When pluralizing a hyphenated acronym, where does the "s" land in the acronym?
Pluralizing abbreviations where the noun is not the last word
Google Sheets has several import functions   IMPORTDATA IMPORTFEED IMPORTHTML IMPORTXML   Sometimes the above functions returns errors like #N/A Imported content is empty and would like to be sure that there isn't a problem with the resource content to be imported.  How do I know if these functions are able to get the content that I looking to import?  I know that there also exist IMPORTRANGE but that function only is able to import content from Google Sheets spreadsheets I have Canon lenses and would like to purchase an adapter to use them on the D3200? Is there one available? If so name and model would be appericated. I understand that I will have to shoot on manual mode. How fast does gravity propagate? A thought experiment: Imagine the Sun is suddenly removed. We wouldn't notice a difference for 8 minutes, because that's how long light takes to get from the Sun's surface to Earth.   However, what about the Sun's gravitational effect? If gravity propagates at the speed of light, for 8 minutes the Earth will continue to follow an orbit around nothing. If however, gravity is due to a distortion of spacetime, this distortion will cease to exist as soon as the mass is removed, thus the Earth will leave through the orbit tangent, so we could observe the Sun's disappearance more quickly.  What is the state of the research around such a thought experiment? Can this be inferred from observation? Cleaning polygon after using dissolve to repair geometry in QGIS? I'm trying to obtain the boundaries of shapefile, thus to clean the inside as a matter of speaking. While I had expected that dissolve while get me a proper polygon, unfortunately it still has some remainders. How could I get rid of them?  Does QGIS have a tool similar to Repair Geometry?  Here's the source    Result below: How to merge two arrays in JavaScript and de-duplicate items How does one actually show from associativity that one can drop parentheses? In the calculus of variations, particularly Lagrangian mechanics, people often say we vary the position and the velocity independently. But velocity is the derivative of position, so how can you treat them as independent variables? What is the best approach for solving the equations of the form      $p^x = x^q$ ; where $p$ and $q$ are some constants.   Basically, I wanted to solve $2^x = x^2$ to analyze algorithms with respective growth functions. CLIPBRD_E_CANT_OPEN error when setting the Clipboard from .NET Why does the following code sometimes causes an Exception with the contents "CLIPBRD_E_CANT_OPEN":  Clipboard.SetText(str);   This usually occurs the first time the Clipboard is used in the application and not after that. I've fitted my model and am trying to understand whether it's any good. I've calculated the recommended metrics to assess it ($R^2$/ AUC / accuracy / prediction error / etc) but do not know how to interpret them. In short, how do I tell if my model is any good based on the metric? Is an $R^2$ of 0.6 (for example) sufficient to let me proceed to draw inferences or base scientific/business decisions?     This question is intentionally broad, to cover a wide variety of situations that members frequently encounter; such questions could be closed as duplicates of this one. Edits to broaden the scope beyond the metrics mentioned here are welcome, as are additional answers - particularly those that offer insight about other classes of metrics. grep a file, but show several surrounding lines? How would I prove that any binary tree that has n leaves has precisely $2n-1$ nodes ?  Given that a binary tree is either a single node "o" or a node with the left and right subtrees contains a binary tree        o  /       \ binary  binary tree    tree   Any help would be appreciated ! Newton's cradle Is there a gender-neutral word for "aunts and uncles"/"parents' siblings"? RC4 , Is it possible to find the key if we know the plaintext and ciphertext? Is it possible to find the key if we know the plaintext and ciphertext with RC4. How should I write the algorithm? What does "user was removed" mean and why did my reputation change because of it? Message appearing when a user was removed.     It seems I lost 1765 reputation points on Stack Overflow yesterday. The reason given in my history is "removed", with the description of "User was removed ()". I don't understand what that means. What caused this? the and thee (I prefer to pronounce it as thuh all the time) My question is can I always pronounce THE with thuh instead of thee? Because unlike "a" "an" rule, pronouncing "thee" seems cumbersome for some people (including me) Note that I know the "emphasis" and "vowel, consonant" rule about THE but I still prefer to pronounce it as thuh everytime. So can I?? How does Newtonian mechanics explain why orbiting objects do not fall to the object they are orbiting? I'm having problems understanding the following situation. Suppose two 1-tonne cars are going with the same orientations but opposite senses, each 50 km/h with respect to the road. Then the total energy is   $$\begin{eqnarray}E=E_1+E_2&amp;=&amp;\frac{1\mathrm t\times(50\mathrm{km}/\mathrm h)^2}2+\frac{1\mathrm t\times(50\mathrm{km}/\mathrm h)^2}2\\&amp;=&amp;1\mathrm t\times(50\mathrm{km}/\mathrm h)^2\\&amp;=&amp;2500\frac{\mathrm t\times\mathrm{km}^2}{\mathrm h^2}.\end{eqnarray}$$  Now if we look at it from the point of view of one of the cars, then the total energy is   $$\begin{eqnarray}E=E_1+E_2&amp;=&amp;\frac{1\mathrm t\times(0\mathrm{km}/\mathrm h)^2}2+\frac{1\mathrm t\times(100\mathrm{km}/\mathrm h)^2}2\\&amp;=&amp;\frac{1\mathrm t\times(100\mathrm{km}/\mathrm h)^2}2\\&amp;=&amp;5000\frac{\mathrm t\times\mathrm{km}^2}{\mathrm h^2}.\end{eqnarray}.$$  I know that kinetic energy is supposed to change when I change the frame of reference. But I understand that then there must be some other kind of energy to make up for it so that the energy in the system stays unchanged. But I don't see any other kind of energy here. I only see two total energies of the same system that seem to be different. Could you explain this to me?  Please note that while I don't understand any physics, I do understand college level mathematics, so if necessary please use it. (I doubt anything more than high school maths should be needed here, but I want to say this just in case.) What are those zigzagged folded paper things you see in supernatural anime? In a lot of supernatural anime, like Shin Sekai Yori, or Tokyo Ravens there often appear these large ropes with folded paper things hanging from them:    As far as I can tell, they serve to seal or mark places that are sacred or in some way supernatural, like shinboku, or holy trees:    What are these folded paper things, and what purpose do they really serve?