What is the difference between affect and effect? Does anyone know the difference between affect and effect? The definitions I have found online are confusing and I don't understand them. If someone could define it that would be great!
"Effect" vs. "Affect" I've noticed that some people use effect and affect interchangeably. What are the differences between these two and when are the proper situations to use each of them?
When should the "Not an Answer" flag be used? Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on How to make pdfsam work in (L)ubuntu 18.04? Short story with spaceship and humanity not realising they should be on it The plot is about:   A spaceship travelling through the universe Earth is a rogue planet whose inhabitants have been cut off and don't realise that their true purpose is to be part of the spaceship   The reason earth was in turmoil (wars etc.) was that they didn't realise that their true role was to fit into the ship  The ship contained 3 or 4 beings that made the thing work Planets throughout the universe are populated with the various beings which are components of the space craft   I seem to remember like an eye shaped being Each of them fulfil their role Humans are part of that as well.  There are loads of planets with humans on but earth has gotten overlooked so it never realised that's what they were designed for The story concludes with the ships picking up someone from Earth   and with the "human" realising that this is what they should really be doing  Humans have a different name that explains their role in the ship.   I probably read it around 30 years ago in English in a sci-fi collection book. Computing $\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{k}\int_{\pi k}^{\infty}\frac{\sin(x)}{x}dx$ I was asked to evaluate the following sum: $$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{k}\int_{\pi k}^{\infty}\frac{\sin(x)}{x}dx$$  I'm trying to use $$\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\sin(x)}{x}dx=\frac{\pi}{2}$$ However, it doesn't seem to work. Any help is greatly appreciated. RegEx: Grabbing values between quotation marks Real Analysis, Folland Problem 1.3.15 Measures Given a measure $\mu$ on $(X,M)$, define $\mu_0$ on $M$ by $$\mu_0(E) = \sup\{\mu(F): F\subset E \ \text{and} \ \mu(F) &lt; \infty\}$$ a.) $\mu_0$ is a semifinite measure. It is called the semifinite part of $\mu$. b.) If $\mu$ is semifinite, then $\mu = \mu_0$ (Use Exercise 14) c.) There is a measure $\nu$ on $M$ (in general, not unique) which assumes only the values of $0$ and $\infty$ such that $\mu = \mu_0 + \nu$.  The proof of Exercise 14 can be found  For a.) I believe we need to show that $\mu_0(E) = \infty$. Perhaps we can do this by proof of contradiction, similarly to what the proof in the link above does (actually it seems identical). For b.) I am not sure how we can show $\mu = \mu_0$ I think maybe we have to show by construction that $\mu \leq \mu_0$ and $\mu \geq \mu_0$ For c.) I haven't any idea for. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated. Do I need to reboot my HTC Desire periodically? Please make the multiple comment timer less annoying (non-resetting etc.) As a little feature to prevent comment spam, you can only enter one comment every 15 seconds. That's a very reasonable limitation, since you very rarely have a good reason to write comments that quickly. I've only seen it twice at all, I think, but both times it was extremely annoying.     Only 1 comment allowed per 15 seconds; timer reset.   The reason is that every time you hit the limit, the 15 seconds begin anew. You have no indicator that tells you when you are allowed to comment again, and if you hit enter after just 14 seconds, you're back to zero. Yesterday, I went through four cycles of not quite 15 seconds, counting in my head, before I got a myself a coffee and tried again afterwards.  I suggest that you do one or more of the following (in decreasing order):   Make the counter non-restarting Add a visible countdown Make it clearly visible that you can't comment right now You can actually increase the waiting time, if it is clearly visible and there is no unnerving invisible countdown. Actually, just remove all comment fields after one comment, and tell the user to reload the page. Just please don't have UI elements that look like they would work, but feel like they are trolling you. Windows 10 puts my first and last name to lock screen. How to avoid this? After upgrading to Windows 10, I see my LastName and FirstName on the lock screen. Is there a way to change this? On Windows 8.1 there was just my nickname and email address (maybe there were my first name and last name, but not displayed so large as they are now).  I mean the name and surname parameters specified in my Microsoft account.  Another question: I prefer the format FirstName LastName, not vice versa.  Is there any way to change this as well?   