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Is there something wrong with VertexConnectivity Set the location in iPhone Simulator How can I set the location (as it's picked up in CoreLocation services) in the iPhone Simulator? Difference between ' and " on command line (bash)? I used to use '' and "" (single and double-quotes) interchangeably on the command line, but I recently noticed that '$HOME/some/dir' is not expanded, while "$HOME/some/dir" is. I searched around a little bit and found that "" allows some protection of special characters, while '' allows full protection. So what other characters are protected by '' and not ""?  EDIT: What are practical situations in which these differences might be significant? Cut points and connected space If all motion is relative, how does light have a finite speed? I've often heard that Einstein shattered the notion of absolute motion (i.e. all things move relative to one another) and that he established the speed of light as being absolute. That sounds paradoxical to me; I cannot understand how the two concepts can be reconciled.  Before going further, I'd like to say: 1) Over the years, I've seen many layman's explanations on these topics (including the nice YouTube video by Vsauce, ). I understand everything that's said (or, at least, I think I do). Just nothing I've found seems to address this apparent contradiction. 2) More recently, I've tried to find the answer on my own. That includes searching the posts on this site. Some come close (), but nothing I've been able to find seems address specifically what I'm asking.  Back to the question: Relativity shows us that there is no universal frame of reference by which to judge motion, so object A might be reckoned as moving at 10&nbsp;m/s relative to object B or as stationary relative to object C. This is fine for me. I can grasp that the universe has no intrinsic coordinate system, that we only think that way on Earth because we have the ground to move over.  Then there's the speed of light (in a vacuum). The speed of light is the ultimate "speed limit," it's often said. But if there is no universal frame of reference, how can there be any such speed? The very idea only make sense if there is a universal frame.   If one object is moving (uniformly) at 60%&nbsp;c and another object is also moving at 60%&nbsp;c, but in the exact opposite direct, then from the perspective of either one (if they could still see each other) the other would appear to violate that speed limit. All these spacetime bending consequences used to explain why nothing can move past this speed only seems to enshrine the concept that there is some ultimate speed standard. If there is only relative speed, then the concept of light having a specific speed in the vacuum should be a nonsensical one since it having speed (x m/s) would only make sense when measured against some other body.   Since I was very young, it has always sounded to me like motion is only mostly relative, that until you get close to the speed of light, the effects of an absolute frame of reference are negligible. Perhaps that there is an actual fabric of space which everything moves relative to, which is why there is something to expand between galaxies (faster than light can propagate) in the metric expansion of space. Growing up, I always thought this would just start makes sense with time. Now I'm up to a first year (college) level in physics, I even know basic calculus, yet I'm still hopelessly confused.  EDIT:  Thank you to whoever suggested this may be a duplicate of . It and others are very much related and at least partially answer my question. Unfortunately, explaining that distances become shorter and time becomes slower as a way to stop you from exceeding the speed of light does not explain how that speed is not an absolute.  By my reckoning, if all speed is relative, then no matter how fast you go light should always race away from you at the same apparent speed. I.e. there should be no speed limit. For there to be a speed which you cannot exceed or you would catch up (and make time irrelevant) requires the very concept of some external speed by which light can travel and nothing else can reach - thus my logical paradox continues unabated. Why do all SSH-RSA Keys begin with "AAAAB3NzaC1yc"? What's a good beginner resource to learn group theory? List of all "partitions"/ "cuttings" of a list How to derive addition of velocities without the Lorentz transformation? Start Mathematica without the menu bar? Running an infinite loop on startup I'd like to run a command at startup which pings a certain address every 10 minutes and writes the result to a file. I've figured out now how to do the pinging and file writing and the 10 min intervals:  while true; do my-command-here; sleep 600; done   My question is, can I put this in /etc/init.d/rc.local or should I be putting it in /etc/rc.local or somewhere else entirely? I'm specifically concerned because it's an infinite loop so I'm not sure if I could put it in one of these startup scripts.  Some help would be appreciated. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.5 prove every connected manifold is path connected manifold .       my thought:      connected space : Let $ X$  be a topological space. A separation of $ X $ is a pair $U, V$ of disjoint    nonempty open subsets of $ X $ whose union is $X$. The space $ X $ is said to be connected    if there does not exist a separation of  $X$ .      Components: Given  $X$ , define an equivalence relation on $X$ by setting x~y if there    is a connected subspace of $X$  containing both $ x$  and $ y$ . The equivalence classes are    called the components (or the "connected components") of $ X$.       Path Component: I define another equivalence relation on the space $ X$  by defining x ~ у    if there is a path in $ X$  from $ x$  to $ y$ . The equivalence classes are called the path components of $ X$ .       Theorem  : The path components of $ X$  are path connected disjoint subspaces    of $X$  whose union is $X$ , such that each nonempty path connected subspace of $X$  intersects only one of them.       thank you so much Whats this white stuff on my board? I'm not an engineer, but my monitor stopped working yesterday (it just wouldn't display anything but still gets power) so I figured I'd like to take it apart and see what went wrong.  At the very least I'd get to see what the inside of a monitor looks like :).  Anyway, I took it apart, and also read around about my issue and it seems the capacitors have gone bad, at least some of them.  However, I also noticed some white elastic stuff all over the board.  Some of them are sticking two capacitors together and to the board, but I also see some from where power socket connects to the board.  My question is, what is the white stuff?  Should I replace all capacitors that have white stuff around it, and should I also replace the power socket part?  Or should I just replace the bulging capacitors and leave it at that?  UPDATE: seem to be well-regarded for their versatility and accuracy of metering.  What puzzles me about them is how can they account for the different light transmittance of different lenses? It's easy for an in-camera metering system that meters  so any peculiarity in transmittance is already applied to light when it reaches the metering sensor. But a standalone meter does not have the privilege of looking at the world through the lens it meters for. I tried looking it up in  and , but this issue was not touched upon at all.  This leaves several variants how it could be handled -   light meter uses  for aperture display/input, and photographer is expected to perform the adjustments to and from  (which are used by cameras); light meter assumes some median transmittance of lenses of its era, and automatically accounts for that; photographers simply ignore the matter - even a 75% transmitting lens will be off only by about half a stop, no big deal; each light meter used is expected to know that you have to dial in some exposure compensation to account for the light loss; ...   So how does it work in real world? Tense change: previous actions on something that's currently true Trying to locate a file, how can I search the entire hard drive for a file? How to use early stopping properly for training deep neural network? Mask and inherit the same systemd unit Suppose a package provides whatever.service file so certain events (including whatever.socket) cause a daemon to start with a certain configuration.  I want to disable this completely. In particular, I want the old socket and any other unit files that might refer to this service by name to be unable to start the daemon.  Instead, I want to create my own unit files for this daemon with a different .socket unit and different environment variables. I also want my override to automatically take account of possible upstream updates to the original unit file (which my current solution of copying whatever.service as whatever-modified.service and editing it unfortunately does not provide).  If I create the following symlinks and files: /etc/systemd/system/whatever.service → /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/whatever-modified.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/whatever.service /etc/systemd/system/whatever-modified.service.d/fix.conf  systemd considers the new service to be masked as well and refuses to start it. How to avoid this? Several responses to a question  suggested I try Opera kiosk mode, so I decided to download it and give it a try. Once the download had completed and the disk image was being verified, Safari hung for over a minute and there were periods where Safari used a very high %CPU:    In Mac OS X 10.5, I was accustomed to seeing Safari freeze, but it never used up more than 200% CPU (2 cores x 100%). Is this a bug in Activity Monitor? Or does this mean that %CPU is now more akin to ? Scanner is skipping nextLine() after using next() or nextFoo()?