Genders for arbitrary occupations Let's say I have a sentence similar to      When a scientist publishes results, she must be careful to not enter the incorrect data.   However, I am confused as to what I should use in place of the "she".  Using a "she" to refer to an arbitrary scientist, to me, seems just as weird as referring to an arbitrary scientist as "he", while "they" just seems grammatically incorrect.  I have been told that the grammatically correct, gender neutral form of the sentence would be     When a scientist publishes results, he/she must be careful to not enter the incorrect data.   But, come on, I'm not going to write "he/she" every time I have to refer to someone of unspecified gender.   How do I go about dealing with this? I understand that I could simply rephrase the sentence as      When scientists publish results, they must be careful to not enter incorrect data.   This is what I do in most cases when I am confronted with this problem.  My question is:   What should I do if I want to stay as close as possible to the original sentence structure (for instance, maintaining the singular form of scientist? What should I do in general when I am confronted with situations like this one? What options are there (e.g. converting to plural)?
Is there a correct gender-neutral singular pronoun ("his" vs. "her" vs. "their")? Is there a pronoun I can use as a gender-neutral pronoun when referring back to a singular noun phrase?  Each student should save his questions until the end. Each student should save her questions until the end.
Cannot reach public WIFI login page in Ubuntu 18.04 Captive Portal Issue What is the meaning of modular fractions? What is the meaning of $$ \\\frac{m}{n}\equiv k\pmod l $$ and $$ \\\frac{m}{n} \mod l $$ $m, n, k, l \in\mathbb N$ and $\gcd(m, n)=1$. Assuming i have a line that i want to add to a file without opening an editor.  How could i append this line  alias list='ls -cl --group-directories-first'   to this file  config.fish Which one of these two statements is correct?     Our staff do ...      Our staff does ...   And is staffs ever correct? In a ring $(A,+, \cdot)$ if $aba = a$ then $bab = b$ and all non zero elements in $A$ are invertible. Let $\left(A,+, \cdot\right)$ be a ring with $1$  that satisfies the following condition:  For any nonzero $a\in A$, there exists a unique $b\in A$ such that $aba = a$.  Show that $b$ also satisfies $bab = b$, and that all nonzero elements of $A$ are invertible. Is there any way to use a nether portal to travel to y = 250? How do I enable the "partner" repository? I keep seeing places refer to the "partner" repository as a place I can get software, how can I enable this repository? Please specify how to do this graphically and via command line. How does ZFC describe addition? Surprisingly, the Wikipedia article on addition doesn't contain the answer. I looked  elsewhere online for it, but didn't find it.   Intuitively, the cardinal of the union of two sets seemed appealing. But that approach doesn't work, given that the union of 2 and 2 is 2. I wondered whether ordered sets might be essential to the answer.   So, how does ZFC describe addition? The hidden flaw in "singular they"—what to do about reflexive pronouns? We have  to a question about gender-neutral pronouns, in which he points to the "singular they" and its long history of use in English. (Note that he also advises against using it.) Example:     If someone wants to watch TV tonight, they'll have to do the dishes.   This avoids having to say "he or she" in mixed-gender situations. Okay, fine. I'm not going to get my panties in a bunch if people want to talk this way.  But it occurrs to me that "singular they"—infelicitous at the best of times—really falls apart when extended into the realm of reflexive pronouns:     If someone wants to watch TV tonight, they'll have to do the dishes all by themselves. [?]   That feels very wrong. The only alternative, if one paints oneself into that corner, is to flip it back to singular:     If someone wants to watch TV tonight, they'll have to do the dishes all by themself. [???]   That feels worse.  If I'm to state this as a question, I guess I would put it thus: How can use of a "singular they" truly be reconciled? Is it really as much of a linguistic dead end as it feels to me? My wife has several files and folders that somehow ended up having filenames that have caused them to be undeleteable (can't be deleted) by normal means or via the command line. I believe the filenames are too long due to the depth of the folder structures. Does anyone know of a good utility for cleaning up files like this? How does "Reputation" work? On Stack Exchange, users may gain a certain level of reputation.  