The sentence   I marveled that you chuckled that I said "juxtaposition".   suffers from "that" overload. We'd all agree.  It's easy to slim either 'that'. Hence either   I marveled you chuckled that I said "juxtaposition". I marveled that you chuckled I said "juxtaposition".    sounds fine.  Does any rule prevent us from going all the way and discarding both?   I marveled you chuckled I said "juxtaposition".
He will understand that I was not joking.   He will understand I was not joking.  Which of the sentences is correct? Are there any specific rules about the use of &quot;that&quot; in the sentences I reported as example?
Does it feel lately like all questions have already been asked and answered and there is nothing more to do? I think everybody with a history of participation can't help but notice the explosive growth of repeated duplicate questions. The work of looking for duplicates and then closing questions has overtaken the work of actually answering questions.  It's become virtually impossible to ask something which hasn't been yet asked. Lately I feel boredom each time I see a new question and start answering it only to realize after the first written sentence that I have answered similar questions five times over or seen them answered some ten times or more. I know where it's going to be going and what answers with what votes it is going to receive before any answer is even written.  It's obviously not the administration's fault, it is simply so. The questions is, what to do about it? Engaging more moderators to close and close duplicates won't work because it's already starting to repel users who get mad at their questions closed and become afraid of asking more or perhaps just go away.  The original idea of Jeff stated the the site is for questions that can be answered. Meaning no open-ended discussions. When I first read this I had a casual thought - well, and what's gonna happen when they all are asked and answered? Will it become a museum, a monument of wisdom and knowledge or what?  I'm not sure what to do about it. Perhaps deprecation/versioning of older questions so that their new versions can sparkle the tiresome evening...  POSTSCRIPTUM.  I recall Star Trek Voyager episode  when another Q asked Captain Janeway for asylum. He was tired of immortality and wanted to die. They opened a hearing and went on to visit the continuum to evaluate the living conditions there which caused the suffering and the wish to escape it in death. A lifeless picture presented itself to the visitors... a house lone in an open space, two people going about their business, nobody talking. When asked why they were silent, the following was said. It's been so long, all has already been said, all stories told, all jokes are made... there is nothing left to do...  Are we there as well?  UPDATE: Just saw this answer in another question:       Also, some of the core questions got asked early on in the life of the site. Great questions still come around from time to time, but many have already been asked.   Doesn't that confirm my point? What exactly is tested when a fire extinguisher is tagged? I am just curious: the obvious is that the  pressure mass   can be inspected /measured to ensure that the device has not been discharged. Is there anything else that is measured \ checked? How can I display site logo, name and slogan? Show that $2^n > n^2$ whenever n>4. Let $S(n)$ be the proposition "$2^n &gt; n^2$"  Basis step: $S(5)$ is true, since $2^5 = 32$, $ 32 &gt; 25 = 5^ 2$  Inductive step:  Induction hypothesis:   Assume $S(K)$ is true, $2^K &gt; K^2$.  Then  $2^{K+1} = 2.2^K &gt; K^2 + K^2$   I don't know how to proceed after this. How to complete this proof? Variable-name \newcommand with parameters within another \newcommand I've seen many of the solutions on the topic, all posted in this site. But I haven't seen any of them mentioning Apple's adapter,   I have that, which was used to connect to my old MacBook Pro 2013.   Now, I'm assuming that all I need is to connect the Mini DisplayPort to an adapter, such as  (as mentioned in one of the posts) and the USB cable to a USB-C adaptor.   Is this correct? Assuming file2 already exists, the command   &gt; file1 &lt; file2 cat   appears to be copying the content of file2 to file1.  But I cannot understand this structure.  I understand that "Nothing" is being directed to file1 (creating or erasing its content). Then the content of file2 is being directed to file1.  