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Why do snap-packages exist - is there a real need? Assumptions  Honestly, I do not know much about  snap-packages - but this is irrelevant for this question - see below. I assume the system is significantly different from the existing one.  Does the change make sense?  Is there an actual need, strong enough? That is - is there a new use case, that is important enough to develop a new format - and the associated infrastructure?  Was it not feasible to change the current method to cover the new use cases too?  Or am I missing the point?  It is possible that what I see is mostly marketing - new names and presentation for minimal technical change, to get a chance that any body assumes it as "new and better" and it may be actually used. Also, it may be that the new packages are so closely based on the existing format that it is mostly a change in presentation to the user. That could be a good solution, of course. In this case, this question would have not much relevance.  Then, I would hope that is still useful enough to answer to side aspects.  Just let me know if the question is not helpful or confusing to new users, I'm happy to delete it.  So, why do they exist?    Background  My first reaction was "That makes no sense!"  This is similar to a situation where, on the physics site, someone asked, unhappy, why nobody discusses his brilliant new ideas in answers. It looked strongly like crackpot ideas; So far from actual physical knowledge that it was hard to find a point to even start. I wrote an answer that did not touch his ideas with a single word, but explained why one would just not discuss assuming crackpot ideas - not the first case of that. The answer was actually hitting the point, I think.    If my assumptions were right, this case is similar.    But then, maybe not - let's see. The question is if you have a situation where one of the singular values is equal to 0 in a singular value decomposition of a matrix, how to do you procede to find the column vector of U corresponding to this singular value?   Usually I found the columns of U with this relation, so let's say that we refer to $\vec{u_2}$ as the U column vector corresponding to singular value equal to 0:  $\vec{u_2} = (1/s_2)Av_2$  Now the as we can see the 0 is in an illegal place, since you can't divide by zero. But if you move it to the left side, I still can't quite see how to find the column of U corresponding to it. Any suggestions?  Here is an example of a matrix that provided this specific challenge  $ A = \left(\begin{array}{rrr} -3 &amp; 1 \\ 6 &amp; -2 \\ 6 &amp; -2 \end{array}\right). $  $ \lambda{_1} = 90$,  $\lambda{_2} = 0$,  $s_1 = 3 \sqrt{10}$,  $s_2 = 0$,  How can one find $\vec{v_2}$ when $\lambda{_2} = 0$? In this case, you know that the eigenvectors of $A^{t} A$ are orthogonal, solve for $\lambda{_2}$ and find the eigenvector if it's orthogonal to the eigenvector corresponding to the first eigenvalue you have your solution.  So we end up with the following normalized column vectors for V, which we can see are orthogonal:  $ \vec{v_1} = \left(\begin{array}{rrr} -3/\sqrt{10} \\ 1/\sqrt{10} \\ \end{array}\right). $  $ \vec{v_2} = \left(\begin{array}{rrr} 1/\sqrt{10} \\ 3/\sqrt{10} \\ \end{array}\right). $ How do you detect support for VML or SVG in a browser I'm writing a bit of javascript and need to choose between SVG or VML (or both, or something else, it's a weird world). Whilst I know that for now that only IE supports VML, I'd much rather detect functionality than platform.  SVG appears to have a few properties which you can go for: window.SVGAngle for example.  Is this the best way to check for SVG support?  Is there any equivalent for VML?  Unfortuntaly - in firefox I can quite happily do all the rendering in VML without error - just nothing happens on screen. It's quite hard to detect that situation from script. Why are there so many places to put a binary in Linux? There are at least these five:   /bin/ /sbin/ /usr/bin/ /usr/local/bin/ /usr/local/sbin/   And on my office box, I do not have write permissions to some of these.  What type of binary goes into which of these bins? What part of speech is “there” when used in “There is (blah blah)”? What part of speech is there in the sentence “There is a book on the table?”  Also, while typing it out, another question pops up vis-à-vis punctuation. In my complete first sentence above, I ended it with a question mark since my main sentence is a question. The quote is not a question, but it looks like it because of the question mark. Is this the right way to punctuate? Why do damaged hard drives freeze the entire system? Convert LaTeX to HTML Is the prefix "pre-" meaningless in the terms "pre-heated" and "pre-board"? This question poses a paradox of meaning. The general question is whether, if two sentences (x and y) can be used in the same situation, with the same literal meaning, and x and y only differ in that x has morphological affixes that y doesn't, aren't the surplus affixes "meaningless" by the alternation test?   Take this example:  I put the chicken inside a preheated oven.    Wouldn't it make more sense to say:  I put the chicken inside a heated oven.      There is only two states an oven can possibly be in—heated or unheated.      Another example: Does first-class board the plane, or pre-board the plane?  