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Draw ellipses with different coloring for their intersection in tikz? How do I color intersection of two ellipses in different color. For instances, the ellipses should themselves be colored as yellow and their intersection as red. My code for drawing ellipses is given below  \draw (-4,0) ellipse (8 and 3); \draw (8,0) ellipse (8 and 3);   UPDATE: In the comments to individual answers, I have requested to show it for three ellipses. Use Complete Induction of set theory to prove $\frac{1}{\sqrt{1}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} + ... + \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} > \sqrt{n}$. Before I met her I had a poor opinion of her.   As person had a poor opinion before a particular time in past (before He met her) so I think there should be had had.   There are some more example like this:   Before I went to the university, I worked/had worked as a carpenter for 5 years. Before I opened the door, I put/had put the key in the lock. Before I opened the door, I looked/had looked carefully into the barn for snipers.   In all these sentence, for me, it should be perfect tense.  I asked that question on another platform where I was told that if sequence of past event is obvious and sentences uses "before"and "after", we often use past tense. Which means we should use past tense in all these sentences. But I have another sentence "The train had left before I reached the station." If I follow above mentioned rule there should be "left" instead of "had left". But I am damn sure this sentence is correct with "had left".   Am I correct?  Thank you Why do bridge non-Captain officers commonly go on away missions? Ever since the days of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, bridge officers in Starfleet have always had a prominent role in away team missions.  However, it would seem more logical to me that such hazardous (and, generally, specialized) duties should fall to lower-ranking and/or more dedicated teams.  Of course, it wouldn't have made for great TV if every away team was comprised of a bunch of red-shirts.  And it would definitely increase the show's budget to have an extra group of main characters whose sole purpose was to handle the away missions.  Still, I'm curious to know if there's ever been a real in-universe explanation for this practice?  I know it's been brought up a few times, in a few series/movies, that the Captain should not be taking part in hazardous away team missions.  But nothing is ever said (that I'm aware of) of the rest of the still valuable bridge crew or other senior officers. TP-Link Archer T3U Plus USB adapter Cannot make this wireless adapter work on Ubuntu 20.04... please help. I've tried this:  and now lsusb sees the device, but still doesn't work. lsusb: Bus 002 Device 006: ID 2357:0138 TP-Link 802.11ac NIC uname -r: 5.4.0-39-generic Edit: It works on my other computer with Ubuntu 18.04 using T2U Plus driver from here:  But it does not work with Ubuntu 20.04... sudo modprobe 88x2bu: Gives nothing. modinfo 88x2bu | grep -e version -e 0138 : version:        v5.6.1_30362.20181109_COEX20180928-6a6a srcversion:     9C5282368F93050B7206C8D parm:           rtw_chip_version:int  dmesg | grep 88x2 : [ 8087.334869] 88x2bu: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 8087.336610] 88x2bu: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel [ 8087.341389] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl88x2bu mysqli or PDO - what are the pros and cons? Why {are you / you are} making noise? I always get confused between these two sentences:     Why are you making noise?      Why you are making noise?   Could anyone put light in the differences between the two? In chrome, most of the time, when i middle click on a link (text or image), it opens a new tab and the current tab does not change. This is the expected behaviour.  However, some websites have links (i'd say 5%) that also switches the current tab to the new one. For example: on this , the name of the players in the main list have the problem.  By looking at the source, i didn't find anything anormal (the link is a standard html tag). But if i disable javascript, i have not the problem. I looked at the source, and didn't find the problematic script... Note also that if i open the tab with right click > open link in new tab, there is no problem.  I'd like to know if you find the reason of the problem and how i can fix it. I am running chrome 10.0.648.204 on windows 7 x64.  EDIT: the website above does not exhibit the behavior anymore, but I sill have the problem sometimes on other sites (which I don't remember) SQL Server Linked Server to Microsoft Access I'd like some suggestions for good reading materials on the Keldysh formalism in the condensed matter physics community. I'm familiar with the imaginary time, coherent state, and path integral formalisms, but lately, I've been seeing Keldysh more and more in papers. My understanding is that it is superior to the imaginary time formalism at least in that one can evaluate non-equilibrium expectations. When does a Square Matrix have an LU Decomposition? Which versions of C++ redistributables can I remove? I have a number of Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 and 2008 Redistributable and I would like to know which ones are safe to remove, because there are actually more than 10 installed on my computers.   Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 ATL Update kb973923 - x64 8.0.50727.4053 Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 (x64) Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 ATL Update kb973924 - x64 9.0.30729.4148 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.17 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.17 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4974 Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Runtime - 10.0.30319   It could be that these versions are all different, but a confirmation of that is fine for me as well. Thanks in advance.  PS. I'm using an x64 machine one windows 7. Alright, I'm toying around with converting a PIL image object back and forth to a numpy array so I can do some faster pixel by pixel transformations than PIL's PixelAccess object would allow.  I've figured out how to place the pixel information in a useful 3D numpy array by way of:  pic = Image.open("foo.jpg") pix = numpy.array(pic.getdata()).reshape(pic.size[0], pic.size[1], 3)   But I can't seem to figure out how to load it back into the PIL object after I've done all my awesome transforms.  I'm aware of the putdata() method, but can't quite seem to get it to behave. What exactly is an environment variable? I know that VARIABLE=value creates an environment variable, and export VARIABLE=value makes it available to processes created by the current shell. env shows the current environment variables, but where do they live? What comprises an environment variable (or an environment, for that matter)? OrderBy and OrderByDescending are stable? How do I enable the "Universe" repository? Can anybody explain the UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW error? Error Message:     Developer script exception from Nicomatic : quotepotential :   quotepotential: execution of AfterUpdate caused by:   System.DmlException: Update failed. First exception on row 0 with id   a0Q90000005PoxtEAC; first error: UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW, unable to obtain   exclusive access to this record: [] Trigger.quotepotential: line 14,   column 1      Apex script unhandled trigger exception by user/organization:   00590000001A6jh/00D90000000bovq      quotepotential: execution of AfterUpdate      caused by: System.DmlException: Update failed. First exception on row   0 with id a0Q90000005PoxtEAC; first error: UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW, unable   to obtain exclusive access to this record: []      Trigger.quotepotential: line 14, column 1   these mails are getting to my mail..........  trigger quotepotential on Quote_Line_Item__c (after insert,after update) {     Set&lt;Id&gt; quoteIds = new Set&lt;Id&gt;();     List&lt;Quote__c&gt; quotes = new List&lt;Quote__c&gt;();     for (Quote_Line_Item__c record: Trigger.new) {         if (record.Quote1__c != null){             quoteIds.add(record.Quote1__c);         }     }     for(AggregateResult ar:[                 SELECT                      Quote1__c,                      SUM(Max_Batch__c)sumMax                  FROM Quote_Line_Item__c                  WHERE Quote1__c=:quoteIds                  GROUP BY Quote1__c                 ]) {          quotes.add(new Quote__c(              Id=(Id) ar.get('Quote1__c'),              Potential__c = (Decimal) ar.get('sumMax')              ));     }     if (quotes.isempty() == false) {         update quotes;     } } Position an exampleblock in front of content I need to position an example block:  \begin{exampleblock}{}    Proposed and implemented \end{exampleblock}   Without disturbing other frame content. Something like:  -------------------- ------------- -------------------- -------------------------- -----------    --/============\--------- -----|            |-- -----| Proposed   |-------- -----| and        |-------- -----| implemented|------ -----\============/ -------------------- --------------------------    -----------------   Let it overlay the text behind it. And not to be taken into account during layouting.  Update The Claudio Fiandrino's way is not apropriate to me, because, i need an Itemize environment working inside, and it would be great, if block style is the same as theme-style. I've been trying to photograph lightning lately, as we have had some great storms in Colorado. I've had some difficulty getting a good vantage point, however, as almost all of these storms include rain as well. To keep my camera from getting drenched (I have weather-sealed lenses, but my camera body, a Canon 450D, is not weather sealed as far as I can tell), I've had to shoot under the eve of a building or under a thick canopy of trees, however that has greatly limited my ability to adapt to the changing weather and get get a vantage point on the best lightning.  Is there any equipment, something I can purchase or something home-made that has easy-to-find parts, that can help me protect my lens from the rain while still being able to shoot? Additionally, I've been getting rain on a UV filter I have on the front of my lenses, simply to prevent rain from getting on the front lens element itself. However, once a storm really gets going, so does the rain. Is there a simple solution to keep rain off the front of the lens? I'm writing a script which shows the git log for a directory when I cd into it. Such a log can be overwhelming, containing hundreds of lines. So far I have been limiting that to a hard-coded 20 lines (... | head -n 20), which is fine on the screen at work, but too much on the smaller MacBook screen at home.  I would prefer the log to take up about half the (vertical) screen on either terminal. And "terminal" also changes: it's Gnome terminal at work, but iTerm2 at home. And I do not use screen or tmux.  How do I find the number of vertical lines available in a terminal from command line?