"Up until 8th" - including 8th or not?
Does "until [date]" mean "before that date"?
Why are the endpoint lines of intervals (`|-|`) not shown completely? I use \draw[|-|] () to (); to draw a few intervals.  I expect that each interval is rendered like |----| (see the 2nd and the 3rd intervals in the figure below).  However, the top and the bottom intervals below show only a half of their endpoint lines (i.e., |).  Why are these endpoint lines (|) not shown completely? How to show them?        \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}   \draw[|-|, red] (0,0) to (1,0);   \draw[|-|, red, dashed] (0,1) to (1,1);   \draw[|-|, blue, dashed] (0,2) to (1,2);   \draw[|-|, blue] (0,3) to (1,3); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} How does "virus been detected" on android pop up on chrome when visiting some sites? What is the cause of this chrome bug on android? The last site I went to was www.destructoid.com and all of a sudden it gets redirected to the following url. This happened previously awhile back, but I didn't document everything as I did today. I'm also on android chrome canary if that matters.   I took some screenshots before closing out of that tab. But my question is:   What chrome bug or malware is causing these random redirects? How can one detect if they have this vulnerability?   The url is: Humanity meeting another similar intelligent life form deep into space (or not)? I'm looking for a plot line (it should be a short story) that depicts Earth population (or their close descendants) establishing contact with another intelligent life form deep into space.   After careful studying of DNA samples and language / communication symbols they then realize that the civilization in question is also from Earth but that they departed very long ago and travelled throughout the galaxy in the completely opposite direction so that they are now meeting practically at the point of the circle opposite to Earth. There might have been some anatomical differences as well.  As far as I can remember, the story concludes shortly after that.  This should be a work of a well-known SF author, so I'm hoping for a quick response (if time didn't corrupt my memory too much).  I don't think it was part of an anthology, but it's entirely possible it was in a magazine.  As for the timeline, I've read it about 2-3 years ago, but since I have a passion for older SF works it might not be of much use.  Edit: Not sure if this could help but for what it's worth, it might be contained in . Permissions of /Users keep changing back to drwxrwxrwx Is there a way to include all the jar files within a directory in the classpath?  I'm trying java -classpath lib/*.jar:. my.package.Program and it is not able to find class files that are certainly in those jars.  Do I need to add each jar file to the classpath separately? Knitr: opts_chunk$set() not working in Rscript command android how an EditText work as AutoComplete "I had my house [be] burned down" I have found out that using the verb be in passive constructions such as:      I had my house be burned down    is incorrect, therefore it should be      I had my house burned down.    But is it possible instead of be to use get? E.g.      The wire is passed through the pliers in a specific way to avoid having it get bent.   The rope had its surface wear.   The rope had its surface get worn.   The rope had its surface worn.   The first two sound very odd to me, but just for clarification could you please point out the errors and which ones are correct? Or is using get, be it in -ing or the to infinitive, in any situation along with have incorrect? Careers - filter by location & tag On Careers I thought it wold be nice to be able to filter by , possibly multiple, in additional to location.  Nothing fancy, but something like ....        The image of tags is stolen from the SO side to convey the idea. I suspect functionality on the Careers side would need to be a bit different.  Recent tags would likely make sense.  Favorite tags, particularly the more specific ones might not (e.g., a job posting for , ).  Anyway, the image is just to give a sense of the idea. is a simple way to script small GUIs.  Can anyone give a nice example with a button and a text widget. When the button is pressed should a shell command be executed and the output piped to the text widget.  If you have other nice and clean examples for useful tasks, please add them too. Please clarify how entropy increases when matter gravitationally coalesces On John Baez's website, , he discusses the problem of how entropy increases when a cloud of ideal gas collapses gravitationally (no black holes - keeping it simple).  But he doesn't give away the answer - instead he implies that, I presume, either gravitons or photons are released during collapse and these increase the overall system entropy.  Can someone please answer which it is, gravitons or photons?  If gravitons (or gravity waves), then does this mean that pre-20th century physicists, with no notion of gravity waves, would have concluded that gravitational attraction violates the 2nd law?  And if photons, then what about if the gas particles were totally neutral - wouldn't they not emit any EM radiation in that case?  