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Alright, this sounds odd, but I have some pictograms which I line up in a text and use macros for them i.e. I have something like:

\newcommand{\penV}{\raisebox{-0.15\fontdimen6\font{\includeinkscape[height=1\fontdimen6\font]{Pentomino/V}}}

And I have gotten to a point where I need to place them into an image in Inkscape, i.e. I need to write a text in inkscape that include {\penV} macro, which, when I export it, should render within the image. I place the image in using \includeinkscape as well. However, if I try to compile the pdf, it returns an error:

! LaTeX Error: Command \fsize already defined.

I have no idea how to fix it. Can anybody help me? Thank you.

Hello dear subreddit,

I'm trying to come up with a fun activity for my theatre group, and I've come up with an idea that I could get them to try dubbing. The problem is that I need to get a reliable source where I can find movies and TV series with M&E tracks (music & effects, i.e. without dubbing).

Do you know any?

Thanks.

Hello everyone. I am a student and as such I have a Google account issued by my university, and over the holidays, the university temporarily disables the account to re-enable it in autumn, so ever the summer I get continuous error messages asking me to re-enter credentials for the account I know will not work because it has been disabled for some time. Is there a way to disable this message for one of the Thunderbird accounts, or do I have to put up with it/remove it just to add it later?

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Alright, so... I usually dream only of simple or explainable things, even if these are allegories, and almost never have issues finding where the motives in the dream come from or what my subconscious is doing, but I am trully dumbfounded by this one.

I will try keeping the structure legible by marking constituent parts separately with bold headers and marking my notes that are real world facts in italics.

Some context: I am a 22 year old single male living in Central Europe who just successfully managed to finish my bachelor's degree with honors and was stressing a lot about it, but it has been a week since then and I have calmed down a lot. Apologies if my writing is confused because English is not my native language.

First part (yeah I have no idea what is going on there):

I am sitting on a train stop waiting for a tram with my close friends trying to get to university. It is raining and I am feeling cold. When the tram arrives, it looks odd (my town uses a single-digit line numbers for its trams, but this one was numbered 22, a fact that I found odd even in the dream), but we enter it regardless. It continues on its way only for about half the way and then it abruptly continues on a sidetrack into a nearby office building where it stops (we really do not have train tracks that enter lobbies of office buildings in my home town).

We take shelter in the lobby until the rain subsides a bit and then wait out a correct tram. We triple check if it is the right one. On the rest of the way to university, we are discussing what is going on until my friend realizes that he read on the internet that a different town has started operating parallel public transport services in our town (that other town does have public transport, but it is just a few bus lines without and is substantially smaller than the public transport service in my town, which also includes trolleybuses and trams). We can validate this news by seeing that these suspicious new trams have a new public transport logo on their front.

I just note that I hate those transitional period where there is chaos before thing settle down and the tram stops one station short because there was a car crash on the tracks and I am forced to walk the rest of the way (for the entire duration of the dream from now on, it is a war spring afternoon with no evidence that there was ever any rain).

Second part (the one I can understand and explain away):

I continue walking into the University in which I did my bachelor's degree and finding out that my card has been disabled. I have to go upstairs by foot (this has happened some time ago when a system crash caused the elevators to disable, so it is probably a memory flashback) to the 6th floor (where my usual classes are) by foot instead of using the elevator and knocking on the entrance door to my department until somebody lets me in. I have not seen that person or his friends ever in my life (other people coming up in the dream I know really well as either my close friends or classmates), and they scold me that I forgot my security card, to which I show them that my card has been disabled and they do a non-apology ("how was I supposed to know").

I meet my only classmate (in my studies, only me and her survived the bachelor's programme, she is real) and we share a couple of friendly greetings and start discussing about something non important (I can't remember what, so I assume it was a chit-chat). Our eyes lock and we go in for a kiss (very out of character for me, I am not attracted to her and I assume is not either). Before our lips lock, we hear a news report from one of the professor's offices that a pack of white tigers has escaped from local zoo and that the authorities urge people to shelter indoors and return home so the tigers can be captured safely (there is a zoo in my hometown, but it does not have white tigers, nor do I have a particular personal connection to it). Then, we decide to leave university and head out.

