Who, the subject or the object of the main clause, does the subject pronoun of a subordinate clause refer to?
Antecedent Precedence?
I wrote the wrong thing in a commit message.  How can I change the message? The commit has not been pushed yet. How do I restore .bat files association with the system (make them run when double-clicked)? How did "but" mean "only"? : Old English butan, buton &quot;unless, except; without, outside,&quot; [...]  I don't know Old English. From the étymons overhead, how did but  to mean    |adverb| = 1. No more than; only  ? What can explain the semantic shift? I didn't understand , because English is not my first language  :   In sense: Only. An elliptic development of the conjunction: see .  a. By the omission of the negative accompanying the preceding verb (see ), but passes into the adverbial sense of: Nought but, no more than, only, merely.    I understand Shakespeare's use in . Thank you all. I'm very confused about tenses.  I have examples in two different situations here. Situation 1: I went to New York two months ago and was talking to someone about it.  A. This is the first time I've been to New York. B. That was the first time I'd been to New York.  Which is correct in a daily conversation?  Situation 2: I'm going to New York next month and talking to someone.  A. This will be the first time I've been to New York. B. This is the first time I've been to New York. C. This will be the first time I go to New York.  Which sentence is appropriate?  According to a grammar article I've read before, I think it says that I can use this sentence in both cases:  This is the first time I've been to New York.  But I'm not sure if this is really so. So I'd like to know which tense I should use in each case. Could you explain it? When I create a new Date object, it is initialized to the current time but in the local timezone. How can I get the current date and time in GMT? Computing sums of divisors in $O(\sqrt n)$ time? I have a sequence: $1,3,5,8,10,14,16,20,23,27,\dots$  I know that the recursive relation is:  $$p[i] := p[i-1] + \text{number of factors of $i$}, \quad \text{with $p[1]=1$.}$$  How do I solve this recursive relation in $O(n^{0.5})$ time? I have to write a program for it, and $n$ can be as large as $10^9$. So, some appropriate precomputation and prestorage is allowed, provided that they comply (memory and time wise) with the range of $n$. I have the following enumeration:  public enum AuthenticationMethod {     FORMS = 1,     WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION = 2,     SINGLESIGNON = 3 }   The problem however is that I need the word "FORMS" when I ask for AuthenticationMethod.FORMS and not the id 1.  I have found the following solution for this problem ():  First I need to create a custom attribute called "StringValue":  public class StringValue : System.Attribute {     private readonly string _value;      public StringValue(string value)     {         _value = value;     }      public string Value     {         get { return _value; }     }  }   Then I can add this attribute to my enumerator:  public enum AuthenticationMethod {     [StringValue("FORMS")]     FORMS = 1,     [StringValue("WINDOWS")]     WINDOWSAUTHENTICATION = 2,     [StringValue("SSO")]     SINGLESIGNON = 3 }   And of course I need something to retrieve that StringValue:  public static class StringEnum {     public static string GetStringValue(Enum value)     {         string output = null;         Type type = value.GetType();          //Check first in our cached results...          //Look for our 'StringValueAttribute'           //in the field's custom attributes          FieldInfo fi = type.GetField(value.ToString());         StringValue[] attrs =            fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(StringValue),                                    false) as StringValue[];         if (attrs.Length &gt; 0)         {             output = attrs[0].Value;         }          return output;     } }   Good now I've got the tools to get a string value for an enumerator. I can then use it like this:  string valueOfAuthenticationMethod = StringEnum.GetStringValue(AuthenticationMethod.FORMS);   Okay now all of these work like a charm but I find it a whole lot of work. I was wondering if there is a better solution for this.  I also tried something with a dictionary and static properties but that wasn't better either. A geometric reason why the square of the focal length of a hyperbola is equal to the sum of the squares of the axes? Does someone falling into a black hole see the end of the universe? Legitimate edits of less than 6 characters I recently came across an  by  which contained a link to a specification that has since been moved. When attempting to edit the link, a change which involved the subtraction of only 4 characters, I ran up against the 6 character minimum requirement.  Ordinarily this would not be an issue. A less experienced poster would likely have other things within the answer that could be changed (). In fact, this seems to be the answer on every meta post relating to this topic (, , etc...).  The problem here, since I don't have 2k reputation, is that BalusC writes excellent answers... with the reputation to back them up. I don't feel there is anything in the post (besides the link) that would benefit from me editing.  What is the standard practice here?   Flag the post and explain my situation in the notes (for someone with higher reputation)? Comment on the post and hope that a) visitors read the comments or b) the OP gets notified and updates their post? Make edits, for the sole purpose of increasing characters, providing no benefit and possibly hurting the quality of the post?   For reference, the EL Specification in the post should be changed to , if someone wants to go ahead and take care of this. Adding objects algorithm in Objective-C "Unable to locate package" while trying to install packages with APT When I try to install any package through the command line, I get an error.   $ sudo apt-get install &lt;package&gt; Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package &lt;package&gt;   Can anyone help me on this? Crossroads / Second Chance / Choices I am trying to find a short story involving an alien race of 'Intellectuals.' They possess no opposable thumbs or other limbs to control their world.  I think the basis of the story is their discovery of a way to influence another unintelligent species that can manipulate objects.  This leads to a new start for them.  They may have been at risk of breeding beyond available resources.  The story ends with explorers returning from sea. They may have discovered a new land into which they can expand. The last few scenes have a darker flavor where one character has been presented with a rock that glows in the dark. He considers it for a period before being called away to greet the explorers. The author then takes over and makes some comments about most species passing one crossroads only to meet another.  The story could have been written at any time from the Golden Age though to the 1970's. Bizarre spacing with 4 $\star$s Comparing two Lists and returning the distinct values and the differences Mann-Whitney U test and K-S test with unequal sample sizes Could humans choose to establish fibre digesting colonies in our guts? How long was Luke Skywalker's training with Yoda? Here are some options I thought of, not sure which is the right one.   There was an I/O error reading from the pipe. The process writing to the other end of the pipe died with a failure. All processes who could write to the pipe have closed it. The write buffer of the pipe is full. The peer has closed the other direction of the duplex pipe. Writing failed because there are no processes which could read from the pipe. A system call returned the EPIPE error, and there was no error handler installed. Detecting outliers using standard deviations Following my question , I am wondering if there are strong views for or against the use of standard deviation to detect outliers (e.g. any datapoint that is more than 2 standard deviation is an outlier).  I know this is dependent on the context of the study, for instance a data point, 48kg, will certainly be an outlier in a study of babies' weight but not in a study of adults' weight.  Outliers are the result of a number of factors such as data entry mistakes. In my case, these processes are robust.   I guess the question I am asking is: Is using standard deviation a sound method for detecting outliers?