I have a couple of Python scripts I want to launch at bootup. One is located at the path below. /home/my-sickbeard-install/SickBeard.py Since Cron has never ever worked for me and nobody on about 5 forums knows how to fix my Cron problem even though it's a pretty much clean install of the OS, I need another method of launching these scripts on bootup. Can someone suggest to me another way I can launch them please? Note: This is actually for something I'm trying to do a Debian machine. Not sure if it makes any difference.
How can I run scripts automatically when Ubuntu starts up so I don't have to run them manually after startup?
How to find effects of magical items? Similar to this , but specific to D&amp;D 5e, how are players meant to find out the effects of items/potions/scrolls/weapons/armor?  Say, they find a potion in some chemist's chest. It is red and smells nice. Should they perform an investigation/perception check? Or an arcana/nature check? If I tell the players specifically to do an Arcana check, then I am already hinting at the fact that this potion will have some magical effect. It could just be a natural elixir concocted by Druids to help your health regen.  Same goes for weapons. They find the legendary bow of X, which has a +3 to hit and a 10% chance of striking other enemies near the target. I describe the bow as unique, glowing, made from dragon scales and hovering on air. Would they investigate their properties? Or just I just let them fire at a wall until something happens?   Our playstyle so far has been to use active checks for a quick understanding of the item (drink a little bit of Potion as an Investigation check to find whether it heals or not, sensing magical properties of the bow with Arcana checks). When time is available, and experimentation is necessary, allow the PCs to do some creative testing and, based on their ideas, "After Y time, you realize that the bow sometimes hits several points of the wall instead of just your target".  According to the RAW, is there a specific way of checking the stats/effects of such items? How did Bill and Percy get 12 OWLs? In Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione took 12 subjects, and needed a Time-Turner to do so. However, it is mentioned in the series that both Bill and Percy Weasley got 12 OWLs, so would have taken 12 subjects as well, so both would have needed Time-Turners for three years to do this. Doesn't this seem a little unusual, given how strict the Ministry is over the use of Time-Turners,  that they would give them to several Hogwarts students? "An operator is hermitian". Implications? Alastair Rae states that there are 4 postulates of Quantum Mechanics in his text on the subject matter.  The first part of his second postulate can be stated as:      Every dynamical variable may be represented by a Hermitian operator whose eigenvalues represent the result of carrying out a measurement of the value of the dynamical variable...   My question is: just how much can we deduce from saying that the some of the operators involved in Quantum Mechanics are Hermitian?  When I use the word Hermitian, I am referring to the property that $A=A^+$ where $A$ is an operator and $A^+$ is the adjoint of $A$.  Does an operator being Hermitian automatically imply that there will exist eigenfunctions and eigenvalues corresponding to this operator?  Does being Hermitian imply that, should there exist eigenfunctions corresponding to this operator, they will form a complete and orthonormal set?  That any wavefunction can be expanded in terms of these eigenfunction?  Just how much is hidden in the word "Hermitian"? Put two figures side by side There are already several threads that deal with this: they suggest having one figure and putting putting minipages inside, or using the subcaption package and having subfigure environments. However, I've tried both of these approaches and I'm still going wrong:  \begin{figure}[h]  \begin{minipage}[b]{0.2\linewidth}  \begin{tikzpicture}[sibling distance=0pt] \Tree [.TP         [.DP \edge[roof]; {a 'we'} ]         [.T$'$             [.T \node(li){li 'eat$_i$'}; ]             [.VP                 [.Spec t ]                 [.V$'$                      [.DP \edge[roof]; {saka 'rice'} ]                     [.V \node(t){t$_i$}; ] ] ] ] ] \draw [-&gt;] (t) .. controls +(south:3) and +(south:3) .. (li); \end{tikzpicture}  \end{minipage}\hfill  \begin{minipage}[b]{0.2\linewidth}  \begin{tikzpicture}[sibling distance=0pt] \Tree [.TP         [.DP \edge[roof]; {a 'we'} ]         [.T$'$             [.T \node(li){la 'have'}; ]             [.VP                 [.Spec t ]                 [.V$'$                      [.DP \edge[roof]; {saka 'rice'} ]                     [.V \node(t){li 'eaten'}; ] ] ] ] ] \draw [red,-&gt;] (t) .. controls +(south:3) and +(south:3) .. (li); \end{tikzpicture}  \end{minipage}  \end{figure} I simply can't figure out what the capacity of this circuit is.  I can do the math myself, I just need a hint how to create an equivalent circuit where it is obvious what is parallel and what is in series... My phone was just stolen an hour or so ago. Are there any options for tracking? I realize this is a long shot, but my phone was lost or stolen a few hours ago.  At the time it was stolen, I didn't have any specific applications installed to track it or wipe the data. So... my bad. I'm hoping the fact that I have a pattern lock will at least prevent anyone from accessing my data.  My question is, do I have any options for tracking or data wipe after the fact? (I'm more interested in tracking.)  