Why do Imperial TIE Fighter pilots wear space suits? In The Force Awakens, we see Poe Dameron and Finn use a TIE fighter to escape the First Order. Later, when Rey and Finn try to escape Jakku, we see that the stormtroopers chasing them in TIE fighters wear this back stormtrooper spacesuit. But if the TIE fighters have life support systems, why is it that the pilots of TIEs always wear them?
Why did the TIE fighter in The Force Awakens have life support? In The Force Awakens, Finn and Poe steal and escape in a TIE wearing no personal life support apparatus. TIEs have been upgraded with shields, hyperdrives (for "/sf"), weapons etc, but as far as I know they weren't upgraded with built in life support.   Finn and Poe should have frozen and/or suffocated after hitting space in the TIE. In the Rebels series, Sabine did the same thing. I've looked at what Wookieepedia states about the TIE as well as the old video game Star Wars "TIE Fighter".  Does the movie or any other work explain how Poe and Finn survived?
I've read a lot of conflicting advice on whether it's advisable to store eggs in the refrigerator. The case against seems twofold: (1) that eggshells are porous, and eggs can take on unwelcome flavours, or even spoil faster in the fridge, and (2) that cooking with cold eggs can be problematic. But lots of people refrigerate eggs through perceived necessity.  Do eggs last longer in the fridge, and is the shelf life gain worth it? Or should I just stick them in the cupboard? The Ubuntu installer does not allow me to install on NTFS partitions, but certain circumstances requires me to do so. Is it possible? Expected value of subset of variables in Bayesian setting Assume we have $N$ random variables $X_1, \ldots, X_N$ with known (posterior) distributions that are easy to sample from. For simplicity, assume that I am interested in the expected value of the ten largest of these random variables. There will be some uncertainty surrounding this expected value as there is uncertainty with respect to the rank of a given $X_i$ in case the distributions of $X_1, \ldots, X_N$ overlap. I want to use simulation based methods. My approach is to simulate $M$ samples from the distributions of $X_1, \ldots, X_N$, where in each iteration, I construct a binary indicator of length $N$ indicating whether random variable $i$ is within the set of the ten largest samples or not. Averaging over these $M$ draws gives me the probability that random variable $i$ is member of the top ten group. Denote this probability as $\pi_i$. Define a binary random variable that indicates membership in the top ten group as $S_i$. $S_i$ follows a Bernoulli distribution s.t. $S_i \sim Ber(\pi_i)$. In a second step, I draw $L$ samples from the distribution of $S_i$ and from the distributions of $X_1, \ldots, X_N$. Given a draw of $S_i$, I can select the top ten out of the samples of $X_1, \ldots, X_N$ in each iteration and average the respective samples within the top ten group. I save this average, so the result after $L$ iterations will be the distribution of the average outcome within the top ten group, taking into account all relevant sources of uncertainty. My questions are: Is this simulation approach valid in general? From a Bayesian perspective, is this simulation valid or do I need to treat additional quantities (e.g. $S_i$ or $\pi_i$) as random variables that need a prior? How to keep rice in a biryani from burning and sticking together? The bottom part of my  Biryani always  gets burnt, rice always gets sticky but I want each grain separated. How can I prevent burning &amp; stickiness of rice? When should I use GET or POST method? What's the difference between them? How can I sync the new "people" (face recognition) metadata across devices in Photos (iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra)? The new Photos updates for iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra includes a much more powerful and integrated approach to organizing photos by who's in them.  It's built around powerful, on-device facial recognition.  But once it does its automated thing (finding the faces it thinks are the same person), there's still a lot of manual merging and labeling to be done if you have a lot of photos and are as obsessive about organization as I am.  For example, if you have, say... three thousand photos of your daughter, Photos will find almost all of them, but may guess they're 5 or 6 different people.  So you have to merge the buckets that all are one person, assign them a name (so you can search by it), etc.  But unlike other changes (edits, deletions, organization into albums, etc.), manual changes to "people" data don't seem to sync at all by default.      Is there really no way to do this?  It seems bizarre that one of the flagship features Apple's touting in this Photos update doesn't play at all with what was Photos primary selling point over iPhoto - everything synced on all your devices. What's the term for using the wrong word because it sounds the same? I was reading about various terms for incorrect words, but they didn't seem to fit.  I saw a post where someone said "what do you like to do when you're board?".  That kind of thing.  Also, would that be considered a mistake in grammar?  I didn't think so, but my friend insists it is.  I'm not sure if there even is a word for that kind of mistake, but was just curious about it.  Thanks! Best Azure Service for Large no of SQLServer Databases Is there any shorter pronunciation of W than double-U? When spelling, every letter in the Alphabet is pronounced by a single syllable, with the only exception of W being pronounced "double-U". (Fun fact, in German it's approximately pronounced like the "ve" in very, but in some strike of cosmic justice Y is pronounced "Yps-e-lon") Why is that? Is there any at least semi-officially accepted one-syllable alternative pronunciation of W?  