Apart from Lock Screen I see it on the Start Menu. Convert a column into a comma separated list How is Faulhaber's formula derived? Command to italicize text with slanted numbers I often find myself adding a lot of \textsl{} around inside \emph{} or \textit{} blocks because I find italicized digits to look too "showoffy" and "baroque" and to hinder legibility (I'm using $$ when the number has a mathematical sense, but this situation occurs in less technical texts like CVs, and such.).  Could someone help me write a renewcommand to automate this, or better, a single low level command that makes \emph, \itshape, \textit and friends choose slanted over italic for numbers? I'm not too familiar with the low level latex font selection system nor with a way to detect digits from regular letters.  Edit: MWE of what I need and what I want to avoid  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} He thought: '\emph{Why 1234567890 apples?}' then he realized '\emph{ah yes, he has \textsl{1234567890} childs}' \end{document}   gives:   I find the italicized version (first one) of 2,3,4 and 7 to look especially bad. Received an email intended for another person I'm not really sure how email routing works, but someone ordered something on Amazon and I received the email instead of them.  Or maybe we both got it, I don't know.  The order doesn't show up in my account, so I'm certain I wasn't charged for it, but I shouldn't be getting other peoples' emails.  We'll say that my email is johndoe1@gmail.com, and somebody who's email is john.doe1@gmail.com places an order on Amazon.  The confirmation email is sent to me at johndoe1@gmail.com.  I checked the email header, and it did say To: john.doe1@gmail.com which is not my email address.  At first I thought that Google ignores periods in email addresses, but I tested the account setup and it doesn't give any error when you put a period in the address.  I didn't create the account; I just used the "check availability" function and the address I chose with a period was fine.  Maybe someone with knowledge about how Email works could tell me why this happened.  Is this a bug in the way Amazon sends emails?  Or is it a bug in how Google receives them?  Who should I report this issue to? Why do corticosteroids harm COVID-19 patients? states that steroids could do more harm than good in treating coronavirus (COVID-19), referring to .      Understanding the evidence for harm or benefit from corticosteroids in   2019-nCoV is of immediate clinical importance.   It's unclear to me how exactly the use of corticosteroids (which is a common treatments for Asthma patients) can do harm other than the vague explanation of "steroids also impair the immune system's ability to fight viruses".   How exactly does the use of steroids harm the body in case of fighting a virus such as SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV) that causes COVID-19? How to detect using c# if a pendrive is plugged into a USB port? Is there a way to find out when in a LAN anyone plugs in a pendrive to the USB port?  Programatically (in C# preferably) or through some tool. Basically I'd imagine a client application sits on each terminal and monitors the USB ports and sends the information to the server.   a.) Can I get the details of the file(s) being copied? b.) Is there a way to do this without a client application?   EDIT  I dont want to disable the USB port entirely. its to be on a need to have basis. Basically just want the users on the LAN to share data responsibly and know that whatever data is tranfered is monitored and logged and can be questioned later. How can I deactivate Bluetooth on system startup? How can I deactivate Bluetooth on system startup? A white number inside a black circle. How to make a white number inside a black circle (the picture below)? I want to change numbers inside the black circle, of course.  I use Share LaTeX. I have read some articles here but anyone are not what I would like to get. I would like to get this  (the picture below) - the sixth answer.   Thanks for help. Files disappearing on linux server I've got 4 specific files that seem to keep disappearing from a user's home directory. As far as we know, there are no cronjobs or other automated tasks that would be removing them.  I've setup auditd on them but the logs aren't really showing anything of interest.  I can see our backup utility accessing them every night until the point they aren't there anymore, but nothing else.  Is there anything that would be causing those files to be removed that would get around auditd?  The files in question are these:  /home/username/.bashrc /home/username/.bash_profile   as well as a couple of files in that user's .ssh directory.  Copies of these files placed into a subfolder called "keepers" get deleted at the same time as well.  Changing the permissions on them to 000 and having them owned by root hasn't helped.   I've currently got inotifywait setup to log create,delete,move on that subfolder, so hopefully that will turn up something, although it doesn't log much aside from when it happened, not what caused it. I would like to . Apparently this is possible as of Minecraft 1.4.2, so how do I do it?