Dish soap nozzle build up

Question: How to prevent dish soap bottle from getting clogged by dry soap at the tip of the bottle. The tip of the bottle keeps getting clogged from dry soap substance.
Comment: You can prevent it by closing the lid after use.
Answer: My trick is to hold the nozzle under the running tap as you fill the sink to wash the dishes. This has the twin benefits if removing the crud, whilst stopping it from being wasted because it contributes to the detergent being used for your washing-up.
There is a bit of an art to it though, you obviously want to avoid excess water getting INTO the bottle, so you will need to experiment with the best angle to hold the bottle to wash away the crud, whilst minimising the entry of water into the bottle. This will also involve the flow of the tap - you need enough water velocity to "mechanically" knock the crud off the bottle, but if the flow is slower, it allows more time for the water to dissolve the detergent. A balancing act.
Comment: This is how I've been handling it.  I like that I can get a tiny amount of soap off of the lid and cap when I don't need a full squirt of dish detergent.
Answer: I purchased washing up liquid in a pump bottle from some fancy manufacturer once, and I've retained the bottle which I now fill up with the regular soap.
I imagine any pump bottle will suffice; in these days of COVID you can probably find any amount of hand wash pump bottles you can refill and a couple of pumps will eject enough soap, plus help use a consistent amount (maybe less) too, if for example the kids just indiscriminately squirt half a bottle of dish soap in when they're "helping"

It's a commercial product that exists already but it's possible to buy brushes that have a container in the handle for a large quantity of soap that drips out as the brush is used; this might also help solve the problem as you're using a lot of soap infrequently so there isn't enough small repeated use to cause a buildup
Comment: Wow this solution is so simple but so dam good. I cant believe i didnt think about just putting the dishsoap in a pump bottle like the one i use to wash my hands thank you!!!
Comment: +1 A pump helps reduce wasted detergent by dispensing measured amounts easily.
Answer: I haven't found a way to avoid it, but this is the easiest way to deal with it:
When the buildup becomes problematic (clogging the nozzle), unscrew the top and drop it in a mug filled with warm water. Leave for a few hours.
The soap mostly dissolves, any remaining crud is easily scrubbed off.
This happens 1-2 times over the life of a bottle.
Comment: Awesome i will try because this is happening like once a month or once every two months

Dish soap nozzle build up


Broken three prong plug

Question: If the third prong of a plug of a shop vac broke off, can you still use the vac as is, or is there another way to use it without replacing the plug.
Comment: Why can you not replace the plug with a field-fitted type?
Comment: Is the circuit you are plugging into GFCI protected?
Answer: You can use it. But it is NOT RECOMMENDED.
The vast majority of the time, the ground plug does "nothing". But under certain fault conditions, the ground plug is vital for safety. There are certain types of tools that are "double insulated" and do not have a ground plug. But if a device has a ground plug then it is not advisable to use it without the plug. This includes both a problem with the plug, as you described, and also includes using a "3-prong to 2-prong adapter".
This is especially the case with a shop vacuum. Shop vacuums often handle water, metal and other conductive materials. If something should go wrong and the ground plug is not intact and functioning properly, that could lead to serious injury.
Replacing the plug is usually not hard to do. Depending on the type of cord, you might be able to replace the entire cord, or you may cut off the end and attach a new 3-prong plug. Look for a replacement that is "UL Listed".
Comment: Thank you. What is a field fitted plug, and can I use a 2 prong adapter safely and plug that into the wall outlet, or just replace it as u mentioned. Just that I had this big project all lined up to do then I realized the 3rd prong was missing, which left the project hanging.
Comment: A field fitted plug means "replacing the *factory installed original* with a new one".  No, using a 2-prong adapter is most definitely not a good idea. If you plug the shop vac. into a GFCI protected receptacle, that will provide some protection, but I can't (nor can any random person on the internet) guarantee that it will necessarily be "safe" by doing so.
Comment: @SandyMcNece is the socket you're plugging it into 2-prong? Is that why someone broke off the ground pin?

Broken three prong plug


Is the Scottish Resistance useful in TF2?

Question: Is the Demo man's high capacity Scottish Resistance sticky bomb thrower useful in TF2?  What tactics does it encourage, and what does it discourage?
Answer: The Scottish Resistance is largely a defensive weapon.  It allows you guard multiple places all at the same time.  Since most capture points have multiple entrances to get into the area, you can sticky up each entrance - and even the capture point itself.  If a scout jump through one spot, you can detonate only those bombs, without losing your entire "sticky trap".  You can place 14 bombs - instead of the normal 8 - so you have the ability to lock down a huge area.
This does force the demoman to be very aware of a large area.  After you blow up one patch of bombs, and laying the next, you still need to watch to see if any more enemies are near your other traps.
There is a longer delay in being able to detonate these bombs after launch.  Therefore, it's not as good as a "dueling" weapon.  You'll be more reliant on your pipes for that.
Comment: @T M, Unless this was patched since the item was released, this isn't true.  The stickies won't highlight unless you can see them, but you can still detonate them if they're in the appropriate cone of vision.
Comment: It's good to mention that you can sticky jump without looking down. This also means you shouldn't stand on some of your bombs while popping other ones. X_X
Comment: @StrixVaria You're correct about detonation, but I don't think you're correct about the highlighting. I was playing the other day and I definitely get highlights on my Resistance stickies even when I'm out of line of sight.
Comment: One key downside to be aware of is that you have to have line of sight to your stickies to detonate them...   This means you often have a harder time guarding certain corners (since you must keep yourself exposed to be able to see your stickies).
Comment: I'm perfectly capable of detonating Resistance stickies through walls, so I think TM's comment is erronious.  One thing you DO need to note, however, is 1: There's no way to mass-detonate stickies, and 2: It's very easy, if you are close to some of your stickies, to accidentally detonate them in your own face. You have to be very careful when using the Resistance.
Answer: I've seen it used with some success (i.e. it killed me) when defending the bomb cart. The demo would shoot some around the current cart position and some more a few meters down the track, so he'd kill both the first wave of enemies attempting to push it, and the second wave.
I haven't seen it successfully used in any other scenario.
Comment: That DOES sound like an excellent strategy.
Comment: I do this all the time, best way to stop the cart!
Answer: The Scottish Resistance makes an excellent defensive weapon for covering multiple entrances. Offensively, it doesn't have the same capability, unless you're also supported by an offensive engineer or the like. Also, use it as an early-warning system by placing your stickies in plain view. The extra capacity allows you to use stickies liberally.
Answer: It makes an excellent weapon for camping/covering multiple entrances. Shoot it just above a doorway and when someone walks in, detonate.
PROS:
Detonates stickybombs near crosshair
Able to destroy enemy stickybombs
+50% max secondary ammo on wearer
+6 max pipebombs out
CONS:
0.4 sec slower bomb arm time
(Pros/cons taken from TF2 Wikia.)
Answer: The best use I've found for the Scottish Resistance so far is on defense of point C on Gravelpit. You can sticky all the entrances at once, and by standing on the point, you can see and detonate them as enemies come in. A medic or dispenser at the top of the tower helps a lot with this.
Answer: Another good use of the Scottish resistance is making "backup" traps.  Even in areas where there are only a few key choke points, you can lay multiple traps leading towards the objective, so that if someone avoids or survives the initial trap, you've still got a trap behind that one to catch them or finish them off.
You will definitely want to be towards the back of your team line though, regardless of how you use this weapon.  The more distance you have between you and the other team, the more time you have to set up the Resistance.


How can a beginner remove an actor from footage?

Question: I want to edit this montage of James Bond Intros. What I want is remove the real james bond, as a beginner what will you suggest a good video editor for this kind of situation?
Comment: Okay, so what is it that you would like to achieve, would you like to replace the subject, or do you simply just want to omit him from the shot?
Answer: All of these seem to be simple circle mattes, you just need an editing system that allows you to generate a circle mask that has an animatable position.
You will need 3 pieces of media:
1- the original footage
2- the new actor to go in the circle (or a neutral shot)
3- the moving circle mask
You will need to animate the circle to follow the original circle, then use the circle mask to reveal the new footage in the hole.
I can recommend using the Open Software "Blender", it has a Video editor called the VSE and a system of user defined masks that you can animate with.
Answer: Imageneer systems,  Mocha Pro is about as easy as it gets.
See this example/tutorial
But it is far from simple!
There are versions of Mocha available for After Effects and Hitfilm as well. I'm not sure If they are capable of doing this.


