I'd really like it if someone might be able to help me. I need an answer so that I can make a picture for another post.
I can't get the coordinates on my computer because it keeps changing the brightness.  I have a windows 8 Samsung, and I'm playing Minecraft version 1.6.4.
What is the best choice for .NET inter-process communication? Should I use Named Pipes, or .NET Remoting to communicate with a running process on my machine? Are configurations written and read directly to/from .yaml files or still to the database? Background  Drupal 7 and previous versions have attracted criticism for Drupal web site admin configuration being stored in the MySQL database, the criticism being that being in a database means that it cannot be directly managed in git together with the PHP code based development for a Drupal site (custom modules, themes etc.).   Secondly with configuration being in the database along with content, transporting configuration between development, test, staging and live servers as part of development activity is complicated, though Features module (and related) can help.  Reading through:   ...I'm getting the impression that, in Drupal 8, the database is still used to store the config, when for example a site builder creates a new content type, rather than this being written to a .yaml file which is used directly.  So actually it seems that the role of the yaml file(s) is a much more purer (than Features) vehicle for the configuration. Whereas with Features it was PHP code which was harder to read what the configuration was, including if doing diffs between commits where config had been updated resulting in a new version of the Features-based config export. By that I mean not that PHP itself is hard to read, as I'm familiar enough with it, having written custom modules, hooks, themes. What I mean is that to express a configuration in PHP is perhaps not the most legible way to do it. So I can see the rationale of using yaml. The difference is that yaml will be read by a parser to apply a config. The complexity of applying the config is in the parser, which most folks need not concern themselves with most of the time, so the yaml can more cleanly describe the config. whereas in Features, there is no parser / yaml (or other script) separation. The descripton of the config and the means to apply it are necessarily in the same place as PHP code which is executed directly, so it's bound to be a bit harder to read the config, particularly if doing git commit diffs.  So there's the rationale for yaml, a Declarative Programming approach to storing configuration management in Git, contrasted with Features which is an Imperative Programming approach. And next what I need to know is this the case that Drupal 8 does still store config in the database does still and yaml files are the means for transporting config (replacing what Features did in D7 and before)?  (By the way I am a big fan of Drupal and spend most of my time at work, working with it for the sites that my organisation produces and maintained and am also involved in the community. So this question is not a stealth campaign against Drupal in favour of other platforms. It is a genuine question to try to dispel the apparent mystique around Drupal 8 and the new config management system)  Update @Berdir's answer (accepted) is a great definitive summary as to the state of Drupal 8 regarding configuration management.  I recently discovered that using yaml for config in Drupal 8 is a concept that has been developed for Drupal 7 with the  module, also read a  on it which includes comparing features.   Update   Is a definitive answer about making config active from DB storage, which corroborates with @Berdir's answer. DRAM Frequency showing 800 instead of 1600 I am running a Core i7 CPU originally at 3Ghz overclocked to 4Ghz using a multiplier of x20 and a Bus Speed of 200 Mhz  My memory is 1600 Mhz OCZ.  I installed CPU-Z to see what is going on - but it shows me (under the "Memory" Tab):  DRAM Frequency 800 Mhz  Channel Triple - NB Frequency 3800.2 Mhz  So what is the actual frequency its running on then? I am slightly confused. Does not the mass of those living on the Earth add on to the mass of the Earth or is it too negligible to be cared for? : Earth weighs about 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds (or   5,974,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms). Since Earth is too big   to be placed on a scale, scientists use mathematics and the laws of   gravity to figure out Earth's weight.   So, this seems to be a constant. But I guess it doesn't consider the things that are on the earth, the trees, buildings, people, animals, water etc...  So, are all the above mentioned things' mass is too small or negligible to be left off? How to enable hibernation? In Ubuntu 12.04 and newer, . How can I enable this back? I have noticed that the confidence interval for predicted values in an linear regression tends to be narrow around the mean of the predictor and fat around the minimum and maximum values of the predictor. This can be seen in plots of these 4 linear regressions:    I initially thought this was because most values of the predictors were concentrated around the mean of the predictor. However, I then noticed that the narrow middle of the confidence interval would occur even if many values of were concentrated around the extremes of the predictor, as in the bottom left linear regression, which lots of values of the predictor are concentrated around the minimum of the predictor.  is anyone able to explain why confidence intervals for the predicted values in an linear regression tend to be narrow in the middle and fat at the extremes? Read Value from URL in PHP Removing leading zeroes from a field in a SQL statement I am working on a SQL query that reads from a SQLServer database to produce an extract file. One of the  requirements to remove the leading zeroes from a particular field, which is a simple VARCHAR(10) field. So, for example, if the field contains '00001A', the SELECT statement needs to return the data as '1A'.  