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A word for a symbol which has outlived its origin I am quite sure that there is a word for a symbol which was originated by a real-life, physical prototype but has since then outlived its origin.  Most notable example: the save button with floppy drive on it. Also, to a lesser degree, envelopes in email clients, and so on.  The "anachronism" or "metonymy" are close, but not exactly what I'm searching for. Tags are not showing up on the right side of the screen This is on Stack Overflow. On Meta I'm able to see what the tags are on the right side of the screen. In fact, I think yesterday or some point earlier today I saw tags on the right side of the screen (I can't screenshot or remember correctly).  It's right above the asked and active heading.  I know this is minor but what happened to it? It might be useful for browsing instead of having to look at the bottom of the question post.    Found an image on Google and it shows the tags on the right side of the screen: Elastic net penalty I have a question about the elastic net penalty as implemented in glmnet in R compared to the original paper by Zou and Hastie (2005). In glmnet the penalty is listed as   $$ (1-\alpha)/2||\beta||_2^2+α||\beta||_1. $$  but in the paper it is  $$(1-\alpha)||\beta||_1 + \alpha||\beta||_2^2.  $$  Does anyone know where the factor $\frac12$ some from? (Never mind the fact that the $\alpha$'s were swapped between the two parameterisations.) In both cases the penalties are multiplied by $\lambda$, but what are the mathematical/technical arguments for not using a simple convex combination of the lasso and ridge penalties? How can I find the cheapest prepaid SIM card for a given country? Get Emacs to ignore contents of \Sexpr{} command in Sweave document to prevent incorrect $-based syntax highlighting If no exact time (such as 15:00 or 21:00) is specified about the deadline and only the date itself is given, does that mean that the Deadline date is inclusive or exclusive?  For example, if the deadline for my Research Project is 10th October (no other exact times are specified) does that mean that I can turn it in on 10th October before it turns into 11th October? Or should I submit it on 9th October before it turns into 10th? When doing an apt-get update/upgrade I see that warning  W: Conflicting distribution: https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public InRelease (expected public but got )   I was upgrading to Ubuntu Zesty 17.04 before and do not know how to fix the above. Already have seen ? but there are no suggested fixes for that.  Maybe one of you can give some hints? Thanks! How to handle UNABLE_LOCK_ROW errors when this is caused by a batch APEX job we are facing a serious issue. We have a batch APEX job running daily which makes updates on records fulfilling certain conditions. There is another job running parallel to this, in some cases updating or accessing to the same records than the batch job and hence, causing the error:     Update failed. First exception on row 400 with id XXX; first error:    UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW, unable to obtain exclusive access to this record or 200    records:   So, I had then read that in order to fix this kind of error you should use FOR_UPDATE in your select statement (records that have to be updated). The problem is, that you can not use FOR UPDATE for batch jobs. We tested this and effectively, we get the error:     System.QueryException: Locking is implied for each batch execution and   therefore FOR UPDATE should not be specified      It will however lock the records within each execution of execute. See   QueryLocator.getQuery()usage:      You cannot use the FOR UPDATE keywords with a getQueryLocator query to   lock  a set of records. The start method automatically locks the set   of records in  the batch.   Could you find a solution to this?. We would like to handle this in the code itself, because we don't have the permission to schedule the batch job for another time as the another job. For example, in this text:     Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc eu tellus vel nunc pretium lacinia. Proin sed lorem. Cras sed ipsum. Nunc a libero quis risus sollicitudin imperdiet.   I want to match the word after 'ipsum'. Looking for a science fiction story collection about nanotechnology — included a story about anti-graffiti paint I remember reading it while in middle school in English in the United States, so the latest it would have come out was 1998. I don't remember if it was all one author, or even the same universe. These are the stories I remember:   A man finds a way to create a medicine that prevents radiation poisoning (or possibly makes someone fireproof... it's a little confused in my head) and learns that part of the problem is finding a market for it. I vividly remember the inventor telling someone to not "let the doorknob ream you" as it slams shut. A bout of graffiti artists leads to the city buying anti-graffiti paint that dissolves any other paint put on top of it. After learning the futility of trying to paint over it, the protagonist consults with a friend and learns that the anti-graffiti paint will eat away at the paint above it at a steady rate, and will even eat successive layers of the anti-graffiti paint. he uses this property to engineer an animation involving a harlequin thumbing this nose at the officials even as they try to wash it away. Some guys (I want to say a gang) go to a clinic for an illegal nanotech transformation. The viewpoint character gets turned into a woman while a friend gets turned into a dog. After roaming about in their new forms, they return to find the clinic being raided, meaning there's no one to turn them back. I think I remember something bad happening to the one transformed into a dog where the transformation continued, erasing his human thought patterns. There was also a scene where the viewpoint character submitted to being sexually assaulted by his former friends as if it was simply to be expected given his form.   