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Why do we require radians in calculus? I think this is just something I've grown used to but can't remember any proof.  When differentiating and integrating with trigonometric functions, we require angles to be taken in radians. Why does it work then and only then? Unable to load DLL (Module could not be found HRESULT: 0x8007007E) Modulus with a negative number How do filament LED bulbs work, looking very similar to incandescent bulbs? Filament LED bulbs use very narrow strips containing the LED, which look similar to filaments of an old incandescent bulb:  They look like a normal bulb with large "old-style" coal filaments, and are of about the same size and shape as the common standart E27 socket bulb.    There are two basic variants of these bulbs:     One "plain" as described, looking impressively similar to a classic bulb The other has a white coating on the glass, about 15mm wide next to the metal socket.   How are these filaments build? I could imagine the it's "pretty normal" LEDs, but lots of them, directly bonded to something? (There are references to COB)  How does the heat management work? Ii have seen speculations about filling the bulb with either helium or "some patented organic gas" - could that be enough for cooling?  How does the driver - which seems to be very small - work?  In the variant with white coating - hiding some components, I assume - is already not that much space, and in the plain variant, there seems to be almost no space for something nontrivial.  Below you see some bulbs of the white coating variant, switched on:   (Images with the permission of this )    Note how the LED filament bulbs are not so much similar to the tungsten filament bulbs recently being phased out - they are more resembling the long outdated carbon filament bulbs: Can Gmail automatically base "send from" address on the "to" address? Problem from Herstein on group theory The problem is:  If $G$ is a finite group with order not divisible by 3, and $(ab)^3=a^3b^3$ for all $a,b\in G$, then show that $G$ is abelian.  I have been trying this for a long time but not been able to make any progress. The only thing that I can think of is: $$ab\cdot ab\cdot ab=aaa\cdot bbb\implies(ba)^2=a^2b^2=aabb=(\text{TPT})abba.$$ Now, how can I prove the last equality? If I write $aabb=abb^{-1}abb$, then in order for the hypothesis to be correct, $b^{-1}abb=ba\implies ab^2=b^2a$. Where am I going wrong? What should I do? Automatically logging into Windows XP variable-variables in PHP Limiting range of value types in C++ Is there a way to get a good human readable error from a COM error in arcEngine? Question on the stability of the solar system One of the pertinent questions about many body systems that causes me much wonder is why the solar system is so stable for billions of years. I came across the idea of "resonance" and albeit an useful concept, it hardly explains the long stability of the solar system. Normally an N body problem with inverse square mutual interaction is an example of a chaotic system. Is there any real progress about this stability issue? How to answer a negative question without ambiguity? I faced a problem to answer a negative question, for example, when someone asks you:      Don't you have any money?   It's a yes/no question but how should one answer the question without ambiguity?  When you answer "yes", does it mean "yes, I don't have any money"? or the other way "Yes, I do have money"? the questioner may think you are agreeing to the negative, that yes, you do not have any money.  I know it's better to answer with "on the contrary" but is it possible to answer yes or no? What's the easiest way to install a missing Perl module? I get this error:  Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC  Is there an easier way to install it than downloading, untarring, making, etc? I am trying to master the homemade Neapolitan pizza, from dough preparation to cooking it.  After following the recommendations at Seriouseats.com for the dough preparation, I came across some doubts regarding the oven use.  I understand that ideally I would make it in a 900F wood oven, but at home we don't have such equipment!  What is the best practice to make the Neapolitan Pizza in a regular gas oven that heats up to 530F? (i.e. temperature, time, tray positioning...) Are there changes in the way the dough has to be prepared? I have a list with 15 numbers in, and I need to write some code that produces all 32,768 combinations of those numbers.   I've found  (by Googling) that apparently does what I'm looking for, but I found the code fairly opaque and am wary of using it. Plus I have a feeling there must be a more elegant solution.  The only thing that occurs to me would be to just loop through the decimal integers 1–32768 and convert those to binary, and use the binary representation as a filter to pick out the appropriate numbers.   