I've recently been rather fed up with Windows, and have started removing useless system apps like Edge &amp; IE, and I constantly see Windows Defender using 30+% of my CPU.  I have another antivirus. A better antivirus, so that's no issue. The only thing I'm worried about is whether or not Windows will stably work if I remove Windows Defender. I have heard news of Windows seemingly "breaking" when removing core packages.   Is it safe to remove defender? Will Windows functionality be hindered by the removal?  EDIT: This question is not about how to remove Windows Defender.     Why do so many users assume the question is "how to remove?", while it's "is it safe?"
On Windows 10 Professional, with the November update (Build 10586, Version 1511) , is there any possibility to completely remove Windows Defender ?  I don't want to just disable Windows Defender.  I want to completely uninstall from my system.
Many To many for Bulk records I have created two custom objects (A and B)and a junction object(AB). i.e. Both A and B have Many to Many relationship. Now I need to insert 5000 records. How can I automatically populate the relation in Junction object. DO I have to write any trigger or Do I have to do Manually mapping the records? Find the equation of a plane containing a point and passing through a line Find the general form equation of a plane that contains the point $(2, -2, 1)$ and passes through a line $(x, y, z) = (1, 2, -3) + t(2, -3, 2)$.  I managed to use the fact that it contains a given point to write the equation of the plane as $A(x-2) + B(y+2) + C(z-1) = 0$ but got stuck there. As I prefer outer parentheses to grow larger in nested expressions, I happen to insert \bigl and \bigr and its larger cousins a lot. I have always wondered whether there is a way to do this automagically.  Inserting \left and \right prophylacticly before all opening and closing parentheses and hoping that it sorts things out doesn't do the trick in all cases as seen below.  The left column is without any size changing commands. The middle column as a \left \right pair at every parentheses/brace/bracket and the rightmost column shows my preferred version.    As seen in the middle column of the second and third line the \left and \right pair sometimes makes the outer parentheses larger, on the cost of an extra horizontal space between \Pr and (. The extra space is fine in case of really big opening parentheses but here I'd prefer the regular spacing.  \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \begin{document} \begin{align*} &amp;1-(1-F(x))^n&amp;&amp;1-\left(1-F(x)\right)^n&amp;&amp;1-\bigl(1-F(x)\bigr)^n\\ &amp;\Pr(X_{(1)}\le x)&amp;&amp;\Pr\left(X_{(1)}\le x\right)&amp;&amp;\Pr\bigl(X_{(1)}\le x\bigr)\\ &amp;\mathbb{E}[\min\{X_1,X_2\}]&amp;&amp;\mathbb{E}\left[\min\left\{X_1,X_2\right\}\right]&amp;&amp;\mathbb{E}\bigl[\min\left\{X_1,X_2\right\}\bigr]\\ &amp;\left(\pi-\arccos(\frac{y}{r})\right)&amp;&amp;(\pi-\arccos\left(\frac{y}{r}\right))&amp;&amp;\left(\pi-\arccos \left(\frac{y}{r}\right)\right) \end{align*} \end{document}   As mathematical expressions can be arbitrarly complex there is probably no general way to do this. But I’m not asking for a solution of the general case. A partial solution that works in the simple cases shown above would be a big help. The simple rule could be, that parentheses never shrink below the size of an inner pair. Of course you can immediately think of extensions like a \mid in a conditional expectation that grows with the size of the expectation’s brackets.  What is your preference regarding the size of nested parentheses? Is there a better way to archieve your preferred style despite inserting \bigl \bigr manually?    EDIT:  A colleague pointed me to section 8.3 of Herbert Voß’  document where size problems with parentheses are solved by playing with two TeX parameters within a group around the expression in question. This led naturally to appendix G of the TeXbook where the mechanics of \delimitershortfall and \delimiterfactor are explained.  \delimitershortfall specifies the maximum space not covered by a delimiter (default 5pt) and \delimiterfactor is the ratio for variable delimiters, times 1000 (default 901).  I used them to implement the never shrink below a subformular size idea from above by setting the shortfall to 0pt and the ratio to 1.0.    While it works nicely in line one and three, in line two and four the parentheses now grow too much, and still there is the extra horizontal space introduced by \left. Why is the atmosphere transparent in the visible spectrum? One of the great 'coincidences' in physics is that the Sun happens to shine most brightly at exactly the wavelengths our eyes can see; it's an easy explanation that our eyes evolved to make the most out of what was available.  However, this spectral window is also , with Rayleigh scattering and the ozone layer protecting us from the UV and strong water vapour absorption in the IR until way into the radio range.  My question is: is this a coincidence? Were there geological factors that made it so? Or is it just lucky chance? (I also notice other planets in our neighbourhood weren't quite so lucky.) Or had atmospheric absorption been different our eyes would have tuned to whatever spectral window were brighter as a whole? Unable to format internal drive as APFS on 2018 MacBook Pro I’ve recently ran a semi-routine clean install on my 2018 MacBook Pro. This involves the following steps (in the given order):   Creating a USB installer with the latest macOS Mojave 10.14.2. Booting into the USB (Pressing Option key on boot). Using the Disk Utility, erasing the Disk and formatting it as APFS with a GPT Partition scheme. Using the Terminal, unmounting the disk diskutil unmountDisk disk0, where disk0 is the internal NVME drive. Using the Terminal, running gpt destroy disk0 where disk0. Using the Terminal, running diskutil zeroDisk disk0. Once that process is complete, I use the Disk Utility application to reformat as APFS, and install macOS.   