I don't remember if the first or the second story was the actual first story of the collection... I want to say that those are the order that they showed up as in the book. Can I use 'in' instead of 'at'? -- "I have more books in my house." I am learning English using the Duolingo English course, one of correct solution was      I have more books at my house.   Can I use      I have more books in my house.   If it is OK, what is the difference between both? Continuity of $L^1$ functions with respect to translation Fonts larger than \Huge? How can I make text that is larger than the size of the output of {\Huge ...}?   I would like to be able to make text arbitrarily large (even if that is done by some suboptimal scaling routine). How to find the build / version of Windows 10 During the beta of Windows 10 it was hard know what version you were running unless it had it posted to the desktop. Once that wasn't there - how do you tell what version / build you are running?   This will become more of an issue as Microsoft starts releasing more builds with the new update mechanism. I installed kubuntu-desktop just to experiment with its interface.  Then I decided to remove and did the traditional apt-get purge and autoremove but it seems elements of kubuntu are still there. For example interface elements, scrollbars, bootscreen etc are still there.  Is there any method I can completely remove without installing a fresh copy of ubuntu? How do you compare two folders and copy the difference to a third folder? You've got three folders:   folder current, which contains your current files folder old, which contains an older version of the same files folder difference, which is just an empty folder   How do you compare old with current and copy the files which are different (or entirely new) in current to difference?    I have searched all around and it seems like a simple thing to tackle, but I can't get it to work in my particular example. Most sources suggested the use of rsync so I ended up with the following command:  rsync -ac --compare-dest=../old/ new/ difference/   What this does however, is copies all the files from new to difference, even those which are the same as in old.  In case it helps (maybe the command is fine and the fault lies elsewhere), this is how I tested this:   I made the three folders. I made several text files with different contents in old. I copied the files from old to new. I changed the contents of some of the files in new and added a few additional files. I ran the above command and checked the results in difference.   I have been looking for a solution for the past couple of days and I'd really appreciate some help. It doesn't necessarily have to be using rsync, but I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong if possible. Is 'clamp' a formally recognized mathematical function? I was surprised to find the clamp function absent from  and . Is this mainly a concept particular to computer programming? Is it known by another name in mathematics? I'll be editing the Wikipedia shortly to include a reference to this function but I want to make sure I'm not omitting some synonymous terms I'm currently unaware of.  $$   \operatorname{clamp}(x) = \max( a , \min( x , b ) ) \in [a,b] $$ Why doesn't Volumetric follow the shape of Mesh in Eevee? So I was in the middle of making a ball-shaped smoke, but the volumetric effect didn't work following the basic shape. It remains cube in Eevee Blender 2.8; while in Cycle it works, but in Cycle it takes thousands of years for Render. Automatically put PGFPlots xtick scale label in x axis label I'm trying to put xtick scale label (defined by pgfkey /pgfplots/xtick scale label code/.code) in x axis label, between variable name and unit.  I've tried executing using the option xlabel = {$ x $ (\pgfkeysvalueof{/pgfplots/xtick scale label code/.code} m)} to put in but this doesn't work.  I've also tried the following xtick scale label code/.code={\pgfkeyssetvalue{/pgfplots/xlabel}{#1}} to force PGFPlots to change my xlabel but it doesn't work as well.  I know I can do this by hand, but I'm interested in automatic approach. Is there a workaround or a solution to this?  My MWE is:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.14}  \begin{document}      \begin{tikzpicture}     \begin{axis}[         scaled x ticks=true,         scaled y ticks = false,         y tick label style={/pgf/number format/fixed},         %xtick scale label code/.code={\pgfkeyssetvalue{/pgfplots/xlabel}{#1}},         xlabel = {$ x $ (\pgfkeysvalueof{/pgfplots/xtick scale label code/.code} m)},         ylabel = {$ y $},     ]      \addplot[line width=3pt] coordinates {(0.0,0.0)(100,1)(400,2)(10000,0)};      \end{axis}     \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document}   Output from this code is: Get last result in interactive Python shell