I realize this may be a subjective question, but I'd really like to know what the consensus is. I know that WotC changed the way they calculate monster damage from MM3 and onwards, but there's isn't much errata for the first books. So:  Do I use the old damage values?   Do I completely recalculate the numbers based on their tables?  Do I double the non-rolled damage?  Do I use some other method?
I know that to better balance paragon and epic level players against similar level monsters, WotC changed the math used for monsters for MM3, and I believe that they changed some of the types of powers they gave monsters.   If I want to update monsters from MM1 or MM2 to be in line with MM3 era monsters, what changes should I make?
Is it worth using Python's re.compile? So before I reformatted (to get rid of Windows), I simply used this command to open documents by putting it at the end of the ~/.bashrc file:  alias commandless= 'gnome-open ./Documents/the-linux-command-line.pdf; gnome-open ./Documents/linux.odt'   But now everytime I start the terminal, it says:  bash: alias: gnome-open ./Documents/the-linux-command-line.pdf; gnome-open ./Documents/linux.odt: not found   before even typing anything in, and when I run the command nothing happens, not even error messages. Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta I just noticed a particular MSE post today on a topic I care about that was posted almost a week ago, which I entirely missed before. I'm a pretty avid MSE user, and this happens quite rarely to me.     was created by an SE employee, and is essentially the final answer to , which is the 10th most upvoted MSE post with a bit more than 900 upvotes right now. So it's kind of an important post, and on a topic I care about, but I still missed it entirely until it was linked in a comment somewhere else.  The reason I missed it is because it's heavily downvoted. This means that as it has below -8 score, it's hidden from the home page entirely, drastically reducing the visibility of the post. In particular, the negative score removes all visibility a question usually receives from being bumped due to edits, new answers and bounties.   Many of the recent heavily-downvoted Meta posts by SE have been featured manually, which grants them a lot of visibility beyond the particular meta site. This masked the problem pretty efficiently, but it is more of a workaround, and one that isn't applicable to all situations.  Voting means something different on meta sites, and not every downvoted question should be hidden from view. Closed downvoted questions can certainly still be affected by the usual rules on the home page, and that should cover the vast majority of questions that actually have a purpose being on the home page. But open questions should be displayed on the home page on meta sites even if they're heavily downvoted. I'm connecting to some enterprise wireless network (eduroam).  The thing is that it saves the User/Password in the wireless settings, anyone can click 'Show password' and see my university account password.  What I want is that it prompts me everytime the credentials inputs when I try to connect to the network and don't save it under the 'settings' page.  Is this possible? If yes, how?  Thanks  Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Java Thread priority has no effect Site Analytics header does not show the link to "traffic sources" when in that section I was seeing the Site Analytics page (/site-analytics)  (>25K users) and also  and found out that the header is not consistent:   When in history, the header shows "history | traffic sources" When in traffic sources, the header just shows "history"   Graphically: How to schedule a task to run when shutting down windows Install Headers on Kali apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.9.0-kali3-amd64 E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.9.0-kali3-amd64' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.9.0-kali3-amd64' Clusering based on categorical variables? I am working on a project and currently experimenting cluster analysis. The dataset is mainly categorical variables and discrete numbers. Please pardon my poor programming skills as I am not very familiar with MathJax, but I will try to summarize the data set in words in the following three examples.   imagine column 1 is participants names of course, from column2 - 5, each column's value range from 1 (least important) - 5 (most important). so in this case, column 2-8 only have discrete data.  column 6 for example, since this is a multiple choice question. row 1 chose "nice" as an answer, however, row 2 chose "poor". In this case, we have one column that contains multiple categorical answers. for column 7-9, this is another type of multiple choice questions. However this time, each column represents only one answer. column 7 only allows string values "true", column 8 only allows string "somewhat". So in this case, we have multiple columns that represent multiple answers of the same question.    Any ideas how to solve this? Thankful to any input!   