Are maester's always high born, or is there some other process for applying to be a student?   Samwell Tarly and Aemon Targaryan were definitly high born, but how do others such as Luwin apply if they don't already have a high born level of education?
Can anyone enter as a student at the Citadel ? Or must one be recommended by Lords or a powerful institution?   Aemon Targaryen was a son of a King, so the Citadel would let him access without questioning. Samwell Tarly was sent by Lord Commander Jon Snow, from the Night's Watch. , a novice of the Citadel. A common born but it is not known how he entered the Citadel. We can notice that he is not a good student, but has not been fired.    I don't remember how the other Maesters were recruited, if they are always relatives of Lords, Kings... Can any lowborn commoner just "knock the door", and enter the Citadel?
How to learn commutative algebra? What is the simplest way to convert char[] to/from tchar[] in C/C++(ms)? This seems like a pretty softball question, but I always have a hard time looking up this function because there seem there are so many variations regarding the referencing of char and tchar. Redshift of merging black holes How did they found that the gravitational waves where emitted at redshift $z=0.09$?  I understand the measurement of redshift for an electromagnetic wave where we have measured in a lab various transitions and therefore we can make a comparison with the wavelength we receive.  But how can they manage to get the redshift for the emitter of gravitational waves, since we have no reference? Which of the following are correct and which are wrong?   The 2000-year-old computer The 2000 year-old computer The 2000 year old computer The 2000-years-old computer The 2000 years-old computer The 2000 years old computer   In a documentary, BBC4 used the title The 2000 year-old computer, which I believe to be wrong. Am I right? Union of the conjugates of a proper subgroup Let G be a finite group and H be a proper subgroup. Prove that the union of the conjugates of H is not the whole of G.  Thanks for any help Compute the limit $\lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{n!}{n^n}$ Remove all content using pure JS If $\left(1+\sin \phi\right)\cdot \left(1+\cos \phi\right) = \frac{5}{4}\;,$ Then $\left(1-\sin \phi\right)\cdot \left(1-\cos \phi\right)$ If $\displaystyle \left(1+\sin \phi\right)\cdot \left(1+\cos \phi\right) = \frac{5}{4}\;,$ Then $\left(1-\sin \phi\right)\cdot \left(1-\cos \phi\right) = $  $\bf{My\; Try::}$ Given $\displaystyle \left(1+\sin \phi\right)\cdot \left(1+\cos \phi\right) = \frac{5}{4}\Rightarrow 1+\sin \phi\cdot \cos \phi+\sin \phi+\cos \phi = \frac{5}{4}.$  So $\displaystyle \sin \phi+\cos \phi+\sin \phi \cdot \cos \phi = \frac{1}{4}\Rightarrow \left(\sin \phi+\cos \phi\right) = \frac{1}{4}-\sin \phi \cdot \cos \phi.$  Now $\displaystyle \left(1-\sin \phi\right)\cdot \left(1-\cos \phi\right) = 1-\left(\sin \phi+\cos \phi\right)+\sin \phi \cdot \cos \phi =\frac{3}{4}+\sin 2\phi$  Now How can I calculate $\sin 2\phi.$  Help me, Thanks Zoom lenses and cameras with superzooms are often sold with a times ("×") zoom number — like a 12x zoom or 30x zoom. The question  explains how this relates to focal length numbers, like 70-200mm or 18-55mm. But how does ×-zoom relate to magnification, when used for macro or just to make something far away look bigger?  How can two 70-200mm lenses have different magnification? I remember a story I have read buy could not remember the author the name or anything apart from the basic plot. The story is about some future where humanity has to fight with some aliens (not 100% sure). The story tells about a guy who was some kind of activist and who was in a prison two or more times and somehow helped humanity by being held in a prison (can't remember details). I think the story starts by saying that there is a statue in his honor that is not very well known but he did more to help humanity than famous politicians.   The story is most likely written by some famous English-speaking author, though I read it in a translation. 1-1 correspondence between [0,1] and [0,1) Is there a way to load my own custom CSS or Javascript while using a browser?  When I'm accessing a website or developing a website I want to load my own custom scripts from my computer. I know this can be done by Firebug or Chrome's developer toolbar, but after you refresh your browser your changes will be cleared too. This is exactly what I'm looking for adding CSS and Javascript, but I wish it has an option where you temporarily save your changes locally. Or it has an option to load external CSS or JS files.   Purpose:   When I'm developing the frontend, sometimes it's convenient for me using Chrome's developer toolbar or Firefox's Firebug to change or tweak CSS properties because I can then see the changes in real time without refreshing. One problem I see is that every time I refresh my browser, my changes also get reset. Now I wish there were an option where I could save my changes locally or load my own external .css file or .js file. I want to customize how some websites look when viewed locally, e.g., accessing a blog that has too many ads. I want to apply CSS properties to hide the junk.   Browsers I use often:   Google Chrome (for development: Built-in Dev Toolbar) Mozilla Firefox (for development: Firebug) Get file size before uploading Change .jpg quality of terminal screenshots By the time, many files are still on my system and I don't need them anymore, so how to delete all files that are one year old at least? Why do I see a double variable initialized to some value like 21.4 as 21.399999618530273? What is the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'? What are the differences between git pull and git fetch? How can I make my Photoshop text appear like it does on the web? Do I really have to design everything in Photoshop with anti-aliasing set to "none"?  I'm sure there is a better way.    I'd like to have a setting so that when picking a basic web-safe (such as Tahoma) in Photoshop so I can see what it will actually look like when on the web.  For example: The difference between Tahoma with anti-aliasing set to "crisp" in Photoshop and how it renders in Firefox is major.  It looks nice and smooth in Photoshop and looks like crap on the web.  Is there a anti-aliasing choice that is best to start with (that has the most similar outcome) when planning to have the content live on the web? Why is this trigger finding a null value despite the field being populated? Financial Account is a child of Client in a Master-Detail relationship. The client (John Sandbox) has a Wealth Advisor, 'John Smith', on his client record, however, the system debug that pulls finAcct.client__r.Wealth_Advisor__c shows this field as 'null'.  Does anyone have any idea why I am not getting the value in this field? The goal of this trigger is to make sure that the lookup fields for the Client Team (one of which is 'Wealth Advisor') always match between the client record and the financial account record when they are linked. Thanks!      Boolean UpdateMe;     List &lt;Financial_Account__c&gt; FinAcctsToUpdate = new List&lt;Financial_Account__c&gt;();      //Loop through all Financial Accounts in Trigger.new     for(Financial_Account__c finAcct : newFinAccts){         UpdateMe = false;          System.debug('finAcct WA Lookup: ' + finAcct.Wealth_Advisor_Lookup__c);         System.debug('Client: ' + finAcct.client__c);         System.debug('Acct WA: ' + finAcct.client__r.Wealth_Advisor__c);          if (finAcct.Wealth_Advisor_Lookup__c != finAcct.client__r.Wealth_Advisor__c){             finAcct.Wealth_Advisor_Lookup__c = finAcct.client__r.Wealth_Advisor__c;             UpdateMe = true;         }         if(UpdateMe == true){             FinAcctsToUpdate.add(finAcct);         }         UpdateMe = false;     }      if(FinAcctsToUpdate.size() &gt; 0 ){         update FinAcctsToUpdate;     } Why the "service --status-all | grep mysql" get many unrelated result?