In formal writing, is the following usage of punctuations acceptable?     I keep asking myself. Who am I? Where am I from? And where am I going?   I'm not quite sure whether using a period after I keep asking myself is weird. To me, the natural choice would have been a colon, but this also would have made the first interrogative sentence have to start with a lower case w whereas subsequent ones, as they follow a question mark, must begin with a capitalised W , like ..asking myself: who am I? Where am I from..., which doesn't make much sense to me either.   Of course, alternatively, I can reorganise these interrogative sentences into clauses like     I keep asking myself: who I am, where I am from and where I am going.   But this feels much less emotionally charged than the first one, which makes it not so desirable to me.
Should the first word after a colon be capitalized? Which of the following is correct?   For example: This. For example: this.
literally as a hyperbole Possible Duplicate:          I have seen a lot of backlash in internet media against people using the word literally to mean something not literal. Something like "he was literally as big as a house" to mean someone was very big I think this comic sums up the anti literal movement well   Is this actually grammatically incorrect or can the word "literally" be a hyperbole strengthening a metaphor? I am using the 2D Animation preset and so far every new scene I made had the same bright white background. Now my two latest scenes (created with 'copy settings') have a light grey background even though they are set to white. There's also no difference in surface, nodes or strength.  There are apparently exist different background shades with an off-white color but selecting the white one doesn't help either How to export variable for use with sudo? On Slackware, using sbopkg permits one to build a package from source. Repos is not big as Debian, but it's nice.  Some software can use environment variables, for example on the VICE c64 emulator, if the variable FFMPEG is set to yes, it will enable ffmpeg recording the emulator.  I tried to use  $ export FFMPEG=yes; sudo sbopkg -B -i vice   but ffmpeg is disabled.  Instead I had to use  $ su - $ export FFMPEG=yes $ sbopkg -B -i vice   which works.  How to use environment variables with sudo? The limit of reciprocal is the reciprocal of the limit While I was reading the book Exploratory examples for real analysis, I came across this:     to show that : $$\lim_{x\rightarrow x_o}\frac{1}{h(x)} = \frac{1}{\lim_{x\rightarrow x_o}{h(x)}} = \frac{1}{M}$$      Discussion:Let $\epsilon \gt 0$.we want to find $\delta \gt 0$ such that       if  $0 \lt |x-x_0| \lt \delta $,then $\Big|\frac{1}{h(x)}-\frac{1}{M}\Big|\lt \epsilon$.      In order to get expression involving $|h(x)-M|$,we first find the common denominator:        $\Big|\frac{1}{h(x)}-\frac{1}{M}\Big|=\Big|\frac{M-h(x)}{M~h(x)}\Big|$      $~=\Big|\frac{h(x)-M}{|M|~|h(x)|}\Big|$.      As we have to deal with variable term $|h(x)|$ in denominator.We can construct bound .Let $\epsilon =\frac{|M|}{2}$ ,since lim$_{x\to x_o}h(x)=M$,there exists $\delta_1\gt 0~~$ s.t.       if $0 \lt |x-x_0| \lt \delta_1 $,then $|h(x)-{M}|\lt \frac{|M|}{2}$.      As you study steps below,identify that step where $h(x)\neq 0$ for all $0 \lt |x-x_0| \lt \delta_1 $ plays a critical role:      $|M|=|M-h(x)+h(x)|$      $~~~~~~\leq |M-h(x)|+|h(x)|$      $~~~~~~= |h(x)-M|+|h(x)|$      $~~~~~~\lt \frac{M}{2}+|h(x)| \implies$      $\frac{|M|}{2} \lt |h(x)| \implies$      $\frac{1}{h(x)}\lt \frac{2}{|M|}$,where $0 \lt |x-x_0| \lt \delta_1 $.      Now that we've bound for $1/h(x)$,we can apply the definition to term $|h(x)-M|$.      Since     lim$_{x\rightarrow x_o}h(x)=M$,we can find $\delta_2 \gt 0$ such that,       $~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~$if  $0 \lt |x-x_0| \lt \delta_2$, then $|h(x)-M|\lt \frac{|M|^2 \epsilon }{2}$   The thing I can't understand is for what purpose did the author work with such complicated expression involving $\epsilon $ in the end of the discussion? How do I get rid of my bounty? I accidentally killed a noble, now every guard wants to kill me. Is there any way I can get rid of the bounty? Is "forte" pronounced "fort" or "for-tay"? I've always heard people say something like     "Pronunciation is not my [for-tay]"   ... but I feel that I've heard that the correct pronunciation is     "Confusing people is my [fort]"   What is the proper way to pronounce this word? I am looking for a way to convert a long string (from a dump), that represents hex values into a byte array.  