How long has Supreme Leader Snoke been around?
Do we know Snoke predates the Empire?
Workflow for converting LaTeX into Open Office / MS Word Format I've looked at the resumes of the type of candidates that get into computer science PhD programs at the top few universities (e.g. Stanford, MIT etc.) and a lot of them seem to have multiple publications (2-4) done during their undergraduate years. Is this representative of the entire pool? Or is this just a self-selected group that puts their resumes online.  I currently have one first-author workshop paper (5 pages), and I wonder how this might affect my chances at entry into these top universities. Restore a large number of transaction logs I'm using SQL Server 2008 R2, and I need to restore 36 .trn logs to a database. I have restored the first 4 using the restore transaction log functionality in SSMS (right-click database > tasks > restore > transaction log).   Is there a way to restore them all in order using this tool or with a script? The .trn files are in a folder on a remote server. I do not not need to restore all the files in the folder, only ones between specific dates.  I'm looking for a way to automate this so I don't have to manually restore each individual log.  I access the files using an address like the one below.  \\remote server IP\SQL_Backup\LMSQL02\TLog\file.trn Given: $a = qb + r$. Then it holds that $\gcd(a,b)=\gcd(b,r)$. That doesn't sound logical to me. Why is this so?    Addendum by LePressentiment on 11/29/2013: (in the interest of  and averting a duplicate)  What's the intuition behind this result? I only recognise the proof and examples solely due to algebraic properties and formal definitions; I'd like to apprehend the result naturally. Adding values to a C# array Prerequisites for Algebraic Geometry Is it possible to get into algebraic geometry by just knowing calculus and linear algebra or is this too far of a stretch?  If not could anyone give me a list of book/lecture notes recommendations in chronological order to dive into algebraic geometry with my state of knowledge?  Thanks I'd like to estimate the correlation between:  An ordinal variable: subjects are asked to rate their preference for 6 types of fruit on a 1-5 scale (ranging from very disgusting to very tasty) On average subjects use only 3 points of the scale.  A continuous variable: the same subjects are asked to quickly identify these fruits, which results in an mean accuracy for the 6 fruits.   Is Spearman rho the best method to analyze these data and/or are there other good methods I could consider? Do I need a transit visa for waiting 23 hours in Dubai airport? I am an Indian citizen living in Ukraine. I will be traveling to India but I need to wait in Dubai airport 23 hours for my next flight to India. I will not be leaving Dubai airport.  So in this case do I need a transit visa? How can I install an app given only its APK file? Get path to application? How can a user determine the path to an application being showed in launcher?  This is meant for non-programmers or experts, so terminal commands are not really suited for them. Why: we need to make our users able to drag files/folders on our applications, a standard OS feature entirely missing in Ubuntu. Does iOS support a built-in firewall like macOS does? I don't see anything about it in Settings. Deriving of formula for finding the length of median In the below image    $AD$ is the median of $\triangle ABC$  We know that $m_A = \frac 1 2 \sqrt{2b^2 + 2c^2 - a^2} $    But can someone tell me how it's derived !! I am just unable to think of it !!   But I assume it muste be linked with the Appolonius Theorem !! As a lab assignment I have to replicate experiment with spring oscillations, and eventually calculate spring constant. The measurements I took are: spring displacement from equilibrium $x$, mass of weights $m$, and period $T$. And presumed uncertainties: $\Delta_\alpha(x)=1[mm]$, $\Delta_e(x)=2[mm]$,  $\Delta_\alpha(t)=0.1[s]$,  $\Delta_e(t)=1[s]$. Where $\alpha$ stands for uncertainty of used equipment, and $e$ is readings uncertainty made by me.  I calculated the standard uncertainty using this formula: $$\sqrt\frac{\Delta_\alpha(x)^2+\Delta_e(x)^2}{3}$$ Which produced $u(x)=1.29[mm]$. Then using the following substitutions:  $$F=kx$$ $$mg=kx$$ $$x=\frac{g}{k}m$$ I assert that:  $$tan(a)=\frac{g}{k}$$  Because in this part of experiment I plotted $x=f(m)$, using excel's linest, I get the slope $s$  $$tan(a)=\frac{g}{k}=s$$  Now, my question is, since I had uncertainty for $x$ introduced, and it is used to compute $tan(a)$, then the latter is affected and should have uncertainty of itself? How in this case should I go about propagating uncertainty to $tan(a)$? How to read one filesystem from a whole disk image file? I ran these commands:  VBoxManage clonehd d6b9f0a5-98df-48ca-83c8-91a0809ec349 --format RAW Debian.raw sudo dd if=~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/Debian.raw of=/dev/sda5   When I try to mount the partition, I get this complaint:  EXT4-fs (sda5): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem   Now I know that the VM had an ext4 partition. What did I do wrong? It appears that on Server Fault and Super User, the navigation bar and question title have suddenly become misplaced. The same does not occur on SO and mSO, nor on any of the other SE sites I spot-checked.  