Like so many others, I am working at home and trying to make my space more comfortable. I have a work-issued Windows laptop and am wondering if there is a way to use my 2018 iMac as a larger monitor. From what I have been reading it seems like &quot;no&quot;, but I am hoping someone on here as a suggestion. My neck is killing me!
I have a Surface Pro 4 and an iMac (late 2019). I would like to connect my Surface Pro to the iMac to use the iMac screen as a second monitor.  Is that possible?  What are the requirements to use an iMac as a second screen?
I am trying to run the following model:         I(week^2):mutation_status +         (week + I(week^2) | subject_id) ,          data = sim_dat)  This is the output I get from this model. The correlation between week and I(week)^2 is rather high (-0.95) and I was curious to know how I can change my data simulation code to lower that value. I am also having issues with convergence and would love to get thoughts on how to avoid issues regarding convergence. Thank you! Linear mixed model fit by REML. t-tests use Satterthwaite's method [lmerModLmerTest]  Formula: fetal_weight ~ week + mutation_status + week:mutation_status + I(week^2) +  I(week^2):mutation_status + (week + I(week^2) | subject_id) Data: sim_dat  REML criterion at convergence: 114  Scaled residuals:      Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max  -1.9343 -0.3980 -0.0075  0.4168  1.9928   Random effects:  Groups     Name        Variance  Std.Dev. Corr         subject_id (Intercept)   1.51524  1.2309                          week         61.01832  7.8114   0.16                   I(week^2)   496.20236 22.2756  -0.19 -0.95  Residual                 0.05892  0.2427              Number of obs: 100, groups:  subject_id, 20  Fixed effects:                            Estimate Std. Error       df t value       Pr(&gt;|t|)     (Intercept)                  3.1331     0.4226  17.9961   7.413 0.000000713699 *** week                        -1.2465     3.5210  18.0053  -0.354          0.727     mutation_statusY             0.5061     0.5977  17.9961   0.847          0.408     I(week^2)                   34.5706    10.8146  18.0084   3.197          0.005 **  week:mutation_statusY       -1.0697     4.9795  18.0053  -0.215          0.832     mutation_statusY:I(week^2) 202.5521    15.2942  18.0084  13.244 0.000000000101 *** --- Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1  Correlation of Fixed Effects:             (Intr) week   mttn_Y I(w^2) wk:m_Y week        -0.160                             muttn_sttsY -0.707  0.113                      I(week^2)    0.145 -0.966 -0.103               wk:mttn_stY  0.113 -0.707 -0.160  0.683        mtt_Y:I(^2) -0.103  0.683  0.145 -0.707 -0.966  Code for data simulation: set.seed(123)  # set the seed J &lt;- 20  # number of individuals (clusters) cs &lt;- 5  # number of time points (cluster size) gam &lt;- c(0, 0.75, 1.34)  # fixed effects G &lt;- matrix(c(1.75, 0, 0,               0, 0.0125, 0,               0,0,0.0625),              nrow = 3)  # random effect variances (G-matrix) sigma2 &lt;- 0.08  mutation_status &lt;- rep(0:1, each = 5) mutation_status &lt;- rep(mutation_status, times = 10)  X &lt;- cbind(1, seq_len(cs),             (seq_len(cs))^2)  # for each individual X &lt;- X[rep(seq_len(cs), J), ]  X &lt;- X[rep(seq_len(cs), J), ]  X[,2] &lt;- X[,2]*0.05 X[,3] &lt;- X[,3]*0.05  # repeat each row cs times pid &lt;- seq_len(J)  # individual id pid &lt;- rep(pid, each = cs)   # Generate person-level (lv-2) random effects uj &lt;- lmf::rmnorm(J, mean = rep(0, 2), varcov = G)  # Generate repeated-measure-level (lv-1) error term eij &lt;- rnorm(J * cs, sd = sqrt(sigma2))  # Compute beta_j's betaj &lt;- matrix(gam, nrow = J, ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE) + uj  # Compute outcome: y &lt;- rowSums(X * betaj[pid, ]) + eij + mutation_status*X[ , 3]*10 + 3  # Form a data frame sim_dat &lt;- tibble(y, time = X[ , 2], pid, mutation_status) sim_dat &lt;- sim_dat[,c(3,2,4,1)] colnames(sim_dat) &lt;- c(&quot;subject_id&quot;, &quot;week&quot;, &quot;mutation_status&quot;, &quot;fetal_weight&quot;) sim_dat$week_2 &lt;-sim_dat$week*5 + 15  sim_dat$mutation_status &lt;- as.factor(ifelse(sim_dat$mutation_status == 0, &quot;N&quot;, &quot;Y&quot;)) sim_dat$subject_id &lt;- as.factor(sim_dat$subject_id ) #Model Building "A friend of my father" vs. "a friend of my father's" — which one is right? 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Postgres JDBC connection in Eclipse Help I'm trying to get a postgres jdbc connection working in eclipse. It would be nice to use the Data Source Explorer, but for now I'm just trying to get a basic connection. What I have done so far is download the postgres JDBC connector. I then tried two different things. First, Preferences-> Data Management, I tried to add the postgres connector. Second, I added the jar to my project and tried to load the driver using Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver"); but neither worked. Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks,    Charlie My pixel perfect picture gets blurry when compiled in LaTeX Is there a modal command for MakeLowercase? Analog to  question I've been wondering WHAT is to \lowercase as \bfseries is to \textbf? (... and for uppercase, or \MakeLowercase and MakeUppercase, etc., which also seem to be text-block commands as explained .)  Is there a "switch"/"declaration"/"modal command" (what is the correct term here?, is there a difference between them?) that would allow one to turn something into lowercase/uppercase in the same way that one would use \scshape for example, i.e., not as text-block command with the curly braces?  Or how to create such a command?  I couldn't find any clue on the forum. Starcraft Installation asks for a mythical Disk 2 I just purchased the Starcraft Battle Chest containing Starcraft and BroodWar.  When I try to install Starcraft I get halfway through and I'm prompted to "Insert Disk 2".  The box did not contain a second disk.  My computer is Windows 7 (x64). What do I need to do to continue?  Box Contents:   Starcraft Disk Broodwar Disk WoW Trial Disk Show that Function Compositions Are Associative Six simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast From "6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast" at codexon.com:   Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality. Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically Use obnoxious in-your-face formatting and lists. Be Aware of the 200 rep/day Limit Edit, But Don’t Edit Too Much Associate your other accounts   Courtesy of . Agree? Disagree? Walnuts? Cantaloupe? Suppose $\sqrt6 = \frac pq$ where $p$ and $q$ have no common factors.  $$6 = \frac {p^2}{q^2}$$  $$6p^2 = q^2$$  So $q^2$ and therefore $q$ is divisible by $6$.   $$p^2 = \frac {q^2}{6}$$  So $p^2$ and therefore $p$ is divisible by $6$.   S0, $p$ and $q$ have a common factor $6$. Contradiction.  Therefore $\sqrt6$ is irrational.  Does the proof work? Mixing different front and rear tires SELECT * EXCEPT Is there any RDBMS that implements something like SELECT * EXCEPT?  What I'm after is getting all of the fields except a specific TEXT/BLOB field, and I'd like to just select everything else.  Almost daily I complain to my coworkers that someone should implement this...  It's terribly annoying that it doesn't exist.  Edit: I understand everyone's concern for SELECT *.  I know the risks associated with SELECT *.  However, this, at least in my situation, would not be used for any Production level code, or even Development level code; strictly for debugging, when I need to see all of the values easily.  As I've stated in some of the comments, where I work is strictly a commandline shop, doing everything over ssh.  This makes it difficult to use any gui tools (external connections to the database aren't allowed), etc etc.  Thanks for the suggestions though. How to get coloured terminal over ssh? When I connect over ssh to remote hosts everything is just a single font/color. I would like to have colours like I do locally e.g. green for executable and blue for symlinks etc. And such that when I run $ git diff on the ssh host it shows me diff with colours =) What is the optimal order of post-processing steps? LaTeX/BibTex not arranging citations by order of appearance I am having an issue with LaTex/Bibtex presenting my citations in order of appearance. I know there a plenty of questions on this and I have read some of them, but the solutions posted don't seem to do me any good. I am using MacTeX and TeXmaker.  I am writing a large document, like a Thesis. Chapters are split between individual Tex files and included using the \include command.  I have a large .bib file that is maintained by Mendeley (program I use for storing my references and producing a BibTex file).  I am using the package, cite (mainly for doing references like [1-3,6,9])  I have a pretty standard looking document.  \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} \setcounter{tocdepth}{3} \newcommand{\doubleSignature}[3][Alex Mason]{% \parbox{\textwidth}{ \centering #3 \today\\ \vspace{2cm}  \parbox{7cm}{   \centering   \rule{6cm}{1pt}\\    #1  } \hfill \parbox{7cm}{   \centering   \rule{6cm}{1pt}\\   #2 } } } \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} %\usepackage[sorting=none]{biblatex} %\bibliography{Alex} % Where journals.bib and phd-references.bi \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} \usepackage{enumerate} \usepackage{nomencl} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{cite} \usepackage[left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry} \graphicspath{{./Diagrams/}} \usepackage[labelfont={sf,bf}, margin=1cm]{caption} \usepackage{subcaption} \renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.} \renewcommand{\tablename}{Tab.