Which Commodore CDTV models came with keyboard with grey caps

Question: I've noticed on the Big Book of Amiga Hardware site, that CDTV keyboard came in 2 versions, one with black caps, one with grey ones. Which one came first and with which model of CDTV?
Answer: The Commodore CDTV did not come with any keyboard, mouse, or external floppy drive. These accessories were available by purchasing the optional "Expansion Pack" for ~$200.
To my knowledge, all the accessories in the Expansion Pack were fully and completely black. The keyboard was identical to the contemporary keyboard that shipped with the A3000, other than being all black.
While I'm open to the possibility that there were some early version keyboards that did not have black key caps, it seems a simpler explanation that over the years various other model Amiga keyboard parts have been repurposed. Also, I am only aware of a single Commodore product code for the CDTV keyboard (CD 1221).
Answer: There were grey versions, particularly in Germany. It was not marketed under a different model number afaik.
For images see https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=661


Web apps bandwidth usage

Question: I'm wondering if there are studies regarding bandwidth usage of websites. Most modern websites use background Ajax requests to reload content from time to time to refresh information. Of course it takes bandwidth but I would be interested in a link to a website reporting common website bandwidth usage when you keep a web page.
Answer: If you're interested in knowing how much bandwidth specific sites use, you can download the Firebug webpage debugger and use the 'net' tab to see each request your browser makes and how large the response is.
Since I started typing this message I got 3 responses from webapps.stackexchange.com and they wereneach 26 bytes.
Comment: @radius: you mean a site which has statistics like "the average gmail users uses 10mb bandwidth over 10minutes"?
Comment: Yep I know how to it myself, the goal is to get already existing information
Comment: Yes but only when they are doing nothing on the website. If you leave gmail open it will check for the mail even if you don't do anything. This result should be almost the same for every user on most website I guess

Web apps bandwidth usage


Monstera propagation

Question: I wanted to propagate my Mostera deliciosa but it went wrong and I cut a simple branch with no leaf node.
I put it in water but it seems like there isn't any roots yet.
Is there any way to make this work? I don't want it to die.
Comment: You need at least two internodes for each cutting.  One under the soil/water.  The other should still have a set of leaves attached to it, above the soil.   Many plant do better with two internodes below the surface and two leaf sets above.   This is four in total.  But, the bare minimum is one below and one set of leaves above.
Answer: Sorry to disappoint you, but a leaf node is a must. An internode alone won't help. There is a chance a bare cutting may sprout a new branch with leaves, but this can take place only at the node.

Monstera propagation


Casual way to enter a home?

Question: As far as I know, おはいりください might be used to invite someone in when they are visiting your home. I was wondering if this would be used by friends who have visited each other's houses a few times before. Also, would the guest reply しつれいします, おじゃまします, or ありがとう, or is there some other more casual way to say this?
Answer: いらっしゃい and おじゃまします are the most common and important phrases for this scene. I myself always say おじゃまします when I enter friends' houses and いらっしゃい when I invite friends. While as a host you might have more freedom than always saying いらっしゃい, the level of politeness that おじゃまします, as a guest, conveys is almost always expected even between friends in my opinion.
Here is a typical conversation:
Guest: こんにちは
 Host: いらっしゃい
  (short conversation at Genkan).
 Host: さあ,あがって (or どうぞどうぞ)
 (put off shoes)
 Guest: おじゃまします (with the first step to the main part of the house)
おはいりください may perhaps be used after いらっしゃい but
どうぞおあがりください, あがってください or あがって sound more natural
than おはいりください. This is probably because the main part of a traditional
Japanese house is higher than genkan and so the first step is stepping up.
おじゃまします is like asking for permission: "I'm just about being in your private area!"
Another good phrase to remember is おじゃましてます, which is like "I'm already in your private area!" Imagine a situation in which you are already at a friend's home, enjoying the lunch with him/her and his/her father has just come home. You might want to say おじゃましてます instead of おじゃまします
Comment: There is asymmetry between おじゃまします and いらっしゃい. You as a host wouldn't say いらっしゃい if the guest is a boss, while you as a guest can (probably should) say おじゃまします if the host works for you.

Casual way to enter a home?


Connect to facebook api in blackberry

Question: i found an sdk here:
http://www.baskoro.web.id/facebook-connect-blackberry-HOWTO.html
i tried to run the code both on device and simulator but it shows only white screen and nothing else
i also tried this without result token:
.append("&next=http://www.facebook.com/connect/prompt_permissions.php?api_key=" + "api_key" + "&display=popup&v=1.0&next=http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html?xxRESULTTOKENxx&fbconnect=true&ext_perm=read_stre...")
but no success
i also tried this without result token:
StringBuffer url = new StringBuffer()
            .append("http://m.facebook.com/login.php?")
            .append("api_key=")
            .append(facebookFacade.getApplicationKey())
            .append("&connect_display=page")
            .append("&v=1.0")
            .append("&fbconnect=true")
            .append(
                    "&next="http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html?xxRESULTTOKENxx&fbconnect=true"
                    );
i dont have result token
how to get that????
Plzzzzzzzz help
Answer: Please use the latest SDK at here instead. You should be able to follow the short tutorial on the same page as well.
Answer: Download graph api from http://sourceforge.net/projects/facebook-bb-sdk/.
After that you have to add two thinks.
one is when you want to post a photo to your friends wall ,you have to put one more key-value in the JSONObject(Request) - that is  requestObject.put("target_id",getid()) in publisePhoto method facebookuser.java & facebook.java
Second is you have to change
JSONObject responseObject = fb.write(getId() + "/photos", requestObject, pPhoto.getMIMEType(), imageData, true);
to
JSONObject responseObject = fb.write(getId() + "/photos?access_token="+Facebook.token, requestObject, pPhoto.getMIMEType(), imageData, true);in FacebookUser.java & Facebook.java
where token is Static string from Facebook.java and store the value of access_token (you have to add it)
Answer: i think before you start with sample codes.
you need to study some of the links.

OAuth 2.0

facebook developer documents

after that you can get
client_id and client_secret from this link
Comment: hey Vivart i checked the graph Api and i have api_key,secret_key,application_id with me but still i don't understand how to use the url mentioned in graph api as they ask for auth token.i dont have and how can i get that?

Connect to facebook api in blackberry


how many stops different are a 100 ISO film stock and an EI 320 film stock, and which is faster

Question: how many stops different are a 100 ISO film stock and an EI320 film stock , and  which is faster?
Answer: If you are wondering what the difference is between ISO and EI, these are used in different contexts.
ISO gives the speed of the film.
EI stands for exposure index, and it's the speed that you have used to expose a given film. Most of the time you will use an exposure index that matches the ISO rating of the film. If you want to "push" a film for example, you might "rate" ISO 400 film at 800, i.e. use an exposure index of 800, or expose ISO 400 film at EI 800. This then is taken into consideration when processing the film.
Answer: The difference between ISO 100 and ISO 320 is 1⅔ stops. If you shoot ISO 100 film at EI320, you have underexposed it by 1⅔ stops and it will need to be "pushed" by 1⅔ stops when developed.
Answer: EI320 is sort of misnomer when attributed to film stock. For a film that is not yet exposed ("film stock") one can say "it is REI320"; meaning the recommended exposure index (REI) is as if the film stock speed is ISO 320. EI reefers to exposed film (and exposed film is not exactly "stock").
In processing practice the difference between ISO 100 and EI 320 is not as simple as log2(320/100). It depends on what the ISO speed was the film stock, and what is the intended purpose of EI. If the purpose is having a denser negative, and the original ISO is 400, no adjustment in development is made, the film is processed as ISO 400. Usually for an ISO 400 film EI may be as low as 200 without any adjustment of film development. If the purpose is to have a lighter negative, and we start with ISO 100 film, exposing it as ISO 320 (EI 320), we may push 1 stop in processing, and the difference between ISO 100 and EI 320 becomes 2/3 of a stop instead of 1 2/3.


Why didn't New Horizons stay in Pluto's orbit?

Question: As everyone knows, New Horizons, which was sent some decades ago, reached Pluto on July 14th, 2015 and it stayed there for only 24 hours and after that it is going into the Kuiper Belt and thereafter into interstellar space like Pioneer and Voyager probes did before it. My question is, why was New Horizons not allowed to stay in Pluto's orbit to collect information on the dwarf planet, like MOM (Mars orbiter Mission) is doing around Mars? Is this due to scientists being less interested in searching for life in the Pluto system, or are there any other reasons?
Comment: Look through the [questions tagged new-horizons](http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/new-horizons) and you will see at least two duplicate of this question.  It is a good idea to do that simple test (look through questions with same tag) *before* posting a new question.
Comment: It's pretty hard to stay someplace you never were.  I have no idea where your 24 hour figure came from.
Answer: New Horizons was launched roughly 9 and a half years ago, on January 19, 2006. So not decades ago. Pluto is far, far away. In fact, so far away, that both the Sun and the Earth, together with the rest of the inner Solar system planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars) that are closer to us, appear in that small inner ellipse on this image of the New Horizons flyby trajectory:

And while we managed to launch New Horizons at record setting speed of 16.26 kilometers per second (58,536 km/h or 36,373 miles per hour) on its way to Pluto and setting it free from the Earth's gravitational grip that keeps you well seated on your chair, all of its way there it was still pulled by the immense Sun's gravity towards it and was slowed down by it on its way to Pluto, so it also used a Jupiter gravity assist to gain an extra boost, trading some of Jupiter's angular momentum in its orbit around the Sun for higher exit velocity towards Pluto. A tiny amount of this momentum for the super-massive gas giant Jupiter, but a big push forward for in comparison tiny New Horizons (nearly 1/4 of a quadrillionth, or nearly 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of New Horizons would equal the mass of Jupiter). And its velocity gain with respect to the Sun looked like this:

So now that the New Horizons probe is going real fast, so vastly hugely mind-boggling fast that your trip to the chemist seems just peanuts in comparison, it managed to get to Pluto at a relative velocity of 13.78 km/s (49,600 km/h or 30,800 miles per hour). And even for a measly 478 kg probe, halting it to a stop would require a tremendous amount of energy and some form of reaction mass to accelerate in the opposite direction, and quite a bit of it. And that's something that New Horizons doesn't have available to it, and if it did, it would increase its mass, it would then be launched at much slower speed towards Pluto, and really take decades to get there.
So, in other words, New Horizons was going too fast to have halted to a near stop and remained at Pluto for longer. It wasn't a bus trip with stops along the way, but a speeding bullet (actually about 50-60 times faster than that) moving through the vast nothingness of the vacuum of space. And unless it hits something along its way, it will continue to do so for many millennia to come and exit our Solar system entirely.
For more information, see Requirements to orbit Pluto and other answered questions tagged as new-horizons. All images in my answer are from New Horizons Mission Design, Yanping Guo and Robert W. Farquhar, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (PDF).
Comment: One thing I don't quite get (perhaps the answer could be expanded to include it) - logically, shouldn't it take nearly the same amount of fuel to slow down as it does to speed up?  So you take something roughly the size of the booster that we used to launch NH (although that had to fight Earth's gravity, so maybe you need even less) and you just launch NH + that.  Wouldn't that give enough fuel to slow down?  Basically, how big would the launcher need to be to launch all that?  Sure we'd need a TON of fuel, but still, couldn't we do it with a few million $?
Comment: @Jez That's already discussed in my answer to the question I link (and it looks this question will be closed as a duplicate of). In theory, assuming our rockets have dry mass of nothing (no rocket body, no payload), which is a fair first order approximation because dry-to-wet [mass ratio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_ratio) really is kept as low as possible, you'd need 1/e of the total launched mass of propellants to decelerate. See [Tsiolkovsky rocket equation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation) and Google `"The tyranny of the rocket equation"` for more info.


