Can leased car be declared as part of net worth?

Question: Can a leased car be included as part of net worth?  If so, how?
Comment: You might want to give answers a couple of days before you accept them.  That encourages the community to provide more answers, then you get to pick the best one.
Comment: A leased car is just as much an asset as a leased apartment.
Answer: I wouldn't think so. It has no positive value. It is in fact a liability.
You owe a specific amount of money per month as a payment for the lease. You could owe additional charges at the end of the lease for excess miles or above average wear. If you need to get out of the lease there could be a penalty.
At the end of the lease period you have nothing, except an option to buy the car. Which may or may not be a good deal depending on the exact terms of the lease contract.
It does need to appear in your budgeting, and insurance is needed to prevent the liability from blowing up in your face if something happens to the car. You might also need insurance to make sure you can make the payments if you are unemployed or disabled. Though those risks are similar to a loan.
Comment: Just curious, so do we have to pay Property taxes on leased vehicles?
Comment: If you say pre-pay for 6 months of the lease up front won't that six months pre-payment be considered an asset?
Comment: regarding the car tax in virginia: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dta/cartax_faq.htm#9   **the car taxes are either paid by the leasing company or the tax bill is forwarded to the lessee for payment.**
Answer: Short answer, a lease is simply a rental/hire. So you don't own the asset, which means it does not count toward your net worth.


Acer Aspire 5536 laptop letter p on keyboard not on properly?

Question: hello i have got an Acer Aspire 5536 laptop and my 1 year old grandson pulled the letter p  nearly off,i saw some where that you should be able to just push down on it,but i have done that with no luck,any ideas please?
thank you.
Answer: Different keyboards have different construction methods and some are more amenable to having their key caps removed and replaced. On some, it is just a matter of snapping the cap back into the brackets underneath. Does the key cap still "wiggle" around like it's loose? Try pushing down on it while moving it around sideways and it may re-attach.
If not, try examining the underside of the key cap and the part of the board it is supposed to attach to, you may be able to see how they are supposed to mate together. A photograph for us might help too.
Finally, if it's a total loss, you should be able to take the key cap completely off and just press what is underneath it. The key cap itself is just a plastic form with a letter on it, it is possible to type without it. Hopefully we can fix it though.
Comment: thank you i did the wiggle and managed to snap it back in place.
Answer: Most laptop keyboards have a similar key mechanism, that is: the visible key is just a thin shell held on by a pair of 'X' braces. Each end of the 'X' has a tiny plastic nib on each foot at each end that goes into the top 'letter' shell and a small metal lip on the keyboard base. Between the 'letter' and the keyboard base, is a silicon flexible nib that toggles the key on/off. The 'X' brace pair nicely fold into a flat surface that is easier to understand when you take it apart and see it in motion.
Sometimes, if a key experiences what you describe, either the bottom metal tabs were pushed a bit so one end of the 'x' isn't seated properly, or maybe the silicon nib is pushed out of alignment (or even missing?).
Best way to fix this is to be able to see under the letter, by removing the top letter by very slightly flexing it from the top side (top meaning closet to the lcd) until it unsnaps from the 'X's. Then inspect the metal tabs, 'X's and silicon nib. Once you verify that (or why its not working), you can then easily see how to snap the letter cover back on.
You can google replacing laptop keys. Several sites sell replacement keys and have good tutorials on replacement. Search generically, not for this specific model.
Good luck.


Hybrid/gravel bike mudguards/fenders with specific coverage

Question: Are there any aftermarket fenders that only span from the chainstay to the seatstay? I don't trust the rigidity of full-length mudguards beyond the chainstay and this is only to minimize contamination towards my front derailleur. I would prefer it if there's no cutting/bodging involved.
Comment: There are plenty of two-piece rear units - you could fit only the front piece which normally runs from the chainstay up to the brake bridge - would that suit your need ?
Comment: @Criggie That might just be doable for me with a slight, clean bodge (mainly drilling a hole so that it also fixes to the chainstay fender mount bosses). I do wish there are actual units designed for the purpose I'm looking for, but I guess I'll have to make do with that.
Answer: Not a great answer, but I did something like this on my old MTB.

This isn't a good photo because the mudguard broke (for other reasons) and when I repaired it, the linkages no longer move the same way.
However you can see that the original seatpost clamp was used around the seat tube (in yellow)
At the bottom, the tip is wedged into the triangle space formed by the kickstand bracket and the two chainstays.  It is not going anywhere.
On the plus side, these mudguards are cheap and common.  But they tend to get brittle and snap.
There's plenty of clearance, its a bit harder to see in the first photo so here's a downward shot.

Why did I do this?  Back then I had a rear parcel rack fitted, which was lined with a sheet of stiff plastic that extended backward quite a distance.  The only part not covered was where the canti brakes are, and the rack was lower enough so this wasn't a problem.
Comment: does the chain ever hit the mudguard?
Comment: @GregoryLeo Nope - that one narrows down toward the tip.  You could conceivably make something from plastic to do a similar job.


Why didn't Tar-Míriel leave with the faithful?

Question: I mean surely she was still in contact with them; after all, she was faithful herself, wasn't she? Also there was a lot of time between Ar-Pharazôn's Great Fleet and the Downfall of Númenor: approximately 36 days I believe it was. Yet she chose not to join them on the ships and tried to reach the top of Meneltarma (which was on fire at the time of the downfall). So why didn't she meet up with Elendil and the rest of her kinsmen?
Comment: The Kingsmen probably stopped her from leaving since she was the wife of their King.
Answer: Unknown
The most plausible explanation is that forces loyal to Sauron prevented her; we know that they tried to prevent Elendil from leaving:

Elendil had remained in Romenna, refusing the summons of the King when he set forth to war; and avoiding the soldiers of Sauron that came to seize him and drag him to the fires of the Temple, he went aboard his ship and stood off from the shore, waiting on the time.
The Silmarillion IV Akallabêth

Even if we suppose that Míriel was in contact with the Faithful, it would presumably have been difficult for her to leave the Palace to join them, especially since (given who her father was) she was almost certainly suspected of having sympathies with enemies of the state.
Finally, I'll point out that Tolkien's later writings cast doubt on the assumption that Míriel's loyalties were with the Faithful; some late scribbles introduce the idea that Míriel actually did love Ar-Pharazôn, in which case she presumably stayed behind for personal reasons. Christopher Tolkien comments:

It is not perfectly clear to me how the textual puzzle presented by these writings is to be resolved, but I am inclined to think that, contrary to appearance, the texts (a), (b), and (c) in fact followed the writing of the long rider to the Akallabêth, and that they represent the emergence of a doubt in my father's mind whether the marriage of Pharazôn and Zimrahil was indeed 'against her will', and the sketching of a new story on the subject.
History of Middle-earth XII The Peoples of Middle-earth Part One Chapter 5: "The History of the Akallabêth"
Comment: Speculative - she may have been required to exercise governmental authority in the absence of the King; from this obligation she could not have held herself excused to join a (from a strictly legal point of view) separatist group.
Answer: Remembering that Tar-Míriel was the Queen and therefore (notionally) in charge of affairs in Númenor, she probably felt that it was her duty to stay in Armenelos even if in her heart she wanted to leave. Her thought was probably; "The Queen does not desert her people."
Comment: But if she was a faithful Numenorean then her people would of been the Elendili and not the Kingsmen who several centuries prior to the Great Armament turned away from the teachings of Elves and the Valar while the faithful remained loyal to the powers in the West and during Ar-Pharazon's (Usurped) reign they turned toward evil and chaos worshipping Morgoth as per the advice of Sauron (who wanted the Numenoreans destroyed) and thus would have created a stronger pull towards leaving Numenor with Elendil and the rest of the faithful Numenoreans to Middle earth.


How do Chrono Trigger's iOS and DS versions differ?

Question: The description on the App Store indicates that the iOS version includes some content previously exclusive to the DS version. Is it a direct port with tweaked controls, or are there other differences?
Answer: According to Wikipedia, it is a port of the Nintendo DS version, with "graphics optimized for iOS". It sounds like it is identical to the DS version from a gameplay perspective.
Answer: The IOS version lacks the Anime Cutscenes found in other versions of the game like the DS one and I think the PSX. However the DS version has additional content the PSX release doesn't have. Although the differences are mostly with the end game. I have heard that the IOS and Android versions have some form of DRM. I don't know if it requires you to always have internet access like SOME games.
it has some of the things that the DS version does make sure you have a newer iphone/ipad as well. The biggest complaint is probably the touch controls even though you're able to move in 8 different directions. There's also additional weapons or items listed in the DS FAQs which can't be found in the IOS version. (unsure if this is the case couldn't find secondary source) The IOS version includes the two new pieces of content that the DS had. But it doesn't inlcude the Arena of Ages Mini-game which has so far been a DS exclusive.
At the end of the day the games are the same look up some footage of the minigame and if that appeals to you and if you like Anime Cuscene's then get the DS version. The IOS version is more convenient since you always have your phone, alt


How can I deactivate another system as my primary ps4

Question: How can I deactivate my account from another system. On my PlayStation it says you have already activated another system as your primary ps4 with your account. To activate this system... Also I just recently purchased a PlayStation plus subscription and I want to play online with my brothers but having difficulties to play together
Answer: As seen on the Playstation Manuals website:

Select Settings > Playstation Network/Account Management > Activate as your Primary PS4 > Deactivate.

If you run into an issue deactivating your PS4 you can contact Playstation Customer Support for further instructions.
I hope this helps!
Answer: If you don't have access to the system you can log into your account from a PC and deactivate the system from there. You are only allowed to deactivate once every 6 months or so. If you are still within that time you'll have to open a ticket with Sony to do it for you.
Comment: Sony support will not deactivate it for you. They will point you to the self-service web page which upholds the 6-month waiting period. http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network-Support/Another-PS4-activated-as-primary-we-only-have-one-so-how-do-I/td-p/45007011
Comment: Sony will deactivate it for you if you put the ticket in. I was under my 6 month waiting period and put the ticket in. I was given a follow up email the next day that my issue had been resolved by Sony deactivating all the PS's under my account.


