I already have accounts on a bunch of Stack Exchange sites. Mostly when I'm looking at posting on a new SE site, I can see a blue 'Join this Community' button, which gives me a painless "extend my existing account to include this SE" experience.  :+1:  E.g. (stolen from another question):    But on other Stack Exchange sites, I just get regular "Login / SignUp" buttons.  What's the deal here? Is that supposed to happen? Are some SE sites different? If I SignUp with the right credentials, will it all get joined together anyway? What happens if I use some variant of my email-address (e.g. gmail vs googlemail) will I be able to sync the accounts back together after the fact?    For reference, in this particular case it's the Super User SE, but I'm pretty sure I've seen this intermittently elsewhere.
I just visited Ask Ubuntu (askubuntu.com) while logged into Stack Exchange, and noticed that "join this community" doesn't appear:    It is similarly broken on Math Overflow (mathoverflow.net). It works, however, on all sites that are subdomains of stackexchange.com, like Mathematics (math.stackexchange.com) and Academia.  I'm using Google Chrome version 46.0.2490.86 on Windows 8.1 Update 1.  (I don't know if this can actually be fixed, given how cookie security works, but I figured Stack Exchange should be aware of the issue.)
Purpose: Construct a 95% confidence interval for $\theta$.   A common strategy is to construct a confidence interval for $\log(\theta)$ and then exponentiate.  Why is it valid?   My concern is that $E(\log(\theta)) \neq \log(E(\theta))$ and $Var(\log(\theta)) \neq \log(Var(\theta))$...   Do people use this back transformation because it has proven to work fine? What about other transformations (e.g. logit)? What does it mean to accept an answer? How do I accept an answer, and what are the rules? Can I accept my own self-answer? What are the reputation benefits? Which answer should I accept? Should I upvote the accepted answer? What should I do if none of the answers are suitable?      For more information, see "" in the . I would like a way to mark a question in the Unanswered "my tags" page as something I'm not interested in or able to answer The /unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags page gives a list of questions from my favorite tags that are currently considered "unanswered" - they have no up voted or accepted answers. I think it's good to put them in front of me easily, but even though they have one or more tags that I'm interested in, I may not have the knowledge, ability, or interest to write an answer to them. However, they will remain on this page until someone writes an answer.  I would like to be able to dismiss questions from views, like this one, that show me interesting questions. I may choose to share them on my social media to get them views and answers, but I don't want to continually see them. Instead, I want to be able to use views like unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags as a queue of things that could use my attention. I often see tutorials on the web or posts on this site which make heavy use of the following characters at the command line. Often it seems that they are used for pretty similar purposes. What are the differences between them when used on the command line or for shell programming? For what purpose do I use which of them?  " " double quotes  ' ' single quotes  ` ` backticks Problem with the header/ footer width I have recently started using the geometry package to format the margins of my documents. Although, I've noticed that the width of the header/ footer remains the same. How can I correct this?    Here's a MWE:  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage{fancyhdr}     \pagestyle{fancy} \usepackage{blindtext}  \lhead{} \chead{Header} \rhead{} \lfoot{} \cfoot{Footer} \rfoot{\thepage} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{1pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}  \begin{document}  \newgeometry{margin=0.5in, bottom=1in, top=1in} \Blinddocument  \end{document} I can't play Pokemon GO! What's wrong? Reading and searching long man pages Can "real" be used as an adverb to describe an adjective? Should I submit bank statements when applying for a UK Visa? What do they say about me? The UK Visas and Immigration Directorate publishes  that provides helpful tips that can result in successful visa applications. Section 2 of this guidance opens is entitled &quot;other documents you may want to provide&quot; (emphasis mine).  Section 2: other documents you may want to provide – all visitors This section provides guidance on the types of documents that you may want to provide to help us consider your application against the Immigration Rules. Previous travel documents/passports, which show previous travel. Financial documents showing that you have sufficient funds available.  