Nothing super crazy, maybe a little redundant in steps, maybe a little overkill, maybe a little unnecessary.  Recently, however, on the final step where I format it as a APFS drive, it fails in creating the APFS container and says Internal State Error. It appears to first format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) then create an APFS container, then add a APFS Volume. It fails when adding a Volume with An internal error occurred.  I have tried many things, including:   Securely erasing the drive diskutil secureErase 0 disk0. Simply zeroing the disk again diskutil zeroDisk disk0 (I’m not sure what the actual difference between these two are). Reformatting the drive as other things, such as ExFAT / FAT / MacOS Journaled, then trying to format as APFS. Reformatting the drive through the command line instead: diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ NAME disk0 → diskutil apfs createContainer /dev/disk0s2 → diskutil apfs addVolume disk0s2 APFS NAME (It fails here with Error starting APFS Container creation: The given disk is not an APFS Container Reference (-69630), even though I just made a container there. Also, trying to add a volume to where it actually made the container (i don't know what it does this) diskutil apfs addVolume disk24 APFS NAME also fails with Error: -69624: Unable to add a new APFS Volume to an APFS Container Reformatting the drive using this: diskutil eraseDisk APFS NAME disk0 Restarting and trying these again. Using a different installer than the USB (The one from Command + R, Command + Shift + R, and whatever the other combo is), and trying these again.   All end up at the same thing - the final step fails. I would expect especially after a secure wipe that the drive would be removed from whatever state it was put in, or that if it was a bug with the 10.14.2 installer, that it still wouldn’t happen again in the High Sierra installer. In Disk Utility, I’m left with the following structure:  - APPLE SSD AP(...) // “Container disk24” takes up all space      - Container disk24 // or some other number. “Used” is 207.2MB and “Free” is 1TB.   Please note even though I can format as JHFS+, it won’t let me install the OS to such a formatted volume. The installer tells me this computer forces me to only install on APFS formatted volumes.  Any direction is greatly appreciated. I have never had such a silly problem before. Also, note that I have no Time Machine backup. "In" vs. "after" for future talk Looking for a SF story regarding women growing things in their wombs I'm looking for the title and author of a short story or novelette that I read quite some time ago.   The main characters are two young women. One is taking correspondence courses, and is constantly being berated by the other one for hoping to rise above her station. They go out to pick up young men, to sleep with them, to get pregnant.  It's not a normal sort of pregnancy, though. The men have some sort of 'coded semen' which grow something other than a child in the woman's womb. It ends up being a product of some kind, which earns the woman money when it is 'born'. The one woman is very careful about who she chooses, as she can only do this so many times. The other... isn't so careful.   At the end, the careful, studious woman achieves what she has been working for - a letter from a government organisation that permits her to become the mother to a human being.  Thank you for reading my question. I've been looking for this story for years, now. When adding NOT NULL columns with a DEFAULT value - does PostgreSQL optimize this operation?  In case the table has n rows, a not-optimized alter-table-add-column would yield n writes of the default value - which could be very painful, obviously. With the optimization the DB would instantaneously create the new column, store just one copy of the default value which would be returned when no non-default value is found for that column in a suitable index data structure.  For example  such an . Find the value of $\sum_{k=1}^{n}k\binom{n}{k}$? If one uses Shadow Evocation on a willing ally (e.g. Telekinetic Charge) can they choose not to disbelieve? Shadow Evocation  Nondamaging effects have normal effects except against those who disbelieve them. Against disbelievers, they have no effect.  Disbelief  Creatures encountering an illusion usually do not receive saving throws to recognize it as illusory until they study it carefully or interact with it in some fashion. A successful saving throw against an illusion reveals it to be false, but a figment or phantasm remains as a translucent outline. A failed saving throw indicates that a character fails to notice something is amiss. A character faced with proof that an illusion isn't real needs no saving throw. If any viewer successfully disbelieves an illusion and communicates this fact to others, each such viewer gains a saving throw with a +4 bonus.  (my emphasis) Voluntarily Giving up a Saving Throw  A creature can voluntarily forego a saving throw and willingly accept a spell's result. Even a character with a special resistance to magic can suppress this quality.  