Spindle diameter on the FSA Gossamer TT MegaExo crankset

Question: What is the spindle diameter on the FSA Gossamer TT MegaExo crankset? 24 mm or 30 mm? I can't find a direct answer anywhere. I have seen MegaExo described as 19 or 24 mm, but "Gossamer" as 30. I'm looking at the aforementioned crankset for my Giant Trinity BB90 bottom bracket shell, but I don't want to go 30 mm.
Answer: I believe Gossamer is more of a 'level' of FSA products rather than a particular crank model.
MegaExo is an FSS external bearing bottom bracket type for BSA threaded shells. It uses a 24mm spindle diameter.
According to this article  24mm spindle external bearing road cranks are compatible with BB90.
Comment: I believe the diameter  of MegaExo spindle is 24.05mm, which is why a grease and rubber mallet is required if you insert a MegaExo crank into a Shimano bottom bracket, which is a true 24.00mm.
Comment: @Rider_X personally have a SLK MegaExo in a Shimano external bearing BB and it is indeed a bit tight.
Comment: Maybe contact FSA and ask what they have that is compatible with BB90?


HDMI input to composite out

Question: I want to use my Canon 5D mkII as a video camera on a recorder with only an composite input.
Is this possible with Raspberry Phi in the way that Raspeberry Pi uses HDMI-in and delivers composite-out? If so, what do I need for it?
At the moment I am using Raspeberry Pi2 as a mediacenter and I am very happy with it.
Unfortunately I have none to little experience in programming so... Pls who can help?
Comment: If I've understood, you somehow want to use the Raspberry Pi to convert HDMI video in to composite video out?
Comment: yes, if that is possible?
Answer: That is not possible with Pi, since it has HDMI output instead of HDMI input which you would need for your idea.
However, according to this specification page, it seams that Canon 5D mkII already supports composite video output, so you should better check you Canon 5D mkII cables and manuals.
Comment: Thank you for your comment. That's tryue but only for reviewing on a AV device...
Answer: It is possible but it will cost you $100s. Google "Raspberry Pi HDMI capture"
Looks like your best bet would be a new Kickstarter not as a USB device but a special board for the raspberry Pi.
Comment: Thank you for your reply Rob. I will have a look into it.
Will I have composite out on teh original Raspbery?
Jos
Comment: I cannot see why not.
Comment: The kickstarter project was put on hold because using the CSI channel is also not possible to capture video... surprise.. because of proprietary stuff that is happening there between the BCM and the Camera.
Answer: If I understand you correcly you want to use the Pi to either record the video from the camera, or possibly use it to stream liveview to another screen or something?
You can use a USB TV Tuner. There is a list of compatible ones here.

HDMI input to composite out


Why kademlia for p2p?

Question: It seems pointless to me. I looked at the actual implementation. Kademila is used to discover peers, but there is no gained benefits. As when the node connects to peers, it simply just grab from the peers group. Kademila has no benefit? Correct me if im wrong
Comment: not an expert, but from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia) `Kademlia contacts only O(log(n)) nodes during the search out of a total of n nodes in the system`. from my understanding, the "benefit", is the SPEED at which it can discover those peers.
Comment: speed at which it can discover "those" peers. what are "those" peers in your context? all full nodes are identical so what is the need for "those" peers? thx
Comment: in this context, when you DON'T have full peers and need to find the peer(s) with the data that you want. similar to sharding I guess. from my understanding, the address/hash acts like a locator, so with Kademlia you NEVER have to search the entire space to find your data (never more than half, but usually much less??). again, i'm not that familiar, just offering some info, as I'm also looking for a better understanding
Comment: thank you @nyusternie I realized this is a typical cargo cult engineering. they did not realize that they did not need kademlia. anyways, you looking for blockchain developer job? I am hiring.
Comment: you may need a 2nd opinion on some of that info lol. i'm always interested in open-source projects, message me
Answer: @user2584960: I agree and am confused as to the point Kademlia being used in Ethereum. If you aren't querying for content then what are you querying?
I believe Ethereum's use of Kademlia is like looking up a phone number in a phonebook and using the phone number as the query key. Alternatively, if you were to maintain metrics for each peer, then perhaps you could query each node's Kademlia table for nodes that satisfy the particular metrics you are interested in.
@nyusternie:
Ethereum's Kademlia implementation is only for peer discovery. Therefore, you aren't querying for content. Therefore, what the heck are you querying?

Why kademlia for p2p?


Can I bake on the same node with two different addresses?

Question: Can I run two different tezos-node daemons (node, endorser, baker, accuser) on the same server (same IP), having two different baking addresses for each daemon group, without the risk of double-baking?
Answer: Yes, absolutely. But you only need to run one node and accuser. Double-baking is only a risk if you run two bakers/endorsers for the same address.
To bake+endorse for two different addresses, just run two instances of baker and endorser. Something like this:
<code>./tezos-baker-003-PsddFKi3 run with local node ~/.tezos-node baking_address1
./tezos-baker-003-PsddFKi3 run with local node ~/.tezos-node baking_address2

./tezos-endorser-003-PsddFKi3 run baking_address1
./tezos-endorser-003-PsddFKi3 run baking_address2
</code>
Above processes can be run with screen, systemd or what ever else you prefer. A good resource for systemd scripts is Tom Knudsens tezos-baking github.


How to engage a child audience when my characters have no language?

Question: Good afternoon all,
I find myself in a predicament: I'm writing for 8-10 year-olds who, as I understand it, are very dependent upon dialogue to keep the story engaging. Unfortunately the protagonist of my story and his family are proto-humans who have sign language but not yet developed sophisticated speech. Is it possible to keep children interested without intermittent dialogue and are there any good examples of this that you can point me to? My alternative is to anthropomorphise them like Fantastic Mr. Fox but I'd like to go for realism wherever possible.
Comment: Have you ever read *Clan of the Cave Bear*?
Comment: @KitZ.Fox ah yes, I read one of the series a while ago. I didn't think of that one as an example because it's hard to gauge whether an 8-10 reader age would engage with the style of writing, since the subject matter of those books is not suitable for the age bracket. I suppose I could try a few of the less mature paragraphs to see how they take to it.
Comment: I didn't mean to suggest I thought the material was appropriate for that age range, but rather that all of the speech in that book is sign language and grunts, so you might use it as a guide for how to accomplish what you are trying to do.
Comment: @KitZ.Fox ah thanks, will take another look at how it's styled and see if it can be adapted.
Answer: As any deaf person will tell you, sign language is speech. How else are you going to tell your story if you don't report the communication that does take place?

Bearkiller signed: "Walk quiet. There is a mammut ahead."
Darkwalker nodded. "I'll circle to the left," he gestured. And don't argue about this again, his face said.
Bearkiller frowned, then nodded. Okay. "But wait until I have the fire going," he signed, then turned and crept away.

Handle sign language and facial expressions in the same way that other authors handle foreign languages. An English language novel that takes place in China does not contain Chinese dialogue. The speech of the Chinese is quietly translated into English by the author, and the reader has to imagine it being in Chinese.
Comment: he signed, then turned and crept away. ... I could read more of that. Great example.
Comment: +1, it's just the same has handling people talking different languages, but converting to English for the benefit of the reader
Answer: Speech is simply communication. Your characters communicate and all you need to do as a writer is make clear what is being communicated.
I once read a fantastic children's story to some children. Teddy never actually says anything but communicates on every page.

"We should get biscuits to make us brave" said Joe.
Teddy indicated that he agreed.

and

The cat looked at them suspiciously
Teddy hugged Joe so that he would not be frightened.

and

Teddy pointed to the light switch to show Joe that ...

That sort of thing happens throughout the whole book. Teddy has a lot to "say" an yet never actually speaks.
In your case I know that you are aiming for an older audience but the principle of showing and reporting to give communication even when it is non verbal is the same.
As I understand your aims you can actually go much further than "teddy" and make the readers feel like they are part of the culture.

The wolf howls were getting closer.
Big Man waved his hand next to his ear too indicate hearing. His face said that he was worried.
Tall Man touched his nose to indicated that he understood and pointed towards the cave. He nodded to the other men and made a pushing gesture towards the cave to show that they should enter.

As long as you are consistent with the sign language used your readers will be smart enough to only need to have you interpret the first few times the sign is used. If, as per my rough example, touching the nose happens a lot then later you might only need something like:

Big Man grimaced. He patted his empty stomach sadly.
Tall Man touched his nose and pointed to the old man's bag.

Nothing is being said verbally here and no translation has been offered but given the previous context we know what is being said and what is being suggested in reply.
As another answer rightly points out sign language is speech. These characters are talking to each other the reader just needs you to translate enough for them to follow along. There are a number of ways you can do that and each one has its own benefits and restrictions.


Growing tomatoes in pots

Question: I had a tomato seedling 30cm high growing in potting soil in a large pot, but the pot had no drain hole so the water built up and went sour. I have replanted the tomato into another holed pot, but am left with the old smelly sour potting soil. How can I rejuvenate it or must I throw it away?
Answer: Best is to trow it away, potting soil is usually meant for one time only. Especially for growing vegetables and crops; the nutrients in fresh potting soil lasts normally only a few weeks. So this means that you need to fertilize after a few weeks for nice crop. My advice is to find a place where they sell cheap potting soil, so you would never have to reuse old potting soil gone sour.
Comment: Not to forget that soil harbours deadly disease(s) that can be passed on to another plant.  The risk is it too high to even try to sterilise it.

Growing tomatoes in pots


What is required to generate a block?

