Can I pluck a polymorphed creature and keep its feathers?
What happens to a polymorphed character if he is shorn as a sheep?
How can I get grub2 to boot a different option only on the next boot? The app keeps asking for a nickname, and I have entered dozens of names, but it keeps saying that the names aren't available. How can I find an available name? Working in a group blender project View a man page in a specific section I wanted to access man pages for command chmod.  Command whatis chmod gave this output:  chmod (2)            - change permissions of a file  chmod (1)            - change file mode bits  But I was actually looking for chmod(2).  When I type man chmod, man pages for chmod(1) appears.   Both man chmod(2) and man 'chmod(2)' commands show error.   I tried running info coreutils 'chmod invocation', but output is some kind of documentation which doesn't look like a typical man page. An instructor has an exam of 5 questions and a question bank of 50 questions. Are there $50\choose 5$ or $(50)_5$ possible exams? Where $(50)_5 = 50! / 45! $ and $50\choose 5$ $= 50!/(5!45!)$   I've narrowed it down to these two possibilities (though even these may be wrong), but I think I'm confusing myself as to which one I use. Can anyone suggest a good way of thinking of this problem that will make it apparent whether I need use use the falling factorial or the binary coefficient?   Edit: thank you for all the answers! Indeed, I meant $50!/45$ as the falling factorial. Also, the question doesn't specify whether it was meant to be ordered or unordered, but I think I understand my confusion now! Curious badge bug I saw that it has been already reported that also they have earned courious badge but the badge has not been given. but their answers say that they must wait a day and the badge will be awarded.  In my case its 8/5 and it was 5/5 long time ago and I have never received a message telling that I have earned it. its just telling me that the next badge to be awarded is Curious badge.  this is my profile: How do I get rid of the Start Menu "zombie" icon? Windows 7 has a large icon above the username on the right-hand pane of the Start menu. By default it is a faceless torso in a blue collarless shirt that I call the "zombie icon". (I don't know the icon's real name: . (Although "Molly Clark" has a zinnia icon instead of a zombie icon.)  The zombie icon fades from one pointless icon to another as you move your mouse over "Documents", "Computer", "Devices and Printers" etc. This icon is a waste of space and the fades are distracting.  How do I make it go away? How do I split a string, breaking at a particular character? I have this string  'john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345'   Using JavaScript, what is the fastest way to parse this into  var name = "john smith"; var street= "123 Street"; //etc... I am using the  for GNOME Shell, similar to the old Maximus extension for GNOME 2 / Unity. When I maximise a window, the title and menu bars are hidden.  But I don't want the minimise, maximise or close buttons to appear in the Activity Bar. , so I have been able to remove the minimise and maximise buttons by disabling them in Tweak Tool.  How do I similarly disable/remove the close (X) button?  (I guess this is the opposite of ) Example where convergence in mean does not imply convergence in quadratic mean Is there an example where convergence in mean does not imply convergence in quadratic mean. $E|X_n-X|\rightarrow 0$ but $E|X_n-X|^2 \nrightarrow 0$.  It seems like this should be fairly straightforward, but I cannot really come up with an answer.  I'd imagine the answer would look something like   $$X_n=\begin{cases}a &amp; \text{with probability } \frac{1}{n} \\\  0&amp; \text{with probability } 1-\frac{1}{n} \end{cases}$$ When I run sudo, what exactly happens to my environment?  When I run sudo command, it doesn't seem to see my or root's environment. For example, my path for both includes /usr/local/bin, but if I try to run one of the program's without the full path, it fails.  I thought sudo ran as root, and hence got root`s environment. Is there a different way that bash executes under sudo than under root or my normal user?  EDIT:  I have been using sudo -i lately, but recently it has been causing problems because my current working directory gets set to /root. This is as expected (sorta), but I still don't understand why sudo isn't recognizing my executables in /usr/local/bin.  