"I shall come, not will" Recently I asked about   I shall come, not will  whether it could be used instead of  I will definitely come, not maybe  How I came to such a question.  Here   I asked about "Shall I win?" pointing that it could have some variants of understanding:  1) Shall I win? = Should I win? (suggestion)  2) Shall I win? = Will I win? (archaic with 1st person)  3) Shall I win? = is it 100% that I will win? (predestination\inevitability)  The excellent guy Mixolydian said either variant was possible, that it didn't matter what person you used "shall" with, it could have this "predestination\inevitability" anyway. Out of this we're getting that nowadays we can use "will" for simple future actions and "shall" for almost predicted (almost 100% surety of happening) future actions.  If I want to say to someone:  Don't be afraid, I will come anyway.  Don't get panicked, I will definitely come  Be sure, I will come in any case  I can use "shall" for it meanining an action into which I will put 100% effort:  I shall come!  And what if my original sentence is  Don't doubt, I will definitely come, not maybe or probably  Can I use  I shall come, not will  pointing that "shall" guarantees me putting all my strengths into it while "will" doesn't give any assuarance that I will do everything to finally come.  As I understood, it wasn't very easy to ask such a question because English was different everywhere - US, UK, Australie, Ireland etc. I heard it was acceptabse to use even "thee\thou" in Ireland or somewhere like that while all other world has already forgotten such words...
I shall come, not will Native speakers, how can you comment such a sentence:  I shall come, not will  Can I use it for  I will definitely come, not maybe    Adding some information other people asked me about.  How I came to such a question.  Here   I asked about "Shall I win?" pointing that it could have some variants of understanding:  1) Shall I win? = Should I win? (suggestion)  2) Shall I win? = Will I win? (archaic with 1st person)  3) Shall I win? = is it 100% that I will win? (predestination\inevitability)  The excellent guy Mixolydian said either variant was possible, that it didn't matter what person you used "shall" with, it could have this "predestination\inevitability" anyway. Out of this we're getting that nowadays we can use "will" for simple future actions and "shall" for almost predicted (almost 100% surety of happening) future actions.  If I want to say to someone:  Don't be afraid, I will come anyway.  Don't get panicked, I will definitely come  Be sure, I will come in any case  I can use "shall" for it meanining an action into which I will put 100% effort:  I shall come!  And what if my original sentence is  Don't doubt, I will definitely come, not maybe or probably  Can I use  I shall come, not will  pointing that "shall" guarantees me putting all my strengths into it while "will" doesn't give any assuarance that I will do everything to finally come.  As I understood, it wasn't very easy to ask such a question because English was different everywhere - US, UK, Australie, Ireland etc. I heard it was acceptabse to use even "thee\thou" in Ireland or somewhere like that while all other world has already forgotten such words...  P.S. What I got from the answers ias that it was better to forget about the existence of "shall" cause it created so many misunderstandings:D
I am currently in a clan with three members. When we tried to initiate a clan war it said we had insufficient clan requirements. Does anyone know what the full requirements are? Is there a minimum clan member requirement? In $\mathbb{R}$ with standard topology the closure of the above set $M$ is $M \cup 0$. I fail showing this by purely topological means. I.e. not using the fact that this holds in the reals as a metric space and deduce it for the induced topology.  I assumed that there exist a closed subset $A$ containing $M$ but not 0. Hence, the complement of $A$ is an open subset containing 0. Does this already yield a contradiction or do I need a different approach?  Could you help me on this? Why does my ArrayList contain N copies of the last item added to the list? When I spoke with a friend of mine, I had noticed she used sentences similar to "I need to go buy food."   Is it correct to say "to go buy," or should I say "to go to buy"?    I know that I could say "I need to buy food," but I think that in "I need to go buy food," who is speaking is putting in evidence s/he needs to go and that s/he cannot stay any longer, or that her/his time to stay is limited. A Basic Question about Gravity, Inertia or Momentum or something along those lines What is the mysterious stranger doing in my vault? I can successfully tether my Mac (10.7.3) to my iPhone4 (5.0.1) via wifi, no problem, been doing it for months.  However, when I try to tether via bluetooth instead, I can't seem to see the internet from my mac.  Network Settings reports a green light for Bluetooth PAN, but my browser can't connect to anything at all.  My Mac reports very similar IP addresses for both, starting with 172.20.10 and differing only in the last octet.  Any idea why I can't successfully tether via bluetooth? Why is accuracy not the best measure for assessing classification models? This is a general question that was asked indirectly multiple times in here, but it lacks a single authoritative answer. It would be great to have a detailed answer to this for the reference.  , the proportion of correct classifications among all classifications, is very simple and very "intuitive" measure, yet it may be a . Why does our intuition misguide us here and are there any other problems with this measure? Stack Overflow technology makes me write bad answers Today I had some time and felt like writing a relatively good answer on Stack Overflow; explaining both the underlying mechanisms and good practices, unlike usual declarative answers in a "do that" style.  It took me like an hour of time, $50 if I were free lance. It'll bring me nothing but 3-5 occasional views, and - if I get lucky - some ignorant comments.  You know, it's quite discouraging.  Instead of pride for the job that was done, I feel frustrated. I know, this answer may offer help to the OP, if he ever notices it (being already satisfied with other answers).  So the only fate the answer will meet is to sink forever, below thousands other questions, falling like snow.  