Is Quicksort in-place or not?
Is imperative Quicksort in situ (in-place) or not?
Problems with fonts I'm an average user of LaTeX, but not proficiency. I'm trying to learn from book templates I've found on the web, but I get this error message:  Trying to make PK font ccicons at 1493 DPI... Running miktex-makemf.exe... miktex-makemf: The ccicons source file could not be found. Running ttf2pk.exe... miktex-makemf: PK font ccicons could not be created.  LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.  !pdfTeX error: pdflatex.exe (file ccicons): Font ccicons at 1493 not found  ==&gt; Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!   I'm using MiKTeX (over Windows 7), and according to the MiKTeX package manager the "ccicons" package is already installed.  Could you please help me solve this problem? For abbreviations - both acronyms and initialisms - where the last word in the abbreviation is the noun, I'm accustomed to adding an 's' with no apostrophe (e.g. ATMs), as described in the answer to this question:   But how do you pluralize abbreviations where the noun is not the last word? E.g. 'Point of Presence' (POP)  I can see how 'POPs' could read 'Point of Presences', when the intention is 'Points of Presence.' $X$ is Hausdorff if and only if the diagonal of $X\times X$ is closed How to use "`" in the same way it is used on the SE websites? As the question states... In Windows 7 with a single screen, you can drag a window to the right and a window to the left to maximize them both at half the screen, letting you quickly and neatly see two windows simultaneously.  If I have 2 monitors, is there a way to do this with 4 windows, where each monitor gets 2 windows split across each screen? Execute bash script from URL Executing cmd.exe commands from Java Taxonomy terms view sorting results numerically I have a taxonomy that's comprised entirely of numeric term names, 1 through 1200 (with a few numbers missing in between). I created a new "Taxonomy terms" view to show all terms in this vocabulary. When I look at the view results, I'd like to see the terms sorted numerically, however the view is displaying the terms alphabetically. I understand the reason for this is because term names are strings, but I'm hoping someone has an answer of how to make the query treat the term names as integers.  Here's an example of the view results as they are displayed now:   1 10 100 1000 1001 1005 101 1014 1015 1016 1019 102 1020 1024 103 1034 104   Normally in MySQL, you could write SELECT name FROM {taxonomy_term_data} ORDER BY CAST(name AS UNSIGNED). Is there a way to get this same type of CAST() happening in views? Running macOS Sierra(Version 10.12.2 16C67).  I installed  version wine-1.8.6 (through a .pkg file). I opened up a game and it worked fine.  The next day when I downloaded Origin installer, it wouldn't open. When I double clicked on it, the Wine icon showed up in the dock and said it was open, but no windows showed up. When I clicked on another program(or on the desktop), Wine closed. Now when I try to start that same game I opened when I first installed Wine, the same thing happens that happened when I started Origin installer.  When I go to the terminal and type wine {path of .exe} I got this:   I installed wine tricks using brew install winetricks and it installed fine, yet it didn't change my situation.  winecfg works properly, and so does sh winetricks. Looking for sci-fi short story anthology with a particular story of an Earth/Mars war children inheriting the surface I read this in the early to mid 80's.  It was a textbook sized hardcover anthology with color illustrations throughout.  Each story had a few images, some were full page illustrations.  The particular story I remember the most involved Earth survivors living underground.  Robots controlled the war from the surface.  A teenage girl and boy decided to sneak away to the surface as no one had been up there in a long time.  The kids discover greenery and a healthy environment, with rusted robot guardians.  The robots had been keeping the humans fooled that the war was still going on, and had kept them under the surface.  Mars had been wiped out from nearly the first volleys of missiles.    The robots judge the teenagers as worthy and let them remain on the surface.  The kids had silver jumpsuits that dissolved when they got wet.  The robot illustrations were blocky, almost weathered stone-like statues.  They had nearly spherical feet and square simple heads.  The faces had eyes and simple mouths.  -edit- The robots were similar in shape to the one in this picture, but smoother, and no arms.  The illustrations with them had the robots being several stories tall.  I kind of remember that the kids emerged from the belly of one or something like that. My distribution is normal; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test doesn't agree I have a problem with the normality of some data I have:  I've done a Kolmogorov test which says it isn't normal with p=.0000,  I don't understand: the skewness of my distribution =-.497, and the kurtosis =-0,024  Here is the plot of my distribution which looks very much normal ...  (I have three scores, and each one of this scores isn't normal with a significant p-value for the Kolmogorov test ... I really don't understand ) Should spam posts be edited? I noticed that the posts of the recent spam surge on Ask Ubuntu were all edited by community members into something like     EDITED - REMOVED SPAM ANSWER   or similar.  While I understand why the users have done this and I too don't want to leave the spam content visible for longer than absolutely necessary, it made flagging more time consuming for me.  I had to check the revision for every of those possible spam posts to check if it is actually spam, instead of being able to flag directly from the review site. Spam flags carry a serious penalty, I'm not willing to add my spam flag without checking that it's really spam.  I see the benefit of editing spam, but it also causes some more effort for the later flaggers. Should we as a general policy edit out the content of spam posts, or should we deal with them solely by flagging? Solve a linear system with more variables than equations I go to the Minecraft menu and click on singleplayer to test out the 1.9 update. I made a new world (no mods), it said downloading terrain and then it crashes every time (I've tried about 20 times now).  Has anyone else experienced similar issues and know what the fix may be?  