On main sites downvotes are usually used to show that answer is incorrect. On meta sites downvotes  to express agreement or disagreement.  On main sites downvotes cost reputation so that people downvote only posts that  it as it may give bad feelings to answerer. But it can't be a reason on Meta as it's explicitly said that votes mean another thing here.  So why downvotes cost reputation on Meta?
Voting on Meta sites generally express agreement and disagreement with a proposal, unlike on the Q&amp;A sites where they indicate useful/good vs. non-useful/bad content.  It seems to me that a down-vote on Meta Stack Exchange should not carry a -1 rep penalty, which only discourages down-voting. With this discouragement, questions on Meta SE will be biased towards agreement, since for every up-voter, there may be several in disagreement who don't want to lose the rep for down-voting.  Can the penalty for down-voting on Meta SE be removed?
Mathematica9: NDSolve slows down after repeated calls Trying to use "Difference" tool gives out "'QgsWKBTypes' is not defined" error I am trying to separate two overlapping vector layers and find out the difference in QGIS 2.18. I have tried finding difference with layers with points and also with buffers. Both of them give following error:  global name 'QgsWKBTypes' is not defined See log for more details   I have searched the web for this but can't seem to find a solution. Page number in title page I want to add page number from 531 to 536 in my latex IEEE conference template. But page number appearing from page 2 i.e. 532.  \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} %\IEEEoverridecommandlockouts  \makeatletter \let\old@ps@headings\ps@headings \let\old@ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle\ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle \def\confheader#1{%     % for all pages except the first     \def\ps@headings{%         \old@ps@headings%         \def\@oddhead{\strut\hfill#1\hfill\strut}%         \def\@evenhead{\strut\hfill#1\hfill\strut}%     }%     % for the first page     \def\ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle{%         \old@ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle%         \def\@oddhead{\strut\hfill#1\hfill\strut}%         \def\@evenhead{\strut\hfill#1\hfill\strut}%     }%     \ps@headings% } \makeatother  \confheader{ 2020 IEEE International Conference on Computation, Automation and Knowledge Management (ICCAKM) }   %%footer %\usepackage[pscoord]{eso-pic} %\newcommand{\placetextbox}[3]{ %   \setbox0=\hbox{#3} %   \AddToShipoutPictureFG*{ \put(\LenToUnit{#1\paperwidth},\LenToUnit{#2\paperheight}){\vtop{{\null}\makebox[0pt][c]{#3}}} %   } %} %\placetextbox{.23}{0.055}{\small{978-1-5386-8007-0/19/\$31.00~\copyright 2019 IEEE}}     \usepackage{cite} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts} \usepackage{algorithmic} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{float} \usepackage[export]{adjustbox} \usepackage{subcaption}     % %\usepackage[pscoord]{eso-pic} %\newcommand{\placetextbox}[3]{ %   \setbox0=\hbox{#3} %   \AddToShipoutPictureFG{ \put(\LenToUnit{#1\paperwidth},\LenToUnit{#2\paperheight}){\vtop{{\null}\makebox[0pt][c]{#3}}} %   } %} %\placetextbox{.2}{0.055}{978-1-4799-5522-0/15/\$31.00~\copyright 2015 IEEE}   \IEEEoverridecommandlockouts \IEEEpubid{\makebox[\columnwidth]{978-1-7281-0666-3/20/\$31.00~\copyright~2020         IEEE \hfill} \hspace{\columnsep}\makebox[\columnwidth]{ }}      \thispagestyle{plain}     \pagestyle{plain}     \setcounter{page}{531}   \begin{document}  \title{Performance Analysis of Physically     Unclonable Function Based on Voltage Divider Arrays} \author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Sumit Chaudhary$^{1}$}     \IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{Dept. of Electronics and Communication} \\         \textit{MNIT Jaipur, India}\\         2016pev5165@mnit.ac.in}     \and     \IEEEauthorblockN{Chitrakant Sahu$^{2}$}     \IEEEauthorblockA{\textit{Dept. of Electronics and Communication} \\         \textit{MNIT Jaipur, India}\\         chitrakant.ece@mnit.ac.in}}  \maketitle   \end{document} To show that Fermat number $F_{5}$ is divisible by $641$. How can I show that  $F_{5}=2^{2^5}+1$ is divisible by $641$. Center of mass in a straight rod I got an assignment to prove that in a straight homogeneous rod, you can always choose a coordinate system in such a way that  $$\int_S x_1 \, dx_1 \, dx_2=0 $$  $$\int_S x_2 \, dx_1 \, dx_2=0 $$  $$\int_S x_1x_2 \, dx_1 \, dx_2=0$$  where $S$ is the cross section of the rod  Now, intuitively, I can understand that the first two expressions basically state that if you find the mass center of the rod, then all you have to do is to put the origin of the coordinate system in the mass center, and the integrals turn out to be zero. What I'm curious about is whether or not this is a good enough of an explanation, and also, a hint on how to obtain the third equality. What does "mostly" modify? "My friends are mostly non-smokers."  