Can pthread_create() thread-ID of detached thread be ephemeral on the stack?
reusing pthread_t variable for currently running threads
What would happen if you put your hand in front of the 7 TeV beam at LHC? Some speculation here:   Is there a possibility it would pass 'undetected' through your hand, or is it certain death?  Can you conclude it to be vital, or only loose your hand?  Would it simply make a small cylindrical hole through your hand, or is there some sort of explosion-effect?  Assume your hand has a cross section of 50cm², and a thickness of 2cm, how much of the beam's energy would be transferred to your hand? Reflectivity of a glowing-hot metal surface When a polished piece of metal (or steel in particular) is heated to incandescence, how do its reflective properties change?  Given a mirror-like surface, would the object temporarily cease to act like a mirror at a certain temperature?  Would the specular reflection of light turn into diffuse reflection; in other words, would the surface temporarily become matte/dull?  I am not asking about permanent changes to the object such as melting, but rather can there be a temporary change in the reflectivity only while the the object is hot, that disappears when the object is cooled down?  Background of the question: I have a laser scanner that usually has trouble scanning shiny surfaces with high specular/ low diffuse reflectivity; and it seems to work a lot better for hot steel pieces than for cold ones. Glowing steel also looks less shiny to me than cold steel, but of course that is hard to tell with all the glowing Unable to play MP3 or MP4 files in Rhythmbox or Movie Player I am unable to play any MP3 or MP4 files. When I try to open any MP3 or MP4 file, both show an error, a Python 2.7 plug-in is required. Is there a rule of integration that corresponds to the quotient rule? How can I make Safari cmd+number shortcut switch tabs instead of opening the bookmark associated with that number? I'm used to switching tabs with cmd+x where x is a number and takes me to tab x in firefox and pretty much every other browser I've ever used. I like safari's speed and would like to try it a bit, but the cmd+x shortcut is burned in my brain and every time I use safari I end up screwing up. I'd like to know if its possible to change this behavior, because this simple thing is a stopper for me. Good and easy way to share files on local machine I would like to have a directory that has following properties:    Many users can copy files into it  These files can be deleted/changed by these users (user A can delete/modify file that was copied into this directory)    it cant be done using normal file permissions (because permissions are retained on copy).  Here is what I found on the net:        Some use cases:    Sharing music on local machine  Simple git repository sharing (just make a bare repository writeable to many people) --- i know that there are solutions like gitosis Allow many developers to modify test instance of php app without giving them root (i guess they would copy files) --- I'm leading a team of nonprofit junior developers and I need to keep that one simple!    EDIT  AFAIK setting SGID bit is not enugh, it only affects newly created files --- and basic workflow for these use cases ivnolves copying and other operations (which cleave file's gid unchanged) Do electrons have shape? According to :     The electron has no known substructure. Hence, it is defined or assumed to be a point particle with a point charge and no spatial extent.   Does point particle mean the particle should not have a shape, surface area or volume?  But when I searched Google for the "electron shape" I got many results (like  and ) that says electrons are round in shape. Why was the Holdo manoeuvre not used earlier? This question is related to "The Last Jedi":  The maneuvre that vice admiral Holdo (with the purple hair) uses towards the end of the film seems remarkably effective.   It seems that it would have worked pretty well much earlier. Especially as two other ships were just allowed to run out of fuel and be destroyed.  It seems doing it earlier with different assets would have incurred less losses. Yet nobody seemed to consider it. Any in universe reason why? Duplicating a mesh object Microphone Not Working With FaceTime Drive shape key based on relative camera orientation? Find and replace text within a file using commands How to shrink Windows 7 boot partition with unmovable files I have just bought an HP laptop with Windows&nbsp;7 (64 bit). It has a 500&nbsp;GB HDD with three partitions: a small hidden system partition, a 12&nbsp;GiB HP recovery partition, and a 450&nbsp;GiB C: boot partition.  I would like to split this large C: partition into two partitions, leaving only 100&nbsp;GiB for the system, and giving the rest to a new data partition.  Although the Windows built-in Disk Management utility has an option to shrink the bootable partition, it only allows me to shrink it roughly by half, even though only 20&nbsp;GiB on the partition is used. As far as I understand, system unmovable files lie in the middle of the partition, preventing Disk Management utility to do what I want.    And since new HP laptops don't come with OS installation disks (they only allow you to create recovery disks yourself), I can't just repartition HDD and then reinstall OS.  So, is there a way to shrink the C: bootable partition and preserve Windows&nbsp;7 working?  P.S.: I have tried to use the third-party  utility, and after shrinking the partition, Windows&nbsp;7 stopped booting, with a . System recovery didn't work, and I had to do factory recover. Since this is a long process, I would like to avoid doing it again :) So, please, suggest only proven solutions. Possible Duplicates:             Voting on questions played a big role in the site when we didn't have the option to comment on, close, migrate, flag, or edit questions which did not fit the site or required modification to be useful and usable.  