Before we head out, I quickly run to the toilet and try to urinate, but I am unable to because I really want to catch up with my classmate since I do not want to travel home alone given the tigers (me not being able to pee due to outside circumstances has never been a theme in my dreams but it is in this one).

Third part (where it starts getting weird and I start losing functioning metaphors):

I walk down to the fifth floor where I realize that I have forgotten my bag in the department's lounge in the sixth floor so I quickly decide to return. Before I do, however, I try using the elevator and it is working again, so I try calling it and using it to go upwards. Before I do, however, I meet a group of young kids who are going from the sixth floor by stairs and continuing downward.

I know them well as a group of kids from my elementary school and I greet one of them (he is in highschool now but in the dream he was aged down). We share a couple of jokes and then I ask him if they are going upwards or downwards and he responds that they have been on the tower on the 19th floor and that they are continuing downwards (the university building has only seven floors and there is no tower anywhere, but I can write that one off since I was always fascinated by high towers).

I just shrug and try calling the elevator, but it does not work, so I walk over to a different one (there is only one elevator in each section of the building, so this is not realistic) and call it. When I enter the elevator and select a sixth floor, instead of closing the doors, a handle rises from the floor of the elevator and quickly retracts to its usual position, locking my neck in the position before I can react, choking me for the entire elevator ride upwards until it releases me on the sixth floor.

I recall that I have not been to the tower for a very long time because once a floor tile cracked under me and it scared the living god out of me. I grab my stuff and head down, avoiding elevators.

Fourth part (where I really lost it):

I head out of the side entrance doors and it is a schoolyard of my elementary school with a motorway bridge in the background ending up on an embarkment (this is particularily weird, my dreams usually offer a geographically twisted version of the real world, but they are consistent with each other to the extent that I am maintaining a map including all the non-existing buildings, rivers, settlements and roads around my home, this entirely breaks down this shared dream universe). There is a small bus marked as "evacuation" to which I head (I assume that it is because of the runaway tigers). I realize that the entire motorway traffic on the bridge is a massive traffic jam and nobody is moving anywhere.

When I enter the bus, I realize that my high school classmates are sitting there already along with my current classmate (so I am stuck at an elementary school yard connected to my university with my high school classmates, I need to stress again that this geographic and contextual anomaly is not anything remotely common in my dreams). We share a couple of chuckles while we are waiting for the bus to depart. Then the driver comes up and gives us a note that it will take some time because of the traffic. I call him by a name of a bus driver I personally know and ask him to let us out and call us back when it is time. He obliges and opens the doors.

In the meantime, one of my high school classmates is trying to share a strawberry milk shake closed in a plastic bottle, but everyone including me is disgusted because it is obvious that it is rotten and urge him to throw it away because it can be really revolting if he opens it. He unwillingly obliges and pulls out a bin and throws the throbbing milkshake into the bin and closes the lid behind it.

Then a second bus pulls up and we are told that those are portable toilets because we could be spending hours here and that the school is obliged to provide us with basic hygiene. I decide to go urinate there, but when I try to, always, there is somebody walking by, disrupting me. Then an alarm in the pee-bus (?) starts ringing and quickly run out while everyone else inside hunkers down. A teacher I know (my former history teacher and one of the most likeable people I have ever met) walks in and says that "smart people hunker down and enemies walk out" (???).

Then I see that a group of antelopes (antelopes are really not native to Central Europe) is running across the schoolyard with everyone inside trying to hunker down behind or inside the two buses. The antelopes are heading up the embarkment, and then the white tigers appear from among the cars, with people desperately trying to hide inside or ram their way through the jam.

I start screaming that everyone outside should quickly hide because the once the tigers run down the embarkment and slaughter all the antelopes, they will likely seek a far more interesting prey down here instead of returning up the steep embarkment. Just as I said that, a group of humvees has arrived and armored police officers (we do not have heavily armored police here, or at least you see them only in TV during dangerous raids and not in real life) quickly shoot or sedate all the tigers who are feasting on the killed herd of antelopes.