Note: I have read similar questions, but unless I'm mistaken, they all address the question in terms of preparation before losing the phone. I'm asking about fallback options after losing the phone. Linear mixed effect model interpretation with log transformed dependent variable I have a dataset in which the response variable is non normal, but on log transforming, it follows the normal distribution. I constructed a mixed effect model using lme4::lmer() as below (multiple measurements within each region), where A is a continuous variable and there are 7 regions  model&lt;-lmer(log(response)~A + (1|Region), data, REML=FALSE)   My output is   Linear mixed model fit by maximum likelihood . t-tests use Satterthwaite's method ['lmerModLmerTest'] Formula: logresponse ~ A + (1 | Region) Data: df[, -c(6)]   AIC      BIC   logLik deviance df.resid  151.8    159.8    -71.9    143.8       51   Scaled residuals:   Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max  -2.24856 -0.63631  0.02206  0.59999  1.94895   Random effects: Groups   Name        Variance Std.Dev. Region   (Intercept) 0.8611   0.9280   Residual             0.5814   0.7625   Number of obs: 55, groups:  Region, 7  Fixed effects:               Estimate Std. Error        df t value Pr(&gt;|t|)   (Intercept) -1.112047   0.747373 19.651457  -1.488   0.1526    A           0.008585   0.004250 29.157266   2.020   0.0526 .  Correlation of Fixed Effects: (Intr) A -0.871   1) Would I infer that for A effects the response variable and the response increases by exp(0.008585) +/- exp(0.004250) (std error)? Would that be the right interpretation?  2) exp(Intercept) is not equal to the mean(log response). They are close but not equal. Why are they not equal and should I be concerned?   I know that this is a hard question to answer without knowing the dataset. So please suggest how I can improve the question. ffmpeg - how to apply filters without losing quality Is there a word for someone with the same name? If a person shares my name, in Dutch there is the word &quot;naamgenoot&quot;, meaning roughly 'member of the same name'.  John A: Hi, my name is &quot;John&quot;  John B: O, then we're insert solution word here!  Similarly,  'classmate' is 'klasgenoot' in Dutch 'roommate' is 'kamergenoot' in Dutch  I'm pretty sure I cannot call someone with the same name as mine a 'namemate' :)  Edit Because sceptics appear to be frustrated mightily by an apparent lack of research, there was  in chat, with no satisfactory conclusion. /Merriam Webster namesake appears to be linked to intentional name correspondance (being named after someone). There may be a US/UK English divide there.  &quot;I was named after my grandfather. I am his namesake.&quot; -   Also, the introduction seems to hint at much broader meaning:  &quot;Namesake is a term used to characterize a person, place, thing, quality, action, state, or idea that has the same, or a similar, name to another&quot;   Do you know of a better word/phrase to describe this succinctly? Proofs with limit superior and limit inferior: $\liminf a_n \leq \limsup a_n$ I am stuck on proofs with subsequences. I do not really have a strategy or starting point with subsequences.   NOTE: subsequential limits are limits of subsequences  Prove: $a_n$ is bounded $\implies \liminf a_n \leq \limsup a_n$   Proof:  Let $a_n$ be a bounded sequence. That is, $\forall_n(a_n \leq A)$.  If $a_n$ converges then $\liminf a_n = \lim a_n = \limsup a_n$ and we are done.  Otherwise $a_n$ has a set of subsequential limits we need to show $\liminf a_n \leq \limsup a_n$:  This is where I am stuck... I wanted to use my android phone as a proxy server, meaning that I wanted to be able to use the IP on the phone as a proxy, so all request and response are received on the phone and forwarded back to the original requestor. How do I do this? How find this limit $\lim\limits_{x\to 0^{+}}\frac{\sin{(\tan{x})}-\tan{(\sin{x})}}{x^7}$ When is a gerund supposed to be preceded by a possessive adjective/determiner? I assume that the following sentences are grammatically correct:   He resents your being more popular than he is. Most of the members paid their dues without my asking them. They objected to the youngest girl's being given the command position. What do you think about his buying such an expensive car? We were all sorry about Jane's losing her parents like that.   I'm still getting used to this possessive gerund structure. It sounded so weird to me at first. Is the structure used in both formal and informal contexts? Are there any alternative structures that result in the same meaning and are more frequently used? (Examples taken from ) How do I check OS with a preprocessor directive? Difference between standard error and standard deviation I'm struggling to understand the difference between the standard error and the standard deviation. How are they different and why do you need to measure the standard error? Non-Metrizable Topological Spaces How can I test for a player wearing specific armor? How can I test for a player that is wearing an iron helmet named "test1" and an iron chestplate named "test2" in Minecraft Version 1.12? What is a virtual terminal for? Space war, humans recreated, grown from plants with an alien female supervisor This was a small hardback book I read in the UK in the late eighties. No memory of the cover.  Some kind of space war and a long lived alien female escapes the conflict in her starship, her side had lost.  An evil enemy that she needs to trap so she gets (I think) human  DNA from space dust and sets up on a habitable planet. The story then gets like episodic and looks at the world every couple of generations while she hides out there.  Plants bud on the world and people pop out from big seedpods, the population listens out for babies crying and rescue them.  There are legends of the 'Earth mother’ who secretly guides them to become high tech.   In reality she is creating attractive food bait for the bad aliens.  I think an early human and her are attracted to each other and she (maybe) gives him long life or (maybe) uses reincarnation to keep seeing him.  Edit:- the name 'Rimstalker' has just now popped up in my brain! When is a cellular automaton "bidirectional"? From .   "A (bi-directional, deterministic) cellular automaton is a triplet $A = (S;N;\delta)$, where $S$ is an non-empty state set, $N$ is the neighborhood system, and $\delta$ is the local transition function (rule). This function deﬁnes the rule of calculating the cell’s state at $t +1$ time step, given the states of the neighborhood cells at previous time step $t$"  I haven't found other "bidirectional" CA via Google, so I wonder what does the term say about this automaton's properties. Does it mean that the state $t+1$ can be used to find out the state t?