The hand rises from the ground upon casting the spell.  Is the hand attached to the ground?  Is the hand floating?  As an action, you can cause the hand to reach for a different creature or to move to a different unoccupied space within range.   Can the hand go 30 ft upward into the air?  There are three other hand spells and they all float/fly... I made a spell caster that has mage hand out almost all the time except when I need to concentrate.  The hand has a “mind of its own” in some regard, in game, and is named and interacted with by players and NPCs.  Therefore, I wanted to use Chill Touch, Max’s Earthen Grasp, and Bigby’s Hand all as situational Magical upgrades to the named hand character.   Wondering if Max’s Grasp doesn’t allow me to send the hand into the air against flyin creatures
This question is similar, but not identical to:   Whereas the aforementioned question is about whether the hand’s movement is measured from the hand’s point of view or from the caster’s, this question revolves around the total distance the hand can travel to reach its destination.  To illustrate, let me give an example: Two narrow stone pillars stand next to each other, 10 feet apart. They are several kilometers high and on top of each pillar stands a wizard. One wizard casts Maximillian's Earthen Grasp and lets the hand made from compacted soil rise from the ground on his own pillar. With another action, he wants to move the hand in order to restrain the other wizard, who is within range of 30 feet.  Would the hand retract into his own pillar, then rise again from the ground on the other pillar? Or would the hand move several kilometers down the first pillar, across the floor, then several kilometers up the second pillar? What if both pillars would float in the Astral Plane, without a direct ground-based connection between them?  This might seem like a stupid and unnecessary convoluted question, but lo and behold, something similar happened in one of my games.
Tiling problem: 100 by 100 grid and 1 by 8 pieces View the change history of a file using Git versioning How can I view the change history of an individual file in Git, complete details with what has changed?  I have got as far as:   git log -- [filename]   which shows me the commit history of the file, but how do I get at the content of each of the file changes?  I'm trying to make the transition from MS SourceSafe and that used to be a simple right-click → show history. Is there a name for "the string of characters typed randomly on a keyboard home row"? What does “the lowest common denominator” mean in the context other than math? In the  (May 31) article under the title, “Stephen Hawking angers Trump supporters with baffling array of long words,” Andy Borowitz wrote;     “Speaking to a television interviewer in London, the theoretical   physicist, Hawking called Trump “a demagogue who seems to appeal to   the lowest common denominator. --- “For a so-called genius, this was an   epic fail,” Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said. “If   Professor Hawking wants to do some damage, maybe he should try talking   in English next time.”        Later in the day, Hawking attempted to clarify his remark about the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, telling a reporter, “Trump bad man. Real bad man.”   From the context of Professor Hawking’s remark, I take “the lowest common denominator” as referring to the  “social segment of low educated, unsophisticated people,” but I’m not sure.   I thought  "common denominator" is a simple mathematic term. What does it mean in the context of the above quote?  Mr. Trump’s campaign manager says Professor Hawking should try to talk in English. Is this a farfetched way of using “common denominator” from math to politics?   Did Professor Hawking misuse "the common denominator"? Or does Mr. Trump's campaign manager not understand the meaning of "common denominator", which some call an "everyday-use" English phrase?  P.S.  I found the following definition of 'common denominator' in Oxford Advanced Learners English Dictionary;   2) an idea, attitude or experience that is shared by all the members of group - see also Lowest common denominator.  Readers English Japanese Dictionary at hand, published by Kenkyu-sha, a foreign language, especially English language dictionary specialist publisher in Japan, and rated as the most reliable English Japanese dictionary totally dropped the reference to this paticular meaning.  It was a learning. I told to myself that I should have made more homework on English-to-English dictonaries beforehand. What is the difference between DPI (dots per inch) and PPI (pixels per inch)? There are lots of other questions on Graphic Design which partly cover this, e.g. .  However, I have become frustrated at the number of questions and answers which confuse the two terms. I think understanding the difference is important.  So here's a place to answer this question well and clear up the confusion! The conditions $a^2b^2=b^2a^2$ and $a^3b^3=b^3a^3$ make the group $G$ abelian? Is it possible to get the ID of a Contact which is part of a Person Account?  I have a custom object which has a custom field referencing the Person Account, though it seems to be referencing the Contact directly. I have created a button which I am using to pass the ID into a Visualforce Page.  With the Insert Field drop-down on the create/edit button page I can put in {!Account.Id} or {!Contact.Id} but neither of these work. The Account ID is placed in the URL but is not the correct ID and the Contact ID is blank, which I assume is because the button is on a Person Account page and not a Contact Page. One of our SQL Server 2014 database transaction logs is growing very fast and I cannot find the root cause for this.  Database in Simple recovery mode. During full backup the log file grows to its limits (800GB) and backup fails.  I checked the transactions during the backup and did not find anything strange.  All transactions are our regular loading and no maintenance jobs (index rebuilds etc.)  I am aware of that backup keep the log from reuse but this mean 800GB changes during the backup period and this does not make any sense.  I had compared this DB to similar DB size, loading and backup duration. The second DB Log is not growing more than 400GB.  