When an edit is suggested to a post, it's noted in the following way:    If you are able to use the Suggested Review queue, clicking on edit (1) takes you directly to the review queue location where you can perform your review.  Can the same be done for those able to review the Close Votes review queue? That is, when you click on the close (1) button at the bottom of the post    it takes you to that specific entry in the review queue.  This has the added benefit of leaving the reviewer in the Close Votes review queue where other clean-up might be required.
Can you give us some way to access pending Reviews for a post from the post itself?  I think this would also help improve the accuracy and quality of reviews done, as users that come across the post naturally are more likely to be better qualified to evaluate the post, and are already taking the time to understand the post's content anyways.  In most cases, these users will be able to provide better reviews than those who are  [often quickly] going through the Review Queues.  In addition, I think it would help get more reviews done, as someone viewing a post through normal site usage would be more likely to take an interest in helping maintain that post. I know I definitely would be more active with this instead of having to go through the massive Review Queue. The task of helping fix one question that I am currently reading is far more do-able than cleaning up a large queue of questions that is largely full of content I don't care about.  I'm thinking of something like a reviews(1) link that is accessible from the post itself that appears based on your rep, or perhaps even on your rep within the post's tags.
Create instance of generic type in Java? Is it possible to create an instance of a generic type in Java? I'm thinking based on what I've seen that the answer is no (due to type erasure), but I'd be interested if anyone can see something I'm missing:  class SomeContainer&lt;E&gt; {     E createContents()     {         return what???     } }   EDIT: It turns out that  could be used to resolve my issue, but it requires a lot of reflection-based code, as some of the answers below have indicated.  I'll leave this open for a little while to see if anyone comes up with anything dramatically different than Ian Robertson's . How do I clear Bash's cache of paths to executables? When I execute a program without specifying the full path to the executable, and Bash must search the directories in $PATH to find the binary, it seems that Bash remembers the path in some sort of cache. For example, I installed a build of Subversion from source to /usr/local, then typed svnsync help at the Bash prompt. Bash located the binary /usr/local/bin/svnsync for "svnsync" and executed it. Then when I deleted the installation of Subversion in /usr/local and re-ran svnsync help, Bash responds:  bash: /usr/local/bin/svnsync: No such file or directory   But, when I start a new instance of Bash, it finds and executes /usr/bin/svnsync.  How do I clear the cache of paths to executables? How do you pull first 100 characters of a string in PHP I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing.    Is there a function that can do this easily?  For example:  $string1 = "I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string variable to put in another variable for printing."; $string2 = 100charfunction($string1); print $string2   To get:  I am looking for a way to pull the first 100 characters from a string vari Extracting matrix rows when one of its elements is part of a list (without a loop) try+gerund/infinitive (Difference in meaning) I tried to open the door. I tried opening the door   We can use both infinitive and gerund with verb "try" as used in above sentences. Does it change the meaning of the  sentence if use gerund or infinitive?.(here i don't know if the meaning of sentences is changed.)     The same confusion arise in these two sentences.  1.I stopped seeing him. 2. I stopped to see him.