Someone said they can block with a  then return it to their hand with a  before the Arbor takes damage.  That sounds wrong to me.
Suppose Player 1 has a Dragon on the table and  in hand, while Player 2 has two Spiders on the table.  Player 1 chooses to attack with the Dragon and Player 2 chooses to block with one of the Spiders.  Before combat damage is to be dealt, Player 1 uses Unsummon on the blocking Spider.    Does Player 2 take any life damage from the attacking Dragon?
I have observed that in gedit if I edit a file, another file is created in the same directory (the one with the same filename and a tilde '~' suffix). The extra file remains even if I close gedit.  I understand the need for a temp file (eg. in case of a crash), but vim for example deletes the extra file it creates, when I close it.  Is there a way to do the same with gedit? Some configuration perhaps? Is soaking beans 24 hours unrefrigerated safe? Wrapper for package managers There are a lot of language-specific package managers like cpan for perl, cabal for haskell etc. When we want to install some software, it can sometimes be installed from a corresponding repo, with installation instruction just like (say, ) npm install yaxy or cpan something or cabal install something.   These package managers have slightly different syntaxes, they all need root privileges and/or custom setup, or (in case of Yaxy) just a newer version of interpreter (nodejs packaged by Ubuntu was too old to run it).  Is there a wrapper for different package managers that unifies/automates setup for different package managers?  Edit: what I want is a way to execute installation command like that npm install yaxy and make it working without manual installing system npm+nodejs, getting non-functional executable, finding the simplest way to install fresher nodejs on my system, reinstalling... Let $$ f(x) =    \begin{cases}\begin{align}     1\quad&amp;\text{ if }\; 0\leq x \leq 1 \\     2 \quad&amp;\text{ if }\; 1&lt;x \leq 2 \\   \end{align}\end{cases}$$  Then $\int^2_0 f(x)dx=3$ and an anti derivative of f(x) is $$F(x)=\begin{cases}\begin{align}     x\quad&amp;\text{ if }\; 0\leq x \leq 1 \\     2x \quad&amp;\text{ if }\; 1&lt;x \leq 2 \\   \end{align}\end{cases}$$ But, $F(2)-F(0)=4-0=4 \neq 3.$ Why has this happened?  Find an anti-derivative $G(x)$ of $f(x)$ such that $G(2)-G(0)=3$, the correct answer.  My attempt: $F(2)-F(0)=4 \neq 3$ because we need to break it up into two parts like this: $\int^2_1 2x dx + \int^1_0 x dx = x^2|^2_0 + \frac{1}{2} x^2|^1_0 =4-1+\frac{1}{2}-0=3.5$ but this is not right either. :(  For the "Find an anti-derivative $G(x)$..."I'm completely lost but perhaps if we solve the first part then I'll understand what it's asking for there.  Any help would be appreciated. Why are symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices so important? I know the definition of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix, but want to understand more.   Why are they so important, intuitively?  Here is what I know. What else?   For a given data, Co-variance matrix is SPD. Co-variance matrix is a important metric, see this  for intuitive explanation. The quadratic form $\frac 1 2 x^\top Ax-b^\top x +c$ is convex, if $A$ is SPD. Convexity is a nice property for a function that can make sure the local solution is global solution. For Convex problems, there are many good algorithms to solve, but not for non-covex problems. When $A$ is SPD, the optimization solution for the quadratic form $$\text{minimize}~~~ \frac 1 2 x^\top Ax-b^\top x +c$$ and the solution for linear system $$Ax=b$$ are the same. So we can run conversions between two classical problems. This is important because it enables us to use tricks discovered in one domain in the another. For example, we can use the conjugate gradient method to solve a linear system.  There are many good algorithms (fast, numerical stable) that work better for an SPD matrix, such as Cholesky decomposition.   EDIT: I am not trying ask the identities for SPD matrix, but the intuition behind the property to show the importance. For example, as mentioned by @Matthew Drury, if a matrix is SPD, Eigenvalues are all positive real numbers, but why all positive matters. @Matthew Drury had a great answer to flow and that is what I was looking for. How can I make LightDM the default display manager? I have LightDM installed and can start it with sudo start lightdm. But at boot, GDM is still the default. How can change this so LightDM is loaded automatically at boot instead of GDM? How do I make exponential equation with points?  Here are my points:  x = 0, y = 0 x = 1, y = 4.75000 x = 2, y = 9.26250 x = 3, y = 13.54937 x = 4, y = 17.62191   this is same as   x = 0, y = 0 x = 1, y = (0 + 5) * 0.95  x = 2, y = ((5 * 0.95) + 5) * 0.95 x = 3, y = (((5 * 0.95) + 5) * 0.95 + 5)) * 0.95 x = 4, y = ((((5 * 0.95) + 5) * 0.95 + 5)) * 0.95 + 5) ) 0.95   as x value increase by 1, y value is added by 5 and multiplied by 0.95 i tried to make an equation for this but i couldn't  also i tried to use natural exponential but the initial value is 0 so it didn't work  please help me I would like to know the equipment and the step by step process, as I have already tried to do it, but it didn't work.  