I'm trying to make an object be duplicated AND scaled along a bezier curve, however, the only ways I've found, namely using a lattice modifier or using an empty, both seem to distort my objects and I really need it to be scaled evenly, as in (1.0,1.0,1.0) per step.  Does anyone know of a solution for this?  Here's what I'm working on:    The image on the right, with pink arrows, show a distorted version I mocked in Photoshop just to illustrate how I want my objects to "shrink", but I don't want that kind of distortion. I need each objects to decrease scale evenly on all axis (I guess?). Thank you very much!
Is it possible to repeat my track object along a path? I tried using the method shown here  using an array and then a curve modifier, but this happened when I added the curve modifier and chose the path as the curve object.
How do I prove that $ \displaystyle\lim_{n \to{+}\infty}{\sqrt[n]{n!}}$ is infinite? What is the difference between max, min and sup, inf? A friend wants to use my account for a wire transfer. Is this a scam or is it legitimate? I have a friend since July online and Exxon owe him for a balance on a 2014 contract off the shores of Liverpool. He is presently in the Gulf of Mexico completing a contract that last for one year. During that year he cannot get off the boat there fore he cannot receive the money.  Exxon has notified him that his check has been deposited in Samba Bank in London. If he doesn’t receive his money within two weeks it goes back to Exxon and he said that there I not telling nohow long before he will receive the money again. He said that with him being off shore that he needs me to be his beneficiary to receive the money for him. He wants me to keep the money in my account and when he gets off the boat in 6 weeks he is relocating to where I live.  I am to buy a house before he gets here and then he wants us to start a business together. He talked with me for quite a while before he told me how much he makes. He knows I do not have any money to mention. I have stock in a formal shop but not any money.  He said if this money had not come in when it did he would have had to postpone his plan until he gets paid what Shell Oil owes him for this contract that he will finish October 15th. He said he had given enough of his life to the gas and oil industry and is not going to sign another contract.  What do you think about the safety of this? wordcount with xesearch errors Don't let the association bonus be given away as bounties When a user with at least 200 rep on any Stack Exchange site registers a new account on another SE site, they immediately receive 100 rep on that site as an .  This is a deliberate feature to give users who are already familiar with how the SE platform and community works a bit of an extra boost (e.g. letting them upvote and comment immediately), and it's pretty much working as intended. What's probably not intended is that, currently, this bonus rep can be given away as . In fact, because awarding bounties currently requires only 75 rep, any user with 200+ rep on at least one site can join another site, receive the 100 rep bonus, and immediately award it all as a bounty to another user, without having to earn any actual rep on the site at all.  Not only does this seem contrary to the design intent of bounties (and of the association bonus), but it also seems ripe for potential abuse. (In fact, the only thing stopping a sockpuppet ring from gaining unlimited rep this way is the fact that the bounties would likely be sooner or later noticed by mods.) It's also possible for experienced users to (more or less) accidentally bounty their reputation so low that that they lose access to basic site features that they'd normally have due to the bonus.  Arguably, of course, this is entirely the user's own fault, but it can still be .  Also, this behavior , which currently require 110 rep to answer for users with the association bonus. The fix I'd like to suggest is simple:  If a user has been awarded the association bonus, don't let them award a bounty that would take their rep below 100.  Of course, it would still be possible for users with the bonus to drop below 100 rep via other means, e.g. by having their posts downvoted.  But they wouldn't be able to just give away this baseline rep to other users any more. Zombies are always after human beings. How do Zombies differentiate between a zombie and a human being? Why don't zombies eat each other? Packaging a bike for flying with a bike bag I am doing a cycle tour of Japan starting from Fukuoka and ending in Tokyo. I will be flying with the bike and as my start and end points differ I will not have the opportunity to use a box (unless anyone has any ideas?). I will most likely use one of  bags and I have been told by the airline that nothing is necessary by way of packing the bike but I would naturally like to see my bike in one piece at the other end. The bike is a Specialized Tricross with disc brakes. Does anyone have any pointers as to the safest way to package something like this. I think I will definitely take the rear dérailleur off and wrap bubble wrap along the length of the bike to protect the wheels, pedals etc but other than that I'm not sure what lengths to go to. Does anybody have any experience or ideas? How to blacklist kernel modules? How do I disable loading of unnecessary kernel modules. Kernel 3.2.4 Suddenly mysql/mariadb won't start Improving upon ArcGIS Buffer/Dissolve performance? Ignoring programming style and design, is it "safe" to call delete on a variable allocated on the stack?  