up between battles", then maybe you don't need an inventory item at all. Make a fountain of health, rechargeable health item, or just regular ol' regenerate health outside of combat. These are all ways ... | answer_2 |
vg15ut | Is it true that experienced hikers lose interest in the views along the way and just want to get to the top? When I hike, I always stop for 10-20 minutes whenever I reach some place with a great view or simply to enjoy the serenity of nature. I went on a medium-level hike in the Alps with a sort of experience friend la... | I tend to hurry to the top and then meander and take pictures and enjoy views on the way back down when I am more tired. | I have carried a camera on my hikes for many years now and in the start I would stop every so often to take in the view and photograph. Now however if I am in a place that looks somewhat familiar to all areas I've already hiked many times, I will probably only have one longer break unless there is a beautiful sunset or... | answer_1 |
zyzh54 | Ladies, how do you deal with periods while hiking? How do you avoid accumulating too much waste? And what do you do with the waste you end up with? What about hygiene? | A lot of ladies like diva cups, but they weren’t for me. I continuously take my bc to skip my periods. It’s been awesome. | I use a menstrual cup and a backcountry bidet, specifically the culoclean. It fits into most plastic bottles and you can get a pressurized stream to clean out the cup. | answer_2 |
nlrgql | Why aren't more smart switches made like toggle-style traditional light switchs? I think this is more of a technical question. I know there are some out there but the majority seem to be these large flat toggles. Why wouldn't they just stick to a design that's more common and traditional. I ask because I have several 3... | Honestly I just started ripping out the old style dumb switches and replacing them with the flat rockers, for a dumb switch we're talking $2 per switch + a few dollars for a new cover. There's a few places in my house where I still have the older style switches + toggle switches like this: https://www.getzooz.com/zooz-... | I use regular switches with the sonoff mini (or equivalent) hidden. | answer_1 |
9ag7pf | 1.5 years later - any fix to the Ring Doorbell phoning China? About 1.5 years ago, it was discovered that the Ring Doorbell was "phoning home" to China. Has the issue been fixed in the new doorbells and is there a fix for the existing ones? Especially now that they're owned by Amazon. There was a big uproar when it was... | Listen for traffic in WireShark, block with firewall. Pi-Hole should work as well, if this thing is using hostnames and not IPs | The issue has been fixed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/03/22/this-smart-doorbell-was-accidentally-sending-data-to-china-until-people-started-freaking-out/#13cd2c3a5984 | answer_2 |
hnz572 | If I like challenging PC games that offer a lot of customization on how you can play (building your own playstyle), WWIL Examples of some games I've liked: \- Dark Souls games for the challenge and diverse character builds you can develop \- Strategy games like Civ and Stellaris because there is deep strategy and so ma... | I would recommend Hades. It is ultimately a roguelike, but there are so many customisation options throughout that you can really play it however you like. I realised this when the advice my partner was giving trying to give me was completely the opposite of how I like playing the game. You get a few different weapon c... | I started playing The Forest recently. I find it pretty difficult and unforgiving. Maybe that might be your style? | answer_1 |
v3bqjf | I want to learn how to be a human compass. My dad always knows what cardinal direction he's facing and where north is. And when he doesn't, all he needs is a look out of the window. I've asked him how he does this, but he says he doesn't know how, he just does. Is there any way to learn this skill? | It’s the sun | Thank you for your contribution to /r/IWantToLearn. If you think this post breaks our policies, please report it and our staff team will review it as soon as possible. Also, check out our sister sub /r/IWantToTeach and our Discord server! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the mod... | answer_1 |
