The Multiverse theory says that there are infinite alternatives of our universe, many of them are very similar to the one were we live other are completely different. But the number of parallel universes isn't infinite. It' s a very, very, very.... huge number because we have to consider all the possible configuration of the universe (for example the number of the particles at the power of itself multiplied by....) but at all it shouldn't be infinite.   Is this wrong?
Parallel universe: in every universe, you are presented with a different decision. Does that mean there are an infinite amount of parallel universes? I.e., if in one universe I choose to go left, I am then presented with different choices vs if i choose right, and that creates more universes with more decisions to be made.  Or does it mean that in the end of one's life we end up in the same place, meaning that its just one parallel universe that eventually collides with the other.
Scenario: SQL Server 2014 CU6. 1 AG with 2 databases (compatibility level 100). Failover Cluster with 3 nodes on Windows Server 2012 R2. Primary Availability Replica on node 1 and node 2. Secondary Availability Replica on node 3 (no votes). Async commit, manual failover, readable secondary. Node 3 is used to run reports on these 2 databases (out of 8 databases running outside AG on node 1 and 2).   Problem: Looking to patch these from SQL 2014 to SP1 and latest CU. Not my build and no experience with AG or FC so far. My "test" environment is also used for development, so no room for mistakes.   Questions:  What's the best order to patch the 3 nodes ?   Do I first have to remove the databases from AG on the node I'm patching ?  Do I need to take the Secondary out when patching it ?  No experience on this, and I can't find clear answers for my scenario (maybe not supported?) in the docs: How to enable multiple logon remote desktop in Windows 7 Allow moderators to refresh a user's network profile Currently, moderators have the ability to reset a user's username and/or profile text, and propagate that to the rest of the network, resetting it everywhere. However, often, the user's stackexchange.com network profile will also need to be reset, and this is currently only possible to do by either the user in question or staff.  Instead of bothering staff every time, moderators should have something available similar to chat, where moderators can change a user's parent site and have access to a "refresh profile" button, which will fetch updated information such as username and avatar from the parent site.  Currently, the only thing that moderators can do on stackexchange.com is to see hidden accounts. It would make sense for moderators to be able to refresh profiles there, like chat, and avoid pinging CMs every time this comes up. How do I find duplicate values in a table in Oracle? Can an integer of the form $4n+3$ written as a sum of two squares? Undefined reference to static class member command not found and syntax error near unexpected token I have this script to divide a file over a 100000 or even more in 50000 lines.  desc()                                                     {                                                       echo $1 $2|awk '{d=$1;}                                 BEGIN {a=1;b=0}                                            { f=d"0"a;                                                while ((getline x&lt;d)&gt;0)                                   { print x&gt;&gt;f".txt"                                        if (b++&gt;=50000)                                            {                                                         close(f);b=0;a++;f=(a&lt;10)?d"0"a:f=d""a                }                                                  }                                                   }                                                   END {print "Terminado ... ! "}'                         }                                                      if [ -f $1 ]; then                                              desc $1 $2                                      fi                                                        When I execute it I got this error message:  sh-3.2$ parte.sh pa.txt                                  : command not found                                      '/parte.sh: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token ` '/parte.sh: line 2: `desc()                              sh-3.2$                                                    Can anyone help to solve it? Got a working screen via HDMI, but the DVI won't go past 1360x768 (a PackardBell Maestro monitor). Had no issues in Windows 7.  I've tried all the xrandr tricks, see the output below:   xrandr  Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3280 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+1360+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm    1920x1080      60.0*+   59.9     50.0      1680x1050      60.0      1600x900       60.0      1440x900       59.9      1280x1024      75.0     60.0      1280x800       59.8      1280x720       60.0     59.9     50.0      1152x864       75.0      1024x768       75.0     70.1     60.0      800x600        75.0     72.2     60.3     56.2      720x576        50.0      720x480        59.9      640x480        75.0     72.8     59.9   DVI-D-1 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm    1024x768       60.0 +    1360x768       60.0*    59.8      1152x864       60.0      800x600        72.2     60.3     56.2      680x384        60.0     59.8      640x480        59.9      512x384        60.0      400x300        72.2      320x240        60.1     cvt 1920 1080 # 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz Modeline "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync  xrandr --newmode "test" 173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync  xrandr --addmode DVI-D-1 test X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)   Major opcode of failed request:  140 (RANDR)   Minor opcode of failed request:  18 (RRAddOutputMode)   Serial number of failed request:  37   Current serial number in output stream:  38    I'm using the latest driver from Nvidia (binary, 352.63) because Nouveau would show a black screen on my second monitor.  I got stuck on manually finding/creating a xorg.conf file and adding some monitor hacks, can anyone help me? What is the difference between linear regression and logistic regression? What is the difference between linear regression and logistic regression?  When would you use each? Why does an object with a glossy shader render in black? When I apply a glossy shader to the material of my text, the text becomes just black. Why?    I have lamp and everything, but the problem persists. The text is red before I add the glossy shader.  I'm using Cycles render.   Thanks! In quantum field theory, scalar can take non-zero vacuum expectation value (vev). And this way they break symmetry of the Lagrangian. Now my question is what will happen if the fermions in the theory take non-zero vacuum expectation value? What forbids fermions to take vevs? If I replace my main panel, will I need to fit AFCIs? This question is about whether "circuits" can be grandfathered if the breaker or panel is changed but the circuit is otherwise not disturbed.   