How do I store items I don't want to carry?

Question: I have a full inventory of wood and other useful crafting items that I don't want to hold onto all the time or sell. Is there a place for me to put them early on?
Answer: When you have 50 wood you can craft a chest from the Crafting menu. Press Esc, and then the Hammer icon in the menu. Then click on the chest. You will instantly make the chest and will not be able to undo it. Then you can place this chest in or around your house as you see fit. It has 36 spaces of inventory space.
Make sure you have space to carry it! Once you make the chest you will have to make room for it in your inventory or throw it or something else out. You can simply throw it on the ground rather the trash can and come to retrieve it later but this of course takes real world and in-game world time. You do not want to have to throw away something valuable.
It is very likely items will persist for a reasonable amount of time to return and pick it up but I have only been playing for a little bit.
Comment: I can confirm that items persist between map changes within the same day. Haven't tested waiting over night though.
Comment: @Chippies I've seen them persist overnight, and wondered the same, so I've posted a question: [How long do items persist on the ground outside?](http://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/257887)
Comment: Man, this isn't intuitive and really sucks. Now I have a chest sitting in the middle of the forest and have to give up other items. Yahoo.


God/Goddess of clones or duplicates

Question: Is there any god/goddess who had the power of clones or represented them?
Like Dionysus is a god of wine and many other related things, is there a god of clones/duplicates/mirror images across any mythology? Even a monster or creature is ok.
Comment: As @tom said, I don't think there's is any god for this. Because gods are imagined to explain natural phenomenon like thunder etc. But I never saw a clone or anything being cloned. If you find a god of [starfish](http://www.starfishfacts.org/regeneration_and_self_cloning.html) or of [earthworms](https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/earthworm3.htm), this may be your only option. But I still think nobody in theses times cared about those species enough to create a cult or so.
Comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_in_mythology
Comment: this works. But I was searching for something for twins/clones.  ex: Ares is the Greek god of war, Similarly I wanted to find a god/goddess of twins/clones. Thanks for answering.
Answer: To answer your question if there is a god specifically for clones, the answer would be no.
Since there was no such thing as cloning in ancient times they did not have a deity or creature for it (just like there is no such thing as an ancient god of automobiles or smartphones).
Although some creatures and deities have the power to clone themselves a specific god for cloning does not exist. If you where to search for a duplicitous deity of creature the list would be substantially bigger.
The closest answer to be found is the Hindu Raktabīja

In Hindu mythology, Raktabīja was an Asura (loosely translated as
demon) who fought with Shumbha and Nishumbha against Goddess Durga and
Goddess Kali or Goddess Chamunda. Raktabīja had a boon that whenever a
drop of his blood fell on the ground, a duplicate Raktabīja would be
born at that spot (rakta=blood, bīja=seed; " He for whom each drop of
blood is a seed"). According to some sources, Raktabija was, in his
previous birth, Rambhasura, king of demons and the father of
Mahishasura.
The eighth chapter of the Devi Mahatmya, RaktabIja-vadh, focuses on
Ambika's battle with Raktabīja as part of her battle against the
Asuras Shumbha and Nishumbha, who had disenfranchised the gods from
heaven. Raktabīja was wounded, but drops of blood falling on the
ground created innumerable other Raktabījas, and Ambika and the
Matrikas were in difficulty.
At this point, the Goddess Kali joined
the battle, who stretched her tongue over the earth and licked up each
drop of blood pouring from Raktabīja's body while other goddesses
wounded him. Kali devoured his duplicates into her gaping mouth. This
form who drank the demon's blood is also called Raktheshwari.

Illustrated below is the Goddess Ambika Leading the Eight Mother Goddesses in Battle Against the Demon Raktabija. Notice Kali using her tongue to collect the dead duplicates of Raktabija while more are coming from the right.
Comment: To be picky, "* no such thing as cloning in ancient times*" isn't quite true in general.  People have cloned plants since the beginning of agriculture, and fishermen used to inadvertently clone starfish (they'd tear them up to kill them, but each piece would then grow into a full starfish).

God/Goddess of clones or duplicates


Is there a law against saying obscenities?

Question: Is there a law against saying obscenities? If yes, what is considered obscene? Does it apply to any language or only to Hebrew?
Comment: @Tomas, this site is [targeted at](http://judaism.stackexchange.com/faq) those who base their lives on Jewish law and tradition. The prescriptive power of God-given [law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halakha) is an underlying assumption for many or most questions here.
Comment: Why do you care about law? Why don't you ask your intrinsic feeling, your conscience what is actually right or wrong? Law is never perfect and never will be.
Answer: The Talmud (Shabbos 33a) states (using Is. 9:16 as a prooftext) that obscene speech causes various national troubles, G-d forbid. It then goes on to say:
"Rabbi Chanan bar Rava says: Everyone knows why a bride enters the bridal chamber. Nevertheless, if one speaks obscenely about it, even if there was a Divine decree that he enjoy seventy years [the average human lifespan] of goodness, it can thereby be turned into bad."
So there may not be a formal black-letter law against obscene speech, but we see from this passage that it is definitely something to be avoided. To the best of my knowledge, there is no difference in this regard what language is used. As for "what is considered obscene," perhaps we might best adopt Justice Potter Stewart's definition: "I know it when I see it."
Comment: Do any halachic works codify this statement?
Comment: @Curiouser: not that I've found. However, Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 53:25) says that a chazzan who speaks obscenely should be reprimanded, and if he persists he should be fired.
Answer: As a punishment for obscenity,  troubles multiply, cruel decrees are proclaimed afresh, the youth of Israel's enemies. (Shabbat 33a)
All know for what purpose a bride enters the bridal canopy, yet against whomsoever who speaks obscenely [thereof], even if a sentence of seventy years' happiness had been sealed for him, it is reversed for evil.(Shabbat 33a)
Even a superfluous conversation between a man and his own wife is mentioned to him at the time of his death. (Chagiga 5b)
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall He have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is ungodly and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh wantonness. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still. (Isaias 9:16)
(from messilat yesharim)
Comment: Sounds like mostly a repeat of the preexisting answer.


Can I travel within the Schengen area while my Italian residency card is being renewed?

Question: I am a Filipina living legally here in Italy. My permesso di soggiorno is under renewal since it has been expired. I was scheduled for biometrics on April 11 and I have to go to Denmark on April 28. I am afraid I will not be allowed to go to denmark with only the receipt from the Posta,., or can i travel to denmark with only the receipt from posta? Are there ways in which I can travel or alternative ways to do?
Comment: What or where is Timbro?
Comment: "Timbro" is the term used when you have applied for a renewal of residence permit and was scheduled for thumbmark.  After this you have to wait for the release for the new permit to stay.
Comment: Related: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/83623/travel-while-residence-permit-has-expired-but-is-being-renewed
Comment: Have you applied for a visa for the Denmark trip?
Comment: Have not applied for visa for denmark because they say I can not apply for danish visa while i am renewing my permit to stay in italy.
Answer: Timatic, the database used by airlines, states the following regarding Italy itself:

Residents of Italy holding expired Residence Permits or a
    copy of an expired Residence Permit  are permitted to
    re-enter Italy, provided also holding a receipt issued by
    the Italian Post Office or Police Department, confirming new
    permit has been applied for. Applications for renewal must
    be made within 60 days of expiring, otherwise immigration
    could refuse re-entry, even if holding confirmation of
    application. Holders copies of an expired Residence Permit
    also require a statement, stating that they are holding a
    copy.
    Residence Permits that include a named child must be valid
    when traveling with the named child.

This is not stated for Denmark
However, if you travel by air and avoid Ryanair, the chance of being caught by authorities or stopped from flying is next to none - if checking in bags, simply present your passport for them to match you against the ticket, and the same thing if asked to present ID at the gate (only likely with easyJet).
In other words, do not travel by land, as Denmark has re-introduced selective border checks at the land border and ferry ports, and Switzerland (which you would likely pass through) has them as well.
Comment: Isn't Denmark currently conducting systematic checks at airports as well due to the refugee crisis?
Comment: @JonathanReez No they're not (at all), and it's not even systematic at the land border.
Comment: Would be nice if we could make a canonical answer for Schengen area as a whole.


Do the leaves of Yggdrasil (the World Tree) have any special properties?