This is being seen in both Chrome and Firefox and just began occurring within the last few minutes.      What it should look like:      While this was fixed for a few hours, it has returned as of 22:05. How do I increase my code coverage, or why can't I cover these lines? This is a canonical question and answer developed by the community to help address common questions. If you've been directed here, or your question has been closed as a duplicate, please look through the resources here and use them to shape more specific questions. To browse all canonical questions and answers, including more unit test resources, navigate to the  tag.  This canonical question is intended to address several classes of common questions by providing a quick summary and links to comprehensive resources:   How is code coverage obtained and calculated? How do I increase my coverage?  Why can't I cover these lines? Why isn't the body of my loop or conditional statement covered? Some examples include:     We fear the damned.   He honored our fallen.   This is a given.   You are the chosen.   The lost were among us.   They obey the venerated.   My beloved kissed me. (TIL “beloved” is a verb thanks to RegDwight АΑA)   Is there a word to describe the past participle used as a noun? I’m hesitant to refer to it as a gerund, since it doesn’t end in -ing. Another possibility is adjectival noun, if you originally treat the word as a participle (e.g. “the damned man”) that has given up its modified noun.  Also, why does English tend to preface such nouns with the? Word for someone that always has to be right Is there a word for someone that always has to be right? The person gets angry if they are not. The motivation for this question is in my answer to this post :       (1) If I take $A$, $B$ and $C$ three groups such that $A\times B$ is isomorphic to $A\times C$ then do we have $B$ is isomorphic to $C$ ?   In the post a counter example is given when $A$ is an infinitely generated group. However I cannot get a counter-example when $A$, $B$ and $C$ are assumed to be finite groups. Note that there is no reason a priori if $\phi$ is an isomorphism from $A\times B$ to $A\times C$ that $\phi(A\times\{1_B\})=A\times\{1_C\}$.   In the case of finite groups it is true because of the Krull-Schmidt theorem : .  A slightly more general question is the following :     (2) If $B$ and $C$ are two finitely generated groups, can I always find a finitely generated group $A$ such that $A\times B$ is isomorphic to $A\times C$?   If $A$ is not assumed to verify any property but to be a group we can take :  $$A=B^{\mathbb{N}}\times C^{\mathbb{N}} $$  Furthermore replacing :$ \prod_{\mathbb{N}}$ by $\bigoplus_{\mathbb{N}}$ (or more likely the restricted product for groups but I am not sure of a well known notation, it is the subgroup of the product with all but a finite number components being trivial) will give you the same result for countably infinite groups.   $\underline{\text{Edit}}$ : To be clear about what I am asking. (1) is kown to be true for finite groups whereas (2) is known to be true when we are considering groups without restriction (even just for countably infinite groups). Let us pretend we are working on the smaller class of groups : the finitely generated groups. Is there any counter example to $(1)$? Is there any counter example to $(2)$?   $\underline{\text{Edit 2}}$: Here is a partial answer, from the classification of finitely generated abelian groups $(1)$ is always true if all groups are assumed to be abelian finitely generated groups. Now assume that $A\times B=G=A\times C$. Then you have (derived groups) :  $$D(G)=D(A)\times D(B)=D(A)\times D(C) $$  So the abelianizations verify :  $$A^{ab}\times B^{ab}=A^{ab}\times C^{ab}$$  Because we are now in the realm of finitely generated abelian groups we get :  $$B^{ab}=C^{ab} $$  So $(2)$ cannot be true in general for instance you can take $B:=\mathbb{Z}$ and $C=\mathbb{F}_5$, those two groups have different abelianizations.   The new question can be found here : Visiting Greece with back-to-back Schengen visas (One from Germany, other from Italy)