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I'm having trouble finding a reference for the proper terminology of two kinds of for loops in Python. The first one is the normal: for x in a: x+4 (I know this doesn't do anything, it is for this example) The second one is kind of backwards: x+4 for x in a What is the name of the for loop when the calculation comes before the "for" keyword? 75.136.148.8 ( talk) 14:15, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Is it accurate to categorize payment aggregators and payment gateways as payment infrastructure providers or payment system providers? What distinction would be more precise in describing their role in the payment ecosystem? Grotesquetruth ( talk) 05:14, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
I am having a very serious issue with the two aforementioned courses in university (for context, note that I am in university in China, and I am Canadian). I can't understand the content at all, especially when it mentions anything mathematical or mentions a complex algorithm or data structure with names that I can't even remember. (It has nothing to do with the language, since the course content of these two courses are in English, which is my native language.) FDS started out fine, with the basic lists, stacks and queues, which I am more than familiar with and can confidently answer any questions about, but when it got to various kinds of trees, I can't remember them or any of the required algorithms that are to be used on them. I already failed the FDS exam twice. On the previous attempt, I fell short of the passing grade by just ONE multiple choice question, which made me very frustrated. ADS is even harder, with mathematical formulas relating to the algorithms that I don't understand at all. What makes it worse is that although there are two opportunities to attempt the FDS exam every year (in the fall and spring semester), there is only one opportunity to attempt the ADS exam every year (in the spring semester only). I didn't have any issues with any other courses such as C, C++, web programming, computer networking, information security, large-scale databases, etc., but these two courses are giving me stress. What's worse is that there is a 6-year limit (including taking a year off), so I can't take a break from university and come back to this any time I want, and my dad, who funds my studies, is threatening to stop doing so, since he said to me (in Chinese), "If you can't pass this required course, then your entire program has no point for you, since you can't graduate without it. You'd be better off going to a [community] college back in Canada, where the content is easier, and I can stop paying rent every month and being so far away from my family, and you can be closer to your friends back in Canada [with sarcasm]." What should I do to learn the data structures and algorithms that are completely obscure to me and pass the course? This is the only course that is stopping me from studying normally, because it seems that when I even try to rewatch the course content, I still am unable to understand it.
As a little aside that is completely unrelated to the academic problems, it seems that my dad has a drinking problem. He keeps buying large packs of beer despite my requests for him to stop, using excuses like "it's on sale" (Taobao perpetually displays it as on sale) or "it's nostalgic" (since the beer is Harbin beer, the city where he grew up), and I often see large quantities of empty beer cans piling up, and because of this, he has become very short-tempered, which negatively affects my mental health. What can I do about this issue? FĂ©lix An ( talk) 03:45, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
Formerly, when I did a Google News search clicking on "Tools" allowed me to sort the articles by relevance or date. Now, however, this is gone; clicking on "Tools" just doesn't do anything. What happened?? Georgia guy ( talk) 16:01, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I recently installed both Vanilla GNOME and Ubuntu GNOME on my Linux Mint machine lately to try out the gestures, but they don't seem to work on my computer's touchpad. I tried the three and four finger swipes, but they don't work. I tried disabling tap to click. Still nothing. The model is HP Pavilion dv6t-6c00, with Beats Audio, 8 GB RAM, no AMD Graphics, and came with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled. (Also, GNOME just doesn't look like how modern GNOME screenshots look, the top right menu looks very different.) Any help would be appreciated. If you reply here, please ping me. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 17:59, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
I've been trying to do strikethrough with Unicode. I'm finding that the composed characters are to the right of where they "should" be, and somewhat too low, see the examples on our article, and in the
combining character article, these are not in the correct position to be a traditional strikethrough. In fact the tools I've used work best if the struck through text is preceded with a "space strikethrough" (and no strikethrough at the end?). Is there a better solution in Unicode?
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough 21:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC).
