What are the pros and cons of well compensated STEM graduate students joining a union?
What are the benefits/detriments to graduate students joining unions?
Promote tag wiki creation for new tags I know how to rename files in Unix:  $ mv ~/folder/subfolder/file.txt ~/folder/subfolder/file.sh       ^-------this part------^    ^------this part-------^   It takes too long time to repeat ~/folder/subfolder/file twice.  Is there a quicker way? Approximating $\arctan x$ for large $|x|$ I would like to know if there is reasonably fast converging method for computing large arguments of arctan.  Until now I've came across Taylor series that converges only on interval $(-1,1)$ and for increasing $|x|$ the rate decreases. Also I've found about continued fractions for arctan, which seems to converge more rapidly and can be used for any real number, but again with increasing $|x|$ I need to perform way too much iterations until I get at least 3 digits precision.  I'm therefore looking for a method that would allow me to compute arctan for large arguments with good precision and in reasonable amount of iterations. Applying options to already loaded package Is there a way to apply some options to a package which is loaded in the cls file I am using? For instance, suppose that the cls file loads graphicx, and I want to apply the option demo to it from my tex file. How long can cooked food be safely stored at room/warm temperature? If I leave fully-cooked food (particularly meat) out at warm temperature - say on the counter or in a crock pot that's been turned off -  how long will it stay safe to eat?  Does it make any difference if I re-cook the food afterward? Blender is rendering an older version my project How does a non-mathematician go about publishing a proof in a way that ensures it to be up to the mathematical community's standards? I'm a computer science student who is a maths hobbyist. I'm convinced that I've proven a major conjecture. The problem lies in that I've never published anything before and am not a mathematician by profession. Knowing full well that my proof may be fallacious, erroneous, or simply lacking mathematical formality, what advice would you give me? How do I boot my PC from GRUB? I read this at least 20 years ago, and I believe it was originally published in the '60s.   The main character is a human, but somehow "inherits godhood" from an alien, whose species is very long lived. IIRC this is one of the old-style god thingies, i.e. "god of thunder" not "omniscient omnipotent omnipresent transcendent being".  The plot somehow revolved around identifying and fighting some enemy which, I believe, was in turn a member of the alien species who acted as the avatar of the opposite god in the alien pantheon.  The only thing I remember for sure is that the enemy was identified as "green green" or "gringrin" (sadly, I read this in translation so I am not sure what the original meant) Can sum of a rational number and its reciprocal be an integer?   My brother asked me this question and I was unable to answer it.   The only trivial solutions which I could think of are $1$ and $-1$.  As to what I tried, I am afraid not much. I have never tried to solve such a question, and if someone could point me in the right direction, maybe I could complete it on my own.  Please don't misunderstand my question.   I am looking for a rational number $r$ where $r + \frac{1}{r}$ is an integer. Functions that are their Own nth Derivatives for Real $n$ I'm about to fly from Istanbul to Seoul and I have a useful amount of Turkish Lira (TRY) left but I don't have any South Korean Won (KRW) to pay for the metro to my hostel when I get there.  Several times in the past I've ended up being stuck with currencies that are very difficult to exchange in the country I've arrived in.  Can I buy KRW at the airport in Istanbul?  (I've also asked , since Stack Exchange questions are meant more for the long tail than just for the original asker.) Best way to start investing, for a young person just starting their career? I am young, just started my career, and looking to begin investing so I can make my money work for me. I'm still living like I did in college (occasional purchase on myself, but most of it goes into savings) and I would like to take the extra money and invest it.   What would you suggest are the best options for me to begin? I was considering getting a personal investor [a financial advisor] for perhaps a year or so, but I've heard that they really are not worth the money. I wanted to get the input of the great minds here. Capture console exit C# I have a console application that contains quite a lot of threads.  There are threads that monitor certain conditions and terminate the program if they are true.  This termination can happen at any time.  I need an event that can be triggered when the program is closing so that I can cleanup all of the other threads and close all file handles and connections properly.  I'm not sure if there is one already built into the .NET framework, so I'm asking before I write my own.  I was wondering if there was an event along the lines of:  MyConsoleProgram.OnExit += CleanupBeforeExit; Cleaning my Macbook Pro Retina leaves greasy 'streaks' across the screen To be honest I'm not sure how to run LAStools from within QGIS 2.8. I'm trying to learn by experimentation.  QGIS shows all the LAStools in the toolbox  If I double click on a LAStool in the toolbox I get the following message:     Missing dependency. This algorithm cannot run :-(   LAStools folder is not configured. Please configure it before running LAStools algorithms.   I can't find any LAStools *.exe files anywhere within my QGIS Wien file structure.  That makes me wonder how I could have LAStools show in the toolbox.  Could it be a *.dll somewhere?  What am I doing wrong? I see questions/information online about how to get rid of corpses but I'm not sure what the consequences to having them lying around are.  I know that I can use a morgue to store them and that they will eventually be taken away in a hearse. However, I've always just left them lying around. This doesn't seem to have any obvious consequences.  Do they upset prisoners or staff (e.g. increasing the danger level beyond what death normally does)? Make them sick? Slow down pathing? Is this something that's not implemented yet or is leaving dead bodies all over the place meant to be completely fine?  The wiki's pages for  and  don't shed any light on this. All I'm finding is the how of getting rid of corpses/glitches related to it but not why it matters in the first place. All I've seen that's related is that apparently prisoners can loot guard corpses for keys, but there's no obvious consequences for prisoner corpses which are what I tend to end up with.  So why not just leave them in the corridors? Two numbers are chosen randomly and independently from the unit interval $(0,1)$.  What is the probability that they differ by more than $\frac{1}{2}$? Hint: Think of the $2$ numbers chosen as coordinates in the Cartesian plane. Draw a square with vertices at $(0,0)$,$(1,0)$,$(1,1)$, and $(0,1)$. Allowable choices for the $2$ points lie below the line $y=x-\frac{1}{2}$ or the above $y=x+\frac{1}{2}$. Find the combined area of these regions.  I need help on this. I know what $y=x-\frac{1}{2}$ and $y=x+\frac{1}{2}$ looks like but I am not understanding the problem as a whole Execute managebean method from javascript onload event Incubated but not hatched egg I got the message "oh" and it showed my egg. Before I could do anything the server went down. When I got back on my egg was gone. Is there anything I can do to retrieve my incubated but not hatched egg?