"More" used in front of "happy"
"More clear" vs "Clearer": when to use "more" instead of "-er"?
Can you use Wish to duplicate a spell at a higher level? Wish allows you to duplicate the effects of any spell L8 or lower. Does that include a lower-level spell, cast at L8? Say, as a Wizard, casting Heal at L8.  I'm leaning towards yes, but it wouldn't be the first time I assume the wrong answer... I understand what a decibel is, the spirit of the question is different: why do we still use decibels (and with at least two different, context-specific definitions), if we have the feat of scientific notation? I dare to claim that the change of 5e-1 (which is a half) is much more readable than 3dB (voltage? power?). 1e6 is more clear than 120dB, etc. Just for the joy of adding? 3dB + 7dB is 10dB, but 2e5+3e6 is errrm... I see many new datasheets from the top vendors (LTC, for example) use the V/V convention, which is closer to the scientific notation than to the decibels. An upcoming paradigm change? I assume that the multimeter should read 2A, why is it only 0.358A? If this is how it is supposed to be, why? If I add a load, how do I measure that this load is being drawn, does the multimeter need to be in series? How do I get %LocalAppData% in c#? A site URL changed and now its icon in SEDE is broken Python __str__ and lists Lecturer with anxiety. How to survive in academia? I've been a long time member of academia.SE but I created this alt account because the question is a bit embarrassing. I finished my PhD 4 years ago and after a 2 year postdoc at a different university secured a contractual lecturership. During my PhD I never realised I had fear of public speaking, because I always felt secure presenting in front of my supervisor. Even at conferences, his presence in the audience was enough to keep me relaxed.  Fast forward to my postdoc, I was mostly working and publishing by myself. So, even if I had to present something it was to my coauthors, with which I am okay. But as a lecturer doing research part of my time, I am involved in projects and seminars where I am expected to present my latest work. Being on my own has brought out my inner anxiety, so much so that I choked during a presentation, had to drink water to calm my nerves and apologise for my breathlessness and slurred speech. That was the most embarrasing thing in my life. Please note that the anxiety is not the result of me not publishing or doing research. I have published more than most in my department. Knowing that hasn't helped with the anxiety though. I am constantly making excuses to get out of project presentations and seminar talks. Fortunately, the anxiety is less intense in teaching and I am able to manage.   How do I survive as an academic? Now even conference presentations seem daunting. I can publish exclusively in journals, but how do I get out of giving project and departmental presentations? How can I politely refuse to present without revealing my situation? Or better yet, how do I fix the whole thing? That one bad presentation has really messed me up. Links in site profiles stripped from network profile I have a link in my profile, advertising a Stack Exchange question of mine (which I believe is acceptable use of the profile page). The link works fine on my individual profile pages. For example,  and . However, on  the links do not show.  The link is present on the GIF and on the text (two separate links, both to the same place). Both work fine on the individual profile pages but both are absent from the network profile page. The GIF and text are present, just without being linked.  Is there a reason for disallowing links from the network profile page, or is this a bug? Kolmogorov proved, that, as one considers independent (not necessary equally distributed) Random Variables: $\{X_n\}_{n\ge0}\subseteq \mathcal L^2$   With $\mathrm{Var} (X_n)=\sigma^2_n$ and without loss of generality $E[X_n]=0$.  If $\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{\sigma^2_n}{n^2} \lt \infty$ then SLLN holds, that is:  $$\frac1n\sum_{k=0}^n X_k \rightarrow 0 \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\text{a.s.}$$  Something different:  Also it is known, that if $\sup_{n\ge0}\sigma^2_n =: v \lt \infty$ pairwise uncorrelated $(X_n)_{n\ge0}$ will suffice for SLLN to hold.  My question in view of this situation: Is it possible to weaken the condition of $(X_n)_{n\ge0}$ beeing independent and instead merely consider pairwise uncorrelated $(X_n)_{n\ge0}$? How much money does Stack Exchange make? What does "calculus" mean? "calculus" and "formal system"  From      a calculus is a formal system that consists of          a set of syntactic expressions (well-formed formulæ or wffs),    a distinguished subset of these expressions (axioms), plus    a set of formal rules that define a specific binary relation on the space of expressions.      