If I understand the above correctly,  If the ally believes the caster actually cast Telekinetic Charge, it seems they get a save which they could forgoe and so be guaranteed the benefit of the spell. &gt;&gt; We're good here. If the ally knows the caster didn't cast Telekinetic Charge, (say because of a high Spellcraft check or because she knows the caster's spell list) they have proof that the illusion isn't real and so need no saving throw. &gt;&gt; Even though she &quot;needs no saving throw&quot;, can she still choose to forego the save and be effected by the spell?  In other words, I think the question boils down to: Does one always have a choice not disbelieve an illusion, even when one has proof that it's not real? Misplaced/Overlapping Navigation Item Text on iOS 10 The bug displayed in the attached screenshot occurs consistently for me while running the developer beta of iOS 10 using v1.5.2 of the Stack Exchange app on an iPhone 6.  I was able to recreate this by simply tapping on any question or answer in my feed with a long title. This doesn't appear to be a bug with iOS 10 itself since I haven't seen it in other apps, but I could be wrong. Proving an inequality involving the logarithm function: $\frac{1}{n+1} \leq \ln \left(1+\frac 1n\right) \leq \frac 1n$ The question is to prove the inequality $$\frac{1}{n+1} \leq \ln \left(1+\frac 1n\right) \leq \frac 1n\\\forall n \geq 1, n\in \mathbb N$$  I tried using Taylor expansion but couldn't figure out anything. Any ideas? Thanks. Suppose f is a function such that $f'(x) = \frac{1}{x}$ for all $x &gt; 0$. Prove that if $f(1) = 0, then f(xy) = f(x) + f(y)$ for all $x,y &gt; 0$  As stated above, how do i go about doing this question?   Hi all, i would like to apologize if the question is missing context or other details.   This question was part of my calculus tutorial. I was on the topic of application of differentiation when this question was given to me.  Thus far i have learnt about intermediate value theorem, mean value theorem, rolle's theroem, Fermat's thereom.  As of this point in my learning, i have not touched upon integration. The only reason why i accepted the answer with integration in it was because i understood it.  Thus i believe i am suppose to use one the few theorems that i've stated to solve this question. But i have no idea where to start.  At first i differentiated the equation $f(xy)=f(x)+f(y)$ with respect to x  i believed the answer to be $f'(xy)\frac{dy}{dx}=f'(x)+f'(y)\frac{dy}{dx}$  which would be $\frac{1}{xy}\frac{1}{x}=\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}\frac{1}{x}$  At this point a few questions came to my mind  1) am i suppose to differentiate the eqn in the first place 2) what has $f(1)=0$ got to do with anything 3) what theorem am i suppose to use to solve this question  This was my thought process throughout the question and i hope someone would point out my mistakes. Thank you Why isn't The Flash unstoppable? I've recently gotten into The Flash TV show, and so I've been reading about his powers. What I don't understand is why his typical rogues pose a threat - it seems like there should be very little limit to his powers.  He can go back in time, so if he loses a battle or the bad guys do something, he can go back and preempt it. In the new 52, he can all but predict the immediate future, so he can see bad things that are going to happen and stop them. He can phase matter through matter, or let matter pass through him. This means he is all but immune to weapons fire.  I haven't read enough of the old comics so I don't the know challenges he's had. For a guy who can't be attacked, can time-travel and can race around the globe several times in a minute, I can't imagine there is much that could pose a threat. How do I know when to use "the" versus "a" versus "∅" as an article on a noun? With proper nouns, we don't use the except for river names, newspaper names, etc.  I want to know why we use the with White House. I mean, under which rule can we categorize it? What could other similar examples for that rule be? Prolog count the number of times a predicate is true made me think about the movie versions of the 7th book.  In Deathly Hallows Part II      Voldemort has Nagini attack Snape because Voldy thinks that Snape has the Elder Wand's allegiance. We know that Snape didn't actually have the allegiance, Draco did (and by then Harry did) and his plan had failed.   But if Voldy's plan had succeeded with Snape, would he have gotten allegiance?      Since voldemort didn't kill Snape, Nagini did... Browse for Servers does not display local instance I just installed SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio but it doesn't show anything in servers list and I don't know how to connect to it.  This shows that I have installed SQL Server:        But in this image you can see that my Browse for Servers dialog is empty:        Network servers is empty too. Im very new at LaTeX and I would appreciate some help solving this problem. I have created a BibTeX file containing all references to a document. In this text file BibTeX items are inserted and no other text are written, for instance @article{...}. When I call for this bib file from the main.tex file I use the commands:  \bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{thebibliography}   Now to my question. All i get when I compile this main.tex is the title (bibliography) for this chapter, otherwise the textfield is blank. Is this error occurring because I should write anything in the bib file or have I missed any lines in the main.tex file. I was looking at  and I didn't realize that Minecraft had some Easter eggs in it. Besides the Christmas chest Easter egg, and the sheep Easter egg, what else is there?