2q2qoq | [Cali] My car was totaled by an uninsured driver and I spent 5 days in the hospital. If I sue her can I have the hospital bill reverted to her name so that if she doesn't pay it ruins her instead of me? 3 moths ago my car was t-boned on drivers side at an intersection and I was taken to the hospital where I stayed for ... | You mention a number of times that she wasn't insured for that vehicle, but it's unclear if you verified anyone had insurance on that vehicle. Was it registered in her name and just not insured or did it belong to someone else? If it's the latter and that someone else had insurance, then likely they are responsible bec... | *I am a bot whose sole purpose is to improve the timeliness and accuracy of responses in this subreddit.* --- **It appears you forgot to include your location in the title or body of your post.** **Please update the original post to include this information.** --- Report Inaccuracies Here | Author | answer_1 |
y9y46z | What’s stopping a malicious user from putting sudo in there code and running it as sudo (new Linux user) I’m a new Linux user and this has been a burning question for me I really don’t get what’s stopping someone from putting sudo in there code and a running malicious script | A couple of things. There’s a sudo user group call sudoers. To use sudo you have to be a member of that group and call it explicitly and then validate. A script could attempt to call it, but you’d then have to enter your password, which should give you pause…actually that should stop you dead in your tracks. The idea i... | Because it would ask for your password. | answer_1 |
upb31w | The last shop that did my oil change put the filter on incorrectly and it destroyed my engine what can I do? My girlfriend (GF) has a Ford Escape 2015 and the engine just died on her suddenly. We took it to a shop and they said that she needed a completely new engine and the culprit as the last shop that did her oil ch... | Talk to your insurance and see if they can help. Escalate at the oil change place. If a chain, go to corporate. If not, talk to the owner. Take them to small claims court. Don’t need a lawyer, but there is a limit. | I see a layer in your future, and court dates (likely with a magistrate). | answer_1 |
w3l41w | Movies with special effects that weren't just ahead of their time, but were considered damn-near impossible? Are there any movies that had special effects that weren't just innovative or more ambitious than their contemporaries, but were so much better than anything else out there, that people couldn't believe their ey... | **Jaws** (1975) everyone thought they were looney for wanting to make a shark crack a boat in half. Countless special effects technicians said there was no way to do this full size until the guy (I forget his name) who did the giant squid for Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea said "sure it could be done" Well the s... | Terminator 2: Judgement Day The morphing effects may not look that great by todays standards, but I think they were pretty revolutionary back in 1991. Also the split head or torso of the T1000 are still really impressive I think | answer_2 |
58ol0x | What is this controversy surrounding Gary Johnson all about? I know there was a few instances of him not knowing important facts but i don't know the specifics. i also saw a gif where he said "i guess i'm having another apollo moment". I have no idea what any of this means, could someone fill me in? | someone asked him about Aleppo, a city central in the Syrian conflict, and he said he didn't know what Aleppo was. Latter he explained he thought they were still talking about US military matters and thought it was an acronym for something, and of course he knows what aleppo is. Alter someone asked him to name his favo... | In an interview with MSNBC, Gary Johnson was asked what he thought about the situation in Aleppo, which IIRC is one of the largest cities in Syria (please correct me if I'm wrong), but Johnson thought that Aleppo was an acronym and was thoroughly confused about it. Johnson was interviewed again by MSNBC alongside his V... | answer_1 |
xxncn8 | what's going on with all the apparent fall of Cinemassacre? Just now seeing all these videos on YouTube saying there's backlash or plagiarism. https://youtu.be/EmC5Zte5RnM | Answer: r/thecinemassacretruth has been growing over time and (in between making memes) shedding light on some events that have occurred over the last few years with Cinemassacre, one of which being the plagiarism. One of James' writers plagiarized an article while writing last year's Monster Madness, which James later... | Friendly reminder that all **top level** comments must: 1. start with "answer: ", including the space after the colon (or "question: " if you have an on-topic follow up question to ask), 2. attempt to answer the question, and 3. be unbiased Please review Rule 4 and this post before making a top level comment: http://re... | answer_1 |