Here is the launcher log:  Completely ignored arguments: [--nativeLauncherVersion, 301] [00:35:12] [Client thread/INFO]: Setting user: Teddy_Cromwell [00:35:12] [Client thread/INFO]: (Session ID is &lt;censored&gt;) [00:35:14] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.4 [00:35:14] [Client thread/WARN]: Removed selected resource pack resources (no region and battle music).zip because it's no longer compatible [00:35:14] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default [00:35:15] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Starting up SoundSystem... [00:35:16] [Thread-5/INFO]: Initializing LWJGL OpenAL [00:35:16] [Thread-5/INFO]: (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL.  For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org) [00:35:16] [Thread-5/INFO]: OpenAL initialized. [00:35:16] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started [00:35:18] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 1024x512 textures-atlas [00:35:26] [Server thread/INFO]: Starting integrated minecraft server version 1.9 [00:35:26] [Server thread/INFO]: Generating keypair [00:35:27] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing start region for level 0 [00:35:28] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 5% [00:35:29] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 8% [00:35:30] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 15% [00:35:31] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 21% [00:35:32] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 27% [00:35:33] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 34% [00:35:34] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 42% [00:35:35] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 48% [00:35:36] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 56% [00:35:37] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 66% [00:35:38] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 74% [00:35:39] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 81% [00:35:40] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 91% [00:35:41] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 98% [00:35:42] [Server thread/INFO]: Teddy_Cromwell[local:E:6d7525a7] logged in with entity id 301 at (244.5, 69.0, 244.5) [00:35:42] [Server thread/INFO]: Teddy_Cromwell joined the game # # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: # #  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007fffcf6e6b37, pid=15456, tid=12424 # # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_25-b18) (build 1.8.0_25-b18) # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.25-b02 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops) # Problematic frame: # C  [ig8icd64.dll+0x16b37] # # Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows # # An error report file with more information is saved as: # C:\Users\Connor\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\hs_err_pid15456.log # # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: #   http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp # The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code. # See problematic frame for where to report the bug. # AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release ref to subsection number only Prove that $\frac d {dx} x^n=nx^{n-1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb R$.   I saw some proof of $\frac d {dx} x^n=nx^{n-1}$ using binomial theorem, which is only available for $n \in\mathbb N$. Do anyone have the proof of $\frac d {dx} x^n=nx^{n-1}$ for all real $n$? Thank you. singlespacing in table with no indent The "Satellite Paradox": Twin paradox in orbiting satellites I want to simply eliminate the effect of acceleration, which is the cornerstone in resolving the traditional twin paradox, through the following thought experiment: Assume twins $A$ &amp; $B$ are located in the same orbital height, far away from the surface of a massive planet, on a long concrete column at rest WRT the planet. A rapid explosion that happens between the twins makes them orbit the earth with a high velocity, say, $0.6 \ c$, in the same orbital path but in different directions. According to relativity, since the orbiting satellites are completely inertial frames, each twin attributes a variable time dilation to the other one, and each twin expects the other one to be younger. Nonetheless, these twins are automatically reunited after traveling half of the orbit's circumference without being affected by additional accelerations. Which twin is younger in this case? Indeed, If each twin sees the other's clock as running slow all along the way, how can the clocks agree when they meet? For this configuration:  The acceleration due to the explosion does not affect the twins' clock rates since it occurs abruptly in the same place on the column where the twins are located back-to-back. The clocks have been synchronized just before the explosion.  The traditional gamma factor, attributed to one twin from the viewpoint of the other, is variable because the resultant velocity of one twin complying with the relativistic velocity addition is a variable measured from the viewpoint of the other one. However, whether or not the corresponding time dilation is varying, each twin anticipates the other one to be younger. There is no breaking of symmetry!  The $g$-field of the planet has nothing to do with orbiting satellites since they are inertial, and thus GR corrections are not inserted. (Remember the GPS settings!) How to add a script to Startup Applications from the command line? I have a shell script. I want to configure my script to run automatically during startup. I know how to do this from GUI. But I wanted to do this from terminal. How can I do this?  On a primary research I found that the file needs to be moved to /etc/int.d/ directory. But this operation needs sudo permission. I wanted to do this without super user permissions.   I also found that there are files under ~/.config/autostart/ which are having some settings regarding the startup applications. But I don't know how to edit them to achieve this.   Can someone tell me the exact procedure to achieve this? So I watched the following .  In the clip, using what seems to be the recording from a standard bank camera, they zoom in at least 100, and see the image of the culprit in the reflection of the eye of the girl.  Now, I thought this was completely ridiculous, so much so that I thought it was actually really funny.    However, my friend argued that there are very good tricks for image enhancement, such as "super resolution" a procedure where multiple frames of a video to produce a much higher single resolution image.   He did think the show bends the truth quite a bit, but how much?  Honestly, I don't actually know anything about these things, so my question is:     How good is modern image resolution enhancement?  Also, how far off are the CSI television programs?    Thank you,  Remark: This is  on the Skeptics site.  I was told I might receive better answers here.