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So, I'm working on a control station that has buttons. It is a one-mesh creation, that means, I don't want to create buttons and things like that separated from the main mesh, but as you can see, I have problems. I would like to make the highlighted parts to be one with the main part around them. I've tried everything, and I have this problem on multiple creations. Any idea?  Update: I've added another example of the problem. I want them to be one face, instead of two. (2nd picture) I am trying to get the Linux distro "PIXEL" to install some PPAS for Wine, and I have run into a issue where it will not install because of the following error:   sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found   I am trying to install wine using the PPA add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa and I would like some assistance doing so. Bump and color data in a single brush? Is there any way to paint onto a bump map and diffuse map at the same time, so that the strokes match up? Like a multi-layer brush that uses a greyscale texture for the bump layer and a color texture for the diffuse color?  Here's a rough sculpt to demonstrate what I'm imagining:    The GIF above shows how such a brush could be made. The black and white height map would be the displacement brush, transferring its greyscale data to the bump map texture and the green one would transfer its color data to the diffuse map texture.  The resulting brush images:      Making the brush is one thing, but is it possible to use such a brush? Tracking disk I/O by application in Windows? zsh scripting - How do I NOT match a pattern in filename generation? I'm currently trying to loop through a set of directories, but only the ones I care about.   $ ls -d */ cfdpost_statefiles/     p050L0260/  p050L0510/  p060L0390/  p070L0260/  p070L0510/  p092L0390/  p097L0260/  p110L0390/  p131L0325/  p150L0510/  profiles/ ERCOFTAC_TestSettings/  p050L0390/  p060L0260/  p060L0510/  p070L0390/  p084L0510/  p094L0325/  p100L0510/  p125L0510/  p136L0260/  p162L0260/  settings/   I want to match all the p###* directories except for the ones beginning with p125 and p150.  If I just do patterns with a pipe, I get:  $ for dir in ./p(125|150)*(/); echo $dir ./p125L0510 ./p150L0510   However, if I try and use the ^ like it shows :  $ for dir in ./p^(125|150)*(/); echo $dir zsh: no matches found: ./p^(125|150)*(/)   Any ideas how to proceed? Calculate a running total in MySQL I have this MySQL query:  SELECT DAYOFYEAR(`date`)  AS d, COUNT(*)  FROM  `orders`  WHERE  `hasPaid` &gt; 0 GROUP  BY d ORDER  BY d   Which returns something like this:  d  | COUNT(*) | 20 |  5       | 21 |  7       | 22 | 12       | 23 |  4       |   What I'd really like is another column on the end to show the running total:  d  | COUNT(*) | ??? | 20 |  5       |   5 | 21 |  7       |  12 | 22 | 12       |  24 | 23 |  4       |  28 |   Is this possible? Interpreting the residuals vs. fitted values plot for verifying the assumptions of a linear model Consider the following figure from Faraway's Linear Models with R (2005, p. 59).    The first plot seems to indicate that the residuals and the fitted values are uncorrelated, as they should be in a homoscedastic linear model with normally distributed errors. Therefore, the second and third plots, which seem to indicate dependency between the residuals and the fitted values, suggest a different model.  But why does the second plot suggest, as Faraway notes, a heteroscedastic linear model, while the third plot suggest a non-linear model?  The second plot seems to indicate that the absolute value of the residuals is strongly positively correlated with the fitted values, whereas no such trend is evident in the third plot. So if it were the case that, theoretically speaking, in a heteroscedastic linear model with normally distributed errors  $$ \mbox{Cor}\left(\mathbf{e},\hat{\mathbf{y}}\right) = \left[\begin{array}{ccc}1 &amp; \cdots &amp; 1 \\ \vdots &amp; \ddots &amp; \vdots \\ 1 &amp; \cdots &amp; 1\end{array}\right] $$  (where the expression on the left is the variance-covariance matrix between the residuals and the fitted values) this would explain why the second and third plots agree with Faraway's interpretations.  But is this the case? If not, how else can Faraway's interpretations of the second and third plots be justified? Also, why does the third plot necessarily indicate non-linearity? Isn't it possible that it is linear, but that the errors are either not normally distributed, or else that they are normally distributed, but do not center around zero? A diagram which is not the torus At page 17 of Munkres' Elements of Algebraic topology it says, referring to fig. 3.6, that "the diagram does not determine [the torus]. It does more than paste opposite edges together":   Is it so? I tried to glue them together, but end up with a normal torus. I know how to solve "simple" recurrence relations. For instance, say you have:  $$c_0 = 20$$ $$c_1 = 30$$ $$c_n = 3 c_{n-1} - 2 c_{n-2}$$  We can write the characteristic equation as:  $$3x^{n-1} - 2x^{n-2} = x^n$$  Solving this with $n=2$, we get $x = 1$ or $x = 2$. This lets us write the relation $c_n = \alpha_1 1^n + \alpha_2 2^n$, and we can solve for $\alpha_1$ and $\alpha_2$ with the initial states $c_0$ and $c_1$.  However, this depends on the fact that $3x^{n-1} - 2x^{n-2} = x^n$ has two roots.  Now, I'm stuck on another problem where the characteristic equation has fewer roots than terms.  