These must clearly show that you have access to the funds, such as:  bank statements building society book proof of earnings such as a letter from employer confirming employment details (start date of employment, salary, role, company contact details) where a third party (who is either in the UK or will be legally in the UK at the time of your visit) is providing financial support to you e.g. a business, a friend or a relative, documents to show that they have sufficient resources to support you in addition to themselves and any dependant family should be provided   The first item is &quot;bank statements&quot; and this ties in with the , which says...  evidence that you can support yourself during your trip, eg bank statements or payslips from the last 6 months  (Note 'eg' is a Latin abbreviation meaning &quot;for example&quot;; this appears to be optional rather than a fixed requirement.) Question: How should someone interpret this such that the chances of success are maximized? How many statements should I submit? What are they looking for and what do my bank statements tell about me? I thought I remembered hearing the food agency  say that you should never reheat chicken meat after the initial cooking. However, I cannot find the statement of it anymore. Now I'm starting to suspect my memory.  Could this statement be true?  Is it unsafe to reheat chicken? Loop-cut won't go all the way around I'm making a Java application with an application-logic-thread and a database-access-thread. Both of them persist for the entire lifetime of the application and both need to be running at the same time (one talks to the server, one talks to the user; when the app is fully started, I need both of them to work).  However, on startup, I need to make sure that initially the app thread waits until the db thread is ready (currently determined by polling a custom method dbthread.isReady()). I wouldn't mind if app thread blocks until the db thread was ready.  Thread.join() doesn't look like a solution - the db thread only exits at app shutdown.  while (!dbthread.isReady()) {} kind of works, but the empty loop consumes a lot of processor cycles.  Any other ideas? Thanks. How to find a program which is preventing sleeping? I am noticing that recently my laptop does not go to sleep/lockout after its configured X minutes of inactivity like it did in the past. I suspect some program (like media player does) is preventing it from going to sleep. I do not have any media player running, so how can I find which program is preventing it from sleeping?  It does go to sleep if I close the lid. But I would also like for it to go to sleep after X minutes of inactivity.  Update: Upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 with default Gnome and Wayland enabled. What is the most "pythonic" way to iterate over a list in chunks? I have a Python script which takes as input a list of integers, which I need to work with four integers at a time.  Unfortunately, I don't have control of the input, or I'd have it passed in as a list of four-element tuples.  Currently, I'm iterating over it this way: for i in range(0, len(ints), 4):     # dummy op for example code     foo += ints[i] * ints[i + 1] + ints[i + 2] * ints[i + 3]  It looks a lot like &quot;C-think&quot;, though, which makes me suspect there's a more pythonic way of dealing with this situation.  The list is discarded after iterating, so it needn't be preserved.  Perhaps something like this would be better? while ints:     foo += ints[0] * ints[1] + ints[2] * ints[3]     ints[0:4] = []  Still doesn't quite &quot;feel&quot; right, though.  :-/ Related question: Get a generic method without using GetMethods I want to get the method System.Linq.Queryable.OrderyBy&lt;T, TKey&gt;(the IQueryable&lt;T&gt; source, Expression&lt;Func&lt;T,TKey&gt;&gt; keySelector) method, but I keep coming up with nulls.  var type = typeof(T); var propertyInfo = type.GetProperty(group.PropertyName); var propertyType = propertyInfo.PropertyType;  var sorterType = typeof(Func&lt;,&gt;).MakeGenericType(type, propertyType); var expressionType = typeof(Expression&lt;&gt;).MakeGenericType(sorterType);  var queryType = typeof(IQueryable&lt;T&gt;);  var orderBy = typeof(System.Linq.Queryable).GetMethod("OrderBy", new[] { queryType, expressionType }); /// is always null.   Does anyone have any insight? I would prefer to not loop through the GetMethods result. Variable wavelength IR Diode? I was thinking of building a DIY IR Spectroscope but for this, I need to find an IR diode that can do variable wavelengths. So far I have looked at Farnell and Mouser but all the diodes I have looked at seem to be fixed on a wavelength.   Is this possible? or would I need some sort of filters and optical equipment, if so which parts would I need?  Thanks. Can we use media9 to show a video on a PDF but the video is not embedded to the PDF? I have video tutorials that I want to show in my presentation with beamer class. I don't want the video files get embedded to the PDF because they will make the PDF size very very huge.  If you know how the videos can be played on the HTML with a reference rather than embedding the video file to the HTML file, I want something like this to be applied to my PDF presentation. I just want to reference the video URL from my PDF presentation.   Shortly speaking, can we use media9 to show a video on a PDF but the video is not embedded to the PDF?  Uploading those videos to a web server might be difficult for me because internet connection is very slow and sometimes not available in the presentation room. :-) Prove: $\gcd(a,b) = \gcd(a, b + at)$. java swing background image Let's say that a player uses the ready action and says "If a character aims at me with a weapon, I'll use Teleport to move behind cover."  What happens? Does this work? If not, please cite the rules to explain why not.