What's a negative idiom for a situation where a person sacrifices long term benefit for small, short term relief. Example:  I am cold so I cut off pieces of my jacket to start a fire.  Basically inconveniencing, sacrificing something large for a small moment or purpose without hindsight.
I'm looking for a phrase that describes trying to fix problems caused by underlying issues, with the result of compounding the issue. I usually call this "targeting surface problems rather than root problems", but my terminology is verbose.  Example 1: A government bans buying and selling bananas in the state. Later, it passes a clause allowing citizens to purchase imported bananas.  Example 2: A divided highway is erected with two lanes going in each direction but, since it gets lots of traffic, the shoulders are widened into new lanes. This leaves no shoulder room.  What would be a more concise phrase?
Show that the cardinality of $\mathbb N$ is the same as the cardinality of $\mathbb N \times \mathbb N$ Show that $| \mathbb N | = | \mathbb N \times \mathbb N |$, i.e., the cardinality  of $\mathbb N$ is the same as the cardinality of $\mathbb N \times \mathbb N$.   How do I show it using the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic and the Schröder–Bernstein Theorem? I am working with a time-series dataset that is based on demand-supply dynamics with several variables.  THe sample data for one time period is: &gt; data # A tibble: 19 x 6    Pred_error_A Pred_error_B  Pred_error_C  Pred_error_D  Pred_error_E  Pred_error_Target                  &lt;dbl&gt;         &lt;dbl&gt;          &lt;dbl&gt;      &lt;dbl&gt;      &lt;dbl&gt;           &lt;dbl&gt;  1            -0.45           1.72          -0.170      1.85       -0.01          -0.7    2            -0.45           1.72          -0.170      2.35       -0.01          -1.2    3            -0.45           1.92          -0.170      2.35       -0.01          -1      4            -0.0500         0.37          -0.12       1.65       -0.01          -1.5    5             0             -0.840         -0.12       0.950      -0.01          -1.7    6             0             -0.200         -0.12       1.35       -0.01          -1.5    7             0             -0.460         -0.12       1.35       -0.01          -1.8    8             0             -0.520         -0.12       1.05       -0.01          -1.5    9             0             -0.340         -0.12       1.05       -0.01          -1.4   10             0             -0.340         -0.12       1.35       -0.01          -1.7   11             0             -0.110         -0.12       1.05       -0.01          -1.2   12             0             -0.110         -0.12       0.850      -0.01          -1     13             0              0             -0.12       0.350      -0.01          -0.4   14             0              0             -0.12      -0.15       -0.01           0.100 15             0              0             -0.12      -0.350      -0.01           0.300 16             0              0             -0.02       0          -0.01          -0.1   17             0              0              0          0           0              0     18             0              0              0          0           0              0     19             0              0              0          0           0              0   I was working on a regression for each time period with data and wanted to find the relative importance of regressors in explaining the target variable ( Pred_error_A through E and dependent variable is Pred_error_Target ) using relaimpo package in R. However, I soon realized I can't use regression setting because of near to perfect collinearity and hence no relative importance values. Is there a way to go around this? Or, can I use any other method (instead of regression)? Any suggestions will be useful. The predictors are near to perfect and each one is important. I can't exclude any single one and I need the relative importance of all 5 regressors. I am also trying XGBoost as an alternative. However, I am not sure if it takes care of multicollinearity. What is the official name for the "special" ASP.NET tags like this:  &lt;%# %&gt; &lt;%= %&gt; &lt;%@ %&gt; &lt;%$ %&gt;   I can't seem to figure out the conceptual or well known name for these, so I'm having trouble searching for more info.  As a bonus, can anyone give me a quick rundown of all of the possible "special tags" and what each one of them does (or point me to a resource)? i Need a batch file to create a folder "test" in every removable device than i plug in my computer (pendrives and etc)  i am trying something like this  set "extDrive=" for /f %%D in ('wmic volume get driveLetter^ where drivertype=2 ) do set extDrive=%%D mkdir "%extDrive%\test"   Someone can tell me why this is not working ?? How to model the bottle threads? The picture show the threads I want to create on the highlighted object. Problem is I don't know how and tutorials really haven't helped much as most of them seem to be about creating a bolt. So I was hoping I could get some help on how to do this efficiently.While keeping the top flat like a water bottle. The picture shows the threads I'm after. In Cycles, is there a way to create a procedural texture that follows the longitudinal lines of a sphere? Like a beach ball or globe? The texture should be able to be mapped to any sphere-shaped object, not just perfect spheres.    