This is the motivation "Questions asking us to find or recommend an app, device, ROM, accessory or off-site resource are off-topic as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam and become obsolete quickly."  Why are "opinionated answers" a problem? If I ask for a recommendation and five people argue for their favourite solution pointing out advantages with their tool and disadvantages with other tools that's very useful information for me before a decision. If you buy something expensive or important in the real world you usually visit several providers and ask them to argue for their product/against competing products to get a good idea of the market before you make a decision.  And this site is not a safe space for people who can't handle an argument. If you don't like what people are discussing, shut down your computer and watch some Disney channel.  Finally, do you have any source for the claim that these answers become "obsolete quickly"? And what is quickly? If you ask questions about Javascript frameworks or web browser capacity/compatibility I am pretty sure these answers too become obsolete quite "quickly". Are we not allowed to ask that types of questions?  Grow up, ignore threads you don't care about but let other people who care discuss if they like. The live and let live-principle (Yes, I am aware that this principle is no longer practised on American and British universities but that is not a good reason to stop practising it in the rest of the world).
I have a list of requirements for a program, but I don't know what program meets these criteria. That's about general-purpose software, for example, not a programming IDE or statistical workbench, questions about which would certainly go to respective sites.  Is this question appropriate on Stack Overflow? Where should I ask about it? On Super User or elsewhere?
How to adjust the size and placement of chapter heading in report class How could I adjust the size and placement of chapter heading in my custom class? I am using report class as my base. When I used titlesec package inside my custom class, it threw error     ! Package titlesec Error: Not allowed in `easy'   settings. I have a professor at my university who uses content from an un-cited textbook that he has never referenced anywhere, including his green sheet (syllabus), as an additional resource. At least some slides he has used include parts of content that have been re-worded and others that are 100% the same. I noticed this by Googling for textbooks on the material we're studying in class and found that examples given in one that I found were exactly the same as what he has provided.  Would this technically be plagiarism? Should he be given the benefit of the doubt in this situation? Online calculators such as  (view page source) use the below formulas to get meters per degree. I understand in general how distance per degree varies depending on latitude location, but I do not understand how that translates to the below. More specifically, where do the constants, the 3 "cos" terms in each formula, and coefficients (2, 4, 6; 3, and 5) for "lat" come from?      // Set up "Constants"     m1 = 111132.92;     // latitude calculation term 1     m2 = -559.82;       // latitude calculation term 2     m3 = 1.175;         // latitude calculation term 3     m4 = -0.0023;       // latitude calculation term 4     p1 = 111412.84;     // longitude calculation term 1     p2 = -93.5;         // longitude calculation term 2     p3 = 0.118;         // longitude calculation term 3      // Calculate the length of a degree of latitude and longitude in meters     latlen = m1 + (m2 * Math.cos(2 * lat)) + (m3 * Math.cos(4 * lat)) +             (m4 * Math.cos(6 * lat));     longlen = (p1 * Math.cos(lat)) + (p2 * Math.cos(3 * lat)) +                 (p3 * Math.cos(5 * lat)); Related (but not the same):         Earlier today I asked a question about aligning equations in an enumerate environment and got an answer that seemed to work for the example I gave, but it turns out I wasn't really specific enough for my problem.  I'm using align* environments, often as the only part of a list item. (If you're wondering why I'm not using more words to introduce the align*, these are mostly homework solutions where most of the work is algebra, etc.)  Here's my code and what it makes (above the middle line):  \begin{enumerate}   \item \begin{align*}     x^2 + y^2 &amp;= x^2 + (iy)^2 \\               &amp;= (x + iy) (x - iy)   \end{align*}   \item \begin{align*}     \frac{1}{n^2-4} &amp;= \frac14 \frac{4}{(n-2)(n+2)} \\                     &amp;= \frac14 \left( \frac{1}{n-2}-\frac{1}{n+2} \right)   \end{align*} \end{enumerate}     I'm trying to make the baseline of the first line of the align* environment the same as the number's baseline—I want the first line of the align* to have the same vertical position (centered horizontally in the same way) relative to its number as in the second half of my picture. (Side question: why is there so much space before the align* starts?) Screen resolution stuck at 1024x768 libsensors5 or libsensors-config upgrade problem How to draw Brownian motions in tikz/pgf This should be a fairly trivial problem. I'm trying to open an ofstream using a std::string (or std::wstring) and having problems getting this to work without a messy conversion.  std::string path = ".../file.txt";  ofstream output;  output.open(path);   Ideally I don't want to have to convert this by hand or involve c-style char pointers if there's a nicer way of doing this? What is truecm? In examples found around the web, some people specify lengths such as width=5truecm with \includegraphics or the geometry package. How is this different from regular 5cm? Verify $\int\sec x\ dx=\frac12 \ln \left\lvert\frac{1+\sin x}{1-\sin x}\right\rvert + C$ I am trying to install Packet Tracer 7.3 (latest version) on Ubuntu 20.04 but do not succeed to so so because of two dependencies which are not installable ("libdouble-conversion1" and "qt-at-spi").  However I successfully installed the previous version (7.2.2) which was available in an Ubuntu installer format (.run file) but I nothing happens when I run it from my gnome desktop.  I am quite a newbie in Linux so I appologies if answers are obvious...  Thanks in advance ;-)  Denis There has been some discussion about getting notified on comments to questions or answers that don't belong to you, and the long-standing wish to be able to keep track of new answers or developments in questions asked by other people.  Previous discussion in regards to subscribing to questions:                  (very similar to this one)      In regards to subscribing to comments:                    The general feeling - at least here on meta - seems to be against broadening the notification rules, out of fears of useless notifications to flood users' inboxes, turning SO into more of a discussion forum than it should be, etc.   