A while ago, I think, I started hearing and reading people use the verb 'to sit' incorrectly, but it seems to becoming increasingly common.  Such as "I am sat", "We are sat", "They were sat". Sit is a pretty regular verb. The perfect form of it (sat) is the only irregular form of it, so it makes this doubly odd.   For instance:      Never is this more literal than when you are sat in front of the telly watching Gogglebox.         Wondering where you will be sat?        Feels like yesterday we was sat in college moaning to finish   Could this error be deliberate, as a form of inverse snobbery (attempting to appear mainstream)? This might also be a particularly British thing, rather than American. Certainly all the examples I can see online seem to be from British (typically colloquial) sources.
Is "I am sat" bad English? I believe it is incorrect and instead either the present continuous     I am sitting   or the predicate adjective     I am seated   should be used.  I hear this quite often, however, and ultimately usage overrules formality.  Does anybody know where this originated or how to describe it grammatically?
Why is median age a better statistic than mean age? If you look at       Or this Wikipedia page      Clearly  seems to be the statistic of choice when it comes to ages.  I am not able to explain to myself why  would be a worse statistic. Why is it so?  Originally posted  because I did not know this site existed. $X/{\sim}$ is Hausdorff if and only if $\sim$ is closed in $X \times X$ Consider two different shaped containers having same area: one is cylinder, the other is like an inverted pyramid (roughly). Both have the same level of water, the weight of the inverted pyramidal container will therefore be greater than that of the cylinder. But I know from Pascal's law that the pressure should be same in both containers. If the base areas are the same then the force (weight as measured by a scale) should also be the same. Why are the weights different? What do you call someone who acts and thinks it is helpful, even though they do not know the context of what is going on? 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Edit: I should perhaps point out that the service I'm looking for is rather specific and slightly obscure. Otherwise, yeah, this would be a 10-second exercise with Google. Can I transfer or sync purchased as well as non-purchased songs from my iPhone to my computer? Custom setting Setting type not visible In a Cycles scene I have an equirectangular image serving as an Environment Texture background (set in the World settings).  I have a glossy object being partially lit by the Environment Texture, as well as getting reflections from it.  Is there a way I can exclude the Environment Texture from affecting the glossy object completely? I want the image as background wallpaper only. The glossy object should be affected by other objects and lights within the scene: everything except the Environment Texture. I know that there exist some attack when using same modulus.      But with a little modification, $m$ is the plain-text $N$ is the RSA modulus $r_1, r_2$ is the random padding $e, s$ is the public exponent $C_e, C_s$ is the cipher-text  encrypt as follow $$С_e = (m + r_1)^e   \bmod N$$ $$С_s = (m + r_2)^s   \bmod N$$  If attacker only knows $C_e, C_s, r_1, r_2, e, s, N$. Is it possible to know $m$?  It seems the  does not work? In C, are arrays pointers or used as pointers? How To Make A Solid Object Drop To The Ground Like It Was Liquid So I have a simple bouncing ball animation, but I just wanted to something "weird" for the ending. Is there a way to change the ball's material on the fly, where after the last bounce it changes materials and physical composition from a rigid body(baked animation now) to a fluid sim?  (within 30-40 frames) Automating "Stay Awake" I use my personal Android smartphone for development. Every morning, I go to Settings \ Developer Options \ Stay Awake and check the box.  At the end of the day, I uncheck the box — since otherwise any notification (including the "fully charged" one) will trigger the screen on, and it will stay on from that point on.  How can these two operations be automated? How to show $\lim_{n \to \infty} a_n = \frac{ [x] + [2x] + [3x] + \dotsb + [nx] }{n^2} = x/2$? This question came from the prelim exam I took last month. I have a proof that seems a bit unwieldy to me (posted as an answer), so I'm opening it up to ask if there are other ways of showing this.     Let $x$ be any positive real number, and define a sequence $\{a_n\}$ by   $$ a_n = \frac{ [x] + [2x] + [3x] + \dotsb + [nx] }{n^2} $$   where $[x]$ is the largest integer less than or equal to $x$. Prove that $\displaystyle{\lim_{n \to \infty} a_n = x/2}$. Remove paint from the head tube I'm planning to build a new bike from scratch.  Part of that is buying a new frame, and possibly facing/reaming it. That's actually the part I'm scared of the most.  Fortunately, the brand I'm targeting, Surly, seems to do that in the factory. But as they state, there may be some paint left where it should not be:     Since Surly frames are faced prior to painting, it is possible to   shave the paint off the head tube and BB shell ends with a carpet   knife blade.  This usually results in an acceptable result, saving you   money, but we still recommend having it done the proper way to ensure   longest life from your components.   So what is the "proper way" to remove the extra paint, if the frame is properly reamed/faced already?  Should I choose not to do it the proper way, which components are going to suffer? I suppose at least the headset and bottom bracket, but could the frame suffer as well? How does the comma operator work in C++?  For instance, if I do:  a = b, c;     Does a end up equaling b or c?   (Yes, I know this is easy to test - just documenting on here for someone to find the answer quickly.)  Update:  This question has exposed a nuance when using the comma operator.  Just to document this:  a = b, c;    // a is set to the value of b!  a = (b, c);  // a is set to the value of c!   This question was actually inspired by a typo in code.  What was intended to be  a = b; c = d;   Turned into  a = b,    //  &lt;-  Note comma typo! c = d; Distinct digits in a combination of 6 digits Render not showing UV texture What Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 cables/adapters exist for OS X and Mac hardware? I have the Late 2013 Macbook Pro, which has two USB 3.0 ports and two Thunderbolt 2 ports. I currently use both USB 3.0 ports and one TB2 port. I want to connect a third USB 3.0 device to the machine, but I don't want to use a USB splitter on one USB port as I'm concerned the devices would draw too much power from the bus. I have no current use for the second TB2 port and I would love to be able to use it for this purpose.   Browsing extensively online, I've found numerous docks, such as , that connect via a Thunderbolt cable. This would work, but it's an expensive, 'bulkier' solution (and not the one I'm looking for).   I'm aware that a USB 3.0 device wouldn't be able to take advantage of Thunderbolt's I/O speeds, but it's certainly compatible, which is all I'd need. After all, Apple even sells a . I also know that Thunderbolt is not only used for digital video purposes (along with the TB > Firewire option, there exists ).   There are almost no Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 cables/adapters on the market. I'd think this hardware would be more prevalent given the prominence of USB devices out there. What adapters are available for OS X? Review sections to be always in the same place I find it not comfortable to have the order of the review sections changing all the time.  Within few seconds it changed from        to        Wouldn't it be better to have all of them in the same position, no matter the number of posts in each queue?  It assumes that the most important part is to lower the queue, although it is said there is no problem in having Close Votes with thousands of items. IMOH, most of us prefer going to one or other section (for example I like "Suggested edits") rather than to the queue with the most items, so having them changing their position makes it not that intuitive.  What do you think?