Question: I've read a little about BitCoins and think the idea is very interesting.  I was wondering what is required to generate a block?  I assume there is some software you need.  Do I also need an account somewhere like Mt Gox?
Comment: Generating blocks is usually referred to as "mining", so I believe that this is a duplicate of [How can I start mining Bitcoin?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1433/how-can-i-start-mining-bitcoin) Also see [What exactly is Mining?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/148/what-exactly-is-mining) for more info.
Answer: MtGox is an exchange (i.e. a place to sell and buy bitcoins for USD, EUR, GBP, etc.). If you want to get a few coins quickly you can buy them there.
To generate blocks you need to use your computer's processing power (this is called mining). Currently, it is very hard to produce a block by yourself so most people mine in group and split the rewards (pool mining). Check this question for more information:
How can I start mining Bitcoin?
Answer: To generate a block you need to run a Bitcoin network node (such as the standard Bitcoin client) and a miner (mining software) such as poclbm. The rewards for blocks you generate will be automatically delivered to an address controlled by your node, you do not need any external account.
That's the theory though, in practice what you'll want to connect your miner to a mining pool, and let the pool handle receiving rewards and delivering them to an address of your choice (which could either be controlled by a local client or an eWallet service). And, to do this with any effectiveness you will need suitable hardware such as an ATI graphics card.

What is required to generate a block?


Is there any wiki to list open datasets?

Question: I think that in future many people will ask for list of open datasets: by country, by argument (science, geography, art,..).  Is a good idea create wiki like these? I think that this wiki could be used also to add new open datasets that you heard of. Or should we start from a question like: "Is there any dataset for Italy?" and convert it later to wiki?
Answer: I'm not sure creating a catch-all wiki for this type of misinformation is going to be good for this site.
Remember, the lifeblood of this site is search; Google Search — and if someone is searching for a "Database of politicians for Italy," I sure would like them to find this site.
In the bigger picture, this site is supposed to be about answering specific questions you encounter in your day to day work. This site isn't supposed to be a list of where to find things on the Internet. If you distilled this subject down to a few generic, catch-all lists of where to find stuff, I'm afraid you would miss out on a lot of fascinating problems people are trying to solve.
I would stick to specific questions. Let Open Data SE become a huge repository of fantastically-detailed, long-tailed questions that would serve to separate you from any ol' generic site on the subject. That's how we're going to hold the interest of the experts you are trying attract.
Comment: I agree that I don't think a wikipage on this site is a good thing. I would rather have a lot of "I'm looking for X" questions that we can answer, vote on, timestamp and administer than create a single page that gains none of the benefits of the content-model of StackExchange websites.
Comment: Surely the spirit of this site is, like others SE sites, a knowledge base of Q&A. What think is that many questions will be "where can I find X?" and will become FAQs creating "noise" between specific questions. This is why I'm asking if it's useful having a (single) wiki to summarize this kind of answers.
Answer: I like this idea, but maintaining such a list might be problematic and as others point out, it's a better idea to empower search engines like Google to find those datasets.
There is a new dataset type added to Schema.org and built on the W3C's DCAT work described at http://schema.org/Dataset  The use of this is likely to provide better generic search to actual datasets.  A detailed description behind this is at http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Datasets
There is a listing of government open data sites at http://www.data.gov/opendatasites
(Disclaimer: I serve as the Evangelist for Data.gov)


Is Python interpreted (like Javascript or PHP)?

Question: Is Python strictly interpreted at run time, or can it be used to develop programs that run as background applications (like a Java app or C program)?
Comment: Related posts - [Is Python interpreted, or compiled, or both?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/6889747/465053) & [How does the Python Runtime actually work?](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/313254/236257)
Answer: As the varied responses will tell you, the line between interpreted and compiled is no longer as clear as it was when such terms were coined.  In fact, it's also something of a mistake to consider languages as being either interpreted or compiled, as different implementations of languages may do different things.  These days you can find both C/C++ interpreters and Javascript compilers.
Even when looking at an implementation, things still aren't clear-cut. There are layers of interpretation. Here are a few of the gradations between interpreted and compiled:

Pure interpretation.  Pretty much what it says on the tin. Read a line of source and immediately do what it says.  This isn't actually done by many production languages - pretty much just things like shell scripts.

Tokenization + interpretation.  A trivial optimization on the above. Rather than interpret each line from scratch, it's first tokenized (that is, rather than seeing a string like "print 52 + x", it's translated into a stream of tokens (eg. <code>[PRINT_STATEMENT, INTEGER(52), PLUS_SIGN, IDENTIFIER('x')]</code> ) to avoid repeatedly performing that state of interpretation.  Many versions of basic worked this way.

Bytecode compilation.  This is the approach taken by languages like Java and C# (though see below).  The code is transformed into instructions for a "virtual machine".  These instructions are then interpreted.  This is also the approach taken by python (or at least CPython, the most common implementation.) The Jython and IronPython implementations also take this approach, but compile to the bytecode for the Java and C# virtual machines respectively.

Bytecode + Just in Time compilation.  As above, but rather than interpreting the bytecodes, the code that would be performed is compiled from the bytecode at the point of execution and then run.  In some cases, this can actually outperform native compilation, as it is free to perform runtime analysis on the code, and can use specific features of the current processor (while static compilation may need to compile for a lowest common denominator CPU).  Later versions of Java, and C# use this approach.  Psyco performs this for python.

Native machine-code compilation. The code is compiled to the machine code of the target system. You may think we've now completely eliminated interpretation, but even here there are subtleties.  Some machine code instructions are not actually directly implemented in hardware, but are in fact implemented via microcode - even machine code is sometimes interpreted!
Answer: There's multiple questions here:

No, Python is not interpreted. The standard implementation compiles to bytecode, and then executes in a virtual machine. Many modern JavaScript engines also do this.
Regardless of implementation (interpreter, VM, machine code), anything you want can run in the background. You can run shell scripts in the background, if you want.
Comment: The "not interpreted" is an overstatement.  It's not interpreted as source.  The Python VM clearly interprets the bytecode.  It is not compiled into machine-specific binaries, so it's interpreted at some level.
Comment: "No, Python is not interpreted." Someone better tell the people at python.org to change their meta description! "Home page for Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language."
Comment: I think the difference lies in whether the interpretation is done by hardware (the CPU) or software (the Python VM). I consider Python to be interpreted.
Comment: kigurai: Then how do you differentiate between an implementation that uses a VM, and one that uses an interpreter? There's already a perfectly good and accurate word for both ("byte-compiled", "interpreted") -- lets use them, instead of adding new meanings.
Comment: Many thanks for such a quick answer. That also puts a lot of other things into context I've been reading about Python.
Comment: Lott: by that measure, almost every modern language is interpreted, and the word ceases to have a useful meaning.
Comment: If Python is interpreted then Java is interpreted too.
Comment: If Python /java is not interpreted, would you it's compiled ? Not sure it makes sense. It's closer to interpreted language than to compiled one, I think.
Answer: Technically, Python is compiled to bytecode and then interpreted in a virtual machine. If the Python compiler is able to write out the bytecode into a .pyc file, it will (usually) do so.
On the other hand, there's no explicit compilation step in Python as there is with Java or C. From the point of view of the developer, it looks like Python is just interpreting the .py file directly. Plus, Python offers an interactive prompt where you can type Python statements and have them executed immediately. So the workflow in Python is much more similar to that of an interpreted language than that of a compiled language. To me (and a lot of other developers, I suppose), that distinction of workflow is more important than whether there's an intermediate bytecode step or not.
Comment: For a language to be "interpreted" implies the use of an interpreter in its implementation. It's a purely performance-related issue. Whether or not the language can be used in an interactive prompt is irrelevant: Haskell and C# can both be used in an REPL, and are undeniably not interpreted.
Answer: Python is an interpreted language but it is the bytecode which is interpreted at run time. There are also many tools out there that can assist you in making your programs run as a windows service / UNIX daemon.
Comment: The difference between compilation and interpretation is still straightforward. An interpreter traverses the parsed representation at runtime and evaluates nodes. A compiler converts the representation into a separate format, which is evaluated (either by hardware or a virtual machine).
Comment: +1 to even out as this is a good answer. You're not wrong: there's a difference between a purely compiled language and python's byte-compilation as python's pyc are generated, interpretedly, when the .py is accessed by the runtime. That's not interpreted like PHP, but it's also not compiled like
Comment: If Python is interpreted, then so are Java and C#. Just because the compiler will be invoked automatically doesn't mean it's not compiled.

I'm also mystified about what "purely compiled" means.
Comment: I mean there's no linker. In that sense (see Joel On Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PleaseLinker.html), you're right... python shares much with java and C#. Still, there's no explicit "pythoncc" step, which makes the semantics of compile/interpret non-straightforward, IMO.
Comment: Well, somebody had better tell Guido, because his resume (http://www.python.org/~guido/Resume.html) explicitly calls Python interpreted. I feel Python is compiled. Still, many will say that ANY VM-based runtime is interpreted, and as a translation between VM-code and the OS/hardware, it is.
Comment: It's possible that, at the time, Python *was* interpreted. Interpreters are easier to write than compilers -- for example, until recently, Ruby was interpreted.
Comment: No disagreement from me there.
Comment: @Jarret--what's this strange distinction you make between "VM" and "hardware". The VM *is* the hardware, isn't it???? :-)
Answer: Yes, Python is interpreted, but you can also run them as long-running applications.
Answer: Yes, it's interpreted, its main implementation compiles bytecode first and then runs it though (kind of if you took a java source and the JVM compiled it before running it). Still, you can run your application in background. Actually, you can run pretty much anything in background.


ZFS on LUKS2 encrypted device: LuksFormat with or without dm-integrity?

Question: Does it make sense to combine ZFS with LUKS2 for completely random-looking encryption on HDDs ? (Without luks-header on the disk of course, header placed elsewhere). The goal is to make a HDD really look like random data, since as I've learned ZFS built-in encryption is still telling us  that it's actually a ZFS encrypted volume you're looking at, instead of being really just random data.
If yes, what would you use ?

a) Rather a simple integrity-free LUKS2 format since ZFS is taking care of integrity in upper layer already, or
b) LUKS with integrity ? (It might cause double write lag, once because of integrity checksum creation on the lower layers and then again in ZFS layer, but not sure. And probably bring in a little more complication in case of a physical failure or bit rot).

