Determine properties of items in PVP after scaling
Figuring out algorithm/formula for item scaling in WoW
Helical motion of charged particle in external magnetic field How to make a GIS inventory? My office will be seeing a big change in its GIS section. This section has been operational since the 1980's and has a huge collection of GIS data (i.e., shapefiles, raster files, data, etc) but never been through any inventory. Now it will happen.   Is there any automated way to extract all the information about the GIS data (i.e., shapefile, arc-info coverage, layer file, *.mxd, gdb, raster file, and more) from a PC to an Excel file? The information may include date of creation, date last edited, folder or container name, etc. Should log file streams be opened/closed on each write or kept open during a desktop application's lifetime? How to update kernel to the latest mainline version without any Distro-upgrade? How to iterate over a comma separated list? How can I iterate, loop, process, or otherwise do something, with each element from a comma separated list of things?  This question       , and the are already lots of very good answers everywhere. However I think it would also be valuable to have a single reference point where all such alternative techniques are explained in detail, with their advantages and disadvantages discussed.  All of plain-TeX, LaTeX, LaTeX3, LuaTeX, Context, etoolbox, pgffor, etc. answers are invited. Please consider explaining, for example:   How does the command/method deal with whitespace around items? How does the command/method deal with empty/missing items? (e.g. a,b,,c) How does the command/method deal with a trailing comma? Can the command/method work of a list stored on a macro? Is each iteration evaluated globally or on a local group? (i.e., if a command is defined during an iteration, does the command survive the loop?) Do items get expanded or somehow mangled before being processed? What about lists where items are key=value or some other kind of pairs? Does the method work for lists separated with something other than a comma? Any other thing I should know before deciding to use this method? How to Mark NTFS filesystem dirty from *NIX/Linux? Can I become leader of the Thieves' Guild without finishing the main chain and is there any benefits from being the leader anyway? I completed the quest where you get the Skeleton Key and I don't really want to continue the chain until I've done a lot of the other stuff in the game, since the key is so useful. Brynjolf said before that I would become leader of the guild after everything was over.  Can I become the leader anyway without finishing the Nightingales quest chain? Are there any bonuses for being the leader? GNOME 2 allows one to either save the session automatically or manually (i.e. save the session as it looks right now). This is a nice feature because it restores the various desktop states between logins (and system restarts):   which apps were open where (physically) on the desktop were they open what specific window sizes were these apps set to   Looking around, I can't find the feature in GNOME 3? Did I not look hard enough? How to find relevant and new open research topics? Is spacetime discrete or continuous? Disable OS X startup sound How can I permanently disable the startup sound (or chime) in Yosemite?  (I am using a late-2014 13" macbook pro)  I already tried several options found here and there :    installed StartNinja.app => did not work installed Auto-Mute.app  => did not work tried to install the old StartupSound prefPane => did not work tried the command "sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80" => volume does not change (I also tried other values than 80, such as 00, 01, or nothing)   NOTE: I know that it is possible to mute the next startup sound by turning the volume down, but this is not a permanent solution. In Ubuntu 18.04, when moving the windows there is a resize effect that occurs when accidentally touching one of the screen edges.  This control was available in CCSM and Ubuntu Tweak in previous versions with Unity.  I'm not finding it in GNOME Tweaks.  I also searched the repository with:  apt search ubuntu.*tweak How to factory reset without data loss and undue pain? How to show $a^{2^n}+1 \mid a^{2^m}-1$? I've been struggling with this all day today. I imagine it's not very hard, but my algebra skills are terrible. So, how can I show that if $m&gt;n$ and $a$ is a positive integer, then $$a^{2^n}+1 \mid a^{2^m}-1.$$ I just can't get a coherent picture of what I'm supposed to do. If this too (see yesterday's question) boils down to the Unique Factorization Theorem, I would be very grateful for any intuition on how to think about this! dpkg error: "trying to overwrite file, which is also in..." Best answer versus best solution Support anchor names in posts I admit this feature request is probably somewhat limited in useful scope, but I'm throwing it out there anyway. Inspired by , and because I want to use it on , I'm requesting that name be supported on a tags in posts.  On very long answers, such as the closing/migration guidance answer, this would allow direct linking to the specific closure reason. This would then allow us, when someone , to link directly to the appropriate reason and description thereof.  I recognize the limited scope of this, however, I have seen other long answers that could stand to have that kind of "deep" linking ability as well.  (The original incarnation of this post had either name or id, but preferenced name. Per Koper's answer, which I agree with, I took out the idea of supporting id, because Koper's right -- too dangerous.) Distant aliens receive signal with instructions on how to construct humans, long after Earth is extinct Is there a slowest rate of divergence of a series? $$f(n)=\sum_{i=1}^n\frac{1}{i}$$ diverges slower than $$g(n)=\sum_{i=1}^n\frac{1}{\sqrt{i}}$$ , by which I mean $\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}(g(n)-f(n))=\infty$. Similarly, $\ln(n)$ diverges as fast as $f(n)$, as $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}(f(n)-\ln(n))=\gamma$, so they 'diverge at the same speed'.   I think there are an infinite number of 'speeds of divergence' (for example, $\sum_{i=1}^n\frac{1}{i^k}$ diverge at different rates for different $k&lt;1$). However, is there a slowest speed of divergence?  That is, does there exist a divergent series, $s(n)$, such that for any other divergent series $S(n)$, the limit $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}(S(n)-s(n))=\infty$ or $=k$? If so, are there an infinite number of these slowest series? How can I implement "cut outs" for lighting in OpenGL?