For example:     int nAmount;    delete &amp;nAmount;   or  class sample { public:     sample();     ~sample() { delete &amp;nAmount;}     int nAmount; } zsh: excluding files from a pattern Say I have the following files:   |-- bar `-- foo     |-- type_A_1     |-- type_A_2     |-- type_B_1     |-- type_B_2     |-- type_B_xx     |-- type_B_xx     `-- something_else    I thought the following command  print -l foo/*~{type_B*}   would print everything under foo except things that start with type_B but it doesn't, instead it prints everything under foo:  foo/type_A_1 foo/type_A_2 foo/type_B_1 foo/type_B_2 foo/type_B_xx foo/something_else   I also tried print -l foo/*~type_B and got the same thing.  How does the exception wildcard ~ work in zsh? How to find users by name I have a whole bunch of people I would love to follow or at least check out on Stack Overflow. I know them from places like Github as well as personal friends. However I am having a really hard time finding them even though I know e.g. their Gmail address and that they use OpenID via Gmail to login and their full name.   How come this is so painful? Note that I don't want to have to fuzz around with the data explorer just to find a friend of mine on Stack Overflow. What am I missing? Is it just not there or just not working properly? how to left justify comments to indent same as other text in Algorithmic How do I left justify my comments in the algorithm.  I am using algorithmicx package.  What I want is: to pull the comment to left as shown in the attached snapshot.  The code for my algorithm is       \documentclass[a4paper]{article}     \pagestyle{empty}     \usepackage{algorithm}     \usepackage{algpseudocode}     \usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig}     \begin{document}     \begin{algorithm} \label{algoQ}     \caption{Algorithm to check quality of methods}     \begin{algorithmic}     \For{\textbf{each} $msd$ in$msdList$}  \Comment { \% for each MSD \%}     \Statex   \Comment { \% get MSDs referenced method service \%}     \EndFor \textbf{endFor}     \end{algorithmic}     \end{algorithm}     \end{document} Module 'pdftexcmds' not found after update Yesterday I updated my distribution (tlmgr update --all) and now I cannot use TikZ with lualatex anymore.  Minimal working example:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} a \end{document}   Compilation output:  &gt; lualatex a This is LuaTeX, Version 1.10.0 (TeX Live 2019)                                                                                                                                                                         restricted system commands enabled.                                                                                                                                                                                  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(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/tikz.code.tex (/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/pgflibraryplothandlers. code.tex) (/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/modules/pgfmodulematrix.code.tex)  (/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikz librarytopaths.code.tex))) No file a.aux. ABD: EveryShipout initializing macros (/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkii/supp-pdf.mkii [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).] ) (/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/epstopdf-pkg/epstopdf-base.sty[\direc tlua]:1: module 'pdftexcmds' not found:         no field package.preload['pdftexcmds']         [kpse lua searcher] file not found: 'pdftexcmds'         [kpse C searcher] file not found: 'pdftexcmds' stack traceback:         [C]: in function 'require'         [\directlua]:1: in main chunk. l.165       \directlua{require("pdftexcmds")}  ?    It seems that a Lua package is missing.  Is this a bug? Am I missing a package? iOS 9.2 double touch fingerprint sensor Preserve blend mode effect when underneath layers are disabled? (Photoshop) Should I write "X and I", "X and me", "I and X", or "me and X" in a conjoined object? I want to enable gzip compression for acethehimalaya.com. Can anybody please tell me what is the best way of achieving compression in an Apache Webserver? There is a nice property of normal spaces, namely, closed disjoint subsets can be separated by continuous functions into $\mathbb R$.   Then you ask yourself, what about Hausdorff spaces?, are all Hausdorff spaces completely Hausdorff?   Well, if we choose our separating space $X$, that is, the space such that for any Hausdorff $Y$ and any distinct $a,b\in Y$ there is some continuous $f:Y\rightarrow X$ with $f(a)\neq f(b)$, to be completely regular and Hausdorff, this cannot happen by an example of E. Hewitt, Hewitt’s Condensed Corkscrew, call it $\mathbb H$; as any continuous function from $\mathbb H$ into $\mathbb R$ is constant, and any Hausdorff completely regular space $X$ can be embedded into a product of closed intervals $\prod_{i\in I}[0,1]$, and thus any continuous $f:\mathbb H\rightarrow X\subseteq \prod_{i\in I}[0,1]$ is constant, as each $\pi_i\circ f$ is constant, so our candidate to be the separating space $X$ cannot even be $[0,1]$.  My question is, does there exist a Hausdorff space $X$ such that for all Hausdorff spaces $Y$, and any distinct $a,b\in Y$ there exists a continuous $f:Y\to X$ such that $f(a)\neq f(b)$?  Thanks.