If you try to delete an answered question, the site asks if you are sure about it. However, even if you click yes, it will just tell you that you can't delete it because it's an answered question. Why is there a prompt in the first place if it can't be deleted anyway?
So I tried deleting a question, my question. I'm not a mod, but I have reputation above 10k. I received this message after hitting delete, asking me to make sure I wanted to:    But after clicking Delete Question, I saw this:    It turns out that because the question has answers, I'm prohibited from deleting it. If I can't actually delete this question at all, could it just tell me immediately, and only show me the warning if I can actually delete it?  This is akin to the following analogy.     You see a flyer in your local paper stating there's a new burger shop   opening.  Great, you think to yourself, and rush over to get yourself   some burgers.  On your way into the parking lot, you see a huge banner   proclaiming one of their newest burgers. You see some employees walk   in and out of the restaurant, with T-Shirt with pictures of burgers on   them.  Great, you think to yourself, and walk in.   You get in line,   and after what seems like ages, you finally make it to the front.  You   look up at the menu.  You see that they also sell sandwiches. No, you   tell yourself, I'm looking for burgers.  You see that they also sell   burritos! No, you tell yourself, I'm looking for burgers.  Then you   see that they sell burgers. Great! You pick out a burger, then tell   the employee at the register, "Sir, I'd like to get a regular burger   please." Immediately, the employee looks up, with a quizzical look on   his face, saying "Sir? We don't sell burgers here.".   It's the same situation. I've come to that prompt so that I can delete a question.  After repeated messages and windows letting me know the consequences of deleting, what will happen after I have it deleted, I am told that the option of having it deleted by my own hand never existed in the first place.
Creating surface from points in ArcGIS for Desktop? how to create surface from points in ArcGis? I have a points (centroids of the neighbourhood and number of people living in every neighbourhood) and i would like to create surface that would present density of population. Get the real width and height of an image with JavaScript? (in Safari/Chrome) Why would I need a firewall if my server is well configured? Block error on CMI I have two identical sites on Drupal 8 (A and B), on (A) I created a custom block(block/add), and then I export the configuration(drush config-export) and import this config on (B) (drush config-import), no error, but on the site (B) the block that I imported said on any region that I put "This block is broken or missing. You may be missing content or you might need to enable the original module." And I cant edit the content of this block. How I can fix that?  Site A:    Site B: How to pass parameters to function in a bash script? I'd like to write a function that I can call from a script with many different variables. For some reasons I'm having a lot of trouble doing this. Examples I've read always just use a global variable but that wouldn't make my code much more readable as far as I can see.  Intended usage example:  #!/bin/bash #myscript.sh var1=$1 var2=$2 var3=$3 var4=$4  add(){ result=$para1 + $para2 }  add $var1 $var2 add $var3 $var4 # end of the script  ./myscript.sh 1 2 3 4   I tried using $1 and such in the function, but then it just takes the global one the whole script was called from. Basically what I'm looking for is something like $1, $2 and so on but in the local context of a function. Like you know, functions work in any proper language. I'm trying to install Windows 8 on my pc via Microsoft Virtual PC.  However I get this annoying, non-descriptive error:    I'm looking to find out if Microsoft Virtual PC supports Windows 8, and if so how do I solve this issue?  NOTE: I'm NOT trying to ask for alternatives to Virtual PC, but rather trying to figure out if it's possible, and if so how, to use Virtual PC. What do (lambda) function closures capture? How do I create a vertical version of \not? How are answers with the same vote score sorted? When a new question is asked how are the answers sorted?  I just answered a question and there were two other answers.  All three answers have 0 votes and no edits.  Immediately after I answered my answer appeared first.  Now the order refreshed,  it appears they are sorted by reputation. Prove inequality using Schwarz's Lemma I'm reading the proof of the multiplicative property of $$s_k(n)=\sum_{d|(n,k)}f(d)g\bigg( \frac kd\bigg)$$ The book wrote that in order to understand the proof, we need to know if $a,b,k,m$ are integers such that $(a,k)=(b,m)=1$, then $$(ab,km)=(a,m)(b,k).$$  I have written proof, but I don't know is it consistent, and this seems used more tools than it necessarily has to.   My proof: Let $$S_1=\{d: d|(a,m), d&gt;0\}\\S_2=\{d: d|(b,k), d&gt;0\}\\S=\{d:d|(ab,km), d&gt;0\}.$$ I will prove the statement by showing that the function $\phi:S_1\times S_2\to S$ defined as $$\phi(d_1,d_2)=d_1d_2$$ is bijective, and complete the proof by connecting the maximal elements from these partial ordering sets.  Obviously, for $d_1\in S_1, d_2\in S_2$, this tells us $d_1 $ is both divisor of $a$ and $m$, and $d_2$ is both divisor of $b$ and $k$, hence $d_1d_2$ is both divisor of $ab$ and $km$, so we can tell $\phi(S_1\times S_2)\subseteq S$.  To show one-to-one, if we have $c_1,d_1\in S_1$ and $c_2,d_2\in S_2$ such that $$\phi(c_1,c_2)=\phi(d_1,d_2)$$ then $$c_1c_2=d_1d_2$$  In particular, $c_1|d_1d_2$, we need to show $c_1|d_1$. Indeed, if $(c_1,d_2)&gt;1$, this implies $a,k$ have common factor larger than $1$, contradicts the assumption. Therefore $c_1|d_1$. A similar argument implies $d_1|c_1$, therefore $c_1=d_1$. Again a similar argument implies $c_2=d_2$, which shows one-to-one.   