Here's a suggestion that would keep the user 100% in control what they get notified about, not generate any notifications by default, and require only minimal modifications to the User Interface.  Each question and each comment area would get an envelope symbol.    it is inactive (=white) by default.  When those envelopes are hovered over, the tooltip says click to subscribe or something.  When clicked on, the envelope lights up in green or some other colour (but different from the actual notification envelope's orange to avoid confusion.) You are then subscribed to any updates to that question or comment thread.    For each subscription, you receive notifications in the "responses" tab, as if you were the owner of the comment or question.     To unsubscribe from a question or comment thread, you open the page, and click the green envelope. It turns back white, and the notifications disappear from your responses tab (if technically possible - otherwise, there just won't be any new ones added.)    No further functionality, like managing subscriptions or anything, is necessary IMO. If the flood of notifications from a subscribed question starts to annoy you, you just open it and unclick the envelope. Done.   It would make it possible to leave a comment to a newbie's question and make sure their answer reaches you even if they don't know they need to address you using @username You could subscribe to those "oh, I'd like to know the answer to that" questions and receive active notification, instead of them getting forgotten in your favourites list You could subscribe to discussions you are interested in the outcome of, but don't want to participate in. It would (in my opinion) sort out a number of woes aired by many users in a good way, without adding annoyances to those who like the system just fine the way it is. It would not require a change in the visible layout. As far as I can see, the space the envelope would need to be is empty everywhere.   I don't know SO under the hood of course, but technically, the system would be doing what it's doing already, notify question owners of updates - just that the circle of internal "owners" would grow. What does standard deviation tell us in non-normal distribution In a normal distribution, the  imparts standard deviation a lot of meaning, but what would standard deviation mean in a non-normal distribution (multimodal or skewed)? Would all data values still fall within 3 standard deviations? Do we have rules like the 68-95-99.7 one for non-normal distributions? Inverse of $y = x^3 + x $? Can you help me find the inverse function for $y = x^3 + x$?  This question was posed at the beginning of AP Calculus, so we can't use any math beyond precalc.  Thanks! Can I live in the UK for a long time through repeat visits? I had recently entered the UK without a visa to be with my partner, from 21 July 2016 until 16 December 2016. I hope to return on the 9th of January. We don't meet the income requirement for a Spouse visa. I recently applied to university, and got in, and was intending to return to the UK on a student visa, but my university did not tell me about maintenance fees and my loan wasn't large enough to cover it all, so my visa would have been denied.  Now, I am hoping to attend university in the next semester, and therefore return to the US to apply for that visa. Do you think that if I try to return to the UK without a visa, I will be turned away?  I won't be working or studying during this time, however, I'm afraid that they'll consider it living in the UK illegally; I don't have a criminal record or anything like that. Hosting multiple distinct folders for distinct domains How to fix infinite bash loop (bashrc + bash_profile) when ssh-ing into an ec2 server? I mistakenly have source .bash_profile in the bashrc file and vice versa. Now when I tried to ssh into the machine (ec2), it will stuck at loading bash and get connection closed in a second. Is there a way I could fix it? Could I mount the disk to another ec2 instance to fix the bash files?  Update 1: I tried the following: %  ssh -i &quot;my-pem.pem&quot; -t ubuntu@&lt;server_address&gt;.amazonaws.com &quot;/bin/bash --noprofile --norc&quot; Connection to &lt;server_address&gt;.amazonaws.com closed.  Nothing else showed up. Do you have any idea on what was going wrong? For sanity check, if I do ssh -i &quot;my-pem.pem&quot;ubuntu@&lt;server_address&gt;.amazonaws.com, the message will be ...  28 packages can be updated. 0 of these updates are security updates. To see these additional updates run: apt list --upgradable  New release '20.04.2 LTS' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.   Last login: Mon Feb 22 23:17:41 2021 from ip Connection to &lt;server_address&gt;.amazonaws.com closed.  Solution Just ssh onto the machine and immediately do Ctrlc and fix the bash files. High CPU usage by "System" and "System interrupts" (caused by ACPI.sys) I have a laptop, which was running Windows 8.1 x64 without any problems. Now with Windows 10 x64 installed, Task Manager constantly shows unusual CPU usage by "System" and "System interrupts". To solve this, I already tried the following, without success:   Disabling and uninstalling all non-essential drivers. Installing newer drivers than the ones that were automagically installed (if available). Disabling/enabling fast boot option. Disabling all of the non-essential services. Sysprep. Resetting BIOS to defaults and various combinations of settings. Flashing BIOS to the latest available version. Clean install from the same media that I use for other PCs. Installing all of the updates offered in Windows Update to this day. Windows Performance Recorder / Analyzer.   I'm not very familiar with Windows Performance Analyzer, so I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction - what exactly should I look for, to figure out which device/driver is the culprit. Or, if there's any other approach to figuring out this problem?  For the brave souls, here's my  and a screenshot of the problem: I'm wondering how to approach duct work, piping, and wiring? In the past, I have used the spin tool to make corners, but I find it very cumbersome. How do you do duct work and piping? I have seen people use curves, but I find it's hard to get straight 90 degree angles or just uniform angling across the whole model. It's also hard connecting piping together if they started from different locations. Here's some reference: What plane type will I need to go transatlantic in Pocket Planes? I'm based in North America and have a bunch of major airports on the Eastern Seaboard.  I'm level 14 and just unlocked the Pearjet, but I still don't have a plane with enough range to make it across the Atlantic.  What's the first plane I'll get that will let me make that crossing?  Or more specifically, what's the range from New York (or Boston) to London (or Lisbon) - the smallest range that'll get me across?