Is there a word for the relation between the parents and parents-in-law of a child?
If I am introducing someone to my daughter's husband's parents can I say "Hi, I'd like to you meet my ___". In-laws would not work here because they are my child's in-laws not my own. Is there a word for this relationship?
Auto increment filename I have a need to collect some duplicate files and want to avoid name collisions. The problem is that this collection of files might be added to by another execution of my script before the files are cleaned out and just want to continue to increment the number.  I decided on a simple until loop to increment the number like so.  until [[ ! -f ${PWD}/DUPES/${num}-$1 ]]; do num=$((num +1)) done mv --no-clobber $1 ${PWD}/DUPES/${num}-$1   I can't imagine ever exceeding 1k files in an extreme example, so my questions are...  Is this a terribly inefficient way to achieve this? Should I be parsing the existing files to get the highest leading number to start incrementing from there, or is this ok for the extreme example I put forth?  Or is there a better way all together? Few application icons not appearing in Ubuntu Dock after upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10 I'm using  and trying to switch from Web Applications to Stack Overflow.   I enter sta into "Switch sites" field, but search showing unrelated results first (3D Printing, 3D Printing Meta, Software Engineering ...): Learning ArcPy? Where can I start to learn ArcPy? Converting point layer to raster grid that shows frequency of points per cell uisng QGIS I have a point layer that shows the distribution of a species.   Is it possible in QGIS to convert this point layer to a raster grid in which the value of each cell corresponds with the amount of points within that cell?   Until now, I only managed to attach attribute values to the grid cells. I have already added a column in my attribute table that has the value '1' for each point, hoping that there is a way to use a sum of attributes for each grid cell. I have multiple Ubuntu machines at home and a pretty slow internet connection, and sometimes multiple machines need to be updated at once (especially during new Ubuntu releases.)  Is there a way where only one of my machines needs to download the packages, and the other machines can use the first machine to get the debs?  Does it involve setting up my own local mirror?  Or a proxy server?  Or can it be made simpler? Regular Expressions: Is there an AND operator? Obviously, you can use the | (pipe?) to represent OR, but is there a way to represent AND as well?  Specifically, I'd like to match paragraphs of text that contain ALL of a certain phrase, but in no particular order. Renting a car in Ireland & Great Britain: 1 rental or 2? My wife, two kids and I will be traveling in Ireland and the UK Nov. 1st through 21st. We're flying into and out of Dublin. Our plan is to do a clockwise tour: Fly into Dublin -> Belfast -> Scotland -> England/London -> Back to Dublin to fly home.  We've been planning to rent a car when we land in Dublin (doing just things outside Dublin at the start of the trip) and have a car all the way until London, then turn in the car and take a train/ferry to get back to Dublin before flying home.  However, reading through the car rental section of Rick Steve's 2012 Ireland book is causing us to question if this is the right plan.  He says (p. 480):     If your trip covers both Ireland and Great Britain, you're better off   with two separate car rentals, rather than paying for your car to ride   the ferry between the two islands. On an all-Ireland trip, you can   drive your rental car from the Republic of Ireland into Northern   Ireland, but be aware of drop-off charges ($75-150) if you return it   in the North.   So it seems like he recommends against doing one car rental for both islands, but he also recommends against renting in the Republic of Ireland and returning it in Northern Ireland (our other option for our current itinerary).  So we're not sure which is best here.  A few questions about this:   If we do one car rental all the way from Dublin to London, will there be a similar $75-$150 fee? Is there an easy place to return a car on the Northern Ireland side of one of the Northern Ireland -> Scotland ferries, and an easy place on the Scotland side to rent a car?  We'd like to minimize the number of buses/whatever we need to take between car rentals since we'll be lugging around car seats for both of our children (on top of carrying them and our luggage). Will one way be significantly cheaper than the other?  Besides the basic cost of taking the car on the ferry and the drop-off charges, our credit card will cover insurance in Scotland/England but not in Ireland, so we could potentially get a better rental rate by renting a second vehicle once we're on Great Britain. Although, I know you often get a better rate when keeping a car rental for longer, so that may negate any benefit from the credit card covering the insurance. Divergent infinite series $n!e^n/n^n$ - simpler proof of divergence? $$ \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{n!e^n}{n^n} $$ Where $e$ is Euler's number.  Recently on calculus class we were covering convergence tests and my group got stuck with this infinite series. Our calculus teacher told us that it diverges but he doesn't see any elementary way or simple test to prove it. He told us something about Euler's Gamma function and said that he knows it diverges because of Stirling's formula but this is not quite our level yet.  