When in casual conversation, being full accurate or detailed on what you mean isn't always necessary. For example, if I were to tell someone I want to buy a certain &quot;waterproof&quot; speaker and they correct me by saying it is water resistant, although it wasn't necessary. In the context of that conversation, they understand what I mean and it isn't needed to make clarification.
Is there a higher register word that means to criticize something highly specific and inconsequential? Any synonym I can think of seems a little too vernacular, e.g. "to split hairs", "to nitpick". What's a more professional/academic way of saying this? I'd prefer a single word if one exists.
Finding $E(|X_1|\ |\max |X_i| )$ Suppose $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ are a random sample of $U(-\theta,\theta)$ with $\theta&gt;0$. How can find $$ E\left(|X_1|\ \big|\max |X_i| \right) $$ that $1\leq i\leq n$? Banner ads should not be shown on the right-hand ad slot how to add xsl attribute How can I make a bash script executable by double clicking just like .exe files in Windows? I tried , but there are two consequences:   the terminal twinkles, disappears, and nothing is done. you must specify to run in terminal in order to work.   I have a script that installs tomcat on an offline PC, including all dependencies of tomcat in the script. I need to make the script work on double clicking like windows since most who use the script will not be familiar with Ubuntu.  Forget the above explanation. I want to make a script that can be run by double-clicking on it, without using the terminal. Anybody knows how? How to remove all files in a directory except hidden ones? How does water evaporate if it doesn't boil? When the sun is out after a rain, I can see what appears to be steam rising off a wooden bridge nearby. I'm pretty sure this is water turning into a gas.  However, I thought water had to reach 100 degrees C to be able to turn into a gas.  Is there an edge case, for small amounts of water perhaps, that allows it to evaporate? I want to stop having to use sudo everytime I work in /var/www. How can I do that? I simply want to put all of my sites into this directory and work with them without too much pain. Subsetting a 2D numpy array How can I remove Ubuntu from my system and install the Windows bootloader? Transpose Ranges repeated by row I would like to convert several range of columns into rows, and keeping the association to the original col/row source  Sample source sheet  --------------------------------------------------- | Data 1 | 1/1/2018 | 1/2/2018 | 1/3/2018 | etc...365 days | --------------------------------------------------- | name 1  |    25    |   30     |    5     | etc...|  --------------------------------------------------- | name 2  |    2     |          |    4     | etc...| --------------------------------------------------- | etc ... 100 rows   Expected Results  --------------------------------------------------- | Data 1 |   Date      |  Value   |  --------------------------------------------------- | name 1  |  1/1/2018   |   25     |    --------------------------------------------------- | name 1  |  1/2/2018   |   30     |    --------------------------------------------------- | name 1  |  1/3/2018   |   5      |    --------------------------------------------------- | name 1  |  etc.. 365 days --------------------------------------------------- | name 2  |  1/1/2018   |   2      |    --------------------------------------------------- | name 2  |  1/2/2018   |          |    --------------------------------------------------- | name 2  |  1/3/2018   |   4      |    --------------------------------------------------- | name 2  |  etc.. 365 days --------------------------------------------------- | etc ... for each change of name pull all the col dates/values   Current results  --------------------------------------------------- | Data 1 |   Date      |  Value   |  --------------------------------------------------- | name 1  |  1/1/2018   |   25     |    --------------------------------------------------- |         |  1/2/2018   |   30     |    --------------------------------------------------- |         |  1/3/2018   |   5      |    --------------------------------------------------- |         |  etc.. 365 days                      I have to copy down to bring in "name 1" for each date  --------------------------------------------------- | name 2  |  1/1/2018   |   2      |             now update the formula to bring in the second item for the sequence of dates --------------------------------------------------- |         |  1/2/2018   |          |    --------------------------------------------------- |         |  1/3/2018   |   4      |    --------------------------------------------------- |         |  etc.. 365 days --------------------------------------------------- | etc ...     =Sheet1!A:A I can bring in the name from the source list, but I have to copy it down for the number of dates.  How can I have it match the number of dates?  and be dynamic to update as dates/values are added Edit: trying to use split and rept to count the number of times to repeat, then transpose.. =transpose(rept(split(arrayformula(concatenate(Sheet1!A:A&amp;"1")),"1",True, True),COUNTA(Sheet1!I1:ZZ1)))  =TRANSPOSE(Sheet1!$C$1:$Z$1) I can use transpose to get the dates/values, but it's fixed range.  How can I make it dynamic to import dates as they are added? Counting lines, words, characters and top ten words? How to convert an instance of std::string to lower case Cartoon with a young unicorn and a demon In the late 80s or early 90s I remember watching an animated series that followed a young unicorn and a demon.   In one episode the unicorn gave the demon his horn, and the unicorn almost died.   In another episode there was a man who was able to turn people into human shaped building blocks and built a huge tower from them.   Those are the two scenes I remember with any clarity.   Does anyone have any idea? In a certain case, the user will be asked to confirm if he/she wishes to leave the page, due to editing a post, even when he/she has stopped editing.  To reproduce:   Start editing a post (I've only experienced this with a question) Another user finishes editing the post before you and the message "This post has been edited" appears Clicking on the message bar will take you out of editing mode and will show you the updated post from the other user's edits Trying to navigate away from the page will then ask for your confirmation Run a command without making me wait On the CLI, sometimes a command I type takes a while to complete, and sometimes I know when that's about to happen. I'm a bit confused on "backgrounding" and such in Linux.  What is the most common (or user-friendly way) of telling the CLI that I don't want to wait, please give me back my prompt immediately. And if it could give me a progress bar or just busy-spinner, that would be great! Converting a DC motor to a generator Can ANY DC motor become a generator if torque is applied to the shaft? example:   And by any, I mean the really cheap ones too.  Or is there a specific type of motor (of which I do not know the name) that can work in both directions (battery to power the shaft OR torque-on-shaft to create a voltage difference between the terminals). Why is there an "electric" potential drop across the resistor? An electric potential difference is created when two charges are separated. In a capacitor, there is a clear accumulation of opposite charges on the two separated plates, therefore work has to be done in moving an unit charge from one plate to another, against the electric field.   But, , a potential difference is created in a resistor due to the heat produced by the collision and increased lattice vibrations. So there is an energy loss across the resistor, yes, but how does this energy loss due to heat create an electric potential difference. In other words, do electrons accumulate on one or both sides of the resistor? If not, why should we do electric work in moving from one end of the resistor to another. If the difference in energy is not due to electric work, then that's not electric potential, is it? Regular expression: match start or whitespace Can a regular expression match whitespace or the start of a string?  I'm trying to replace currency the abbreviation GBP with a £ symbol. I could just match anything starting GBP, but I'd like to be a bit more conservative, and look for certain delimiters around it.  &gt;&gt;&gt; import re &gt;&gt;&gt; text = u'GBP 5 Off when you spend GBP75.00'  &gt;&gt;&gt; re.sub(ur'GBP([\W\d])', ur'£\g&lt;1&gt;', text) # matches GBP with any prefix u'\xa3 5 Off when you spend \xa375.00'  &gt;&gt;&gt; re.sub(ur'^GBP([\W\d])', ur'£\g&lt;1&gt;', text) # matches at start only u'\xa3 5 Off when you spend GBP75.00'  &gt;&gt;&gt; re.sub(ur'(\W)GBP([\W\d])', ur'\g&lt;1&gt;£\g&lt;2&gt;', text) # matches whitespace prefix only u'GBP 5 Off when you spend \xa375.00'   Can I do both of the latter examples at the same time? How to set spawnpoint? Best way to reverse a string I've just had to write a string reverse function in C# 2.0 (i.e. LINQ not available) and came up with this:  public string Reverse(string text) {     char[] cArray = text.ToCharArray();     string reverse = String.Empty;     for (int i = cArray.Length - 1; i &gt; -1; i--)     {         reverse += cArray[i];     }     return reverse; }   Personally I'm not crazy about the function and am convinced that there's a better way to do it. Is there?