Question: Do the leaves of the World Tree (Yggdrasil) have any special properties in Norse Mythology?
Comment: Related: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34834/do-the-leaves-of-yggdrasil-the-world-tree-have-any-special-properties
Comment: I receive many questions like this mostly from Dragon Quest players, a game in which the leaves of the World Tree revives a dead member of the party to full HP...
Answer: I don't know if the leaves had any magical properties, but apparently it dripped honey:
I know an ash-tree stands called Yggdrasill,
a high tree, soaked with shining loam;
from there come the dews which fall in the valley,
ever green, it stands over the well of fate. (Vsp. 19, Larrington)
The dew that falls from it on to the earth, this is what people call honeydew, and from this bees feed. (Snorri/Faulkes, Gylf 17)
(The translations are by Carolyne Larrington and Anthony Faulkes.)
Ash trees exude a sticky sap called manna or honeydew, which runs from the branches and leaves. Apart from bees, the goat Heidrun ate this honey, which probably was transformed into the mead that ran from her udders.


When copying a sheet into another Google Sheets file, how to keep comments?

Question: Does this only work on specific OSes?
Answer: You cannot copy and paste a cell with the attached comments but you can cut and paste a cell.
Answer: you are probably seeking a method which will allow you to copy a cell(s) containing a comment(s) and paste such cell(s) in a way to keep those comments. unfortunately, such a method doesn't exist.
the only way to copy comments from a given sheet is to make a global copy of such sheet:

go to File
select Make a copy...
choose Copy comments
Answer: I also went to this page to get some answers. After seeing that there is no instant way to do it, this is what I did

Download Google sheet files as Excel (the comments will be included in the download)
Make one consolidated Excel file for the worksheets that you want to consolidate (right-click the Tab, Move or Copy (select your new consolidated file)
Upload the file to Google Drive
Open file as Google Sheet
File>Save as Google Sheet
Comment: Works similarly for docs too, Word lets you merge specific elements, like taking just the comments from several files into a master edit.
Answer: From Create, view, or save a file (pay attention to step 4)

COMPUTER
Make a copy of a file

On your computer, open a Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Forms home screen.
Open the file you want to make a copy of.
In the menu, click File and then Make a copy.
Type a name and choose where to save it.
If you want to copy comments from a document, spreadsheet, or presentation, click Copy comments and suggestions or Copy comments.
Click Ok.

The Android/ iOS apps doesn't include the option to Copy comments and suggestions / Copy comments
Comment: need confirmation that there's no other ways to do this?

 like you cant copy/paste? or right click on a tab/sheet > 'copy to' ?
Answer: As it stands you can't even paste with comments within the same sheet. However, within the same sheet you can, with a little ingenuity, move a section of cells around without losing the comments. The Insert-Cells/Shift and Delete-Cells/Shift options (available by right clicking on a cell or some selected cells) can be used to move a set of cells around on a sheet with the comments intact.
Not the solution to the original problem, but I got here when I searched for the solution to this problem (which I then solved myself), so I figured someone else might too.


Can I have restricted permissions on a document library view?

Question: I have a document library by which I want staff to only see items they create or modify.  However, I want supervisors to see all items.  Is this possible?
Comment: Yes, This is possible.
The option is Brake role inheritance of the document library.
Please look at my answer.
Answer:
Create a page.
Add your doc library as a web part.
Then modify the web part's view.
This will be exclusive to this page. Then set permissions on the page.

That satisfies the question in the title.

You can use a workflow to trim item level permissions and can set to a sharepoint group of supervisors, Created By, and Modified By.
Answer: Please follow the steps as in the given URL-
Please click here.
You can do that with the SP 2010 and 2013 designer workflow.
Once you set the access to the list/Library/ items then they are only accessible to the mentioned group/s or people/s that is view of the list or library.
Hope it will help you.
Answer: If you select the option to "only see items they create or modify", then you can't allow supervisors to see those items.
You'll need a workaround to make this work, for example use folders with custom permissions (one per contributor), or individual file permissions, or workflows (to modify permissions, or move files to a library where supervisors have access).
Answer: Create a default view that only show the documents created or modified by [me]. That way user will only see the documents created or modified by them. Then remove the Allitems.aspx view from library setting. However, when you type out the URL of the view, you can still see and supervise all the documents.


Term for using your own words against you

Question: Could anyone tell me the literary term (if one exists) for using someone's own words against them in the future. For example, in The Merchant of Venice when Shylock states he wants to 'catch Antonio once upon the hip' and later Gratiano repeats this to Shylock as an insult.
Comment: It's "media bias", obviously!
Comment: Dramatic irony.
Comment: Avoid posting questions that do not detail the effort you have already made to find an answer, solutions you have already rejected, and why. Such questions may be closed as lacking research effort until they are edited to include research. Research can take many forms: checking references such as an online English dictionary, thesaurus, or grammar, searching this site for similar questions, searching the web, or putting substantial thought into the question on your own. See: "[How much research is needed? – EL&U Meta](https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5039#5043)".
Comment: @MetaEd I'm not sure _I_'d know where to start when it comes to researching this one (perhaps looking for synonyms of 'tit for tat', 'taste of his own medicine' – but this assumes one is cognisant with these expressions). //  A duplicate has just been posted.
Answer: How about the Shakespearean hoist(ed) by one's own petard?
Comment: Avoid posting answers that lack explanation, context, and supporting facts. A good expert answer includes this information to demonstrate that it is correct. This is what makes the answer useful – not only to the asker, but to future visitors to the page.

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PHP Intl library and human readable time span

Question: I'm using PHP Intl library to format dates, numbers and so on.
Now I have to show a time span in human readable string, for example:

1day, 1hour, 10 minutes, 14s

or in compact way:

1d 1s 10m 14s

or in supercompact way:

1d 1.10:14

Is there any way to do this using the build in Intl library without gettext?
If no, I can format the timespan with a custom function, but can I get at least the names ('day', or 'd') in the correct locale from IntlDateFormatter?
Answer: Yes, answer for your question is DateInterval. According to documentation you can use it this way:
$pastDate = new DateTime('2015-09-01 15:00:00');
$today = new DateTime();

//calculate interval and returns DateInterval object
$timeSpan = $today->diff($pastDate);

//now we'll format it
echo $timeSpan->format('%a day, %h hour, %i minutes, %ss').PHP_EOL;
echo $timeSpan->format('%ad %hh %im %ss').PHP_EOL;
echo $timeSpan->format('%ad %h.%i:%s').PHP_EOL;

The result will be:

100 day, 9 hour, 55 minutes, 12s
100d 9h 55m 12s
100d 9.55:12


Who says "mummy" and "daddy"?

Question: Is the use of the terms mummy and daddy to (informally) refer to one's parents particular to a specific socio-economic class or culture? How does this contrast with the terms mum/ mom, and dad?
Answer: I can definitely personally attest to it being used by lots of working class families, middle class families, families who would be "old money" by a lot of people's standards but don't have titles, and aristocratic families where there's still ownership of the estate (as opposed to "well yeah, I'm a baroness, but it doesn't mean anything and I don't use it", though that would cover my partner, and she grew up with that use too).
There's definitely a regional element to it. My using those terms wasn't remarkable for a working class kid where I grew up, while my partner's using them did mark her as middle class where she was.
In my experience, it's the working class that have the strongest regional variation; middle class kids have a mummy throughout the UK and Ireland bar a few with a mum and a small number having a mother, while working class kids may have a mummy, but may have a ma, mam, mammy or mum. Moms seem to be more common than they were, suggesting a US influence.
The tendency to use the terms into adulthood seems to have a similar relation to both class and region; some places marking one as working class, some places as middle class, and some places giving nothing away.
Answer: Kate Fox in Watching the English claims that using mummy as an adult is upper class while using it as a child is common to everyone.
Comment: 'Mummy' and 'Daddy' both, I'd say.
Answer: I do not think it belongs to a special socio-economical class but I have heard it from children not adults in different socio-econimical classes with only one exception who is :
Prince Charles
Comment: My English-but-living-in-Canada aunts (in their 60s) still refer to their mother as "Mummy," always, without exception. Their elder brother (English-but-living-in-Edinburgh) called her Mother.
Comment: So do you mean Prince Charles is not an exception? Ok! I can add your aunts to the black list. :)).. but seriously It was my experience after talking with some travelers from England and USA,Canada and Australia. I asked them and they said it is for children nowadays. I am innocent! :')
Comment: I wouldn't be surprised if today's youth and children do NOT go on calling their mother Mummy into their sixties. I think it might be a function of Prince Charles's and my aunts' generation.
Comment: JAM, It can be right.
Answer: Evidence from the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus shows the following:
Mom is something like 30 times more popular in American English than either mummy or mum, and dad is almost three times as popular as daddy.
In British English, mum is over three times as popular as mummy, with mom not being very popular at all. Dad is also found three times more often than daddy.
These are crude results. Only a closer analysis with a considerable amount of research could determine the context in which each is found, and the extent to which they might be class indicators.
Comment: Overheard at Darlington station: "It's _mam_, not _mum_. We're not Americans here, you know."
Comment: In American English, *mommy* and *daddy* are generally reserved to children, while *mom* and *dad* are regularly used by adults.  Since most literature is written by adults, the higher frequency of the adult version is not unexpected (except, of course, where the author is channelling a younger self),
Comment: @tchrist My own mother (born 1916) used to say *mother* and *father* to her parents. My father called his father *pa*. (His mother died shortly after my own birth, so I never heard him address her) I think for large sections of the British population *mum & dad*, *mummy & daddy* were later twentieth-century adaptations which had perhaps begun with the bourgeoisie. My own parents were rural folk.
Comment: @coleopterist While I am not an expert on Southern dialect, it may be slightly more common there, but still not prevalent (I checked with a Southern woman friend). There may be also be a slightly higher use of *daddy* by women, especially young women, but it seems to be very much in the minority.
Comment: @bib How about in the south?
Comment: Also, *mother* is not class-marked here. Well, except perhaps as a put-down, but that goes the other way.
Answer: I grew up in Saginaw, Michigan.  My Mum always called her parents Mum & Daddy.  I as an adult (at present I am 56) I also have always call my parents Mum and Daddy. My daughter is nearly 24 and she still calls me Mummy and her father Daddy.
Answer: Born (1949) and raised in the Louisville KY area, spent most of my life in Southern Minnesota.  My parents were "mommy" and "daddy" when we were younger, but about the age of 10 I decided (probably based in part on TV and in part on what my friends did) that they should be "mom" and "dad".  My two (grown) sons have always called us "dad" (that's me) and "mom".
My grandparents on my father's side were "grandma" and "grandpa" when we kids were in earshot, and I'm thinking my father called them "mom" and "dad" otherwise (though maybe it was "pop").  My grandfather on my mother's side (in Mississippi) was "granddaddy" when we kids were around, and I'm thinking my mother called him "daddy" otherwise.  (My grandmother on my mom's side died before I was born.)
I'm vaguely recalling that a childhood friend called his mother "mummy", but it was not the norm.  I don't recall "ma" and "pa" being used at all (except on TV).

