I am hoping somebody can explain to me what a &lt;T&gt; object is, just a little confused on what it is/what it contains. Thank you
Can someone explained, as detailed as possible, the differences between the following types?  List List&lt;Object&gt; List&lt;?&gt;   Let me make this more specific. When would I want to use  // 1  public void CanYouGiveMeAnAnswer(List l) { }  // 2 public void CanYouGiveMeAnAnswer(List&lt;Object&gt; l) { }  // 3 public void CanYouGiveMeAnAnswer(List&lt;?&gt; l) { }
Can't format my usb drive. I have already tried with mkdosfs and gparted I have a MicroSD card in a USB adapter (which plugs into a USB port on my machine, and acts like a USB flash drive). I was using Unetbootin to make this a bootable USB flash drive with Kubuntu. But I needed to cancel while it was working. So I killed the Unetbootin process from the console.  Since then, I can't format the MicroSD or delete the folder that Kubuntu made. I have also tried mkdosfs, with no success. I can't mount the drive anymore either? What can I do to make this drive usable again?  Trying to create a new partition table in GParted, as described in Eliah Kagan's answer, does not work. It fails with the error message "imposible crear tabla de particiones" ("unable to create a partition table"). Search functionality in lightning:datatable? Is there a way to search across all rows/columns in a lightning:datatable to narrow down the list, just like jQuery DataTables? If so, how do implement that?  Can I somehow do it all on the client-side to make it super fast (some sort of DOM manipulation)  I'm having some issues with the lightning:datatable not updating. I have attached my code below, maybe you can help me spot the issue:  Markup:  &lt;aura:component extends="c:Base" controller="AccountBrowserForm"&gt; &lt;aura:handler name="init" value="{! this }" action="{! c.doInit }"/&gt; &lt;aura:attribute name="selectedAccountId" type="Id" access="public" /&gt; &lt;aura:attribute name="accounts" type="Object"/&gt; &lt;aura:attribute name="mycolumns" type="List"/&gt; &lt;aura:attribute name="sortedBy" type="String" /&gt; &lt;aura:attribute name="sortedDirection" type="Boolean" default="true" /&gt;  &lt;aura:registerEvent name="AccountFilterChange" type="c:AccountFilterChange" /&gt;  &lt;aura:attribute name="backingdata" type="List" /&gt; &lt;aura:attribute name="filter" type="String" /&gt; &lt;lightning:input type="text" onchange="{!c.filter}" value="{!v.filter}" label="Filter" /&gt;  &lt;lightning:datatable aura:id="lightningTable"                      data="{! v.accounts }"                      columns="{! v.mycolumns }"                      keyField="Id"                      onrowaction="{! c.handleRowAction }"                      onsort="{!c.updateColumnSorting}"                      sortedBy="{!v.sortedBy}"                      sortedDirection="{!v.sortedDirection}"                      hideCheckboxColumn="true" /&gt;     Controller:  doInit: function (component, event, helper) {     helper.callServer(component, "c.getAccounts", $A.getCallback(function (response) {         component.set("v.accounts", response);         component.set("v.backingdata", response);         console.log(component.get("v.backingdata") + " /// BACKING DATA INSIDE ")         console.log(component.get("v.accounts") + " // ACCOUTN DATA INSIDE")          component.set('v.mycolumns', [{                 type: "button",                 typeAttributes: {                     label: '',                     iconName: 'utility:add',                     name: 'selectRecord',                     title: 'selectRecord',                     disabled: false,                     value: 'edit',                     variant: {                         fieldName: 'variantValue'                     },                 }             },             {label: 'Name', fieldName: 'Name', type: 'text', sortable: true},             {label: 'Street', fieldName: 'BillingStreet', type: 'text', sortable: true},             {label: 'Postal Code', fieldName: 'BillingPostalCode', type: 'text', sortable: true},             {label: 'City', fieldName: 'BillingCity', type: 'text', sortable: true},             {label: 'Country', fieldName: 'BillingCountry', type: 'text', sortable: true},         ]);          console.log(component.get("v.backingdata") + " *** BACKING DATA OUTSIDE *** ")         console.log(component.get("v.accounts") + " *** ACCOUNT DATA OUTSIDE *** ")     })) },  filter: function (component, event, helper) {     var data = component.get("v.backingdata"),         term = component.get("v.filter"),         results = data,         regex;     try {         regex = new RegExp(term, "i");         // filter checks each row, constructs new array where function returns true         results = data.filter(row =&gt; regex.test(row.name) || regex.test(row.age.toString()));     } catch (e) {         // invalid regex, use full list     }     component.set("v.accounts", results); },   For some reason the filter function is completely unresponsive. Also, does it matter that I'm populating the component with a response from a callback function. @sfdcfox, I noticed in your example that you simple created an array with dummy data. My "myaccounts" attribute is of type object Lots of questions are very generic, &quot;share an experience&quot; kinds of questions. In these cases, I am quite often interested in specific answers that may not have gotten that many upvotes. These questions also tend to elicit lots of responses, so going back to find the answers I'm interested in somewhere in the middle of a sea of responses is a pain. Is there a way to favorite or bookmark these answers? Splitting a large document into several files Learning ArcPy? Where can I start to learn ArcPy? What bends fabric of space-time? I know that mass can bend fabric of space-time, which causes gravity by making an object curve around a planet or star but is there anything else that can bend it?  