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a year on: what does it mean? PLease, dear native English speakers, help me to understand the meaning of the expression "a year on" within the context "The reality is that, a year on, a true 4K standard is still very much a work in progress..." Thank you a lot! How to disable the "highlight changes" feature? Our admins deployed a new version of Notepad++ (version 6.3) on our machines, and this version is highlighting all changes done in a file by default. It does so by setting the background color of every modified line to a bright orange, which I find very distracting.  We  have dozens of plugins installed, but I double checked and we do not have the "Change Markers" plugin (which could be the culprit).  Any idea where I can disable this feature? Changing the highlight color could also be an option. SF Story about human adapting to alien environment This is a story that was read on BBC radio about thirty years ago, and this is about as right as I can remember it: The human pilot of a spacecraft is doing some reconnaissance on an alien planet. He crashes but survives. For some reason, no one will know where to look for him. He sees something in the distance that looks like a building of some sort. When he gets there, it seems to be a home. Very much like a human home. There's furniture, but it's strange and uncomfortable . There's food, but it's inedible. There's a faucet but what comes out of it seems more like acid. Everything looks as though it should be right, but it's not. He leaves the house, wanders and after a few days is desperate for water. But there isn't any water anywhere. He's close to death, crawling on the ground and then something happens. There are cracks in the soil and there appears to be water bubbling up from perhaps some underground stream. The water revives him. He goes back to the house and tries the food again. It's delicious and he eats enough to gain back his strength. Then he decides to try the water again. It's pure and wonderful. He takes a shower and the last line of the story is how refreshing the water is on his skin and something about him lifting his tail. Can you forgo your readied action to take an opportunity attack instead? Example:   Player 1 uses the ready action to do something when something happens (unimportant) Goblin, decides to charge across the battlefield and attack Player 2, but happens to cross paths with Player 1 possibly provoking an opportunity attack (here lies my question)   Could Player 1 decide to ignore their readied action and use their reaction to attack the goblin? This would of course take up their reaction so they could no longer take their readied action when it triggers.  If so; let's say it is a fireball that was readied (or any spell), would Player 1 be required to drop the fireball spell? They technically cast it as part of their ready action, but I would understand if this would be a downside to using a reaction before their readied action triggered (maybe this should be another question, but please answer it anyway and tell me if I need to create a separate one so you can answer it there too :P). svmono template and `\mathcal` Why, with Springer's  svmono template, do the letters written with the \mathcal font change? It seems that \mathcal becomes \mathscr.  Edit: Look at this image:    With the svmono template \mathcal returns the first alphabet and not the (classical) latter.  Here the packages I use in my document:  \documentclass[envcountsame,envcountchap]{svmono}  \usepackage{subfiles} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  \usepackage{mathptmx} \usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{stmaryrd}    \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{courier} \usepackage{mathrsfs}  \usepackage{amssymb}  \usepackage[all,cmtip]{xy} \usepackage{faktor} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{mathdots} \usepackage[colorlinks={true},linkcolor={blue},citecolor={blue}]{hyperref} \usepackage[frame,width=15truecm,height=23.5truecm,center]{crop}   With this settings I have the above strange behavior of \mathcal. Does a Rogue using Use Magic Device for a scroll or wand also need to emulate a class feature? I'm confused about Rogues and Use Magic Device. I've searched the core book and the Internet for the past 4 hours and can't find the answer to my simple question.   Since a Rogue doesn't have any spells, a spell list or caster level, do you have to emulate a class feature in addition to all other necessary checks to use items like scrolls and wands? How can I lock a folder so that it CANNOT be erased? On my computer running Windows XP Pro SP3 I have a folder on my desktop that is very important. How can I lock it so that I can alter anything in it, but the folder itself cannot be removed without resetting a (lock/unlock?) switch? Installing Ubuntu 13.04 on a MSATA SSD I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my 24Gb MSATA SSD. In my laptop, I've also got a 500Gb SATA HDD. I realize that in order for this to work I need to put my /home directory on the 500Gb HDD.   I've tried installing it by creating a ext4 partition on the SSD and a 8Gb swap partition on my HDD. This resulted in an error saying something similar to Cannot install bootloader, please select an other location for the bootloader.   Now before I waste any more time trying to get it to work I'm going to ask a bunch of questions:   Where should I put the swap partition? How big should I make the swap partition? (I've got 12Gb RAM) My 500Gb HDD is currently in Raid mode. Should I change that (to AHCI or IDE)? Where should I put the bootloader if the error message occurs again? How do I make the home directory point to the HDD instead of the SSD? Can I configure Ubuntu to install software/packages on the HDD instead of the SSD? Evaluating string "3*(4+2)" yield int 18 Short story about a robot who wants to become a writer How to solve the functional equation $f\left(x^2+f(y)\right)=y+f(x)^2$ How to solve the following functional equation:  Find all $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R} $ such that: $$ f\left(x^2+f(y)\right)=y+f(x)^2 $$ Holds for every $x,y\in\mathbb{R}$.  A friend gave it to me, probably its an olympiad question.  I started with the equation $f(f(y))=y+f(0)^2$ which seems to be quite helpful, but I couldn't do it effectively. How to solve it properly? Which cameras have built-in HDR? When taking landscape photos, I often struggle with dynamic range. I have either a burned out skies or landscapes are too dark.  Now I'm reading  that some cameras can take 3 pictures with different exposures, and combine them automatically to one image with higher dynamic range.   So my question is, which cameras have this feature? I want to package my project in a single executable JAR for distribution.  How can I make a Maven project package all dependency JARs into my output JAR? Incorrect icons on hot network questions I see the same problem has occurred in the past, the most-linked one being   Is this happening for anyone else?   I've marked the icons I could recognize as incorrect.  This exists on every page, is on both chrome and firefox (from Ubuntu 16.04), and persists after hard-refreshes in each.  Edit: The icons in Meta's Hot Network Questions tab appear to be consistently accurate. Every other page I checked (including Unix, Workplace, English Language &amp; Usage, Money, and Sci-fi) have a handful of incorrect ones, even for some of the same questions that are displayed correctly in Meta.  Further note: if it matters, the icons are also incorrect in the drop down community-search feature on the right end of the header. Again, they appear correct on this Meta page, and incorrect on all other pages I've checked. Some of the ones that are consistently incorrect:   computational science constructed languages movies and TV raspberri pi rpg russian language science fiction and fantasy sitecore skeptics super user latex workplace   That distribution seems skewed, but I may just be disproportionately familiar with the sites at the end of the alphabet. Many others could be wrong, those are just the ones I could recognize.    Last edit: apparently my Google skills were lacking -  was asked an hour prior. Why would spacetime curvature cause gravity? Comparison between integrals Let's say - $F(x) &gt; G(x)$ for all $x$ in $E$.  So is it true that ?  $$\int F(x)\,dx  &gt; \int G(x)\,dx$$ or I can use this statement only when the two functions are non-negative functions.  Thanks! every rank 2 oriented matroid is realizable How to loop through a HashMap in JSP? "Unable to locate package" while trying to install packages with APT Repeating determiners: “the X and (the) Y” I have a problem with the use of "the" after "and" where you would basically be connecting words. For example, which of the following is better:     The table and the chairs?   The table and chairs?   Or are both okay? What is the rule, and are there exceptions to it? Or is the rule just contextual and may vary between the sentences and meanings?