In my language there's a saying which literally translates to     Don't burn your house to smoke out a rat!   It advises us to use solutions that are appropriate to the magnitude of the problem.  Eliye pedichu illam chudaruthu! - in Malayalam/Indian.  What could be the English equivalent?
In Russian we have idiom/saying "To shoot out of cannon into sparrows" (literal translation) which is used to convey an idea of applying too drastic measures to small problems. I believe there should be some native-English equivalents to this saying. Can you share if there are any?
Consider $X = (a+b)^n-a^n-b^n$  where  $a$ and $b$ and $a+b$ are not divisible by $n$, $n&gt;=3$ is positive and prime, $a \ne b$ and both are greater than 1.  By the binomial expansion we know $X$ is divisible by $n$, but how can we study whether $X$ is divisible by $n^2$ or other powers of $n$? Specifically I am interested to prove $X$ is NOT divisible by $n^2$, but I am not sure how to prove or disprove it. If $A+B=AB$ then $AB=BA$ I was doing the problem $$ A+B=AB\implies AB=BA. $$  $AB=BA$ means they're invertible, but I can't figure out how to show that $A+B=AB$ implies invertibility. How is the passage of time handled in Pokemon? Does blocking an attack with the Shield spell still trigger Armor of Agathys? I am contemplating a Oath of Conquest Paladin / Sorcerer multiclass character, with a 1 level dip in hexblade warlock. This character will have access to the Armor of Agathys and Shield spells, which potentially allows for a pretty nice combo. The Shield spell states (PHB 275):  Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack or targeted by the magic missile spell... Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack,  It looks like you are indeed hit by an attack, but since you have a bonus to AC, you can potentially force that attack to miss instead. Armor of Agathys states (PHB 215),  If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage.  If I cast Shield and cause an attack that &quot;hit&quot; me to miss, does Armor of Agathys still deal damage? I am leaning toward yes, though this combo seems a little too strong--Shield is already a strong spell, and this character will eventually have 9 1st level spell slots and a 7th level spell slot. Not only can they freely block attacks with Shield, but they can also deal up to 35 (5d10) damage to the attacker without an attack roll or saving throw. While a Warlock would have to spend both of their spell slots to do this once, my character would be able to do this 4 times with spell slots to spare. Some notes:    ask about reducing the damage from a confirmed hit to zero. This question is asking about what happens when the Shield spell causes the attack to miss entirely. A number of online resources, such as the Roll20 5th edition compendium, seem to be missing the correct casting time for the Shield spell. Answerers should make sure they're looking at the correct version from the PHB. I asked a question almost as soon as I got my account. I got a few decent answers, but none of them helped solve my problem. The question has long since become buried by newer questions, and there's still no accepted answer. Unfortunately, because there are quite a few answers with votes, to a casual observer it probably looks like the question was answered and I just neglected to mark an answer as accepted, and the system does not consider it "unanswered".  Or, I asked a question that was a bit more difficult to answer. After waiting for some time, I received no answers, little or no comments, and only a few views. The question does show up in the "unanswered" list, but no one has answered my question.  In either case, what's the protocol for me to try to get this question answered?  I see several options:   Post the question a second time, possibly linking to the original, to get attention for the original question. This is encouraged on sites like Reddit.  However, it's probably not appropriate here, since we're encouraged to check for duplicates and not submit a question that's already been asked by someone else, so this probably falls under that heading. Wait for some kind of wiki-like talk page to be implemented, then post a plea on the talk page for input and hope that activity on the talk page bumps up the question. Edit the question, but do nothing further on the Stack Exchange site. If I edit my post to say that I haven't accepted any of the current answers but am looking for more, then the question might get answered eventually by people browsing through old questions to find something they can answer. Post the question on other sites, but link to my original question on Stack Exchange. People will either answer here, or they'll answer on the other site and I can post the accepted answer here myself.  