How is Winter Bash different from the traditional gamification on Stack Exchange websites? What is the purpose?
I tried to write , but I couldn't find any simple explanation page to link to. I ended up garbling a home-spun description of my own with a not-terribly-helpful image from 2012.  This  puts it better than I can:     As a new user in 2015 can there please be more information about what is WinterBash. The link took me to a bunch of stick figures running around making (I think) numbers (I think its a countdown clock). It doesn't explain the event or even what a hat is. – Ian Miller Dec 4 at 2:58   All I found on Meta was dead links. For example,  was downvoted to -2 and answered with a link to an FAQ page that no longer exists.
In sketchup you can move an object based on two points. This makes it very easy to align a vertex in one object to vertex in another object. Here is an example:    I want to know how to do this in Blender. It seems that Translate can't align vertexs How to break out of multiple loops? Given the following code (that doesn't work):  while True:     #snip: print out current state     while True:         ok = get_input("Is this ok? (y/n)")         if ok.lower() == "y": break 2 #this doesn't work :(         if ok.lower() == "n": break     #do more processing with menus and stuff   Is there a way to make this work? Or do I have do one check to break out of the input loop, then another, more limited, check in the outside loop to break out all together if the user is satisfied? Confusion between register size, address size, data size I started learning about pointers in C++ and I figured I should educate myself a bit on how memory works and is accessed. I read that when we say a processor is 64-bit, it has a 64-bit register and can access 2^64 address locations. I also read that it can fetch 64/8, so 8 bytes of data at a time, but the data bus is not the same thing as the register right? Do they need to be the same size or does that just happen to be the case usually? And is it the size of the register or the data bus size that determines what we refer to it as, such as 32/64-bit? Also is there a difference between register size and address size? PC started having screen glitches after update I'm not sure what's caused it. I haven't changed any system settings. The only thing I've done that may have broken something is updating my software. My update was: upgrade linux-generic-hwe-20.04:amd64 5.8.0.48.54~20.04.32 5.8.0.49.55~20.04.33 upgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04:amd64 5.8.0.48.54~20.04.32  upgrade linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04:amd64 5.8.0.48.54~20.04.32  upgrade linux-image-extra-virtual:amd64 5.4.0.70.73 5.4.0.71.74 upgrade linux-image-generic:amd64 5.4.0.70.73 5.4.0.71.74 upgrade linux-libc-dev:amd64 5.4.0-70.78 5.4.0-71.79 upgrade libseccomp2:amd64 2.4.3-1ubuntu3.20.04.3 2.5.1-1ubuntu1~20.04.1 upgrade nomachine:amd64 7.3.2-3 7.4.1-3```  Removing nomachine did not solve the problem. It was far worse before, I'm not sure how to describe exactly, but my entire screen's UI was glitching out. So I rebooted and that stopped, but now the terminal text looks like this:  I haven't changed any terminal settings. This seems to be occurring in the entire OS. Here is another example:  Not sure how to go about troubleshooting this? I don't have the time to reinstall the OS, nor do I think I should have to because this is just ridiculous and shouldn't happen. I'm not aware of anything I've done to make the system unstable. Edit Earlier I also tried booting the PC. It failed and got stuck on some command in a terminal (didn't manage to take a photo of what it said). So I rebooted into recovery mode with both available kernels. I was getting strange glitches like this:  That didn't work. So I rebooted the PC normally, and now I somehow logged in fine. Now I'm getting popups saying to report a system error. It says this:  Environment  Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS GNOME 3.36.8  sudo lshw -class display   *-display        description: VGA compatible controller        product: Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller        vendor: Intel Corporation        physical id: 2        bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0        version: 06        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom        configuration: driver=i915 latency=0        resources: irq:33 memory:f7800000-f7bfffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff  I also did , which passed with 0 errors. Let me know if more details are required. So, I've finally obtained the Werewolf form. After returning out of the form, fully naked...  I seem to be stuck in third person view! How can I fix this? Scrolling or pressing F does not work.  I want to get back in first person view...    