Short story about an atheist dying, being resurrected by God in heaven to perform a mission
Title of short story: God granting immortality to others to find a way to kill himself
Is it OK to use a forward slash '/' between words other than the obvious 'and/or'? I don't want to get into the proper use of the phrase 'and/or', but rather to investigate the use of the forward slash between other words. Examples:   I have an interview with him/her this afternoon. He has a large binder/notebook.   And even separating just letters:   I connected the i/o ports. (input/ouput) Mark the field as n/a. (not applicable) I did it w/o her help. (without)   It seems as thought the forward slash can be used to indicate an option, display ambiguity, shorten 2 words and shorten 1 word (and others).  Is it OK to use a slash to separate these words/letters (yes, that was intended), or is it better to explicitly say 'his or her'? One more thing, is it correct to 'chain' these phrases together? I'm horrible with examples but here's one:   I don't open letters/mail that aren't/isn't addressed to me. What is the purpose of this? (function ($) { //function code here })(jQuery); Title says it all, I don't see confirmation in  and a cursory google search seemed to say assume no and speculate about the pokemon bank. Why is every Noetherian zero-dimensional scheme finite discrete? Which Answer to Accept: Better Solution or Answer to Actual Question? Possible Duplicate:          I received two answers to a question I asked. One solution suggested I do things in a completely different manner than I have been. Another acknowledged that the first solution was correct but went on to explain how to do what I was asking.  Should I accept the first answer because it provides the better way of doing things or should I accept the second one because it answers the precise question that was asked? How to apply a regex on a column fetched from DB I am using IBM DB2.  So, I am retrieving a column named SSN from a table. I have to apply the following regex on that column:  ([1-57-8][0-9]{2} |0([1-9][0-9] |[0-9][1-9]) |6([0-57-9][0-9] |[0-9][0-57-9])) ([1-9][0-9]|[0-9][1-9])([1-9]\d{3}|\d[1-9]\d{2}|\d{2}[1-9]\d|\d{3}[1-9])   Someone suggested to me that I have to write a function/procedure in the query to validate that the SSN picked from the db follows this regex else it should not be stored in the result set of the query.  I don't know how to write a function or a procedure in SQL, can you please help me out here? $M /K \land L /K$ algebraic $\implies ML/K$ algebraic? Two-Weapon Fighting & Bonus Actions During the latest gaming session our level 3 Rogue was Two-Weapon fighting with a Rapier in the main-hand and a scimitar in the off-hand.  At the completion of our gaming session I contested the application of the Two-Weapon fighting rules as it seemed unbalanced.  Once I got home I reviewed the PHB and various RPGStack and Reddit but couldn't find a concrete answer.  My interpretation of the PHB Reference rules below is that although any class/character can technically wield a weapon in their off-hand, only those who have been granted a Bonus Action for which no explicit bonus action have been defined would be allowed to actually attack.  So in the case of a Rogue the Bonus Actions granted under Cunning Action allow for specific actions (none of which are attack).  The alternate interpretation would be the rules under Two-Weapon Fighting, perhaps it should be written      you receive a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you’re holding in the other hand.   This would, in my opinion, explicitly grant the Bonus Action to any character/class who is Two-Weapon Fighting.  After thorough review does it boil down to application of the rules-as-written and determining a house-rule to apply in our campaign?    References  Page 189 of PHB : Bonus Actions  Various class features, spells, and other abilities let you take an additional action on your turn called a bonus action. The Cunning Action feature, for example, allows a rogue to take a bonus action.      You can take a bonus action only when a special ability, spell, or other feature of the game states that you can do something as a bonus   action. You otherwise don’t have a bonus action to take.   You can take only one bonus action on your turn, so you must choose which bonus action to use when you have more than one available. You choose when to take a bonus action during your turn, unless the bonus action’s timing is specified, and anything that deprives you of your ability to take actions also prevents you from taking a bonus action.  Page 96 of PHB  A Rogue receives cunning action at level 2, You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat.      This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.   Page 195 of PHB  Two-Weapon Fighting (Combat Rules)  When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you’re holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you’re holding in the other hand. You don’t add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative. If either weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon, instead of making a melee attack with it.  