I think that whenever a post gets edited by someone other than the person who wrote it and when the edit changes a MathJax formula, then, no matter how small the change was technically, the author of the post should be warned that that editon took place. A small change in a mathematical formula can have huge consequences.
Your summary page shows "N Edits to your posts" for the selected time period but you really have to be looking for it.  Could we add edits to the notification feed? You could put the reason for the edit (entered--or not--when the editor changes it) and just a link to the post.
Java: how do I check if a Date is within a certain range? I have a series of ranges with start dates and end dates. I want to check to see if a date is within that range.  Date.before() and Date.after() seem to be a little awkward to use. What I really need is something like this pseudocode:  boolean isWithinRange(Date testDate) {     return testDate &gt;= startDate &amp;&amp; testDate &lt;= endDate; }   Not sure if it's relevant, but the dates I'm pulling from the database have timestamps. How many and which are the uses of "const" in C++? As a novice C++ programmer there are some constructs that look still very obscure to me, one of these is const. You can use it in so many places and with so many different effects that is nearly impossible for a beginner to come out alive. Will some C++ guru explain once forever the various uses and whether and/or why not to use them? Create a local texmf tree in MiKTeX In TeX Live there are TEXMFLOCAL for admin and TEXMFHOME for user pre-defined, but in MiKTeX there’s by default no local texmf tree installed, though it is useful, cf. . Therefore my question:  How do I create a local texmf tree in MiKTeX? <50 reputation users can't delete comments that were posted on their behalf Some preface: I have an alternate account that I'm using to gain rep in order to help test/build bots for the  community on stackoverflow. Bot accounts are essentially users, and they need 20 rep to talk in chat, and 50 in order to add comments.  On this account (with 23 rep), I flagged a question as a duplicate of the wrong post by accident:        When I retracted the duplicate flag, I noticed that the comment was not removed. When I attempted to remove it, there was no [x] icon to the right of the post, and I had no recourse other than to leave the comment up (Which was 100% a wrong duplicate for that post). Additionally, I couldn't even flag it for mod attention, because it was my comment! In Nginx, how can I rewrite all http requests to https while maintaining sub-domain? I want to rewrite all http requests on my web server to be https requests, I started with the following:   server {     listen      80;      location / {       rewrite     ^(.*)   https://mysite.com$1 permanent;     } ...    One Problem is that this strips away any subdomain information (e.g., node1.mysite.com/folder), how could I rewrite the above to reroute everything to https and maintain the sub-domain? Blacklight CFL Bulb Effect? I have been searching everywhere, and I can't find an answer so I'm coming here!  I'm trying to create a CFL Blacklight bulb. I've attached a couple images below of what I've tried to make. I'd love to have an effect like this:    Does anyone know how to recreate this? It seems like the color is affected by time as the bulb heats up, eventually being all white-ish. That would be fine, too, but I can't even seem to get the lighting effect of the pink glow around it and whatnot. I can post pictures of my node setup if you need it, though I think I made it necessarily complicated.  Thanks in advance!  UPDATE: This is what I have now:   I want to adjust the colors, but that isn't the issue now... The way I made this is a glass spiral that acts as the bulb. Inside of that bulb (that has a glass-like shader) is a purple material that I made that mimics the phosphor coating blacklight light bulbs have to filter light. Then, a separate mesh spiral is inside of that, and it has the emission stuff on it.   As Duarte suggested, I used the node setup he had for my emission, but used a transparent node instead of glossy. Why isn't the emission light from inside my glass causing the glass to be glossy? If I put a point light in the scene, it looks glossy.   Thanks in advance! My reputation suddenly raised by 10k! How to show $(a^b)^c=a^{bc}$ for arbitrary cardinal numbers? One of the basic (and frequently used) properties of cardinal exponentiation is that $(a^b)^c=a^{bc}$.  What is the proof of this fact?  As Arturo pointed out in his comment, in computer science this is called . Find the Galois group of $x^3-5$ over $\mathbb{Q}$. In this case, the roots of $x^3-5$ are $\{\sqrt[3]{5},\omega\sqrt[3]{5},\omega^2\sqrt[3]{5}\}.