As it is, question votes are not much more than a popularity contest, and a lot of bandwidth is taken up on Meta regarding question votes.  Notably:        In most cases a downvote is being given where a good edit should be used instead, or a comment indicating that the question user needs to provide more information.  People are also downvoting in the case of duplicates (or suspected duplicates) when they don't want to do the work of finding the duplicate.  There is no need to downvote to 'alert' other users that a question isn't worth spending time on - if it's bad enough that it can't be fixed, and so bad that you want to be sure others avoid it then it's not worth keeping open.  These are all situations where the person downvoting should be taking a different action.  , and several questions have thrown ideas at how to increase question upvoting artificially, and a  was even implemented to encourage this behavior.  Given all this, I am now convinced that voting on questions is an unnecessary distraction.  Voting no longer provides any useful information about a question, and there are more than adequate means of fixing or removing questions that need work.  Voting makes more sense for sites like Meta where questions aren't really questions, but suggestions and discussions.  For purely Q/A sites such as SO, SF, SU, the voting is superfluous.  The only two possible positive things voting now provides are:   A way for users at lower rep levels to have a voice when they are unable to perform many of the other functions that are needed to fix a question (I contend this is useless, but perhaps they need some sort of outlet) A 'hook' to get new users into the reputation game (which fails frequently because questions aren't getting upvotes, especially questions from new users)   If that is truly the case, then we should consider removing question voting altogether, or removing the effect of question votes on reputation.   Am I wrong? What obvious and explicitly important role does question voting play in our community? I'm working on an exercise from functional analysis.  Let $E$ be a vector space and $\|\cdot\|_1$ and $\|\cdot\|_2$ be two complete norms on $E$. Now suppose that $E$ satisfies the following property:  $\bullet$ if $(x_n)$ is a sequence in $E$ and $x,y\in E$ such that $\|x_n-x\|_1\to 0$ and $\|x_n-y\|_2\to 0$, then $x=y$.  Now we want to show that the norms $\|\cdot\|_1$ and $\|\cdot\|_2$ are equivalent.  My idea is as follows: If for any $n&gt;0$, there is an element $x_n\in E$ such that $\|x_n\|_1&gt;n\|x_n\|_2$. Then consider $(\frac{x_n}{\|x_n\|_1})_{n\geq 1}$. Clearly, $(\frac{x_n}{\|x_n\|_1})_{n\geq 1}$ converges to $0$. However, I cann't get a contradicition from this. Maybe my idea is wrong.   In fact, I even don't konw how to show that a Cauchy sequence in norm $\|\cdot\|_1$ is also a Cauchy sequence in norm $\|\cdot\|_2$.   Anyone can give me some hints or a counter example? Thank you very much. Uncountable subset with uncountable complement, without the Axiom of Choice Let $X$ be a set and consider the collection $\mathcal{A}(X)$ of countable or cocountable subsets of $X$, that is, $E \in \mathcal{A}(X)$ if $E$ is countable or $X-E$ is countable. If $X$ is countable, then $\mathcal{A}(X)$ coincides with the power set $\mathcal{P}(X)$ of $X$. Now suppose that $X$ is uncountable. Assuming the axiom of choice, we can conclude that $\mathcal{A}(X) \ne \mathcal{P}(X)$, since $|X| = |X| + |X|$. So the question is:     Can we prove in ZF that $\mathcal{A}(X) \ne \mathcal{P}(X)$ for every uncountable set $X$?   I'm assuming that a set $X$ is uncountable if there is no injective function $f : X \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$. Find examples of two series $\sum a_n$ and $\sum b_n$ both of which diverge but for which $\sum \min(a_n, b_n)$ converges. To make it more challenging, produce examples where $a_n$ and $b_n$ are positive and decreasing.  Edit: This problem is taken verbatim from Exercise 2.7.11 on page 68 of Abbott's Understanding analysis. Having changed the scene units and unit scale, how can I change the default size of new objects? I am using blender most of the time to model things for my 3d printer. So a default unit in "meters" is not really helpful!  Within the scene settings it is simply possible to set the units to millimeter and the unit scael to 0.001 so everything seems to work as I want it to work...   But if I add a new primitive it uses its old default sizes in meters... so a new cube get's 2000 x 2000 millimeters instead of 2x2 or whatever will be useful..  Same for all other new objects...  How can I change the default sizes of new objects permanently?   And how can I change the settings in the application templates? Right now using ctrl+u changes the "general" template - perhaps because I loaded it before...   Thanks a lot and best regards Stefan How do I transcode a Javascript string to ISO-8859-1? Drop shadow for text in PGF/Beamer I want to really put an emphasis on some central piece of text I'm using in a Beamer slide.  I'm using tikz and overlay to put it, enlarged, on the center of the page, using the following code:  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]   \node[at=(current page.center)] {     \scalebox{2}{\Huge\texttt{{This is important!}}}   }; \end{tikzpicture}   Can I add a drop shadow to the letter themselves, so they would look even more emphasized?  Is there some other decoration that can be added to the text itself, like a glow, etc.?  Or does PGF ignores node text altogether?  The text should be in typewriter style, so using special fancy fonts is probably not the solution.