My question: Is there any word in English (generically speaking) that have something like this:  In our language (Filipino), there's some words that if you subtracted or added a character to it will give you different meaning for example:  PAKANANG = Right part of 'PAKANAN' = Turn right PAKANA = Command / Mastermind PAKAN = Healt / Interest PAKA = Mollusk PAK = Wonderful PA = Father
Since it's Friday and others are playing games, here's another one to take us into the weekend.  Everyone knows about those Russian nesting dolls (called matryoshka dolls, I believe). A small doll nests inside a larger, which itself is inside a larger doll, and so on.   This game does the same with words. You start with a three-letter word, add a letter to make another word, and so on. Longest word wins. The catch? Each additional letter has to form a legitimate word.  Here's one to start you off:     bur   burr   burro   burrow   burrows     Good luck.
I checked my  to see whether I can find something similar to the main-site flag-history for chat-flags, but didn't find anything. I recently had the (dis)pleasure of regularly having to deal with a user, that has been deleted multiple times. Whenever they show up (with the same nick-name) again I have to flag them again. I'd like to get an overview of how often I had to do that, and whether my flags were helpful for the moderators. As such I propose the implementation of a flag-history as it is already in place for the main-site for chat-flags, that request moderator intervention. To be completely clear I am not talking about the 10k user flags, which are acted on in a matter of sometimes seconds with instantly visible results, but about moderator attention flags from this menu: I have several identical elements with different attributes that I'm accessing with SimpleXML:  &lt;data&gt;     &lt;seg id="A1"/&gt;     &lt;seg id="A5"/&gt;     &lt;seg id="A12"/&gt;     &lt;seg id="A29"/&gt;     &lt;seg id="A30"/&gt; &lt;/data&gt;   I need to remove a specific seg element, with an id of "A12", how can I do this?  I've tried looping through the seg elements and unsetting the specific one, but this doesn't work, the elements remain.  foreach($doc-&gt;seg as $seg) {     if($seg['id'] == 'A12')     {         unset($seg);     } } Given the following HTML:   &lt;div id="container"&gt;   &lt;!-- Other elements here --&gt;   &lt;div id="copyright"&gt;     Copyright Foo web designs   &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;    I would like #copyright to stick to the bottom of #container. Can I achieve this without using absolute positioning? In "", Mark Lutz mentions "mixins". I'm from a C/C++/C# background and I have not heard the term before. What is a mixin?   Reading between the lines of  (which I've linked to because it's quite long), I'm presuming it's a case of using multiple inheritance to extend a class as opposed to 'proper' subclassing. Is this right?   Why would I want to do that rather than put the new functionality into a subclass? For that matter, why would a mixin/multiple inheritance approach be better than using composition?  What separates a mixin from multiple inheritance? Is it just a matter of semantics? I just discovered Matlab's factor()-function, and I randomly typed in 20081294819, and to my surprise it only had two factors (5099 and 3938281)! I had expected many more factors for such a big number and wondered how normal this was. The following is what I've done in my investigation so far.  In the first figure below, I have plotted the probability that some number below $10^k$ has $m$ indistinct prime factors.  The second figure shows the evolution of the probability of finding a number with $m$ indistinct prime factors as the numbers one is looking at grows, i.e. it is just another way to visualize the same data. I have left out all points of zero probability.  If one looks at the first part of the figure, it seems that the peak of the curve for some $k$ shifts toward higher $m$ as $k$ grows.   My first question is this: Does this behavior (i.e. the peak shifting toward higher $m$ as $k$ grows) continue indefinitely, or will the peak stabilize at some point? The latter seems unlikely but I can't be sure.  My second question is this: Approximately how fast does the peak-value $m_{peak}$ move as $k$ grows?  I briefly looked at the , but this involves distinct primes and I don't really know much number theory, so any help would be greatly appreciated! How can I form a word like "quadruple" for any number I want? I'm not sure what these are called, but how can I form a word like "quadruple" for any number I want? Like 5× as much is quintuple, what is 31× as much or 147× as much? I want to know how they are formed so I can make my own.  Similarly, how do I construct the prefixes, such as unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, quadricycle? I figured out 12 is duodeci-, but how can I form any prefix like this? From  (emphasis mine):     Neutron degeneracy is a stellar application of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, as is electron degeneracy. No two neutrons can occupy identical states, even under the pressure of a collapsing star of several solar masses. For stellar masses less than about 1.44 solar masses (the Chandrasekhar limit), the energy from the gravitational collapse is not sufficient to produce the neutrons of a neutron star, so the collapse is halted by electron degeneracy to form white dwarfs. Above 1.44 solar masses, enough energy is available from the gravitational collapse to force the combination of electrons and protons to form neutrons. As the star contracts further, all the lowest neutron energy levels are filled and the neutrons are forced into higher and higher energy levels, filling the lowest unoccupied energy levels. This creates an effective pressure which prevents further gravitational collapse, forming a neutron star. However, for masses greater than 2 to 3 solar masses, even neutron degeneracy can't prevent further collapse and it continues toward the black hole state.   