To show onto, let $d\in S$, since $d|ab$, we can split $d$ into $d_1d_2$ such that $d_1|a$ and $d_2|b$. Since $(a,k)=1$, we see $(d_1,k)=1$, by property of $S$ we see also $d_1|m$, therefore $d_1\in S_1$, a similar argument implies $d_2\in S_2$. So every number in $S$ has a preimage in $S_1\times S_2$  This completes the proof. Is there any mistake in the proof?     Edit: A proof about the statement: If $d|ab$ then there are $d_1,d_2$ such that $d=d_1d_2$ and $d_1|a, d_2|b$.  Let $ab=p_1^{e_1}\cdots p_r^{e_r}$ for distinct prime factors $p_1,\cdots,p_r$, then we can write $$a=p_1^{x_1}\cdots p_r^{x_r}\\b=p_1^{y_1}\cdots p_r^{y_r}$$ where some of $x_i, y_i$ can be zero, and $x_i+y_i=e_i$ for all $i=1,\cdots,r$.  Since $d|ab$, we can write $$d=p_1^{f_1}\cdots p_r^{f_r}$$ with $f_i\leq e_i$ for all $i=1,\cdots,r$. Then since $$f_i\leq x_i+y_i$$ Split into two cases:   Case 1: $f_i&gt; x_i$, then we can choose $g_i=x_i$ and $h_i=f_i-x_i$.  Case 2: $f_i\leq x_i$, then we can choose $g_i=f_i$ and $h_i=0$.  Then the choice $$d_1=\prod_{i=1}^r p_i^{g_i}, \quad d_2=\prod_{i=1}^r p_i^{h_i}$$ will prove the statement. How to make the simple three square box and connect them? I want to make the three square box and simply connect them. I have read that watchdog timer pushes microprocessor/controller into reset state whenever it experiences any software anomaly like executing in infinite loop. and after some time a very senior prof told us that after reset the processor resumes operation from the next instruction to the erroneous one.  when watchdog timer resets the processor, from where does the processor start its next execution?  I just wanted to know what is correct or if some other concept is employed? I have been invited to write a book chapter in an edited volume, relating to my field of work. I have a paper ready that I have not published and was planning to submit it soon. So, I am wondering is it worth to use that article for the book chapter, as both are on the same topic, or is it in a sense a waste of a journal paper, as book chapters might not be seen to have the same academic value? What should I do? Should I, instead, send the ready paper to a journal for a review and write a book chapter, based on a couple papers I have published, for instance?  Generally speaking, where does a book chapter stand? Is it something between a conference paper and a full-fledged journal article? Or, does does it have the same value as either of the above-mentioned publication types, in your opinion? In Python, you can do this:  import webbrowser webbrowser.open_new("http://example.com/")   It will open the passed in url in the default browser  Is there a ruby equivalent? I am trying to automate these steps so that I don't need to do this on every machines manually. I need to install latest app server software (abc.tar.gz) on all the unix boxes.  I need to do this in around 12 machines - "machine1" ... "machine12". I have a master machine "machine0" which has abc.tar.gz file so I was thinking to run my script from this machine only and install abc.tar.gz software by following below steps in all those 12 machines one by one. My unix account id is david and my process runs as golden user.  This is the steps I follow if I am installing abc.tar.gz in "machine1":  david@machine1:~$ sudo scp david@machine0:/home/david/abc.tar.gz . david@machine1:~$ sudo stop test_server david@machine1:~$ sudo su - golden golden@machine1:~$ cd /opt/process golden@machine1:/opt/process$ rm -rf * golden@machine1:/opt/process$ exit david@machine1:~$ sudo cp abc.tar.gz /opt/process david@machine1:~$ sudo chown -R golden /opt/process david@machine1:~$ sudo su - golden golden@machine1:~$ cd /opt/process golden@machine1:/opt/process$ tar -xvzf abc.tar.gz golden@machine1:/opt/process$ exit david@machine1:~$ sudo start test_server   How can I automate this so that it can do the same steps in all 12 machines one bye one? I mean install abc.tar.gz in machine1 first, then install on machine2 and go on..  I want to run this script from machine0 only.  Is there any way to automate this? How should duplicate questions be handled? What should I do when I see a question that is a duplicate of another one?   Should I answer it? Should I downvote it? Should I comment? Should I edit the question to indicate it's a duplicate? If I can, should I (vote to) close the question? What happens when I vote to close as duplicate? Or: Why did a comment with my name on it just appear? Should I flag it for moderator attention? What about similar or related questions? Is it possible to extend a tourist Schengen visa (12 more days)? My daughter applied at the Italian Consulate in Philadelphia, and they gave her two entries for 20 days (we thought it was for 20 days each entry). She was in Italy 12 days, then went to England for 1 week and flew to Venice to take a 10-day cruise. She couldn't make it because they said she has only 8 remaining days, but she still has a land tour already paid this week.  What can she do? Can she extend the Schengen visa for 12 more days? Right now, she is in Madrid, but next week she has to fly from Barcelona to Paris to start with the tour. What would happen if she decides to take the tour with the expired visa? She is a US permanent resident. Expected Value of a Hypergeometric Random Variable Least upper bound not an element in the cut In his proof "Any bounded nonempty subset $\mathbb{R}$ has a least upper bound in $\mathbb{R}$", Enderton showed that the least upper bound is just $\bigcup A$. Since by definition $x\subseteq \bigcup A\quad \&amp; \quad x\in A$ . In the case $x=\bigcup A\quad \&amp; \quad x\in A$, $x$ becomes the largest element in $A$, but this cannot be true since the Dedekind Cut is a subset of $\mathbb{Q}$ that must have no largest element. How do you explain that?