I was reading  and it it's always refered as female. Is it unique to ships?  I've learn in school that words in english does not have a sex, you can call a cats and dogs as "it".
While talking about ships and countries, is it a good practice to use the feminine form?  For example:  "Her economy" - while referring to a country's economy "Her flag (or deck etc)" - while referring to a ship  Is this practice common? Is it used today?
Fortunately, I can still login with this email address that I have lost access to.  I have been searching around here for a way to update it to the current one I use.  I have found many answers.  But they all give instructions to click on something not displayed or in one case, a page that prompts me to login via another email I no longer have the password for. I need current up to date instructions on how to change my email address or add another email-based login for this same user name that I am posting this with. I always thought Java uses pass-by-reference. However, I've seen a couple of blog posts (for example, ) that claim that it isn't (the blog post says that Java uses pass-by-value). I don't think I understand the distinction they're making. What is the explanation? ACPI error when trying to make dual boot with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 wrapfig: frame around image and caption Is it possible to have the dock in different positions in different desktop? Is it possible to have the dock in different positions in different desktops? In particular I'd like to change the settings between a normal desktop and a desktop where there's an app at full screen. In this way I'd keep the dock in lower side of the desktop when there's an app at full screen and vertically on the left side during normal use.  I have this problem that, sicne I usually have the dock vertically on the left, it pops out everytime i go to the far left in an app I'm using with full screen, and using this app I have to move the mouse to the left quite often. Show that $a(-1) = (-1)a = -a $. In a ring $R$ with identity 1, show that $$a(-1) = (-1)a = -a \qquad\forall\, a \in R$$ I have started with $a + (-a) = 0$ but cant proceed from here. Python scope: "UnboundLocalError: local variable 'c' referenced before assignment" What do icons on the tags mean? What does an icon on the tag mean, for example the "rg" before the sql-server tag as pictured below? We need a profanity filter I searched SE.Meta and was unable to find such question.  Someone just swore at us in a  as an  (warning: profanity, may be NSFW), sure, Arqade (profanity in phrases in games) or some SE (ELU, ELL or Anime.SE maybe?) can sometimes contain profanity as a small parts of question.  I think that a part should be added to the review system that will automatically hide questions/answers with profanity, just like the close vote system, the question/answer will be on hold and will be voted to be shown or be deleted.  Tip, if this gets implemented, u can be typed as \/ or v, and most other can be written as leet (l = 1 etc). Maybe it can be called "suspicious activity", and can be triggered when there is too many number or Unicode characters. (I can write hi as |-| |, |-|I, |-|l, l-li, hî, 1-1i, H1 and many more) HP PSC-2100 can't seem to get xsane and HPLIP (printing working) How can I vertically align entries in my acronyms' list? I use the Glossaries package to generate it. Here is MWE:  % !TeX program = xelatex % !TeX encoding = utf-8 % !TeX spellcheck = ru_RU  \documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}  \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{russian} \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Times New Roman}  \usepackage[xindy={glsnumbers=false}, nonumberlist, nopostdot, nogroupskip]{glossaries} %\setglossarystyle{super} % uncomment for style "super" \makeglossaries  \begin{document}  \newacronym{bam}{ДАП}{Двунаправленная Ассоциативная Память} \newacronym{ai}{ИИ}{Искусственный Интеллект} \newacronym{am}{АП}{Ассоциативная Память} \newacronym{ann}{ИНС}{Искусственная Нейронная Сеть} \newacronym{an}{ИН}{Искусственный Нейрон} \newacronym{it}{ИТ}{Информационные Технологии} \glsaddall  \printglossaries  \end{document}   With the default style I have the following:  As you can see, the long names are not vertically aligned. What I want can be achieved with the    \setglossarystyle{super}   But it this case, short names lose the BOLDness, some small horizontal indent appears and the spacing between lines becomes smaller:  where RED is some extra indent, which I don't need. Thank you for your answers! I've found several answers on switching between an Adapter and a Battery. But I need to autmoatically switch between two batteries. One of them is 'hotplugable'.  Problem: I've got a Solarcell which charges a ~16000mAh Li-Ion battery (BATa). Once in a while, the Solarcell doesn't manage to charge the battery enough. It's crucial that I have 3.0 to 4.1 Volts on my VSYS but the voltage will drop below this value if the Solarcell wasn't able to do its job (cloudy weather, vulcano eruption [joke], dirty cells, etc).  My Plan: I've come up with the idea to feed the VSYS with a additional, hotplugable backup battery (BATb) which does get connected to VSYS if BATa drops below ~3.1v.  So basically I need a Low-Voltage-Cutoff (using a Z-Diode with a Mosfet?) which, when cutoff happens, opens another Mosfet..?         &ndash; Schematic created using   I'm not sure about the selection of M2 and how to wire it, so it will be conductive if M1 won't forward power anymore.  And I know about another electrical problem: Just using a Z-Diode (D1) with M1 will render M1 to something like a resistor, not a switch. I've read, that I could use something like a Shut Reference (i.e. TI's TL43xx). Again I'm not sure how to chose the correct one and how to wire it. TeXStudio : Disable auto-completion of parentheses I cannot stand the auto-completion of TeXStudio (formerly TexMakerX) regarding parentheses, braces, etc. I agree auto-completion is useful sometimes, but here it does just not work as I would like. How can I remove it completely?  Under configuration -&gt; completion nothing is checked. From where do I remove the auto-completion of these? I need to install more applications - can I use my external HD (samsung T5) and add an additional applications folder? I have loads of space on it and it the speeds are great. How do I spamtrap with Postfix? How do I setup spamtraps with Postfix so clients that send to trapped addresses are prevented from sending me more spam? How do I use superposition to solve a circuit? Yes, this is a pedagogical question. While answering another recent question, I wanted to refer the OP to concise instructions for using superposition to solve circuits. I found that all the easily found resources online were somewhat deficient. Typically they were unclear about what kinds of circuits superposition applies to, or about the actual method to apply the superposition theorem to a circuit problem. So,   What kinds of circuits can be solved by superposition?  How are different kinds of sources treated when solving by superposition?  What are the steps to solve a circuit using the superposition theorem? I've had my HTC Desire for a couple of months now and it is awesome! (A huge improvement to my previous phone... Nokia 3315)  Though recently, I've realised that the phone semi-freezes more and more often - ie. when swiping between homescreens it will either pause/freeze and I will have to re-swipe to get it to change screens. Or worse, it just won't respond to any further swipes and I have to lock the screen then unlock to get the phone back into action.  Got quite annoyed at this (was probably happening once or twice a day) so I thought it might help to turn it off and on again. So I did - not sure if it was a placebo effect but it seems to have helped a bit?  So given that this is my first smartphone, I was wondering if it is 'normal' to need to restart the phone every so often. If so, how often is 'normal'? If not, what can I do to diagnose/fix this problem? The dock doesn't work correctly after I enter my password, either. Dollar signs breaks formatting of 'Hot Network Questions' Related to  and .  This :    looks like this in the 'Hot Network Questions' section of e.g. :    I think Latex formatting of question titles should be disabled if the question comes from a site that don't use Latex formatting. Apache doesn't log remoteIP when RemoteIPHeader X-Forwarded-For is present