I'm working on a Darth Vader build for a competition. To represent the light saber, I would really like to use mind blade (from the 3.0 Soulknife prestige class, which is actually pretty cool, especially compared to the 3.5 base class). However, the Monk ACF Decisive Strike would make a fantastic addition to the build, and this ACF replaces Flurry of Blows.  Problem is, Unorthodox Flurry and Whirling Steel Strike - either of which would make the mind blade a special monk weapon - both have "flurry of blows class feature" as a prerequisite, so I can't use them. My second thought was Shou Disciple, but it only lets you flurry with other weapons; it doesn't make them special monk weapons, and thus it wouldn't let you decisive strike with mind blade either. The Eberron Monk substitution levels give you Whirling Steel Strike as a bonus feat, which would normally obviate the need for the prerequisites... but explicitly still requires all prerequisites. There are also numerous classes that give you a "flurry" of some flavor, but none I've found so far are specifically a "flurry of blows" that would work as a monk-independent way of qualifying for one of the feats.  So how about it? Is there a way to make a mind blade, short sword, or longsword* count as a monk special weapon that doesn't also require you to have Flurry of Blows?   Or a way to count as having the "Flurry of Blows class feature" to qualify for a feat?   Or for that matter, a way to get Decisive Strike without trading away Flurry of Blows?    *The Soulknife prestige class (Psionics Handbook pg 113) says the mind blade is "identical to" a short sword until level 8, at which point it's "identical to" a longsword. As far as I'm concerned, that means any method that works for one of those also works for the mind blade. It also means longsword is the least preferable of the three.
For thematic reasons, I am wanting to make a Zatoichi-style character based on using  and Decisive Strike monk alternate feature from the PHB2. The only catch is that Decisive Strike says:     . . . make one attack with an unarmed strike or a special monk weapon . . .   What are all of the official ways to add a weapon to the list of ? I have found only one in the Shou Disciple prestige class (Unapproachable East, p.32), but doing so would mean the earliest the character could use decisive strike with a katana would be level 10. I would like to be doing it no later than level 5 if such an option exists.  Note that, for the purposes of this question, anything that works for "Flurry of Blows" can be interchanged with "Decisive Strike" (e.g. the "Martial Flurry" ability of a Shou Disciple gains ability to use other weapons with "Flurry of Blows," but that is fine).
"As part of" versus "as a part of" Will Google punish me if I import a story from my own blog to content sharing sites such as Medium.com? I've heard that Google punishes sites with duplicate content.   If I write an article on my blog then import it on Medium (basically a copy/paste) will Google regard it as a duplicate?   Medium.com is a blog platform (sort of). Circle Rolling on Ellipse I've gotten interested in describing a circle rolling on an ellipse; specifically, the curve traced out by a point on the circumference of the circle. I want a symbolic solution to the general case, radius $r$, axes $a$ and $b$. I've written nine polynomial equations in terms of various angles and lengths.  Exactly what "solution" means is subject to debate.  Let $(u,v)$ be the point on the circle. Similar to the cycloid, I would like an equation for $u$ in terms of a "natural" angle in the problem.  Similarly, an equation for $v$.  Perhaps it is necessary to have a differential equation, so maybe $du/dt$, $u$, and $t$, where $t$ is an angle in the problem.  I would have thought this was known, but I can't find it anywhere. Using Elseif Conditional Statement in QGIS Field Calculator? After upgrading to 12.10 quantal, the packaged version of fglrx no longer works. I discovered that this is because there is a separate 'legacy' fglrx driver for the HD 2k-4k series cards, but it is incompatible with the xorg server on 12.10.  