The dream ends when I head out to pee by a tree and a friend asks, where did my classmate hide the strawberry milk shake, because a different classmate is kicking the bin in which it has been thrown and if it ruptures we all would be vomiting. I reply that it would be karmic justice.

I really have no idea what 80% of that dream could possibly mean or what it was derived from. As I said, my dreams are usually geographically consistent within a joint "dream universe" and at least thematically consistent within each dream (I usually do not have a multi-part dream where it connects multiple themes and localities without any reason, it is usually just a single place or me travelling in a single mode of transportation across the place, with a single cast of people).

Does anybody know what was going on there? I do not have a fever and my fever dreams and nightmares have a very different theme and overtones. Thank you for reading this.

Alright, so... I usually dream only of simple or explainable things, even if these are allegories, and almost never have issues finding where the motives in the dream come from or what my subconscious is doing, but I am trully dumbfounded by this one.

I will try keeping the structure legible by marking constituent parts separately with bold headers and marking my notes that are real world facts in italics.

Some context: I am a 22 year old single male living in Central Europe who just successfully managed to finish my bachelor's degree with honors and was stressing a lot about it, but it has been a week since then and I have calmed down a lot. Apologies if my writing is confused because English is not my native language.

First part (yeah I have no idea what is going on there):

I am sitting on a train stop waiting for a tram with my close friends trying to get to university. It is raining and I am feeling cold. When the tram arrives, it looks odd (my town uses a single-digit line numbers for its trams, but this one was numbered 22, a fact that I found odd even in the dream), but we enter it regardless. It continues on its way only for about half the way and then it abruptly continues on a sidetrack into a nearby office building where it stops (we really do not have train tracks that enter lobbies of office buildings in my home town).

We take shelter in the lobby until the rain subsides a bit and then wait out a correct tram. We triple check if it is the right one. On the rest of the way to university, we are discussing what is going on until my friend realizes that he read on the internet that a different town has started operating parallel public transport services in our town (that other town does have public transport, but it is just a few bus lines without and is substantially smaller than the public transport service in my town, which also includes trolleybuses and trams). We can validate this news by seeing that these suspicious new trams have a new public transport logo on their front.

I just note that I hate those transitional period where there is chaos before thing settle down and the tram stops one station short because there was a car crash on the tracks and I am forced to walk the rest of the way (for the entire duration of the dream from now on, it is a war spring afternoon with no evidence that there was ever any rain).

Second part (the one I can understand and explain away):

I continue walking into the University in which I did my bachelor's degree and finding out that my card has been disabled. I have to go upstairs by foot (this has happened some time ago when a system crash caused the elevators to disable, so it is probably a memory flashback) to the 6th floor (where my usual classes are) by foot instead of using the elevator and knocking on the entrance door to my department until somebody lets me in. I have not seen that person or his friends ever in my life (other people coming up in the dream I know really well as either my close friends or classmates), and they scold me that I forgot my security card, to which I show them that my card has been disabled and they do a non-apology ("how was I supposed to know").

I meet my only classmate (in my studies, only me and her survived the bachelor's programme, she is real) and we share a couple of friendly greetings and start discussing about something non important (I can't remember what, so I assume it was a chit-chat). Our eyes lock and we go in for a kiss (very out of character for me, I am not attracted to her and I assume is not either). Before our lips lock, we hear a news report from one of the professor's offices that a pack of white tigers has escaped from local zoo and that the authorities urge people to shelter indoors and return home so the tigers can be captured safely (there is a zoo in my hometown, but it does not have white tigers, nor do I have a particular personal connection to it). Then, we decide to leave university and head out.

Before we head out, I quickly run to the toilet and try to urinate, but I am unable to because I really want to catch up with my classmate since I do not want to travel home alone given the tigers (me not being able to pee due to outside circumstances has never been a theme in my dreams but it is in this one).