What happens at all when a bit flip is happening on an integrity-free conventional LUKS device ? Will that logical LUKS sector appear as 1 bad sector on the mapper device ? (Which would then be sensed by ZFS in a mirror setup and corrected/replaced elsewhere on the mapper device, I assume).
Setup would be a zfs raidz1,raidz2, raidz3, or mirror with 2+ drives so not only error detection but correction is granted too. Debian 10, ZoL.
I might install a smaller decoy OS (W10, Ubuntu..) onto the first ~50GB and run it occassionally .. (placing the encrypted part just behind it onto remaining empty space).
This method would allow a HDD to look like a harmless newbie setup, I'm not sure I want to complicate my life with Veracrypt & Co. and I'd like to stick to ZFS because I simply love it. It's only the lack of unrecognizably-random-looking encryption in ZFS which makes me thinking about pushing a LUKS2 layer beneath it. (I believe more in distraction than in unbreakable encryption btw).
Answer: Firstly, neither LUKS nor ZFS are designed to provide plausible deniability. You can tweak and change things to hide things a bit, but it won't get past intentional scrutiny.
ZFS does checksumming, so you'd be wasting resources by using dm-integrity underneath.


Effects of continuing after a total party wipe?

Question: I've had a couple of encounters so far where I stumbled into enemies that were higher level than expected and gotten wiped out. At the game over screen, I chose the option "Continue". After doing so, I didn't notice any negative consequences. I was plopped back just a few metres from the area I died, and was free to continue on as if nothing had happened. Am I missing something? Is there some negative effect from a party wipe?
Comment: The continue thing just load the last save point (auto or manual save). I guess you're just lucky in the case you did not have to replay half an hour or something. Just give it a try next time it happens to you, press continue and go to the "load" menu, the last save should be the one which is loaded
Comment: If you habitually quicksave prior to combat, that's why it's always starting you off just a few meters away from where you died.
Comment: Thanks guys. I guess it was just the autosave that was being reloaded. It's only happened to me twice, and both times the game must have autosaved just seconds before the encounter. I've previously only ever saved in Haven after coming back from adventuring, but I'll make sure to save more in the future!

@Nitro.de: if you make your comment into an answer I'll accept it.
Comment: I find that the game tends to autosave just before big battles.
Answer: The option "Continue" just means "load the lastest save". Dragon Age Inquisition uses the autosave function which is triggered if you get close to hard fights like bosses and at some random spots that i dont know. To answer your question - there're no negative consequences for loading your last savepoint and it seems that you just triggered an autosave just before your party wiped out. If you look in the menu under "load" you should at least find one autosave.


What are the subtleties in use and meaning between: 特殊, 格段, 特段, 特別, and 別段?

Question: Those these seem to come up all the time, for the most part I'm unclear as to how to differentiate them. Per the title, what are the subtleties in use and meaning between: 特殊, 格段, 特段, 特別, and 別段?
Thank you!
Answer: Edited

特殊, 格段, 特段, 特別, and 別段

I think my previous answer was inadequate, so I carefully examined various materials and dictionaries and thought about the answer, but by this answer I thought I could not solve the questioner's problem and I decided to stop the work.
After that, I thought about the way to explain subtle differences between the five words of similar meanings given by the questioner to those who are not Japanese native who are studying Japanese.
First, I looked up the meaning of five words in an English dictionary and Japanese dictionaries. From the meanings of Japanese dictionaries and example sentences, I could understand the difference between the five words in Japanese. However, it is almost impossible to distinguish between the meanings of each other from the meanings in English. Every word has the meaning of "special". I could understand the reason that the questioner wanted to know the subtle difference in meanings between them.
I thought about how to grasp the difference between these words if we are Japanese.
First of all, we first check the sound by looking at these words. Next, we suppose some possible words from the sound, then narrow down the words by looking at the kanjis of each word.
As an answer to the questioner, I thought, the analogy of narrowing down the possible words by the kajis is effective.
All five words given are made up of two kanjis. If I separate all the kanjis constituting the five words apart, I could get five different kanjis.
Combining the five kanjis by 2 characters gives a total of 20 different words. Of these words, 13 are meaningless combinations, and only 7 are left as meaningful words. The questioner found out five of the seven meaningful words.
First, I looked up the meanings of five individual kanjis in a kanji dictionary.
Next I looked up the composition of the kanjis of seven words and gave it a drawing shown below. Since all the words have the meaning of "special", I named the title of the drawing "Members of the Special family". Next I imagined the meaning of each of the seven words from the meaning of the kanjis constituting each word and wrote them in the drawing.
Lastly I added the meanings in English that I looked up in the dictionary before.
From the meanings in English it is difficult to distinguish between the meanings of the words of each other, but from the meanings I imagined, the meaning of the nuance may be felt a little by native Japanese as me.
Although the result is not sufficient, I felt that such a probing method may be meaningful for knowing the similar words' differences.

Original
Here is a table of the synonyms of 「特別」 classified according to the meaning.
If you have enough time, you could know which word is used well by checking the frequency of each word on the Internet.
For example:
特別 879,000,000 hits
格段  21,700,000 hits
格別  16,400,000 hits
特殊 622,000,000 hits
Answer: In daily language, 特別 is the word with broadest meaning that is approximately same range as English special. 特別 can replace any other word you've mentioned in most settings (unless there's predefined terminology), only with possibly less exact and/or apposite feeling.
特殊 suggests that something belongs to a rarer type/class rather than one-off uniqueness. The word carries an overtone that you're trying to categorize it. The word also sometimes stands for euphemism of unlaudable quirkiness.
格段 means either:

"of distinguished level/rank"
"by far / great amount more X"

燃費が格段に向上した。 Its fuel efficiency has greatly improved.

特段 and 別段 specifically refer to that treatment or consideration is special. You can read the 段 as "case", so that they mean "of special case" and "of separate case". 特段 sounds like needing more carefulness than 別段. It should be noted that they may be more seen as a part of idiom "not particularly".

(特段/別段)の定めがない限り unless otherwise specified
(特段/別段/特別)異状は見当たらなかった。 I found nothing particularly unusual.

BONUS
特異: peculiar, singular
格別: exceptional
別格: in a class by its own


Minecraft greed trap

Question: I'm making a trap so that when an object is removed from the pressure plate, it blows up. But Im a bit stuck. The pressure plate does not change the state of the redstone torch on the endblock. I need it to be on when an item is removed from the pressure plate, thus blowing up the player.
Comment: Next time better make screenshots with your Computer not with your camera.
Answer: You can remove the top torch and replace it with redstone to do what you want. In fact you can even remove the first two wood blocks and replace them with redstone.
This design has a serious flaw, though: the dropped item will despawn after 5 minutes, causing the trap to activate even if there is no player around. To work around that, you can use a dispenser and a long timer. After e.g. 4.5 minutes measured by the timer, the dispenser would drop another item on the pressure plate, so when the first item despawns, the pressure plate will still be on.
Here is an idea how to do that:
There are two pressure plates, both of which have items on them. The right one is the player detector. When the item is picked up, the signal is sent to the noteblock. If for 5 minutes no one picks the item, both items will despawn simultaneously and the left pressure plate will send a signal to immediately shoot another two items. The short pulse on the right will not activate the noteblock because of the pulse filter (made with repeaters and a NOR gate). The two stone blocks in front of the dispensers are only used to direct the items to fall down on the pressure plate.
Comment: How do you make a long timer. Im kinda new to minecraft.
Comment: Sadly, building a long timer is not very easy and all existing designs take a lot of space. Look for example at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0gRITjzu0 where water pushes items over soulsand. Other ideas may involve a lot of redstone ciquitry and/or or minecarts. Most of the long timer designs I have seen rely exactly on the 5 minute delay of item despawning, so they can't be used to measure anything less than 5 minutes.
Comment: @mrminecraft3000 Actually I got an idea how to do this in a simple way and edited the answer to describe it.

Minecraft greed trap


What is the difference between electrons and holes in silicon?

Question: Electrons and holes behave differently in a silicon semiconductor (e.g. mobility of holes is one order of magnitude smaller than that of electrons, the collection time of holes at the same electric field is larger than for electrons... ). I was wondering, if holes are simply "a lack of electrons", they should behave in a mirrored way as electrons (if the latter move from $V_a$ to $V_b$ in a given time, the corresponding holes created when these electrons move should move in the opposite direction at the same speed). My question is: what is the origin of a different behavior between electrons and holes?
Comment: Related: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/139786/106502
Answer: One qualitative way to understand this concept is by thinking about the orbital origins of the conduction band and valence band.
For example, let's assume the conduction band is primarily coming from hybridized $s$-orbitals, while the valence band comes from hybridized $p$-orbitals. As you might guess, particles in the $s$-orbital should move differently from the $p$-orbital, as they both have different spatial properties ($s$ is more delocalized compared to $p$, and $p$ is anisotropic unlike $s$).
Now it should be clear that a hole living in the valence band should behave differently compared to an electron in the conduction band-it is because they are not simple inverses of each other,  but instead occupy different bands! In fact, for most semiconductors the electron and hole transport properties are quite different, with a common exception being Graphene.
Answer: Check that electrons move in the conduction band, whereas holes "move" in the valence band. They have different energies, but they are also at a different border.
So the difference arises that the mass of electrons depends on the second derivative of the energy with respect to $k$. This derivative isn't equal in both bands.
Electrons are mostly near the minimum energy of the CB, called $E_C$. Their effective mass is possitive.
$$m_{e}^*|_{E_C}>0$$
Holes are mostly in the upper limit of the VB, at energies close to $E_V$. That's the maximum energy of the band, which leads to negative effective mass of electrons. If electrons have negative mass, holes have possitive mass.
$$m_{e}^*|_{E_V}<0  \Rightarrow \ \ m^*_h=-m_{e}^*|_{E_V}>0$$
So basically, holes are true "mirror" particles: opposite mass, quasimomentum, and velocities. But check that their mass is opposite only when compared at the same place, but they are at different places.
Answer: For effective hole movement many valence electrons must move. For electron movement only a single conduction electron moves.
Comment: Also the negative charge carriers in a semiconductor are "dressed" particles, not just a single naked electron. Difficult to predict relaxation times and effective mass.
Comment: Of course, but the effects are much smaller for conduction electrons. Electrons have an effective mass of 1.04-1.09 m, holes have 0.59 m. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass_(solid-state_physics)#Density_of_states_effective_masses_(lightly_doped_semiconductors)
Comment: This is totally wrong, as it implies holes will always have larger effective masses than electrons,  but that is false. See for example Germanium, or Silicon below 10K.
Comment: You should prove your assertion or withdraw your comment, @KF Gauss.
Comment: @my2cts I have proof right there, look at Germanium! The logic in your answer implies $m_h>>m_e$ which is clearly not true even for simple semiconductors. If it really was the case you would expect many, many orders of magnitude difference between the two effective masses, but that is experimentally false.
Comment: @KF Gauss Which logic in my answer? Not mine. Btw I am fully aware that mh<me in Si and Ge.


