Why comment when it's practically a spot-on answer? Why do people comment when it's a spot-on answer? I often get useful comments like , but wonder why they don't post those as answers. If they post them as answers, I can boost their reps by upvoting and choose "solved" but I can't do that with comments. Is it for readability or something? I don't have to scroll much to see comments, and that's convenient, but are there other reasons why people do this?
Why do some people answer in comments? Why do some people post comments that are actually answers to the question? Wouldn't posting an answer be better?
How can I get bash to perform tab-completion for my aliases? I have a bunch of bash completion scripts set up (mostly using bash-it and some manually setup).    I also have a bunch of aliases setup for common tasks like gco for git checkout. Right now I can type git checkout dTab and develop is completed for me but when I type gco dTab it does not complete.    I'm assuming this is because the completion script is completing on git and it fails to see gco.    Is there a way to generically/programmatically get all of my completion scripts to work with my aliases?  Not being able to complete when using the alias kind of defeats the purpose of the alias. Given that $x^y=y^x$, what could $x$ and $y$ be? It's not too difficult to figure out that $x$ and $y$ can both be 1, and also $x$ can be 2 and $y$ can be 4 (and vice versa). But I can't rule out if there are other solutions. Does it have anything to do with inverse functions? Is there a way to see the solutions by graphing, or algebraically? There is a part of my paper where I use the distributive property and it might not be clear to the reader to see the operation result (I'm using in proposional logic for a proof). The logic equation (part of) is: $$ (l_{1}) \vee \big( (p \vee q) \wedge (\neg p \vee q) \wedge (p \vee \neg q) \wedge (\neg p \vee \neg q)\big) $$ $$ (l_{1} \vee p \vee q) \wedge (l_{1} \vee \neg p \vee q) \wedge (l_{1} \vee p \vee \neg q) \wedge (l_{1} \vee \neg p \vee \neg q) $$  So I was wondering if there is a way to represent this operation like a 'shower' (see another example in pic ). Maybe there is some hidden magic mathmode command or pkg for this. At last we can also rely on tikz. Proof a set cannot contain its own powerset - Russell's Paradox Insert issue with arrays Recovering data from a faulty disk When I plug in a removable 1TB USB disk in my laptop, the operations led keeps blinking for a while and then you can hear the servo mechanism resetting with a short "tack".  I'd like to recover the data.    I believe there might be some way to get the data through low level IOs.    What I believe is that the mounting process assumes the disk is OK and I should prevent this before using ddrescue or something similar.  Does anybody have a solution to this problem? Pressure at base of 3 different dam designs The question asks, For which design will the water pressure at the base of the dam wall be the greatest?  The answer is all are equal.    This doesn't make sense to me.  Using the formula: P (pressure) = p (atmospheric pressure) + rho (density) * g (gravity) * y (depth below water surface)    What is confusing me is the y value, the depth below the surface. Yes both red points are the same depth below the water surface. But doesn't the red point in dam III only "see" a smaller column of water above it and so shouldn't it have less pressure on it than the red point in dam II?    Also, I know the formula would give the points at the base of dam I and dam II equal. But why doesn't the extra water in dam II (shaded in black) cause it to have a higher pressure at the base? Ok, so at my school, everybody was supplied with a Macbook Pro. I set up the Messages app and it was all great until the county decided to block it. Now, instead of receiving text messages on my phone they go to my Mac. I have no idea how to fix this because I can't open the Messages app. Please help?! Identifying a thin, black, worm-like creature with a hammer-shaped head I came across the creature shown in the photo below yesterday evening while walking the dogs. At first, I thought it was an earthworm, but a flashlight revealed it to be something I had never seen before.    It is approximately 12 inches (300 mm) in length and about 1/3 of an inch (10 mm) in diameter at its maximum. It is pitch black and very shiny—like piano black. It moves very slowly, using a snake-like motion. It had a very strange head, like a hammerhead shark.  I live in Durban, South Africa, if that helps to narrow down the possibilities.  Can anyone help in identifying this creature? Incorrect whitespaces or list item size in Android SE app Noticed that sometimes when there are 10+ answers to a question - some answers look like they have \n\n...\n line breaks in the end, so the body of the answer has incorrect height.  It probably has something to do with ViewHolder or adapter not setting correct row height. Although as far as I know, it should do this according to text amount/length. Problem with option border of class standalone I tested a MWE given in question . Following the documentation (page 9) I used the class option border={left right bottom top} with left=right=top=0pt and bottom=20pt (20pt only to show the effect here).  