This might be considered spamming, so it might be better to do this without the link.      For more information, see the "" page in the . How do I transition to SSL without affecting PageRank? Here at Stack Exchange we're working on moving all traffic to SSL. The reason we're not doing logged-in-users only is that one side of the login divide would suffer a redirect from Google every time.  This happens because Google's only going to have http:// or https:// in the results, not both.  Aside from building the SSL infrastructure (), the outstanding question we have is: how do we best transition to SSL?  Here are the relevant bits of our plan (testing on small sites, moving up to stackoverflow.com):   Get SSL ready/enabled (but not linked to) on all domains Start rendering only the &lt;link rel="canonical"&gt; as https:// Start sending a 301 for all http:// requests to https:// (from our domains...of course we can't do anything about all the existing links pointing to us) After a transition period, set all user cookies as secure   So the endgame is having all content delivered over SSL and all HTTP requests redirected.  What we're primarily concerned with is how this will affect PageRank to our sites. We depend a great deal on traffic that comes from Google and want to ensure that doesn't take a dive as we start delivering more security to our users.  The only bits I've found on this that seem to be substantive are  on :     @Frank Yes, I'm certain that Google treats HTTP and HTTPS URLs as separate URLs for crawling, indexing and ranking (I work with the web-search team here at Google). Doing canonicalization with a 301 redirect like you mentioned is a great way to solve this :) –  Oct 23 '10   and the only webmasters video I could find:  The video doesn't have a solid answer, not one I'd base the future of a company on anyway.  Is our transition plan the best way to accomplish an SSL move, at least from an SEO perspective?  If there's other more recent or concrete advice around how a move like this affects Google ranking we'd love to hear about it. A  not only grants me a Sentinel Raven, but also the handy ability to see through its eyes.  Unlike the telepathic connection with a regular familiar, I don't have to use an action to do so.    If I am blinded, but my Sentinel Raven is not (and within telepathic range), can I use my raven's sight to cast spells that require me to see my target? Would this negate any disadvantage resulting from me being blinded? Or would I still suffer disadvantage, for example, because I have to cast from my raven's perspective and not my own point of view? Is it possible to have the Corruption and the Crimson Biomes in the same world? I was reading on the wiki how there is a chance that the Corruption will be replaced with the Crimson.  I am wondering if when you get a world where you have the Crimson is it possible to also have the Corruption if you bring over corruption seeds from another world and use them. Or would these seeds just get you more of the Crimson? Since I installed EasyTag on my Arch Linux several other programs use EasyTag instead of Nautilus as filebrowser.  For example, Firefox starts EasyTag if I click on "open containing folder".  Where can I set Nautilus as my "standard file browser"? Making a (simple) directory tree I'm trying to make a simple directory tree representation in LaTeX. Something like:  spam  |  +-- ham  +-- eggs      |      +-- more spam      +-- dead parrots   The tree won't be that long (say, 10--15 entries or so), with three or so levels, and is a one-off thing. So, quick-and-dirty solutions are welcome. When recommending tikz, please note that I have almost no experience with it, so I'd appreciate a clean simple solution, even if it doesn't look quite perfect.   On Tex.SE tikz is almost like the jquery recurring joke on StackOverflow..    Edit: As per Thorsten's suggestion,  is a nice and easy-to-use solution. The example from above could be written as:  \usepackage{dirtree} ... \dirtree{% .1 spam. .2 ham. .2 eggs. .3 more spam. .3 dead parrots. } round in PHP shows scientific notation instead of full number I'm trying to do an echo of a variable containing 1400000.  