Third part (where it starts getting weird and I start losing functioning metaphors):

I walk down to the fifth floor where I realize that I have forgotten my bag in the department's lounge in the sixth floor so I quickly decide to return. Before I do, however, I try using the elevator and it is working again, so I try calling it and using it to go upwards. Before I do, however, I meet a group of young kids who are going from the sixth floor by stairs and continuing downward.

I know them well as a group of kids from my elementary school and I greet one of them (he is in highschool now but in the dream he was aged down). We share a couple of jokes and then I ask him if they are going upwards or downwards and he responds that they have been on the tower on the 19th floor and that they are continuing downwards (the university building has only seven floors and there is no tower anywhere, but I can write that one off since I was always fascinated by high towers).

I just shrug and try calling the elevator, but it does not work, so I walk over to a different one (there is only one elevator in each section of the building, so this is not realistic) and call it. When I enter the elevator and select a sixth floor, instead of closing the doors, a handle rises from the floor of the elevator and quickly retracts to its usual position, locking my neck in the position before I can react, choking me for the entire elevator ride upwards until it releases me on the sixth floor.

I recall that I have not been to the tower for a very long time because once a floor tile cracked under me and it scared the living god out of me. I grab my stuff and head down, avoiding elevators.

Fourth part (where I really lost it):

I head out of the side entrance doors and it is a schoolyard of my elementary school with a motorway bridge in the background ending up on an embarkment (this is particularily weird, my dreams usually offer a geographically twisted version of the real world, but they are consistent with each other to the extent that I am maintaining a map including all the non-existing buildings, rivers, settlements and roads around my home, this entirely breaks down this shared dream universe). There is a small bus marked as "evacuation" to which I head (I assume that it is because of the runaway tigers). I realize that the entire motorway traffic on the bridge is a massive traffic jam and nobody is moving anywhere.

When I enter the bus, I realize that my high school classmates are sitting there already along with my current classmate (so I am stuck at an elementary school yard connected to my university with my high school classmates, I need to stress again that this geographic and contextual anomaly is not anything remotely common in my dreams). We share a couple of chuckles while we are waiting for the bus to depart. Then the driver comes up and gives us a note that it will take some time because of the traffic. I call him by a name of a bus driver I personally know and ask him to let us out and call us back when it is time. He obliges and opens the doors.

In the meantime, one of my high school classmates is trying to share a strawberry milk shake closed in a plastic bottle, but everyone including me is disgusted because it is obvious that it is rotten and urge him to throw it away because it can be really revolting if he opens it. He unwillingly obliges and pulls out a bin and throws the throbbing milkshake into the bin and closes the lid behind it.

Then a second bus pulls up and we are told that those are portable toilets because we could be spending hours here and that the school is obliged to provide us with basic hygiene. I decide to go urinate there, but when I try to, always, there is somebody walking by, disrupting me. Then an alarm in the pee-bus (?) starts ringing and quickly run out while everyone else inside hunkers down. A teacher I know (my former history teacher and one of the most likeable people I have ever met) walks in and says that "smart people hunker down and enemies walk out" (???).

Then I see that a group of antelopes (antelopes are really not native to Central Europe) is running across the schoolyard with everyone inside trying to hunker down behind or inside the two buses. The antelopes are heading up the embarkment, and then the white tigers appear from among the cars, with people desperately trying to hide inside or ram their way through the jam.

I start screaming that everyone outside should quickly hide because the once the tigers run down the embarkment and slaughter all the antelopes, they will likely seek a far more interesting prey down here instead of returning up the steep embarkment. Just as I said that, a group of humvees has arrived and armored police officers (we do not have heavily armored police here, or at least you see them only in TV during dangerous raids and not in real life) quickly shoot or sedate all the tigers who are feasting on the killed herd of antelopes.

The dream ends when I head out to pee by a tree and a friend asks, where did my classmate hide the strawberry milk shake, because a different classmate is kicking the bin in which it has been thrown and if it ruptures we all would be vomiting. I reply that it would be karmic justice.

