I'm a programmer and I'm combing through some code and entering comments to help other developers. I wrote the following sentence and got confused by the (possibly) dangling verb. I've spared you the the jargon by replacing with [tech fix].   I've put in this [tech fix] to make future modifications easier.   It didn't look right, so changed it to try to make it follow make:    I've put in this [tech fix] to make future modifications more easily.   or   I've put in this [tech fix] to make future modifications easy.   My reasoning is that if the sentence could be rewritten as the following, then case 2 above would be correct.   I've put in this [tech fix] to more easily make future modifications   In the above sentences, which is more correct, easier or more easily? Please help me understand the difference by decomposing the sentence.
For example:     The word rarely turns up outside of those contexts.      The word turns up rarely outside of those contexts.   Which one is correct and why?
Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it? I get this error when trying to use apt-get:  E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?     How can I fix this? How can I show that $\frac{1}{1+|z|^2}$ isn't analytic at $z=1$? Proof that there must exist infinitely many solutions to a homogeneous system of equations when more unknowns than equations What is a decoupling capacitor and how do I know if I need one? What is a decoupling capacitor (or smoothing capacitor as referred to in the link below)?  How do I know if I need one and if so, what size and where it needs to go?    mentions many chips needing one between VCC and GND; how do I know if a specific chip is one?   Would an  4-bit parallel access shift register used with an Arduino need one? (To use my current project as an example) Why or why not?  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Suppose $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ are continuous function from $[0,1]\rightarrow [0,1]$, and $f$ is monotone increasing, then how to prove the following inequality: $$\int_{0}^{1}f(g(x))dx\le\int_{0}^{1}f(x)dx+\int_{0}^{1}g(x)dx$$ Why didn't Gollum grow old and die after he lost the One Ring to Bilbo? From my (honestly limited) knowledge of what the Heat Death of the Universe is, I understand that HDotU is the point when energy levels across the entire Universe reach equillibrium, thus energy doesn't flow anymore absolutely anywhere, and thus nothing will ever happen anymore.  If that's the case, would time still be? Even when there's not a single event happening inside it and nobody's there to observe the ticking, does time (or space, come to think of it) exist? Or would HDotU cause something that ends the entire spacetime? Convergent or divergent $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{e^nn!}{n^n}$? Any suggestion/hint, not the whole solution, how to determine convergence/divergence of $$ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\dfrac{e^n \cdot n!}{n^n} $$ I'm currently stuck. Cannot select text in Safari address bar Having migrated to Linux from Windows, I would like to find an alternative software to Winmerge or rather learn command line tools to compare and sync two folders on Linux. I would be grateful if you could tell me how to do the following tasks on the command line... (I have studied diff and rsync, but I still need some help.)  We have two folders: "/home/user/A" and "/home/user/B"  Folder A is the place where regular files and folders are saved and folder B is a backup folder that serves as a complete mirror of folder A. (Nothing is directly saved or modified by the user in folder B.)  My questions are:   How to list files that exist only in folder B? (E.g. the ones deleted from folder A since the last synchronization.) How to copy files that exist in only folder B back into folder A? How to list files that exist in both folders but have different timestamps or sizes? (The ones that have been modified in folder A since last synronization. I would like to avoid using checksums, because there are tens of thousands of files and it'd make the process too slow.) How to make an exact copy of folder A into folder B? I mean, copy everything from folder A into folder B that exists only in folder A and delete everything from folder B that exists only in folder B, but without touching the files that are the same in both folders. How to make my own Dropbox / Ubuntu One server at home? Does anybody know of any resources that can show me how to make my own "Dropbox, Ubuntu One" server at home?  I really like the idea of these services, but I don't want to put my 'stuff' in the clouds. Ideally, it should have a client that runs on Linux and Windows.  I tried to setup iFolder on my Ubuntu 10.04, but without any success so far. Can awakened mind be used with suggestion? Can the warlock class feature "awakened mind" be used in conjunction with the suggestion spell, allowing the warlock to make the suggestion telepathically?  Awakened Mind, Player's Handbook p. 110:     You can telepathically speak to any creature you can see within 30 feet of you. You don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances.   Suggestion, Player's Handbook p. 279:     You suggest a course of activity (limited to a sentence or two) and magically influence a creature you can see within range that can hear and understand you.   If it works with suggestion, would it also work with mass suggestion?  To be clear, I am not asking about the verbal component of the spell, only the method the caster "suggests a course of activity". I encountered this particular combinatorial identity :$$\begin{align}&amp;1\dbinom{n-1}{r-1}+2\dbinom{n-2}{r-1}+\cdots+(n+1-r)\dbinom{r-1}{r-1}\\=&amp;\dbinom{n}{r}+\dbinom{n-1}{r}+\cdots+\dbinom{r}{r}\\=&amp; \dbinom{n+1}{r+1}\end{align}$$How does one figure it out? Macbook pro Mid-2012 not booting on battery. Not responding to power button Macbook pro Mid-2012 - Keyboard not working (Space and Caps lock only works) - Doesn't switch on using battery, when I remove the battery connector from board and Plug on AC it boots. I had recently changed the HDD to SSD myself. Setup IIS 7.5 with multiple website bindings and SSL? On IIS 7.5 I am trying to achieve this with two websites:  Default Web Site is bound to:  (blank host header port 80 - http) (blank host header port 443 - https) go.example.com www71.example.com the IP address of go.example.com  2nd web site "Beta" is bound to:  beta.example.com (blank host header port 443 - https) * using blank only because it doesn't seem to be possible to    bind https to a named host header   And both need to work with SSL.  But I have these problems:   When I type in beta.example.com, I see the go.example.com site instead I can not seem to add the SSL binding to both websites at once (I have a single *.example.com wildcard certificate).  The beta site will not even start if I add the https binding to it.   This is how I have set it up:    What is the correct way to set it up? Typesetting A when a register is 1, B when 2, etc I have a register \count0=&lt;some-value&gt; and need to get the letter of the alphabet on the index of \count0. 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What settings should I be using to shoot "Supermoon"?