DB size is 7TB. Backup time is ~20H. The only time log is growing is during backup. Log_reuse shows correct Backup_Restore. No long running transactions.  The problem is the "speed" of log growth - compared to similar sites with same load and same backup duration, the log is 4 time less. Reporting Mann-Whitney U-Test without homogenity of variance The Mann-Whitney test requires homogeneity of variance if a median difference is suppossed to be statistically significant.  In case homogenity of variance is not met, but the test is significant:  Which aspects of the test can I report? Cannot Delete Item "Could Not Find This Item" issue A friend sent a long a file (a .rar) he wanted me to check out for him before he installed it.  I downloaded it and unrared it with no problems, but it was full of .exe's instead of the intended contents (fonts) so I advised him to delete it immediately and not use.  I then proceeded to do the same, but the folder simply will not delete. Oddly the files went fine, and I never ran anything, but this is what I'm seeing:   Could not find this item  This is no longer located in C:\Users\This_User\Desktop. verify the item's location and try again.   I've tried the following things with no help:   Using "Unlocker" to Unlock and delete Using move on reboot and rebooting Using PendMoves (from sysinternals) and rebooting Elevating a cmd line, doing a dir /x to get the short name of the folder, and then del 'shortna~1' Moving the folder to a new folder and then trying to delete the parent folder   I'm on Windows 7 RTM, very fresh install. Any thoughts?  Update: Just to confirm, I've run Hijack this and half a dozen other malware detectors, and everything came back clean (no extra processes, no other obvious badness). Rebooting in safe mode didn't help either. Does the faction of your armor/clothes affect character interactions in Skryim? Inaccurate shading on object byte[] to hex string How do I convert a byte[] to a string? Every time I attempt it, I get      System.Byte[]    instead of the value.  Also, how do I get the value in Hex instead of a decimal? How do I put a stencil-like texture across a sectioned object? Have you ever tried this before?  static void Main(string[] args) {     int x = 10;     x = x++;     Console.WriteLine(x); }   Output: 10.  but for   static void Main(string[] args) {     int x = 10;     x++;     Console.WriteLine(x); }   Output: 11.  Could anyone explain why this? Prove $\sum\limits_{i=2}^{n}\frac{1}{(i-1)i}$ = $\frac{(n-1)}{n}$ using induction. I need to prove $\sum\limits_{i=2}^{n}\frac{1}{(i-1)i}$ = $\frac{(n-1)}{n}$ using induction. I am getting stuck midway through the inductive step.   Here is what I have:  $\forall n\geq 2$, where $n\in\mathbb{N}, P(n)$ is the statement "$\sum\limits_{i=2}^{n}\frac{1}{(i-1)i}$ = $\frac{(n-1)}{n}$".  Base case:  $\sum\limits_{i=2}^{2}\frac{1}{(i-1)i}$ = $\frac{1}{2}$ = $\frac{(2-1)}{2}$ so $P(2)$ is true.  Inductive assumption: Assume $P(n)$ is true. Need to show $\sum\limits_{i=2}^{n+1}\frac{1}{(i-1)i}$ = $\frac{((n+1)-1)}{(n+1)}$.  $\sum\limits_{i=2}^{n}\frac{1}{(i-1)i}$ + $\frac{1}{n^{2}}$ = $\frac{(n-1)}{n}$ + $\frac{1}{n^{2}}$  = $\frac{n(n-1) + 1}{n^{2}}$ = $\frac{n^{2}-n+1}{n^{2}}$  I got stuck here and tried working backward from $\frac{((n+1)-1)}{(n+1)}$, which gives me:  $\frac{((n+1)-1)}{(n+1)}$ = $\frac{n}{(n+1)}$   Any suggestions on what to do next or where I may be going wrong? What is vertex and edge shading? Does someone falling into a black hole see the end of the universe? This question was prompted by . Notoriously, if you calculate the Schwarzschild coordinate time for anything, matter or light, to reach the event horizon the result is infinite. This implies that the universe ages by an infinite time before someone falling into the black hole reaches the event horizon, so could that person see the universe age by an infinite time?  To be more precise, suppose the observer starts falling from rest at time $t = 0$ and some initial distance $r &gt; r_s$. If we wait for some time $T$ then shine a light ray at the falling observer. Will the light ray always reach the falling observer before they cross the event horizon? If not, what is the formula for the longest time $T$ that we can wait and still be sure the ray will catch the observer? If $T$ is not bounded it implies that observer could indeed see the end of the universe.  I can think of a qualitative argument for an upper limit on $T$, but I'm not sure how sound my argument is. The proper time for the observer to fall to the event horizon is finite - call this $\tau$. The proper time for the light ray to reach the horizon is zero, therefore the light ray will reach the observer before they cross the event horizon only if $T &lt; \tau$. Hence $T$ is bounded and the observer won't see the end of the universe.  I think a more rigorous approach would be to determine the equations of motion (in the Schwarzschild coordinates) for the falling observer and the light ray, and then find the condition for the light to reach the falling observer at some distance $\epsilon$ from the event horizon. Then take the limit as $\epsilon \rightarrow 0$. In principle this seems straightforward, but in practice the algebra rapidly defeated me. Even for a light ray the radial distance:time equation isn't closed form (Wolfram claims it needs the $W$ function) and for the falling observer the calculation is even harder. Using article published dates effects SEO? In my blog I publish articles with date below under it.  My questions are:   Using dates will have positive impact or negative impact? After few years of publishing the post, since my post age is old will it remain in same position of search results or it will go down? Finally, should I use published dates or not? I have a question about notation specifically square brackets $[$ and round brackets $($.  My textbook doesn't explain any of this and I cannot find a reliable source online to confirm the difference.  So my question is: What is the difference between round brackets and square brackets in terms of notation in Field Theory? For example, I see $F(x)$ and $F[x]$ in my textbook and I've always assumed they were the same thing. But apparently they're not. Is there ever a time they're the same?  I wanted to know the difference, it may be a silly question but it's something I want to make sure I understand.