I have a list of bytes that are represented in string format, for example, when I print the list in Python3.3 I get the following output:  DATA =  ['FF', 'FF', 'FF', 'FF']   I would like to convert these into bytes, for example 0xFF,0xFF,0xFF,0xFF. I have tried the bytearray() function but this returns an error.  I'm guessing that I am missing something simple here, but I have looked around SO and Google and have so far had no luck  Thanks!
I have a long sequence of hex digits in a string, such as      000000000000484240FA063DE5D0B744ADBED63A81FAEA390000C8428640A43D5005BD44   only much longer, several kilobytes.  Is there a builtin way to convert this to a bytes object in python 2.6/3?
I have a character playing a multiclass Barbarian/Monk. Does the resistance from rage combine with Deflect Missiles to negate the damage and make the reaction attack? I've often been told by people that I shouldn't refreeze meat (particularly hamburger meat) once it has been thawed.  However, this seems a little silly to me.  I can't imagine how meat that hasn't been bought fresh and local could find its way to my kitchen with out thawing and being refrozen a couple of times.  How much damage can one more thawing and refreezing really do?  Can it really be that dangerous disease wise? Or is this just one of those urban myths? Bullied boy given immense powers by an alien race who destroys the human race Looking to identify a short story I read in a sci-fi anthology as a child, about an angry, bullied somewhat misanthropic boy who is given immense near-omnipotent powers by an alien intelligence. I read this in English, sometime in the late 1990s/early 2000s. He goes on to use this power to destroy the human race, which causes him to age terribly in a very short amount of time. At the end of the story he is a lonely old man stripped of the powers he held briefly, and is alone on an isolated Earth. The aliens then proceed to invade Earth. don't really understand how to log on with your SE account in the new logon screen.  And although it might be obvious to most of us, some people find the new dialog hard to understand.        Can we add a logo and some text to make clear users can log on with their SE account? Something like:     [SE LOGO] Log on using your StackExchange account   Followed by the two boxes for email and password. 555 Monostable Timer delay I have built numerous 555 circuits over the years. I recently had to built a Monostable 555 cct. as per this site :    The cct. is used in a motor vehicle. When the remote control is pushed to open the doors, it sends positive 12V to this Monostable cct. to initiate it and a 3 Amp Power Transistor pulses the siren momentarily to indicatse "unlocking" by audible means.   The issue I have is that Rt and Ct used to time the output pulse is not short enough. I replaced these components to the smallest values I could get, but the output is still "too long". Teh siren makes a "chooow" sound instead of "chow". Sounmds too unprofessional or after-market.  Any ideas to get a short pulse (nearly a few micro seconds) out of this old 555 cct. ? The class of cardinal numbers is well ordered I'm looking for a proof that the class of cardinal numbers is well ordered under the order relation $|A|\leq |B| \Leftrightarrow$ exists an injection $f:A \to B$.  In fact, I've found a very beautiful proof in an article, but I think it's not the standard one. How to determine if Javascript object is an event? How to get apache to send a 404 based on no matching VirtualHost section (based on ServerName) being found? I am rebuilding an old server.  Only one of the five old sites need to go live and all five of the old sites point to the same IP address.  Unfortunately any time a request is made for one of the old sites via their own unique domain names they are passed the pages from the one site that I'm trying to make live.  I would just like the old sites to display a 404 instead of the one site that I'm actually trying to make live.  As an example:   Site 1 (192.168.0.1) [www.first.com] Site 2 (192.168.0.1) [www.second.com] Site 3 (192.168.0.1) [www.third.com]   I want to move site 1 live again.  So I turned on apache on the machine with the IP address of 192.168.0.1, with all of site 1's files in the /var/www directory.  When I browse to 192.168.0.1 or www.first.com I correctly see site 1. When I browse to www.second.com and www.third.com I also receive site 1 which is the problem.  Is there a way I can 404 any request which comes in without www.first.com?  Here is my sites-available:  NameVirtualHost *:80  LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %&gt;s %b" common  &lt;Files ~ "^\.ht"&gt;     Order allow,deny     Deny from all     Satisfy All &lt;/Files&gt;  &lt;Directory /&gt;   Order Deny,Allow   Deny from all   Options None   AllowOverride None   Options None &lt;/Directory&gt;  &lt;Directory /var/www&gt;   Order Allow,Deny   Allow from all &lt;/Directory&gt;  &lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;         ServerName first.com         ServerAlias www.first.com         DocumentRoot /var/www         ErrorLog /var/log/first.com.err         CustomLog /var/log/first.com.log common &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;  &lt;VirtualHost _default_:*&gt;         ServerName unknown         DocumentRoot /var/www_404 &lt;/VirtualHost&gt; Area of a quadrilateral proof Apply a modifier as a shapekey into existing shapekey or merge shapekeys? I am making a shapekey of a model shrinkwrapped to another model. The shrinkmap modifier is too inaccurate to wrap to the model alone. So, my first step was to roughly hand position the geometry around of the first model around the second, then use shrinkwrap. The rough positioning was done as a shape key. I can then apply shrinkwrap, but its as a separate shapekey. The two do not work well together. I need them to be the same shapekey. How do I apply a modifier to an existing shapekey, or merge/combine/join the two shapekeys? Difference between block size and cluster size How to find out what init mode system is using? I was looking at this and I'm not sure how to find out which startup service is used on my machine (Ubuntu 14.04 on Digital Ocean). Can it use all of them? (upstart, system v, systemd) How to truncate all logfiles? can anybody give me a solution to truncate all logfile in /var/log/ directory?  