Spanish for "newspaper"

Question: What is the difference between a periódico and a diario? If both mean exactly the same thing, which one is preferred in regular colloquial usage in Mexico vs. other Spanish-speaking countries?
Comment: In Spain, strictly speaking, a `periódico` is a newspaper published periodically, and a `diario` is a `periódico` published daily. But in reality we use them interchangeably, and in fact, `periódico` is much more used, almost always meaning `diario`.
Comment: @Chewie please promote to full answer.
Comment: A Mexican is the only one can answer the question, in Cuba my country we never use `diario`, we use `periódico ` or `prensa escrita` in a very formal environment.
Comment: Just to add that in Colombia the patter of the reported use is the same.  While technically _«periódico»_ is any periodic paper, and _«diario»_ is a daily paper, the common word is almost always _«periódico»_ for any newspaper, usually a daily newspaper.  _«Diario»_ is still the name use in certain newspapers' names or mottoes.
Answer: Diario is the common word, by far, in Argentina.
Periódico is understood here as a formal (or "foreign") synonym. Everyone understands it, no one uses it.
Strictly speaking, "diario" is more restricted in meaning (daily newspaper), but common usage does not respect that much anymore - one could even hear about a "diario semanal".
Answer: "Periódico" in México. I live here.
Comment: Exacto. Aunque posiblemente cualquiera en México entienda a que te refieres si dices "diario", es mucho mas común escuchar "ir a comprar el periódico" o "lo leí en el periódico" que usando "diario".
Answer: Periódico is the common word to say in Spain.
It has some sinonyms, including diario:

diario, boletín, gaceta, noticiero, rotativo

Mainly are the same, but Diario is a Periódico published daily.
Answer: I have always used the word "periódico" for newspaper.
Actually in some cases it can be used as just simply "paper" (not as in plain regular paper that you write with).

"periódico vespertino" is the "evening paper"

Or

"Leí el periódico de punta a cabo" which means "[I] read the paper from cover to cover".

Diario can mean "every day" (which I am certain is not what you mean), "daily", or "diary".
If the conversation is about some text and I hear the word, "diaro", I think of a "diary". I personally do not use the diaro to describe a "newspaper".
I hope this helps.

Spanish for “newspaper”


Do sports drinks make a difference in a workout?

Question: Both Gatorade and Powerade claim to help fill your bodies needs of electrolytes, vitamins, and other nutrients.  I'm looking to find out if there's documented proof that these drinks really make a difference in your workout or replenishment of nutrients.
Comment: Tim Ferriss reports that some experiments have showed that simply rinsing your mouth with a sweet tasting - but calory empty - solution will result in some performance improvement.  Interesting, huh?
Comment: @JDelage do you have a reference, or link or study to back that up?
Comment: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ijesab/vol2/iss3/6/
Comment: @JDelage I'm agree with Tim Ferries, because I have seen a episode on Discovery channel, who said the same and also carried out a experiment on two group of people, and group "that simply rinsing your mouth with a sweet tasting - but calory empty - solution" performed better than other group who actually drunk that
Answer: The effectiveness of commercially available sports drinks.
This study from the University of Tasmania suggests so:

Our conclusions are 3-fold.

First, because of variations in drink composition and research design, much of the sports drinks research from the past cannot be applied directly to the effectiveness of currently available sports drinks.
Secondly, in studies where a practical protocol has been used along with a currently available sports beverage, there is evidence to suggest that consuming a sports drinks will improve performance compared with consuming a placebo beverage.
Finally, there is little evidence that any one sports drink is superior to any of the other beverages on the market.
Comment: "there is evidence to suggest that consuming a sports drink **will improve performance** compared with consuming a placebo beverage" suggests that sports drinks do help improve performance.
Comment: duly modified...


How to prevent Emacs from moving my mouse pointer out of the way?

Question: I'm using Spacemacs on MS Windows (msys2 build) and when a tooltip pops up Emacs seems to move my mouse pointer out of the way. How can I prevent this automatic movement?
Answer: I do not use Spacemacs, but this could be caused by mouse-avoidance-mode. It normally moves the mouse when the cursor is nearby. So it may also apply to tooltips, I am not sure.
You can check if it is enabled with C-h v mouse-avoidance-mode. If it is not nil, you can disable it with (mouse-avoidance-mode -1).
There are also several other options how the mouse is moved, see the manual. I used to set it to 'exile, which makes the cursor automatically return.
Comment: Sadly it's already nil.
Comment: The low-level function to move the mouse seems to be `set-mouse-position`. You can try to enable the debugger when this function is invoked and see what other function triggered it. To do so evaluate `(debug-on-entry 'set-mouse-position)`. This will only work if whatever moves your mouse, uses this function, but that seems fairly likely. To disable the debugger again use `(cancel-debug-on-entry 'set-mouse-position)`.


Why do we say that we "observe" traditions?

Question: Why do we say that we "observe traditions" rather than "following traditions" or some other term?
Answer: It comes from 'observance' rather than 'observation'. The etymological roots, according to dictionary.com are:
Word Origin & History
observance
early 13c., "act performed in accordance with prescribed usage," esp. a religious or ceremonial one," from O.Fr. observance, from L. observantia "act of keeping customs, attention," from observantem (nom. observans), prp. of observare (see observe). Observance is the attending to and carrying out of a duty or rule. Observation is watching, noticing.
Whereas the religious connotations are not as prevalent as they were in increasingly secular societies, the usage still carries over with reference to commemorations, eg
http://www.cute-calendar.com/category/observances.html
Comment: That seems to be the most precise answer.
Comment: Didn't the Latin Christian version derive from their reading of Hebrew scriptures? Did "observe" in Latin carry that meaning in pre-Christian Latin?
Answer: As far as my tradition goes, I believe we are the perpetrators of the usage of "observe", abetted by Bible-observant Christians.
There may be other avenues, but as far as I am aware, this is due to the Hebrew part of the Bible (and some Aramaic in the book of Daniel).
In Hebrew שמר is the root radical for words like

watch
guard
keep in fulfillment
preserve
patrol
be aware
beware

שמר in its root form would mean watch/observe.
The Bible, in Hebrew, is full of references to שמר, but in various forms and inflection. People who read the Bible in Hebrew, or who are very attached to their Strong's Concordance, normally have a obsessive compulsion to be  precise about the Hebrew concepts we wish to express in English. Personally, I am following the crowd by using the word observe.
For example, in an important subject such as the Sabbath, we normally want to express its importance in all inflections of שמר.
Shall we say we simply keep the Sabbath? Preserve the Sabbath, fulfill the Sabbath, be aware of her, beware of violations against her? Therefore, we simply say

We observe the Sabbath. We are Sabbath-observant.
Kosher-observant, or even glatt-observant.

The Christians might say

Bible-observant

You might not be aware, but English vocabulary and usage has had very significant influence from the Bible.
Answer: One of the meanings of 'observe' in Oxford Dictionaries is: 'fulfil or comply with'.
I am not sure if we 'fulfil' but we certainly 'comply with' tradition.
Comment: In Judaism there is the underlying concept of the covenant with God. And, in observing The Torah (*i.e* Talmudic Law's interpretation of the Torah), we fulfill our portion of the covenant. Judaism is a legal religion (much like Islam, and I suppose Canonical law in Christianity), where the observant see themselves in a contract with God.
Answer: It turns out the verb (to observe), as most of the english verbs is too broad regarding its meaning, so having said that, it is true one could use a few synonyms to construct a similar statement within the context you mentioned...
A simple research about the verb (to observe) returns a specific meaning of "to watch or be present without participating actively" when used as an intransitive verb: See reference here
i.g:

"We were invited to the conference solely to observe."

When used as a transitive verb, (to observe) could also mean:

"to abide by, keep, or follow (a custom, tradition, law, holiday,
  etc)."

I believe the verb to observe is kinda stick to that context because one not always actively "follow traditions", meaning that one does not always actively participate or experience traditions, but rather "observes" them...
Comment: Too broad in it's meaning in what sense?  See Blessed Geek's answer: this meaning (and it's synonymity with watch) predates English by millennia.  The notion that observing a tradition is a passive experience is twaddle.  Watching others and not participating is the *opposite* of observing the tradition.


What is the significance of "6,741", the title of an upcoming episode in the fifth season of Person of Interest?

Question: According to this Wikia article Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman mentioned that their favouite episode of Person of Interest is the upcoming season 5's 4th episode named "6,741". Is there any hidden meaning behind this title?
Comment: I'm not sure we're supposed to know that yet, so we'll probably just have to guess.
Comment: It's Epidode 7.  [Here's a discussion](http://www.nolanfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&p=977718) about potential meanings.  I guess we won't know for sure until it airs.
Comment: Is it the fourth? I've seen mentions that this is the title of the seventh episode.
Answer: It's the number of different simulations run by Samaritan assets on Sameen Shaw.  The purpose is not explicitly defined, but from context within the episode it seems that:

She is being run through the same scenario multiple times, after changes/updates are made to a chip inserted behind her ear.  As one operative says to Greer in the room where Shaw is held "This time it took a whole extra hour for her to shoot you in the head", it can be inferred that the purpose of these scenarios is to achieve  a chip capable of controlling Shaw to the extent that she can be used as a Samaritan asset to find/betray the Machine, Finch, Reese and Root.

