Is it possible and correct to use "well" with "to sound"? I am under the impression that most natives find it wrong. For example:  1 The guitar sounds good. - OK  2 The guitar sounds well. - Possible?  3 The sentence sounds good. - OK  4 The sentence sounds well. - Possible?
One asks “how does x taste,” implying that they’d like an adverb describing the way it tastes. But one answers with an adjective, “it tastes good” instead of “it tastes well,” which would imply that x is tasting something else. What’s the reason for this discrepancy?
Windows 10 puts my first and last name to lock screen. How to avoid this? After upgrading to Windows 10, I see my LastName and FirstName on the lock screen. Is there a way to change this? On Windows 8.1 there was just my nickname and email address (maybe there were my first name and last name, but not displayed so large as they are now).  I mean the name and surname parameters specified in my Microsoft account.  Another question: I prefer the format FirstName LastName, not vice versa.  Is there any way to change this as well?   Apart from Lock Screen I see it on the Start Menu. Normality of dependent variable = normality of residuals? Which command should I use for displayed equations? A number of related questions have already been asked about this issue:       and even    But I'm still confused by the conflicting suggestions that have been given so far. So I'm trying again.  Which should be the preferred command to produce a displayed equation in my LaTeX documents?  So far the suggestions indicate that one should use \[ ... \], maybe \begin{equation*} ... \end{equation*}, or maybe even the gather* or align* environments from amsmath.  And one should definitely avoid using either $$...$$ or the eqnarray environment.  Now I have to say that, from a language perspective, I have a strong preference for the equation* environment because it is less cryptic than the \[ ... \] notation and it is  the most accurate.  So, is it fine to use equation*? Maybe only after loading amsmath? Or should the equation/equation* environment be redefined to something else so that spacing, package support, or whatever is improved? locale not found/setting locale failed - what should I do? I've installed Debian 7 i386 on my VPS (OpenVZ). Everything works fine, except locales - any attempt to install anything shows:  [...] perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:     LANGUAGE = (unset),     LC_ALL = (unset),     LANG = "pl_PL.UTF-8"     are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory [...]   What I've tried:   Generating locales myself - update-locale LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" - shows:  apt-get install --reinstall locales  The same with dpkg-reconfigure locales + setting pl_PL.UTF-8, pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 or even en_US:  export LC_ALL=pl_PL.UTF-8 (even on root):  -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (pl_PL.UTF-8)    Here is what shows locale:  root:~# locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_TIME="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_NAME="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL=   Nothing interesting found in /var/log. Even changing repo to official + purge and manual installation locales doesn't solve my problem, which manifests itself on each fresh installation of Debian 7. INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause How can I report bugs with or request features for the Stack Exchange mobile apps? I'm using the official Stack Exchange mobile app for iOS or Android, and  My app crashed! It doesn't look good on my new smartphone. It won't run after I updated my device. I noticed another bug. I have an idea for a new feature which is currently not in the app.  How do I report bugs with or request features for the iOS and Android apps? Also:  I've used the built-in functionality of the app to report a bug or submit a feature request. Did I do the right thing? The app prompted me to post on Meta after an error occurred. Should I post about it here? I'm wondering why the latest version is from 2017. I've heard rumors that the apps are no longer supported; is that true? I can't find the app on my device's app store anymore! Where did it go?     We get a lot of bug reports from users about the mobile apps, which are unsupported, and at the moment, there is no centralized Q&amp;A pair for those to be closed as duplicates of (the relevant answers are spread across multiple unrelated questions). This question is an FAQ proposal, to serve as a directly-related duplicate target for those questions. Consider the following two versions of a question:1   Version 1: What is the difference in meaning between "[to be] not invited" and similar negation forms?  Version 2: What is the difference in meaning among "[to be] not invited" and similar negated forms?    Personally, I think Version 1 might subtly suggest a Star Topology (see below) with the target sentence "[to be] not invited"at the center.  And Version 2 might subtly suggest a more free-form comparison like the Mesh or Fully Connected, with the target sentence simply "one among many":   Between approx equal "Star" and among approx equal "Fully Connected"?  Don't get me wrong: I do think this is quite subtle, not always applicable, and I don't think anyone would intuit such a "network topology" meaning without further explanation.   So the main question is, are both grammatically correct?  If yes, is there a semantic difference to choose one over another, perhaps as I suggested?  Or does the plurality aspect of between and among trump other semantic and stylistic issues?    1. In my question , another user provided a very helpful edit. However, the change of the word between to among prompted this question. If $F: \mathbb R^2 \to \mathbb R$ and $F_x$ (partial derivative of $F$ wrt $x$) and $F_y$ exist at $(x_0,y_0)$ then the function is continuous at that point. Is this true? If not what could be a counter-example? How can I iterate, loop, process, or otherwise do something, with each element from a comma separated list of things?  