I've come across a few popular, useful questions on Stack Overflow that have been closed as off-topic, which have duplicates on other sites. For examples, Stack  Overflow question  is closed, with a banner that suggests seeking help on Server Fault:     "Questions on professional server, networking, or related infrastructure administration are off-topic for Stack Overflow unless they directly involve programming or programming tools. You may be able to get help on Server Fault." – Duncan, Brian Clozel, Trinimon, Bhavik Ambani, AlSki   But there's already an open duplicate on another Stack Exchange site where the question is on-topic, .  It would be nice if, rather than just closing the Stack&nbsp;Overflow question, somebody - even if the power was only available to moderators - could also mark it as a duplicate of the question on . (The text of the duplicate banner might need to be slightly different from normal.)
Some questions might be asked on three different sites, each site needing three different answers. For example, a question about a text editor.  So perhaps there should be a way to link the questions on the three different sites. Adding a link manually in the questions is certainly possible, but perhaps a feature officially supporting this will be beneficial.
Flag indicator present on Meta, but no flags visible It looks as if the 10k-tools flagged post list is b0rken.  Next to the review link in the toolbar there is a flag counter showing there are 10 flags to be reviewed:    Clicking on that flag counter leads to an empty page:        The moment I visit that page (through clicking on the flags counter, or by going to the review queue first then clicking on Tools, selecting the flags tab if not already selected), the flags counter disappears from the toolbar:    but after a while (half an hour, an hour?) the flag count re-appears in the toolbar.  Either the counter is wrong (presumably taken from a Redis cache somewhere) or the 10k flag review page is falling over every time someone tries to load it.  This at first appeared to happen only on Meta, on Stack Overflow the flags page has plenty to review. However, there are now  on Stack Overflow. Dark Mode for Stack Exchange sites Each Stack Exchange site should provide users the option of using a dark mode design/theme.  Why is this feature missing?  The major IDEs are already a letdown regarding dark color schemes. Are there rules for falling in water vs. diving vs. just jumping in for various depths of water? Surface integral of a scalar over a unit cube. Evaluate the following integral $$\iint_S (x+y+z) \, dS$$  where $S$ is the surface of the cube $[0,1] \times [0,1] \times [0,1]$  Honestly, I don't know what to do. All I know is that you have to evaluate the integral for each of the 6 surfaces of the cube. The normals for them I can do and the equations of the planes, but other than that I couldn't do much.  Can someone break it down for me, please?  PS: No divergence theorem yet for me. reformat date to have month in words Currently my text file looks like this..  David   Webb    Box 34 Rural Route 2    Nixa    MO  65714   (417)555-1478   555-66-7788 09-13-1970 Martha  Kent    1122 North Hwy 5    Smallville  KS  66789   (785)555-2322   343-55-8845 04-17-1965 Edward  Nygma   443 W. Broadway Gotham City NJ  12458   (212)743-3537   785-48-5524 08-08-1987 O'Reilly    Baba    123 Torch Ln    Joplin  MO  64801   (417)222-1234   456-65-3211 12-13-1999 Martin Bob  44 Boss Rd  Joplin  MO  64801   (417)888-4565   456-98-1111 01-01-2007   the dates are in the 9th field and I want to display them as January 7, 2017 instead of 01-07-2017 for example.  How should I do that? If using options please explain what they do briefly. Doing this in bash. Needing to put it in a script and output to a new file to preserve original. Javascript Date: next month I've been using Javascript's Date for a project, but noticed today that my code that previously worked is no longer working correctly. Instead of producing Feb as expected, the code below produces March.   My code looks something like this:   current = new Date(); current.setMonth(current.getMonth()+1); //If today is Jan, expect it to be Feb now   This code worked everyday up until today. Is this a Javascript bug or am I going about this the wrong way? Mark a comment as the answer to a question I have a question and have seen others to which the best and most relevant answer (at least the one that solved my particular problem) is placed in the comments to the question as opposed to the answers:   I would like to recognize the commenter as the person who correctly answered the question, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that. The only thing I could think of was to ask the commenter to repost his comment as an answer, but I cannot figure out a way to contact him. In the meantime the question is sitting unanswered and I am getting other "answers" (leading me to believe that people are not reading the comments and answers already posted before trying to answer it themselves).  