I have already watched several videos, but it is not the same to talk to someone that really loves, and knows how to do it. I don't know anybody that knows how to brew anything xD What happens when identical overlapping effects have their end-condition met? The standard files/tools that report memory seem to have different formats on different Linux distributions. For example, on Arch and Ubuntu.   Arch  $ free               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available Mem:        8169312     3870392     2648348       97884     1650572     4110336 Swap:      16777212      389588    16387624   $ head /proc/meminfo  MemTotal:        8169312 kB MemFree:         2625668 kB MemAvailable:    4088520 kB Buffers:          239688 kB Cached:          1224520 kB SwapCached:        17452 kB Active:          4074548 kB Inactive:        1035716 kB Active(anon):    3247948 kB Inactive(anon):   497684 kB  Ubuntu  $ free              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached Mem:      80642828   69076080   11566748    3063796     150688   58358264 -/+ buffers/cache:   10567128   70075700 Swap:     20971516    5828472   15143044   $ head /proc/meminfo  MemTotal:       80642828 kB MemFree:        11565936 kB Buffers:          150688 kB Cached:         58358264 kB SwapCached:      2173912 kB Active:         27305364 kB Inactive:       40004480 kB Active(anon):    7584320 kB Inactive(anon):  4280400 kB Active(file):   19721044 kB    So, how can I portably (across Linux distros only) and reliably get the amount of memory—excluding swap—that is available for my software to use at a particular time? Presumably that's what's shown as "available" and "MemAvailable" in the output of free and cat /proc/meminfo in Arch but how do I get the same in Ubuntu or another distribution? Confusing article status for journals of American Mathematical Society: "reviewing" AND "being handled by an editor" The web page of my article in the AMS editorial system for some three months says &quot;Article status: Reviewing&quot; and in the next line &quot;Your paper is being handled by an editor&quot;. I find this confusing as the &quot;reviewing&quot; status appears to suggest that the article is with the referee(s) rather than with the editor but this in turn seems to contradict the line &quot;Your paper is being handled by an editor&quot;.  Could someone with enough experience with AMS journals please explain how should one interpret the combination of &quot;Article status: Reviewing&quot; and the line &quot;Your paper is being handled by an editor&quot; at the article page? More broadly, which are the possible article statuses in the AMS editorial system?  Many thanks in advance. Cann I use a 19.5V 4.62A laptop charger for 19V 4.74A laptop? What is the recommended CIDR when creating VPC on AWS? I have been creating AWS VPCs and I am wondering if there is a recommended CIDR value when creating VPCs. What are the factors that I must consider when choosing a CIDR and does the CIDR value affect the performance of the network? I have a block of text that I would like to automatically break in blocks of equal length. Something like what \num does with numbers.  What I need is a definition for what I called \makeBlocks. The MWE below should output: aaaaa bbbbb ccccc ddddd followed by abc def ghi  \documentclass{article}  \newcommand{\makeBlocks}[1]{???}  \begin{document} \makeBlocks{5}{aaaaabbbbbcccccddddd}  followed by \makeBlocks{3}{abcdefghi} \end{document} When a word ends in 's' or 'x', do you add 's or just an '? 1) Alex's house      2) Alex' house     When the noun ends with the letter 's' or 'x', do I need to put 's' after an apostrophe or not?  I remember I read some rules related to this in my school grammar book, but now I've forgotten it. Can an integrated HDMI port work both ways? Say I had a laptop [Correction: notebook, don't want my thighs medium rare], any OS, and it has an HDMI port built into the side. Would it be remotely possible to hack it into an input, provided it wasn't already designed for that? I would figure all video ports operate straight off the graphics chip, however, are there ways to override that functionality on the driver level? Driver hacks already exist for plenty of things such as the classic example: Bluetooth adapters (so we can play with our PS3 controllers and save a buck) However, is HDMI one of these tamperable interfaces? As far as the interface standard is concerned, are HDMI ports designed to be either way or are they Input/Output specific? Gaussian Integers and Quotient Rings Show that $\mathbb{Z}[i]/(2+3i)$ is a finite field.    By applying some isomorphisms and realizing $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ as the quotient ring of $\mathbb{Z}[x]/(x^{2}+1)$, I found that:  $\mathbb{Z}[i]/(2+3i) \cong \mathbb{Z}[x]/(x^2+1,2+3x)$  However, I run into trouble as I can't divide $x^{2}+1$ by $2+3x$ in $\mathbb{Z}[x]$. What would be another way to approach the problem?  Thanks for the help. Create Task in loop but all tasks take the same parameter Chrome browser will not connect to intranet web addresses How do you increase MAXSYMLINKS In a python script, I am creating a bunch of symbolic links chained together.  example: link1->link2->link3->.......->somefile.txt  I was wondering how you can change the max number of symlinks to be greater than 20?