Which is it: "1½ years old" or "1½ year old"?
Are these plural or singular?
In Russian roulette, is it best to go first? Assume that we are playing a game of Russian roulette (6 chambers) and that there is no shuffling after the shot is fired.  I was wondering if you have an advantage in going first?  If so, how big of an advantage?  I was just debating this with friends, and I wouldn't know what probability to use to prove it. I'm thinking binomial distribution or something like that.  If $n=2$, then there's no advantage. Just $50/50$ if the person survives or dies.   If $n=3$, then maybe the other guy has an advantage. The person who goes second should have an advantage.   Or maybe I'm wrong. In , DVK says:     Snoke ... we still have no idea who he is but he predates Galactic Empire...   Having seen the film twice, I can't remember how we would know that, I don't recall references to Snoke's age or past history. But  is knowledgeable about Star Wars in general, is there something that tells us this? In the film, or the novelisation, or...? My colleague and I were discussing about certain types of customers in the IT industry. You have to work extremely hard to convince them so that they think about opening their wallets .  However, they should not be mistaken to be stingy (carries a negative connotation). Cost-conscious is a closely related term but is a bit wordy. Another word that I considered is shrewd but I don't know if it fits my context well.  Usage Sentence:     Nowadays, IT customers are becoming increasingly ________. They demand more for less and probably think a zillion times before reaching for their pockets. If they are not convinced 100%, they simply won't open their wallets.    Is there is a noun or an adjective to describe such people? I am also open to using idioms, if there is one that conveys the intentions well.  N.B:  I am looking for words with neutral to positive connotations. How can edge rings be selected in a predictable way? When trying to select multiple edge-rings Shift-Alt-RMB sometimes loops get selected in the one (green) way or the other (red) way.  I couldn't derive a general rule.   How can two or more face-rings following one direction be selected ?  (Easy to reproduce with a default torus mesh.) How do I find out which dlls an executable will load? Compilation problem with siunitx (returning error regarding ifnum) I'm trying to get siunitx working. For some reason I keep getting this error:  ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum. &lt;to be read again&gt;                     - l.3 \begin           {document}^^M   I have tried a minimal document to make sure it is not some kind of compatibility issue. And I get that same error in the most minimal document possible.  I'm using pdfLaTeX to compile, and have tried both from TeXWorks and from bash. I'm using TeXLive, if that matters. I have also tried reinstalling siunitx, l3packages, and l3kernel. There was an issue with l3kernel before this, due to an apparently old version. But all three packages are now up to date. I've also reinstalled expl3 while trying to debug the original issue.  My minimal document is:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{siunitx} \begin{document} \end{document}   The output I get is:  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./untitled-2.tex LaTeX2e &lt;2016/02/01&gt; Babel &lt;3.9q&gt; and hyphenation patterns for 81 language(s) loaded. (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/siunitx/siunitx.sty (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3-code.tex) (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3kernel/l3pdfmode.def)) (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/array.sty) (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3packages/l3keys2e/l3keys2e.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/translator.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/translator-language- mappings.tex))) ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum. &lt;to be read again&gt;                    - l.3 \begin          {document}^^M ?   Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong here? I'm writing up my dissertation and I'm really confused where to use "the". Examples:     In this experiment, (the?) heat transfer coefficient was calculated, allowing to estimate (the?)frost thickness.    And:     Firstly, (the?) air properties are defined.   And:     As (the?) crystals grow in radius, the amount of air in (the?) ice is reduced, due to (the?) ice becoming more packed.   None of the nouns mentioned above have been used for the first time, so I rule out the use of "a".   Would appreciate any help. Salesforce lightning get current users username How I would go about getting the current users username or first and last name?  I have been looking at this for the last couple of hours - I was just wondering how I would go about getting their name and then displaying it on the page.  For example the current user is 'John Smith' and in the lightning component I want to output John Smith's name like:     Welcome to our community John Smith! Suggested improvements to badges index page ()  Currently,  shows the possible badges, number of total recipients, and brief descriptions. However, I have a few suggestions (mostly minor changes) that could make it a bit nicer.   There is no way to see (on that page) which badges I've earned multiple times — they all appear with a green checkmark. It would be nice to show something like "x 4" like in the badges section of the user profile page. For example:      There is no way to see which badges can be awarded multiple times — you have to click on a specific badge to see yea or nay. It would be nice to have a small, simple icon next to badges that can be earned multiple times, similar to the checkmark showing which badges I've earned. The layout would be nicer if the number of recipients for each badge were in a separate column — since the badge images are different sizes, the overlap and ragged right alignment makes the numbers harder to read. An alternative view that groups badges by "achievement level" (gold/silver/bronze) would be nice, as would a view that groups progressive degrees of the same accomplishment. (e.g. Nice Answer &rarr; Good Answer &rarr; Great Answer OR Popular Question &rarr; Notable Question &rarr; Famous Question) Removing leading zeroes from a field in a SQL statement I am working on a SQL query that reads from a SQLServer database to produce an extract file. One of the  requirements to remove the leading zeroes from a particular field, which is a simple VARCHAR(10) field. So, for example, if the field contains '00001A', the SELECT statement needs to return the data as '1A'.  Is there a way in SQL to easily remove the leading zeroes in this way? I know there is an RTRIM function, but this seems only to remove spaces. Repeating an equation including its content and number Are the tags shown in a particular order? su vs sudo -s vs sudo -i vs sudo bash What is the difference between the following commands:  su sudo -s sudo -i sudo bash   I know for su I need to know the root password, and for sudo I have to be in the sudoers file, but once executed what is difference?  I know there is a difference between su and sudo -s because my home directory is /root after I execute su, but my home directory is still /home/myname after sudo -s. But I suspect this is just a symptom of an underlying difference that I'm missing. Can you please guide me best way to retrieve all active picklist values of all recordtypes of object. Can it be possible through API or any Apex Script.  I want something like below and i will write them in my file:  Obect Name, RecordTypeName, PicklistValues   Thanks Now that I have Firefox 49 or higher, how do I watch Netflix? I need a regular expression to select all the text between two outer brackets.  Example: some text(text here(possible text)text(possible text(more text)))end text  Result: (text here(possible text)text(possible text(more text))) What should I do if a user posts sensitive information as part of a question or answer? An exciting new feature is described in the :        There is a new NPC housing interface that can be used to assign living areas to NPC’s. This interface will also tell you if a room is missing any requirements.      How can this interface be accessed? What are the consequences of using a low-wattage USB-C power supply with a MacBook Pro? Syntax error on print with Python 3