The resistance is attacks the Starkiller Base with what appears to be pretty small time ammunition even by modern earth missiles, which requires a long running sequence of repeated flybys.  The objective, IIRC was to destroy a critical piece of machinery on the surface which would then destabilize the entire planet/weapon (feel free to correct in edit if I remember incorrectly).  OK cool, but then why the force wouldn't they just drop a nuclear bomb on it?  Have nuclear weapons been used any other time in Star Wars (including EU), or, like smart phones, have they just not been invented in that world?
I am reading the book Darth Plagueis, and when an assassination attempt is made on him by use of a nuclear bomb, the book states that nuclear weapons are scarcely available.   I searched briefly but found nothing on this and wondered if an explanation is available. Why would nuclear weapons be rare in a universe with such advanced technology across the board?
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Unable to upgrade Windows 10 edition from Home to Pro I have a Lenovo laptop which upgraded from Windows 8.1 Home to Windows 10 Home.  I have a (legitimate) Windows 10 Pro key which I ran through the "Change Product Key" wizard.  After a reboot I get an error which states "We couldn't upgrade your edition" and asks me to try again or seek help from my system administrator (me!) or Microsoft.  There is nothing in the event logs except Info entries in the Setup log stating it failed to change the installed state to Pro Edition with a hex error code (I don't have access to the laptop right now, I will update later with the full log details)  Googling the hex error code led me to a Windows 7 KB Article regarding Windows Update failure due to locked files. The article stepped through using MSCONFIG to perform a clean boot which I did, but still got the error.  Any pointers on how to upgrade this laptop? Or will I have to get the sledgehammer out and do a clean install? Gaps between arrows and labels "Delete this answered question?" when the only answer is deleted Looks like there's a small bug in the UI: I posted a question here on meta.SE which ended up being just something dumb I was doing and no use to anyone in the future. At first I posted an answer saying what the dumb thing was, but then I realized that the whole thing had no value, so I deleted the answer, and then deleted the question — whereupon it asked me:  Delete this answered question? We do not recommend deleting questions with answers because doing so deprives future readers of this knowledge. Repeated deletion of answered questions can result in your account being blocked from asking. Are you sure you wish to delete?  (Screenshot below) Probably shouldn't ask (or add to the tally) if the only answers are deleted ones... Ubuntu 18: Top bar for all monitors I just installed Ubuntu 18. 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Shouldn't the algorithm calculate the error and work from there, despite the fact that the weights are initially the same? Why must a computer have a BIOS? The  software is built into the PC, and is the first code run by a   PC when powered on ('boot firmware'). When the PC starts up, the first   job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and   identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card,   keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other   hardware. The BIOS then locates boot loader software held on a   peripheral device (designated as a 'boot device'), such as a hard disk   or a CD/DVD, and loads and executes that software, giving it control   of the PC.[2] This process is known as booting, or booting up, which   is short for bootstrapping.   Which requisites determine that a computer system must have a BIOS installed on it?  Why can't the Operational System actually do all of the BIOS work? I always know that the natural logarithm $\log_e$ is the inverse of the exponential function $e$, but to my surprise when reading elementary functions in complex analysis, I discover that that is not always true. $$\log(e^z)=z+2k\pi i$$  My question here is that, why is the above expression true? I wrote a little bash script that made me stumble across the . I did not know about this problem before and I just dare on posting the --debug output I got from date when my script tried to calculate across this magic date (03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038).  date -d "20380119"  date: parsed number part: today/this/now date: input timezone: +01:00 (set from system default) date: warning: using midnight as starting time: 00:00:00 date: starting date/time: '(Y-M-D) 2038-01-19 00:00:00 TZ=+01:00' date: '(Y-M-D) 2038-01-19 00:00:00 TZ=+01:00' = 2147468400 epoch-seconds date: output timezone: +01:00 (set from system default) date: final: 2147468400.000000000 (epoch-seconds) date: final: (Y-M-D) 2038-01-18 23:00:00 (UTC0) date: final: (Y-M-D) 2038-01-19 00:00:00 (output timezone TZ=+01:00) Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 CET 2038   date -d "20380119 + 1 days"  date: parsed hybrid part: +1 day(s) date: input timezone: +01:00 (set from system default) date: warning: using midnight as starting time: 00:00:00 date: starting date/time: '(Y-M-D) 2038-01-19 00:00:00 TZ=+01:00' date: warning: when adding relative days, it is recommended to specify 12:00pm date: error: adding relative date resulted in an invalid date: '(Y-M-D) 2038-01-20 00:00:00 TZ=+01:00' date: invalid date '20380119 + 1 days'   date -d "20380120" --debug  date: parsed number part: today/this/now date: input timezone: +01:00 (set from system default) date: warning: using midnight as starting time: 00:00:00 date: error: invalid date/time value: date:     user provided time: '(Y-M-D) 2038-01-20 00:00:00 TZ=+01:00' date:        normalized time: '(Y-M-D) 2038-01-20 00:00:00 TZ=+01:00' date:  date:      possible reasons: date:        numeric values overflow; date:        missing timezone date: invalid date '20380120'   Is there any way to make GNU date calculate across this date? 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