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The "I Get It" Reputation Problem I wrote a question about blocking certain characters in passwords. It became tremendously unpopular, and it seemed like everyone wanted to rain on my parade every day.  Eventually, I "got it," agreed completely with what people were saying to me, and just wanted to withdraw my question so that my reputation didn't slide even further downhill.  Unfortunately, the system is designed such that I can't withdraw my question or redeem myself. Instead, I just get daily reputation attacks. That's a terrible system, and it needs to be changed. FaceTime not working on iPhone 6 Plus purchased from Dubai I bought my iPhone 6 Plus in Dubai. I am using the phone in Sri Lanka and I cannot use the FaceTime. How can I use FaceTime while in Sri Lanka? What do the slashes mean in the character tables? I've been reading the PF core rulebook, but confused over some of the data in the Character tables, and not found anywhere in the book that explains it, so wondering if someone could explain it?  Taking the Monk class table for example:     Level | Base Attack Bonus | ..... | Flurry of Blows Bonus      1st       |       +0          |   ....    |        -1/-1      2nd       |       +1          |   ....    |        +0/+0      ...      ...      16th  |       +12/+7/+2   |   ....    |        +14/+14/+9/+9/+4/+4/-1      17th  |       +12/+7/+2   |   ....    |        +15/+15/+10/+10/+5/+5/+0      18th  |       +13/+8/+3   |   ....    |        +16/+16/+11/+10/+6/+6/+1   What do the slashes between the bonuses mean? Lightning:input type="date": how to change the date fomat - Summer'18 I am a permanent resident (U.S) and I'm crossing the border into Mexico and taking a flight to Mexico city. The passport from my home nation is expired and I'm trying to avoid the last minute 500 mile+ trip to the nearest embassy. My question is, can I get on the plane with my green card or state license? or my expired passport and birth certificate? also, can i get the FMM/tourist card with my drivers license? all the official information says i need a valid passport, but other travelers have had different experiences, does it just depend on the officer? I already purchased my flight! How can I take a site offline using Drush? Firefox browser opens but URL is not launched So before I reformatted (to get rid of Windows), I simply used this command to open documents by putting it at the end of the ~/.bashrc file:  alias commandless= 'gnome-open ./Documents/the-linux-command-line.pdf; gnome-open ./Documents/linux.odt'   But now everytime I start the terminal, it says:  bash: alias: gnome-open ./Documents/the-linux-command-line.pdf; gnome-open ./Documents/linux.odt: not found   before even typing anything in, and when I run the command nothing happens, not even error messages. What does each part of the `ls -la` output mean? What do the following numbers represent? Prove that   $\dfrac {\left( 5^{125}-1\right)}{\left( 5^{25}-1\right)}$ is composite number using number theory. Do not use calculator or Wolfram alpha or anything like that. Before, the concept of imaginary numbers, the number $i = \sqrt{-1}$ was shown to have no solution among the numbers that we had. So we declared $i$ to be a new type of number. How come we don't do the same for other "impossible" equations, such as $x = x + 1$, or $x = 1/0$?  Edit: OK, a lot of people have said that a number $x$ such that $x = x + 1$ would break the rule that $0 \neq 1$. However, let's look at the extension from whole numbers to include negative numbers (yes, I said that I wasn't going to include this) by defining $-1$ to be the number such that $-1 + 1 = 0$. Note that this breaks the "rule" that "if $x \leq y$, then $ax \leq ay$", which was true for all $a, x, y$ before the introduction of negative numbers. So I'm not convinced that "That would break some obvious truth about all numbers" is necessarily an argument against this sort of thing. What is the maximum number of people that will join a settlement? I've got two settlements on the go that I'm paying attention to - Sanctuary and the Starlight Drive In. Both of these settlements have radio towers and beds and all resources in the green however they appear to have stopped growing at 10 people in each settlement even though happiness is above 80 and I've got 15+ beds at each location.  What is the maximum number of people that will join a settlement? I'd like to split strings like these  'foofo21' 'bar432' 'foobar12345'   into  ['foofo', '21'] ['bar', '432'] ['foobar', '12345']   Does somebody know an easy and simple way to do this in python? Which shell interpreter runs a script with no shebang? Suppose the default shell for my account is zsh but I opened the terminal and fired up bash and executed a script named prac002.sh, which shell interpreter would be used to execute the script, zsh or bash? Consider the following example:  papagolf@Sierra ~/My Files/My Programs/Learning/Shell % sudo cat /etc/passwd | grep papagolf [sudo] password for papagolf:  papagolf:x:1000:1001:Rex,,,:/home/papagolf:/usr/bin/zsh # papagolf's default shell is zsh  papagolf@Sierra ~/My Files/My Programs/Learning/Shell % bash # I fired up bash. (See that '%' prompt in zsh changes to '$' prompt, indicating bash.)  papagolf@Sierra:~/My Files/My Programs/Learning/Shell$ ./prac002.sh  Enter username : Rex Rex # Which interpreter did it just use?   **EDIT : ** Here's the content of the script  papagolf@Sierra ~/My Files/My Programs/Learning/Shell % cat ./prac002.sh  read -p "Enter username : " uname echo $uname Understanding Bash's Read-a-File Command Substitution I am trying to understand how exactly Bash treats the following line:  $(&lt; "$FILE")   According to the Bash man page, this is equivalent to:  $(cat "$FILE")   and I can follow the line of reasoning for this second line. Bash performs variable expansion on $FILE, enters command substitution, passes the value of $FILE to cat, cat outputs the contents of $FILE to standard output, command substitution finishes by replacing the entire line with the standard output resulting from the command inside, and Bash attempts to execute it like a simple command.  However, for the first line I mentioned above, I understand it as: Bash performs variable substitution on $FILE, Bash opens $FILE for reading on standard input, somehow standard input is copied to standard output, command substitution finishes, and Bash attempts to execute the resulting standard output.  Can someone please explain to me how the contents of $FILE goes from stdin to stdout? What is the scope of variables in JavaScript? Equation's symbols or parameters description are shown below, however, the = and the details of parameter are not aligned.     I want to make a parameters list for a equation like this, in which symbols, = and detail information are aligned in terms of vertical position.  where    ...    P   =   notional permeability factor    N   =   number of waves    Sd  =   damage level    ...   A tabular environment will produce more spacing before and after text. So how to make the = vertical aligned?   The codes is provided:  \begin{equation} \frac{H_s}{\Delta D_{n50} } = 1.0~ P^{0.13}~ \left(\frac{S_d}{N} \right)^{0.2} \xi_m^P~ \sqrt{\cot \alpha} \end{equation} where:   $H_s$ = significant wave height, equal to the average of the highest 1/3 of the waves  $\Delta$  = relative buoyant density, equal to $\rho_r / \rho_w - 1$, where     $\rho_w$ is the water density  $D_{n50}$ = nominal  diameter defined in Equation (2)  $P$ = notional permeability factor  $S_d$ = damage level   $N$ = number of waves  $\xi_m$ = breaker parameter based on mean wave period $T_m$  $\alpha$ = slope angle Find a value anywhere in a database Does infinity exist in physical systems? Sometimes people fail at asking a question by being too broad, unclear like . So I'll take a stab at what I believe to be the same question, but more concise and clearly stated:     Does infinity exist in either terms of structure, parameters, or   measurement in any physical systems?   Can infinity have any real connection with reality?  Or is infinity purely a mathematical concept just used by physicists as a convenient way to describe the very large, an approximation?  I have heard that if you model a physical system (), and you run into infinity as a solution, then you have either made an error in your calculations or your model is wrong. How do I use '&' literally in LaTeX?