From      Formal systems in mathematics consist of the following elements:         A finite set of symbols (i.e. the alphabet), that can be used for constructing formulas (i.e. finite strings of symbols).   A grammar, which tells how well-formed formulas (abbreviated wff) are constructed out of the symbols in the alphabet. It is   usually   required that there be a decision procedure for deciding whether a   formula is well formed or not.   A set of axioms or axiom schemata: each axiom must be a wff.   A set of inference rules.      what is the difference between a formal system, and a calculus, then? I think they are the same? "calculus" and "logic system"  "Calculus" appears in "propositional calculus" and "first-order predicate calculus", which are also called "propositional logic" and "first-order logic" respectively. So I thought "calculus" and "logic" mean the same, and "a logic" is, according to ,      A logical system or, for short, logic, is a formal system together with a form of semantics, usually in the form of model-theoretic   interpretation, which assigns truth values to sentences of the   formal language, that is, formulae that contain no free variables.    But then I saw "calculus" also appears in "lambda calculus", which is also a formal system. I think a lambda calculus isn't a logic system, right? What does "calculus" mean in "lambda calculus"? Furthermore  "calculus" can also mean computational real analysis for first-year college students.   Thanks. I'm having some trouble understanding cosets.  If I understand it correctly, cosets form a partition. So, if I have $|G:H| = 2$, then $G = H \cup xH$. Right?  In an exercise, I'm asked the following:  "For $G$ group and $H \le G$ such that $|G:H| = 2$, prove that $x^2 \in H$ for any $x \in G$"  If $x \in H$, then $x^2 \in H$ because $H$ is a group. But, if $x \notin H$, then $x \in gH$ for any $g \in G$, right? Then $x^2$ = $(gh)^2$ but I can't see why this is in $H$.  Can you give me some hint? Thanks for stopping by. Finding plane equation given two lines Determine an equation of the plane containing the lines $\frac{x-1}{2}=\frac{y+1}{-1}=\frac{z-5}{6}$; $r=\lt1,-1,5\gt+t\lt1,1,-3\gt$.   I calculated the cross product between the directional vector of both lines to find the normal vector $n$, but when I looked for an intersection point $r_0$ to apply the formula: $\lt r-r_0\gt \bullet \ \ n$, I did not find any.  Can I use the point $\lt1,-1,5\gt$ given in the line $r$? Or is it not possible to find an equation of the plane containing two lines that do not intersect? Imported CSV data is not displayed in QGIS I watched a simple video tutorial on how to accomplish it, but nothing shows up on my project when I add the layer. Even if I try zoom to layer, the screen just shows blue. I'm not sure if it has something to do with my Excel, computer, or program. I really need help as I am new to QGIS. (I just posted this, but it won't let me comment to people under that question any more) I have a layer of google hybrid, but when I do add the new layer it is at the top and checked transparency and everything. Its just not accepting the data I entered into the excel spreadsheet is my guess to what the issue is.  I have the spreadsheet with the name, longitude, latitude. Save as CSV In QGIS go to Layer &gt; Add layer &gt; Add Delimited Text Layer Upload the CSV Excel file Add  Nothing shows even tho there is a line in the layers (bottom left) showing that &quot;something&quot; is there but if I choose &quot;zoom to layer&quot; it changes to a blue screen I have a Base layer Google Maps hybrid, and an area of interest on Georgia Making a Comment on a page without being on that page? I have a built a Wordpress site that enables comments on pages and I am using them as reviews, what I would like to do is for someone to be able to make a comment on a page without being on that page.    On the link above, the top right, there is a link that says have your say about a university, it would be good to have a HTML form and then a dropdown box of all the child pages of university-guide; which is where all the universities are stored, and then I can put my comments.php file into this.  So my HTML form appears and when a page is picked from a dropdown box, the comment will then be assigned to that page.  Any help or direction?    New Question for Toscho:  Below is your tweaked plugin to fit into my website, as you can see I have added the select option yearSelect and need this to appear when the comments appear. How would I go about doing this? - Could you provide ay help please?      &lt;?php /* Plugin Name: haveyoursay */  /**  * Call the form in your template with:  * do_action( 'wpse_67527_comment_form' );  */ add_action( 'wpse_67527_comment_form', 'wpse_67527_comment_form' );  /**  * Create a review form.  *  * @return void  */ function wpse_67527_comment_form() {     $select_id = 'page_select';     $url = 'http' . ( is_ssl() ? 's' : '' ) . '://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];     $url = esc_url( $url );     ?&gt; &lt;form action="&lt;?php echo site_url( '/wp-comments-post.php' ); ?&gt;" method="post"&gt; &lt;h3&gt;Leave us your student perspective &lt;img src="/wp-content/themes/blue-and-grey/images/hmepage-tri.png"&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;     &lt;p&gt;         &lt;label for="author"&gt;&lt;?php _e( 'Name' ); ?&gt;&lt;/label&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;         &lt;input id="author" name="author" type="text" size="40" /&gt;     &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p&gt;         &lt;label for="email"&gt;&lt;?php _e( 'Email' ); ?&gt;&lt;/label&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;         &lt;input id="email" name="email" type="text" size="40" /&gt;     &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p&gt;         &lt;label for="&lt;?php echo $select_id; ?&gt;"&gt;             &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;             Pick a university from the list: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;         &lt;/label&gt;         &lt;?php         // Ordered by page name automatically         wp_dropdown_pages(             array (                 'name' =&gt; 'comment_post_ID',                 'id'   =&gt; $select_id,                 'child_of' =&gt; 2,             )         );         ?&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;     &lt;p style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0px;"&gt;Please select your year of study: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;     &lt;select name="yearSelect"&gt;     &lt;option value="1st"&gt;First Year&lt;/option&gt;     &lt;option value="2nd"&gt;Second Year&lt;/option&gt;     &lt;option value="2nd"&gt;Third Year&lt;/option&gt;     &lt;/select&gt;     &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;     &lt;p&gt;         &lt;textarea name="comment" cols="45" rows="8"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;     &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p&gt;         &lt;?php         wp_nonce_field( 'unfiltered-html-comment_' . get_the_ID(), '_wp_unfiltered_html_comment_disabled', FALSE );         ?&gt;         &lt;input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="&lt;?php echo $url; ?&gt;" /&gt;         &lt;input type="submit" style="margin:15px 0px 0px 0px; padding:4px 10px;" /&gt;     &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/form&gt;     &lt;?php }  add_filter( 'comment_post_redirect', 'wpse_67527_redirect' );  /**  * Strip '#comment-number' from redirect url.  *  * @param  string $url  * @return string  */ function wpse_67527_redirect( $url ) {     $parts = explode( '#', $url );     return $parts[0]; } ?&gt; Shared email on 2 Facebook accounts is stopping access to both accounts My husband wanted me to set up a Facebook account for him and I accidentally used our shared email address, which is set against my own account.  Since then, neither of us has been able to log in, so I can't alter any settings.  Can anyone advise how to resolve this please? Fastest Square Root Algorithm What is the fastest algorithm for finding the square root of a number?  I created one that can find the square root of "$987654321$" to $16$ decimal places in just $20$ iterations   I've now tried Newton's method as well as my own method (Newtons code as seen below)  What is the fastest known algorithm for taking the second root of a number?  My code for Newton's Method (*Edit: there was an error in my code, it is fixed in the comments below):        a=2   //2nd root     b=97654321   //base     n=1   //initial guess     c=0   //current iteration (this is a changing variable)     r=500000   //total number of iterations to run     while (c&lt;r)      {         m = n-(((n^a)-b)/(a*b))  //Newton's algorithm         n=m         c++;         trace(m + "  &lt;--guess   ...   iteration--&gt;  " + c)     } Which one of these two statements is correct?     Our staff do ...      Our staff does ...   And is staffs ever correct? I'm trying to connect to another computer in my house via ssh. Both computers have ubuntu and openssh installed. When I run the command "ssh username@ip" on terminal I'm asked for the user's password I'm trying to connect to. I type it but I get this error "Permission denied, please try again." I'm sure the password is correct, then why can't I access? Which repository source do I need to add to my sources.list to access the package firmware-linux-nonfree?  I am using Deb 6 testing 32 bit.