How are we supposed to do this?  Note: I don't want to accept the comment as an answer (I agree completely with the answers to this question that comments are comments and answers are answers and they should stay that way). I do wonder if there should be some way to contact people in a reasonable manner (comments on their profile that they must opt in to receiving in email?). Are split infinitives grammatically incorrect, or are they valid constructs? How to layout irregular paragraph shape I have found this in the cover of seminar(one tool to make slide) document.  The final result I have captured below:    The complete document can download .  I wonder how to make this. Is there any easy way? Excel function that evaluates a string as if it were a formula? Suppose I have a text string like "11+5" or even "=11+5" stored in a cell. Is there a function in Excel that will allow me to actually evaluate that string as if it were a formula?  This would be helpful for another project where I would like to be able to write 'dynamic' formulas in Excel. On freedom in Sartre's existentialism I am reading "Existenstialism is a humanism", the text of the famous conference by Sartre in which he explains his own version of existentialism. I think is full of logical inconsistencies, but maybe it's just because I don't understand it or I don't know enough about existentialism. Anyway, my question is about a specific passage. After having "demonstrated" that there is no way one can derive an ethics outside of Man (God does not exist and reason is insufficient), he asks himself according to what principle a person should behave and he says:     "For I declare that freedom, in respect of concrete circumstances, can   have no other end and aim but itself; and when once a man has seen   that values depend upon himself, in that state of forsakenness he can   will only one thing, and that is freedom as the foundation of all   values. That does not mean that he wills it in the abstract: it simply   means that the actions of men of good faith have, as their ultimate   significance, the quest of freedom itself as such."   So it seems Sartre says that when deciding a course of action, people will always choose "freedom," (and also, elsewhere, that "freedom" is always a good thing). That is for him the only principle, the only moral that governs or should (because we can do wrong judgments about what is freedom) govern our action.  My questions are:  1) do I understand correctly Sartre's thinking?  2) He says: a) freedom is absolute; b) the values that man chooses are also absolute because no God or reason can tell him what to do, c) therefore man will choose freedom. Is there any logic in this statement? If I replace freedom with X where X is "pleasure" or "justice" or "pain" or "zero temperature", wouldn't I "demonstrate" by this logic that man will choose X?  3) assuming what I said makes any sense, how can existentialism ever find a rule of moral conduct? and if it does, what is it and how can be demonstrated? and if it cannot, why is or has been important at all as a philosophy?  Thanks! Product of invertibles in $\Bbb Z_n$ [Wilson's Theorem generalization] How can we compute the product of all invertibles in $\Bbb Z_n$?  In the special case $n=p$ where $p$ is a prime it is Wilson's theorem. By pairing inverses it reduces to computing the product of all $a$ such that $a^2\equiv 1\pmod{n}.\,$  How can we do that? Showing that $|f(z)| \leq \prod \limits_{k=1}^n \left|\frac{z-z_k}{1-\overline{z_k}z} \right|$ Incorrectly answered 'No' to "Any previous visa refusals..." on a UK Standard Visitor visa application. How can I fix my mistake? I'm from Lebanon and I've been working in Saudi Arabia for nine years. In 2012, I put the money that I collected from my job as a teacher in my father's Lebanese account since I didn't have one in Lebanon. During the interview, my interviewer told me that my application will be rejected because I don't have proof that this money is mine and clearance officer will think someone else gave me the money. I didn't know that I had to bring with me from Saudi Arabia an employment letter and bank statements to prove that this money is mine and I earned it by working in Saudi Arabia. Anyways, my visa did get refused as my interviewer had told me it would be.    Last May, I was granted a US visitor visa Multi Entry for 5 years. I wanted to visit the US in August for 10 days but my mom entered the hospital so I had to postpone it. Now I'm applying for a teacher training program in the UK. I received an invitation letter from Brighton University and so I applied for a UK Standard Visitor visa. After I paid and printed the application, I realized that I answered the question Any previous visa rejections ... with "NO" and I don't know how should I fix this.  