As in the title , I want to know which one of these sentences is correct and why?   I want to do something specific. or I want to do a specific something.
I want to better understand why the construction something + [adjective] makes grammatical sense. Background: I was recently reading a Washington Post article and came across the following sentence.  So if you fall in that category, [the movie] feels more like magic than repetitive.  (Note: I've copied the relevant spoiler-free sentence above; following the link to the article will open you up to movie spoilers! ) The phrase more like magic than repetitive struck me as odd, presumably because it was non-parallel (more like [noun] than [adjective]). I would have expected &quot;...more like magic than something repetitive.&quot; (Actually, that needs to be rewritten to flow better, but the point is that at least it appears to be grammatical.) Thus, one would have the noun phrase &quot;something repetitive,&quot; of the form &quot;[noun] [adjective].&quot; This got me to thinking about the use of adjectives after nouns. There is a great Stack Exchange article  that involves the characteristics of the adjective that indicate it should come after the noun. But I haven't been able to find examples of how the word &quot;something&quot; requires a postponed adjective. Consider the following sentences:  I want to buy something red. I am looking for something sweet to eat.  You cannot say:  *I want to buy red something. *I am looking for sweet something to eat.  But you can say:  I want to buy something (that is) red. I am looking for something (that is) sweet to eat.  So, my question:  Do the above examples mean that the &quot;something [adjective]&quot; construction is an example of the ellipsis of &quot;that is&quot;?  Is there something special about the word &quot;something&quot; that requires the postponed adjective? Note that I am NOT looking for details about adjectives that are postponed; I'm interested in the word that precedes the adjective (either &quot;something&quot; or similar words).   By the way, I am not interested in the following constructions, which are different:  I want to paint the house red. I tried to build the brick house taller.  Thanks in advance!
Batch Processing Quick Query I have like 50000 records that meet my condition for batch processing. My batch process begins at say 10:01 AM and ends at 10:10 AM. I set my batch size to be 200.  Can someone tell me what would happen  a) If an user creates a record at 10:03 AM that meet my condition...will this record be also be processed or not ?  b) Will the records which are getting processed during Batch 1 are technically locked till that particular batch is processed completely ?  c) What will be the behaviour if a record in Batch N does not meet my condition anymore but that particular batch has already been started to process ?  d) Is it possible to create a parallel processing of sorts such that Salesforce (instead of running one batch at a time) it will start processing parallely with multiple batches ?  I searched online and I could find manual/instructions with respect to how to run batch apex but I am not able to get clarity with respect to these specific cases. I've been reading a lot about the oxidative dissimilation etc, and often I see different sources use NADH and NADH2 in the same reactions. One source uses NADH and another uses NADH2 in the exact same way. Is there a difference or is it just a different name for the same substance? I know on client side (javascript) you can use windows.location.hash but could not find anyway to access from the server side. I'm using asp.net. Story about building up speed leading to increased quality of life It's a story I read in 2 or 3 parts in a Greek sci-fi magazine called 9 around 2004 (give or take a few years), but it may be a bit older than that. This is what I remember (and I hope it's all accurate):   The protagonist used to travel a lot, mainly using high speed media like aircraft. It was established in the story that as he traveled more frequently and with more speed, he would gradually cross over towards (sort of) higher planes of existence (and that everyone in the setting could do the same, although most people simply didn't bother). These higher planes of existence were apparently still Earth, but the environments and the inhabitants were increasingly more alien and life in them was increasingly luxurious. As far as I recall, the protagonist's goal was to reach those higher levels (either for the luxury or for some other reason I can't recall). If he failed to maintain his "speed" for too long, he would fall back to lower planes of existence, with more familiar characteristics and significantly lower quality of life. His wife had died some time ago and her grave was apparently in the lower planes. He did visit her once near the end of the story, before starting to build up "speed" again.   I don't happen to know the original language of the story because what I read was a version translated into Greek. What does the double slash mean in `${f// /_}`? I'm learning Bash, and I want to replace space characters with other "non blank" characters. I'm using a for loop:  for f in *\ *; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}"; done   My question is, why are the double slash and the space in ${f// /_}? What does ${f// /_} do? How would you explain why $e^{i\pi}+1=0$ to a middle school student? Hi I was asked by a friends child who is in middle school why $e^{i\pi}+1=0$. Now I couldn't think of a way to explain it so he would understand. Albert Einstein once said “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough” so how would I explain it. I am wondering if there is away (possibly a better way) to order by the order of the values in an IN() clause.  The problem is that I have 2 queries, one that gets all of the IDs and the second that retrieves all the information. The first creates the order of the IDs which I want the second to order by. The IDs are put in an IN() clause in the correct order.  So it'd be something like (extremely simplified):  SELECT id FROM table1 WHERE ... ORDER BY display_order, name  SELECT name, description, ... WHERE id IN ([id's from first])   The issue is that the second query does not return the results in the same order that the IDs are put into the IN() clause.  One solution I have found is to put all of the IDs into a temp table with an auto incrementing field which is then joined into the second query.  Is there a better option?  Note: As the first query is run "by the user" and the second is run in a background process, there is no way to combine the 2 into 1 query using sub queries.  I am using MySQL, but I'm thinking it might be useful to have it noted what options there are for other DBs as well. I have problems with my Tilgin Vood Router. As I try to start my router by turning the power on (captain obvious), it generally doesn't work the first 3-4 times. This is getting very annoying.  