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What's a word/phrase for a player/seducer? I can't seem to remember this particular word/phrase. I'm almost certain it's a two-word phrase. It specifically refers to someone who is skilled with the ladies, ie, someone who knows the tricks of the trade.  Usage: - "Unless you're a X-Y, that's not going to work with her."  Edit :  I'm not looking for 'ladies man', 'casanova', 'womanizer' etc. This phrase refers to someone who's more of a pro and one who is serious about his business. I am trying to master the homemade Neapolitan pizza, from dough preparation to cooking it.  After following the recommendations at Seriouseats.com for the dough preparation, I came across some doubts regarding the oven use.  I understand that ideally I would make it in a 900F wood oven, but at home we don't have such equipment!  What is the best practice to make the Neapolitan Pizza in a regular gas oven that heats up to 530F? (i.e. temperature, time, tray positioning...) Are there changes in the way the dough has to be prepared? Windows 7 stuck on CLASSPNP.SYS I'm running Win 7 x86 on a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m in dual boot mode with Win XP, both OSes are running on separate partitions. I have a faulty battery and if left unplugged my laptop shuts usually down within 10 minutes. Last night, it shut down due to this, but after plugging in AC power and starting back up I'm stuck at the "Starting Windows" screen, I'm unable to boot into safe mode or into recovery mode(XP boots fine).  I believe I had installed some Win 7 updates the same/previous day. From one of the boot options I was able to see that Windows 7 is getting stuck on CLASSPNP.SYS  How can I go about fixing this?  I do have a complete Win 7 Restore CD that I created after setting up my machine, I'm unable to boot into this either.  Please help! A user just posted his question a second time here on meta after the first was closed as a duplicate. I wrote a comment on the second post, explaining that the answer to his question is in the linked duplicate and that he shouldn't circumvent the closure process by asking a second identical question.  When the second post was closed as a duplicate my comment was automatically deleted. As far as I understand this is a heuristic that removes obsolete comments, which it considers every comment that contains a link to one of the duplicates.  This heuristic is too aggressive and removes comments that go beyond "Duplicate here: link". I suggest that it should be changed to only remove the default duplicate comment, and not any comment that was edited by the owner nor any free-form comment that happens to include a link to the duplicate.  This also triggers for any comment that contains the word "duplicate" and link to any question, not only the question being chosen as duplicate, which makes this much worse. How does one prove that every finite group is isomorphic to a subgroup of an alternating group? Finding critical points (extrema) directly without using eigenvalues If we have a function $f: \mathbb R^3\rightarrow \mathbb R$ of the form:  $$f(x)=(a_1x_1^2+a_2x_2^2+a_3x_3^2)e^{-x_1^2-x_2^2-x_3^2}$$  where $a_1&gt;a_2&gt;a_3&gt;0$.   We can find the critical points by:  $$\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_1} =2x_1e^{-x_1^2-x_2^2-x_3^2}(a_1-a_1x_1^2-a_2x_2^2-a_3x_3^2)=0$$  And solving symmetrically for $x_2$ and $x_3$. We get critical points: $(0,0,0) , (\pm 1,0,0) , (0,\pm 1, 0) , (0,0,\pm 1)$   We could determine the nature of them by looking at the eigenvalues of the Hessian, but is there a way to just analyse it directly? Obviously $(0,0,0)$ is a strict global minimum, but I can't quite see that the other points are. Any pointers/hints would be appreciated. I need to calculate the Cramer Rao lower bound of variance for the parameter $\theta$ of the distribution $$f(x)=\frac{1}{\pi(1+(x-\theta)^2)}$$   How do I proceed I have calculated $$4 E\frac{(X-\theta)^2}{1+X^2+\theta^2-2X\theta}$$  Can somebody help IBus methods do not show up in text entry settings I installed both Korean and Japanese using the Language Support window, and expected Korean (Hangul) and Japanese (Anthy) to show up in the input sources for Text Entry Settings (having both packages installed). However, neither shows up. T SQL Table Valued Function to Split a Column on commas I wrote a Table Valued Function in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to take a comma delimited column in a database to spit out separate rows for each value.  Ex: "one,two,three,four" would return a new table with only one column containing the following values:  one two three four   Does this code look error prone to you guys? When I test it with   SELECT * FROM utvf_Split('one,two,three,four',',')    it just runs forever and never returns anything. This is getting really disheartening especially since there are no built in split functions on MSSQL server (WHY WHY WHY?!) and all the similar functions I've found on the web are absolute trash or simply irrelevant to what I'm trying to do.  