My current approach is to use a rotated wave texture, but that doesn't come from the poles (It uses latitudes) SOQL results returning RecordTypeId which is not included in query I am running this script from developer console.  List&lt;Account&gt; lstAccount = [SELECT Id, Name, BillingStreet From Account LIMIT 1]; System.debug(lstAccount);   Debug Log:     23:47:04:012 USER_DEBUG [5]|DEBUG|(Account:{Id=0019000001nNLGEAA4, Name=Acct_nm001, BillingStreet=xyz Road, RecordTypeId=01290000000iaNiAAI})   I never queried for RecordtypeId in SOQL, but it is included in the list.  Although, if I run the query from the query editor, it is not showing RecordtypeId column.   Is this by design? Then why not Salesforce is not providing us audit fields in the first scenario. Error message: qgis_core.dll missing I have a fresh install of QGIS 2.4. When trying to open a .shp file I get the error message below.  I've followed their advice and have done several re-installs and also cleared all qgis files from my system (Parallels on Mac OS X 10.6) before those re-installs. I've tried QGIS 2.2 which caused the same problem.  Funnily all worked for a day, the following day and since not anymore...  Has anyone come across this before? How do I change the default file manager back to Nautilus? A while back, I set my default file manager to Nemo. I like it a lot, but it constantly crashes. I remember editing a text file to set it as default, but I forgot which file it was. How do I switch back to the Nautilus file manager? UK visa refusal on V 4.2 a + c (and sometimes 'e') Running JAR file on Windows I have a JAR file named helloworld.jar. In order to run it, I'm executing the following command in a command-line window:  java -jar helloworld.jar   This works fine, but how do I execute it with double-click instead? Do I need to install any software? I have 2 graphics cards (Tesla k10, K40) in my supermicro SuperServer (7047GR-TPRF). I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04, but when I install cuda or Nvidia graphics driver (version 311 or 340), my Ubuntu desktop hangs on login. How do I reset the Windows XP Administrator password? I have forgotten the Administrator password of my Windows XP installation and locked out. Is there a way to reset it? I do have physical access to the PC. Chat gives me really, really specific time gap notifications $f^2$ and $f^3$ are holomorphic implies $f$ is holomorphic. How to turn off the iOS-style character picker menu English proverb for when a solution comes too late In Flemish we have a saying "Vijgen na pasen". Translated: "figs after Easter". It means a solution comes too late to be of any use.  What is the English equivalent for this?  Some googling gives me "Closing the barn door when the cow has bolted", but the explanation seems to point more towards the wrong solution for a problem. Scaling in object and edit mode My question is: why do Object mode scaling and Edit mode scaling seem to be incompatible? I'm quite new to blender, so I may not know sth important about these modes. The actual case is:  I create a cube, which is 2×2×2 metres in metric units by default  (it's also shown under 'dimensions')    Then, with the cube selected, I switch to Edit mode, and enable 'Edge info: Length' under 'Mesh display'    And it shows the cube's measurements, which are 2m on each edge.  Now I use the scale tool in Edit mode, making the edges 2.244m    That's good so far. Changing back to Object mode, the changes can be seen under 'dimension'    However, when I use the scale tool in Object mode, the scale and dimensions also change, but changing back to Edit mode, the measurements shown remain the same      So the question is, why does the scale tool work differently and have different effects in Ojbect mode and Edit mode? Also, how can I enter the desired size of my cube manually to get an accurate result, without using the scale tool in Edit mode, and without changing the scale ratio in object mode? Evaluating the supremum of a function as n tends to infinity Problem: Let $g:[0,1]\to\mathbb{R}$ be a continuos function such that $g(1)=0$. Show that $\sup\limits_{x\in[0,1]}|x^ng(x)|\to0$ as $n\to\infty$.  My approach: Let $f(x)=x^ng(x)$. Then, $f(x)$ is continuos on $[0,1]$. Using the extreme value theorem we can say, that $|f(x)|$ is bounded on $[0,1]$ and attains its bounds, i.e., $\exists x_0\in[0,1]$ such that $|f(x_0)|=\sup\limits_{x\in[0,1]}|f(x)|$.  Now, $|f(x_0)|=|x_0^ng(x_0)|$. If $x_0=0$, then we are done. So, let us assume $x_0\neq0$. By the Archimedean property of $\mathbb{R}$, $\exists$ a $y\in\mathbb{R}$ such that $y=x_0^n\leq1$, since $x_0\in[0,1]$.   Hence, $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}\sup\limits_{x\in[0,1]}|x^ng(x)|=\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}\sup\limits_{x\in[0,1]}|f(x)|=\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}|f(x_0)|=\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}|yg(y^{\frac{1}{n}})|\leq\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}|g(y^{\frac{1}{n}})|=g(1)=0.$  I will be glad if anyone can tell me if I have done any mistake and if so please help me to correct it.  Thank you. Linux file access monitoring Is there any way in unix to find out who accessed certain file in last 1 week? It may be user or some script ftp it to some other place. Can I get a list of user name who accessed certain file? How can I find out who is accessing particular file??