(But in case of these two sentence i know the meaning is changed but don't know exactly what the change is). Why is my document pdf generated by pdflatex looks different from the one generated by latex+dvips+ps2pdf ? From the code below, i have tow different papers switch to the tow cited commands above :  \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[francais]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{lipsum} \author{M ROUAN SERIK} \title{Article with \LaTeXe} \fontfamily{cmr} \begin{document} \maketitle \section{Titled section} \lipsum \end{document}   Here's my pdffonts for the tow pdfs : Pdflatex:    name                   type     encoding  emb sub uni object ID   ------------------------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------   AMTRHA+SFRM1728        Type 1    Custom   yes yes no       4  0   DPTCLU+SFRM1200        Type 1    Custom   yes yes no       5  0   JVZRKA+CMMI12          Type 1    Builtin  yes yes no       6  0   UEWNID+SFBX1440        Type 1    Custom   yes yes no       7  0   FOVERL+SFRM1000        Type 1    Custom   yes yes no       8  0     latex+dvips+ps2pdf      name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID   ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------   WVMUEH+SFRM1000                      Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no        16  0   ZHRBNN+SFBX1440                      Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no      14  0   IMJWCD+CMMI12                        Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no      12  0   MDMSVR+SFRM1200                      Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no      10  0   TWHNMT+SFRM1728                      Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes no       8  0 Can I make a script always execute as root? Test if a website is alive from a C# application I am looking for the best way to test if a website is alive from a C# application. Background My application consists of a Winforms UI, a backend WCF service and a website to publish content to the UI and other consumers. To prevent the situation where the UI starts up and fails to work properly because of a missing WCF service or website being down I have added an app startup check to ensure that all everything is alive. The application is being written in C#, .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 Current Solution Currently I am making a web request to a test page on the website that will inturn test the web site and then display a result. WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(&quot;http://localhost/myContentSite/test.aspx&quot;); WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();  I am assuming that if there are no exceptions thown during this call then all is well and the UI can start. Question Is this the simplest, right way or is there some other sneaky call that I don't know about in C# or a better way to do it. How to switch from Natbib to Biblatex in pre-made document class/template? I am using  to write my thesis. The template uses Natlib for references, whereas I really need Biblatex.   When I simply try to change \usepackage[natbib] for biblatex I get the error message  This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2016/Debian) Capacity: max_strings=100000, hash_size=100000, hash_prime=85009 The top-level auxiliary file: aagot-1-report.aux The style file: acm.bst Illegal, another \bibstyle command---line 80 of file aagot-1-report.aux  : \bibstyle  :          {acm}  I'm skipping whatever remains of this command Database file #1: Mendeleytry.bib.bib Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "" You've used 14 entries,code here   The solution  \usepackage[backend=bibtex, natbib=true, style=numeric]{biblatex}   didn't work.  Another possible solution was said to be to recompile from scratch to delete the .aux file, but that resulted in  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.sty:462: LaTeX Error:  Command \bibhang already defined.            Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.  See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type  H &lt;return&gt;  for immediate help.  ...                                                l.462 \newlength{\bibhang}   I have tried to use this "marco" to override the \requirePackage settings, but that also didn't work and resulted into  LaTeX Error: Two \documentclass or \documentstyle comm ands.  See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type  H &lt;return&gt;  for immediate help.  ...                                                l.45 \documentclass[whitelogo]{                            tudelft-report}    Where I can't seem to delete any of the document classes without getting the functionality of the tudelft-package and the biblatex citing (or in fact getting it to work at all!)  (no line number): [0] Config.pm:343&gt; INFO - This is Biber 2.5 [0] Config.pm:346&gt; INFO - Logfile is 'aagot-1-report.blg' [62] biber:290&gt; INFO - === Tue Apr 24, 2018, 22:24:06 [246] Utils.pm:165&gt; ERROR - aagot-1-report.bcf is malformed, last biblatex  run probably failed. Deleted aagot-1-report.bbl [246] Biber.pm:113&gt; INFO - ERRORS: 1   Is there any way I can still make this template work with Biblatex? Natlib seems to deeply rooted in the file and I don't know how to change it/access the settings/the ".sty"-file. Can I use the example documentclass combined with biblatex (instead of the standard natbib) without losing the great parts of the rest of the document class?  Thanks very much :) I have posted a proof below, and would appreciate it if someone could review it for accuracy. Thanks!   Problem:   Let n $\in$ $\mathbb{Z}$ with $n$ $\ge$ 3. Prove the following:   (a) Z(D$_{2n}$) = 1 if $n$ is odd.   (b) Z(D$_{2n}$) = {1, r$^k$} if $n$ = $2k$.   Note that $r$ and $s$ generate D$_{2n}$ with the group presentation { $r$,$s$ | $r$$^n$ = $s$$^2$ = 1, $rs$ = $sr$$^{-1}$ }   Proof:  part (a)   Let $n$ $\ge$ 3 where $n$ $\in$ $\mathbb{Z}$ and $n$ is odd.   For any x $\in$ Z(D$_{2n}$), x must commute with both $s$ and $r$, since both are in $D_{2n}$. Note that if $x$ commutes with both $s$ an $r$, then $x$ commutes with any element of $D_{2n}$ since $r$ and $s$ generate D$_{2n}$.    Then for any x$\in$ Z(D$_{2n}$), we have $xr$ = $rx$, where x is of the form $x$ = s$^j$r$^w$ (any such element can be arranged into this form via the relation $rs$ = $sr$$^{-1}$ and the fact that $r$ and $s$ generate D$_{2n}$). Note that since r and s have finite order, the exponents are modulo n and modulo 2 for $r$ and $s$ respectively.   Then we have  s$^j$r$^w$$r$ = $r$s$^j$r$^w$.   Which implies s$^j$r$^{w+1}$ = s$^j$r$^{w +- 1}$  In the case where the power of r on the RHS is $w$ - 1, it is clear we cannot have equality unless |r| = 1, which it is not. Note that if $j$ is even then we have only the $w$ + 1 case. Hence $x$ may be of the form $1$$r$$^w$ = $r$$^w$.   Also we have that x must commute with $s$, hence $s$$x$ = $x$$s$.   Then $s$$r$$^w$ = $r$$^w$$s$.  Which implies $s$$r$$^w$ = $s$$r$$^{-w}$.   Applying s$^{-1}$ to both sides we arrive at the task of finding when r$^w$ = r$^{-w}$ i.e when $w$ = $-w$. But since r has finite order we have:   $$ \bar{w} = (n-1)*w $$   where $\bar{w}$ is the residue class of w modulo n. Hence for some a $\in$ $\mathbb{Z}$$_+$   $$ w + an = wn - w $$  $$ 2w = wn - an $$ $$ 2w = n(w-a) $$   Now since 0 $\lt$ w $\le$ n we have that the LHS is greater than 0. Also since n $\ge$ w then (w-a) $\le$ 2, since otherwise the RHS would be greater than the LHS. So since n is odd we must have that (w-a) is even and hence (w-a) = 2, implying that 2w = 2n and hence n = w.   Hence x = $r$$^w$ = $r$$^n$ = 1. So Z(D$_{2n}$) = 1.   part (b)   From the argument above any x $\in$ Z(D$_{2n}$) must be of the form $s$$^j$$r$$^w$ for j even and j $\in$ $\mathbb{Z}$. Then x is of the form $r$$^w$ for $0$ $\lt$ w $\le$ $n$. Since $n$ is even we have the equation below is satisfied when $2w$ = $n$ or $w$ = $n$, since (w-a) $\le$ 2 but also (w-a) $\ge$ 0 for (w-a) $\in$ $\mathbb{Z}$$_+$.   $$ 2w = n(w - a) $$   Hence $r$$^w$ $\in$ Z(D$_{2n}$) when $2w$ = $n$, as desired. First post and late answer review queues always empty? I have a website the seems to load very slowly. When I run a speed test on it I see there seems to be a 6 secound gap before the HTML loads. Images and JS scripts load very fast after that point.  You can see in the pic below the yellow 'wait time' bars:    This seems to be consistant no matter what the HTML content on the page is.  This site is using a CMS (ModX Revo) so HTML is actually stored in an SQL database and brought forth by PHP, but I've never experienced this issue before.  Would anyone know what is causing this and how I could speed it up? LINQ to Entities does not recognize the method 'System.String Format(System.String, System.Object, System.Object)' Use variable inside bash brace expansion I have a program that generates a variable number of pictures, ordered like that: 1.jpg, 2.jpg [...] 10.jpg..etc  I can't use *.jpg as input because the 10 will be processed before 2, 3, etc. so I want to use:  convert page_{1..