} \renewcommand{\bibname}{References} \author{NAME (MEng)} \title{TITLE} \date{\today} \makenomenclature %------------------------------------------------ \begin{document} \maketitle \pagenumbering{roman} %-----------------------------------------------certificate of originality----------------      -------------------------------------------- \input{CertofOrigin} \begin{abstract} ABSTRACT \end{abstract} %-----------------------------------------------contents------------------------------------------------------------ \tableofcontents \listoffigures \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures} \listoftables \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables} \chapter*{Acknowledgements} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements} ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS \printnomenclature[1.5in] \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Nomenclature} \pagebreak \pagenumbering{arabic} \include{2ndYearReport_CHAP1} \include{2ndYearReport_CHAP2} \include{2ndYearReport_CHAP3} \bibliographystyle{unsrt} \bibliography{Alex} %\printbibliography \end{document}   The goofy looking part at the top (\newcommand{doubleSig.....) is just for when i input a special page I made containing a certificate of originality spiel with two boxes for signatures and my university logo.  As you can see I am using the standard bibtex way of doing bibliographies by stating the style then the stating the bib file to use right at the end of the document. I have tried biblatex but can't get it to work. It says it hasn't produced the bib file but doesn't really state why.  As far as I am aware everything was working A-OK until I started on the second chapter and began adding citations in there. Now my citations are all messed up and won't correct. My first citation starts with [9]!!!  [1] appears in a figure caption later down the page, after 10, 11 and 12 have been called!  I have tried deleting all the working files (bbl, aux, log etc) but nothing happens. I get the same result. IIRC I used to have this problem with MS Word and is part of the reason why I switched to LaTex...yet it seems to have followed me!   bibtex does through a few warnings when it runs stating that some references are missing journal names or volume numbers. Would that be a reason?  What have I done wrong with my code? How to remove edit from edit queue? I asked a question on SO:  and got an answer that, while good, I thought could be improved with a minor edit:   After a little while, a comment on the answer showed me that I was wrong to have edited the answer.  How do I undo it? Is it wasteful to use a heating element, instead of doing useful work? Consider a computer CPU consuming electrical energy to perform calculations and consequently emitting heat.  Assumption: That a CPU consuming x Watts of power, emits the same amount of heat as an incandescent heating element which consumes the same amount of power.  The rest of the question assumes that this is true: the energy has to go somewhere, and I can't see that the outcome of the calculations counts as "somewhere".  I've long repeated the claim that "wasteful" appliances such as incandescent lightbulbs, over-full kettles, computers left running, etc. are not wasting power if we make the assumptions:   the appliance is in a room which we aim to maintain at above a certain temperature, warmer than the external temperature (cf a home in winter) the room leaks heat to the outside faster than the "wasteful" appliances emit heat. the room contains an electric heater the electric heater is regulated by a thermostat   In these circumstances, I think (?), if a light bulb produces excess heat, its only effect is to cause the thermostat to switch off sooner, so what energy you've "wasted" in the light bulb, is "saved" at the heater.  I don't think that's controversial.  But my question is:   If a CPU does useful work, and emits all the input energy as heat as a side effect But a heating element emits the same heat, without doing useful work Is it therefore wasteful to use heating elements? Is it more efficient to (for example) run  on a CPU, to get "free" computation as a side-effect of heating?   One reason to heat a room with a heating element, rather than with CPUs, is that the heating element is much cheaper to produce. But ignoring the initial cost of the hardware, would a "heater" made out of 20 CPUs, each running at full capacity and consuming 50W each, output less thermal heat than a 1KW element that does nothing else useful?  To be useful, of course, the CPUs would need to output the result of their computations, which would account for a tiny amount of energy. Let's assume that's negligible.  I'm sure there's a flaw in there somewhere; probably that the assumption above is false. What have I missed? Helical motion of charged particle in external magnetic field Can you triple-boot safely?