U+0335
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|
â© and âš|Ì”
â© differ for each typeface on Safari. The struck-through bars are narrower for Comic Sans MS. Not only are they 226% (!) wider than the vanilla bars in Times New Roman, but they are even 33% taller, which I find quite bizarre. Â --
Lambiam 10:40, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm working on a project that would go lot more smoothly if I could get myself organized. What I've got is pieces of text that I need to be able to classify in various ways and apply attribute tags to (e.g. this text has the tags applied for "Religion" and "Finances" while this other one has only "Animals", etc.). I would normally use Excel for something of this scale, but the text pieces aren't really appropriate for stuffing into a cell (and some have particular formatting I'd like to preserve, which again doesn't work great with Excel). At this point, my plan is to indeed do it in Excel, but hyperlink the text pieces, which is clunky at best. Any other options that spring to mind? There will be hundreds of records, which is large enough to need organization, but not zillions and zillions and it's a personal project, so I'm not looking to spend a lot. Any programs spring to mind as appropriate? Matt Deres ( talk) 14:58, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
In social media, many simple texts go viral which have nothing special other than they are blown up to a picture. People may forward them because (a) it's dead easy and (b) they find them funny or they want to proselytize the expressed opinion to others. What are they called? You might consider them a subgroup of internet memes. However, they don't fit the definition âTwo central attributes of Internet memes are creative reproduction and intertextuality.â, nor do they contain any other noteworthy creativity. Their only purpose seems to be that they're bigger than normal text so that they gather more importance. Even âeye candyâ would be too flattering, so I'd rather call them "rectangular attention sinks". Maybe I'd better turn to a sociologist with this question.
Related tech question: Do any social media offer a way to simply filter and ignore these attention sinks? â  SebastianâŻHelm đš 09:41, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
English Wikipedia is almost at 1,225,620,000 diffs, increasing at about 1000 every ten minutes or so I'm guessing. Is there a limit to this number in MediaWiki or the underlying software â cognate with the Y2K problem and the like?
(This is a throwaway question that just occurred to me, not a complaint or anything to take seriously or anything that I'm worrying about!) 46.69.215.187 ( talk) 17:18, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
I am using Windows 11, and Word for Microsoft 365. My question has to do with the feature to Save Autorecovery information, which saves a copy of each Word document that is open and has been modified within the past 10 (or other user-settable time) minutes. These Autorecovery files are saved in Appdata \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Word. However, if I look at them as I am editing various Word documents, sometimes I notice that some of them have sizes of 0 KB. I am attaching a screen shot showing a view of the Word folder with four documents having sizes of 0 KB. These files are in fact null files; that is, the 0 KB is correct. The files that I was editing were not null files.
What causes Word to stop creating good Autorecovery files? What I have found I can do is to stop Word (after saving the documents in question to their disk locations), and restart Word. If there is an unexpected stop or unexpected loss of Word functionality, updates to the documents being edited are lost.
Is there technical documentation of the Autorecovery feature? Does anyone know what causes these failures, or how to minimize their occurrence? Robert McClenon ( talk) 03:36, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
What is the Roaming directory?That is displayed in the screen shot that occupies too much space just above this discussion. It is a subdirectory of my User directory, and, as you imply, it has something to do with network access, but appears to be an old version of network access. I have changed the directory in which the Autosave is being done,and will see if that accomplishes anything. I think that we are both inferring that what was happening was that the Word subdirectory within the Roaming subdirectory had exceeded some size limit, which would be why the Autorecovery files were being zeroed. You provided some useful information to guess at what to do. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Where does the name of dracut (software) come from? -- 142.112.143.8 ( talk) 04:38, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
Ringtone doesn't seem to mention that this is possible but I think it is. I tried finding sources but found nothing that Wikipedia would accept, and even then, nothing seemed to make it clear the concept even existed.â Vchimpanzee ⹠talk ⹠contributions ⹠22:36, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
In SparQL, how can I search for stuff like this. So it would start with an opening square bracket, then a number of up to 3 digits, then a closing square bracket.
Is there a way to do this via the normal search box? Is there another, better way? Thanks! Polygnotus ( talk) 04:07, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
\[[0-9]+\]
\[([1-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9][0-9])\]
Main page: Help searching Wikipedia
  Â
How can I get my question answered?