Here is the function:  USE *myDBname* GO SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[utvf_SPlit] (@String VARCHAR(MAX), @delimiter CHAR)  RETURNS @SplitValues TABLE (     Asset_ID VARCHAR(MAX) NOT NULL )  AS BEGIN             DECLARE @FoundIndex INT             DECLARE @ReturnValue VARCHAR(MAX)              SET @FoundIndex = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @String)              WHILE (@FoundIndex &lt;&gt; 0)             BEGIN                   DECLARE @NextFoundIndex INT                   SET @NextFoundIndex = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @String, @FoundIndex+1)                   SET @ReturnValue = SUBSTRING(@String, @FoundIndex,@NextFoundIndex-@FoundIndex)                   SET @FoundIndex = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @String)                   INSERT @SplitValues (Asset_ID) VALUES (@ReturnValue)             END              RETURN END Windows 10 100% Disk Usage after Startup After startup for 5 minutes my system is very slow. The Task Manager shows that the disk usage is at 100%. (Later this number is around 2-4 %, but sometimes for 1-2 minutes go up again at 100%.)  I searched a lot on Google. For example I read , and also other pages. I opened two topic on Microsoft answer.  and one in Hungarian.  But I didn't found the solution yet. So I would like to ask Community's help. :)  Here the steps I already done:   I disabled everything at startups (including services) and the issue is the same.  I disabled Prefetch and Superfetch, the Baground Intellingent Transmission, Windows Search and Windows Defender but the issue is still persists. I made a health check on HDD, I made defrag and file system error check, but there are no errors. Also I tried to reinstall the HDD's driver. I made a full hardware check up, with no errors. The Windows and all the drivers are up-to-date. I tried a clean start. The issue is the same. I deleted Dropbox and all antivirus. I turned of the MSI mode.      I using also Linux, where this error is not occurs. Good to know, that Windows had 4 partitions, but I deleted 2 of them for the Linux. I don't know what partitions was these but both was only 10 - 20 MB.  I using a Dell Inspiron 15R SE 7520 with Windows 10 Home.  Personally I think it can be the Intel Rapid Store Technology "driver", because the problem started around when I installed it. (However I'm not sure.) And my hardware not supported yet by Intel, so I have no the newest driver. However I deleted Intel's software and driver and the issue is the same.    Thank you in advance for your assistance! How do I redirect a domain to another domain locally? My /etc/hosts file looks like this:  127.0.0.1       localhost 10.20.7.67      testsitealpha.dev othersite.dev   testsitebeta.dev   The first two work. The last one doesn't. Why not? How do I make it work? The reason I am doing this, is because I have a test server (othersite.com), which is on the local network, but it's ip can vary. e.g. 10.20.7.98 one day, 10.20.7.35 another, etc.  So, how do I make my system always resolve testsitebeta.dev to the same ip as othersite.dev? How about a "Irritable" badge for someone who downvotes often? EDIT : How about a forced comment   dialog...which forces the user's to   comment when they downvote otherwise   they can't....right now it just shows   a popup to suggest posting a   comment...maybe this is little too   strict...but i just find it annoying   when ppl downvote and leave no   comments....   How about having a badge "Irritable" for a user who downvotes over 20 times in a month and then have maybe further "Furious" for over 50 downvotes in a month....just a fun suggestion...since i see people downvote like crazy at times...there should also be a way to downvote a comment i think in addition... Can you help me with this inequality?  $|x-1| +|x+1| &lt;1$.  I think that it doesn't exist an $x$ that satisfies this inequality, but I'm not really convinced about my answer. How does tangzhong (water roux) make bread softer? As I understand it, tangzhong in relation to bread making is an Asian technique in which a portion of the flour in the recipe is pre-cooked with water to make a roux, before being cooled and added to the rest of the ingredients. It is supposed to make the resulting bread very soft, often for days longer than non-tangzhong breads. I thought maybe it works by binding the proteins so gluten development is restricted, but I'd have thought that would inhibit rise, which seems not to be an issue.  Disclaimer: I have not yet made a tangzhong bread, but I believe I have eaten a few... My first attempt is currently doing a bulk rise.  How does tangzhong work exactly? How does it actually change the dough to achieve the distinct softness for which it is so famous? Every convergent sequence in a metric space has a unique limit. Gravitational waves and time Can't log in using Firefox in Stack Overflow Is it "re-offend" or "reoffend"? I want to know whether there is a hyphen in the word re-offend, or if it is spelt reoffend. I looked in Oxford English dictionary and the word "reoffend" appears, but then I checked Merriam-Webster and the word is not in there.  So is reoffend a word or is it re-offend?  I'm in Australia where we observe UK English if that matters. How do I insert the total continuation count in the allowframbreaks frame title? I would like to change the numbering of allowframbreaks frame, for instance, from I II III to (1/3) (2/3) (3/3)， but fail to find out a command to get the total continuation count. Here is the MWE.  \documentclass[compress]{beamer} \usetheme{Warsaw}   %allowframebreaks numbering in the title \setbeamertemplate{frametitle continuation}{(\insertcontinuationcount/)} %\setbeamertemplate{frametitle continuation}{(\insertcontinuationcount/\inserttotalcontinuationcount)}  \title{title} \author{author}  %%%%% \begin{document}  \begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]{allowframebreaks title} frame 1 \framebreak  frame 2 \framebreak  frame 3 \framebreak \end{frame}  \end{document} Allow User to input HTML in ASP.NET MVC - ValidateInput or AllowHtml