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Long site name hides the diamond in profile page Communities Show us who submitted offensive and comment flags Massless charged particles What happens to Zhang ziyi (Jen) in  when she jumps off the cliff .. she dies? becomes immortal? Just before jumping what does she want Lo to become - a master?  Why does she jump off, guilt? How can I duplicate Apple's tiny USB power adapter? I'm designing a project that controls 110VAC (plug in, socket out), and also has a microprocessor inside.  I'd really like this project to not need a wall wart to get it's 5V, so I want to include a small DC power supply inside.    Apple's USB power adapter looks like a great small design that I can fit inside my case.  I'm guessing this is a switching power supply but I can't find any teardowns or schematics anywhere.  Does anyone know how this thing works?  I know I could make my own 110V->5VDC supply from a bridge rectifier and some caps, but I'd like to also be super safe.  What's in the Apple brick? Does there exist a smooth approximation of $x \bmod y$? I'm looking for a function $m(x,y)$ that smoothly approximates $x \bmod y$, and I'm assuming there would be some $n$ or $\varepsilon$ in the body of $m(x,y)$ that defines the degree of approximation such that as $n$ goes to infinity or $\varepsilon$ goes to zero,  $$ m(x,y)= x \bmod y. $$  I've looked at, for example, $\sin(x/y)$ and have been trying to figure out ways to make $\sin(x)$ more "steep" so that I can apply such techniques to $\sin(x/y)$ in order to perhaps more closely approximate $x \bmod y$.  The analogy I'm looking at is the approximation of $\mid x\mid$ as $\sqrt{x^2 + \varepsilon)}$ where epsilon is some small quantity.  Does a similarly smooth function exist for $x \bmod y$? Can anyone tell me if there is a way with generics to limit a generic type argument T to only:   Int16 Int32 Int64 UInt16 UInt32 UInt64   I'm aware of the where keyword, but can't find an interface for only these types,  Something like:  static bool IntegerFunction&lt;T&gt;(T value) where T : INumeric Duplicity Backup Browse Why does $\lim\limits_{t\to-\infty}te^t=0$? Intuitively, $\lim\limits_{t\to -\infty}te^t=0$, since $e^t\to 0$ much faster than $t\to -\infty$.   Is there a way to more rigorously compute this? Writing it as $e^t/(1/t)$ seems resistant to l'Hopital's rule. What's the grammar behind "A'warring", from the lyrics of Symphony of Destruction? What's the grammar behind A'warring, from the lyrics of Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth? It's the first time I'm seeing the use of such apostrophe. I'd like to find the files in the current directory that contain the text "chrome".  $ find . -exec grep chrome find: missing argument to `-exec'   What am I doing wrong? Should a function have only one return statement? What does "no long range" mean on the soulknife rogue subclass mean? I came across this problem and I believe Lagrange's theorem is the key to its solution.  The question is:     Let $p$ be an odd prime. Prove that there is some integer $x$ such that $x^2 \equiv −1 \pmod p$ if and only if $p \equiv 1 \pmod 4$.   I appreciate any help.  Thanks. I've just recently started playing D&amp;D 4e through the Red Box, and I am confused about how to fill in the power cards.  So, take Nimbus of Holy Shielding for instance. I understand the Target and Hit components as well as the effect, but my question is about the Attack component. It reads:     Attack: Wisdom vs Will.   Does the mean whatever my Wisdom score is, without the modifier, is compared to the Will score of the enemy? Would I then not even have to roll a d20 to see if it works? How does the linux kernel know device major and minor numbers? As far as I know, the kernel detects hardware, adds information to sysfs creates a device in /dev and then generates a udev event. My question is, do device drivers do all of this or it is the kernel itself? If drivers do it, then they would know the device major and minor number to create the file in devtmps.   I also understand (maybe wrongly) that it is udev who calls modprobe to load the drivers that handle a device.   I was told that they do so with the contents of the MODALIAS uevent environment variable, thus loading all modules whose aliases match this string (the correct driver). In short: what are the steps of hardware detection in linux and WHO performs each step: the kernel itself, the driver inside the kernel or udev in userspace. Thanks. Prolog count the number of times a predicate is true Taking Seats on a Plane This is a neat little problem that I was discussing today with my lab group out at lunch. Not particularly difficult but interesting implications nonetheless  Imagine there are a 100 people in line to board a plane that seats 100. The first person in line realizes he lost his boarding pass so when he boards he decides to take a random seat instead. Every person that boards the plane after him will either take their "proper" seat, or if that seat is taken, a random seat instead.  Question: What is the probability that the last person that boards will end up in his/her proper seat.  Moreover, and this is the part I'm still pondering about. Can you think of a physical system that would follow this combinatorial statistics? Maybe a spin wave function in a crystal etc... $n$ divides a product of $n$ consecutive integers (by $n$ divides one of them) If $xy + yz + zx = 1$, then show that      $$\dfrac{x}{1-x^2} + \dfrac{y}{1-y^2} + \dfrac{z}{1-z^2} = \dfrac{4xyz}{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)(1-z^2)}$$   I tried doing the sum algebraically, that is, by solving the LHS but, that method isn't really getting us anywhere.  Also, I found this sum in an a book on trigonometry. So how can I solve it with trigonometry?