$N}.jpg out.pdf   but does not work. How should the command be? Updating my appointment without cancelling the previous date Driver for Validity Sensors Fingerprint scanner prakhar@pr3d4tOr:~$ lsusb -s 001:003 -v  Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0018 Validity Sensors, Inc. Fingerprint scanner Couldn't open device, some information will be missing Device Descriptor:   bLength                18   bDescriptorType         1   bcdUSB               1.10   bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class   bDeviceSubClass        17    bDeviceProtocol       255    bMaxPacketSize0         8   idVendor           0x138a Validity Sensors, Inc.   idProduct          0x0018 Fingerprint scanner   bcdDevice            0.78   iManufacturer           0    iProduct                0    iSerial                 1    bNumConfigurations      1   Configuration Descriptor:     bLength                 9     bDescriptorType         2     wTotalLength           46     bNumInterfaces          1     bConfigurationValue     1     iConfiguration          0      bmAttributes         0xa0       (Bus Powered)       Remote Wakeup     MaxPower              100mA     Interface Descriptor:       bLength                 9       bDescriptorType         4       bInterfaceNumber        0       bAlternateSetting       0       bNumEndpoints           4       bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class       bInterfaceSubClass      0        bInterfaceProtocol      0        iInterface              0        Endpoint Descriptor:         bLength                 7         bDescriptorType         5         bEndpointAddress     0x01  EP 1 OUT         bmAttributes            2           Transfer Type            Bulk           Synch Type               None           Usage Type               Data         wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes         bInterval               0       Endpoint Descriptor:         bLength                 7         bDescriptorType         5         bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN         bmAttributes            2           Transfer Type            Bulk           Synch Type               None           Usage Type               Data         wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes         bInterval               0       Endpoint Descriptor:         bLength                 7         bDescriptorType         5         bEndpointAddress     0x82  EP 2 IN         bmAttributes            2           Transfer Type            Bulk           Synch Type               None           Usage Type               Data         wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes         bInterval               0       Endpoint Descriptor:         bLength                 7         bDescriptorType         5         bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN         bmAttributes            3           Transfer Type            Interrupt           Synch Type               None           Usage Type               Data         wMaxPacketSize     0x0008  1x 8 bytes         bInterval               4   I have searched high and low but I cannot get this to work. All questions related to 138a:0018 are either unanswered or old. Any help guys? Prove that the unit circle, $S^1:=\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2: x^2+y^2=1\}$, Is a one-dimensional manifold Google spreadsheet sorting messes up cell comments I'm running into this weird problem with Google spreadsheets: if the cells have comments on them and I sort the spreadsheet, the rows sort but the comments stay in the same position, and don't move with the cells they're attached to.  In other words, the cells look like this:  A C  &lt;-- comment on this cell B   and then I sort by this column:  A B  &lt;-- comment remains on this cell (stays in position) C  &lt;-- comment should have remained attached to this cell   This means that sorting is completely broken and I can't use it at all, because I clearly need the cell comments to stay with the cell they're attached to.  Is this a bad bug in Google Spreadsheets, or am I missing something here? Do the druid's uses of the Wild Shape feature recharge while still in Wild Shape?  Say a 10th-level Circle of the Moon Druid spends two uses of Wild Shape to transform into an Air Elemental, whose form she can stay in for the next 5 hours. After 2 hours, she takes a short rest, but does not drop the Wild Shape. She has another couple of hours to keep the Air Elemental form.  My main concern: Does she get her two uses of Wild Shape back with that short rest? Or, does she have to drop the Air Elemental form first before taking the short rest to recharge Wild Shape? Evaluating this integral : $ \int \frac {1-7\cos^2x} {\sin^7x \cos^2x} dx $ The question :  $$ \int \frac {1-7\cos^2x} {\sin^7x \cos^2x} dx $$  I tried dividing by $\cos^2 x$ and splitting the fraction.  That turned out to be complicated(Atleast for me!)  How do I proceed now?