Can you cast a spell at a higher level spell slot even if it doesn't change the spell?
Can you cast a spell at a higher level, even if it doesn't have an "At higher levels" entry?
How to stop an animation in C# / WPF? I have something like this:   barProgress.BeginAnimation(RangeBase.ValueProperty, new DoubleAnimation(     barProgress.Value, dNextProgressValue,     new Duration(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(dDuration)));   Now, how would you stop that animation (the DoubleAnimation)? The reason I want to do this, is because I would like to start new animations (this seems to work, but it's hard to tell) and eventually stop the last animation... Can I use my Windows 7 license in a dual-boot configuration? I'm not particularly fond of apps cluttering my $HOME directory with their own files or directories. It's rarely a problem, because most apps have the courtesy to hide their data by prefixing it with a dot or conforming to the ~/.config standard. But not snap.  Q1: Have I misunderstood this directory?  Is ~/snap really a directory which I'm supposed to enter and access on a daily basis on a par with ~/downloads, ~/pictures, ~/work, etc?  Q2: In any case: Can I move it e.g. ~/.snap?  I can't find anything like /etc/snap, /etc/default/snap, or ~/.config/snap to tweak things. I tried export SNAP_USER_DATA=$HOME/.snap but it didn't work. How to initialize a struct in accordance with C programming language standards I want to initialize a struct element, split in declaration and initialization. This is what I have:  typedef struct MY_TYPE {   bool flag;   short int value;   double stuff; } MY_TYPE;  void function(void) {   MY_TYPE a;   ...   a = { true, 15, 0.123 } }   Is this the way to declare and initialize a local variable of MY_TYPE in accordance with C programming language standards (C89, C90, C99, C11, etc.)? Or is there anything better or at least working?  Update I ended up having a static initialization element where I set every subelement according to my needs. In a P.I.D., if $a^m = b^m$ and $a^n = b^n$ for $m, n \in \mathbb{N}$ with $\gcd(m,n) = 1$, then $a=b$ Let $R$ be a principal ideal domain, and $a, b \in R$ with $a^m = b^m$ and $a^n = b^n$ for $m, n \in \mathbb{N}$, and $\gcd(m, n) = 1$. I now want to show that we then already have $a = b$.   I think the statement is easily seen to be true if $a = 0$ (or $b = 0$), since if $a = 0$ and $a^m = b^m$, then $a = b$ since $R$ doesn't contain any nontrivial zero divisors, so $b ≠ 0$ already implicates $b^m = b \cdot b^{m-1} ≠ 0$.  I don't really know how to prove the statement for the general case, where I can't directly apply the fact that $R$ doesn't have any zero divisors except $0$. I most likely have to use the fact at some point that $gcd(a, b) = 1$, but I'm not sure how. how many semantically different boolean functions are there for n boolean variables? In short, this is an assignment question for a course I am taking - the exact wording is this:  "Given n Boolean variables, how many 'semantically' different Boolean functions can you construct?"  Now, I had a crack at this myself - and got pretty stuck. The question doesnt state how many boolean operators there are (and, or, xor, nand, nor, iff, implies, not) nor does it state whether brackets should be used, i.e. a ^ (b v c) is different from (a ^ b) v c.  So, my question for you is - is this question possible given the limited information available?   Is it going to be something like ${n^x}$ where x is the number of boolean operators.  Any direction here would be greatly appreciated. Basically the problem is that each time the assembly version changes (i.e. the user installs a new version of the application) all their settings are reset the the defaults (or more accurately a new user.config file is created in a folder with a different version number as the name)  How can I keep the same settings when upgrading versions, since using ini files or the registry seem to be discouraged?  When we used Clickonce it seemed to be able to handle this, so it seems like it should be able to be done, but I'm not sure how. Difference In Eigenvectors Using contracted forms ("don't", "let's") in a formal text How compelled should I feel to use non-contracted forms (do not rather than don't and so on) when writing in a rather formal text, say an academic paper? In one case I am afraid to seem too stilted, in the other, too casual. Are there good guidelines?  And are there differences in this regard between British and American English?  (In this  there was not much more than "Contractions are more frequent in informal than formal contexts".) Hide trivial comments The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool I'm getting this error every few days. I won't see the error for a few days then I'll get a flurry of 20 or so all with in a minute or so.  