Is there a way in SQL to easily remove the leading zeroes in this way? I know there is an RTRIM function, but this seems only to remove spaces. If a question is in all-uppercase or all-lowercase, our quality filters should automatically reject it Proposal If a question on an English-language Stack Exchange site does not contain at least one uppercase and one lowercase letter, our quality filter should reject it. (We can make exceptions for sites which don't use a mixed-case alphabet, such as .) Justification The quality filter currently rejects neither all-uppercase nor all-lowercase posts. I've checked. The best Stack Exchange users use mixed case. If an asker is too lazy to use their Shift key, their question tends not to be of very good quality. Don't take my word for it. You can see proof. Sam Saffron helped me write  which lets you see with your very own eyes that what I am saying is true. Single-case askers tend to ask poor-quality questions such as:      In addition, posts which use only uppercase or only lowercase — even if they aren't riddled with typos or grammatical errors — tend to be hard to read. Capitalization aids readability. Why is this proposal not a duplicate? This proposal is not a duplicate of the older proposal . This is because it also deals with all-lowercase questions. All-lowercase questions are 50 times more common than all-caps questions.  Stack Overflow gets only about 100 all-uppercase questions per year; see .  Yet it gets about 5,000 all-lowercase questions per year; see . (These statistics are for Stack Overflow only; the rest of our network wasn't considered.) I suspect that the older proposal was declined for two reasons:  All-uppercase questions are rare.  Therefore, the effort required to block all-uppercase questions is too much.   This proposal is better. For just a bit more effort, the Stack Exchange developers can get a much richer reward. Conclusion What do you think of my proposal? Agree? Disagree? Thoughts? PS: This idea is modified and adapted from  by Stack Exchange user Gilles. My dear sir Gilles, I thank you. Note There's even a  which automatically detects questions with all-caps titles and alerts interested users and moderators. I have to do proof of $(a+b)^n$ and $(a+b)^{n+1}$ with mathematical induction.  I finished the first one $(a+b)^n = a^n + na^{n-1}b+\dots+b^n$.  I however have trouble with the second one, I don't know what to start exactly. Any help/hints? Uses of the definite article (the) in generic noun phrases I know in TNG that all computer interfaces are now touch-screen, and that got me thinking: when was the first reference to touch-screen computer interfaces in Sci-Fi made? I got to read Volume I of Feynmann's lectures. It said that at absolute zero, molecular motion doesn't cease at all, because if that happens, we will be able to make precise determination of position and momentum of the atom. We do know that Heisenberg uncertainty principle holds for microscopic particles in motion. But what then is wrong to consider that all molecular motion ceases at absolute zero? In other words, does the uncertainty principle not hold when there is no motion?  Need some help! Prove: If $A$ is a finite set and $B$ is an infinite set, then $B \setminus A$ is an infinite set.   I've tried proving the contrapositive, that if $B \setminus A$ is a finite set then $A$ is infinite or $B$ is finite, but I don't think this is the way to go. R: loading a table with number as the column heading all were wrongly added a X, how to solve it? I generally defrost meat on the kitchen counter. A friend of mine suggested that this was dangerous and suggested that I defrost meat in the refrigerator. I am no biologist but it seems to me that as long as the meat doesn't get warm defrosting it on the counter should be safe.  Generally, I remove the frozen items from the freezer and place them on a plate on the counter in the packaging they were frozen in. When they are mostly / completely thawed I place the meat in the refrigerator.  Am I wrong and should I be defrosting in the refrigerator? We all know that in an idealised world all objects accelerate at the same rate when dropped regardless of their mass.  We also know that in reality (or more accurately, in air) a lead feather falls much faster than a duck's feather with exactly the same dimensions/structure etc.  A loose explanation is that the increased mass of the lead feather somehow defeats the air resistance more effectively than the duck's feather.  Is there a more formal mathematical explanation for why one falls faster than the other? Don't count non-printing characters, HTML comments or other content not displayed toward minimum character requirements Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in Vim If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M. How do I delete these characters all at once? How to Create Bootable Windows 10 image in Debian? Pseudocode but originally developed for Windows 7 iso file but applied for Windows 8 in the thread  but it does not work with Windows 10 iso  # https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/customizing-a-windows-7-install-iso/ # https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/312477/16920 $ dd if=../en_windows_10_x64_dvd.iso \     of=boot.img bs=2048 count=8 skip=734  $ mkisofs -o ../new-win.iso -b boot.img -no-emul-boot -c BOOT.CAT \     -iso-level 2 -udf \     -J -l -D -N -joliet-long -relaxed-filenames .   Unsuccessful output when run on Windows 10 image  dd if=/home/masi/Downloads/en_windows_10_multiple_editions_version_1511_x64_dvd.iso of=/home/masi/Downloads/boot.img bs=2048 count=8 skip=734 8+0 records in 8+0 records out 16384 bytes (16 kB) copied, 0.000392973 s, 41.7 MB/s    Some of the following fields have changed for the iso file used in dd   bs=2048 count=8  skip=734   How can you study which field values you can use for Windows 10 iso?  OS: Debian 8.5 64 bit Hardware: Asus Zenbook UX303UA Linux kernel: 4.6 of backports Related threads: ,  Motivation: I need Windows 10 to use Canon P-150 duplex scanner, but when I started my Windows, I got Error 0xC0000428 because Windows update has again broken things there and I use Windows otherwise so rarely; and I have no spare Windows left to make bootable media