So I noticed that my compainion had removed all his power armour peices, although he was still wearing the suit - turned out they'd all been damaged until unusable :(  How can I repair them, do I need to make him climb out (and if so, how?) or can I some how repair them while he's still holding each item?
After I read that companions don't drain the fusion core of a Power Armor when wearing it, I decided to try giving my armor to Nick so I'll always have it close by if I need it.  But I was wondering if there are any other drawbacks to that. For example, does the Armor get damaged or destroyed when the companion is under fire?
What does the 'cosmological constant' represent? Newtons theory of gravity involves a gravitational constant $G$, however one does not refer to it directly, we speak instead of gravity or the force of gravity.   Now Einsteins introduced a  in his equation for GR, and ever since it's been referred to as such; however, this usage seems strange to me, given the above parallel; it seems to me we ought to be referring to something physical, which can then be quantified and whose quantification involves the cosmological constant.   Does the cosmological constant then refer to a cosmological force? A force that is, contra gravity, repulsive? And which is even weaker than gravity, kicking in on the scale of galaxies rather than solar systems? Unable to change payment information to NONE in iOS Appstore I consider the co-finite topology on $\mathbb{R}$ that is $$\{G\subset \mathbb{R}, card(\mathbb{R}\setminus G)&lt;+\infty\}\cup \{\emptyset\}$$  What are the convergent sequences in this space .  thank you How to gather full network usage statistics on a freebsd router? I have a freebsd box, which serves as a router from LAN to the outside world. It has several Internet providers, OpenVPN servers and clients, NAT and so on.  I would like to have complete statistics on when, who, to whom, via which provider, via which protocol, and how many bytes have been sent.   I agree that the minimal time scale will be an hour, i.e. no need for millisecond precision.  I tried vnstat2, ntopng and some other programs, but they don't seemed to have what I need or it is not obvious.   I don't understand, why this feature is not easily available. But I am not good in freebsd, so please, give me some clues. The Winter Bash is back and the hats are listed below.  As always, there are only two answers: one for the secret hats, and one for the regular hats. The secret hat list will be updated as we learn them.  Only edit the secret hat answer with definitive and correct triggers. This is not the place to post guesses.    If you'd like to discuss Winter Bash, hats or just have a question about the WB please come over to the .  Please keep the comments here clean. As always comments are not meant for discussion, conversation, "I just got hat X", etc use the  for that (the remaining meta mods will periodically clean the comments). I know you are excited you just got a secret hat, but please instead of posting a comment come over to the  and tell us all there.  Provided that "It's important to know your history... in more ways than one"  again this year, here are the hats from prior years: How can I know what speed card to get for my camera? Did not receive site association bonus (+100 rep) Is it possible to set the GPU fan speed using the default free ati driver?  My card (X1900) was deprecated in the fglrx drivers a while back.  The free drivers seem to work with 3D, Compiz and such, but running graphics intensive programs makes my GPU heat up and produce artifacts, while the GPU fan never seems to increase. (When set to 100% in Windows it makes a massively louder noise.) Math mode accents In my long document I, sadly, have to use several accents to denote different kinds of symbols. Currently, I use primes ($x'$), hat, tilde, and overline. In addition I use two colored symbols (red colored tilde and blue $\prescript\ulcorner$), as I need further distinguishment.  Now I'd like to have no colors in my document, while I still have at least six different ways to differentiate certain symbols.  Which alternatives could I use that are easy to recognize and 'stand out', while they are different to prime/hat/tilde/overline?  EDIT: The reader should be able to see the kind of accent used even if the symbol in question is in a sub-script (possibly even a sub-sub-script). Warning: Total photoshop newb!  I recently got a cool image of my fiancee and I holding hands and showing off her engagment ring. The backdrop is the beach:    I tried to trace an image using a combo of the laso and magic wand tools to select my target. Then I used that to pull out the target as another layer.  I then pasted in a background gradient.     Ended up with a really lame photoshoped looking picture. Notice the white lines where I didn't get the arms close enough and the choppy spots where I got too close.    So what's my main problem here?   Is their a way to bet a better cutout? Is their a blending tool that will make the background look more natural? both   I tried a dozen or so tutorials I found in google searches but they just don't blend these types of images together in any of them. Thanks in advance. How to concatenate a variable number of csv, removing their header rows? $$\lim _{x \rightarrow 0} \left(\frac{ \sin x}{x}\right)^{1/x}$$  I have spent an hour on the above limit and have no work to show. I tried using L'Hopital's Rule, but just kept going around in circles. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. I needed to edit a .config file (which I know for a fact is not creating these problems, just to clear that up) and it wouldn't let me save it, so I took ownership of /etc and all contents with the command chown -hR username /etc and that let me edit the .config file but now whenever I try to install any packages or use any sudo commands, it doesn't work  (I've checked for errors in the sudo file in sudoers.d and there was nothing wrong with that).   