Who says "mummy" and "daddy"?


Is it still acceptable for fans to run onto the field after winning the NBA Championship?

Question: I have seen old videos of fans running onto the parquet in the Garden after the Celtics won the championship. Is this still done? If not, when did this stop being allowed?
Answer: Whether or not it is "acceptable" isn't the real question in this scenario because you can't do it in the first place. Acceptable to whom?
It may be acceptable to other fans and even players, but there is too heavy of a police/security presence to be possible. See Masai Ujiri's incident at the recent finals.
The team's president wasn't allowed on the court, with credentials, after the Raptors won.
Comment: Could you give an answer about when this was last allowed?


What is the main differences of community and Enterprise indexing and caching?

Question: Can anyone simply explain what are the caching mechanisms and indexing processes in Magento Community and Enterprise Editions? There are some articles out there regarding this. But still what are the significant differences?
And how they are differ in each editions?
Comment: Magento community not allows partial indexing and not allow full page cache
Answer: Both editions index data in order to be able to retrieve it faster, for example, product pricing is stored in indexes so it doesn't have to be calculated each time it is needed.
Magento Community Edition does not provide partial indexing, so each time of indexing all data is reindexed, not just data which has changed, meaning it takes longer (sometimes MUCH longer depending on your server and number of products, categories, product data etc.).
Magento Enterprise Edition differs from Community Edition caching in that it offers full page caching, meaning the entire page is cached and so is able to be served faster and using less resources on your server.
Magento Community Edition does still provide some useful caching mechanisms such as caching layout and block and CMS HTML. It can also cache (and combine) javascript and CSS, as well as product images.
There are also some great free full page cache extensions you can use for Community Edition which actually provide faster caching that the Enterprise built in full page cache.
Take a look at Turpentine as an example of one:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/turpentine-varnish-cache.html
Note: These differences have changed considerably since 1.9 and this answer may no longer be fully relevant for Magento 2.x branches.
Answer: Also worth mentioning and to add to @performadigital's answer, several of the indexes in EE run as a background process. Full Re-index processes run 70-80% faster than CE.


Can I take the driving license tests in the UK and then be allowed to drive in Belgium?

Question: I work and live in Belgium however I am Brazilian and I want to take a drivers license in a country that I can do the test in English. Can I take the driving license tests in the UK and then be allowed to drive in Belgium?
Comment: Probably not, but maybe you can take the test in English in Belgium?  In some countries this is possible.  There's anyway a rather limited vocabulary to understand during the test, I'd expect you can learn sufficient French for this purpose without too much difficulty...
Comment: According to https://www.angloinfo.com/how-to/belgium/transport/driving-licences/driving-test and http://www.goca.be/fr/p/pc-interpretes you can have an accredited translator present during the Belgian theory test (it says nothing about the practical test)
Comment: I recently took the test in California. Although I took it in the default language, English, the knowledge test is available in many languages. See [languages](https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/dl/dl_info#languages)
Answer: No. You can only apply for or renew a UK driving licence if you are resident in the UK. Furthermore, the DVLA requires proof of immigration status when you apply for a driving licence, if you are not from the UK/EEA/Switzerland. Since you won't have this, it is impossible for you to get a provisional licence.
Answer:
I...live in Belgium....  Can I take the driving license tests in the UK...?

No.  Like most jurisdictions, the UK grants driving licenses only to residents of the UK.  This is such a fundamental assumption that the government's public information pages do not mention it explicitly, but if you start the process to apply for a provisional license, you will see that you cannot enter addresses outside the UK.


Why does roasting requires lower temperature than melting point

Question: Why do processes like roasting and calcination require a temperature lower than the melting point? Since intermolecular forces are lower in a liquid won't it be easier to oxidise (roasting) / decompose (calcination) in this state than in a solid?
Comment: If you melt it ,the product is a complicated slag , rather than a low sulfur ore.
Answer: Reason 1:
For example if you have an porous ore and you melt it, the surface area will decrease dramatically. If you just roast it, the surface area will stay about the same.
A higher surface area will aid calcination proceses as more oxygen gets into contact with the surface and will eventually react.
Reason 2:
A higher temperature means more energy to heat the ore and this means it costs more money.
Reason 3:
Some oxides will volatilize when temperature is high (e.g. litharge).


Chemicals in Urinal Odor Eaters

Question: What chemicals are used in so-called urinal "odor eaters"? Do they actually destroy odors, or do they just mask them? Also, are these chemicals subject to any environmental laws or regulations?
Answer:
What chemicals are used in so-called urinal "odor eaters"?

There are 1,4-dichlorobenzene-based and non-PDCB products. In the latter, the chemical mixture from the linked MSDS is:
SODIUM SULPHATE, SODIUM DODECYL SULPHATE, COCAMIDE MEA, DIPENTENE, CITRAL, LINALOOL,BENZYL ALCOHOL

Do they actually destroy odors, or do they just mask them?

They mask odors.

Also, are these chemicals subject to any environmental laws or regulations?

Yes, as detailed in the MSDS sheets linked above. Please note that my knowledge of urinal cakes and related products is not exhaustive.
Comment: Of course, the sad envrionmental toxicological irony of the urinal cake is that is it mostly soluble in water and designed to end up "down the drain".
Comment: could *anyone* (other than the manufacturer) have an exhausting knowledge of urinal cakes?
Comment: The MSDS of the non-DCB product says: HARMFUL TO AQUATIC ORGANISMS, MAY CAUSE LONG-TERM ADVERSE EFFECTS IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT.
DO NOT EMPTY INTO DRAINS, DISPOSE OF THIS MATERIAL AND ITS CONTAINER AT HAZARDOUS OR SPECIAL WASTE COLLECTION POINT.
ENVIRONMENTAL PRECAUTIONS:
DO NOT ALLOW PRODUCT TO REACH SEWAGE SYSTEM OR ANY WATER COURSE.

INFORM RESPECTIVE AUTHORITIES IN CASE OF SEEPAGE INTO WATER COURSE OR SEWAGE SYSTEM.
Comment: @iad22agp The caps are killing my eyes. Could you try and avoid them in future.
Comment: Sorry - I copied and pasted the text directly from the online MSDS. Must be a holdover from the days of the teletype.

Chemicals in Urinal Odor Eaters


How can I filter for the UID of the node on a view?

Question: I want to have a relationship between the the author of the node ($uid) and the view results, seems straightforward but I'm not getting it. On the view, I've added the relationship to content:author and then used a contextual filter for the nid. Since this is a block view, I've provided the default argument from the url. It seems like I've done the very same thing before, but I'm going crazy with this case. I have noticed this time that the contextual filter doesn't ask whether to use a relationship, which seems odd.
Comment: I'm still unclear what the problem is. You want a relationship to the author and you have added it. You also added a node id argument that defaults to pull from the url. Then what? What is not working as you expect? Also, what path is the view displaying on (in relation to the default contextual filter)? If you want to select the author relationship for the nid contextual filter you can't because it isn't relevant, the author doesn't have an nid, the node does.
Comment: The part that's not working as expected is the argument is not relevant, as you said: all of the content is showing, without any relationship. What I want is for all of the content related to the uid on the node to show up. In other words, the user who created the node, show me a list of all the other content he/she has created, too.
Comment: @steve, If Content:author relationship is there, you should see a user option in 'filter' drop down box while adding a contextual filter. You can select 'uid' thereafter that will be using The 'Author' relationship.
I could see that working. :)
Answer: Hope this will help you, To display all content created by author who created the current node loaded, No need to make any relationship, Just add a Configure contextual filter: Content: Author uid check the bellow options,
Comment: Oh yeah.This is better solution than my answer. However you will also want to add a node id contextual filter with default fromurl and exclude it, so that you don't get the node of the current page appearing the your listing.
Comment: This is the frustrating this about Views, I would have thought that would be the way to produce my results (and it is, thanks!); but when I was checking by adding the nid for the argument preview in Views, I wasn't seeing anything. Nevertheless, when I checked the actual node, it worked.
Answer: For this you need 2 relationships.
You have a node view with the relationships:
Content: Author
User: Content authored (this one uses the previous relationship)
The contextual filter will use no relationship and your fields and filters will probably all all use the second relationship.


Is there any Evernote version for Linux?