I checked some related post, e.g. , but they are more concerned with the "Why?" instead of the "Why not different?" How would I setup  to recognize import arcpy?   I'd like to use PyCharm to develop and debug geoprocessing tool. How to send a header using a HTTP request through a cURL call? I wish to send a header to my Apache server on a Linux box.  How can I achieve this via a cURL call? What is the first reference to an internet of computers in science fiction? 99% of the time, I'm clear on when I should use "a" versus "an." There's one case, though, where people &amp; references I respect disagree.  Which of the following would you precede with "a" or "an," and why?   FAQ FUBAR SCUBA   [Note: I've read the questions  and , but the rules given there don't necessarily apply here.]    [Edited to add]  Here's a shorter (and hopefully clearer) version of the question…  In written English, which is correct (and why): "a FAQ" or "an FAQ"?  Some references with differing opinions:   an: the  and  a: the Microsoft Manual of Style for Tech Publications, 3e either: the  and Better explanation of the common general relativity illustration (stretched sheet of fabric) Importing users that will be installed by programs How do I update my graphics drivers? I am using a laptop and ubuntu 11.04. I would like the easiest way possible because I am new to linux.  here is my display information:  *-display              description: VGA compatible controller              product: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller              vendor: Intel Corporation              physical id: 2              bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0              version: 18              width: 64 bits              clock: 33MHz              capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom              configuration: driver=i915 latency=0              resources: irq:41 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:e080(size=8)         *-communication UNCLAIMED              description: Communication controller Is it possible to programmatically change connectedApp settings in production? Background: I have a requirement to make it so that an SFDC connected app defaults/is super easy to set to Admin Users are Pre-authorized instead of All users may self-authorize. This setting is important to make this app work and we have historically have had problems with admins not configuring this setting correctly.  Here is a quick history on what I have tried to do to get the isAdminApproved set to "true":   Directly, via xml definition (doesn't get honored) Directly via apex code (doesn't get honored)  (ended up being more pain than what it was worth and was told that it wouldn't work in prod because of security restrictions) Indirectly via a connected-app connected service to make a metadata API call: works in a scratch org but not in prod, which I assume is because it is a managed package. This would occur when an Admin clicks on a button, not from a post-install script.   Details on what I mean by it isn't working in prod: When I try to do a readMetadata call on my connectedApp objects that are in my managed package, the response comes back as [{\n    'fullName': None\n}] instead of with the metadata configuration of my connected app.  Here is a sequence diagram of what I am trying to do in #4 right now:    My question is this: Am I on a fool's errand, where this is impossible to do? ...Or is there a way to set a connected app (in a managed package that I publish) to Admin Users are Pre-authorized without making the admin just do it themselves directly in the settings? Why do I get 'HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed' message when booting with external usb hard drive? I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on an external USB (2.0) Hard Drive (/dev/sdb1) but when Ubuntu starts I get a message that says:     ata_id[279]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument   where I made a mistake? The first HD contains Windows 7 (the official OS of my packard bell notebook). I use OS X Mavericks and have some company storage drives mounted (using smb or cfs). (smb://username@address.path.toserver.com/directory/data). When I work with files on the drive or copy files to the drive, some hidden files are created. Most of these files start with dot-dash ._ and then the filename of the original file, like:  ._test001.png ._test002.png ._test003.png   And most of the times, the famous ._.DS_Store and .DS_Store are also there.  On my Mac, these . dot items are invisible, but my windows colleagues do see these files. How can I prevent OS X from making these strange invisible files?  On  (and other internet sources) you can find a 'defaults write' to disable the creation of .DS_Store files on your network drives. But this does not work in Mavericks:  defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true   For now I use this oneliner, but doing a rm -rf does feel wrong in this case.  find . -type f -name "._*" -exec rm "{}" \;   Edit: I don't want to delete the files or exclude them from copying. I want them not to be created in the first place.  Edit: I prefer a 'native' OS X solution over third party apps.  Edit: This questions has two answers, one for the ._ files and one for the .DS_Store files. The bounty is rewarded for dot_clean, this native command line app cleans all ._ files. Unfortunately is does not clear the .DS_Store files, this can effectively be done with Asepsis. Asepsis stores .DS_Stores in a fixed location, and not in the folder itself. Convert a string to an enum in C#