What is the difference between:     I am leaving at 6 o´clock    and      I will leave at 6 o´clock?   Do these serve any different function?
I asked this question  but I haven't gotten a useful answer. Could you tell me the difference in meaning between these sentences?        Do you think you will visit them next week?     Will you visit them next week?     Are you going to visit them next week?     Are you visiting them next week?     Are you going to be visiting them next week?     Are you planning to be visiting them next week?     Do you plan to visit them next week?      Will there be any difference in the answers?        I think I will visit them next week.     I will visit them next week.     I am going to visit them next week.     I am visiting them next week.     I am going to be visiting them next week.     I am planning to be visiting them next week.     I plan to visit them next week.      Can I use "planning to" instead of "going to"?  (E.g. "Are you planning to visit them next week? — Yes, I am planning to visit them next week.") Which of these sentences show that the subject of conversation has already been discussed? For example, I talked with a friend of mine about my plans to visit somebody. So my friend is aware of my plans.  And my last question. Which of these seven sentences express that the action will certainly take place?
How to write an RSS feed with Java? I'm using Java, and need to generate a simple, standards-compliant RSS feed. How can I go about this? Why exactly does diffraction occur? Why do waves that were traveling in a straight direction change direction when passing through an opening?  I thought that the waves (red arrow) when colliding with the wall bounce in the opposite direction (green arrow).  And the waves that pass through the aperture follow its path normally as shown in the image on the right.   The waves that go in a straight direction should follow traveling straight line like a car that goes under a bridge the car is straight on the road. But this is not so.  Why does the direction of the waves change?  How is the direction of the waves calculated? A disabled module has a schema version of -1, how can I enable the module and then run DB updates using hook_update_N? The problem is, it seems when I enable a disabled module, the module's schema version in the system table is automatically updated to the latest version supplied by hook_update_N.  So my current module with the schema version -1 is modified to 7106 when I enable the module, and no hook_update_N functions are run.   So when I come to the next step of running database updates, no hook_update_N functions are run because the module thinks it's already the correct version.  The only method I can see is to manually set the module version in hook_enable, however I'll then need to update the module code to remove the hook_enable to make sure it doesn't run if the module is ever re-enabled in the future, so obviously this approach is a bit dirty.  I'm hoping there's a better solution? Support showing image in original size in overlay My problem is we want to minimize $1/2 \cdot \text{Norm}(w)^2$ under suitable constraints $y(i){[w^Tx_i+b]-1}$.  We write the Lagrangian and get the above equations.  I have a problem in differentiating with respect to $w$ can somebody elaborate on that? How do we get first equation? select all rows with a minimum value How do I read a file into a std::string, i.e., read the whole file at once?  Text or binary mode should be specified by the caller. The solution should be standard-compliant, portable and efficient. It should not needlessly copy the string's data, and it should avoid reallocations of memory while reading the string.  One way to do this would be to stat the filesize, resize the std::string and fread() into the std::string's const_cast&lt;char*&gt;()'ed data(). This requires the std::string's data to be contiguous which is not required by the standard, but it appears to be the case for all known implementations. What is worse, if the file is read in text mode, the std::string's size may not equal the file's size.  A fully correct, standard-compliant and portable solutions could be constructed using std::ifstream's rdbuf() into a std::ostringstream and from there into a std::string. However, this could copy the string data and/or needlessly reallocate memory.    Are all relevant standard library implementations smart enough to avoid all unnecessary overhead?  Is there another way to do it?  Did I miss some hidden Boost function that already provides the desired functionality?     void slurp(std::string&amp; data, bool is_binary) Sending and Parsing JSON Objects in Android Closed form for the sequence defined by $a_0=1$ and $a_{n+1} = a_n + a_n^{-1}$ What is meant by immutable? This could be the dumbest question ever asked but I think it is quite confusing for a Java newbie.    