$ I think $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{5},\omega\sqrt[3]{5})$ is the splitting field of $x^3-5.$ Then, $[\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{5},\omega\sqrt[3]{5}):\mathbb{Q}]=3,$ I think the automorphisms are: $$id$$ $$\sigma:\sigma(\sqrt[3]{5})=-\sqrt[3]{5}$$ $$\tau:\tau(\omega\sqrt[3]{5})=-\omega\sqrt[3]{5}$$ I'm not sure about what I have done. But how to determine the Galois group based on this? And how to determine the solvability of this polynomial? How do I do a case-insensitive string comparison? Where to place log4j.xml Prove that if $n$ is a composite, then $2^n-1$ is composite. Not sure if I'm doing this correctly but this is what I've done:  Assume that $n$ is composite and suppose $2^n-1$ is a prime for $n \gt 2$. Then, $2^n-1 = 2k$ for some $k \in \Bbb Z $, $\forall n$.  But this would be a contradiction since $n \gt 2$.  I'm not sure if this a correct proof.  EDIT: I realized that it's to prove $2^n - 1$ NOT $2^{n-1}$ so my attempt above is completely wrong. If we remove the square in the upper right corner of a $8\times 8$ chessboard.  The question is: Is it possible to cover the entire remaining area, with $1\times 3$ chocolate bars? (they can be laid on the chessboard vertically and horizontally aswell)  For the answer: We know that there will be $63$ squares left on the chessboard, of which $32$ are white and $31$ are black, since the one in the upper right corner was black. $63$ is divisible by $3$, so it could be possible to cover the area, but that doesn't prove that an arrangement exists to do it. I'm not sure how to continue and am seeking help. Thanks. I know base 2 and base 10 , MB and MiB, but i'm not understanding the byte counts shown for a directory, by du and by windows explorer The du command shows 43G in use. I'm not sure whether that's base 2 in the sense of 2^30 or if it's base 10, in the sense of 10^9.  But anyhow -   Running this du command from cygwin, to see the size of the windows directory (done from an administrative command prompt - since it seemed to have some issues reading some directories otherwise)  user@comp ~ $ du -sh /cygdrive/c/windows 43G     /cygdrive/c/windows   Windows Explorer  which I understand shows it in 'base 2', (a larger unit for KB,MB,GB than base 10 KiB, MiB e.t.c.), and hence a lower quantity of that larger unit is required to give the same result.    Windows explorer shows      46.6GB  , over 50 billion bytes.    (according to windows explorer)  or  46.8GB  , over 50 billion bytes. (according to windows explorer)  So, du aside.  Even if I multiply the larger figure, 46.8GB  by 1.048576 then I get 49.0733568 that's not over 50 billion. So that's part A of the question,  but then also, part B of the question, why is the du figure so low. Add a way for moderators to cast a normal, non binding close/open vote I think moderators should have the ability to cast a normal, non binding close and open vote like they were a normal user (while of course retaining their ability to cast a binding vote where necessary). This can be used in &quot;grey areas&quot; where a moderator can choose to give his or her opinion, but not make a decision alone; a good example of this is . This also helps in areas not so grey (questions that everyone would agree should be closed) since the OP has the time to see close (1) and possibly edit his or her question. The moderator can then optionally come back after a few minutes and close it for real if it's not improved (or maybe during that time other 4 people voted to close it). This would also fit perfectly in :  Since we’re about to add community moderators on both Stack Overflow and Server Fault, I need to document what it is, exactly, we expect moderators to do. The short answer is, as little as possible! I've never been quite able to figure out how groups work in Blender (at least not since 2.5/6x). Is it possible to group several objects and then manipulate them (scale, rotate, translate) as one? How to mount electronics on a vehicle chassis safely I want to implement a control system I designed for a light electric motorbike. I would like to mount it as professionally as possible on the chassis. It consists of a power system pcb and a SAMC21 development board which I'll merge later once this all works properly. I have tried screwing it directly on the aluminium chassis but have found that shocks and vibrations from the horn disturbed the system or even destroyed it upon large shocks like a few hammer hits. Is there a specific way car and motorcycle manufacturers mount their electronics to make their system as robust as possible? Thank you for your help! Does each imply the other? If not, does one imply the other? Why/why not?  This issue came up in response to a comment on an answer I posted .  