This question       , and the are already lots of very good answers everywhere. However I think it would also be valuable to have a single reference point where all such alternative techniques are explained in detail, with their advantages and disadvantages discussed.  All of plain-TeX, LaTeX, LaTeX3, LuaTeX, Context, etoolbox, pgffor, etc. answers are invited. Please consider explaining, for example:   How does the command/method deal with whitespace around items? How does the command/method deal with empty/missing items? (e.g. a,b,,c) How does the command/method deal with a trailing comma? Can the command/method work of a list stored on a macro? Is each iteration evaluated globally or on a local group? (i.e., if a command is defined during an iteration, does the command survive the loop?) Do items get expanded or somehow mangled before being processed? What about lists where items are key=value or some other kind of pairs? Does the method work for lists separated with something other than a comma? Any other thing I should know before deciding to use this method? I changed my username and now I cannot play online I don't understand this and I'm now worried as I have donated to a lot of servers and I don't want to lose this account. On the launcher it says my new username but when I log on it says "Account not Authenticated with minecraft.net" and "Non-Valid Username".  How can I regain the ability to use my account online? Fancy vertical timeline I'd like to have a timeline as similar as possible to this with the addition of being able to add a logo at the left of each textbullet, but I've got no clue at all:    Thanks very much in advance for any help :)  p.s. I've stumbled upon this answer () but I don't how to modify it to get what I want! Inner Product Spaces I am trying to reconcile the definition of Inner Product Spaces that I encountered in Mathematics with the one I recently came across in Physics.  In particular, if $(,)$ denotes an inner product in the vector space $V$ over $F$:    $(u + v, w) = (u, w) + (v, w) \text{ for all } u, v, w \in V$, $(\alpha v, w) = \alpha(v, w) \text{ for all } v, w \in V$ and $\alpha \in F$, $(v, w) = (w, v)^* \text{ for all } v, w \in V$, (* denotes complex conjugation)   were some of the properties listed in my mathematics course.    In physics, however, the inner product was said to be linear in the second argument and $(v,\sum(\lambda_i w_i)) = \sum(\lambda_i (v,w_i))$ where $v$ and $w_i$ are kets in Hilbert space and $\lambda_i$ are complex numbers.    To me, these properties of an Inner Product are not compatible.  If the first definition of inner product is correct, then I think $(v,\sum(\lambda_i w_i)) = \sum((\lambda_i)^* (v,w_i))$ where $^*$ denotes complex conjugation. $(this) inside of AJAX success not working How to enable bullet points when using the presento beamer theme? I have the problem that when I use an itemize list and the , there are no bullet points.  Here is a minimal working example (requires the  not available on CTAN to be downloaded first):  \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{config/presento} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{itemize} \item ... \item ... \item ... \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document}     How to fix this problem? How can I avoid name mangling in C++? Is there anything canon in the Terminator Universe that picks up where Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles leaves off? So, Terminator canon is pretty twisted, given all that time-travel stuff.  But in the canon that includes the T:SCC, does anything pick up where the show left off that is considered canon? What tips and advice do you have for photographing the Aurora Borealis? A friend has been kind enough to lend me a DSLR for a few months.  It's my first foray into DSLR photography, or indeed any kind of photography beyond simply aiming my Canon IXUS at something and clicking the button.    Over the last few weeks, I've been busy studying, practising and trying to learn as much as possible ahead of a planned trip to Norway where I hope to see, and get some photos of, the Aurora Borealis.  I currently have:   Canon Rebel Xsi (450D) Canon 50mm f/1.4 L  Canon 18-55m kit lens Aluminium full height tripod with ball head Cable release Spare battery &amp; memory cards   I'm prepared to spend the night wrapped up outdoors, in the hope that they will make an appearance. I'd like some advice on how to get the most out of this kit for the trip:   How should I go about setting up to get pics of the Aurora?  How might I achieve optimum focus? From what I've read, I'll need to use the tripod and cable release, with IS turned off, on continuous shooting mode with long exposure times. But I'd like some more specific tips in terms of which aperture and ISO settings might work best? Should I use one of the lenses above, or would it be worthwhile renting a better, wide angle lens; if so, which would you recommend? I have a shell script with this code:  var=`hg st -R "$path"` if [ -n "$var" ]; then     echo $var fi   But the conditional code always executes, because hg st always prints at least one newline character.   Is there a simple way to strip whitespace from $var (like trim() in )?   or   Is there a standard way of dealing with this issue?   I could use  or , but I'd like to think there is a more elegant solution to this problem. Say I have two points. One at $A = (0, 0)$ and another at $B = (0, 10)$. I wish to derive an equation for a line that, for any point $P$ on the line, would equal a set ratio for the distance $P$ to $A$ and $P$ to $B$.  This is easy if the predetermined ratio for $A:B$ is $1:1$. I would create a line from $A$ to $B$, find its midpoint, then create an orthogonal line at the midpoint. Then at any $P$ on the line I know that the ratio distances from $P$ to $A$ and $B$ will be $1:1$.  But what if the ratio for $A:B$ is something like $11:18$?  This is for a positioning algorithm I am implementing - not for homework :)  EDIT: Note - If an exact formula is not possible, an approximation of the line out to $\pm 200$ from $A$ or $B$ is acceptable as values further from $A$ and $B$ will not be utilized anyway. A linear equation for the final result/approximation is ideal for speed in running multiple computations. What's the best way of accessing field in the enclosing class from the nested class?