Question: I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and found that Evernote is a powerful note taking software.
But I can't find a Ubuntu (linux) version of this software.
Is there an Ubuntu client for Evernote? Or perhaps a similar program which works on Ubuntu?
Answer: There are several possibilities to chose from. If you want to stick with Evernote and its service, some clients are available to use. Andruseto already mentioned Nevernote, but there are also:

Everpad. Available from one of Ubuntu's PPA repositories. Will sit in your system tray and stand-by to be used:

Everpad in the tray (click for larger variant)
If you're using Unity, Everpad even offers its own lens.
Nixnote. Hm, a dupe it might seem – AFAIK this was previously named "Nevernote", so it might overlap with Andresuto's answer. Never mind, here it is:

Nixnote (click image for larger variant)
As you can see, this looks very much like the "official" Evernote on Windows ;) And again, it's available via PPA, see below.

Install hints:
<code># Everpad
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvbn-rm/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install everpad

# Nixnote
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vincent-c/nevernote
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nixnote
</code>
Comment: @Andruseto As I wrote: *AFAIK this was previously named "Nevernote"* – so I assume so and pointed to your answer (I'm not using Evernote myself, and neither the mentioned clients, so I cannot tell for sure). And though it's a comment, and it seems we're sharing the same native language: Please remember this site uses English ;)
Answer: There are other clients too such as

Paperwork - link

Laverna - link
Everpad - link , already mentioned :p
Springseed - link
BasKet Note Pads - link , although originally for KDE but you have SVN repository access too

Keepnote - link

IMO try Paperwork and Laverna , they are mature enough so you won't have to try anything else.
Comment: I need a feature that is not present in BasKet, I need ability to search inside all notes simultaneously.
Comment: A nice collection of links indeed. But if you check with our [guidelines for answers](http://meta.softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/356/185), maybe you could add a little description to each? With that (maybe at least a short pro/cons for each), that would make a pretty useful answer. Thanks a lot!


How to properly store a list of pandas dataframes, so that I can import them in a new python script?

Question: I'm trying to make a GUI in PyQt5 to present the results of my research. The results are around 800 pandas dataframes, stored in lists (so that I can call them individually according to the list index).
In this GUI, I want to have Radiobuttons to tell the program which list to use, and an Input to tell the program which one of the dataframes in the corresponding list to show. Now, I have made a crude algorithm (without a GUI) to do this, and it works, however the lists and, thus, the dataframes, are stored as variables in the original Jupyter notebook, which is full of the convoluted and inelegant code I used to process and store these results.
I managed to save them using %store, and was able to use them in a new Jupyter notebook, but for the GUI I will need to use a separate Python script file. My problem is that this command doesn't work when I try to use it in the script file, to restore and use the variables there.
tldr: Is there a proper way to store lists of dataframes, exactly as they are (I don't want the indexing to be messed up), so that I can call them/import them in a separate Python script, and use them in the GUI?
P.S.: As you can understand, I'm new to Python, so I'm sorry if my programming methods seem inelegant and my question trivial.
Comment: Use feather format
Answer: Use pickle package, it's meant to export and/or load python objects.
You can find information of how is done in this topic of stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4529815/saving-an-object-data-persistence


why the graphics layer coming from the Geoprocessing service in WGS_84, is projected correctly on a Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere Basemap

Question: I have made a  Geoprocessing service, which results (features) are in wgs_84 (4326).
My map's spatial reference is wgs_84 Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere 102100 (projected system)
Considering that the graphics layer is not re projected on the fly, Why are the graphics placed in the correct position ? As I can see with firebug my graphics keep having decimal coordinates of WGS_84. While some feature layers I have, which are still in 4326 are reprojected on the fly and their X, Y coordinates are converted in meters
Answer: the jsapi is smart enough to be able to reproject WGS84 geometries added to the map on the fly internally and display them in web mercator {wkid:3857} applications.
check out esri/geometry/webMercatorUtils for a look at clientside methods that help you do the same on your own.
if you need to reproject between other coordinate systems you'll either need to utilize a geometry service or something like Proj4
Comment: Thanks for your answer. You say : "the jsapi is smart enough to be able to reproject WGS84 geometries added to the map on the fly internally and display them in web mercator {wkid:3857} applications.". Is the js api doing this only for 3857 on it reprojects geometries according to ANY spatial reference that the map may have. And if it does so, why are we saying that a GraphicsLayer cannot be reprojected on the fly ?
Comment: only for maps in 3857, and only for geometries that are 4326.  for other coordinate systems graphics cannot be reprojected on the fly because the API lacks the internal logic to perform the math.


Brewing a NEIPA under pressure: magnet in dry hop bag is stuck to the tilt hydrometer. Should I open & remove?

Question: I'm brewing a NEIPA in a Kegland Fermzilla under 10psi of pressure, and I planned to have 2 dry hops without depressurizing or opening the fermentor. I have a tilt hydrometer in the fermentor and things have been going well so far - dropped from 1.06 to 1.026 in 4 days.
The first dry hops I prepared in a bag containing a magnet so that I can pull away the magnet from the outside and drop the bag into the beer. You can see this technique here: https://youtu.be/lvPBEwoTDPM?t=485
The problem is, I didn't weight the bag enough and when the bag dropped it pretty much floated on the top. Now the other thing that's floating on the top is my tilt hydrometer. Today I noticed that the hydrometer reading spiked back up to 1.048 and that the tilt is sitting alongside the hop back, so it's clearly stuck to the magnet. I'm worried the tilt ($160!) will get damaged by the magnet. It's still transmitting for now.
So the dilemma is... should I depressurize the fermentor, reach in, and separate the tilt from the hop bag?
This would give me peace of mind about the tilt and allow me to get a more accurate sense of when fermentation is done, but it would also risk oxidizing the beer... Given that fermentation is still active, maybe if I do it gently and quickly re-seal and re-pressurize it'll be ok?
Answer: It's actually fairly difficult for anything other than a strong magnet to mess up electronics - however a Tilt does not have magnetic storage as far as I am aware.
If it's attached to the side of the battery - I wouldn't worry about it.


Archive/set some photos in Photos.app not to be synced with iCloud Photo Library

Question: I want to use iCloud Photo Library just to get photos I take on my phone to my computer. My Photo Stream would work fine if it was reliable. Now I have more than 5GB of photos so I have to pay at least $1 a month just to sync photos unless there is a way to download only or archive some photos not to be synced with iCloud Photo Library (yet still viewable in the app).
Answer: You can export original photos out of Photos on the Mac and then delete them.
At that point, they go into the Recently Deleted album. You can then manage things so you don't exceed your 5 GB allowance.
Both iOS and Mac preferences allow you to measure and see the storage allocation.
Then you can have a second Photos database on the Mac to store all the "offline" photos. It won't be the "system library" and it won't receive photos automatically from the cloud. You'll have to import photos manually to that second (and all other) libraries.
Comment: I haven't done this but I can imagine it will work. It will also bring me a headache to manage two Photos databases though :(
Comment: @puri Yes. I ditched my 20 GB plan and am now paying for 200 GB to avoid that pain. If I guess wrong, I'll scale back and use another program or choose to keep shuffling separate libraries. I'm hopeful that photos will save me the time I would have spent managing multiple libraries and the time to earn the $4 a month cost for storage.


Wet fart with dirt(not stole)

Question: Sometimes When I fart it makes my pant wet and After rubbing my private part I found some dirt (not stole). Just like general dirt which can be got through rubbing.And Sometimes I see this kind of dirt(not stole) in the area near private part after farting.
My question
1. Does the wet fart make my pant impure ?
2. With the perspective of question (1) is it obilige to change pant ?
2. Does this dirt (not stool) which I found through rubbing my private impure ?
3.Without rubbing the dirt I found near the area of private part after farting is impure or not ?
Comment: @AbuZiyad  I just only ask " Wet Fart" impure or not ?
Answer:
Yes because it is najis and najasa of the clothes you actually wear means that you cannot pray with these clothes.
Of course as you are not allowed to pray in a impure state: The purity you need is that of your body parts which can be achieved by ghusl or wudu' depending on the kind of impurity, that of your clothes, that of the place you pray on/at.
I'm not sure if I got you well, if there's dirt on your clothes then they are impure, if you didn't know they are your prayer might be considered as valid, but if you had time to repeat it you may be recommended to do so. IMO one can clearly feel a wet fart and therefore it should be clear that there's impurity.
Comment: Did you consider wet fart as impure and it can impure anything ? Please tell me it with the help of Islam.

Wet fart with dirt(not stole)


No sound after export blender game in .exe? How to export with sound?

Question: How to export blender game in .exe with game sound? I created a basic game but it exported with no sound.
Answer: Blender does not bake any audio into the executable, it just stores the path to the files.
To ship the game with audio, put the audio files into the same folder as your .blend file (or a subfolder) before you load them into your game and when you open them in Blender make sure that 'Relative Path' is checked.
After exporting the game, just copy all audio files to the folder of the .exe (or a subfolder).
Answer: I'm not sure if this will help you on Windows.  I had the same issue on Mac which I solved like this:
Right click on the app and "Show package Contents".  Then copy the audio files into the Contents/Resources folder.
Perhaps on Windows there is a similar place where your resources or assets are stored?


Can you disable email notifications for a blog post saved as a draft?

Question: In SP 2010 Foundation, I have a blog setup to allow contributors to post as a draft. However, all of the users that have alerts setup for posts receive an email when these drafts are created. That defeats the purpose of drafts as you don't want the general audience to see the content of the post until it's actually published. Any help is appreciated.
Answer: Create a view only showing published items and change the alerts to be on changes to an item that appears in that view.