Or am I wrong that gravitons or photons are the answer? Thanks! Align images with text without using tables What happen if I install VirtualBox Guest Additions on a host? I have a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu installed.   This morning I Installed VirtualBox and booted my Ubuntu drive in a VM. I then installed the guest additions in Ubuntu.   My question/curiosity is, what would happen if I boot the drive again outside of the VirtualBox VM, using a physical computer?  Will my Ubuntu work normally or is something going to change? How to install mods for the new Minecraft launcher Deleting comments under posts in the mod queue should be easier Ever since mods gained the ability to undelete comments, deleting them has become easier as the confirmation dialog was removed.  However, this is not the case in the mod queue &mdash; I still get a confirmation dialog for each comment I want to delete in the queue under a custom-flagged post (single-comment flags can be deleted just fine). And since this is the place from where I delete comments the most, it can be annoying.  In addition, the "purge comments" button, when invoked from the queue, refreshes it, so I have to scroll back down, remember which post I just purged, and mark the flag as helpful. Usually not a big issue but if there are multiple "obsolete comments" flags, then it can get confusing.  Could the workflow for comment thread moderation from within the queue be improved? Ideally, make comment deletion work like everywhere else on the site, and make the purge button AJAX-based like the comment deletes. This is how I'm approaching it: let $R$ be a finite integral domain and I'm trying to show every element in $R$ has an inverse:   let $R-\{0\}=\{x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_k\}$,  then as $R$ is closed under multiplication $\prod_{n=1}^k\ x_i=x_j$,  therefore by canceling $x_j$ we get $x_1x_2\cdots x_{j-1}x_{j+1}\cdots x_k=1 $,  by commuting any of these elements to the front we find an inverse for first term, e.g. for $x_m$ we have $x_m(x_1\cdots x_{m-1}x_{m+1}\cdots x_{j-1}x_{j+1}\cdots x_k)=1$, where $(x_m)^{-1}=x_1\cdots x_{m-1}x_{m+1}\cdots x_{j-1}x_{j+1}\cdots x_k$.   As far as I can see this is correct, so we have found inverses for all $x_i\in R$ apart from $x_j$ if I am right so far. How would we find $(x_{j})^{-1}$? What is a good KPI for software QA? How can you measure the efficiency of the QA team?   What KPIs would you set up? I think that the question is contained in the title. Suppose we begin from something that is false for example $1=0$. Is it possible using only $\Rightarrow$ (and of course $\lnot ,\wedge,\lor$)  to prove any possible statement? It has been ages since i studied logic at the university so i would prefer a simple explanation (if possible) I am trying to find duplicate accounts in the system and trying to merge them based on our filter criteria using apex. The issue is I am hitting the governor limit of 150 DML statements while doing this.  We will have to put the merge statement inside the loop as we need the parent and child as the parameters in the merge statement. I don't think we can bulkify Merge like other DML statements due to the above reason. I am not sure if there is any better way to do it and avoid hitting governor limits.  Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.  Code that I have tried is included below  global class LoyaltyAccountBatch implements Database.batchable&lt;sObject&gt;{        global Database.QueryLocator start(Database.batchableContext info){           String query;         query = ('SELECT  Id FROM  LoginHistory LIMIT 1');          return Database.getQueryLocator(query);    }       global void execute(Database.batchableContext info, List&lt;LoginHistory&gt; scope){             // Get those records based on the IDs         List&lt;Account&gt; templst1 = [SELECT Id,UniqID from account where createddate = LAST_N_DAYS:4 and UniqID &lt;&gt; ''];             system.debug('templist is '+templst1);               Set&lt;String&gt; insertedRecords = new Set&lt;String&gt;() ;         for (Account a : templst1)  {         insertedRecords.add(a.UniqID);     }                 List&lt;Account&gt; templst = [SELECT Id,UniqID from account where NewUniqID IN : insertedRecords                                   order by NewUniqID,UniqID asc];         // Process records          for(integer i=0;i+1&lt;templst.size();i++)          {             if(templst[i].UniqID &lt;  templst[i+1].UniqID)                     {                 system.debug('ids are '+templst[i].UniqID+'--&gt;'+templst[i+1].UniqID);                 String str = '1'+templst[i].UniqID.substring(1,templst[i].UniqID.length());                 String str1 = '1'+templst[i+1].UniqID.substring(1,templst[i+1].UniqID.length());                 system.debug('str is'+str);                 system.debug('str1 is'+str1);                 if(str.equals(str1))                 {                     Merge templst[i+1] templst[i];                     system.debug('value of i is'+i);                 }              }         }        }          global void finish(Database.batchableContext info){         }   } Relativity Of Simultaneity Confusion