The Narzugon's Hellfire Lance states:     Hellfire Lance. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (1d12 + 5) piercing damage plus 16 (3d10) fire damage. If this damage kills a creature, the creature's soul rises from the River Styx as a lemure in Avernus in 1d4 hours. If the creature isn't revived before then, only a wish spell or killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature's original body can restore it to life. Constructs and devils are immune to this effect.   Notably, this wording is different from "if this damage reduces a creature to 0 hit points" effects.   When is the Lance's damage considered to have "killed a creature"?  A few situations I can think of (intended as illustrative examples of boundary cases, I'm not expecting an answer to address all of these):   If the lance's damage renders the creature unconscious, and they then fail 3 death saves without taking further damage If the lance causes a creature to fail its last death save If something other than the lance's damage rendered a creature unconscious, but then an attack from the lance causes the creature to fail 1-2 death saves, and they fail the last one naturally If the lance's damage rendered a creature unconscious, but then damage from another source causes the creature to fail two death saves, and they fail the last one naturally If the lance caused massive damage to a creature, killing them instantly
says:     A humanoid killed by this spell rises at the start of your next turn as a zombie that is permanently under your command   If a player is hit by finger of death and dropped to 0hp, do they turn into a zombie immediately? If they subsequently fail death saves and die, do they then turn into a zombie?
What is the probability that all three tosses result in the same outcome? A coin is tossed three times: The probability of zero heads is 1/8 and the probability of zero tails is 1/8.  And my question is: What is the probability that all three tosses result in the same outcome?   So, if P(zero heads)= 1/8 , then that should be the same of p(all tails)?  If so, we could use the Addition Rule which is $P(A \cup B) = P(A) + P(B)$  where A and B are disjoint events, i.e. $A \cap B = \emptyset$, A is the event of tossing all heads and B is the event of tossing all tails.  I'm not sure how to continue after that... would the complement be used? $VAR vs ${VAR} and to quote or not to quote What does \s! do? Deleting array elements in JavaScript - delete vs splice If a bob attached to a string is swinging in vertical circular motion, we say that the bob leaves the circular path when the tension in the string becomes zero, but even when tension becomes zero, there's always a component of the bob's weight towards the center of the circle. Why then does the bob leave the circular trajectory? Would a backpack or cargo rack be better for commuting? Right now I use a backpack to hold all of my supplies including spare tubes, pump, patch kits, tools, my change of clothes for work, etc.  This is the backpack I use:    It's about as comfortable as a backpack can get without getting into the hiking backpacks with frames. Altogether I would say it weighs no more than 10 lbs max. The muscles in my back get slightly irritated during my commute.  Would it be more comfortable to use a rear cargo rack on my bike instead? Will adding more weight to the bike change how the bike rides and feels?  EDIT: After doing some research I came across  that explains the different methods of carrying your gear on commutes and how it affects your body. It's worth a look.  EDIT #2: Having tried both for a couple of weeks now, I can say that (for me personally) the backpack is the better way to go given the relatively light weight I have to carry.  If you do use a backpack, make sure that the straps are tightened enough so that it's positioned higher up on your back and to the point to where there is little to no movement on your back. This makes a world of difference when it comes to comfort. How can one run multiple programs in the background with single command? How can one run multiple programs in the background with single command?  I have tried the commands below, but they do not work.  nohup ./script1.sh &amp; &amp;&amp; nohup ./script2.sh &amp; -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '&amp;&amp;'  nohup ./script1.sh &amp; ; nohup ./script2.sh &amp; -bash: syntax error near unexpected token ';' Did spacetime start with the Big Bang?  I mean, was there any presence of this spacetime we are experiencing now before big bang? And could there be a presence/existence of any other space-time before the big bang? I have a chromebook series 5. I want to install Ubuntu onto a USB stick. When I downloaded Ubuntu onto my USB stick, it won't start up.  Do I first have to download Ubuntu onto my chromebook hard drive, open Ubuntu and then make USB stick bootable? And then return back to chrome?  Or is there a way to download directly onto USB and make the stick bootable?  I appreciate any help. Good tool for finding photo duplicates based on image data What is a good (and preferably free) tool for finding photo duplicates based on the photos themselves?  So, not filename, filesize etc., but how the photos look like. It would be nice if it managed to match photos that were the same image, but not exactly the same size for example too. A Google search spewed forth millions of hits on how to find tables without clustered indexed, the PK normally being the clustered index of a table. However, a table could easily have a natural key as a clustered index, and a non-clustered surrogate index, like an identity column.  