Split infinitives
Are split infinitives grammatically incorrect, or are they valid constructs?
Would this look natural:     StackExchange is a helluva site! I found out about this site at Facebook.    Or should we use the preposition on:     StackExchange is a helluva site! I found out about this site on Facebook.    Or are both okay?   (Inspired by a ) Is there a way to have a 64 bit enum in C++?  Whilst refactoring some code I came across bunch of #defines which would be better as an enum, but being greater than 32 bit causes the compiler to error.  For some reason I thought the following might work:  enum MY_ENUM : unsigned __int64   {       LARGE_VALUE = 0x1000000000000000,   }; Extended Rigid Bodies in Special Relativity I was reading Landau &amp; Lifshitz's Classical Theory of Fields and I noticed that they mention that an extended rigid body isn't "relativistically correct".   For example, if you consider a rigid rod and apply a torque at one end, by definition of being rigid, the whole body must start rotating at the same instant. But the information about the force being applied cannot travel faster than the speed of light.   The book hasn't mentioned how to resolve this paradox, and after thinking about it for a while, I'm wondering if one can even define a rigid body in a relativistically correct manner.  To summarize: How does one define a rigid body in special relativity? I have come across numerous questions where I am given the picture such as the above one been asked "how many rectangles are there?". I have even come across some slightly different images that instead of rectangles you are supposed to find the number of triangles. Well, I was thinking whether there is any formula or strategy that is used to solve these problems without having to manually count every shape.  Help would be appreciated.  Thank you :) How do I enable Remote Desktop connection on Xubuntu 11.10? Let $q \in \mathbb C$, $|q|=1$ and $q^n \neq 1, \forall n \in \mathbb N$. Show that $\{q^n:  n \in \mathbb N\}$ is dense in $S^1$.  My attempt: As $(q^n)$ is limited, there is subsequence $(q^{n_j})$ convergent. So given $\epsilon &gt; 0, \exists j_0 \in \mathbb N, \quad |q^{n_j} - q^{n_k}| &lt; \epsilon, \quad \forall j,k \geq j_0$. Supose that $n_j &gt; n_k$, then  $|q^{n_j} - q^{n_k}| = |q^{n_k}||q^{n_j - n_k} - 1| = |q^{n_j - n_k} - 1| &lt; \epsilon, \quad \forall j, k \geq j_0$. So, there is a subsequence of $(q^n)$ that converges to $1$.  Using this fact, how can I ensure that for all $w \in S^1$ there is a subsequence of $(q^n)$ that converges to  $w$? Is it "legal" to CREATE and DROP #SomeTable more than once? Need help identifying short story about retired military colonel who fought war at end of time I read this story in an anthology in the eighties or early nineties.  It was about an old man who lived outside a western-like town, though that might have just been how I imagined it.  He goes to town and some ex-military thugs are there causing problems.  Flaunting some odd interdimensional military tech of some sort.  He doesn't want to intervene as doing so would be bad but in the end he must.     By intervening, his military identity is revealed and that causes him (some paradox or causality law) to have to go back and fight the war again.   The war is at the end of time or the universe.  The man is maybe a colonel of the sky something... Not much to go on; I have been searching my collection and wracking my brain for years trying to recall the story. Why aren't Christoffel symbols tensors? - asked from a fibre bundle perspective I'm currently trying to extract textures from a binary file, and ideally I'd like to save each texture to a file or embed in the .blend file. However, before saving an image, I need to be able to create an image in memory from an array of pixel data.  The PIL library contains the kinds of functions I need to use, but it is not included with Blender. Is there anything similar to PIL in Blender? bpy.ops.image seems to be close to what I need, but lacks necessary pixel set/manipulation functions. Can I disable full-disk encryption? Using QGIS3 Processing algorithms from standalone PyQGIS scripts (outside of GUI) I'm writing a script which must work outside of QGIS GUI. I call some API functions from qgis.core but I'd like to use the processing plugin.  I'm able to import processing with sys.path.append() but I can't run any process. Moreover, all "native" algs are missing in QgsApplication.processingRegistry().algorithms()  So is it possible to run processing that way ? What am I missing ?  import os, sys from qgis.core import * QgsApplication.setPrefixPath('/usr', True) qgs = QgsApplication([], False) qgs.initQgis()  sys.path.append('/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins') from processing.core.Processing import Processing Processing.initialize() import processing  layer1 = QgsVectorLayer('data/ROUTE_PRIMAIRE.SHP') layer2 = QgsVectorLayer('data/ROUTE_SECONDAIRE.SHP')  processing.run('qgis:union', layer1, layer2, 'test.shp') # returns nothing   I'm on QGIS 3.0.1 - Debian 9 I use the following command to clear a directory, of files and directories over 30 days old, and move them to an archive directory which I can delete after a few weeks if nobody asks for their files back. The target directory has subdirectories by user name, so will the archive directory.  This is the command I use:  find /path/to/directory/username/ -mtime +30 -exec mv "{}" /path/to/archive/username/ \;   I suggested a modified version of this to answer a question on ask ubuntu, another user edited the code to change the end of line \; for + as it's faster(and more correct?).   However, using + in this way works if the -exec command is ls -lh but not in the actual command that I use. If I try it with + I get an error message:  find: missing argument to '-exec'   I don't understand why it's behaving this way, or what the correct command would be. Please don't just post a command correction, I'd like to understand rather than just follow a suggestion blindly. I think the title says it. Did expansion of the universe steal the energy somehow? Clicking community promotion ad renders an instance of SO within the frame of that ad Today I came across an ad on this question on SO:  (I don't expect it to stay very long).   There was a community promotion ad on the right hand side of the site, I think for one of our English sites. It had a sentence that I only partially remember:     Idiom ... poor or even poorer   I found it interesting, so I clicked that ad. Which caused a new instance of SO to open within the ad space. Unfortunately I failed to take a screenshot. I've been refreshing the page like crazy, but can't get the ad to appear again.  Edit: I managed to get a new community add, for the photography site, and captured a screenshot:   Edit2: This bug still persists, I saw it today with an OOP add from CodeReview, and an area 51 add. Atomic Physics: stimulated emission I'm studying a chapter about atomic physics right now but there's thing I just don't seem to understand. When stimulated emission occurs, there's an incoming photon which stimulates the atom to go an energy level lower with the result that a new photon gets emitted.  Can someone explain the reason why the incoming photon stimulates the atom to emit a second one? To me it seemed more logic for the atom to absorb the photon and go an energy level up. There seems to be a phenomenon which I don't know about. Viewer-independent copyable spaces at the beginning of a line? Sometimes I use, $PROJECT_HOME/* to delete all files in the project. When the environment variable, PROJECT_HOME is not set (because I did su and the new user doesn't have this environment variable set), it starts deleting all files from the root folder. This is apocalyptic.  How can I configure bash to throw error, when I use an undefined environment variable in the shell? The add comment link and comment box overlaps bounty box The following you could have seen in  (sorry, I've commented there, so you won't see it anymore) in Chrome 35.0.1916.153 m (current version). Notice how the add comment link overlaps the bounty box:    The same you can observe with a comment box on other sites, e.g. at this time in :    Could you shift it a bit down ?  It seems that it happens on more than just Stack Overflow (maybe all sites ?). How does the "this" keyword work?