I really have no idea what 80% of that dream could possibly mean or what it was derived from. As I said, my dreams are usually geographically consistent within a joint "dream universe" and at least thematically consistent within each dream (I usually do not have a multi-part dream where it connects multiple themes and localities without any reason, it is usually just a single place or me travelling in a single mode of transportation across the place, with a single cast of people).

Does anybody know what was going on there? I do not have a fever and my fever dreams and nightmares have a very different theme and overtones. Thank you for reading this.

Hello everyone! I know this post is a bit different than other posts I see here. I am working on a puzzle hunt and I have an idea for a puzzle which has a mathematical basis, but I need help with creating the relations between the variables.

So: let's say I have variables:

• A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, ... , L=12
• a=?, b=?, c=?, d=?, ... , l=?

I need to find a minimal set of conditions that these variables satisfy such that:

• a<A, b<B, c<C, d<D, ... , l<L
• a, b, c, d, ... , l ∈ ℕ₀ (non-negative integers)
• these mathematical relations for each of the capital letters include only its lowercase counterpart, with the exception for {E,G,K} and for {I,J}, which can cross-reference each other.
• These mathematical relations involve only simple addition, multiplication, division and percentage growth (and similar operations, not exponentiation, squaring or tetration).

The idea of a puzzle is that the people solving it get a minimum amount of information about the changes between the two states and minimum amount of information about the first state (i.e. the lowercase letters), from which they deduce that uppercase letters would have values 1 to 12 and then through logical deduction figure out which letter corresponds to which integer from the range.

The exact values of lowercase variables do not matter as long as they fit the constraints highlighted above.

This puzzle is meant to be a mathematical puzzle with the minimum amount of information necessary for deduction provided with ideally no redundancy. I have tried creating it myself, but every time I try, I either end up with a system which is bloated and doesn't have an elegant formulation of the problem, or it contradicts itself.

I struggle with figuring out which conditions I can safely remove because they can be deduced from the realization that the resulting integers are 1 to 12 without making the puzzle unsolvable. I ideally want the skeleton of the problem outlined so it can be deduced from as few bits of information as possible.

Thank you for reading. English is not my first language so if you have some questions or you misunderstood something, feel free to ask me.

Hello everyone! I know this post is a bit different than other posts I see here. I am working on a puzzle hunt and I have an idea for a puzzle which has a mathematical basis, but I need help with creating the relations between the variables.

So: let's say I have variables:

• A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, ... , L=12
• a=?, b=?, c=?, d=?, ... , l=?

I need to find a minimal set of conditions that these variables satisfy such that:

• a<A, b<B, c<C, d<D, ... , l<L
• a, b, c, d, ... , l ∈ ℕ₀ (non-negative integers)
• these mathematical relations for each of the capital letters include only its lowercase counterpart, with the exception for {E,G,K} and for {I,J}, which can cross-reference each other.
• These mathematical relations involve only simple addition, multiplication, division and percentage growth (and similar operations, not exponentiation, squaring or tetration).

The idea of a puzzle is that the people solving it get a minimum amount of information about the changes between the two states and minimum amount of information about the first state (i.e. the lowercase letters), from which they deduce that uppercase letters would have values 1 to 12 and then through logical deduction figure out which letter corresponds to which integer from the range.

The exact values of lowercase variables do not matter as long as they fit the constraints highlighted above.

This puzzle is meant to be a mathematical puzzle with the minimum amount of information necessary for deduction provided with ideally no redundancy. I have tried creating it myself, but every time I try, I either end up with a system which is bloated and doesn't have an elegant formulation of the problem, or it contradicts itself.

I struggle with figuring out which conditions I can safely remove because they can be deduced from the realization that the resulting integers are 1 to 12 without making the puzzle unsolvable. I ideally want the skeleton of the problem outlined so it can be deduced from as few bits of information as possible.

Thank you for reading. English is not my first language so if you have some questions or you misunderstood something, feel free to ask me.