How do I answer a question?
Main page: Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines
I'm having trouble finding a reference for the proper terminology of two kinds of for loops in Python. The first one is the normal: for x in a: x+4 (I know this doesn't do anything, it is for this example) The second one is kind of backwards: x+4 for x in a What is the name of the for loop when the calculation comes before the "for" keyword? 75.136.148.8 ( talk) 14:15, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Is it accurate to categorize payment aggregators and payment gateways as payment infrastructure providers or payment system providers? What distinction would be more precise in describing their role in the payment ecosystem? Grotesquetruth ( talk) 05:14, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
I am having a very serious issue with the two aforementioned courses in university (for context, note that I am in university in China, and I am Canadian). I can't understand the content at all, especially when it mentions anything mathematical or mentions a complex algorithm or data structure with names that I can't even remember. (It has nothing to do with the language, since the course content of these two courses are in English, which is my native language.) FDS started out fine, with the basic lists, stacks and queues, which I am more than familiar with and can confidently answer any questions about, but when it got to various kinds of trees, I can't remember them or any of the required algorithms that are to be used on them. I already failed the FDS exam twice. On the previous attempt, I fell short of the passing grade by just ONE multiple choice question, which made me very frustrated. ADS is even harder, with mathematical formulas relating to the algorithms that I don't understand at all. What makes it worse is that although there are two opportunities to attempt the FDS exam every year (in the fall and spring semester), there is only one opportunity to attempt the ADS exam every year (in the spring semester only). I didn't have any issues with any other courses such as C, C++, web programming, computer networking, information security, large-scale databases, etc., but these two courses are giving me stress. What's worse is that there is a 6-year limit (including taking a year off), so I can't take a break from university and come back to this any time I want, and my dad, who funds my studies, is threatening to stop doing so, since he said to me (in Chinese), "If you can't pass this required course, then your entire program has no point for you, since you can't graduate without it. You'd be better off going to a [community] college back in Canada, where the content is easier, and I can stop paying rent every month and being so far away from my family, and you can be closer to your friends back in Canada [with sarcasm]." What should I do to learn the data structures and algorithms that are completely obscure to me and pass the course? This is the only course that is stopping me from studying normally, because it seems that when I even try to rewatch the course content, I still am unable to understand it.
As a little aside that is completely unrelated to the academic problems, it seems that my dad has a drinking problem. He keeps buying large packs of beer despite my requests for him to stop, using excuses like "it's on sale" (Taobao perpetually displays it as on sale) or "it's nostalgic" (since the beer is Harbin beer, the city where he grew up), and I often see large quantities of empty beer cans piling up, and because of this, he has become very short-tempered, which negatively affects my mental health. What can I do about this issue? FĂ©lix An ( talk) 03:45, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
Formerly, when I did a Google News search clicking on "Tools" allowed me to sort the articles by relevance or date. Now, however, this is gone; clicking on "Tools" just doesn't do anything. What happened?? Georgia guy ( talk) 16:01, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I recently installed both Vanilla GNOME and Ubuntu GNOME on my Linux Mint machine lately to try out the gestures, but they don't seem to work on my computer's touchpad. I tried the three and four finger swipes, but they don't work. I tried disabling tap to click. Still nothing. The model is HP Pavilion dv6t-6c00, with Beats Audio, 8 GB RAM, no AMD Graphics, and came with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled. (Also, GNOME just doesn't look like how modern GNOME screenshots look, the top right menu looks very different.) Any help would be appreciated. If you reply here, please ping me. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 17:59, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
I've been trying to do strikethrough with Unicode. I'm finding that the composed characters are to the right of where they "should" be, and somewhat too low, see the examples on our article, and in the
combining character article, these are not in the correct position to be a traditional strikethrough. In fact the tools I've used work best if the struck through text is preceded with a "space strikethrough" (and no strikethrough at the end?). Is there a better solution in Unicode?
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough 21:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC).
