I found basically identical questions - I saw one on  and immediately saw something rotten in the state of Denmark because this question has definitely been asked before. So I went and googled it for the OP and found  question, which is basically the same. The problems are:   I can't flag that it is duplicate of question on another server. I can't flag that this question belongs to Ask Different because it is not in the list of off-topic choices. Even if I did manage to do 2. I would introduce duplicate question on Ask Different.   What I did was simply comment that there are two similar questions out there, but surely that doesn't really fix this issue. What would be the best way to approach this?
What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates?  There are two flavors:   A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an example right now, but it's bound to happen soon if it hasn't already. The same question is posted in two places at the same time. Take  for example, which is a duplicate of , posted within a half hour of each other by the same user.   Possible actions:   Move it to the proper site and close it once it gets there as a duplicate. Provide a way to close it right away as a cross-site duplicate, without moving it first. Flag it and let a moderator merge them. Close it as "no longer relevant" or something else.   Additionally, flavor 2 is a bit of a special case; perhaps the question really spans both sites in terms of content and intended audience. Should multiple-postings in this case be allowed? If so, should they somehow be linked to each other? If not, how do we avoid a migration war?
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For Each myItem As DataRow In myDataTable.Rows      tmpStr = nameItem("lastname") + " " + nameItem("initials")      If myItem("sID")=sID Then         ' Do something     End If      ' print tmpStr     Next   So, how do i get the above code to work when the fields may contain dbNull without having to check each time if the data is dbNull as in ? After upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10 I noticed some of my screencasting applications are not working, for example screencasting tools like SimpleScreenRecorder and vokoscreen. ()  Also I noticed features like screenshot from GIMP is not working properly, producing blank screenshots (). Shutter too is producing glitchy screenshots ().  Screen-sharing option on Skype is also not working ().  The issue occurs sometimes on later Ubuntu releases too.  Why is this happening and how do I fix this? Compactness of $A:=${$f \in C[0,1], |f|_\infty \le K, |f'|_\infty \le M$} Here we use infinity norm as metrics for $C[0,1]$. 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(The quest could be go speak to Bob in the pub, or it might be bring me the Holy Grail and Crown Jewels, or something in between).  I've wracked my brain for a long while over this but sadly keep slipping back to the only way I know how, which is to manually code all the strings that people can say and have a horrible web of if statements and other such insanity to give me a rudimental dialogue system. Its not good enough even with just a few characters, but if I had dozens/hundreds of characters it would be even worse.  I've read lots about it already but I'm still very confused when I start trying on my own project. I've read that Json/XML might be the way to go and that I can add custom markups in the Json text to call methods in my code, but I dont even know if this is right and if so how I can do it.  The back of my brain is screaming at me that there is a simpler way to do it, but I've sat here for a very long time without managing to think of ideas.  Here is a diagram I drew which pretty much shows the flow of how I want my NPC to behave. If anyone can see this and then tell me how they might do something like this that would be fantastic!! (note: if Json is the correct advise, please give me a exact example of how exactly to format the Json in order to check the bools I mention in my flowchart - thanks!):    note: The circles denote an output from the data as Text for the dialogue system. The bools will need to be checked against by the data file to see which output to give (hope that makes sense and is possible) Formula for determinant of block matrix with commuting blocks On , I saw the following formula  $$\det\begin{bmatrix}A &amp; B\\ C &amp; D\end{bmatrix} = \det(AD-BC)$$  if $C$ and $D$ commute. Is this always true?   Or is there a good counter example for each $2 \times 2$ block matrices? Countdowntimer in minutes and seconds Need of the cold body in heat engine Does Earth's Rotation Affect Its Shape? 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Is it necessarily true that $\alpha\geq \omega^{\omega}$? Is there a general rule for knowing when an ordinal is the smallest among all ordinals homeomorphic to it? Is there a way of creating a filesystem object akin to this:  mknod files p cat file1 file2 ... fileN &gt; files   but such that it can be seeked in, as if it were a regular file? Is it correct to hyphenate with compound premodifiers? If so, where is the hyphen placed? For example, "file system" and "related". Is it "file system-related"? It will appear as if it is a compound of "file" and "system-related", won't it? Multiple authors in one row with refmark, multiple affiliations in separated columns in another row I wonder how we can list author names in the following format in LaTeX.   I have 5 authors with 3 different affiliations. I am trying to list all author names with refmark in one row, and 3 affiliations with refmark in another row, but each in one separated column. 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