Although google searching the relevant terms didn't produce anything that seemed particularly useful, I did notice  on the math stackexchange. However, I thought that this question was appropriate for this site too.  EDIT after reading the comments  Relative to the math.stackexchange answer I was after something more in depth, covering some of the issues dealt with in . Also, as I see it the math.stackexchange question shows that consistency doesn't imply asymptotically unbiasedness but doesn't explain much if anything about why. The OP there also takes for granted that asymptotic unbiasedness doesn't imply consistency, and thus the sole answerer so far doesn't address why this is. Can a willing lycanthrope be True Polymorphed? Can a lycanthrope or other shapeshifter be willingly affected by the spell True Polymorph? I know that it can be affected by regular Polymorph, but the text for the enhanced version seems to differ. I'm not sure if there's already an existing term for this, so I'm inventing my own. (tl;dr: I call them &quot;chameleon questions&quot; because they change every time you submit or edit an answer.  If you're already intimately familiar with the phenomenon, please skip past the first set of bullet points to where I ask for recommendations.)  I think many of us have experienced this on occasion:  You open up a narrow-looking question, usually dealing with some specific error message.  The question probably contains a snippet of sloppy but not quite awful code; code indicating that the author, typically a new/low-rep user, possibly a , doesn't really know what they're doing.  I'm not trying to be condescending here, they're probably very intelligent and hardworking, but in this specific case, they're clearly in way over their head.  However, as a question, it's not really too bad.  The goal and problem are both clearly stated.  The code is formatted (sort of).  Mort was polite and checked their spelling.  The question looks answerable, although from a rep perspective* it's an obvious dead-end, it's had maybe 3 views in the past 30 minutes.  So you decide, you know what, this person took the time to write up the question properly, they deserve an answer, put on your good citizen hat and throw them a bone.  You slog through the ugly code, find the offending line, direct their attention to it and explain why it's wrong and how it needs to be fixed.  Later, they leave a comment saying that yes, that was indeed the problem and your answer helped them fix it (great!).  Oh, but, now there's another problem (uh-oh...). Something else is broken.  After letting out a long sigh, you read the comment and/or edited question, roll up your sleeves, and write up Take 2, hoping that's the end of it.  And of course it's not the end.  Now maybe the error is gone, but it's not doing what it's supposed to.  If you're anything like me, your patience is now starting to wear thin. It's lousy code and you didn't volunteer to help them rewrite their whole app.  And of course, the question still only has 12 views, and nobody has upvoted either the question or your answer, including the person you're helping, so this is turning out to be a genuinely thankless task in all respects.  Welcome to &quot;Family Tech Support&quot;, Web 2.0 Edition.   * Which is of course just an arbitrary number that none of us care about. Not really, anyway. Not very much, at least.  So, here's where I get to my question.  At this point, do you:  Leave a comment, stating as politely as possible that you've done your best to help them answer the original question they asked, and if they have a new problem then they should start a new question?  (I did this once, and actually ended up with an accept, but I felt kind of guilty afterwards, I don't think anybody answered their 2nd question).  Bite the bullet and edit your answer a 3rd, 4th, 5th time, however many times it takes to resolve their issue, knowing full well that they may not even remember to accept the answer once you're done? (I may work for free on SO, but that doesn't mean my time is worthless.)  Just abandon the question, hoping that it will force Mort to start thinking for himself?  Something else?   I've tried all three of the above and none of them ever quite feel right. I do want to help, but at the same time there are a lot more &quot;lucrative&quot; questions I could be answering. And I don't mind spending a lot of time on an answer either, if the question is interesting or important to me, but debugging is dull work. I'd prefer not to reference specific questions here; I'm pretty sure that this is a shared experience, and my objective isn't to point fingers at &quot;misbehaving&quot; members.  I'm more looking for some practical advice on how to dig myself out of these pits of despair. Anybody have any other ideas?