So how do I return it to the previous owner? What are the summary rules for when to use image stabilization and when not to? When I got my DSLR, I took a lot of pics and all of them came excellent, even though I had VR at the "Off" position.   Since those came out so well, I wonder when should I turn VR on, and when I should just leave it off.   I found  which answer this question in detail, but that's too much for me to understand easily. Can someone explain the strict rules in short?  Should I use VR with tripod? When should I use it when I'm not using a tripod, and when should I leave it off? Batch renaming files I have a php file which I will be using as exclusively as an include. Therefore I would like to throw an error instead of executing it when it's accessed directly by typing in the URL instead of being included.  Basically I need to do a check as follows in the php file:  if ( $REQUEST_URL == $URL_OF_CURRENT_PAGE ) die ("Direct access not premitted");   Is there an easy way to do this? Under what conditions does loot despawn? I have found that when my bags get full and I need to vendor loot I can sometimes leave loot on the ground and return to it.  Other times it seems to disappear almost instantly once I leave the area.  Is the loot despawn time based, based on my distance from the dropped loot, or some other factor(s)? How are PCA and classical MDS different? How about MDS versus nonmetric MDS? Is there a time when you would prefer one over the other? How do the interpretations differ? Accessing AWS S3 via a REST API (Apex callout with a Named Credential) Boot problem after hanging and manual power off ( Stopping User Manager for UID 121... ) My Ubuntu stalled while running Android's VirtualBox version, so I powered off the system. But after reset it stopped during this line:     Stopping User Manager for UID 121... _ So i googled it and have read  question and tried these steps:  Boot into Recovery Mode, drop to a root shell, and follow the steps below:   Run mount -o rw,remount / to mount the drive in Read-Write mode.Run sudo apt-get purge nvidia-* to purge the NVIDIA driver.You may also need to purge xserver-xorg and reinstall it, which will  require you to enable networking in Recovery.Reboot. You may have to add the nouveau.modeset=0 flag in GRUB to boot properly (Check my Q&amp;A for specifics).   You should be past the screen flicker and be at your desktop.  But in doing this step:  Now reinstall the NVIDIA drivers the proper way:sudo apt-get install  nvidia-367 (or 340, 352, 364, 370, whichever works).Reboot again.  I found i have not internet, and my WiFi is not in ifconfig list!!! By running :     Iw wlp2s0 scan   I get :  N180211 not found I also search for it and not understand why WiFi gone off. Now i thinking to use live USB of ubuntu to download NVIDIA and xserver-xorg and the install the by dpkg command during tty2. Update : in Ubuntu live i have this settings :  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -c video   *-display                         description: VGA compatible controller        product: HD Graphics 620        vendor: Intel Corporation        physical id: 2        bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0        version: 02        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom        configuration: driver=i915 latency=0        resources: irq:129 memory:a2000000-a2ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:6000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff   *-display        description: 3D controller        product: GM108M [GeForce 920MX]        vendor: NVIDIA Corporation        physical id: 0        bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0        version: a2        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list        configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0        resources: irq:128 memory:a3000000-a3ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128)  and ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -c display   *-display                         description: VGA compatible controller        product: HD Graphics 620        vendor: Intel Corporation        physical id: 2        bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0        version: 02        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom        configuration: driver=i915 latency=0        resources: irq:129 memory:a2000000-a2ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:6000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff   *-display        description: 3D controller        product: GM108M [GeForce 920MX]        vendor: NVIDIA Corporation        physical id: 0        bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0        version: a2        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list        configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0        resources: irq:128 memory:a3000000-a3ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128)  and : ubuntu@ubuntu:~$  cat /etc/os-release NAME=&quot;Ubuntu&quot; VERSION=&quot;18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver)&quot; ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME=&quot;Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS&quot; VERSION_ID=&quot;18.04&quot; HOME_URL=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot; SUPPORT_URL=&quot;https://help.ubuntu.com/&quot; BUG_REPORT_URL=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/&quot; PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy&quot; VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic  please consider the above three output has token form Ubuntu live flash system. What do you suggest and what do you think about reason of this failure? Also do you think it must be reported by me in ubuntu site, or it will be done automatically? Thanks.