Does anyone know of a better way? Using map(), maybe? Fastest way to remove non-numeric characters from a VARCHAR in SQL Server I'm writing an import utility that is using phone numbers as a unique key within the import.  I need to check that the phone number does not already exist in my DB. The problem is that   phone numbers in the DB could have things like dashes and parenthesis and possibly other things. I wrote a function to remove these things, the problem is that it is slow and with thousands of records in my DB and thousands of records to import at once, this process can be unacceptably slow. I've already made the phone number column an index.  I tried using the script from this post:   But that didn't speed it up any.  Is there a faster way to remove non-numeric characters? Something that can perform well when 10,000 to 100,000 records have to be compared.  Whatever is done needs to perform fast.  Update Given what people responded with, I think I'm going to have to clean the fields before I run the import utility.   To answer the question of what I'm writing the import utility in, it is a C# app. I'm comparing BIGINT to BIGINT now, with no need to alter DB data and I'm still taking a performance hit with a very small set of data (about 2000 records).   Could comparing BIGINT to BIGINT be slowing things down?  I've optimized the code side of my app as much as I can (removed regexes, removed unneccessary DB calls). Although I can't isolate SQL as the source of the problem anymore, I still feel like it is. country code TLD vs second level ccTLD I'm really worried about professionalism.  My site would be something like http://mywebsite.uy instead of http://mywebsite.com.uy.  What do you think about this practice? What should I have in mind at the moment of choosing one? Why would I want to install a snap if I can install via apt instead? This is not a duplicate of the following questions     because:  My question specifically states that I am interested in end-user experience, not ease or efficiency of development, which is what the other question largely refers to.  As has been noted, development/deployment affects end-user experience, but it is not all there is to it, and neither of the referenced questions address issues that directly impact an end-user's ability to use the application (e.g. trouble accessing data on other partitions, sluggishness, etc.) Maybe &quot;compelling&quot; wasn't the right word to use; my intent was to ask about real-world, experiential consequences, i.e., things that happen or  don't happen, as opposed to theoretical/architectural statements that, while presumably accurate, don't appear to be backed up with any real-world examples to support the statement. I should have stated more directly that my intention was to get answers that consider the balance of &quot;advantages&quot; to snaps against the real-world downsides experienced by end-users. The &quot;duplicate&quot; question is largely theoretical, and doesn't discuss end-user experience at all. The &quot;duplicate&quot; question makes no mention of anything remotely similar to the example I used here, i.e., that there is an end-user downside to snaps (in this case, lack of access to data on other partitions and snap app performance) that isn't discussed in any available documentation that I can find.   While I understand that snap has a big advantage in making apps more widely available, is there any compelling reason to choose snap over apt, if the app is available for my distro/version via an apt package? I am curious because I've been doing some reading about snaps, and all the excitement about the method seems to be about things that are advantageous for app developers, but I've seen virtually nothing on how this makes life easier for end users (aside from the obvious; that they may be able to install apps that aren't otherwise available on their distro/version). I installed snapd and installed a couple of snaps and was really frustrated and disappointed.  The snap apps are slow and it's difficult, if not impossible, to access files on other partitions from within the snap. While I've seen plenty of info that says snaps are &quot;faster,&quot; &quot;easier,&quot; &quot;safer,&quot; etc., I haven't been able to find anything that explains why or how this is actually the case. Being very new to Linux, I am wondering if maybe I'm just missing something obvious? To be clear, I understand why the technology might be useful overall, but I can't find anything that explains whether/why it is a better option even when the app in question is available for install via a more traditional method, and all dependencies are met. HP PSC-2100 can't seem to get xsane and HPLIP (printing working) Why is my total reputation less than my monthly reputation? When I went to the  to see my ranking in the reputation league, I saw this. Is this an error? My total reputation is less than my monthly reputation.