so there is written: echo round(1400000); this gives 1,4E+6 instead of the full number. Anybody an idea on how to display it fully? I am trying to modify output in my twig file. In D7, I was able modify data in my array with this  check_markup($tweet-&gt;text, 'full_html');   and I see that this function still exists in D8. However, I'm not sure how I would use this in a filter in twig. This is what I have so far:  {% for tweet in params.tweets %} &lt;div class="tweet-wrapper"&gt; &lt;div class="tweet-profile-image"&gt;     &lt;img src='{{ tweet.user.profile_image_url }}'/&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class='tweet-text'&gt;     &lt;!--check_markup($tweet-&gt;text, 'full_html');--&gt;     {{ tweet.text }} &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt; {% endfor %}   I actually tried to do this before I sent it to the template as well, but it didn't change anything:   foreach($tweets as $tweet) {   $tweet-&gt;text = check_markup($tweet-&gt;text, 'full_html');   $cleanTweets[] = $tweet; } dpm($tweets); $params = array('tweets' =&gt; $cleanTweets); $tweet_template = array('#theme' =&gt; 'twitter_pull_tweet_listing', '#params' =&gt; $params); return $tweet_template;   What I'm trying to do here is make drupal create links for web links in the twitter tweet text. This worked fine for me in D7. Show that if $n$ is not divisible by $2$ or by $3$, then $n^2-1$ is divisible by $24$.   I thought I would do the following ... As $n$ is not divisible by $2$ and $3$ then $$n=2k+1\;\text{or}\\n=3k+1\;\text{or}\\n=3k+2\;\;\;\;$$for some $n\in\mathbb{N}$. And then make induction over $k$ in each case.$$24\mid (2k+1)^2-1\;\text{or}\\24\mid (3k+1)^2-1\;\text{or}\\24\mid (3k+2)^2-1\;\;\;\;$$This question is in a text of Euclidean Division I'm reviewing, and I wonder if there is a simpler, faster, or direct this way. I am developing a PHP application in which I am in need to store values bigger than 1 million, but with the flexibility of having floating points. I know the traditional float and double. I am looking to store only up to two decimal points, and will only handle operations with numbers that have 2 decimals exclusively.  I have chosen my column type of double and unsigned, but whenever I store a row with a value bigger than one million, it gets truncated to 999999.99  Why is this? I am looking for the right datatype/solution. If you could point me in the right direction, I will appreciate it a lot!  Thank you for your time in advance!  Cheers. I am taking a course in Mathematical Methods for physicsPhysics (Junior Level).   We are working from   > Mathematical Methods for physicists, George B.Arfken .    I just need online resources covering ( Matrices, Determinants, Vector Analysis, Tensors and differential forms and Vector spaces...etc) to study and understand from. If I have $10$ apples, but you have $5$ apples, then I have $2$ times more apples than you. But what if I have $10$ apples, but you don't have any apples?   If you look at the graph $f(x)=\frac{10}{x}$, it shows that when $x$ approaches $0$, $f(x)$ approaches infinity. So it means I have infinity times more apples than you? pgfplots axis scaling Is it possible to define in pgfplots that y should correspond to Y cm in my plot?   I know how to do this in tkz-fct, so let me add an tkz-fct example to make more clear what I want:  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepackage{tkz-fct} \usetkzobj{all}  \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.5] \tkzInit[xmax=10,ystep=3,ymax=10] \tkzAxeXY \tkzGrid \tkzFct[color=red, thick,domain=0:10]{\x} \tkzFct[domain=0:10]{\x**2} \end{tikzpicture} \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.5] \tkzInit[xmax=10,ystep=1.5,ymax=10] \tkzAxeXY \tkzGrid \tkzFct[color=red, thick,domain=0:10]{\x} \tkzFct[domain=0:10]{\x**2} \end{tikzpicture}   \end{document}     In one case 3 corresponds to 0.5 cm on the y-axis in the picture, in the other case 1.5 corresponds to 0.5 cm on the y axis. This is achieved by using the scale=0.5 option together with the ystep option.  Not that it is important for me to have grids as in the tkz-fct example. The question,  was closed at 04:50  And yet I was able to  at the time of 08:41 some four hours later.  The question was later reopened at 08:57 Beamer, Babel and Tikz conflict Is there a way to fake a dual (second) monitor Is there a way to fake a dual monitor for testing.    I have only one monitor and I have to make an application that is suitable for two monitors.  The second monitor screen should appear as a window on my primary monitor.