Is "mostly" a focusing adverb that modifies "non-smokers"? Schema for a multilanguage database I'm developing a multilanguage software. As far as the application code goes, localizability is not an issue. We can use language specific resources and have all kinds of tools that work well with them.  But what is the best approach in defining a multilanguage database schema? Let's say we have a lot of tables (100 or more), and each table can have multiple columns that can be localized (most of nvarchar columns should be localizable). For instance one of the tables might hold product information:  CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (   NAME        NVARCHAR(50),   DESCRIPTION NTEXT,   PRICE       NUMBER(18, 2) )   I can think of three approaches to support multilingual text in NAME and DESCRIPTION columns:   Separate column for each language  When we add a new language to the system, we must create additional columns to store the translated text, like this:  CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (   NAME_EN        NVARCHAR(50),   NAME_DE        NVARCHAR(50),   NAME_SP        NVARCHAR(50),   DESCRIPTION_EN NTEXT,   DESCRIPTION_DE NTEXT,   DESCRIPTION_SP NTEXT,   PRICE          NUMBER(18,2) )  Translation table with columns for each language  Instead of storing translated text, only a foreign key to the translations table is stored. The translations table contains a column for each language.  CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (   NAME_FK        int,   DESCRIPTION_FK int,   PRICE          NUMBER(18, 2) )  CREATE TABLE T_TRANSLATION (   TRANSLATION_ID,   TEXT_EN NTEXT,   TEXT_DE NTEXT,   TEXT_SP NTEXT )  Translation tables with rows for each language  Instead of storing translated text, only a foreign key to the translations table is stored. The translations table contains only a key, and a separate table contains a row for each translation to a language.  CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (   NAME_FK        int,   DESCRIPTION_FK int,   PRICE          NUMBER(18, 2) )  CREATE TABLE T_TRANSLATION (   TRANSLATION_ID )  CREATE TABLE T_TRANSLATION_ENTRY (   TRANSLATION_FK,   LANGUAGE_FK,   TRANSLATED_TEXT NTEXT )  CREATE TABLE T_TRANSLATION_LANGUAGE (   LANGUAGE_ID,   LANGUAGE_CODE CHAR(2) )    There are pros and cons to each solution, and I would like to know what are your experiences with these approaches, what do you recommend and how would you go about designing a multilanguage database schema. Convert .jar to .deb package I have Java 8 and Ubuntu 18.04. I'm using NetBeans and when tried to make some program, it couldn't be done because JavaFX is missing.  I installed Java JDK with NetBeans from Oracle's site and thought everything is included but obviously I didn't check it well.   What should I do, what should I install? I'm not so good at this and don't know if problem is with Ubuntu or Java. :( Possible Duplicate:          This is a line spoken by the . I always wondered if this is grammatically correct.  Luke says something like "You are mistaken ..." which the Emperor answers with     No, it is you who are mistaken!   Why wouldn't he say     No, it is you who is mistaken!   instead?  I don't know what rules apply here but my stomach tells me the latter is (at least also) correct, although you would say "you are mistaken". It feels as if he should be referring to "you" in the third person.  Could you please shed some light? Are both correct or – if not – which one is correct? And why? The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. Windows 10 and Mojave The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single   partition.      The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended   (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for   installing Windows.   I had installed Windows 10 via bootcamp in my mac. Current version is 10.14.1  Now I don't want windows and need that space back but getting above error when I go bootcamp to remove it.  