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What does the -f parameter do in the tar command When using tar I always include -f in the parameters but I have no idea why.  I looked up the man and it said;  -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F  use archive file or device F (default "-", meaning stdin/stdout)   But to be honest I have no idea what that means.  Can anyone shed any light on it? Let us say I have added a PPA that has X package that I want but it also has Y package that I do not want to use or receive updates from. How can I, from the same PPA, receive updates for a specific package but deny updates from the same PPA for other packages.  A step by step example would be good since this has happened to me in several PPAs that have a particular package I want but also add a whole bunch of others that I do not yet want to update. Why does resistivity increase with temperature?  The explanations I have heard so far are that increasing temperature increases vibrations in the lattice structure resulting in the number of collisions increasing.  But the vibrations from thermal energy are random, so around half of the vibrations would result in the atoms moving out of the electrons way and half would result in atoms moving into the way of the electrons.  And since half of the vibrations result in increasing the drift speed and half reduce it, shouldn't the average drift speed remain the same? Drawing wavy, wiggly lines in QGIS? Is there a QGIS function or plugin to draw wiggly line?   I have used Spline Tool to manually draw some waves, but it is time consuming.  If possible, I would like to draw something like:    Inkscape Function Plotter ( sin(x) curve). Was Thanos really committed or just a hypocrite? The title is extremely vague, because this question contains HEAVY spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War, specifically the very last scenes of the movie. I can't reasonably put the entire question in spoiler tags, so consider this your warning.  At the end of the movie, Thanos pretty much wins. He gets all the Infinity Stones, Gamora and Vision have been brutally murdered, and the rest of the cast completely beaten. Nobody could stop him. So he executes his plan.  As far as I know (unless I missed something), his plan is to eradicate exactly half of all mortals in the universe, and from his own words, in a fair lottery (random chance), without taking into account a person's wealth, social status, or anything else. Pure chance decides whether you are sacrified for the greater good or live through this greater good (according to him).  During the movie, Thanos and one of his underling (Ebony Maw) say themselves that being sacrified is an honor and should be appreciated. As you would expect, most people do not appreciate being sacrified.  At the end of the movie, Thanos uses all 6 stones to do a finger snap, deleting half the universe.  The question is: Did he exclude himself from the targets? Was there a 50% chance that Thanos himself would disappear right there?  As far as I know, this is not explicitly answered in the movie itself. I am looking for similar situations in the comics (or in the movie if I happened to miss something) where you could know, or have an educated guess, as to Thanos being the kind of person who follows through to the end, even if it means dying, or the kind of person who gets scared of death when it comes down to it, and comes off as an hypocrite.  Some people also mentioned his "deal" with Strange would make him spare Tony from the snap too. I'm also wondering about that, if there is a link between the two, but it's not the focus of the question.  The reason I'm wondering is that Thanos seems to me like a very extreme utilitarist. Even though he might be wrong about the value of his plan (Do the remaining half really become happy?), in-universe it seemed successful at least once (Gamora's home planet), so his reasoning is not bad, even if the premise might be horribly flawed. Excluding himself from the snap would make it into a straight villain, while considering himself equal to the rest would make him into a wannabe hero with very very evil methods. This makes a huge difference in the interpretation of the movie and his character. Does the Draconic Bloodline sorcerer's Elemental Affinity feature apply to the spell Dragon's Breath? The  feature Elemental Affinity states:     [When] you cast a spell that deals damage of the type associated with your draconic ancestry, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll of that spell.   The  spell (XGtE, p. 154) incorporates a damage roll, but it is not a direct consequence of the spell:     Until the spell ends, the creature can use an action to exhale energy of the chosen type in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.   Would one of these exhalations qualify for the application of the Elemental Affinity feature? If so, is only one eligible or every one throughout the duration of dragon's breath Evaluating a sequence of complex numbers: $|z_n - z_m| < \frac1{1+ |n-m|}$ Let $\{z_n\}$ be sequence of complex numbers such that   $$ |z_n - z_m| &lt; \frac{1}{1+ |n-m|} $$ for all $n,m$  Given this information, can we compute $\lim_{n \to \infty} z_n $?  Attempt:  For sure the sequence is bounded since the RHS is always $\leq 1 $. IF $z_m = 0$, then we have   $$ |z_n | &lt; 1 $$ for all $n$. I claim that the limit is $1$. How can I prove this ? More homework help.  Given the function $f:A \to B$.  Let $C$ be a subset of $A$ and let $D$ be a subset of $B$.  Prove that:  $C$ is a subset of $f^{-1}[f(C)]$  So I have to show that every element of $C$ is in the set $f^{-1}[f(C)]$  I know that $f(C)$ is the image of $C$ in $B$ and that $f^{-1}[f(C)]$ is the pre-image of $f(C)$ into $A$.  Where I'm stuck is how to use all of this information to show/prove that $C$ is indeed a subset.    Do I start with an arbitrary element (hey, let's call it $x$) of $C$? and then show that $f^{-1}[f(x)]$ is $x$?  I could use a little direction here...  