Can somebody clarify what is meant by immutable?  Why is a String immutable? What are the advantages/disadvantages of the immutable objects? Why should a mutable object such as StringBuilder be preferred over String and vice-verse?   A nice example (in Java) will be really appreciated. I'm new to the world of Apple, I bought a new Macbook Pro, mid-2020, Intel i7, 16GB RAM. I'm a developer, I run apps like VS Code, Sublime Text, Slack, Chrome (Multiple Windows), I play videos/songs in the background. I have been keeping a track of the energy consumption on my Mac, and it only runs for 4 hours. I have reset my SMC after I upgraded to Big Sur. Is 4 hours normal? or should I go to the service center? Update on 3 Feb 2021: I submitted my Mac to the Apple service center they said they conducted a few tests and the conclusion was that the battery is fine (I don't know what type of test they did). So I guess I'll be using it on AC Update on 12 Feb 2021: Took it to the service center, they didn't find any issues so I started using Safari for work and my battery has improved by 1 hour on Average. In iPhone, you can easily change the default ringtone (Settings → Sounds → Ringtone) and set a custom ringtone for individual people (Contacts → [some person] → Edit → Ringtone).   But can you set a custom tone for a group of contacts? (E.g. "family" or "workmates".)  I think that would be handy—and quite basic functionality, so to speak—but I couldn't find a way to do this through the iPhone UI. Is it possible at all (without jailbreaking)? This poor creature is taken aboard the spaceship and the humans do not know that it is intelligent.  The alien can repeat what it hears, e,g, "pass the sugar".  It is able to escape at night and it communicates messages to its fellow aliens.  It directs that they turn up the heat of the atmosphere (somehow they can do this) so as to force the humans to leave.  The alien protagonist states that it will die w/ the humans or leave with them. Seem to have lost 4 Silver badges and 10 Bronze badges Question about Casella and Berger's proof of MLE invariance In Casella and Berger, p. 320, they have a proof of the invariance of the MLE. Let $g: \theta \mapsto \eta$ be a function. They define the induced likelihood as  $$ L^*(\eta \mid X) = \sup_{\{\theta: g(\theta) = \eta\}} L(\theta \mid X). $$  This ensures that $g$ is one-to-one with respect to the likelihood functions because if $g$ is not one-to-one, there may be multiple values of $\theta$ that map to a given $g(\theta) = \eta$.  Then they note  $$ \sup_{\eta} L^*(\eta \mid X) = \sup_{\eta} \sup_{\{\theta: g(\theta) = \eta\}} L(\theta \mid X) = \sup_{\theta} L(\theta \mid X). $$  The first equality just applies the definition of the MLE of $\eta$. However, the next inequality confuses me. They write,     The second inequality follows because the iterated maximization is equal to the unconditional maximization over $\theta$...   Can someone justify this claim or provide some intuition if the claim is supposed to obviously follow from definitions? Is a path the set of points from a to b?  And is the stroke the "definition" (i.e. the color, shape, etc.) of the path?  And, how can you have a path with no stroke?  Is this only because it is a computer drawing program?  In the real world you can't have a path without a stroke can you?  If it matters, I am using Inkscape. Getting text from last marker to EOF in POSIX.2 How can I stop the Devel module from generating blog/forum entries for Anonymous user? I'm using Devel's generate content feature to generate Blog/Forum entries for a site I'm working on and funny enough, I get to have a blog post by an anonymous user or forum topic by an anonymous user.  How can I stop Devel from doing this? I've only given Authenticated Users/ Administrators the permission to create a blog post or forum topic but still it generate for anonymous user. How can correct this? Difference between "@id/" and "@+id/" in Android According to "Moving Around Other Creatures" (PH p. 191 / SRD p. 92):     You can move through a nonhostile creature’s space. [...] another creature’s space is difficult terrain for you.    Whether a creature is a friend or an enemy, you can’t willingly end your move in its space.   So it's possible for Alice to , the only penalty being that the ally's space counts as difficult terrain to enter.  If an enemy adjacent to the ally's space has readied a grapple against Alice and is successful, then Alice (unwillingly) ends her move in her ally's space.  Do allied characters in the same space suffer any negative effect?  Now the rest of Alice's allies do the same thing.   Is there a limit to the number of characters that can be stacked on a space?   What if Alice's ally was the one with the readied grapple?  Can you stack an ally on your space by readying a grapple to prevent them from leaving?