What does that mean—to get on before you get on? I was trying to dual boot elementary os with windows on my laptop (Asus Zenbook UX305). To do that I shrank the windows partition using the windows disk manager, and then used the Elementary installer's "install alongside windows" option to set up the linux partitions automatically. When I rebooted after installing I was put into the grub console. I was able to boot linux manually with the commands  grub&gt; set root=(hd0,gpt4) grub&gt; linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-26-generic root=/dev/sda4 grub&gt; initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-26-generic grub&gt; boot     and I found that running the command  grub&gt; configfile (hd0,gpt4)/boot/grub/grub.cfg   would load the normal grub menu as is supposed to happen - so there don't seem to be any problems with the config file itself. I also found that the root and prefix are on (hd0,gpt1), so running  grub&gt; set root=(hd0,gpt4) grub&gt; set prefix=(hd0,gpt4)/boot/grub grub&gt; insmod normal grub&gt; normal   also loaded the normal grub menu. So possibly the problem is that grub is looking on the wrong partition?  In my BIOS, I have a choice between using grub and the windows bootloader to boot. Selecting the windows bootloader boots me directly into windows without any problems.  However, I can't find any way to get any fixes to stick after a reboot. I've tried rerunning grub-install /dev/sda, recreating the config file with grub-mkconfig, and using the Ubuntu boot repair gui tool - none of these have worked. Is there any way to fix this short of reinstalling either or both OSs? I'd rather not have to reinstall windows if possible. Review filter appears to be broken When browsing questions for a given tag, a review indicator has recently started showing up that links to the open review tasks for that tag.  For example, this is what I see when viewing :    The number 187 in the screenshot above would link to    However, clicking on that often opens review tasks that do not have the tag in question.  For example, it opened the following on successive attempts:   (c)   (java)  It seems that the filters are broken.  A sample screenshot (note the mention of the filter on the review page): find the measure of $AMC$ if $M$ is the midpoint of $BC$ then find the measure of $AMC$.    I tried to use the angles to find $AMC$ but I don't know how to use that $M$ is the midpoint of $BC$. Leverage browser caching for Facebook, Google+, or other 3rd party resource files I tested my website with Google PageSpeed Insights.  I did cache optimization in my .htaccess, but it didn't affect resource files that are from Facebook and Google+  Leverage browser caching      http://connect.facebook.net/fr_FR/all.js (20 minutes)      https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js (30 minutes)      https://oauth.googleusercontent.com/…e:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js?c=2 (60 minutes)   What can I do to solve this? Increasing Flood Plain I am doing a project where we are attempting to determine how many more buildings would flood if the FEMA flood plain increased by 1',2' and 5'. I have the elev of the flood plain rasters from lidar data, but I am having trouble figuring out how much more area will be inundated by the rises I described earlier. I'm using raster calc and I have a buffer for the flood plain that also has elevation data. Any thoughts? Why is $R\cos{a} = mg$ in circular motion compared and not $R = mg\cos{a}$? Normally, if an object of mass $m$ is inclined to the horizontal at an angle $b$, we set the reaction force of the object on the inclined plane as $R = mg\cos{b}$ (if we resolve the force of gravity so the line of action coming out of the plane is perpendicular to it).  However in circular motion*. it's assumed that $R\cos{b} = mg$. In the example above, one would have to do this in order to arrive to the correct answer, instead of $R = mg\cos{b}$. Using $R = mg\cos{b}$ seems natural enough, as I am resolving vertically, however, both equations would produce two different values for $R$. Why is this?   To show what I mean: If we set the reaction force in this question as $mg\cos{a}$, then the centripetal force will be $mg\cos{b}\cos(\pi/2-b) = mg\cos{b}\sin{b} = \frac{1}{2}mg\sin(2b)$   Whereas If we use $R\cos{b} = mg$, $R = mg\sec{b}$ and the centripetal force will be $mg\sec{b}\sin{b} = mg\tan{b}$. This will end up with two different values for the radius of the circular motion, and hence two different final answers.  *In the circular motion questions I've seen in my mechanics module How to pick a specific Pantone color in Photoshop? What about finding a Pantone that is close to a specific CMYK color? How would I select a specific Pantone color in Photoshop, e.g. PMS 5625?  Also, how do you pick a Pantone colour that is similar to a specific CMYK color, e.g. C61, M41, Y58, K16 green?    In this case Pantone 5615C looks closest to the CMYK color. Calculating frames per second in a game Train loss and accuracy In theory, is it possible that the loss on the train set will increase together with the train set accuracy? (in the normal case the train set loss should go down) And vice versa, can the train loss decrease along with the accuracy?   Note: This is obviously different than the classic underfit / overfit cases which are easier to grasp. Greyed-Out vs Invisible How to implement "confirmation" dialog in Jquery UI dialog? $3\times3$ linear system organization