How do I find all tables in a DB without a primary key defined? I have 245 tables in this DB: manual inspection is grossly inefficient. PyQGIS getting dictionary for each feature of layer with their attribute values What I want is to create a bootable pen drive that shows GRUB menu and I can select any of the several bootable systems from there to install/run. I have several ISO images that I want to install in the USB like Ubuntu, Fedora, System Rescue CD, Windows XP and Windows 7 (The windows versions are optional, mostly am looking for a multi installer for Linux distros, specially Ubuntu version)  The default Startup Disk Creator only works with Linux Images and only 1 at a time (At least for the mean time. If it allows more systems and multiple ISOs it would be awesome)  What method exists that I can use step by step to create a bootable USB Drive with multiple images than can be booted from the USB and selected from GRUB. It must support Windows Images and Linux Images.  Alternatively, is there also a way to have multiple versions of the Ubuntu installation ISO on same USB Drive, such as, when booting from it, I get to choose what Ubuntu version and architecture to install, for example:     BOOT MENU   Ubuntu 12.04 32 Bit   Ubuntu 12.04 64 Bit   Ubuntu 12.10 32 Bit   Ubuntu 12.10 64 Bit   UPDATE: Wanted to add that the English version for the post mentioned by daithib8 is here: In Avengers: Age of Ultron movie,      Ultron infected tech of Avengers Tower just after his birth. It means he is capable of infecting tech. Also, if this wasn't the case, he could never be able to create his drones.   Just after its birth,      He escaped using the Internet and infected digital devices across the entire planet. Again, awesome capability (think Skynet).   We also saw that      Iron Man's armor was connected to the Internet. He googled for the keyword "Hulk" during flight just before he deployed Veronica.   Then, why did Ultron let Iron Man win the fight? Why didn't he simply hack Iron Man's armor to use him as own drone? Performing deep learning land cover classification using R? I am really new to Deep Learning and, unfortunately, I can't find example codes on land cover classification other than  where the author wrote a script in R for a large dataset.   The main reason that I am asking is because recently I found a few papers on Remote Sensing Image classification using Deep Learning and I was wondering if there were any R examples on that subject.  So, is there a code example, preferably a step-by-step, which I can use?  I found several git repos like  that can do Deep Learning classification with R, BUTT, I am still looking for a simple multi-spectral image segmentation method. An example of that can be found at  and I also found a similar question in  for which the answer is "use something else other than R if you can".  If I find anything that works today I will be posting a working answer. What methods of suicide cause the least amounts of collateral damage? CK2 is a big game with lots of variables, so I'll stick to adding them upon being requested to minimize the hassle.  Anyway, let's say that you have a lot of children and the oldest one claims all the land according to laws of succession. After the father dies, the circumstances will obviously piss off a lot of people (in my case that would be 6 out of 8 vassals and 4 siblings with an opinion of -50 and below one of which is a sister married to the Basileus of the Byzantine friggin' Empire, a case of excommunication, 4 failed assassination attempts under 3 years... and lots and lots of vikings). Let's also say that the current playable character is completely incompetent compare to the next sibling in line.  So, what would be the most optimal methods to off myself without further screwing over the countryside so the next heir in line has to fix it (if we assume that said heir is actually capable of doing so)?  This is my list of DLCs (not including music and unit packs):   Charlemange Legacy of Rome Sword of Islam The Republic Way of Life So I recently saw add comment (requires 50 reputation) on a deleted answer. After looking around a bit, it seems to be on all deleted posts now (only deleted posts, normal posts still say just add comment).  I'm sure it wasn't there before (I think it just said add comment (unclickable) or possible nothing).  It is also on , presumably the root cause is the same.  And yes, I do have more than 50 reputation (in case anyone was wondering).  Just to clarify, requires 50 reputation obviously shouldn't be there for users with 50 or more reputation. Choices:   Display nothing Unclickable add comment - probably not ideal Unclickable add comment (disabled for deleted posts) or something along those lines   FYI - You may be somewhat confused right about now if you can't  yet. The  spell says time stops for other creatures.  What all is affected by the spell? Is gravity affected? Air movement?  I know that the spell only does what it says, and nothing else, but just wondering.   In addition, is it saying that the other creatures are not affected by environmental effects and the like while time is stopped?  For instance, if a wind blew really hard at one of the creatures you're fighting, would it affect that foe while time stop is active? If you were to place a bear trap behind the person, and a hard wind blew enough to tip them, would they then fall over onto the bear trap and be damaged without the spell ending?  This is a very curious spell... Conditional Expectation of Bernoulli R.V. Let $X_1, X_2,\ldots, X_n$ be iid bernoulli r.v. with parameter $p$. Let $S=X_1+\cdots+X_n$ and $Y=X_1X_2$. Compute $\mathbb{E}(Y\mid S)$.  I know that $\mathbb{E}(X_1\mid S) = S/n$. So If I could split $\mathbb{E}(Y\mid S)$ into two then I would be done. But I don't think that is allowed. How to proceed? Show $4x^2+6x+3$ is a unit in $\mathbb{Z}_8[x]$ (inverting unit + nilpotent) Show that $4x^2+6x+3$ is a unit in $\mathbb{Z}_8[x]$.  Once you have found the inverse like , the verification is trivial. But how do you come up with such an inverse. Do I just try with general polynomials of all degrees and see what restrictions RHS = $1$ imposes on the coefficients until I get lucky? Also is there a general method to show an element in a ring is a unit?