This is the output of diskutil list  /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1    2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         181.3 GB   disk0s2    3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                60.3 GB    disk0s3    4:           Windows Recovery                         509.6 MB   disk0s4  /dev/disk1 (synthesized):    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER    0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +181.3 GB   disk1                                  Physical Store disk0s2    1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            116.4 GB   disk1s1    2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.6 MB    disk1s2    3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.8 MB   disk1s3    4:                APFS Volume VM                      4.3 GB     disk1s4   And this is of diskutil cs list  No CoreStorage logical volume groups found   Can anybody please help me to solve this problem?  Output after I tried commands given in the first answer  ❯ diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1    2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2  /dev/disk1 (synthesized):    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER    0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1                                  Physical Store disk0s2    1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            116.4 GB   disk1s1    2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.6 MB    disk1s2    3:                APFS Volume Recovery                512.8 MB   disk1s3    4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4 Let $ \mathbb R _ { &gt; 0 } $ be the set of positive real numbers. Find all functions $ f : \mathbb R _ { &gt; 0 } \to \mathbb R _ { &gt; 0 } $ such that $$ f \big ( x y + f ( x ) \big) = f \big( f ( x ) f ( y ) \big) + x $$ for all positive real numbers $ x $ and $ y $.  What I thought: We could change $ x $ by $ y $, and then subtract. Source: Brazil National Olympiad 2019 #3 What happens to waves when they hit smaller apertures than their wavelenghts? Proper use of the IDisposable interface I know from reading  that the "primary" use of the IDisposable interface is to clean up unmanaged resources.  To me, "unmanaged" means things like database connections, sockets, window handles, etc.  But, I've seen code where the Dispose() method is implemented to free managed resources, which seems redundant to me, since the garbage collector should take care of that for you.  For example:  public class MyCollection : IDisposable {     private List&lt;String&gt; _theList = new List&lt;String&gt;();     private Dictionary&lt;String, Point&gt; _theDict = new Dictionary&lt;String, Point&gt;();      // Die, clear it up! (free unmanaged resources)     public void Dispose()     {         _theList.clear();         _theDict.clear();         _theList = null;         _theDict = null;     }   My question is, does this make the garbage collector free memory used by MyCollection any faster than it normally would?  edit:  So far people have posted some good examples of using IDisposable to clean up unmanaged resources such as database connections and bitmaps.  But suppose that _theList in the above code contained a million strings, and you wanted to free that memory now, rather than waiting for the garbage collector.  Would the above code accomplish that? Is it possible to combine processing power of 2 computers? How to make a vf page with the same look &amp; feel as salesforce1, any ideas? Proving that: $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty} \left(\frac{a^{\frac{1}{n}}+b^{\frac{1}{n}}}{2}\right)^n =\sqrt{ab}$ Let $a$ and $b$ be positive reals. Show that $$\lim\limits_{n\to\infty} \left(\frac{a^{\frac{1}{n}}+b^{\frac{1}{n}}}{2}\right)^n =\sqrt{ab}$$ Possibilities for Python classes organized across files? I'm used to the Java model where you can have one public class per file.  Python doesn't have this restriction, and I'm wondering what's the best practice for organizing classes. Mathematical journal for an undergraduate I want to make someone a present by subscribing for him to a mathematical journal. (It should appear every month or every two months). The contents should be comprehensible to an undergraduate in mathematics, and be about a broad selection of topics (for example not only analysis).   I expect the content to be something like proposing interesting problems and then giving solutions with some references for further study. Are there some famous journals you could suggest me? How to configure TeXnicCenter to work with Adobe Reader DC? When I building and view current file .tex the following error "Can not execute the command" shows up and the PDF is not generated.    If there are any related post, could help. Thanks a lot!