I couldn't have phrased it better than the person that posted .  But to keep it original, I'll phrase it my own way: suppose I have a string "00A0BF" that I would like interpreted as the  byte[] {0x00,0xA0,0xBf}   what should I do?  I am a Java novice and ended up using BigInteger and watching out for leading hex zeros. But I think it is ugly and I am sure I am missing something simple. I have this alias set in my system /etc/bashrc file:  alias root="sudo !!"   The intention of this being to run the last used command using sudo of course. When used, it of course appears to substitute the last command in history to the bashrc file upon shell initialization, and not the actual command that you would get if you were to run sudo !! in an interactive shell. I've also tried alias root="sudo fc -s" to no avail.  I realize this is probably something to do with how the BASH does command substitutions, but can someone explain why this is, and provide a usable substitute?  I'm running BASH version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13). "Startup Applications" not working I have a simple one line command which works perfectly in terminal, but does not work in the "Startup Applications" app thing.  The line of code is : xmodmap /home/seph/Code/Ubuntu\ Scripts/Xmodmap  It's not that much of a hassle to copy it from "Startup Applications" and paste it into terminal, but I don't really get why it isn't working.  I followed someone else's instructions to do it in the first place, so maybe I did something wrong?  In any case, wouldn't it be the obvious and logical assumption that it just types whatever you put in it into Terminal? Intuitive explanation for how could there be "more" irrational numbers than rational? Why do most 2D platformers start off in the left and progress in the right direction? In almost all 2D platformers I've played, your avatar always starts off on the left side of the world, and continues on to the right. Is there something designers gain by doing this? Why is "rm" so much slower than deleting files via the File Manager? Geometric interpretation of $\frac {\partial^2} {\partial x \partial y} f(x,y)$ This question arises when I try to describe my itinerary to ticket service in the UK. Take for example, I plan to buy a ticket from A to B. B is the terminal. How to say its counter part A? I cannot find a proper term. I have to say "I will depart from A" or "I plan to go to B from A". Or I even use "departure place" to refer to B. Let me tell the story from the beginning: I installed Big Sur on an unsupported Mac using guidelines at Medium. In the guide it was stated that I should create a separate partition for Big Sur, and shouldn't install it on my current one. I had my SSD Called &quot;Macintosh SSD&quot; and later I created a partition named &quot;Macintosh SSD Big Sur&quot; of size 40GBs. After installation I wanted to clear the &quot;Macintosh SSD&quot; of size 80GBs(with old MacOS) and merge it with the new &quot;Macintosh SSD Big Sur&quot;. This is what I initially had after formatting partition with the old MacOS  So, I used the command sudo diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk3 after which I had (free space) in /dev/disk1  I want to extend that 39.6GB partition which free space of 80,1GB but all the commands I googled do not work:(( Could you please guide me on what I should do now? Thank you in advance! How do I add VBA in MS Office? How can I make LightDM the default display manager? I have LightDM installed and can start it with sudo start lightdm. But at boot, GDM is still the default. How can change this so LightDM is loaded automatically at boot instead of GDM? Change the default size of square brackets in latex math mode Personally I think the default size of square brackets in latex math mode is too small. For example, for an interval [a,b], I would prefer \big[\big] as opposed to plain []. My question is, what can I do to change the default size of [], so that when I input [] in math mode, they will show up automatically the same size as \big[\big]?  Right now I'm defining a new command called \b{} which takes one argument and inserts it between \big[ and \big], but the code looks ugly. Apparently \newcommand (or \def or \let) does not allow [ to be refined.  Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. Note: This is intended to become a canonical post.  I got a dedicated graphics card of type XXX and it claims I need at least a YYY Watt PSU.   How big does my PSU really need to be? Missing "References" heading