Thanks. So I'm going to be starting a Job here in a few weeks, I've been doing QA for about 6 years now. Pretty much your standard Test Plans/Testing with a little normal SysAdmin stuff that sometimes comes with the task. I've had some good ideas implemented in companies, as far as tracking requirements/test plans/issues differently, and they seem successful. However, this new position will be me laying down the foundation for QA. Right now things are done in what seems to be as needed as far as QA goes, requirements are gathered and sometimes kept in different locations, same with test plans (which are done by developers right now). So my job will be sort of centralizing this, or developing a Flexible way of QA'ing the Software (Web/Mobile development). So it seems the challenge will be centralizing everything, while creating test plans/ or ways of testing similar requirements that is flexible enough to span projects. I've had a few ideas, however, all my previous test work was windows based (So test plans in TFS or Microsoft Test Manager). I wanted to get some ideas from everyone here, or anyone that has started a QA department from scratch. I was also going to see if there were any books on the subject. My thoughts were mainly keeping projects separated for issue tracking (not sure of the software we will use yet). And keeping test plans for common I guess &quot;actions/elements&quot; that are repeated between different customers and executing those. Eventually maybe using selenium to save those &quot;common&quot; elements as test scripts. But I've never set something up like this before solo, so I've been doing quite a bit of reading. Any books/suggestions would be appreciated! Prove that $A^TD-C^TB=I$ I am trying to prove that the set of irrational numbers $\mathbb{R} \setminus \mathbb{Q}$ is not an $F_{\sigma}$ set. Here's my attempt:  Assume that indeed $\mathbb{R} \setminus \mathbb{Q}$ is an $F_{\sigma}$ set. Then we may write it as a countable union of closed subsets $C_i$: $$ \mathbb{R} \setminus \mathbb{Q} = \bigcup_{i=1}^{\infty}  \ C_i $$ But $\text{int} ( \mathbb{R} \setminus \mathbb{Q}) = \emptyset$, so in fact each $C_i$ has empty interior as well. But then each $C_i$ is nowhere dense, hence $ \mathbb{R} \setminus \mathbb{Q} = \bigcup_{i=1}^{\infty}  \ C_i$ is thin. But we know $\mathbb{R} \setminus \mathbb{Q}$ is thick, a contradiction.  This seems a bit too simple. I looked this up online, and although I haven't found the solution anywhere, many times there is a hint: Use Baire's Theorem. Have I skipped an important step I should explain further or is Baire's Theorem used implicitly in my proof? Or is my proof wrong? Thanks.  EDIT: Thin and thick might not be the most standard terms so:  Thin = meager = 1st Baire category Probability that a quadratic polynomial with random coefficients has real roots The following is a homework question for which I am asking guidance.     Let $A$, $B$, $C$ be independent random variables uniformly distributed between $(0,1)$. What is the probability that the polynomial $Ax^2 + Bx + C$ has real roots?   That means I need $P(B^2 -4AC \geq 0$). I've tried calling $X=B^2 -4AC$ and finding $1-F_X(0)$, where $F$ is the cumulative distribution function.  I have two problems with this approach. First, I'm having trouble determining the product of two uniform random variables. We haven't been taught anything like this in class, and couldn't find anything like it on Sheldon Ross' Introduction to Probability Models.  Second, this strategy just seems wrong, because it involves so many steps and subjects we haven't seen in class. Even if I calculate the product of $A$ and $C$, I'll still have to square $B$, multiply $AC$ by four and then subtract those results. It's too much for a homework question. I'm hoping there might be an easier way. Finding languages such that $L_{1} \subseteq L_{2} \subseteq L_{3}$ where $L_{1}, L_{3} \notin \mathbb{R}$, $L_{2} \in \mathbb{R}$ I am struggling to find such languages $L_{1}$, $L_{2}$, and $L_{3}$ such that  $$ L_{1} \subseteq L_{2} \subseteq L_{3} $$ where $L_{1}, L_{3} \notin  \mathbb{R}$ and $L_{2} \in  \mathbb{R}$.  I know they exist, I need help finding them. I'm trying to identify a song by a female 80's pop group.   Here are the lyrics I remember:     It's the story of my life if you want to know   a play where everything is meant to be   you're the story of my life and I can't let you go Intuition behind why order of a subgroup divides order of a group. How was Loki not crushed by Mjolnir? Pgfplots: Linewidth when using \ref in custom legend Today I was told a tale by a Unix trainer where the root password got leaked to the students, and one of the fellas removed the execute permission from /usr/bin/chmod itself. How do you recover chmod in this case and make it executable again? Let's say getting it from an external source or recompiling it is not a preferable option, is there some smart hack that can recover this chmod itself?   Note that this happened a long time ago and I'm not looking for a solution for some current problem, just curious about what ways Unix provides us around such an issue. Why is it bad to log in as root? I've often come across posts on forums or other websites where you see people joking in such a manner about running/logging in as root as if it's something awful and everyone ought to know about it. However, there isn't much that a search reveals on the matter.   It may be widely known to Linux experts, but I really don't know why. I remember always running as root when I first tried Linux years ago (Redhat and Mandrake) and don't remember running into any problems because of that.   There are actually some distros that have a bright red background with alert signs all over it as wallpaper for the root user (SuSe?). I still use the "Administrator" account for regular use on my Windows installation and haven't ever run into any problems there either. How much Valyrian steel is there that is unused for link making and why aren't people making weapons out of it?