I've been very thorough going throw my code so that I'm using this basic setup for my DB access.  try {   myConnection.Open();   mySqlDataAdapter.Fill(myDataTable);   myConnection.Close(); } Catch (Exception err) {   if (myConnection.State != ConnectionState.Closed) myConnection.Close();   throw err; }   The way I understand it this should execute my queries and immediately release the connection back to the pool but if something goes wrong with the query then I catch the excpetion close my connection then throw the error up, which eventually gets trapped at the application level and logs and emails me the error.  Even using this throughout my code I'm still running across the issue. What can I do to diagnose the root cause of the issue? Using wp_query is it possible to orderby taxonomy? My question is simple, I'm using WP_Query to retrieve some custom type posts filtering by a taxonomy using tax_query.  Now my problem is I would like to orderby the taxonomy, but from documentation and searching on the web I can't find a solution.  The orderby in WP_Query lets you order by a bunch of fields even custom meta fields but it doesn't seem to support taxonomy.  Any pointers in the right direction?  Thank you all. I have a table and I am always getting the data by ordering a column. In my case, I  order by datenum. However, the selection is so slow because of the ordering.  Is it possible to order the table after datenum. This column is defined as unique. If  defined as an index, would the selection will be faster? Remove sudo privileges from a user (without deleting the user) Why is sample standard deviation a biased estimator of $\sigma$? Using X11 in OSX 10.8.3 : "ld: library not found for -lX11" Why aren't particles constantly "measured" by the whole universe? Let's say we are doing the double slit experiment with electrons. We get an interference pattern, and if we put detectors at slits, then we get two piles pattern because we measure electrons' positions when going through slits. But an electron interacts with other particles in a lot of different ways, e.g. electric field, gravity. Seems like the whole universe is receiving information about the electron's position. Why is it not the case and the electron goes through slits "unmeasured"?  Bonus question: in real experiments do we face the problem of not "shielding" particles from "measurement" good enough and thus getting a mix of both patterns on the screen? Why would a single celled organism evolve to be multi-celled? I read a story this week on Richard Lenski who has been 'evolving' E. coli for more than 50,000 generations now.  One comment I read was from someone who doesn't accept Evolution who pointed out that we haven't seen a single celled organism 'evolve' into a multi-celled organism.  Another person responded and said that a bacteria is not going to evolve into something that isn't a bacteria.  So, if Evolution created single celled organisms and then multi-celled organisms how might that change have happened?  And is it possible to recreate that set of driving forces to make a bacteria something other than a bacteria?  To that end, what advantage does being multi-cellular have over being unicellular (if that's even a word)? This might be a bizarre but crucial question, can I fully trust leaving my laptop in repairs (Genius Bar) while they have full access to it ?  I recently went to the genius bar to get my display fixed, and apparently they asked for my laptop's password just in case they need some "testing" after they're done. Can't they do that as a guest account ?  I got sensitive information on my laptop such as passport copies etc, as well as passwords saved in Safari's keychains for my bank account, paypal, amazon etc ..  The service is due later on today, shall I change my password and ask them to contact me directly if they need something specific ?? They're going to fix in 3 hours so I'll be in the mall whilst they finish. pgfplots axis scaling Is it possible to define in pgfplots that y should correspond to Y cm in my plot?   I know how to do this in tkz-fct, so let me add an tkz-fct example to make more clear what I want:  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepackage{tkz-fct} \usetkzobj{all}  \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.5] \tkzInit[xmax=10,ystep=3,ymax=10] \tkzAxeXY \tkzGrid \tkzFct[color=red, thick,domain=0:10]{\x} \tkzFct[domain=0:10]{\x**2} \end{tikzpicture} \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.5] \tkzInit[xmax=10,ystep=1.5,ymax=10] \tkzAxeXY \tkzGrid \tkzFct[color=red, thick,domain=0:10]{\x} \tkzFct[domain=0:10]{\x**2} \end{tikzpicture}   \end{document}     In one case 3 corresponds to 0.5 cm on the y-axis in the picture, in the other case 1.5 corresponds to 0.5 cm on the y axis. This is achieved by using the scale=0.5 option together with the ystep option.  Not that it is important for me to have grids as in the tkz-fct example.