Five minutes after turning the power on the router's signal LEDs don't blink in the way they should do in a connected state. I can connect to my routers web configuration interface through my PC connected to it via LAN though I can't access the internet.  It usually takes the router five minutes to get to the point where it should be connected to the internet but as it doesn't work the first times.  So I turn on my router 3-5 times, let him work 5 minutes and then suddenly, after turning the power off and on again it all works.  I also have to restart my PC too in order for everything to work.   How can I solve this problem? Just leave the router turned on all time? I prefer a daily IP switch, though. May the problem have something to do with my PC? There is another one connected to the router too and it doesn't work there either. Can I use a EF lens with a EF-S camera? I'll be arriving at Heathrow in June 2015 with my current girlfriend for a holiday in the UK. I've been trying to find out which immigration queue to join at Heathrow Passport Control without much luck. I have a British passport, my girlfriend has a non-EU passport.     Should I join the EU queue and she the non-EU queue or should we both queue together (and if so, which of the queues should we join)? Ubuntu 20.04 Network Performance Extremely Slow I just upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 on one of the  machines, and the network performance is abhorrent. Internet speed is very fast from a google speed test (>300Mb/s for both upload and download).     However, whenever I try to browse a website or even run sudo apt update the connection will often time out. My internet is very fast on all other devices and I really don't know how to debug this problem.  sudo lshw -class network -short &amp;&amp; nmcli device status    shows  H/W path           Device           Class          Description ============================================================== /0/100/1c.6/0      wlp2s0           network        Wi-Fi 6 AX200 /3                 br-96f5b790e29e  network        Ethernet interface /4                 br-15e76fb81c05  network        Ethernet interface /5                 docker0          network        Ethernet interface  DEVICE           TYPE      STATE         CONNECTION       wlp2s0           wifi      connected     CSA HQ           br-15e76fb81c05  bridge    connected     br-15e76fb81c05  br-96f5b790e29e  bridge    connected     br-96f5b790e29e  docker0          bridge    connected     docker0          p2p-dev-wlp2s0   wifi-p2p  disconnected  --               lo               loopback  unmanaged     --               gpd0             tun       unmanaged     --                Solution:  It seems like this is a pretty common problem, and one without a definitive cause. For me, it was because Ubuntu resets the TLP configuration, and the power management went back to "on". I disabled Wi-Fi power management directly by editing:  sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf   Then changed the value from 3 to 2, saved changes and rebooted.  I actually got this solution from Reddit and this worked for my case specifically but it seems like it could be caused by a bunch of other things. Read all the proposed solutions below! Finite Sum $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{m-1}\frac{1}{\sin^2\frac{k\pi}{m}}$ Using congruences, show $\frac{1}{5}n^5 + \frac{1}{3}n^3 + \frac{7}{15}n$ is integer for every $n$ Cannot add custom launcher to Ubuntu Dock ('Add to Favorites' option does not show up) I have a custom .desktop file: [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Terminal=false Icon[en_US]=/home/alex/bin/idea-IC-173.4127.27/bin/idea.png Name[en_US]=IntelliJ Exec=/home/alex/bin/idea-IC-173.4127.27/bin/idea.sh Name=IntelliJ Icon=/home/alex/bin/idea-IC-173.4127.27/bin/idea.png  Output of ls -lha .local/share/applications/intellij.desktop: -rwx--x--x 1 alex alex 248 Dez 30 10:54 .local/share/applications/intellij.desktop  Answers posted to a previous question () don't work for me. I can find this launcher in Activities and I can double click on that file and IntelliJ will start. Nevertheless, I cannot add this launcher as a favorite to the dock. The option does not show up. GP 1.2.10(b) The tangent space $T_{(x,x)}(\triangle)$ is the diagonal of $T_x(X) \times T_x(X).$ If $\triangle$ is the diagonal of $X \times X$, show that its tangent space $T_{(x,x)}(\triangle)$ is the diagonal of $T_x(X) \times T_x(X).$   I don't have the slightest idea on how to do this.  By definition, the tangent space of $X$ at $x$ is the image of the map $d\phi_0: \mathbb{R}^k \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^N$, where $x + d\phi_0(v)$ is the best linear approximation to $\phi: V \rightarrow X$ at 0. $\phi: V \rightarrow X$ is a local parametrization around $x$, $X$ sits in $\mathbb{R}^N$ and $V$ is an open set in $\mathbb{R}^k$, and $\phi(0) = x$.  Thanks. A few years ago I saw a scifi movie about a group of travelers stranded at what I believe might have been a bus station (I don't remember that detail with any certainty).  There were 2 children (a boy and a girl) who were running around and everyone thought they belonged to someone else there.  As it turned out, the children were aliens that reverted to their true form and began hunting down the travelers.  I've been searching all over the internet but can't come up with the name of the movie.  Does anyone know the name of it? Render Glass like materials with Alpha Channel to composite in external app Hope you can help me with some issues I've been dealing these days.  As I'm rendering products, most of the time I need to render some transparent materials in order to do a post-pro in Photoshop, change the backgrounds, superpose images, etc.  I've been looking for an answer but yet I've couldn't get a solution for this problem.  I need to render materials with transparency and no background in Cycles.  I've found that there are two ways to do this:   Render with transparency in the materials.  Render and get two renders, the original and another one only with the alpha channel to edit in Photoshop.   For the first option, I've achieved to render a glass-like material, as PET plastic using this node tree:    For the second option, I haven't found a way to get the alpha channel in cycles that includes the object with transparency and, if possible, the shadows in the background| but without the background. Does Python have a ternary conditional operator? Mean Value theorem problem?(inequality) I'm trying to solve this mean value theorem problem but confused where to start,     If $0&lt;a&lt;b$ prove that $(1-\frac{a}{b})&lt;\ln\frac{b}{a}&lt;\frac{b}{a}-1$   Can someone please lend me a hand? Retrieve the position (X,Y) of an HTML element relative to the browser window I want to know how to get the X and Y position of HTML elements such as img and div in JavaScript relative to the browser window.