However, that's just my interpretation - I'm sure the storyline will develop further in future episodes to confirm or otherwise.
Answer: It is the number of simulation that Sameen is subjected to by samaritan operatives to extract information about Team Machine and its latest base of operations.
Comment: Could you flesh this out a little?
Answer: The number of simulations Samaritan runs on Shaw trying to compromise her and turn her into a Samaritan operative after rendering her paralysed in a quasi-vegetative state. By inserting a chip to her ear (similar to a cochlear implant in Root's ear), they try to feed her the same scenario multiple times hoping to revive her memories and extract the location of Team Machine and its members.
Answer: Episode 4 was filmed after episode 6 to give Sarah Shahi more time to recover from giving birth to twins. If the number 6,742 represents days, it refers to 18 years. If it represents hours, it's 280 days. Is that how long Shaw has been in captivity? After all, 280 days is NINE MONTHS. Yup. I'm going with the hunch that 6,741 refers to the number of hours Shaw has been in captivity, coinciding with her real-life maternity leave. Twins!
Cheesy, but fun.


Which place(s) are the first to cross into New Year?

Question: Say I wanted to be the first to celebrate the New Year: what place or places are the first to cross the into the New Year and how do I get there? I think I remember this may be some South Pacific island or in Australia but not sure.
Comment: Should point out that the International Date Line doesn't actually move, so no countries 'cross' it as such.  However it's now 2012 in New Zealand, party on!
Comment: For the change of millennium some of the tiny pacific countries tried and maybe succeeded to get the date line rearranged so they could be the first!
Comment: Are you asking in which places it reaches midnight first? Or are you asking for travel routes that some how cross the international date line? Your question is worded in a confusing way, that makes it sound like either places, or the international date line, move. Of course places are stationary; and so is the international date line.
Comment: I don't know which places were the first to cross the date line, but Samoa and Tokelau are the most recent places to do so, according to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2011#2011_December_29)!
Answer: You can see this in the Wikipedia list or on any map with the International Date Line. The first places to see a new day are:

The Line Islands, more precisely the part that belongs to Kiribati (formerly known as the Gilbert Islands). The Line Islands are in the UTC+14 timezone, and the rest of the country is in UTC+13. This has been the case since 1995; before that, the country straddled the date line. The Line Islands saw some first-to-new-millennium tourism in 2000.
Samoa (an independent country) and Tokelau (a dependency of New Zealand), since 2012. Together with Samoa, Tokelau skipped 2011-12-30 to move from the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere, in order to match weekdays with the other countries in Oceania. Tokelau moved from UTC-10 to UTC+14. Samoa moved from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and introduced daylight savings time at that point, so on the new year (which falls during the summer) it is at UTC+14.
Tonga, since 2017. The base timezone of Tonga is UTC+13, but Tonga introduced DST in 2016.

And if you want to be the last to cross the line, there are formally a few places at UTC-12, but they are uninhabited US Minor Outlying Islands. In UTC-11 are more US Minor Outlying Islands, American Samoa and the New Zealand dependency of Niue (as long as it doesn't follow Tokelau's example).
Answer: Of the bigger countries, New Zealand is the first to celebrate New Year. But there are a few island territories that are one hour ahead, namely Samoa and Tokelau
timeanddate.com has a countdown page to New Years


Grant permissions on the attachments folder of a list

Question: I noticed a strange behaviour when using attachments and folders within sharepoint lists. If I create an item in the root of a list, then move the item in a subfolder where userA has contribute permission, userA won't be able to access the attachments of that item, unless he also has at least read permission at the list level. This seem to happen because the attachments are actually placed in the attachments folder which resides in the list's root.
I don't want to change the list's permissions and I was thinking if there is any posibility of changing the attachment folder's permissions.
Answer: It's a bug, running BreakRoleInhertiance()  and ResetRoleInheritance() on the item fixes the problem!


My miner doesnt show up on network but running?

Question: I have an S3+ and yesterday it stopped showing up on my IP scan and connecting to my pool. It still runs the fan (very low speed though) and shows the lights for a network connection, so does my modem. But I can't access its setup or see it mining in my pool. I have tried all the usual troubleshoots, 3 different PSU's, reset, new internet connection but none of them helped, any idea why this could be happening, help is appreciated
Answer: I have posted how i got my miner to run on bitcointalk at the following link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1161887.new#new  try to see if these tips work for you...
Comment: For the sake of completeness you should copy your solutions here also and not just include a link
Answer: i had the issue of not being able to see the ip 192.168.1.99 adress, but once i changed the ip on the computer itself it worked.
reset the miner and then go to the miner connection to your computer the ethernet cable one and change the ip address and mask.
that should give access to the antminer set up page
Answer: I have the same problem and attempted several different "fixes" to no avail. I have a wireless modem with cat5 Ethernet ports in back. There is a VOIP adapter plugged into one of them and it works fine. All the lights are lit on the miner as well as the router/modem but if I log into my LAN network I get a "Network Cable unplugged" message.  I can log into the miner by connecting it directly to my laptop with the default IP (192.168.1.99) and that can be reset to default through the small opening to the right of the red/green lights of the antminerS3. I have done that but still my network can't see my miner. I would be very interested in hearing any suggestions.
mutt6249


Question was closed?

Question: Why was this closed? This seems like it matches the Q&A format.

What can I use to track application internet usage?
Comment: Not to mention that this question is a dupe of probably a dozen similar questions
Answer: Asking for a product to do such and such is usually considered open ended, non constructive, and off topic. We like questions that can have one REALLY GOOD answer (that you would mark as the definitive answer), with other answers that may help other users.
To get around this, try asking for a process, as opposed to an actual product or software that would accomplish xx.
Comment: "To get around this, try asking for a process, as opposed to an actual product or software that would accomplish xx."
Ah, this makes sense.
Answer: The problem is, you're already asking for a program. This sets off alarms for most people, as it hints at a "product recommendation".
Luke already explained the core issue with those types of questions. Please see How do I ask a question that may require recommending software? for the full details.
The key is to ask for a solution, not a product. The solution can make use of a product, but the product in itself is never the solution.

Question was closed?


2010 KIA Rio Engine stalls, then won't start

Question: My car is having problems staying on. When driving at first it seems like after it heats up after like 10 minutes it will jerk for a second and then rpm will go to zero then once you go to stop at times the car will turn off and it won't crank back up for like 30 minutes. Now I am lucky to get it to start at all and when it does start the engine sounds rough and it's kind of making this clicking noise.I thought at first maybe it was the fuel pump but someone assured me that can't be it.  I have done did all my coils and spark plugs/wires. I am thinking about getting help and replacing my fuel pump, timing belt and 02 sensor because I really don't have the money to take it to a mechanic so trying to learn how to do the stuff myself and watch videos on it all. Is there any help anyone could give me? Thanks in advance!
Comment: Do you have any warning lights on, like the CEL? Many auto part shops will do OBDII scans for free, so you can investigate warning lights without needing to go to a mechanic. Also, this problem sounds like it could be electrical. Testing battery and alternator voltage with a multimeter can help diagnose.
Comment: Yes my father used his scanner and the only thing that came up was something about lights, I can't remember exactly what it was at this time. I will have to try and get to auto part store to have them do a test with the scanner. Thank you.
Answer: As Hari Ganti mentioned above, if money is tight and you can safely drive there, you can get your check engine codes read for free at just about any parts store. This is a great place to start (ask them to write the code numbers down for you too, so you can research them on your own).
Based on the information you provided I do not think it's a fuel pump or the O2 sensor.
When, the engine starts misbehaving does it physically look like it's jumping or shaking? If so, that may indicate it's a bad crankshaft position sensor. Based on your description, I think it could be the crank sensor. If that's the cause of your issues, any parts store should be able to diagnose the issue with an OBD scanner and get you the part. I would suggest you at least look into the crank sensor before you change out that fuel pump.
Comment: My father used his scanner and it pulled up something about lights and that was it. I will have to try and go to auto part store to get them to use their scanner to see what it shows. When the car is having problems after it heats up after 10 minutes it jumps it feels like then the rpm goes down to zero and won't work after that until the car cools down for a while. The engine lately sounds rough and shaking and has a clicking noise to it. I will look into the crankshaft sensor as well as the o2, fuel pump and timing belt. Thank you!
Comment: @Gary90 Don't waste money on the fuel pump timing belt etc... until you can prove it. Remember time is money. You say you don't have money to take it to a mechanic for a diagnosis but most would be able to figure it out in a few hours and it's better than throwing parts at the car. Also don't rely on codes only to diagnosis a problem, auto parts stores are there to sell you stuff not to diagnose your car. I'd say Jared T is on to a possible cause of the stall/no start and is the path forward that I'd recommend pursuing first.


How much power do Home Solar Panels provide?

Question: How much power does the solar panels on the homes provide or what % of its power is supplied by those solar panels? Is there a varying level of solar panels on each home or is it either YAY or NAY?
Answer: https://twitter.com/MaxisGuillaume/status/314508463445266433
yeah it makes power for them -- almost 100% for D1, 30% for D2 and 10% for D3
I'm assuming that D is short for density...
Answer: The solar panels provide power during the day, and rely on the city power grid during the night.
See Maxis Guillaume´s Twitter for more info:
https://twitter.com/MaxisGuillaume/status/292408871199313922
There doesn't seem to be any specific information regarding how much power the solar panels provide for each home during the day cycle.
For information regarding SimCity 5 (2013) power sources, see this link.
http://simcity.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Power_Plants
(buttom of the page)
There is great information regarding the different options.
Comment: In a newer tweet of his, he indicated that the % power savings scaled by education level (something like up to 50% for 5/5 cities).
Comment: Nice info! Could you provide a link to the Twitter update you ref. too? :)
Comment: I googled the tweet -- looks like the % savings doesn't scale by education but rather by decreases by density. I put the tweet as an answer
Comment: Good job user43524
Answer: I believe those solar panels remove the power requirements of the house it's installed on during the day only.