How then, can they collapse, without violating the Pauli Exclusion Principle? At a certain point does it no longer apply? How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www? Unable to disable Hyper-V in Windows 10 Hi I installed Docker for Windows which enabled Hyper-V on my windows 10 machine. Unfortunately this caused Virtual Box to not work anymore, therefore I removed Docker again, but Hyper-V is still activated.  If I try to disable Hyper-V with any of those ways:  on the reboot it will first try to apply the changes and than say that the changes couldn't be applied and reverts, so Hyper-V is activated again.  Has anybody an idea what could be the issue here? Is there any way to keep a command from being added to your history? I have a command that I want to keep out of my history file, and I really don't care to have it there when I search the history stored in memory, though that's less of a concern. Is there any way to prevent this, or do I just have to go back and edit my history file.  update: I didn't realize this might be shell-specific. My shell is zsh. You're welcome to answer for other shells so people know how to do this in their shell. I just wrote code for this, and I got it a little bit ugly. Can you help me to fix this. And how to change those nands for not, like it is on nand 3,4,5? Please help!  PS. What I mean by these nands for not or whatever this is Aware abbreviating those commands need not always be helpful, I would like to know how to abbreviate them? The following is what I tried, which does not work:  \documentclass[11pt,handout]{beamer} \newcommand{\bframe}{\begin{frame}} \newcommand{\eframe}{\end{frame}} \newcommand{\ftitle}{\frametitle}   \author{Author} \title{Title}   \begin{document} \maketitle  \begin{frame} \frametitle{Outline}  \end{frame}   \bframe \ftitle{Introduction}  \eframe    \end{document}   At first I thought it might be the case that commands such as \bframe was already defined. But using \def instead still gives no desired result. itoa() is a really handy function to convert a number to a string. Linux does not seem to have itoa(), is there an equivalent function or do I have to use sprintf(str, "%d", num)? Mobile SE sites not allowing edits to edits When you have less than 2K rep and your edit goes in a queue, you are usually allowed to revise your edit while it is being reviewed, by clicking the edit button again on the question page. However, when on mobile SE sites, the edit button disappears when you have submitted an edit for review.    Editing  by  into the question: It seems that the cause of this is when the mobile site hides the edit link (when there is a pending edit), it doesn't check who is making the edit, which means that it hides it for your own as well as other's edits. "To work for" vs. "to work in" vs. "to work at" Can someone define what exactly 'POCO' means? I am encountering the term more and more often, and I'm wondering if it is only about plain classes or it means something more? Does anyone know of a script that can select all text references to URLs and automatically replace them with anchor tags pointing to those locations?  For example:  http://www.google.com   would automatically turn into  &lt;a href="http://www.google.com"&gt;http://www.google.com&lt;/a&gt;   Note: I am wanting this because I don't want to go through all my content and wrap them with anchor tags. Is this arthropod non-intrusive and recommended to be left alive? The difference between GPU and CPU I know what a CPU is(I think). It's the thing who's speed is measured in GigaHertz(these days).  However, you hear a lot about a GPU, and letting the GPU take over, not letting the CPU but the GPU do it, GPU-based rendering, etc...  What is this GPU anyway? How can I access it and use it to my advantage? What am I missing out on here? How can I script the settings made by gnome-tweak-tool? I like to be able to configure things from the command line, so that when I reinstall the OS I can just run a script and get my preferred configuration back.  Since "upgrading" to Ubuntu 17.10, I found I had to use gnome-tweak-tool to get some settings the way I want them.  Once I find a setting in the gnome-tweak-tool GUI, how can I figure out its scriptable translation?  For example the following gsettings lines match the relevant entries in the gnome-tweak-tool screen shot below...  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences titlebar-font "Tahoma Bold 8" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name "Tahoma 8" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name "Tahoma 8" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name "FixedSC 10"    ...but how could anyone guess that? And how would I, for example, figure out where to get the corresponding settings for hinting and antialiasing?