So, being a programmer, I am thinking of efficiency. It's a waste of time to spend so much effort to answer one question when there is no way to [actually] reuse it. So, I wouldn't do it again but just turn back into short answers mode without explanations.       Seeing other answers, I don't think I am only one with such feeling.  The current policy is driving knowledgeable and educational users away, yet it attracts inexperienced ones in numbers. Ones who will tell you to use [some technology] which they never have laid their hands upon. Ones who write answers just because they have learned some "good practice" from other questions, and this "knowledge" becomes an endless source of rep points.  The idea of Stack Overflow is rotten. It was excellent when trees were high and traffic was low.  It turned bad now; it has become a honeypot for all the "enthusiast programmers" of the world, eager to share their 2 cents faster than you can say the word "close".  You're killing a great resource. Despite all the nice words and proper declarations, it discourages the reuse of the knowledge. And encourages fast on-site answers.  Of course, the rules will tell you contrary. It's all nice and proper (if you don't mind it's strict mutual exclusivity). But mechanically, technologically it works in the way I described.  I tried to write a tag wiki. You know, it was biggest waste of time in my life. As a matter of fact, it is not a wiki at all; you can't even link to a certain section. Not to mention that nobody ever has the idea to read tag wikis.  Reference questions? Don't make me laugh. There is no good mechanism to store and categorize links. Favorites, although intended for the different purpose, are a chunk of crap when you want to use it as a reference. So, you can't compete with 30-seconds answers: a question will get 5 answers before you can even find an appropriate link.  Okay, I can organize links myself but, there are some problems:   I am just a human. I cannot remember everything I am just a human and I cannot answer questions at rate of 1 qpm. One person cannot fight the Tide. It's helpless. When technology makes people writing fast [incomplete] answers -  no good will of proper declarations can do a thing.  Even if a question gets finally closed, it won't hurt anyone - the hydra grew two more already.   You'll call me a brute for insulting honest users and innocent volunteers, but that's fact: There are much more inexperienced users than experienced ones. And inexperienced users have much more spare time to hang over than experts who have their job to do. So, from that fact we can conclude that most of the answers on Stack Overflow have a low quality. Nobody cares. But I do.   There should be a technical way to limit the activity of not-so-knowledgeable-yet-eager-to-answer users. There should be a technical preference for the closing a question over answering it (have a silly answer for the silly question? welcome to comments). There should be a technical solution to accumulate and structure knowledge, a system that lets you choose a good answer instead of writing it by hand.   That's the only way. Otherwise Stack Overflow will remain an automated dispenser of bad practices.  Well, I just felt like letting it out again. Thank you for reading. Making hats (and other accents) bold I've been typesetting some equations, and I've found that the default behavior accents like \hat, \bar, \tilde, etc. makes a rather small and easily-missed mark. Is there some way to make the accents stand out more? In particular, is there any way to make them appear in bold (without affecting the letter they are over)? How can I recover a game center account where I forgot ID and password? A long time ago, I made a game center account to which I attached my CoC village. This account hasn't been used anymore, and I have forgotten the ID and the password.  Now I want to transfer that game to my new phone which has a new game center ID, but need a transfer code from the old account to do so. Is there a way to recover my old game center account details? Which tools and technologies are used to build the Stack Exchange Network? What tools and technologies are used to build the Stack Exchange Network?  See also: How to pass anonymous types as parameters? biblatex and autonum don't work together Upgrade to the latest PHP version in ubuntu 16.04 How can I switch between starting a coroutine vs running the routine all at once? I am moving from one job to another (postdoc to tenure track) this summer and I have papers in several stages of being written, these go from handwritten notes with all the necessary arguments to under revision at a journal. All the papers will have my new contact information put on them but where is the line for changing affiliation? It seems obvious to me that the one that is still in the handwritten notes stage will get the new affiliation and that the ones under revision won't. So somewhere in between is a line.   Where is it?  There are some similar questions so far (see  and  but they do not seem to be quite the same situation since I am not changing fields and the appointments are not concurrent. Print only the Nth line before each line that matches a pattern I'm trying to print only the &lt;N&gt;th line before a search pattern. grep -B&lt;N&gt; prints all the &lt;N&gt; lines before the search pattern. I saw the awk code  that can print only the &lt;N&gt;th line after the search pattern.  awk 'c&amp;&amp;!--c;/pattern/{c=N}' file   How to modify this to print only the &lt;N&gt;th line before each line that matches pattern ? For example, here is my input file  ... ...    0.50007496  0.42473932  0.01527831    0.99997456  0.97033575  0.44364198 Direct configuration=     1    0.16929051  0.16544726  0.16608723    0.16984300  0.16855274  0.50171112 ... ...    0.50089841  0.42608090  0.01499159    0.99982054  0.97154975  0.44403547 Direct configuration=     2    0.16931296  0.16553376  0.16600890    0.16999941  0.16847055  0.50170694   ...   I need a command that can give me back the 2nd line before the search string Direct configuration. I'm trying to run this in SUSE-Linux LaTeX on Stack Overflow? in questions, answers, and comments. Can we get something like this going on Stack Overflow?  I think it’d be appropriate as I at least pretty often want to write something like n^2 and would benefit greatly from prettier markup. A continuous mapping is determined by its values on a dense set