Custom field placement

Question: I have a custom field that is an unordered list that I want to be placed under a static title and to the left of an advertisement. I only want this to show on article pages, but right  now I can't seem to figure out how to place the custom field where I want it to be placed. I know a module is required, but what I am asking is if anyone can give me the correct hooks or whatever to retrieve the custom field information, so I can place it where needed.
Answer: Copy node.tpl.php of your theme and name it node--article.tpl.php. In this file create the html structure you like. In this file you have access to the individual fields.
<code><?php print render($content['field_customfieldname']); ?>
</code>
will print out content of your custom field. Wrap this filed with html id or class and style it with css.
(I am assuming you are working with a non core theme)
Answer: I'm a big proponent (and co-maintainer) of the Panels module, which gives you a UI where you can arrange your fields. It takes work to learn how to use it, but it's well worth it in my opinion. :)

Custom field placement


How do I cap a T junction on a roof ridge?

Question: My house's roof-ridge joins a small barn at the center of the barn's roof-ridge forming a "T".  The barn does not have a vent cap.  Metal flashing was used on both valleys where the house roof meets the barn and the flashing runs all the way to the junction of the T.  I have just reshingled the barn and am at the point of capping the ridge.  Can anyone tell me how to install the cap at the junction point where the cross of the T meets the stem?
Answer: The lower roof shingles are capped by upper roof.


Moving Images from Photoshop to Illustrator

Question: I downloaded this very awesome set of iOS7 GUI components to use for building mockups for apps, found here: http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/iphone/.  I'm working in Illustrator but the file is a PSD.  I'm running both Ps and Ai simultaneously, and when I drag a component from the PSD into my Ai file, the transparency becomes white.  To be clear, I am literally dragging and dropping from Ps into Ai using the Move Tool which generally works.  What am I doing wrong here? Thank you!
Answer: May I suggest a work-around? Perhaps you can work in AI completely, opening the .psd file in AI, making sure that "convert to objects" is checked, and saving as an AI file. You can probably save it as a psd again if needed.
As far as I can tell, transparency when using the layer move tool isn't supported. If you use the path selection tool to use it to move from one program to the next, it kind of preserves the paths but just the path only. It just seems more practical to use AI in terms with workflow. It handles .psd files pretty well. Less CPU usage probably instead of having two programs open at the same time.


how to get the index of the current item in quickfix list

Question: I can use getqflist() to get the whole list. But how can I know which is the currently selected item in the list? It is used if :cc [nr] without specifying nr. It is also used for cnext and cprev. But I have no way to extract this info.
Comment: You can use getline('.') in the quickfix window to get the current line no which essentially is the index.
Answer: If your Vim version is greater than 8.0.1112, then you could ask the value of the 'idx' property of the quickfix list:
:echo get(getqflist({'idx': 0}), 'idx', 0)

See :h getqflist():
If the optional {what} dictionary argument is supplied, then
returns only the items listed in {what} as a dictionary. The
following string items are supported in {what}:

...
idx     index of the current entry in the list
...

Note that 'idx' seems to be missing from Neovim at the moment, along with a few other properties.
Comment: thanks. I do use neovim only. Do you know any plan of neovim to include this feature?
Comment: Unfortunately, I don't know when this feature will be implemented. I opened the issue `#8363` 4 months ago, for a similar issue (a new quickfix property not correctly supported). If you know `C`, you could try to port the Vim patch `8.0.1112` using this [tutorial](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Merging-patches-from-upstream-Vim).
Comment: Otherwise, you could try this command: `:echo matchstr(execute('cc'), '\d\+')`, but it may not work in some contexts (e.g. in a code evaluated for a statusline (`:h E523`)).
Also, your cursor position may change; you could move back in the jumplist, or save & restore your position with `winsaveview()` and `winrestview()`.


Is it possible to do a state of the art paper with less accuracy than previous paper with 100 accuracy?|

Question: I working on a research paper in Machine Learning, the paper is regarding a classification problem of which I have achieved 98% accuracy. However some other paper working on the same dataset claims to have achieved 100% accuracy. Is it still possible to use my results as state of the art results and publish my paper or should I just search for another dataset? If yes then do I mention the previous results paper which got 100% accuracy as previous work, or should I just disregard it?
Comment: Of course, you have to name all previous work you are aware of, especially if so relevant to your question. I am also a bit sceptical about 100% claims. You should verify how they did the comparison and if they actually had a set of unseen data with which they compared.
Comment: Any suggestions on how to verify previous work claims given that algorithm details/implementation were not provided
Comment: @s.ali - that might be a good topic for an additional question. In short: do the best you can, then in the paper, you can say "there is a claim of X accuracy, we attempted to verify X, but the authors of X didn't provide any details, so the best we could get by making reasonable assumptions was Y < X."
Comment: What do you mean by "search for another dataset"?
Comment: To find a new dataset and get state of the art results on that dataset, since the current one already state of the art results were achieved.
Comment: Reviewers will ask why the journal needs to publish results showing how to solve a problem that has already been solved.
Answer: Since you are aware of the other work you should report it. But you should probably also try to verify its claims.
Whether your own work is worth publishing or not depends on some things. To be valuable, it needs to advance the state of the art on some dimension and accuracy is only one. If you can achieve "really good" results in half the effort/time/cost, you probably have something worthwhile. It might make the difference between something that is feasible or something that is not.
But it would be a serious breach to ignore the other work.
Comment: One way to make your work valuable would be to make the details and implementation publicly available.
Comment: +1 for "it would be a serious breach to ignore the other work" - simply not an option.
Comment: Pretty hard. Without details the claims are just claims, not established fact. You could even cite it that way. "Claims are made in X that ..."
Comment: @Buffy I would push even harder.  "X claims to achieve 100% accuracy, but these claims cannot be verified, because they do not provide a detailed description or implementation their algorithm."
Comment: Any suggestions on how to verify previous work claims given that algorithm details/implementation were not provided.


How can I remotly shutdown a windows machine

Question: I need to shutdown and / or reboot remote system.
Can this be done remotely without physically being next to the server?
Answer: Reboot now:
shutdown /r /m \\computername /t 0

Shutdown now:
shutdown /s /m \\computername /t 0

In both examples, change the 0 to a number of seconds to delay if desired.  Plenty of other options you can get from:
shutdown /?

Comment: You can even get a GUI by using shutdown /i
Answer: You might also want to checkout Mark Russinovich's PsShutdown utility. It's similar to the native Windows shutdown command, but also allows you to logoff the console user or lock the console.
Comment: I also prefer psshutdown over the standard shutdown included in Windows, becausa it allows you to specify a user/password different from the one you are logged.
Comment: +1 this helpped because I needed to use the u/p.
Answer: In Windows Remote Desktop hit ctrl+alt+END. Then click the Shut Down button.
Answer: Go to command prompt (start > run > cmd) on your workstation... and Type
shutdown -r -m \xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the IP address or computer name of the remote machine. -r option is for restart, don't use -r if want to just shut down the system.
This can also be very fun
Answer: shutdown -i gives you a nice simple little GUI for the shutdown command where you can target one or more machines, choose shutdown or restart, set the countdown timer etc.
This is the command I always use when I want to restart a remote machine.
Answer: I had a similar post on Stackoverflow and included a reboot script that waits for the server to come back.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56644/how-do-i-detect-if-a-windows-server-is-available-after-a-reboot
Answer: I do this at home. Start > Run cmd.exe and type in shutdown -s -t 60 (I always use -t 60 because I'll forget that I need to do something right when I press enter. shutdown -a will abort a shutdown if it isn't too late.)
Answer: If you have Remote Desktop Access shutdown can be done through here.
Comment: Vista, Server 2008, and Win7 remove the shutdown option from the start menu though.
Answer: You can also use psshutdown from the SysInternals tools.
Answer: Dogbert's Tech Support: do a Hard Reboot
Answer: Usage: shutdown [/i | /l | /s | /r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f]
    [/m \computer][/t xxx][/d [p|u:]xx:yy [/c "comment"]]
No args    Display help. This is the same as typing /?.
/?         Display help. This is the same as not typing any options.
/i         Display the graphical user interface (GUI).
           This must be the first option.
/l         Log off. This cannot be used with /m or /d options.
/s         Shutdown the computer.
/r         Shutdown and restart the computer.
/g         Shutdown and restart the computer. After the system is
           rebooted, restart any registered applications.
/a         Abort a system shutdown.
           This can only be used during the time-out period.
/p         Turn off the local computer with no time-out or warning.
           Can be used with /d and /f options.
/h         Hibernate the local computer.
           Can be used with the /f option.
/e         Document the reason for an unexpected shutdown of a computer.
/m \\computer Specify the target computer.
/t xxx     Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.
           The valid range is 0-600, with a default of 30.
           Using /t xxx implies the /f option.
/c "comment" Comment on the reason for the restart or shutdown.
           Maximum of 512 characters allowed.
/f         Force running applications to close without forewarning users.
           /f is automatically set when used in conjunction with /t xxx.
/d [p|u:]xx:yy  Provide the reason for the restart or shutdown.
           p indicates that the restart or shutdown is planned.
           u indicates that the reason is user defined.
             if neither p nor u is specified the restart or shutdown is unplanned.
           xx is the major reason number (positive integer less than 256).
           yy is the minor reason number (positive integer less than 65536).