U+0335
.
|
â© and âš|Ì”
â© differ for each typeface on Safari. The struck-through bars are narrower for Comic Sans MS. Not only are they 226% (!) wider than the vanilla bars in Times New Roman, but they are even 33% taller, which I find quite bizarre. Â --
Lambiam 10:40, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm working on a project that would go lot more smoothly if I could get myself organized. What I've got is pieces of text that I need to be able to classify in various ways and apply attribute tags to (e.g. this text has the tags applied for "Religion" and "Finances" while this other one has only "Animals", etc.). I would normally use Excel for something of this scale, but the text pieces aren't really appropriate for stuffing into a cell (and some have particular formatting I'd like to preserve, which again doesn't work great with Excel). At this point, my plan is to indeed do it in Excel, but hyperlink the text pieces, which is clunky at best. Any other options that spring to mind? There will be hundreds of records, which is large enough to need organization, but not zillions and zillions and it's a personal project, so I'm not looking to spend a lot. Any programs spring to mind as appropriate? Matt Deres ( talk) 14:58, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
In social media, many simple texts go viral which have nothing special other than they are blown up to a picture. People may forward them because (a) it's dead easy and (b) they find them funny or they want to proselytize the expressed opinion to others. What are they called? You might consider them a subgroup of internet memes. However, they don't fit the definition âTwo central attributes of Internet memes are creative reproduction and intertextuality.â, nor do they contain any other noteworthy creativity. Their only purpose seems to be that they're bigger than normal text so that they gather more importance. Even âeye candyâ would be too flattering, so I'd rather call them "rectangular attention sinks". Maybe I'd better turn to a sociologist with this question.
Related tech question: Do any social media offer a way to simply filter and ignore these attention sinks? â  SebastianâŻHelm đš 09:41, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
English Wikipedia is almost at 1,225,620,000 diffs, increasing at about 1000 every ten minutes or so I'm guessing. Is there a limit to this number in MediaWiki or the underlying software â cognate with the Y2K problem and the like?
(This is a throwaway question that just occurred to me, not a complaint or anything to take seriously or anything that I'm worrying about!) 46.69.215.187 ( talk) 17:18, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
I am using Windows 11, and Word for Microsoft 365. My question has to do with the feature to Save Autorecovery information, which saves a copy of each Word document that is open and has been modified within the past 10 (or other user-settable time) minutes. These Autorecovery files are saved in Appdata \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Word. However, if I look at them as I am editing various Word documents, sometimes I notice that some of them have sizes of 0 KB. I am attaching a screen shot showing a view of the Word folder with four documents having sizes of 0 KB. These files are in fact null files; that is, the 0 KB is correct. The files that I was editing were not null files.
What causes Word to stop creating good Autorecovery files? What I have found I can do is to stop Word (after saving the documents in question to their disk locations), and restart Word. If there is an unexpected stop or unexpected loss of Word functionality, updates to the documents being edited are lost.
Is there technical documentation of the Autorecovery feature? Does anyone know what causes these failures, or how to minimize their occurrence? Robert McClenon ( talk) 03:36, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
What is the Roaming directory?That is displayed in the screen shot that occupies too much space just above this discussion. It is a subdirectory of my User directory, and, as you imply, it has something to do with network access, but appears to be an old version of network access. I have changed the directory in which the Autosave is being done,and will see if that accomplishes anything. I think that we are both inferring that what was happening was that the Word subdirectory within the Roaming subdirectory had exceeded some size limit, which would be why the Autorecovery files were being zeroed. You provided some useful information to guess at what to do. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Where does the name of dracut (software) come from? -- 142.112.143.8 ( talk) 04:38, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
Ringtone doesn't seem to mention that this is possible but I think it is. I tried finding sources but found nothing that Wikipedia would accept, and even then, nothing seemed to make it clear the concept even existed.â Vchimpanzee ⹠talk ⹠contributions ⹠22:36, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
In SparQL, how can I search for stuff like this. So it would start with an opening square bracket, then a number of up to 3 digits, then a closing square bracket.
Is there a way to do this via the normal search box? Is there another, better way? Thanks! Polygnotus ( talk) 04:07, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
\[[0-9]+\]
\[([1-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9][0-9])\]