Other energy sources, forces anything? In the  a line is delivered at around 1:41 where Han Solo says "a 190 years old!? You look great" and I was wondering if there is a defined concept of a year in the Star Wars universe or would Han Solo just be familiar with the duration of a  solar orbit. How to add csv file in QGIS 2.0 using Delimited Text Layer Plugin? I used to import csv files in previous versions of QGIS using the format below, but when I upgraded to QGIS 2.0 the delimited text layer plugin was changed and I can't import the file anymore. The plugin can't also detect the x,y or long lat field unlike in previous versions. Any ideas how to add the file? Thanks      Heres what it looks in Text Editor: app engine datastore auto-clears every time project runs For positive invertible operators $C\leq T$ on a Hilbert space, does it follow that $T^{-1}\leq C^{-1}$? Converting Polygon into single or all Points using QGIS? I have not been able to watch CBS all access for some time now. Error 2004. I have not found another browser for ubuntu that will play all access either. However firefox for windows plays it fine? Is there a fix in the works for ubuntu firefox? Was The Empire in Star Wars inspired by Nazi Germany? I just finished a test as part of a job interview, and one question stumped me, even using Google for reference. I'd like to see what the StackOverflow crew can do with it:  The memset_16aligned function requires a 16-byte aligned pointer passed to it, or it will crash. a) How would you allocate 1024 bytes of memory, and align it to a 16 byte boundary? b) Free the memory after the memset_16aligned has executed.  {        void *mem;    void *ptr;     // answer a) here     memset_16aligned(ptr, 0, 1024);     // answer b) here     } How to install Google Chrome What is the fastest way to get money in GTA San Andreas? There are quite some houses and clothes for sale, but I do not have any money. What is the fastest way to get money in GTA San Andreas? I want to print two files in two columns -- first file on the left side and second on the right side. paste doesn't do the job, because it can only insert a character as delimiter, so if first file lines have different length output will be twisted: $ cat file1 looooooooong line line $ cat file2 hello world $ paste file1 file2 looooooooong line   hello line    world  If it was a command to add trailing spaces like fmt --add-spaces --width 50 the problem would be solved: $ paste &lt;(fmt --add-spaces --width 50 file1) file2 looooooooong line                                 hello line                                              world  But I don't know a simple way to do this. So how to merge and print several files horizontally without twisting? Actually, I just want to look at them simultaneously.  UPD: command to add trailing spaces does exist (for example, xargs -d '\n' printf '%-50s\n') But solution like $ paste &lt;(add-trailing-spaces file1) file2  does not work as expected when file1 has fewer lines than file2. I am learning basics of the category theory (CT).  I do understand that CT is a modern powerful framework to describe various branches of mathematics in a unified way.  I do admit that category's definition tells a lot about the whole thing and focuses on the most important properties, shadowing unnecessary details. However, the more I go forward, the more it feels like it should explicitly require a notion of morphisms equality (like it does with morphism composition). It feels so because equality or inequality of morphisms arises everywhere, since the very beginning: any commutative diagram eventually reduces to an equality of two different paths and many other things involve equality as well. Even composition is defined grounding upon an (implicit) equality!  I'll try to give an example of my concern. Consider $\mathbb{SET}$. Its objects are sets and morphisms are functions. Now, let's recall that functions are sets as well - to be more precise, a function $f : A \mapsto B$ is a subset of a $A \times B$ obeying certain properties, which I omit. Thus, one could argue that $f$ is both a morphism between objects $A, B \in Obj(\mathbb{SET})$ and an object defined as a set of pairs $\{ (a_1 \in A, b_1 \in B), ..., (a_n \in A, b_n \in B) \}$ and those are equal because both are essentially exactly the same thing.  I hope my concern is clear and I need some kind of "conceptual insight" from knowledgeable people to move forward. Please give me the right perspective. Suppose $Y_1, \ldots, Y_n$ is a random sample from a normal distribution with mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^2$. Let $S^2$ be the sample variance, which is unbiased for $\sigma^2$.  GOAL: Show that $S = \sqrt{S^2}$ is a biased estimator of $\sigma$.  I realize that $(n-1)S^2/ \sigma ^2$ is chi-square with $(n-1)$ degrees of freedom.  I am given that $$E(S) = E\left[\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n-1}} \left[\frac{(n-1)S^2}{\sigma^2}\right]^{1/2}\right] = \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n-1}} \int_0^\infty v^{1/2} \frac{1}{\Gamma[(n-1)/2] 2^{(n-1)/2}} v^{(n-1)/2} e^{-v/2} \, dv$$  Can anyone help me understand why they have $v^{1/2}$ and $v^{(n-1)/2}$ (combining them $v^{n/2}$ as I think it should be $v^{1/2}$ and $v^{\frac{(n-1)}{2}-1}$ (combining both terms give $v^{(n-2)/2}$ since the pdf for chi-square distribution is $$ f(v) = \frac{v^{(x/2)-1} e^{-v/2}}{2^{x/2}\Gamma(x/2)},$$ where $x$ is degree of freedom?  Could anyone please tell me which one is the correct answer with explanation?  Thank you Checking for a file and whether it is readable and writable I'm trying to write a script that will look for a certain .txt file saved to my desktop.  I want the script to be able to check if this file exists and then check to see if it is readable and writable.  Any hints?