Please note that I still didn't give my biometrics, I still didn't use my US visa which I received on May 2016, I paid for my application so I can't amend it online. I'm supposed to give my biometrics and submit my documents this Monday.  If I don't say anything will they check it and refuse me?    Will my US visa be an advantage and they will disregard the previous rejection or should I correct it when I submit my documents this Monday? Can't install MySQL on Mountain Lion Strictly diagonally dominant matrices are non singular What does 'close invalidated' mean Recently I flagged  as a duplicate. A few days later, when I checked it again to see if it was closed, I realized it wasn't.    Searching in Meta brought me to , where a comment suggested checking the timeline. So I checked the  and saw that the close flag was set as invalidated.  Does this mean that it was disputed? When I click on it I see only "This item is no longer reviewable." Do I need more reputation (3000+ ?) to view more detailed information? Is logical implication always determinable from just the given statements? I am reading introductory texts on logic and am having a hard time understanding intuitively logical implication.  Specifically, I am wondering if logical implication can always be determined by two statements, P and Q alone? I'll try to give an example to clarify my question.  For example if the statement P is $x = 2$, and the statement Q is $x^2 &lt; 6$, then determining the truth of P $\Rightarrow$ Q is fairly straightforward:   If $x$ does equal 2, then $4&lt;6$ and Q is true, so $P \Rightarrow Q$ is true. And if $x$ does not equal 2, $P \Rightarrow Q$ is vacuously true.  In this example, with two statements P and Q, I can evaluate the truth/falsity of the statement P implies Q. However, what if the statement Q is changed such that it is now the statement $y = 5$?  So now I am trying to prove from that $$x = 2 \Rightarrow y = 5$$  Here is where things get murky for me. Say $x$ is not equal to 2, then $P \Rightarrow Q$ is vacuously true. But what about when $x$ does equal 2, now the statement Q could be true, but it could also be false, depending on some 'context'.   For example, if I said at the start: "Here are two statements, P and Q. Know that x = 2 and y = 4." Given this 'context', $P \Rightarrow Q$ is false. But if I say "Here are two statements, P and Q. Know that x = 2 and y = 5", then now $P \Rightarrow Q$ is true.  My discomfort here is that I assumed with two statements P and Q, I can determine the truth/falsity of $P \Rightarrow Q$ with just this information. Is this the wrong assumption?  As a secondary question, how can the truthfulness of the statement $P \Rightarrow Q$ be variable, depending on context? I have read on some other questions that implication can be interpreted as a promise. So how could it be that depending on some context the promise is sometimes true but sometimes false? Wouldn't this actually mean the promise is not always consistent and is therefore always false?  Some further information in case it is relevant, I recognise that in the first example, the statement Q is 'dependent' in some way on the statement P, since the object under examination in both statements is $x$, whereas in the second example there are two different objects which I am trying to make a logical connection between, which I am thinking may not be valid for some reason. I also recognise that there is still 'context' in the first example, in that we need information on whether $x$ is equal to 2 or not, however in that case it doesn't matter, since $P \Rightarrow Q$ is always true anyway.  Thanks very much in advance. Crash course on algebraic geometry with view to applications in physics Could you please recommend any good texts on algebraic geometry (just over the complex numbers rather than arbitrary fields) and on complex geometry including Kahler manifolds that could serve as an informal introduction to the subject for a theoretical physicist (having in mind the applications in physics, e.g. in the string theory)?   What I want for a moment is to get some informal picture of the subject rather than being dug up into the gory details of the proofs and lost in higher and higher layers of abstraction of commutative algebra and category theory. The texts I have found so far are all rather dry and almost completely lack this informal streak, and all of them are geared towards pure mathematicians, so if there exists something like "Algebraic geometry for physicists" and "Kahler manifolds for physicists" (of course, they would probably have different titles :)), I would greatly appreciate the relevant references. In bash, how do I escape an exclamation mark? I want to do something like bzr commit -m "It works!". I can sort of escape the exclamation mark by doing bzr commit -m "It works\!". However, then my commit message includes the backslash. How do I escape the exclamation mark, while still ignoring the backslash?