I think I might know the answer to this, but I am not totally sure.  My character has a strength of 7 (-2) and a current proficiency bonus of (+2). I have a proficiency in Athletics.  Adding all this information together, should I add the Strength negative modifier to the proficiency bonus for a total skill check modifier of (+0)?
I'm trying to fill out the skills section on my first character, but when I look at the character sheets in the Starter Set as examples of how to make a character, the skills that are circled have higher modifiers than their Dexterity or Strength or whatever should make them.  I've filled out all skills but those. What do I add to the ability modifier to get those numbers?   My abilities are Strength 13, Dexterity 14, Constitution 11, Intelligence 15, Wisdom 8, and Charisma 8. Proficiencies are Arcana, Athletics, History, Investigation and Stealth. My saving throws are Strength and Dexterity.   I just started D&amp;D and have the Player's Handbook, DM's Guide, Monster Manual, and the Starter Set.
What is taking up so much space on my disk, beside the filesystem? I have only one disk in my computer, a 80 GB SSD. It is formatted as a single ext4 partition (no swap), and all the usual folders are installed on it (I keep lots of data on external media, but /home and all the rest is on the SSD).   Today I booted it and I got a message that the drive is full. I opened Disk Usage Analyzer to look at what takes up space. It insists that 67.8 GB of the disk are used, and that / is taking up 36.4 GB. Which leads to the question, where are the missing 30 GB, if not on the file system?!    Just to have a comparison, I added up all the sizes of all readable folders listed in Nautilus as subfolders of / (including the hidden ones). I got 20.9 GB. Trash was unreadable, but I know it has 16.2 GB, so the sum is 36.1 GB, around the same as what Disk Usage Analyzer is reporting. There were some system folders which were unreadable, like proc, but I doubt that they add up to 30 GB - else it wouldn't be possible to install Ubuntu on small disks, and I've seen it run on 2.5 GB. I think they must be the 0.3 GB difference between my calculation and the Disk Usage Analyzer's report.   So I'd like to know, what is eating up these 30 GB and how do I get it to free them?     Edit with answers to CYREX's questions   Booted from Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit live CD (same as my system).  fsck result:   root@ubuntu:~# fsck /dev/sda1 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) /dev/sda1: clean, 265956/4890624 files, 18073343/19537408 blocks  Booted from the SSD. Emptied the trash, and the 16 GB from there are now free. The 30 GB are still missing.    I'm not experienced enough to know what counts as weird in a log. Here are my messages log and my syslog since last boot. Maybe you can find something in them:       Here it got really strange. I plugged in an external 500 GB HDD. Disk Usage Analyzer overreported the available space, then showed space missing (76 GB used, but only 24 in folders).      Booted again from the LiveCD, started the Disk Usage Analyzer from it and got the same results as from the installed Ubuntu, within 1-2 GB.   Edit with answer to CodeMonk:  That would have been a nice solution, but the partition is really 80 GB - I mean 74 GB + marketing "error", anyway the whole disk is formatted. It also shows that over 50 GB are used, so where are the 30 GB if not in files and folders?    GParted also reports the correct size of the external HDD. Do we really need reals? It seems to me that the set of all numbers really used by mathematics and physics is countable, because they are defined by means of a finite set of symbols and, eventually, by computable functions.  Since almost all real numbers are not computable, it seems that real numbers are a set too big and most of them are unnecessary.  So why do mathematicians love this plethoric set of numbers so much? Google crawlers screen size Imagine a I have two types of images (A and AAA(heavier)) for the same website: depending on the size of the screen it will show one image or other.   Now I'm wondering what images (A or AAA) loads the Google crawler when it visits my site.   In other words: has the Google crawlers any "screen size"?  I suppose, in case the it loads the A images, the page-speed puntuation will be better than if it loads the images AAA. Prepositional Phrase - confused - at or in Is there a difference between a LED Backlit and LED HD  Display on laptop monitor? or are they the same that is good for the eyes I usually compress my tex PDFs with ghostscript:  pdflatex -shell-escape file.tex  gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite        \    -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4   \    -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress      \    -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH      \    -sOutputFile=file_compressed.pdf \     file.pdf   Normally that works well, but if I have relative links to local files, the links don't work afterwards.  Minimal example:  \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{hyperref}  \begin{document}     \begin{frame}         \href{run:./audio.mp3}{test}     \end{frame} \end{document}   The link works in file.pdf but not in file_compressed.pdf. Is there any pdflatex or ghostscript setting that retains the link in the compressed version?  I use Acrobate Reader 10.1.14 for viewing, Ghostscript 9.10 and pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) on OS X 10.9.5.    Update: The breakage of hyperlinks had nothing to do with compressing the PDFs. The breakage happened for all re-processing of PDFs containing hyperlinks in its input PDF. Learning special relativity and working with Minkowski diagrams for a while now i am still trying to get my head around some oddity.   From my understanding time can often be seen as the dependent variable in those diagrams, so why put it to the vertical axis? What confuses me even more is the apparent convention to denote a point in space time $(t,x)$ even though $x$ is on the horizontal and $t$ is on the vertical axis, so the usual notation would be to refer to that vector as $(x, t)$.  Are there mostly historical reasons or why is it beneficial to use this notation and to violate usual conventions? Moving linux install to a new computer I know that it can, in some circumstances, be difficult to move a Windows installation from one computer to another (physically move the hard drive), but how does that work on linux? Aren't most of the driver modules loaded at bootup? So theoretically would it be that much of a hassle?  