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Why does sizeof(x++) not increment x? Is it correct to use "their" instead of "his or her"? What are the minimum contributions required for co-authorship Why is time special? In Special Relativity, the spacetime interval between two events is $s^2 = -(c{\Delta}t)^2+({\Delta}x)^2+({\Delta}y)^2+({\Delta}z)^2$ giving the Minkowski metric $\eta_{\mu\nu}=\text{diag}(-1, 1, 1, 1)$. What is the justification for making time have a negative coefficient, and how closely is that related to the 2nd law of thermodynamics? Sure, by letting $\eta = \text{diag}(1, 1, 1, 1)$, we get a pretty boring spacetime, and the boosts in the Poincaré group become trig instead of hyperbolic functions, but what's the physical reasoning behind this? apt-get update only for a specific repository When I add a PPA and I want to install some of its content, it is quite annoying to re-update all my apt list using apt-get update.  Is it instead possible to only sync the content of a given repository? If $H$ is a cyclic subgroup of $G$ and $H$ is normal in $G$, then every subgoup of $H$ is normal in $G$. Exercise 11, page 45 from Hungerford's book Algebra.     If $H$ is a cyclic subgroup of $G$ and $H$ is normal in $G$, then every   subgroup of $H$ is normal in $G$.   I am trying to show that $a^{-1}Ka\subset K$, but I got stuck. What I am supposed to do now?  Thanks for your kindly help. Error 404 : While using flag Chance of selecting the last k pages in correct order from a set of n pages I am using different operating systems on different machines on different locations. I am using a USB flash disk to keep my files (source codes etc.).  I am new to Mac OS X and now I realize there are lots of files created with a dot underscore ._ prefix.  Questions  Why are ._ files created?   What are their purpose?   How can I avoid them? I have requested for a French long term (Type D) student visa from a consulate in India. It's a national Type D visa and not a Schengen visa. My question is that can we still go to other Schengen countries on this visa? If not then can we get a Schengen visa from a consulate in France? Where can a tourist apply for a UK Visitor (standard) Visa? Find the general solution of $4u_{xx}+5u_{xy}+u_{yy}+u_x+u_y=2$ How do I solve the following second order partial differential equation?  $4u_{xx}+5u_{xy}+u_{yy}+u_x+u_y=2$  I have classified the equation to be hyperbolic and changed variables to obtain the canonical form as $u_{\epsilon\nu}={1\over{3u_\nu}}-{8\over9}$ which I believe is correct but I am struggling to find the general solution? A step by step solution would be appreciated. Gradient steepest direction and normal to surface? From this , I now understand the gradient to be the directional derivative that returns the steepest slope at a point. However, reading my textbooks, they all say that the gradient is normal to the tangent plane. In the above SE question, the gradient sounds like it should be parallel to a direction in the $xy$ plane, not actually up on the surface.   My question is therefore do I have a misunderstanding of the tangent plane, gradient or directional derivative?   In addition, I question how the gradient always passes through the origin or the $xy$ plane? If for instance in the graphic, the gradient had been another direction (say horizontal), then it wouldn't pass through the origin! In addition, the gradient of other points in the graphic would satisfy this example. Many thanks! What does % do to strings in Python? Show that there are $ a,b \geq 0 $ so that $ |f(x)| \leq ax+b, \forall x \geq 0.$ I have the following exercise: $$f:[0, +\infty) \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \text{ uniformly continuous  } .$$ $$\text{Show that there are } a,b \geq 0 \text{ so that } |f(x)| \leq ax+b, \forall x \geq 0.$$ $$$$ $f:[0, +\infty) \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \text{ uniformly continuous  } :$ $\forall \epsilon &gt;0 \exists \delta &gt;0 \text{ such that } \forall x,y \in [0, + \infty) \text{ with } |x-y|&lt; \delta \Rightarrow |f(x)-f(y)|&lt;\epsilon$ $$$$ How can I continue?? How should I parse user input in a text adventure game? Parsing user commands in a text adventure is a spectrum from 's simple "go north" to some mind-bogglingly clever ones in .  I seem to remember reading nice how-tos in computer magazines back in the 80s, but now I find almost nothing on the 'net except a .  How would you do it?    Update: I went with the simplest approach possible in . Anyone know a simple method to swap the background color of a webpage using JavaScript? Textbook recommendation for computational physics Turning off and on images in figures Is it possible to prevent the contents of a figure from being rendered? I have a large book document, and to speed up compiling while working on a draft, I would like to have some way of ignoring the content of the images, but ensuring that the figure size remains.  In several cases I am using a line like:  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figure.pdf}     so I do not know the actual size of the image. Using 'return' instead of 'else' in JavaScript