Note that the list needs at least one view with a filter for that option to appear
Comment: The BlogAdminWebPart is 100% hardcoded, but you could create your own web part. But also keep in mind that Alerts isn't the intented way for people to keep up to date with new Approved blog posts, the RSS feed is.
Comment: Thank you. I would like to ask a side question. Is it possible to change the "Blog Tools" section's "Manage Posts" link? I'd prefer to tackle this another way, to leave what the users' view is for alerts "All Posts" but with a filter of Approval Status is equal to "Approved" only ...and to just change the Manage Posts to a view that shows all Approval Statuses. It seems more manageable that way, as opposed to having all users change the view their alert is based on (i.e. how to enforce that?). I'm sure, though, that I may be missing something. Thank you.


When in Extend Mode, can I use my AirPort Extreme's WAN port as a LAN port?

Question: I have two AirPort Extremes. One has its WAN port connected to my modem, and the other as been configured to wirelessly extend the first, meaning none of the Ethernet ports on the back are connected. I plan to connect four devices to this second AirPort Extreme. I know I can use the three LAN ports on the back to connect devices, but can I use the WAN port?
Answer: Yes.
When an AirPort Extreme is configured to extend another AirPort Extreme wirelessly, the WAN port is not used for WAN, and this means it is automatically switched to be a LAN port, identical to the other three LAN ports already on the back of the unit. This was tested by myself with an Apple AirPort Extreme 802.11n 1st Generation, and this answer was posted with a computer which is connected to the WAN port of said router.


How to prevent CiviCRM contact from receiving emails for Scheduled Reminders

Question:
When a contact (dashboard) is edited, I see Communication Preferences as the option where I can tick NO BULK EMAILS or under Privacy "Do not mail"
Will that stop the emails from being sent during scheduled reminders(ran through CRON)
Where is the code for the same located in the CiviCRM core? Can I add event subscriber to it ?
I am using sendgrid as Mailer
Comment: There's a related discussion here: https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/core/issues/1378. According to that, currently they WILL receive cron scheduled reminders for "Do Not Mail".
Answer: From UI you can set the contact email to 'On-hold' this will prevent contact from getting any automated email from CiviCRM. The other option is use to mailing hooks to abort emails being sent based on some flag set for the client.
HTH
Pradeep


Accidentally formatted ext4 partition

Question: I have just formatted an ext4 partition to fat32 using gparted.
In which directions should I tread in my attempt to recover?
Comment: @AshutoshKale that comment is not very helpful.  I know that It is tricky business, and likely not 100% recoverable, but far from impossible.  It is generally more harmful to give bad advice than it is to avoid giving any.  And before someone comes around to say that this question has already been asked, this is a sensitive issue for me, and I thought the specifics would matter (ie ext4 to fat32, using gparted... perhaps gparted stores some information about deleted partitions to protect against this?)
Comment: @Ruediger .. thanks for the response.  I have just finished creating an image of the disk, and currently using testdisk to attempt to restore a backup of the ext4 superblock.  I feel pretty optimistic about it so far.
Answer: I made the silly mistake of formatting a partition by accident.  I was installing a linux distribution called crunchbang on my netbook, so I don't have to bring my laptop to class every week.  I was intending to format a USB flash drive for this purpose, when, to my dismay, I formatted an ext4 partition containing over 500gb of data to fat32.  This is a summary of what I've learned:
If a filesystem is damaged, you can attempt to recover that filesystem itself, or individual files.  Individual file recovery is possible regardless of the state of the filesystem, but it has the drawback of being almost completely useless if you are dealing with a lot of data.  When you recover individual files, you are going to LOSE the ENTIRE directory structure of your data (that means organisation and filenames).  In my case, this was completely useless, as it would take me years to sift through and rename all those music files and other junk.  Also, In many cases the program will fail to find specific start and end blocks for your file (this is almost always the case with plain text files) and you could end up (like me) with each mp3 file split into a hundred 1-5 second pieces.
READ this all the way through before attempting anything... (you will find instructions for making an image of your disk at the bottom, but it should be done first)
If you are in a different situation (like recovering a very small amount of data or looking for a specific searchable piece of data), than individual file recovery could be an option for you.
The free utilities I found for this are:
PhotoRec
and
ForeMost
(both are in the ubuntu repositories for your convenience)

If your intent is to recover an entire partition, then you should look towards a piece of software called TestDisk.  This is also in the ubuntu repositories, and It has a nice curses GUI to make things easier.
TestDisk is compatable with all kinds of filesystems including ext2/3/4, ntfs, fat, and others.. (and the binary is released in Windows as well as UNIX compatible versions)
Unfortunately after hours with this utility, TestDisk was able to find my old partition, but the root inode was destroyed, so I gave up on using TestDisk and decided to try to recover the ext backup superblock manually.

If your concern is a linux ext2/3/4 partition, then you will find these to utilities helpful (they will most certainly already be on your linux machine)
this will be used to calculate where the backup superblocks will be located in the event you were to create a ext filesystem on the partition in question
mke2fs (make extended 2 file-system) for ext2/3/4
this will be used to attempt to restore the filesystem using one of the backup superblocks
e2fsck (extended 2 file-system check) also for ext2/3/4
An explanation on how to recover an ext superblock manually using these utilities can be found here: Repair a broken Ext4 Superblock in Ubuntu .
SIDE NOTE: if your partition table is intact (not the case for me), then you could perhaps make use of dumpe2fs like so:
Linux: Find Alternative Superblocks - nixCraft
if you are unable to use these utilities to find the backup superblocks (perhaps you messed up multiple partitions, and because of this, you don't know where they start/end) you may find use of a program called gpart (not to be confused with gparted or parted... it's totally different) though I'm not sure if it supports linux file-systems newer than ext2.. If you are at this point, It may be time to start worrying.

Using this last approach, I was successfully able to recover the entire partition, save the top-level directory names (so I had to rename about 6 top-level folders, but everything below them was preserved)
SUCCESS!
Another thing that ended up being EXTREMELY important for me was creating a backup image of the messed up disk (in my attempts to recover, I ended up restoring this image at least twice)
so FIRST thing before using any of these utilities, find some free space on your machine or an external drive..
If your messed up drive is sda, and you wanted to store the image in yourname's home directory for instance:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/yourname/sda.img.bak bs=512
to restore the image after a failed recovery attempt:
dd if=/home/yourname/sda.img.bak of=/dev/sda bs=512
You could of course use /dev/sda1 if you are only interested in the first partition, but as some of these utilities alter the partition table, it is perhaps a better idea to image the whole disk..
Also, if you are using dd for a large operation, it is very helpful to see a progress bar, for which you can use a utility called pv which reports progress of data through a pipeline
for instance:
pv -tpreb /dev/sda | dd of=/home/yourname/sda.img.bak bs=512
BTW: some people suggested making the backup image, and working on it directly, but I found it easier to work on the disk itself (easier to mount) and restoring the image to disk if/when necessary
Comment: I was able to fix mine following similar steps. I recorded those details in the following blog post. https://notebookbft.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/recovering-accidentally-formatted-ext4-partition-fixing-superblock/
Answer: Here a link to a related question we had some time ago: Recovering Very Important Lost Data From Ntfs Partition
If the data is REALLY important. Stop using the disk/partition NOW. Unmount it! And do a read only copy of the disk. Every time you try to recover something on the original disk you are in danger of loosing more data. Then try recovery tools on the copied disk image. You can create an image with dd if=your_partition of=your_disk_image_file bs=512 (hope the syntax is correct)
Have a look here as well DataRecovery - Community Help Wiki and here https://forensicswiki.org/wiki/Tools:Data_Recovery.
To make sure you do not loose data work only on the disk image you created!!!!
If you cant recover the partition you can still try to use a carving tool like foremost to recover (some) of your data. The tool will analyze the disk content and look for files in well known formats. Have a look here for a quick example how to use it http://www.rissmann.ch/2014/08/09/how-to-recover-lost-files/

Accidentally formatted ext4 partition


Why doesn't the stealth cruiser have shields?

Question: What benefits does it have to cover missing the shields?
Answer: The point with the stealth cruiser is to basicly use well timed stealth activation as a shield.
Being is stealth almost guarantees that any shot fired at you will miss. Of course, no enemy will fire at you when you're already in stealth. (In fact, their weapons won't even charge during this time.)
The trick is to activate you stealth after they have already fired, but before the shots hit you. This can be easier if you pause the game after you hear the shots, so you know wether you want to attempt to stealth, or just risk taking these paticular shots and save the stealth for later.
Alternatively, use the stealth early to make sure you have your weapons charged first, so that you also shoot first. Then just disable their weapons. But you need to sure you can disable all of them. (Or only leave them something useless, like ion weapons.)
Of course, this alone will not be enough to keep you alive later in the game. You'll most likely need to buy at least some shileds sooner or later.
Overall, the stealth cruiser is a rather high risk ship. Played well and with a bit of luck, you can down most early opponents without taking a single hit. But once you start taking hits, you usualy take a lot of them.
Comment: @KazaaakplethKilik As a system takes damage, it becomes less capable of sustaining a full weapon loadout, in which case the AI will switch around weapons to keep the most expensive (power-wise) weapon active - regardless of if it's any good or not.
Comment: Not sure I'd call ion weapons *useless*, per se.
Comment: @FreeAsInBeer AI ion weapons aren't as dangerous as your own. Especialy against shieldless stealth cruiser. Usualy your main concers is for your shield, that the ion weapon always hits. (If they are up.) But, at least in the early game, the stealth cruiser has no shields (and even later they aren't that important), so ion weapons will hit a **random** room. If you're unlucky, it's gonna be something vital. But most likely it's just something you don't care about, or even an empty room.
Comment: Maybe you could elaborate on how one leaves only a certain weapon of the enemy active. As far as I remember one can only reduce the overall system level with damage. What weapons are operating is up to the AI. Does the AI prefer to keep ion weapons active?
Comment: The last paragraph is indeed right. An enemy with a beam weapon and a beam drone that couldn't damage a ship with a single shield can be a serious obstacle if not the final one in the stealth cruiser.
Answer: Stealth is better than shields. In the early game, enemies don't have that many weapons and (even in late game) don't coordinate them. The idea with stealth is that for some time it is near inconceivable that an enemy gets a shot in, and you try to make that period right after they shoot. Stealth gives near immunity to missiles and bombs. In that way, stealth is better than shields, which can be defeated with missiles, bombs or overwhelming fire (think burst laser 3, flak 2, etc.). It is actually a safe ship early on as you can take down the enemy's weapons system in the "first strike".
Anyway, even if I'm wrong in the first paragraph, the stealth cruiser (layout A) has a good arsenal, as the twin laser and mini beam can take down most enemies up to sector 5, and even using the twin laser alone, you can take down many early enemies.