A2       A3       A4       A5       A6       A7         A8         A9 1        4        5        4        nice     true       somewhate  false 2        4        3        1        poor     true                  false 1        5        2        1        nice                somewhate     3        2        1        5        nice     true                  false Excel: I need a formula that will count months between two dates. If it's 1-15 it should be a half month. Any ideas? So I am trying to find a formula for excel. Bascically I have two dates and I need to know the number of months between them. But to add complexity, I need a rule in there that if the earlier date is the 1st to 15th it will be a whole month but if it is 16th to end of the month it will be a half month.  For example: Date 1: April 4, 2012 Date 2: December 31, 2012 Answer: Number of months would be 9 months  If Date 1 was April 16, 2012, with the same Date 2 of December 31, 2012, then the number of months would equal 8.5.  Can anyone help me with this one? You help would be greatly appreciated. many thanks Volume of the solid generated by revolving the region R enclosed by the curve - Disk and Shell method Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region $R$ enclosed by the curve $y=x^3$, the $x$-axis and the line $x=1$.  (About the line $y=1$ using the disk and shell method.) I bet the automatic response to my question would be "Bell's theorem" and of course I am not disputing Bell's proof. I am however uncertain of one of his assumptions.  The so called "no conspiracy" assumption states that we somehow posses this magical thing called free will which makes us able to break free from the causal chain of events that make us measure the $y$-axis instead of the $x$-axis and so on in experiments. Obviously this makes little sense once reviewed under the light of logic. What this naturally implies is that, if a theory is fully deterministic, it is instantly super-deterministic.  Simon Kochen and John Conway published a theorem in 2009, , which simply-put states: either everything is deterministic (super-deterministic) or every particle has free will.  Among the few who accept this to the fullest extent is Gerard 't Hooft. He has proposed that what we call sub-atomic particles are really just templates and that there is a realm beneath the quantum where the true fabric of reality is "hidden". By accepting determinism he escapes Bell's theorem (due to not having to accept the "no conspiracy" assumption) and can construct a local, deterministic and realist hypothesis of reality. In Gerard 't Hooft's model there is cellular automata somewhere near the Planck scale which gives rise to the "emergent quantum mechanics".  This means that there exist no superpositions in objective reality, the cat is always either dead or alive, no collapse of wave functions, no branching universes, non-locality or retro-causality.  The big question for me is basically: Why do people have such a hard time accepting determinism? Some will object and say "oh but it's SUPER-determinism", but that makes no sense whatsoever, either everything is determined (determinism) or only somethings are (quasi-determinism). By accepting it we escape Bell's theorem. Bell himself was well aware of this and mentioned it a few times in interviews in the 80's.  I know some are concerned that if we accept complete determinism we can no longer do science because it's all a HUGE CONSPIRACY. Gerard 't Hooft has answered critics who bring up this here: , section 6.  Additionally, another author who has taken a deeper look into the worries of "conspiracies" in QM interpretations is Peter J. Lewis in his paper  (also ).  So to all of you who dismiss local hidden variables I ask: Why? I can’t get used to the new Unity system. I’d like to move the left Unity panel to the bottom of screen (like Windows 7 – more similar is better).  But I can't find a way. Is it possible? I´m posting this because I have some active questions in SO and I´m leaving for the weekend and wont have internet until monday or tuesday.  SO is a very active site and I hate no to answer/thank/comment people who are kind enough to answer my questions.  I think an "away" indicator like an out of office reply would be a really nice feature to add for "politeness" sake. How do you change from icon to list view in 20.4 Advanced search criteria for bounty questions? All active questions with awarded bounty can be seen in the Featured tab. However, there seems to be way to make searches to the contents of any particular question tab.  I realize that this is pretty much a duplicate of  but it has no clear answer whether there are any plans of supporting bounty searching or not.  So, could there possibly be a hasbounty:1 advanced search criteria? Rice with worm and possibly their eggs I bought a bag of brown rice from a store. After having opened and used for a while, I found there were moths flying in the house. At the same time, I found worms in the rice. I suspect that the moths are from the worms(rice-size, white body, dark head). I guess but am not sure if they are called rice moths. There were also many little sand-like things in the rice bag, are they the eggs of the rice moths?  Will eating this infested rice pose a health risk? Java equivalent to PHP's preg_replace_callback What's the quickest Schengen consulate to issue a visa in London? What's the quickest Schengen consulate to issue a Visa in London? Basically I want to travel as fast as possible to France, and since any Schengen visa will work, I want to go to the consulate with the shortest processing time. What does the number in parentheses shown after Unix command names in manpages mean? For example: man(1), find(3), updatedb(2)?   What do the numbers in parentheses (Brit. "brackets") mean?