gdbi1v | Looking for tips with fetch and playing "keep away" We've been trying to train fetch with our 5 month old corgi for a few months now and are looking for some pointers to help guide the process along. There's a couple of different things that we are having issues with, but the main one is that he will run after a toy mo... | Having many of the same problems with my sheepdog. He has a decent toy drive paired with an intense food drive to the point that his kibble can make him overexcited. Does your dog like tug of war? Mine is pretty keen on the game. I am using tug to help teach ‘take it’ and ‘drop it.’ If he takes without being instructed... | Hi fellow corgi momma here- the urge to chase is real! Ive found the "dead toy" method to be really helpful. Our puppy wants to be chased so as soon as she gets close to us with the toy we will take one end and push it to the ground, hold it still, and make it as boring as possible until she releases (saying drop it as... | answer_2 |
w27kbk | how do you trim your pups nails without traumatizing them… title is an exaggeration but my pup hates getting her nails trimmed. 5 month old pit lab, is usually good, but my god she hates it. she’ll bite and chew on your hand and move her paw so much that we’ll accidentally hurt her. we’ve tried to do it when she’s slee... | My pup was the same way until recently, when I discovered the magic of silicone lick mats. I stick yogurt on one side, applesauce on the other, freeze it and stick it to the ground. You can also use pumpkin puree or peanut butter He used to move his paws and jerk them away, or bite my hands when I tried to clip but wit... | dremel all the way!!! he didn’t love it at first, so i just did small interactions to start him off. now he literally falls asleep in my arms getting his nails done, like a spa day 😂 | answer_1 |
rk10gw | Can you describe how is the feeling of running a marathon compared to a half-marathon? So, I want to say that I used to run a half-marathon every Saturday and what I feel after two hours and a good cold shower is a mix of laughing and crying, cold good chills, no hungry at all, a blessed mood, etc. Feels like nothing e... | Miles 0 to 12: a half marathon of effort Miles 12 to 20: another half marathon of effort Miles 20 to 26.2: a third half marathon of effort But, to me the hardest thing about marathons is the weekly training miles. For me, I can be reasonably fit for a half marathon with about 20 mile weeks: a 4 mile tempo run, a 6 mile... | How do you feel about stairs? I never have to walk backwards down stairs after a half. Every single marathon walking up each step is a monumental achievement for 2 days. The day after, I generally have to go downstairs backwards. There is a transcendent level of pain and tiredness the last 6 miles of a full. Don’t beli... | answer_1 |
x4dkie | Is an emotional story possible in a short story? I read an article explaining that for a good short story it can’t be super structure based and emotional as it’s too small amount of time to develop characters and a concise story. Now I disagree I think it’s super possible to create a successful emotional short story. T... | Find me a good short story that isn’t emotional? Legend has it that someone bet Ernest Hemingway he couldn’t write a compelling short story in 6 words. He wrote: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. | Watch pretty much any episode of Bluey, lol | answer_2 |
z0y8n6 | How important are B,C,D story arcs in horror? I'm working on a script for college and I have a great idea but it's mainly just an A story arc of the protagonist. I can squeeze in some unnecessary arcs if need be but unless I really think about them I doubt they'll add much to the story other than run time/word count. I... | IMHO B/C/etc. story arcs should only exist as a way to solidify the overall theme or to progress the main story in a clever fashion. Take A Quiet Place - A pretty bare-bones story of post-apocalyptic survival amidst creatures who hunt by sound. The B plot in this film is Lee (Krasinski) trying to figure out better ways... | If a story works, a story works. | answer_1 |
yoqa46 | How do I open a grocery store co-op in a food desert? I want to open a few health store co-ops in underrepresented neighborhoods. I want black/ brown communities to have access to affordable, fresh, locally grown produce. I would love to start community gardens that’s attached to the grocery store co-ops. I want to pro... | Powerball. If you win you can almost afford all of that. You'll need a small army to assist you. | Any of your ideas will be very hard. But step one for all of them will be finding the location. Food independence requires a lot of land, if you wqnt home grown to generate a significant portion of calories, then you can do it in high population density. Your not growing food in the city's except as a fun hobby to get ... | answer_1 |