Page 165 of PHB  Dual Wielder  (Feat)  You master fighting with two weapons, gaining the following benefits:   You gain a +1 bonus to AC while you are wielding a separate melee weapon in each hand. You can use two-weapon fighting even when the one-handed melee weapons you are wielding aren't light. You can draw or stow two one-handed weapons when you would normally be able to draw or stow only one. sftp: upload all files, directories and sub-directories contained in a folder On machine A I have the folder /home/a/  On machine B I have the folder /home/b/  I wish transfer all files, directories and sub-directories of /home/a in /home/b with sftp On machine A I tried the commands: sftp fibon82@machineB.com put /home/a/* /home/b/  but it doesn't work, i get the error message: &quot;skipping non-regular file /home/a/a1&quot;... [a1 is a sub-directory of a] How could I modify the put instruction? Thanks! :) EDIT: I solved using scp: scp -r /home/a/ fibon82@machineB.com:/home/b/ I was asked to prove the following:  If $\{ E_1,E_2,\ldots,E_n\}$ is a fully independent set of events, prove that:  $$ P\left(\bigcup_{i = 1}^n E_i \right) = 1 - \prod_{i = 1}^n \left[ 1 - P(E_i) \right]  $$  (Hint: use complements)  I got the following:  Let $\alpha = E_1\cup E_2 \cup \cdots \cup E_n = \{E^C_1 \cap E^C_2 \cap \cdots\cap E_n^C\}^C$. Then, $\alpha^C = \{ E^C_1 \cap E^C_2 \cap \cdots \cap E^C\} $.  Assuming that the set of complements of each ${E_i}$ is also fully independent, we have:  \begin{align} &amp; P(\alpha^C) = \prod_{i = 1}^n P(E_i^C)  = \prod_{i = 1}^n \left[ 1 - P(E_i) \right] \\ &amp; P(\alpha) = 1 - P(\alpha^C) = 1 - \prod_{i = 1}^n \left[ 1 - P(E_i) \right] \\ &amp; P(\bigcup_{i = 1}^n E_i) = 1 - \prod_{i = 1}^n \left[ 1 - P(E_i) \right] \end{align}  However, even though I know (by Googling it) that my assumption is true, I'm unable to prove it so I could validly use it as a lemma. Is there another way to prove this equality? How to change folders color? How do i change the folders colors? i am using this icon theme   and there are several folders. like black, gray, purple, orange(which is the default), yellow, green, red, blue, brown and lightblue  How can i use any of them? for example have a blue folder called "family" in images and another right beside that have a purple folder called "others".  Basically why have he created all those folders with different colors? What is the difference between linear regression on y with x and x with y? The Pearson correlation coefficient of x and y is the same, whether you compute pearson(x, y) or pearson(y, x). This suggests that doing a linear regression of y given x or x given y should be the same, but I don't think that's the case.   Can someone shed light on when the relationship is not symmetric, and how that relates to the Pearson correlation coefficient (which I always think of as summarizing the best fit line)? Excel text alignment with custom formatting Is there anything in a custom formatted formula which defines the text alignment?  I know the different parts of the formula is numbers, negative numbers and so on, but I need to set the alignment.  Example:  _*# ##0_;_*(# ##0)_;_*"-"??_;_@_ Is there any reference where Captain America's shield is made from stolen Wakanda vibranium? Find Orthogonal complement How to use Whatsapp mobile application on Ubuntu Touch? In my Android I have "Whatsapp" application running. But mobile freak I am not, and specially the mobile keyboards.  So how can I run my same application, same account from my Ubuntu desktop PC?   Follow up:  Just to do keyboard routing, i have used . Which allows me to takeover the Android input fields access via web link to type in my PC keyboard, and then it re-route the keys to Mobile.  Features:   Allows me to copy and paste large texts to Android input fields without using the keyboard of Android but simply using my Desktop PC, via web link http://android.ip.address.goes.here:port/ Allows me to have key submit which is similar to key press of mobile set itself   At-least works without having mobile in rooted. Hope it helps you!! Prove that all 2x2 orthogonal matrices can be expressed as Rotation or Reflection I was viewing  question in the Android app. As shown in the below screenshot, while the top shows "4 answers", the bottom button will ask to "View 6 Answers". After checking the question, there are indeed six answers to the aforementioned question.    I am using Android 4.3 with the 0.1.64 version of the app.    EDIT: The changes to the UI made this question obsolete. How to reinstall yum? I made a big mistake: I removed yum. So now when I for example run the following it gives me an error:  $ yum clean all yum command not found.   I can download the package succesfully:  wget mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/Packages/yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch.rpm --2014-01-15 15:42:59--  http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/Packages/yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch.rpm Resolving mirror.centos.org... 192.133.139.3 Connecting to mirror.centos.org|192.133.139.3|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1019540 (996K) [application/x-rpm] Saving to: “yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch.rpm.1”  100%[====================================================================================================================&gt;] 1,019,540    649K/s   in 1.5s  2014-01-15 15:43:01 (649 KB/s) - “yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch.rpm.1” saved [1019540/1019540]   Trying to install the downloaded package gives the following error:  # rpm -ivh yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch.rpm Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]     file /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py from install of yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch conflicts with file from package yum-3.2.29-30.el6.centos.noarch [...] file /usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.pyo from install of yum-3.2.29-40.el6.centos.noarch conflicts with file from package yum-3.2.29-30.el6.centos.noarch   There is no directory "yum" in /usr/bin.  When I use the command "rpm -qa | grep yum".  yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-16.el6.x86_64 yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch yum-3.2.29-30.el6.centos.noarch   The distro is CentOS 6.3. How can I reinstall yum? Show that $\left(1+\frac xk\right)^k$ is monotonically increasing