Reasons on this computer:
(E = Expected U = Unexpected P = planned, C = customer defined)
Type    Major   Minor   Title
U      0       0       Other (Unplanned)
E       0       0       Other (Unplanned)
E P     0       0       Other (Planned)
 U      0       5       Other Failure: System Unresponsive
E       1       1       Hardware: Maintenance (Unplanned)
E P     1       1       Hardware: Maintenance (Planned)
E       1       2       Hardware: Installation (Unplanned)
E P     1       2       Hardware: Installation (Planned)
  P     2       3       Operating System: Upgrade (Planned)
E       2       4       Operating System: Reconfiguration (Unplanned)
E P     2       4       Operating System: Reconfiguration (Planned)
  P     2       16      Operating System: Service pack (Planned)
        2       17      Operating System: Hot fix (Unplanned)
  P     2       17      Operating System: Hot fix (Planned)
        2       18      Operating System: Security fix (Unplanned)
  P     2       18      Operating System: Security fix (Planned)
E       4       1       Application: Maintenance (Unplanned)
E P     4       1       Application: Maintenance (Planned)
E P     4       2       Application: Installation (Planned)
E       4       5       Application: Unresponsive
E       4       6       Application: Unstable
 U      5       15      System Failure: Stop error
E       5       19      Security issue
 U      5       19      Security issue
E P     5       19      Security issue
E       5       20      Loss of network connectivity (Unplanned)
 U      6       11      Power Failure: Cord Unplugged
 U      6       12      Power Failure: Environment
  P     7       0       Legacy API shutdown


What are the contributions of Professor Hans List?

Question: Considering his academic titles, what are the contribution of the automotive engineer, Professor Dr Dr h.c.mult. Hans List? What did he invent? I could not find anything except a brief obituary.
Comment: He warrants an article on [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_List). The [Deutsch version](http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_List) has more details.
Comment: I would not give too much attention to the many titles. (The English Wikipedia article also alludes to this.) For what I know, he founded AVL which is a big employer in the area of Graz (a provincial capital in Austria) and a significant player in the area of combustion engine research.
Answer: I think his honors are described in the bio you cite. He spent 50 years in academia, and as the title states,

The appellation "Dr Dr h.c.mult." shortens the Latin honoris causa multitudo - roughly "many honorary doctorates" - the first for his original Doctorate of Technical Science at Graz, the second for four other university honours.

If you need details on the specific university honors, I would suggest checking with the University of Graz, where he spent the majority of his academic career.  Alternatively state university of Tongji, Woosung, in China
On the other hand, I'm willing to give him respect for being 100 years old and coming in to work the day before he died.
Comment: Thanks for answer. I very interested in technology and AFV history and know a little about diesel engine with so called Schnürle porting, a compact valveless two-stroke engine with direct injection that was developed by this talented Austrian engineer in about 1942. But the details are unknown to me :(
Comment: Ahem ... what are the contributions of "[Professor Arnold Schwarzenegger](http://www.r20vienna.org/)"? :)


Is there a way to permanently disable the orbiting idle camera?

Question: If I don't do anything for too long, the camera will enter third-person view and circle me. It returns to my normal view once I interact with the game. Is there a way to permanently toggle this camera behaviour off?
Answer: As of right now, without the help of any mods or in-game add-ons, it is not possible to permanently disable the orbiting idle camera. There are 2 other methods, however, that you may find especially useful:

Toggle the Freefly camera

Simply do so by entering the command TFC into the console. This will switch your camera mode into freefly and "disable" the idle camera.

Delay when idle will be turned off

Add this to the bottom of skyrim.ini located at (on Windows 7)
  \Documents\My Games\Skyrim\
[Camera]
; Rotating camera when idle can not be turned off, but
  delayed.
; 120 seconds is default. Here we go with half an hour:
fAutoVanityModeDelay=1800.0000

Here are a few of the possible and known side effects that have occured when idling while "TFC-ed":

Having an issue though, I was using one of the break dancing
  animations on my PC and companion- NPC (Lydia). It was a wilderness
  area at night with snow falling (near a fort).  I "TFC'ed" via the
  console and zoomed it out a good bit then left it idle (had company
  over). When finally getting back to my computer, I had noticed a few
  things: my player character had become semi-transparent. This was
  fixed when I toggled out of TFC command again, however 3 things
  happened at this point -
1) the forced-3rd person angle was locked in and I still cannot zoom
  in or out as I would normally with the mouse wheel.
2) there were some bizarre shadow-artifacts flashing at different
  angles (never had this issue). I reloaded to a previous save and these
  slowly disappeared when utilizing vanilla animations in-game.
3) and this is a strange one, the loading screen objects became
  "burned" into fog type effects so that the semi-invisible object was
  static as it was when the loading screen had finished (keeping its
  true scale as the actual loading screen).
I really feel this was a conflict with a lighting mod (using latest
  Realistic Lighting mod - Vision option) and the TFC command.

Source: LINK
Comment: @NiteCyper See the above edit
Comment: However, as you requested for me to do so, I felt obliged to give it.
Comment: I think using the wait option while `tfc` is on causes the wait to count as sleep. Do you know if idling while `tfc` is on has any such side effects too?
Comment: Tried and it checks out. `tfc` had no side-effects. However, I found another answer. I may not accept either (for now).
Comment: @NiteCyper I do hope that you understand that these "side-effects" as you call them, often do not occur for everyone. Such side effects are usually situational and there are many factors that could potentially affect it. If tfc has not side effects for you, then it has no side-effects, for you. The ones that I listed above were merely bugs that occurred. If TFC-ing were to truly have a recurring bug, then Bethesda would have fixed it a long time ago. This is also the reason why I had not entered the possible side-effects that may happen in the first place as I felt that they were unnecessary.
Comment: (1) The first half of your paragraph sounds like it's arguing like the "absence of evidence" aphorism, but the latter half sounds opposite. I was skeptical because I used to think `tfc` didn't have any side-effects until I tried [waiting](http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/182608/is-it-more-efficient-to-wait-or-is-there-an-efficient-distance-to-travel#comment247290_182612) while it was toggled on. (2) Re: "Bethesda would have fixed it a long time ago": LOL. (3) I was impressed and appreciate the extra research that you put in. Thank you.
Answer: The tfc console command works and doesn't have side-effects (except that saving will save the tfc state), but I also found something else. The "Better INI Tweaks for Skyrim" (BITS) mod includes the option to "Disable the auto vanity camera mode". I looked into it and found the corresponding lines:

; Disables the automatic rotating 3rd person camera which activates after your character is idle for
  ; too long.  If AutoVanityMode is enabled, other variables control the delay (in seconds) before
  ; it activates, the increment of the camera rotation, and the zoom level of the camera.
#bDisableAutoVanityMode=0
#fAutoVanityModeDelay=120
#fAutoVanityIncrement=0.0100
#fDefaultAutoVanityZoom=300
bDisableAutoVanityMode=1

; Install to \Skyrim\Data and the tweaks in this file will override any of the same tweaks from
  ; the Skyrim.ini file, typically found in C:\Users[USERNAME]\Documents\My Games\Skyrim.
  ;
  ; Any line in an INI file that begins with a semicolon [;] or a hashtag [#] is interpreted as a
  ; comment to be read by humans and is ignored by the game.


How to store a javascript animation as NFT

Question: I have a generative "art" animation made with the JavaScript p5js library and I would like to upload the output of this perpetual infinite animation on pinata or another Ipfs service and sell it as an NFT. I would like to ask how can I do. Is the best practice to convert everything in an SVG + metadata? if so what can I do? Thanks for all the answers :)
Answer: Here you can check out Opensea's metadata standards which have some info on SVG standards for their site: https://docs.opensea.io/docs/metadata-standards
This is what they say about the image properties of your NFT metadata
image:    This is the URL to the image of the item. Can be just about any type of image (including SVGs, which will be cached into PNGs by OpenSea, and even MP4s), and can be IPFS URLs or paths. We recommend using a 350 x 350 image.
image_data:   Raw SVG image data, if you want to generate images on the fly (not recommended). Only use this if you're not including the image parameter.`


Can my prologue be written in omniscient third person if the rest of my novel is written in third person limited POV?

Question: I'm writing a novel in third person limited point of view. I want my prologue to feature an event that is referenced later in the novel, but my protagonist is not involved in the event. (e.x the prologue is a murder, the novel has the protagonist searching for the killer). If my novel is written with the protagonist as the narrative focus, is it all right for my prologue to have an objective pov? Thank you!
Comment: 1) What do you mean by "is it all right"? There's no rulebook... 2) Have you read any novels where the prologue is a murder and the main story is the protagonist searching for the killer? Because I have, and I've lost count of how many.
Answer: As the author of the story, with absolute freedom to tell your story anyway you want, you can use any POV you want in any scene you want. So yes, you can use an Omniscient POV for the prologue and 3rd person limited in the scenes of your chapters.
I am told that 3rd Person limited is the most common POV used for writing these days because it is the easiest to do well. Whereas omniscient POVs are less common, but this POV is hard to use well.  Tolkien and Frank Herbert wrote in Omniscient POV and were master storytellers.
My understanding is the challenge in using Omniscient POV, especially 3rd person or Subjective Omniscient POV, is that technically the narrator knows everything that will or has happened -- they can be anywhere in time and space and, because of that 3rd person or Subjective modifier, in any character's head.  So the narrator knows how the story ends and what is going to go wrong or right for the protagonists and the antagonists. That means that if the narrator doesn't share something really important about the story with the reader, something that is critical to understanding the what and why of everything in the story about to be told, that it's easy for the reader to feel like they are getting jerked around. But, sharing all that information works against creating suspense and tension.
Since you are limiting your Omniscient POV to your prologue, it may not be too much of a risk. You can mitigate it by restricting yourself to a straight Omniscient POV, one without any insight into a character's thoughts, and only relating character's dialog and actions.
But, then, no one reads Prologues anyway, so it may not really matter at all what you disclose.
Answer: R. A. Freeman invented the "Inverted" detective story, in which the reader is first shown the crime in detail, and then sees how the detective solves it. In most cases the first section is told from the criminal's PoV, and the 2nd from the detective's or an associate of the detectives (the Dr Watson role). But in some cases, the first section was done in an Omniscient  Pov. This worked well IMO.
I have seen an Omniscient  prologue specifically used in works of fantasy, that then followed one or more characters in tight-third.
Like any other technique, this is fine when well done, not so much when poorly done.