EDIT:  I am running Fedora 15. When saving a .qgs file in QGIS, another appears. Is this a backup? When saving a project file (.qgs), which when executed is automatically loaded with qgis.bat, there's another .qgs file which appears in the same directory of the original project file, although this one is not loaded with the qgis.bat file:    This is just out of curiosity but is the latter designed to be a backup of the original .qgs file? Mid-1980s animated theatrical release Though at the time I saw it I did not know it, this would be called "anime" today. It was in English, and I don't remember if the characters lips matched the audio track. I couldn't have been older than about 3rd grade, so that puts it around 1985ish I believe.  It was released theatrically in the United States, I do not know if it was a limited release. I saw it in Cincinnati, Ohio. No idea what movie theater chain.  The story was rather typical, young man who goes on the hero's journey. Definitely science fiction elements (flying vehicles, maybe spaceships). He comes across or is given a sword hilt without a blade. He learns to use it, and when he does it acts as if the blade is there. At the finale, he has lost the hilt entirely and, thinking that he has lost, almost gives up. But a (voice in his head, his mentor, can't remember what) something tells him to try despite this, and it's as if he has the sword even without the hilt. He then triumphs.  Can anyone identify this movie? Can I create a TIN from contours lines (shp) in QGIS? I need to do a slope analysis, and would like to make a TIN from 2m contours lines.  Or do a slope analysis directly from contours? The only DEM available is not precise enough.  I do not have any elevation raster files.  And how do I then make slope classes?  The TIN properties does not seem to be able to classify anything other than elevation. Generating a range of numbers in MySQL How do I generate a range of consecutive numbers (one per line) from a MySQL query so that I can insert them into a table?  For example:  nr 1 2 3 4 5   I would like to use only MySQL for this (not PHP or other languages). Top posts taken from hidden communities From Edit Profile &amp; Settings, we have below information  Hide Communities  Choose which communities will appear in the Communities and Top Network Posts sections of your profile Hiding a community means other users will not see it in your Communities list or Top Network Posts. It does not, however, mean your activity is private.   So it is clearly mentioned  Hiding a community means other users will not see it in your Communities list or Top Network Posts.  But, I could see the top network posts are taken from hidden communities for ex: I have marked 'Christianity' as a hidden community in . But, the top posts has a question taken from Christianity community &quot;&quot; I've recently noticed an issue with Ubuntu Software Center which I have tried to resolve following the answers provided in  without result and  which partially worked but didn't persist. The Issue After installing 20.04 I opened Ubuntu Software Center and installed a number of apps without any problem - one of which was Stacer which I will use as an example.  In Show Applications the app is clearly present and right clicking on the icon selecting Show Details provides the image above and it works perfectly well. However, if I open Ubuntu Software Center and type in the search bar stacer it reports that no application is found:  Nor is it listed when selecting the Installed tab. This is the setup for for Software and Updates.  There are other applications I have previously installed which are also now reported as No Application found such as gLabels, gscan2pdf and others. Has something changed since I initially installed 20.04.1 and more importantly, how can I restore good order to the Ubuntu Software Center? I'm trying to create an item that can break certain blocks, but also has a colored name in 1.13.2   Here's the command I'm using.  /give iAugust minecraft:shears{display:{Name:"[{\"text\":\"Arcane Shears\",\"color\":\"aqua\",\"italic\":false,\"bold\":false}]CanDestroy:[minecraft:iron_bars]"}}   But it only has a colored name, and it can't break specific blocks. Ubuntu 12.04 software upgrade does not show 12.10 upgrade What do you call someone who acts and thinks it is helpful, even though they do not know the context of what is going on? What is a name for a person who assumes they are doing something helpful, even though they are ignorant to the situation? Someone who reacts without bothering to understand what’s going on, and feels as though they are doing good? Is there such a word?   For instance, someone who pulls another out of the pool, and pats them self on the back for saving them from drowning...without ever asking if the person was drowning or merely swimming.