Mouse wheel allows to zoom in/out but not get me into the first person view but rather behind and slightly to the right of the character. The command animcam locks me at a certain distance, doing it again brings me back into the mode that I'm stuck in third person view. Hitting F after this doesn't work. tfc doesn't help me either, although that command is nice to take screenshots... Are there any rulesets or laws for Q or Q continuum? Anything, that would prevent them from doing... anything? Or at least limit them from doing something really bad?  In "" episode Q explains to  that they can do, have, get, become anything they want or appear anywhere they want, with just a snap of fingers. If that is true and if there are absolutely no borders or limits, they can't pass, then how can universe work in general? Or, how did it manage to exist so far?  I mean -- any Q could wipe out Borg, entire human population or even entire universe... with just a snap of fingers. What could prevent Q from doing that? iPhone screen randomly turns on This is something I've been curious about since starting this whole 'meta' thing a couple years back.     Let's say a user posts a feature request.   Under what circumstances is the feature-request read by staff? If staff decline to do anything (I'd guess it's some sort of triage), under what circumstances is the feature-request reevaluated by staff?     Let's say a user posts a bug.    Under what circumstances is the bug tested? What generally determines whether a verified bug is actionable? (And/or what are the criterion for deciding what to do?)     For both of the above, would it be possible to see a general-but-relatively-detailed flow for what happens to these questions? Global and local variables in R Prove $133\mid \left(11^{n+2}+12^{2n+1}\right)$ Prove $133\mid \left(11^{n+2}+12^{2n+1}\right)$, where $n$ is a non-negative integer.  So, I went about proving this using Fermat's theorem.  So I had $11^{n}\cdot 11^2+(12^2)^n= 0\ (\mod 133)$ then $11^n\cdot 11^2+1728^n=0\ (\mod133)$  and finally $1^n+132^n=0\ (\mod 133)$.  Then I said $133^n=0\ (\mod133)$ because $133$ raised to any power will have a remainder of $0$. Did I apply Fermat's theorem correctly? Images can be pushed outside the boundaries of a post by using nested lists A   B   C   D   E   F             I don't even know. It just seemed weird.  Yes, I understand I could just avoid doing something like that. But the problem already exists with a single level.   Consider having 2 images in a post. Both exceed the maximum width of a post. One is nested in a list. Key to this issue is that my original images were much larger. They were automatically resized.  Image    List      I think it looks weird. I have HTML code like this :  &lt;div&gt;        &lt;a&gt;Link A1&lt;/a&gt;        &lt;a&gt;Link A2&lt;/a&gt;        &lt;a&gt;Link A3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;        &lt;a&gt;Link B1&lt;/a&gt;        &lt;a&gt;Link B2&lt;/a&gt;        &lt;a&gt;Link B3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   When user clicks a link from above HTML, I want to get the jQuery object of the corresponding &lt;a&gt; element, and then manipulate its sibling. I can't think of any way other than creating an ID for each &lt;a&gt; element, and passing that ID to an onclick event handler. I really don't want to use IDs.   Any suggestions? Does the everywhere differentiability of $f$ imply it is absolutely continuous on a compact interval? Suppose $f$ is differentiable everywhere on $[0,1]$. Must $f$ be absolutely continuous on $[0,1]$? I know this is true if $f'$ is integrable but I'm not sure in this more general case. Why doesn't my "Nikkor AF" lens autofocus on my Nikon D3300? How to search for email of a particular date from years ago in Gmail There are similar questions and several answers. I tried to follow the methods provided in the answers.  They did not work. So I am going to ask it again with more specifics.  I only knew the date of the email in the in-box in 2012 and the content of it but did not know the exact wording of the subject. Is it possible to find this email? Suppose the proper length of a train is longer than that of a bridge, and the bridge can't bear the total weight of the train but can bear it partially. As the train goes very fast, it becomes shorter than the bridge and it can be entirely on the bridge. As a result, the bridge will collapse. However, in the train's frame, the train is even longer than the bridge, and it is only partially on the bridge; so the bridge will not collapse. What is the solution to this paradox? In my class design, I use abstract classes and virtual functions extensively. I had a  feeling that virtual functions affects the performance. Is this true? But I think this performance difference is not noticeable and looks like I am doing premature optimization. Right? Is there a way to crack the password on an Excel VBA Project? Which book (free or otherwise) was the most useful to you when you started learning LaTeX?  I am frequently asked this question by friends who want to learn LaTeX, and I recommend the book which got me started, , but I feel that there might be better options around.  Also see . What is the difference between $Q=\Delta U+W$ and $\Delta U=Q+W$?