This is the most current version of the driver for HD 2000 through HD 4000 series cards. You can't use the non-legacy fglrx driver, but you can use the open-source radeon driver if you prefer your WM compositing to be laggy and your YouTube videos to play like they would on a Pentium MMX series:    Usually this driver can be installed in the following way, necessary because apt-get install fglrx would pull in the non-legacy driver:  wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/legacy/amd-driver-installer-12.6-legacy-x86.x86_64.zip unzip amd-driver-installer-* sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-*.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/quantal sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb sudo aticonfig --initial -f   If you use a different version of fglrx (for example, a newer 12.9 that doesn't support those cards) then the final command will give you an error no supported hardware detected or something similar. However, everything works at this point and you will get a reasonable xorg.conf:  ... other stuff  Section "Device"         Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"         Driver      "fglrx"         BusID       "PCI:1:5:0" EndSection  ... other stuff   At this point you're supposed to reboot and everything will be working with the fglrx driver. However, upon rebooting, you'll be treated to the following errors in Xorg.0.log when fglrx attempts to load:  (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: noXFree86DRIExtension   Some searching around will show that this is a problem with the legacy ATI drivers not supporting xserver 1.13 or newer. () ATI has released a fixed driver for its most recent (HD 5000 series or later) cards, but not for the 'legacy' cards yet. The non-legacy ATI drivers can't be used with the old cards.  What should an Ubuntu user, using one of these HD 2000-4000 series cards, do?    Wait for an updated 'legacy' ATI driver that properly works with xserver 1.13?   Downgrade back to 12.04 Precise, which uses xserver 1.11? Try to downgrade xserver on 12.10 Quantal to 1.12, which could possibly break Unity and GNOME? Forced upgrade to HD 5000 series or later card? (Not possible with integrated graphics...) Some other 1337 action that fixes this problem painlessly? Use of # a.k.a. read-macro UTF-8 all the way through I'm setting up a new server and want to support UTF-8 fully in my web application. I have tried this in the past on existing servers and always seem to end up having to fall back to ISO-8859-1.  Where exactly do I need to set the encoding/charsets? I'm aware that I need to configure Apache, MySQL, and PHP to do this — is there some standard checklist I can follow, or perhaps troubleshoot where the mismatches occur?  This is for a new Linux server, running MySQL 5, PHP, 5 and Apache 2. Man is sitting in his room and gets contradictory advice from two men from the future Name of component on output side cable of a DC power adapter? What is the name of this component (circled in red) of a charger?    What are the uses of this component? Quotient ring of Gaussian integers $\mathbb{Z}[i]/(a+bi)$ when $a$ and $b$ are NOT coprime The isomorphism $\mathbb{Z}[i]/(a+bi) \cong \Bbb Z/(a^2+b^2)\Bbb Z$ is , when the integers $a$ and $b$ are coprime. But what happens when they are not coprime, say $(a,b)=d&gt;1$?      — For instance if $p$ is prime (which is not coprime with $0$) then $$\mathbb{Z}[i]/(p) \cong \mathbb{F}_p[X]/(X^2+1) \cong \begin{cases} \mathbb{F}_{p^2} &amp;\text{if } p \equiv 3 \pmod 4\\ \mathbb{F}_{p} \times \mathbb{F}_{p} &amp;\text{if } p \equiv 1 \pmod 4 \end{cases}$$ (because $-1$ is a square mod $p$ iff $(-1)^{(p-1)/2}=1$).  — More generally, if $n=p_1^{r_1} \cdots p_m^{r_m} \in \Bbb N$, then  each pair of integers $p_j^{r_j}$ are coprime, so that by CRT we get $$\mathbb{Z}[i]/(n) \cong \mathbb{Z}[i]/(p_1^{r_1}) \times \cdots \times \mathbb{Z}[i]/(p_m^{r_m})$$  I was not sure how to find the structure of $\mathbb{Z}[i]/(p^{r}) \cong (\Bbb Z/p^r \Bbb Z)[X] \,/\, (X^2+1)$ when $p$ is prime and $r&gt;1$.  — Even more generally, in order to determine the structure of $\mathbb{Z}[i]/(a+bi)$ with $a+bi=d(x+iy)$ and $(x,y)=1$, we could try to use the CRT, provided that $d$ is coprime with $x+iy$ in $\Bbb Z[i]$. But this is not always true: for $d=13$ and $x+iy=2+3i$, we can't find Gauss integers $u$ and $v$ such that $du + (x+iy)v=1$, because this would mean that $(2+3i)[(2-3i)u+v]=1$, i.e. $2+3i$ is a unit in $\Bbb Z[i]$ which is not because its norm is $13 \neq ±1$.  — I was not able to go further. I recall that my general question is to known what $\mathbb{Z}[i]/(a+bi)$ is isomorphic to, when $a$ and $b$ are integers which are not coprime (for instance $a=p^r,b=0$ or $d=(a,b) = a^2+b^2&gt;1$).  Thank you for your help! Converting NumPy array into Python List structure? Difference between int[] array and int array[] Example of a finitely generated module with submodules that are not finitely generated I was just wondering why Fresnel Lenses are not widely used in the production of solar electricity. Their use there would mean that you could produce heat within a fraction of a second, up to a few minutes and run a turbine to produce electricity.  Though it is used in welding, I am not sure what are the problems in producing electricity, as stated by :     New applications have appeared in solar energy, where Fresnel lenses can concentrate sunlight (with a ratio of almost 500:1) onto solar cells. I am unable to open gnome-control-center due to an error stemming from pop repositories. Ubuntu 20.04 As I understand this, firewalls (assuming default settings) deny all incoming traffic that has no prior corresponding outgoing traffic.  Based on  and , reverse SSH tunneling can be used to get around pesky firewall restrictions.  I would like to execute shell commands on a remote machine. The remote machine has its own firewall and is behind an additional firewall (router). It has an IP address like 192.168.1.126 (or something similar). I am not behind a firewall and I know the remote machine's IP address as seen from the Internet (not the 192.168.1.126 address). Additionally, I can ask someone to execute ssh (something) as root on the remote machine first.  Could anyone explain me, step by step, how reverse SSH tunneling works to get around the firewalls (local and remote machines' firewalls and the additional firewall between them)?  What is the role of the switches (-R, -f, -L, -N)? Practical uses for the "internal" keyword in C# Could you please explain what the practical usage is for the internal keyword in C#?  I know that the internal modifier limits access to the current assembly, but when and in which circumstance should I use it? How can we get "Developer" bugs logged with Technical Support? I recently found a bug, which I mentioned on , as well as submitting a case, and after a few days fumbling around with the case, they closed it by saying that they only provide this type of support for Premier Support customers.  Is there a better channel for reporting bugs than by submitting a case, or is there something "special" we have to do? I realize this question is similar to , except that I've already gone the route of , as suggested by the answer there (i.e. submitting a case), to no avail.  How can I make sure that a bug like this can find its way to someone capable of at least confirming that the behavior was expected? This behavior isn't documented anywhere, and so I assume that it's a bug that needs to be addressed. Why doesn't attempting to edit count as a pass for a review audit? I just got a question in the review queue that, though poor, I thought was potentially salvageable via editing.  However when I clicked the Edit button I got the deleted post error.  Since the post was gone, I clicked I'm Done (what is there do do with a deleted post?) only to get the review audit failed message instead.  The current behavior is also problematic in that, now that I know about it, it's a risk-free way to check if a question is an audit and not an actual review. That allows me or anyone else who knows about it to detect audits without having to recognize that the question is bad. Counting degrees of freedom of gauge bosons Gauge bosons are represented by $A_{\mu}$, where $\mu = 0,1,2,3$. So in general there are 4 degrees of freedom. But in reality, a photon (gauge boson) has two degrees of freedom (two polarization states).   So, when someone asks about on-shell and off-shell degrees of freedom, I thought they are 2 and 4. But I read that the off-shell d.of. are 3.   And my question is how to see this?