uulhbj | Does anyone else have trouble with motivation during a long trip? So this is my first solo trip and im going to be traveling for a total of 3 months. Im a month and a half in already and though I’m super happy to be here I’ve gotten really tired. I’m finding it hard to motivate myself to go out and try to see anything ... | Definitely normal. I take a break ever 2-4 DAYS, sleep in a day, write, read, even watch TV. I need to regroup and get my energy on point again. No pressure ever on anything I feel like doing. If my mind needs it I'll give it a break, if my body aches I won't push it. Love yourself and listen to your mind and body it i... | Yeah gotta decompress, 3 months is a long time to be go go go. Take some mellow days to ramp up for fun stuff | answer_1 |
lw9o8t | How do you get enough sleep when staying in hostels? Hi everyone, I just want to know if you try and stick to a sleep routine when you’re travelling or do you just wake up naturally? Recently I’ve got into a sleep routine where I go bed and wake up at the same time and I do feel like it’s helped but I’m just wondering ... | I make sure I walk over 20k steps a day when I'm exploring a new city prior to sleeping at the local hostels. By the end of the day you're too tired to care & you'll just pass out on your assigned bed | Seroquel | answer_1 |
n04s7y | Why is Home Depot so highly valued? I was looking at the the list of the public companies with the highest market caps, and was really surprised to see that Home Depot is the 22nd most valuable company in the world right now. It's bigger than Target, Goldman Sachs, BP, and HP combined at a value of over 1/3 of a trilli... | Hard to sell lumber, wood, bricks, bags of concrete, etc. online which means even companies like Amazon which is online based would find hard to come in and compete. Some things people just need to visit bricks & mortar shop not the same virtually. | I don’t know how many times I have left Home Depot, gotten in my car and drove away, then realized I forgot to get something else. I can’t be the only one. They have good stock on hand in store that’s current on their website/app per location, covers everything from garden to appliances, and has been supplying small co... | answer_1 |
5ced9n | A book that starts as Fallout 4: with the main character witnessing a nuclear explosion Title pretty much self explanatory. I'm curious mostly as to how the author portrays the feeling of dread at witnessing such an event or something similar, line an asteroid explosion. I'm not looking for a genre in particular; it ca... | Another great book that doesn't quite meet your standards is A Canticle for Leibowitz. Revolves around a religious order which tries to preserve scientific knowledge after a nuclear war led society to purge most knowledge. The book jumps through thousands of years as society rebuilds and is excellent. | Harry Turtlefove's 'Hot War' alternate history series has this galore. Departs from our history in that WW3 is touched off by the Korean War gone nuclear in 1950. Lots of characters witness lots of atoms being split :) | answer_2 |
zwfis6 | Series where the protagonist is the bad guy Is there any book series where the protagonist is the bad guy but we don’t realize it until late in the series/several books in? That we we root for the protagonist until we slowly realize they aren’t as noble as we thought? | If you’re okay with manga, you might like {{attack on Titan vol 1}} If not maybe {{ender’s game}} | Not a series, but 6000 pages long. The webnovel Worm is pretty much that, but it's not that much of a late twist that the protagonist is a villain. | answer_1 |
mw429s | Explain to me why I'm losing my job OK, not actually losing my job but struggling to understand how I might. I see a lot of doom and gloom posts about how the position of sysadmin is dying. How "if you can't IaC you're already dead", "MPSs will do it all" etc etc. So I'm sat here, admittedly in an SMB thinking that I c... | As the saying goes... tech will not replace sysadmins. Sysadmins who adapt to new tech will replace sysadmins who don’t. Being an SMB, we view sysadmin as a critical part of our ops now and in the future. Relax, but don’t get complacent. | Tablets replaced desktops and laptops 10 years ago too, you know. But, more seriously, in many cases, that "replaced by a cheaper and faster responding alternative." isn't what's expected. It's *just* cheaper, sometimes cheaper and more comprehensive. At the end of the day, one man shops are *often* better served by ha... | answer_1 |