and a question just for knowledge, is it a good idea or not?  #!/bin/bash LOGDIR="/var/log" for logfile in $(ls $LOGDIR/*log) do   truncate -s 0 $logfile done Comparing SVM and logistic regression Can someone please give me some intuition as to when to choose either SVM or LR? I want to understand the intuition behind what is the difference between the optimization criteria of learning the hyperplane of the two, where the respective aims are as follows:     SVM: Try to maximize the margin between the closest support vectors LR: Maximize the posterior class probability    Let's consider the linear feature space for both SVM and LR.  Some differences I know of already:   SVM is deterministic (but we can use Platts model for probability score) while LR is probabilistic. For the kernel space, SVM is faster (stores just support vectors) Given that the sequence $(v,Av,A^2v,...,A^nv)$ is linearly dependent (1), $A_{n \times n}$, over $\mathbb{F^n}$ prove that scalars $c_0,c_1,..,c_n$ exist (such that not all of them are zeroes) such that the matrix $M=c_0I+c_1A+..+c_nA^n$ is singular.    First I'm not sure how (*) can be used here exactly. We can say that the sequence $(c_0I,c_1A,..,c_nA^n)$ resembles the sequence (1) where $v=I$. But here we have scalar $c_i$ so it's not exactly the same sequence.   Maybe I could say that the sequence $(c_0I,c_1A,..,c_nA^n)$ is linearly dependent because it has $n+1$ elements while over $dim\mathbb{F^n}=n$ $\quad$(2).  Intuitively I understand that suppose we sum all the matrices $c_iA^i$ and then in the last sum operation we get to some $c_jA^j$ and if it's a linear combination of other matrices then we can have such a $c_j$ that: $$ c_oI+\sum_{i=1}^{n-1} c_iA^i+c_jA^j=0 $$ But I don't think this is enough to prove. There are four options. Which of them is correct?- (a)${p\over k}$ (b)${k\over p}$ (c)$\log({p\over k})$ (d)${\log p\over k}$ I somehow want to use the rule for evaluating this kind of sum using integration, i.e. $\int_{0}^{1} f(x) \ dx=\lim_{n\to\infty} {1\over n}\sum_{r=1}^{n}f({r\over n})$  But the given expression $\lim_{n\to\infty} [{1\over kn}+{1\over k(n+1)}+{1\over k(n+2)}+\cdots+{1\over k(n+p-k)}]={1\over k}\lim_{n\to\infty}{1\over n}\sum_{r=0}^{p-k}\frac{1}{1+{r\over n}}$, sum running from $0$ to $p-k$ instead of $n$. So, how to evaluate this limit? Thanks for assistance in advance. How do I find the Arch-mage at the end of the quest "Under Sarhaal"? Towards the end of , it's revealed that Borden accomplishes his Transported Man trick by using his twin brother, Fallon, as a double. It then becomes clear that he has been doing this in his personal life as well as on stage - each brother leads 'half a life', sometimes appearing as Borden and sometimes as Fallon. This is how he completes the illusion: one Borden goes into the first door, the other Borden emerges from the second door a moment later. Angier doesn't know how Borden does the trick, and doesn't believe Borden uses a double despite being told as much by Cutter. He follows what he believes to be a clue in Borden's notebook and travels to Colorado to meet Nikola Tesla, who Angier believes can build a machine that can help him perform the trick. Angier believes that Tesla built a similar machine for Borden. However, the final pages of the notebook reveal that Tesla was merely a red herring, designed to get Angier out of Borden's way for a long time. Tesla, it turns out, had never built such a machine before. At this point, Tesla agrees to build Angier's machine anyway. Instead of building a machine that transports matter, he builds one that duplicates it. Angier uses this machine in his act, but in order to avoid having to deal with multiple clones (the &quot;prestige materials&quot;), one of them must die as part of the act. This all makes sense, so far, but I find it hard to believe that Borden's use of the word 'Tesla' as the key to his cipher is random. It's too coincidental that he sends Angier on a wild goose chase, but Angier returns with a working machine. A film that is otherwise so tightly plotted shouldn't rely on coincidence to move the narrative forward, so there must be something else going on. Is it possible that Borden cloned himself using Tesla's machine? File Save dialog unreadable I just updated my iMac to Mojave, and am still trying to setup my preferences.  I tried dark mode, but did not like it (half of me apps seem to ignore it anyway).  I switched to light mode, but this too has problems. The File Save dialog shows a list of Directories and existing files, but the latter are very light grey, almost indistinguishable from the background.    I have searched the Preferences menu, but can't seem to find any setting to set normal contrast levels like in High Sierra. How do I recover my old Clash of Clans (COC) game save & base? I unintentionally and stupidly wiped my Clash of Clans game data. I went to Application Manager on my Android and clicked 'Clear data'. (I used this for fixes before and it never started a new game.)   Now, my level 60 or so base has been wiped as if was to start a new game. Have I doomed myself to starting again or is there a way in which I can retrieve my old game save? Maybe by contacting Supercell? I have a snapshot of my base.