Code is NEC 2017.  My existing main panel has plenty of ampacity but few spaces, and thus, is totally full.  I have several potential paths for an upgrade.    One involves fitting a subpanel and moving 4 circuits (2 double-stuff breakers) there, and adding circuits there.    The other involves outright replacing the main with a very fine 60 space main panel.  No more space problems!  But what happens with AFCI and GFCI requirements? If this were a new house,  nearly all my circuits would require it, but I am grandfathered.  Will the  "new main" scenario void the grandfathering and require that nearly all circuits be upgraded to that protection?   Or can I just move over my old breakers and call it good? I see the following error while trying run the command shown below. I read somewhere that my /boot partition is low on disk space. How can I increase the size of the /boot partition so I can install more software? I have a 500GB hard disk, so there is enough space to play with.  sudo apt-get install libdvdread4  gzip: stdout: No space left on device                                                                                                                                                                                  E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1                                                                                                                                                                                 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-33-generic with 1.                                                                                                                                                 run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1                                                                                                                                            Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-33-generic.postinst line 1010.                                                                                                        dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-33-generic (--configure):                                                                                                                                                      subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2                                                                                                                                            dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-server:                                                                                                                                                 linux-image-server depends on linux-image-3.2.0-33-generic; however:                                                                                                                                                    Package linux-image-3.2.0-33-generic is not configured yet.    dpkg: error processing linux-image-server (--configure):     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-server:     linux-server depends on linux-image-server (= 3.2.0.33.36); however:      Package linux-image-server is not configured yet.    dpkg: error processing linux-server (--configure):     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured    No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a   previous failure.                                                                                                           No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.  Errors were encountered while processing:  linux-image-3.2.0-33-generic  linux-image-server  linux-server N: Ignoring file 'michael-gruz-canon-precise.list.1' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension N: Ignoring file 'michael-gruz-canon-precise.list.1' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension   Listed below is the output of du  Filesystem              1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 712660664 104095912 572363692  16% / udev                      3964792         4   3964788   1% /dev tmpfs                     1591012      1064   1589948   1% /run none                         5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock none                      3977528       684   3976844   1% /run/shm /dev/sda1                  233191    219821       929 100% /boot SharePoint Current User View using JavaScript Confusion between register size, address size, data size I started learning about pointers in C++ and I figured I should educate myself a bit on how memory works and is accessed. I read that when we say a processor is 64-bit, it has a 64-bit register and can access 2^64 address locations. I also read that it can fetch 64/8, so 8 bytes of data at a time, but the data bus is not the same thing as the register right? Do they need to be the same size or does that just happen to be the case usually? And is it the size of the register or the data bus size that determines what we refer to it as, such as 32/64-bit? Also is there a difference between register size and address size? Are delphi variables initialized with a value by default? I'm new to Delphi, and I've been running some tests to see what object variables and stack variables are initialized to by default:  TInstanceVariables = class   fBoolean: boolean; // always starts off as false   fInteger: integer; // always starts off as zero   fObject: TObject; // always starts off as nil end;   This is the behaviour I'm used to from other languages, but I'm wondering if it's safe to rely on it in Delphi?  For example, I'm wondering if it might depend on a compiler setting, or perhaps work differently on different machines.  Is it normal to rely on default initialized values for objects, or do you explicitly set all instance variables in the constructor?  As for stack (procedure-level) variables, my tests are showing that unitialized booleans are true, unitialized integers are 2129993264, and uninialized objects are just invalid pointers (i.e. not nil).  I'm guessing the norm is to always set procedure-level variables before accessing them? I wanted to switch to Xfce (I had KDE and GNOME installed), and I did this :    sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get autoremove   but to my surprise, I could still pick gnome, kde plasma, etc during the log in.  So, how do I completely remove KDE and GNOME desktops? How to print colored text to the terminal? How can I output colored text to the terminal in Python? I’ve a date and I really waited long to make this happen. My gifrfriend is a bit worried about the security issue in Paris. Which locals think that the media is exagerrating the issue and the issue is small and non-threatening for tourists? How to get multiple selected values of select box in php?