Say I have this recurrence relation instead:  $$a_0 = 0$$ $$a_1 = 2$$ $$a_2 = −1$$ $$a_n = 9a_{n-1} - 15a_{n-2} - 25a_{n-3}$$  The characteristic equation would be:  $$9x^{n-1} - 15x^{n-2} - 25x^{n-3} = x^n$$  However, solving with $n=3$, we only get two roots: $x=-1$ or $x=5$. There are not enough roots to write a relation in the form of $a_n = \alpha_1 r_1^n + \alpha_2r_2^n + \alpha_3r_3^n$. How do I proceed? I have had no problems exporting .fbx files for Unity except recently some of my .fbx started to rotate the mesh. The asset is correctly oriented, but the mesh is rotated 90 degrees. Is there an explanation and fix for why this happens sometimes, and works properly otherwise? Is there proof that the DSA construction, also used by ECDSA, is secure assuming that discrete logarithms in the relevant group representation are difficult? How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX? Can a dementor decide which people around it will be affected by its magic? Quoting from  and : From a :  Samantha: Was snape the only death eater who could produce a full patronus J.K. Rowling: Yes, because a Patronus is used against things that the Death Eaters generally generate, or fight alongside. They would not need Patronuses.  I always had the impression that just the presence of a dementor should have an effect on any human around, DE or otherwise. However, this quote makes it sound like DE's are exempt from the effect of the dementors. However, from Sirius's description in book 3, we know every prisoner in Azkaban was affected by dementors, which can further be corroborated by the fact of how much Barty Crouch, Jr. was scared of being thrown into Azkaban. Moreover, if the dementors didn't affect the DE's at all, throwing them in Azkaban wouldn't be much of a punishment either. So, Can dementors decide who to affect or not? Why is saltatory conduction in myelinated axons faster than continuous conduction in unmyelinated axons? How does spacing apart sodium and potassium channels allow the action potential to travel faster down the axon? This is the reason always cited for saltatory conduction and myelination, but my mental model of conduction tells me that the density of ion gates along the axon should not affect the speed of the AP.   To illustrate, consider a myelinated axon. A wave of Na$^+$ from action potential site 1, a node of Ranvier, rushes into and quickly diffuses down the axon. (It travels in both directions, but backwards is still in the refractory period.) It diffuses through the myelinated region, its concentration always diminishing. Before it attenuates too much, however, it happens upon node of Ranvier 2, where it triggers another action potential. A new wave of Na$^+$ rushes in and the cycle repeats. This should be plain so far.  Now imagine that there is actually a node of Ranvier halfway between node 1 and 2, called node 1.5. The wave of Na$^+$, on its way to node 2, happens to trigger an action potential at node 1.5, from which a wave of Na$^+$ pours in and either boosts the original wave or replaces it by taking its momentum. Now the reinforced wave proceeds to node 2 and triggers it just as soon as, perhaps even sooner than, if node 1.5 had not existed. Repeatedly insert nodes at higher densities until the situation is simply lack of myelination, and we conclude that unmyelinated axons can transmit an action-potential-triggering wave of Na+ as fast as or faster than a myelinated one.  In short, my point of confusion is this: I cannot see how a higher density of gated channels can possibly slow down the wavefront of Na+ that triggers action potentials. If anything, the additional influxes of Na+ should speed up the all-important wavefront, assuming that new waves really "either boost the original wave or replace it by taking its momentum", and also assuming that the wavefront of Na$^+$ is really all-important for signal transmission, and also assuming that the mere presence of (voltage?) gated ion channels in the membrane does not significantly retard the wavefront.  But the usual explanation for why saltatory conduction is faster than continuous conduction (a fact I hope is empirically and unambiguously established) relies on the putative slowing effect of ion channels on the signal fore. Please explain this effect in more detail, if it is not a misconception. How do I install Skype? I want to install Skype, but I can't locate it in Software Center or by using Synaptic Package Manager. Can anyone help me? Get week of year in JavaScript like in PHP I have a quick question about updating my references from Bibtex.  I am using TexStudio as my Latex editor.  I have to make changes to some of the references.  I put the changes in the "references.bib" file.  I then compile the Bibtex and the main document I'm working on.  Sometimes the changes show up, and sometimes they don't, and I haven't figured out why. I have even gone as far as trying to delete the references by changing the filename, but the original references still appear.  Here's what I put in my main document:   \newpage %Puts in References  \bibliographystyle{unsrt}  \bibliography{references}   My references.bib file shows all the changes I have made.  Any suggestions are appreciated! For every prime of the form $2^{4n}+1$, 7 is a primitive root. A word for "every two days" Can't pair apple wireless keyboard Keyboard: Apple Wireless Keyboard (model number MC184LL/B)  System: Macbook Pro Early 2011 running OS X 10.8  The keyboard gets detected and when I try to pair it, the system asks to enter some numbers through the keyboard.   However when I press the key (on the wireless keyboard) nothing happens, the only key that seems to work (i.e. to move to the next key in the code) is 0. I can also press enter to confirm but it always fails (since the only code I can enter is 0000...0).   I've also tried pairing from the bluetooth preference and changing the passcode option. However this won't work either.   Any ideas? The keyboard was paired with another MacBook Pro (I don't have access to it anymore). Is there any method to 'reset' the keyboard to factory settings?