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Verb/Subject Agreement Make/Makes I'm not a native English speaker. I am having difficulty with some words. Could anyone please tell me if there's any difference between the above mentioned short sentences, as I'm a little confused. Question regarding the validity of the big bounce I have several questions regarding the "big bounce" theory. It appears to be popular among LQG researchers. My questions are as as follows.  1) How one reconciles it with the fact that it is now experimentally established that the universe is expanding in an accelerating manner?  2) The entropy of the universe should have been very very low (maybe zero) at the time of the big bang/ big bounce. What was the entropy "before" that event? Was it even lower? If it was lower then doesn't that mean entropy decreases indefinitely? On the other hand if we accept the entropy was higher then doesn't that violate the second law of thermodynamics?  3) What observational evidence can confirm pre-bounce physics? According to GR there are some points near the bang/bounce where one simply can't easily define time in a meaningful way. Even for a quantum gravity theory, is it possible for any theory to extrapolate itself "before" the "bounce"? If there are no observational consequences after the bounce shouldn't one apply Occam's razor? How to group distinct values from a list using odata rest api Hi I have a list with two fields "Regions" &amp; "Countries" I am using a rest api to retrieve the list of just regions like so: http:mysitename/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('TaxTool')/items?$select=Region  In the results there are lots of duplicates and I was wondering how to return unique values. Finding the dual basis for the space of polynomials of degree $\leq$ 2 How to assign permanent drive letters to removable USB hard drives I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters (e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E:, but it's now F:, therefore my scripts will fail), depending on the order of how the drives are plugged into my laptop.  In Windows 7, how do I assign a permanent drive letter to a drive? Scale Image Using PHP and Maintaining Aspect Ratio On Travel-SE, there are currently  awarded. However, when one uses the search interface with views:2500, . The two numbers should be equal, and it's difficult to explain the difference with caching issues.   As the number of views is ever-increasing (as we all know, it's impossible to un-see things, unfortunately), this seems like a bug. Or perhaps I'm doing something wrong?  Also, some questions which should qualify don't appear on the search page. See , for example.  None of these questions are closed or deleted: views:2500 closed:yes and views:2500 deleted:yes return 0 results.  Eeeek? Struggling with Plural/Singular? Which of the following is a grammatically correct statement?   The value of cars depreciate over time.   The values of cars depreciate over time. The value of cars depreciates over time.   Thanks! Java Serialization with non serializable parts I have:  class MyClass extends MyClass2 implements Serializable {   //... }   In MyClass2 is a property that is not serializable. How can I serialize (and de-serialize) this object?  Correction: MyClass2 is, of course, not an interface but a class. Is there any way to make a custom page.html.twig template in Drupal 8?  By default, Drupal generates some suggestions, but I'm looking for something like page--node--content-type.html.twig. How can I get distribution name and version number in a simple shell script? I'm working on a simple bash script that should be able to run on Ubuntu and CentOS distributions (support for Debian and Fedora/RHEL would be a plus) and I need to know the name and version of the distribution the script is running (in order to trigger specific actions, for instance the creation of repositories). So far what I've got is this:  OS=$(awk '/DISTRIB_ID=/' /etc/*-release | sed 's/DISTRIB_ID=//' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') ARCH=$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_//;s/i[3-6]86/32/') VERSION=$(awk '/DISTRIB_RELEASE=/' /etc/*-release | sed 's/DISTRIB_RELEASE=//' | sed 's/[.]0/./')  if [ -z "$OS" ]; then     OS=$(awk '{print $1}' /etc/*-release | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') fi  if [ -z "$VERSION" ]; then     VERSION=$(awk '{print $3}' /etc/*-release) fi  echo $OS echo $ARCH echo $VERSION   This seems to work, returning ubuntu or centos (I haven't tried others) as the release name. However, I have a feeling that there must be an easier, more reliable way of finding this out -- is that true?  It doesn't work for RedHat. /etc/redhat-release contains : Redhat Linux Entreprise release 5.5  So, the version is not the third word, you'd better use :  OS_MAJOR_VERSION=`sed -rn 's/.*([0-9])\.[0-9].*/\1/p' /etc/redhat-release` OS_MINOR_VERSION=`sed -rn 's/.*[0-9].([0-9]).*/\1/p' /etc/redhat-release` echo "RedHat/CentOS $OS_MAJOR_VERSION.$OS_MINOR_VERSION" using $$ in a post causes strange number series to appear Usernames as Advertising or Spam? Which answer do I accept if I have multiple correct answers? Can I pickle a python dictionary into a sqlite3 text field? Any gotchas I should be aware of?  Can I store it in a text field, or do I need to use a blob? (I'm not overly familiar with either pickle or sqlite, so I wanted to make sure I'm barking up the right tree with some of my high-level design ideas.) Which props in Star Trek: Picard are reused from the original TNG show and films (if any)? I thought people would be working on little code projects together, but I don't see them, so here's an easy one:  Code that validates a valid US Zip Code. I know there are ZIP code databases out there, but there are still uses, like web pages, quick validation, and also the fact that zip codes keep getting issued, so you might want to use weak validation.  I wrote a little bit about zip codes in a side project on my wiki/blog:    There is also a new, weird type of zip code.     I can do the javascript code, but it would be interesting to see how many languages we can get here. As far as I know, only a player character's non-temporary ability scores are considered for taking feats, taking prestige classes, etc. Meanwhile, any ability bonus that comes from spells, or magic items that are in effect only while worn, is not counted (except tomes which increase abilities permanently).  So a Fighter with low Int who wants to qualify for Combat Expertise can't use spells or items that gives an Int bonus to raise it high enough to qualify. Is that right?  For example:  Say our fighter has Str 12, so he can not take the Power Attack feat. Suppose he asks for a spell from the wizard to make his Str 16, or to borrow a ring which provides +4 Str from another character. (Or any other method that will provide him a non-permanent bonus). His Str is now 16. Can he take Power Attack with that non-permanent bonus now? Because after the spell duration ends or he takes off the ring, his Str score will be to low again to qualify for Power Attack. Can "Wow!" be a sentence? The question is clear. Can "Wow!" be a sentence?  Imagine a hypothetical context where I'd utter something like this:     Wow! What an amazing idea! I should think about a way to push this fix.   We see "wow" in casual speech often. It bears punctuation marks (typically an exclamation mark, denoting the rising intonation) and a capital letter &mdash; just like all "regular" sentences.  On the other hand, neither Wow! nor What an amazing idea! contain any verbs. These certainly don't have any parts of speech in the other sentence, so what are they? Are they sentences or clauses? In other words, can "Wow!" be a sentence despite its lack of [any implied] verbs, and subsequently lack of any distinguishable predicates?  Please back up your answers with references.