With the version 2012/09/15 v1.1b of standalone and the following MWE I get no 20 pt margin at the bottom of my picture.  What is the problem?  MWE:  \documentclass[% % border=1pt   border={0pt 0pt 20pt 0pt} %left right bottom top ]{standalone}% http://ctan.org/pkg/standalone \begin{document} $2^5 = x_5 \times y^8$ \end{document} Sort file by group of lines If I have a file with contents similar to:  FirstSection     Unique first line in first section     Unique second line in first section  SecondSection     Unique first line in second section     Unique second line in second section  ...  NthSection     Unique first line in Nth section     Unique second line in Nth section   Is it possible to use unix commands (e.g. sort, awk) to sort the file alphabetically by the first non-indented line in each three line group, whilst keeping the indented lines under their existing group? I'm reading page number 4 here. In particular the section where it deals with the case $p=\infty$, that is , showing that $L^{\infty}$ is complete.    Two questions:  1) Why is the convergence uniform? where it says "for $x \in N^{c}$ , $f_{n}$ is a Cauchy sequence of complex numbers. Thus $f_{n} \rightarrow f$ uniformly. Clearly we have pointwise convergence but why is it uniform?  2) I don't see why $||f_{n} - f||_{\infty} \rightarrow 0$. Can you please explain this step?  Thanks.  (3/2015) Edit: The original link appears to be broken.  seems to provide a similar (maybe even identical) proof to the one the OP talks about with slight notational differences. Should I get the +2 bonus twice for suggesting a tag wiki? How to open nautilus without a desktop? I'm using xmonad, and I would like to open a nautilus window to a certain directory, because I like the convenience of browsing inside an encrypted zip file without unzipping it, which nautilus allows.   however, opening nautilus, even with a path argument starts a desktop on the monitor I'm using (There are 8 xmonad monitors) The desktop is inoperative and renders that monitor useless until nautilus is killed.  Is there any way to open just a nautilus window without any desktop starting? Right click not working on Ubuntu 18.04 I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my HP Pavilion series laptop. After installing this version of Ubuntu, right click is not working of my touchpad. How can I solve this?  BTW:  does not have any solution which which is working for me. PS:- Problem remains after selection area in gnome-tweak-tool While traveling in the Berlin Tegel airport (TXL), I wanted to get on Wi-Fi. I found three unsecured networks in addition to a number of password-protected networks.   _Free_TXL_WiFi airberlin Berlin Tegel Airport WiFi   I had no idea which of these were an official Wi-Fi network provided by the airport and which were provided by other people, potentially for malicious purposes like capturing my network traffic. Presumably the official one uses a captive portal to allow internet access.  Is there any way to determine which Wi-Fi network is the official one provided by the airport? Would airport staff such as at the ticketing booths know? Are there official lists available somewhere?  I’d like an answer that is applicable to airports generally, rather than specific to the Berlin Airport. Also, please don’t just give a blanket “don’t use any public Wi-Fi network” answer; I know there are risks associated with it, but sometimes it is a necessity and so I want to know how to identify the airport-provided one.   suggests there are no official Wi-Fi networks, but the answers are six years old, so it’s not clear if things have changed or if none of the networks I saw were official. After upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu Dock icons of some of my apps are not appearing. They appear properly in the dash. I verified the *.desktop files for the applications in /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications.  E.g. dock icon is not displaying for "Terminator". Check out the attached image.    This is how the icon for the same application appears in dash search:    Content of /usr/share/applications/terminator.desktop:  [Desktop Entry] Name=Terminator Comment=Multiple terminals in one window TryExec=terminator Exec=terminator Icon=terminator Type=Application Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;TerminalEmulator;System; StartupNotify=true X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=terminator X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow; Keywords=terminal;shell;prompt;command;commandline; [NewWindow Shortcut Group] Name=Open a New Window Exec=terminator TargetEnvironment=Unity   Any pointers to debug this issue will be helpful. I'm designing a small module that breaks out a DIP SPI EEPROM to a 2x5 pin header socket(more info here: ). I want to mount the socket on the end of the board, with the pins lying parallel to the board.  I think two 5x1 surface-mount header footprints, on both sides of the board right near the end would do the job. Trouble is, KiCAD doesn't come with such a footprint(if it does, I haven't found it yet). Where might I find one? If one doesn't exist, that's OK; I'll have a shot at making my own. Can I choose which damage type my Sneak Attack does if my weapon does multiple types?