Why is cat after file2? How does it know to cat file2 if the operands are not in the correct order? Is there a option to search within manpages? Does there exist a symmetric matrix $A$  such that $2^{\sqrt{n}}\le |\operatorname{Tr}(A^n)|\le2020 \cdot2^{\sqrt{n}}$ for all $n$? I think no. The trace of $A^n$ equals $\sum\limits_{i=1}^n\lambda_i^n$ where $\lambda_i$ are the eigenvalues of $A$. Now, if the absolute value of trace of $A$ is bounded below by $2$, then I think the trace of $A^n$ will grow infinitely. Am I right? Thanks beforehand. I am an Indian citizen studying in Italy on an Italian visa that expires 19 November, 2015. I have permesso di soggiorno. I want to visit the United Kingdom for my vacations for a week during March. I know the procedures already, however I am a little bit confused about the amount that I must show as a proof of support with my bank statements. I will stay for a week with my friends who are also students in Italy and will be in London for 5 days. What would be the amount in Euros that I need to show for my visit to UK? What caused the apocalypse in the Hunger Games? So the stories of the Hunger Games are set in , a post-apocalyptic society situated in North America. Is there anything to explain what caused the Apocalypse? Whether from the main books, any extra material or interviews? (No fanfic please.)  As well as the cause, is there any indication of when the apocalypse happened? And how long after the apocalypse are the events of the Hunger Games? How to merge columns in a table? I have this table, but wanted to format the first row. I like to match the two columns of first row, and last two columns of the same first row. Any suggestion on how to do that?  \begin{table}[!h]  \caption{Comparison of percentages.} \begin{tabular}{lclclclclc} \hline \hline  Mode &amp;  Var  &amp;  Cum\\ \hline {}       &amp; EF   &amp; CHF    &amp; EF2   &amp; CHF2\\ 1   &amp;  17.5 &amp; 19.1   &amp; 17.5  &amp; 19.1\\ 2   &amp;  11.8 &amp; 12.7   &amp; 29.3  &amp;  31.9\\ 3   &amp;  6.6  &amp;  5.6         &amp; 35.9    &amp;  37.4\\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} In how many ways can $500$ indistinguishable students select books from $10$ titles if no more than $20$ copies of one particular text are selected? Assume that there are an arbitrarily large number of copies of ten diﬀerent discrete math books (which we will call titles) for cmsc250. Each student must choose one title as the course text book. Assume that the ﬁve hundred students taking the course are indistiguishable.  How many diﬀerent ways can the students choose titles, if Epp must be chosen by at most twenty students?   I understand that this is a stars and bars problem where the formula would be ${n+r-1}\choose{r-1}$, but whats throwing me off is the "at most" parameter of the problem. My answer is ${480+9-1}\choose{9-1}$ My reasoning was that we now have one less "bar", and that should be shown by lowering $r$ by 1  Am I approaching this the right way? Repeat copies of array elements: Run-length decoding in MATLAB Let $G$ be a group. Show that a nonempty subset $H$ is a subgroup of $G$ if any only if $ab^{-1} \in H $ for any $a,b \in H$.  The forward direction is quite easy. Suppose $H$ is a subgroup. Then by closure, $ab \in H$ for any $a,b \in H$. Every element has an inverse. Hence, if $b \in H $, then $b^{-1} \in H$. Hence, by closure again, $ab^{-1} \in H$.   Backward direction, suppose $ab^{-1} \in H $ for any $a,b \in H$. Let $a=b$. Then we have $bb^{-1}=1_H\in H$. Let $a=1_H$ , we have $1_Hb^{-1}=b^{-1} \in H$. I don't know how to show closure.  Reference: Fraleigh p. 58  Question 5.45 in A First Course in Abstract Algebra What is the meaning of "build off of"? What is the meaning of "build off of"? I Googled it, but can't find any definition!  I encountered it in the sentence in a technical book. The sentence is:     For the application we will build, the todos example is the closest   fit, so we'll go ahead and build off of that example.   There is a link related to it I found by Google, But it didn't give the definition! In the movie Iron Man 2, Tony Stark figured out how to synthesize Vibranium. Why didn't he use it to make a new Iron Man armor? Why is time evolution unitary? Is the reason why the time evolution operator is unitary based on purely physical arguments, i.e. that the physical processes that an isolated system undergoes shouldn't depend on any particular instant in time (homogeneity of time); thus two experimenters who conduct the same experiment starting from the same initial state, but at different times, should have the same probability amplitude for that state?! Or is there some mathematical argument as well?  Also, is the reason why the time evolution operator is linear implied by the superposition principle (as an arbitrary state can be expressed as a linear combination of basis states the operator should act linearly as otherwise the state as a whole would evolve differently to the superposition of states that it was initially represented by)?! LM393 voltage comparator is not working What is the preferred way to mention Stack Overflow from Twitter? I wanted to tweet something on the lines of "Stack&nbsp;Overflow is awesome". When I do this kind of stuff, I usually use a username (for example: ) or a hashtag ()  I found , but it seems it is from someone unrelated with Stack&nbsp;Overflow.  Is there a Twitter account I can reference, or should I use a hash-tag? Should I just point to the site?  Thanks!  (Notice: I've seen lots of questions regarding Twitter and Stack&nbsp;Overflow, but those are mostly about integration/login with Twitter for the users accounts; I'm just asking for a single account for Stack&nbsp;Overflow; probably for announcements and PR, which is different)