Should you use present or past tense when telling people about your work experience? Say, I worked for a Japanese bakery in 2010-2012. Now that I am going to tell the people in the new bakery shop about my experience. Shall I say: (1), "I have two years of experience in bakery", or (2), "I had two years of experience in bakery".  I pick (2) beacuse the two-year experience is past, but I am not sure if I am correct. Please help me.
When is using the past perfect tense not necessary? Is it more natural to speak in simple past or past perfect when explaining past events to a friend? It seems like Americans use more simple past in everyday life than past perfect. I found this example online:     I had almost completed my essay when my computer suddenly crashed and I noticed that I had forgotten to save the document.   Is it wrong to say the following instead?     I was almost done with my essay when my computer suddenly crashed and I noticed that I forgot to save the document.   Maybe it's just my friends, but I rarely hear them speak in past perfect, so I'm really torn about using past perfect when it isn't necessary.
How to make a Copper/Rose Gold smudge material? Yes,  but there must be a canonical or most efficient or most concise way. I'll add answers I know of and see what percolates to the top.  To be clear, the question is how best to read the contents of a file into a string. One solution per answer. Content Assist for JSF2 + CDI (weld) beans + Eclipse Helios Continuously copy all file changes from one folder to another on change (Windows) I'm working on a massive Java web application which is kept under centralized version control, but the source files are used to build and run the actual server, which then copies all the files I work on into a random temporary directory while it's running.  My problem is that I need to either rebuild this huge application to see any changes to my files, or keep track of all my changes and copy over the files I've changed back to their source location before committing them back to source control.  My question is: is there a command line script I can run that will monitor any changes in the source folder and automatically copy changed files across to temporary folder X?  The idea is to remove the human point of failure in having to manually mitigate the two-locations problem. How can I gear my follower post 2.0? I'm a little confused as to how I'm supposed to gear up my follower since the installation of smart loot in Loot 2.0. My follower still has most pre loot 2.0 items because I have yet to find comparables that are rolling with the right affixes.   To be clear, I play a DH and so I used the Templar as my tank. I very rarely find items that roll with Strength because smart loot sees my DH and rolls Dex for me instead. With the use of the Enchantress I thought it would get better because I could replace Dex with Strength...but that's not true. It seems as though the Enchantress will only roll Dex for me too.   With the auction house down for good, no outlet for trading, and the installation of smart loot, it seems that gearing a follower has become almost impossible unless I want to jump on another character that uses strength and get items that way. I want to find items that I can use while I'm playing. How do I gear my follower post Loot 2.0? Do I have any options other than character jumping? What is the difference between a predicate and function? I need to to understand the difference between predicates and functions in the context of Clasual Form Logic in order to define the Herbrand universe.  If I have p(x) :- q(f(x)) would I be right in saying that p and q are predicates while f is a function because it is "nested"?  By this thinking then if I have p(x) :- q(x) both p and q are predicates and I have no functions?  If this is incorrect then how can I tell the difference between a predicate and function? Converting string to tuple and adding to tuple Mail.app crashes constantly, even after deleting mail profile and cache Alternative definitions of wifebeater I was a li'l nonplussed to find out that the word  can mean other things besides "a man who beats up his wife". Its definition reads:        One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats one’s wife, or a husband prone to violence   A kind of sleeveless shirt, often but not exclusively worn as an undershirt.   (uncountable, UK, slang) Stella Artois, a brand of lager beer.       reckons that sense 2 is American and originates "apparently from the association of such a garment with men who commit domestic violence". It does not register the UK slang. I'm guessing that Stellas also have an unfortunate association with domestic violence.  Are these alternative senses popular in their respective countries or are they perhaps nonce words that have lingered on? Any idea how these disparaging associations came about? I expect that the brewers of Stella Artois are none too happy about it. We are working on a service that is quite new and unknown to people. It's is oriented on small business. The target audience is divided into 3 specific different groups. As for now, we have one landing page, which communicates to 3 groups.   We have very low conversion mainly because people don't understand how they can use the service and benefit from it.  So, we decided to change the logic:  There will be one entrance page, where user will have to choose his group (1 of 3) and then he will be forwarded to the page of the group he chose before, where all the explanations how to use the service are provided.  So instead of one page we will have four pages. Will it improve the communication with users and are there any suggestions how to deal with 3 different target audiences? Why was Sirius ever convicted? Ubuntu 20.04 Font and UI elements too big on login I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on an ASUS X99-E-10G WS w/ an NVIDIA 1080Ti and an LG 4k 32&quot; monitor which persistently gets recognized as 27&quot;. When I log in, the text of certain UI elements is ~2x the normal size. After I go to settings/universal access and turn large text on and then off again, everything is the normal size I expect. Screenshot after logging in  After turning &quot;large text&quot; on  After turning &quot;large text&quot; off  How do I get the conditions I have after cycling the &quot;large text&quot; feature to be present immediately after booting? I have the 440 version of NVIDIA's drivers installed. Decrease available inventory item on Cognito Form, removing it when zero I want to limit inventory quantities on a sales form, so that it can start at say 100 and count backwards as applicants submit orders and then shut down that particular option when it reaches 0.    Is this possible with Cognito? Why is it "have someone wrapped around your LITTLE finger"? I just had occasion to write she's got him wrapped around her finger (under complete control).  I'd never really thought about this one before, but my guess would have been the idiom had some connection to wedding rings. On the other hand, intuition (and a Google Books search) tell me that the expression usually involves a little finger - not normally associated with wedding rings.  Does anyone know when/why the idiomatic usage arose? I can't find anything in OED or a cursory search online. Where should the comma be placed in the salutation of a letter? Sometimes I see a comma after the proper name:     Hello Mr. Black,      In order to give you....   But my native language is not English and I think that the comma in this phrase should be placed before the proper name:      Hello, Mr. Black.      In order to give you....   What is the correct punctuation in English? Book about classical mechanics I'm trying to run the remove_doubles edit command on multiple selected objects. This is kinda what I got so far...  import bpy   class remDoubles(bpy.types.Operator):     """Remove Doubles on multiple objects"""     bl_label = "Remove Multiple Doubles"     bl_idname = "object.remove_doubles_multi"     bl_options = {'REGISTER', 'UNDO'}      @classmethod     def poll(cls, context):         return len(context.selected_objects) &gt; 0      def execute(self, context):          scene = bpy.context.scene         sel = context.selected_objects          for obj in sel:             scene.objects.active = obj              #do something here             print(obj.name)             bpy.ops.mesh.remove_doubles()          return {"FINISHED"}  myobject = remDoubles()  myobject.execute()   My knowledge about classes isn't too great, please help.  My code needs some work, it just errors out giving a  'TypeError: bpy_struct.new(type): expected a single argument'  But what i intend doing is run through each object applying the remove doubles command for each. How does Dijkstra's Algorithm and A-Star compare? If $E/F$ is algebraic and every $f\in F[X]$ has a root in $E$, why is $E$ algebraically closed? Login not redirecting back to page where login link was clicked if account created