hrlee6 | Can I lay my pc on its side with the motherboard upside down for a while? Hi, everyone. I've been reading some posts if its alright to put a pc case on its side, and what I've gathered is that its alright to do so as long as the motherboard isn't upside down. However, I wanna flip it one way where the motherboard would... | It shouldve be a problem unless you have a heavy cooler that'll break off. Just hold the cooler and motherboard together | I mean, all the electricity is obviously gonna leak out, but otherwise... | answer_2 |
8hqmbj | My gpu fan is so fast that the whole pc will soon fly away pls help. When i started my pc today the GPU fan was going insane. it sounds like a hellicopter is in my room at all time now. Is there a way to turn it down? I have tried different softwares but none seem to work. | I would go into the Bios and check what temp your CPU is on. Perhaps your fan is trying to compensate for heat? | Huh well figure out what the temp is if it’s still low then it might of manually set itself to high speed I had a similar issue with my cpu fan. | answer_2 |
wje8ur | TV show that could be watched from last to first episode Hi, I really like Christopher Nolan's movie "Memento". In this movie, protagonist suffers from short term memory loss. Unique thing about this film is that it's timeline is reversed (at the beginning we see how the whole story ends and then we progressively learn... | no clue. maybe try it with Stranger things or Breaking Bad? if you want that backwards/non-linear story telling and you are open to video games, Check out To the Moon and Return of the Obra Dinn | Maybe How to Get Away With Murder? | answer_2 |
5z4wvy | What are the exotic places to visit in Oceania apart from Australia and New Zealand I have been searching different places to visit in Oceania if possible considering there are 25 countries present within that region (although only 13 have population above 100k - 2013 census) but all I get info is about Solomon Islands... | I've only been to Fiji and I would definitely recommend. all these other small islands mentioned are beautiful too. Not really exotic but Tasmania (part of Aus) was one of my favourite places ever - https://youtu.be/3vmHaN-UWeg | I've been to all the independent nations in South Pacific (but not all the territories). Tokelau and Pitcairn take some effort to get to. Most of the rest you can fly to at least once a week. Christmas Island in Kiribati has a once-a-week flight as a stop between Fiji and Honolulu. Palau was amazing, Tuvalu was also be... | answer_2 |
v0jin2 | How much of a difference does the color of UPF clothing matter? How much of a difference does the color of UPF clothing matter? Dark colors are supposed to be better at preventing the sun from reaching your skin than light colors. Let's say there are two identical UPF 50+ shirts; one is white or light grey and the othe... | Some manufacturers rate the same product spf 50 or 30 depending on the color. I just saw this. Can try to figure out who it was. Darker colors were higher spf. | With respect to heat, there are three forms of heat conduction: conduction, convection & radiation. The hard part about radiation is that it is highly dependent on emmisivity, and that determineds how much energy is absorbed (with 1 being a perfect black body). But it is tricky as snow is almost a black body with an em... | answer_1 |
u6mbnf | Ultralight for non-thruhikers How do you think ultralight works best for the majority of us who will never thru-hike a major trail? So often discussion around light/ultralight is done from a thru-hiker perspective, or trying to put ourselves in the place of thru-hikers. But there is much more to dropping pack weight th... | For me ultralight is important because I’m very petite so as a percentage of my total body weight a regular pack weight is too much. | I did ultralight for years and am not a thru hiker. They are different pursuits. I don't understand what motivates a thru hiker. All of my trips were better bc of ul except when I compromised on my sleep system too much. I mostly did 7-9 day trips and one 15d trip; none with stops in town. | answer_1 |
vwenp2 | What to do with grains? I'm sure I'm not the only one here who'll often cook just a pot full of some grain - oats, barley, buckwheat, whatever. So, I'm wondering, what do you guys do with these grains to season them and make them tastier than just a bunch of plain grains? I'm in particular interesting in relatively sim... | I usually use barley in mixed soups. | Broth concentrate, dried fruit and nuts - apricot and almonds are my current favorites, but dates, roasted red peppers, and pistachio are good too. Look at Hello Fresh or Green Chef menus. They have a lot of ideas. | answer_1 |
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