What does reputation do? How can a user gain or lose reputation?   See also   in the Help Center  - Maximum amount of votes a user can use in a day and reputation requirements to vote.  - How to get an exact overview of the actions that got you your reputation.  - A full list of all privileges granted at each reputation level on all sites. Why is it OK to jump into the scope of an object of scalar type w/o an initializer? One of the options offered when you right click the desktop or within a Nautilus window is "wipe available diskspace." I'd think that means all unused diskspace but assumptions can be dangerous. I don't want to try it only to find out that available meant "all". I can't remember seeing this option before 12.04.  I was asked to provide an image but unfortunately when right clicking to get the drop down menu, the print screen function doesn't respond thereby making an image impossible.  It appears that no responder so far has actually used this nautilus option. Jorge suggested that the feature was actually nautilus-wipe and I verified that is the case by removing nautilus-wipe and seeing that the menu option is now gone. Documentation for nautilus-wipe is almost non-existent and what little I found was superficial and contradictory. This doesn't leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling regarding my using an application or feature that purports to "wipe disk" without a clear definition of what is wiped. The company I work for has asked me to attend a training class on the other side of the country.  However my situation is my drivers license expired a few days ago. I do however have a separate printed email stating that the license has been renewed.  This drivers license is my only ID that shows both my name &amp; photo.  Is it possible to be able to board a flight with the expired drivers license and the printed email showing that it was renewed? I am considering to use iCloud Photo Library to store a growing number of family photo albums, shared to web or set of AppleIDs.  I dont need to keep original photos on iDevices for 99.9% of photos.  How much space will be used on the photo-originating set of devices (iOS, OS X, Windows)? I.e. what (roughly) is the function from the original size and number of photos, device storage space available, any other variables? Without recasting and in lieu of unsightly suspensive hyphenation, could these work? The en dash (which means "to") is used between the figures, and the hyphens are used in the compound modifier. To me, the examples below are concise and clear.  Do you agree that the examples below are 100% punctuated correctly--yes or no?  45–50-year-old men  10–20-mile radius  $45–$55-million-per-year industry  $100,000–$150,000-a-year savings  10–15-degree temperature difference  $2–$5-per-day service fees  45–75-cent-a-week raises  55–65-mph speed zone  15–20-ounce steaks  20%–40%-a-year tax increases Firstly, how do you gain the score exactly? I know it shows in the bar on the side of the map, but I remember a match where I was lone-wolfing and still got a pretty high score in that bar. I suppose my other squad members were together, but do I also gain for their work?  Also, does the score reset when I start a new game? I mean, I play support with the Offensive perk and it took me a long game of conquest to just unlock lvl-3 extra grenade. In the next match, that 'nade is gone. Don't I keep it forever? How can I implement a download rate limited in Java? How to keep the console window open in Visual C++? I'm starting out in Visual C++ and I'd like to know how to keep the console window.  For instance this would be a typical "hello world" application:   int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) {     cout &lt;&lt; "Hello World";     return 0; }   What's the line I'm missing? If APS-C and similar crop-sensor digital cameras have a focal length multiplying effect such that a 50mm lens has an apparent focal length closer to the field of view of an 80mm on a full frame camera, and yet at the same time the depth of field for the smaller sensor camera is more like the depth of field a 50mm lens would produce on a full frame camera (using the same aperture), then this would seem to suggest the concept of an "aperture dividing effect."  In other words, a 50mm f/1.8 lens on an APS-C camera would act more like a 80mm f/2.8 (approx. 1.8 * 1.6x) lens in 35mm equivalent — for depth of field, not considering exposure.  Can someone with a better understanding of the physics involved clarify this for me.  I've never seen this concept explicitly mentioned anywhere, so I am a bit suspect of it.