Obviously xorg configs would change and proprietary ATI drivers and such would have to be recompiled (maybe?). Is there more to it than I'm thinking of?  Assume the 2 computers are from the same era, ie both i7s but slightly different hardware.  Update: Thanks for the answers. This is mostly for my own curiosity. I have my linux system up and running at work, but eventually I'd like to move to a computer that I can get dual video cards into so I can run more than 2 monitors. But not any time soon Conjugacy Class in a matrix group with columns of standard basis I want to find the conjugacy classes of this group: $$G=\{(a_1,a_2,a_3):a_i=\pm e_j\}\subset GL_3(\mathbb C)$$ I know that $S_3$ is one of the subgroups of this group, so I can check which elements of $S_3$ continues to be conjugate in our group, I know that in $Z(G)$ there is two elements $I,-I$. I know that I have to check the diagonal matrices on which ones are conjugate, but I don't know how to finish and find the others conjugacy class of this group, and I don't Know how to find the number of the elements of the conjugacy class. I'll be thankful for help I was having a look at an old question of mine when I browsed the  from the timeline. I scrolled downwards and realized the Review completed panel comes along for the ride. While that might be , tags flowing over top of it as pictured below probably isn't.  Here's a .gif of the Question and Duplicate tabs flowing over it as well. Note that the timeline button also flows over. If vote buttons are present, they will also flow over it.  Reproduced on Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Update Per  by Tiago Martins Peres, this issue also happens in other Review types, namely Late Answers, First Posts and Low Quality Posts. In addition to that, it is causing the action buttons on reviews to become unclickable if you scroll low enough.  As a temporary workaround, you can use 's , which  this issue. Can I open Microsoft Word and Excel files? Is there a "do ... while" loop in Ruby? I'm using this code to let the user enter in names while the program stores them in an array until they enter an empty string (they must press enter after each name):  people = [] info = 'a' # must fill variable with something, otherwise loop won't execute  while not info.empty?     info = gets.chomp     people += [Person.new(info)] if not info.empty? end   This code would look much nicer in a do ... while loop:  people = []  do     info = gets.chomp     people += [Person.new(info)] if not info.empty? while not info.empty?   In this code I don't have to assign info to some random string.  Unfortunately this type of loop doesn't seem to exist in Ruby. Can anybody suggest a better way of doing this? Is there a way of finding a formula for $\sum\limits_{k=1}^n k^k$? Maybe I'm missing something really obvious, but I've looked around a bit on the Internet and I haven't been able to find anything.  So, what I'm looking for is a formula in closed form to generate the sequence $1,5,32,288,3413,\dots$ What is the VC dimension of a decision tree? What is the  of a decision tree with k splits in two dimensions? Let us say the model is CART and the only allowed splits are parallel to the axes.  So for one split we can  and then for any labeling of the points we could get perfect prediction (i.e.: shattered points)  But what about 2 splits, or any general k? Infiniteness of non-twin primes. Well, we all know the twin prime conjecture. There are infinitely many primes $p$, such that $p+2$ is also prime. Well, I actually got asked in a discrete mathematics course, to prove that there are infinitely many primes $p$ such that $p + 2$ is NOT prime. Does "corresponding author" carry an implied meaning? How can I move or force a program installation to another location, even when unsupported? I have an SSD as my main Windows drive, with a 640GB 2.5" HDD, partitioned to store programs and user settings, and also to act as backup (it's the only thing I had lying around at the time of building my PC).  The problem is that whenever I install a program, it installs to C:\Program Files [(x86 for the 32 bit programs]\, although I have changed the environment variables. This wouldn't normally be an issue, however every installation program points its shortcut to my 640GB HDD.  The root layout of both drives:   To clarify:   Program files get installed to C:\ Program shortcuts are always pointed to Z:\, my 640GB HDD   Modifying the relevant environment variables doesn't do anything, I looked at , but however it only talks about modifying the registry and environment variables, which I have already done so.  I install to the Z:\ drive if the installation program lets me change the installation path, but however the installation programs sometimes don't let me change this.  Is there a way that I can force every program to install to the relevant location on Z:\, but at the same time move any programs currently installed to the new location? Perhaps I'm missing something here?  My target is to have every program installed on Z:/, with only the core Windows operating system on C:/.  Found ; would it be appropriate to use in my case? I would be able to move the entire Program Files (and its x86 version) to Z:\, without impacting on the performance.* When / how should I ask about a manuscript's status in review? Vertical line for the the right margin in Notepad++ Does anyone know if Notepad++ can display a vertical line on the right margin to indicated that the text will or will not fit on a printed page?  I have looked but I cannot find it.  Word wrap does work, but it wraps by my screen width, not by the width of a printed page. At the moment the most frustrating part of my brewday is getting the cold wort into the fermenter. Here is my process. I have a 20 litre saucepan that i use as a kettle that does not have a tap. At flame out I add my immerseion chiller that is plumbed into my kitchen sink tap. When I have reached temperature I remove the chiller and whirlpool and leave it to rest to 30 minutes. I am use a siphon to rack directly into the plastic bucket fermenter.  The problem is that the siphon always gets clogged with the hops after i have only transfered about 20% of the wort. I have also tried carefully pouring the wort through a seive, but this sort of depfeats the point of the whirlpool and also the seive got blocked with hops as well. All in all i end up wasting a lot of the wort because i am afraid of getting a lot trub in the fermenter.  What are the best processes to use with my current equpment to get the wort into the fermenter?