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How does one know when to use a gerund or an infinitive? As a native speaker of English, the gerund version of this sentence sounds better:  infinitive:     When used together in chains,   extension methods are an unprecedented   tool to produce extremely concise   code.   gerund:     When used together in chains,   extension methods are an unprecedented   tool for producing extremely concise   code.   But how can I explain to someone learning English how to decide in situations like these whether to use the infinitive or the gerund? I would like to make a debian system where you can only open one GUI program at boot, no other graphical interface, no minimize, or any X apart from that program, is there a way to do it on debian if possible, or any other custom distro? I just want to boot open the program and allow the user to only see and use that program. If $A$ is compact, is then $f(A)$ compact? What does "I have straight A's." mean? I have a quick question about the refraction of light, and I'm sorry if it seems a bit simplistic or even stupid, but I'm still learning.  We know that when light passes through a denser medium, it slows down. However, is there a limit to that slowing down? If no, wouldn't it be possible, with some type of medium we make ourselves (like a crystal), to decrease the light's speed down to a point where we would be able to "see the photons moving forwards"?  I know it is way more complicated than that and that you can't see light unless some other light bounces off it, what I mean is slowing down light to an extreme and unusual speed). That sounds completely absurd but I can't seem to find what is wrong. Can anyone can explain it to me? :) What was the galaxy formation Rust saw before confronting Erol Childress? What was the galaxy formation Rust saw before confronting Erol Childress in  S01E08?  It was weird like out of the series. I guess it was some sort of hallucination, a product of Rust's madness or addiction. How to horizontally center an element Can one construct a non-measurable set without Axiom of choice? Is axiom of choice required to show the existence of non-measurable sets? Is there a Lebesgue non-measurable set that can be constructed without axiom of choice?  Related question on MO says it is consistent: How do I run an executable file with a double click? I'm trying to run an executable (testdisk) but double click doesn't work. The only way is to run:  sudo ./testdisk   from terminal. But I'd like to open executables with double click in future. How can I do this? better Curve/Text to Mesh generation? The triangulation process of Text to Mesh or Curve to Mesh generates some nasty topology.   I get why, but maybe it could be done a bit nicer? Since text is flat, have ngons instead of hundreds of triangles you'll need to modify anyway?  Another issue is when you then want to use the text as a Volume for particles, which for some reason behave weird when you have unusual topology even though they should be using the volume, not vertex or face positions. Best practice: card expiry date on checkout Every element of a group has order $2$. Why, intuitively, is it abelian? Why is this sentence correct? “She suggested that he go to the cinema.” Why is this sentence correct?     She suggested that he go to the cinema.   I would definitely use goes instead of go. Can Hooke's law be derived? Can we derive  from the theory of elasticity? I know it is not a fundamental law and therefore can be derived from more basic considerations. What is an observer in quantum mechanics? Helicopter gun god? I read a science fiction novel in which "the only food of man is man".  This was because humans had settled a planet on which there was no compatible life to eat. It also featured the phrase "helicopter gun God", because the word for God was ship. Can anyone tell me the name of this novel? I have a question, to aid my understanding, about the proof that differentiability implies continutity.$\mathstrut$    Differentiability Definition  When we say a function is differentiable at $x_0$, we mean that the limit:  $$‎f^{\prime} ‎(x) = \lim_{x\to x_0} \frac{f(x) - f(x_0)}{x-x_0}$$ exists.  Continuity Definition  When we say a function is continuous at $x_0$, we mean that: $$\lim_{x\to x_0} f(x) - f(x_0) = 0$$  Theorem: Differentiability implies Continuity: If $f$ is a differentiable function at $x_0$, then it is continuous at $x_0$.  Proof:  Let us suppose that $f$ is differentiable at $x_0$. Then $$ \lim_{x\to x_0} \frac{f(x) - f(x_0)}{x-x_0} =  ‎f^{\prime} ‎(x) $$  and hence  $$ \lim_{x\to x_0} f(x) - f(x_0) = \lim_{x\to x_0} \left[ \frac{f(x) - f(x_0)}{x-x_0} \right] \cdot \lim_{x\to x_0} (x-x_0) = 0$$  We have therefore shown that, using the definition of continuous, if the function is differentiable at $x_0$, it must also be continuous.  My Question  The proof seems to execute the following steps:   Assume the function is continuous at $x_0$ Show that, with little algebra, we can change this into an equivalent question about differentiability at $x_0$. With this little bit of algebra, we can show that if a function is differentiable at $x_0$ it is also continuous.   What I am slightly unsure about is the apparent circularity. In my mind it seems to say, if a function is continuous, we can show that if it is also differentiable, then it is continuous. Rather than what I was expecting, namely, if a function is differentiable, we can show it must be continuous.  Hopefully my confusion is clear. Any help will be greatly appreciated. How to make Gmail automatically label incoming emails I would like to set it up so that Gmail labels incoming mail based on which business email of mine the emails are sent to. I have two business emails that come to my Gmail account.  For instance, if someone emails me at example@firstbusiness.com, I would like the email to be automatically labeled first business. If someone emails me at my other email address (which also is forwarded to Gmail), example@secondbusiness.com, I would like that email to be automatically labeled second business.   Is there any way to do this? I had always kind of wondered why we didn't see interference in things like windows -- we were taught that the condition is that the thickness of the film/slab/medium just has to be an integral number of wavelengths, $d=m\lambda$. My logic was, if visible light has wavelengths ~400-780nm, any window pane has got to be an integral number of wavelengths (or close to integral) for some of the wavelengths in the visible.  For example, if a window is, $6mm = 6\times10^6nm$ thick, then you should see interference for wavelengths (and some range around them) 200nm, 250nm, 300nm, 400nm, 500nm, 600nm... Because 6mm is an integral number of each of those.  Obviously that would be really annoying and isn't the case. I found  (warning: PDF) source that seems to explain it and I was wondering if what they're saying is sound. On the 10th page (p171 for them), it says that the reason we don't see this interference is that no window is that smooth, it has a variance in the thickness of at least several wavelengths, so the interference effect is effectively average out among all those thicknesses, which usually gets rid of it. They do the math and show that.  Is that the reason?  If so, that leads me to two questions: Could we, if we were really careful and used something like MBE, make a glass window with that sort of accuracy, and then see interference effects in the optical range? I know that quartz crystal monitors can easily give you nanometer accuracy for evaporators and sputterers, but they also have pretty limited growth rates.  My second question is, then, do we see interference effects in glass windows with electromagnetic radiation of a comparable wavelength, like microwaves?  Thanks! Can a Byte[] Array be written to a file in C#?