What would happen if one person mined all unmined bitcoins?

Question: Let's say that, hypothetically speaking, someone had the mining power to mine all unmined bitcoin(I believe around 6 million bitcoin, correct me if I'm incorrect). Would they confiscate it off of them? Would there be some kind of software barrier? which would mean that even if you had such great mining power, you wouldn't be able to mine so many bitcoins.
Answer: Then all those bitcoins would belong to that person.  There's nothing in the current Bitcoin protocol that prevents this.
I don't know what you mean by "would 'they' confiscate it".  From the point of view of the Bitcoin protocol, nobody has the authority to confiscate bitcoins.
Of course, if this happened, it would mean that miner would be able to unilaterally decide which transactions would be confirmed, and they could also reverse past transactions by re-mining part of the chain.  They would be able to allow people to double-spend.  This might well cause other people to lose interest in using Bitcoin, since its security would be undermined, and this could cause the currency's value to fall, perhaps to zero.
Comment: by re-mining the blockchain do you mean that that one person could keep on making money?
Comment: @97980: No, I'm referring to the fact that they could create multiple forks of the block chain which diverge after a certain point.  This wouldn't gain them any extra money (because shorter forks would be invalidated), but it would let them undo previous transactions by including a conflicting transaction in the new fork.
Answer: The problem with all of these "what if X amazing ability is discovered by someone" (SHA-2 breaking algorithm, near infinite computational power, etc.) is that a person/government with such an ability would be better off keeping the ability a secret to sell or use than using it to publicly destroy bitcoin (which is what this would do)


Need help with understanding

Question: Kindly explain what does "real community of people" mean here?
Did the author mean "real problems of community"?
Gabe is known as a guy who believes you will be successful if you focus on solving problems for a real community of people."
http://www.eater.com/2015/11/24/9788798/chefsteps-sous-vide-gabe-newell-immersion-circulator
Answer:
what does "real community of people" mean here?

The term real appears to be a reference to the sense of community spirit, and contrasts real communities with mere collections of people who happen to be given the label of being a community. For example, people who live in the same multi-storey building who don't even greet each other in passing may be termed a "community" as a technicality, but would not be called a real community.
In this context, a real community faces problems that its members care about. The quote then asserts Gabe's belief that when you solve the problem, you participate in something meaningful to the community. Success could refer either to that as an end in itself, or also to the rewards that go along with it. Applying the same 'solution' to an indifferent community may not be meaningful at all, resulting in no success in either sense.
Answer:
Did the author mean "real problems of community"?

I believe you are correct in your understanding. In the given context, it does appear to refer to real (or burning) problems, as opposed to, say, hypothetical (or simply less important) ones. Here's the context:

Every six months he'd say, 'What problems are you having, what are you
  trying to solve?' Gabe is known as a guy who believes you will be
  successful if you focus on solving problems for a real community of
  people."

Evidently Gabe's questions indicate that a business is successful if it pinpoints a real problem and then addresses it.
A little earlier, Gabe says: ...you have to have a really good connection with the inside of someone's head to be good at it.
This again seems to indicate that the focus here is on understanding the customer, the actual, real problem they are facing.

Need help with understanding


Need to change my domain name

Question: I recently set up a Gmail account for my new business. I purchased @mybusinessnameone.com but now I would like to change it to @mybusinessnametwo.com or keep both if they can feed together.
Can someone tell me how to do this?
Answer: I am assuming that you are talking about a "Google Apps for Business" account.
Not clear if the first domain (conquerlogistics.com) has been associated with the account or not.  In either case, the procedure to do this is a bit lengthy to describe here.  See Google Apps Help for details.
Google Apps accounts allow you to define a "domain alias" (inside the "Domains" area of the Admin Console), which will allow you to simultaneously associate one or more additional domains (such as "conquer3pl.com").  See the documentation for details.

Need to change my domain name


recordEditForm : event.preventDefault() not submitting the pre populated values in the form

Question: I have a custom aura component for record creation. The onload() function calls the apex method to load values in the form. When I try to submit the form by using onsubmit(), the new record is created but its not showing the pre populated values on the new record created. I tried using event.preventDefault() and manually setting the field values in the onsubmit() handler, its not submitting the form, neither its creating a record, it throws an error saying that the record already exists with the lookup values.
In the form I'm doing the following lines of code to capture the values:
<lightning:inputField aura:id = "candidateSummaryField" feildName = "Candidate_Summary__c" />
<lightning:inputField aura:id = "stageField" fieldName = "Stage__c"/>

In the controller in the onload() handler:
var stageFieldValue = component.find("stageField").set("v.value", "Contacted");
var candidateSummaryFieldValue = component.find("candidateSummaryField").set("v.value", result[0]['Candidate_Summary__c']);

In the controller in the onsubmit() handler:
handleSubmit : function(component, event, helper) {
        console.log("Inside handleSubmit");
        event.preventDefault();
        var fields = event.getParams('fields');
        console.log("fields::::: "+JSON.stringify(fields));
        fields['Candidate_Summary__c'] = 'New Candidate Summary';
        fields['Stage__c'] = 'Contacted';
        component.find("applicantForm").submit(fields);
    }

Kindly suggest what I might be missing here, which is not allowing me to achieve record creation with already pre populated values from the form.
Thanks!
Answer: Please check typo. feildName should be fieldName.
Also...
After prevent default try this
component.find("Candidate_Summary__c").set("v.value", "New Candidate Summary");
Also...
check that the form is found with component.find('applicantForm') before calling submit.


Contact form fields priority

Question: Is there any caution not to use the message field at first in a contact form?
Comment: Just do a A/B test and don't fight against the facts. Keep the data driven mindset.
Comment: It seems to be common practice to ask for the user's details before their message. Most websites use this layout and it seems to be working well so far. Even when you compare it to composing an email (which is exactly what this is ultimately doing), there are often input forms (To, Subject etc.) above the message box. It just seems to be common practice and a lot of people would have developed habits using this layout.
Answer: Well, you could see it from another perspective. Of course the message is the main point of the interaction, but here are a few thoughts on why that doesn't automatically mean it should be placed first:

The first argument would be habit. Most internet users (at least in the west) are used to a form as on the right. Reordering it might throw them off. (Comparable to this answer here.)
A more interesting point is that the message field is the most important one in terms of effort. If you fill it out first (with a long message that you had to think about and type) and only then the other required fields, you have more room for errors.

E.g. I write out my text and only then notice I forgot my email and have to look it up etc. (I know, unlikely, but still)
Or I fill it out and only then notice that there is no right topic in the "category" dropdown
Or the power goes out while I look for my email or the right dropdown option and I lose my typed text :)))

In any case, specifying the technicalities first gives you a feeling of security that everything is ok and you can continue

Of course the points stated here aren't really that realistic and will basically never happen. But it is good to have different perspectives when designing.
Your question is basically "is there any harm in doing it so?", but let's ask it the other way around as well, "what good comes from changing it?".
Answer: I would do it with this priority:
Message > Full Name > Email. Look at it from the mental model of people have a message and they type it then they sign their name.
I hope this helps.
Answer: Full Name > Email  > Message. Don't forget to add mandatory stars to the input fields ;)
It's almost world standard to ask first name/surname to the user on the contact forms or registration forms. I've attached just one example. If you will google 'contact form examples' You will see also all of them start with the name. This is not a written rule. But All-around world 95% it starts with name.
Comment: I guess it is a bit hard to know what percentage of forms are using one format/convention over another because as we know Google search results are not unbiased. Also, as you can see there are slightly different perspectives in the answers provided to the question but your contribution certainly adds to the discussion.
Comment: I'm sorry then, Above I mentioned my opinion about what would I do If I were him and supported it with an example. If you need more example you can check your daily uses websites(social media) even in sign up page of this website :)
Answer: Think about this from a few prespectives...
As a user:
I probably don't care all that much about my contact information unless there's a requirement for follow-up. So I'd prefer to see the message field first. I may also like to see a select list of subject options so I know that my message will be delivered to the correct place.
As the business:
Users abandon forms like this all the time. If you put email first, it's the most likely to be filled out. The system can capture anything that looks like a valid email address even if the form is never submitted. This gives the business the opportunity to add that user as an "interested" lead in their CRM or other marketing tools.
You could even follow up with an email that says something like:

"Hey you started to reach out. Your comments are important to us! Reply to this email to chat with the CEO..."

If that was a real human email, I'd probably think about responding especially if I had a question or wanted to work with the company.
All that because of the order of the form fields in a contact us form.

Contact form fields priority