I tried to think about it myself but I established only that this  is some kind of an edge case. We could generalize the problem to series of $\frac{n!a^n}{n^n}$. Then, from the ratio test we know that it converges for $a &lt;e$ and diverges for $a&gt;e$. For $a=e$ the test is inconclusive. I've also tried to compare it with various divergent series, but nothing worked...  Does anybody have any idea for a simple solution? Date api for managing off days in an year? I'm starting a Windows Forms application from the command promt and I need to get the exit codes that the windows forms application generates. The command promt starts the application and returns immediatly. But the application executes in the background. Is there a way to get the Exit codes?  Kind Regards  Christian. Focus in night photography Positrons versus holes as positive charge carriers : [The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles with negative energy. It was first postulated by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1930 to explain the anomalous negative-energy quantum states predicted by the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons. The positron, the antimatter counterpart of the electron, was originally conceived of as a hole in the Dirac sea, well before its experimental discovery in 1932.]  and:  [Dirac's idea is completely correct in the context of solid state physics, where the valence band in a solid can be regarded as a "sea" of electrons. Holes in this sea indeed occur, and are extremely important for understanding the effects of semiconductors, though they are never referred to as "positrons". Unlike in particle physics, there is an underlying positive charge — the charge of the ionic lattice — that cancels out the electric charge of the sea.]  It always confused me to think of holes as positive charge carriers in semi-conductors as not being real: real electrons move from one lattice-position to another lattice-position, which effectively looks like a positive hole in the lattice that is moving in the other direction, but in reality a real electron moves, the hole is kind of an "illusion".  On the other hand the positrons are always introduced as real hard-core particles.   The quotes from the Wikipedia article make me unsure: how should I look upon these phenomena?   Edit: holes in a Dirac sea give rise to real pos. entities in one case and to unreal pos. entities in another - how can we distinguish, is it a matter of formalism? Can all real polynomials be factored into quadratic and linear factors? So I understand how to do integration on rational functions with a linear and a quadratic denominator, and I understand how to do a partial fraction decomposition, but I was wondering what happens if the polynomial is higher degree and can't be factored. Later in the page, it says this:     However, it can be shown that any polynomial with real coefficients is a product of linear and/or irreducible quadratic factors with real coefficients.   And I was wondering, how do we know this and is this definitely true? Why are some faces in my mesh darker? A few weeks back I was using std::ifstream to read in some files and it was failing immediately on open because the file was larger than 4GB. At the time I couldnt find a decent answer as to why it was limited to 32 bit files sizes, so I wrote my own using native OS API.  So, my question then: Is there a way to handle files greater than 4GB in size using std::ifstream/std::ostream (IE: standard c++)  EDIT: Using the STL implementation from the VC 9 compiler (Visual Studio 2008).  EDIT2: Surely there has to be standard way to support file sizes larger than 4GB. Determinant of a rank $1$ update of a scalar matrix, or characteristic polynomial of a rank $1$ matrix This question aims to create an &quot;&quot;  of numerous questions that ask about determinants of specific matrices (I may have missed a few):              The general question of this type is  Let $A$ be a square matrix of rank$~1$, let $I$ the identity matrix of the same size, and $\lambda$ a scalar. What is the determinant of $A+\lambda I$?  A clearly very closely related question is  What is the characteristic polynomial of a matrix $A$ of rank$~1$? Illustrator: Is there an efficient and accurate way to join two circles by their tangents (and keep it editable)? It's easy to join two circles if they are the same size and horizontal/vertical, into a pill shape:    If the circles are at an add angle then it's still possible but you can no longer rely on smart guides.     You can add lines roughly where the tangents should be and then use the scissors tool on the circles, cut out the inner area and then join the two crescents into one shape.    Is there a better way to do this? Is there a way to do this that is still editable afterwards too?  There are some other questions that cover the same area as this but don't cover editability or joining circles that are not in line with each other (where smart guides can't help). Solvability and reducibility of a polynomial in a "chain" of finite fields Why I can't edit "Your Communities" list in stackexchange.com and Area 51? I can edit &quot;YOUR COMMUNITIES&quot; in the upper left drop-down menu from any of my communities: (e.g. )    But in  portal there's no &quot;edit&quot; link:    Why is that and how can I edit the list in  portal?