Why aren't you automatically warned when a comment of your is deleted as offensive?
Could we provide some automatic feedback on (enough) unfriendly/rude comments?
What is Ubuntu's status on the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities? ‘[...][Harry'll] be famous – a legend – I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in future – there will be books written about Harry – every child in our world will know his name!’   ‘Exactly,’ said Dumbledore, looking very seriously over the top of his half-moon glasses. ‘It would be enough to turn any boy’s head. Famous before he can walk and talk! Famous for something he won’t even remember! Can’t you see how much better off he’ll be, growing up away from all that until he’s ready to take it?’   Philosopher's Stone - pages 15 - 16 - chapter one, The Boy Who Lived   Did Dumbledore choose correctly?  Knowing what we do about Harry and his canon character attributes (And faults, too!), was Harry really better off enduring eleven years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the Dursleys than eleven years of celebrity and fame in the wizarding world? I'm sure we've all read about child celebrities who have done well handling fame, and some who have not fared so gracefully.   Would Harry have endured celebrity as stoically as he did the Dursleys' abuse? Did Dumbledore make the right choice in leaving Harry with the Dursleys instead of letting him grow up in the wizarding world?  Was Harry really better off?  ETA: I'm looking for an answer grounded in Harry Potter canon and written in the spirit of canon. Please do not pair Harry with Elle Fanning or opine that he's secretly an American ;) Thanks! How to run an executable on boot and keep it running? I have an executable build from a ndk-build program. I want to run it on a rooted Android device. How much is the possibility that Android will kill my executable?  Using adb shell, I am able to execute my executable using following commands:  adb push executable /sdcard adb shell device:/ $ su device:/ # cd /system device:/system # mount -o rw,remount /system device:/system # mv /sdcard/executable . device:/system # ./executable   My requirement is to run this executable on device boot.  I have tried following:   Write ./executable in init.rc.   On reboot init.rc reset to its original contents. I figured out that Magisk done this.  Write commands in /system/etc/init/bootstat.rc   ./executable service custom /system/executable on boot  ./system/dhandler/diag_revealer    None of the above thing is working. I'm working on a python script that passes file locations to an scp subprocess. That's all fine, but I'm in a situation where I may end up concatenating a path with a filename such that there's a double '/ in the path. I know that bash doesn't care if you have multiple file separators, but I'm wondering how exactly that is rectified. Is it bash that strips extra /s or does it really not matter ever?  I ask because it will save me several lines of code to check for extra /s while concatenating. I know it's not a big deal, but I'm curious as well. I have a bash script that has the line cd //usr (instead of cd /usr), which seems to imply there might be a significance to using multiple /s in a path Background: I have the opportunity to pursue a Computer Science graduate degree at a well respected program (around top 20). I spoke with the professors at the university and I feel like I am a good fit with their research program. My ultimate pursuits are to complete a PhD in CS. I've done research as an undergraduate and it has only confirmed my notion that I want to pursue a research track career.  More background: I applied to jobs (in case I was rejected to all the programs I applied for) prior to hearing back from my respective graduate programs. I accepted a position for an industry job (this was to secure I wouldn't be both unemployed &amp; not in school).  Dilemma: Turns out my top graduate school is very interested in me, and I'm very interested in them. I would rather go to graduate school than work in industry forever. The industry job pays very well. I am split between A) working for a maximum of 1 year(It would only be 1 year, seriously I do not care about the money enough to work past a year) and B) going straight to graduate school.   My concerns are as follows, if I choose A):    Could I potentially defer my admissions? If I am not allowed to defer my admissions, would I have a good chance of re-applying and being accepted a year later? Would my potential advisers look down on me for deciding to work a year?   I already made my mind up it would be a 1 year gig if I decide A). I know some people say once you make money, you may not be able to readjust to the graduate salary pay. But I don't think that will apply to because I'm going to live very frugally with or without industry pay. Turning vector grid into individual shapefiles using QGIS? I am using QGIS and I created a vector grid on a crop field in order to cut it into plots. I want to save each grid cell into individual polygon shapefiles automatically.  Here is an example of a vector grid I would like to split into 117 shapefiles:    Eventually, I did it manually with the selection tool and "Save as" but it is really time-consuming when there are more than 100 plots to save.    Is there any way to do it faster and more automatically?  Each plot as an attribute named "Plot" that can discriminate against them (basically being id + 1). It's the attribute used here to label them. Can I still command/control concentration spells while in the Border Ethereal? If I have cast something like Animated Objects or Bigby's Hand and then follow up the next round with casting Etherealness, can I still command/control those spells? Every issue of Ubuntu LTS since 8.04, I have made a Full install of Ubuntu to USB flash drive, and recorded each step..  This has been intended to make a guide/check list for users wishing to create Full install bootable flash drives.  Previously the procedure worked for BIOS boot if created in BIOS and for UEFI boot if created in UEFI.  This year for 20.04 the instructions should work for both creating and running the drive booted from either BIOS or UEFI.  The question is:  How to Create a Full Install of Ubuntu to USB device with Step by Step instructions that work in either BIOS or UEFI. Number of genes required to sustain life Are there estimates of the minimum number of genes required to sustain life?   In what I mean by life here, I don't include viruses. I've been using the == operator in my program to compare all my strings so far. However, I ran into a bug, changed one of them into .equals() instead, and it fixed the bug.  Is == bad? When should it and should it not be used? What's the difference? I have seen several times on TV documentaries where the presenter is taken to something like a library archive, and shown a book which they proceed to read an excerpt from.  On a couple of occasions the camera has shown the text they were reading and generally I have thought that I would struggle to read the words because of how the letters were formed (e.g. , or ).  This got me to wondering about how pronunciation and sentence formation may have changed over time as well, and how far back in time could I travel and still be understood while speaking my "modern" English in England (while obviously not talking about modern concepts like mobile phones or space travel)? I have installed some apps through the Ubuntu Software center. How can I find the corresponding terminal command? For many apps, this is not the same as the displayed name. For example, the app called Text Editor can also be launched by typing "gedit" in the terminal, but how can I find this for other apps? apt install "*" method in Ubuntu 20.04 does not work If two people want to buy a car together, would they go half on the car or halves. Example: Let's go half on this car or Let's go halves on this car? Is there a quick way to get to the Control Panel in Windows 8? Obviously in all previous versions of Windows you could simply click START and then select "Control Panel" to get to it, but on Windows 8 there is no such option.  Is there an easy way to quickly get to it without having to press WIN, type "Control Panel", and then press Enter? We all know that a simple statement such as:  SELECT * FROM stuff;   should not produce an ordered result. However, when I try to demonstrate this, it always comes out in primary key order.  Moreover a statement such as:  SELECT thing,whatever FROM stuff GROUP BY thing,whatever;   always appears to sort thing by the last field in the GROUP BY clause, which is not at all helpful.  The question is, under what circumstances does SQL SERVER order the result even if unasked, and what can I do to stop this?  I am trying to demonstrate to my students that order is indeterminate unless specified, but this is not helping my case.  I admit that I am working with a small set of sample data.  Thanks Getting the name of the currently executing method Way to go from recursion to iteration I've used recursion quite a lot on my many years of programming to solve simple problems, but I'm fully aware that sometimes you need iteration due to memory/speed problems.  So, sometime in the very far past I went to try and find if there existed any "pattern" or text-book way of transforming a common recursion approach to iteration and found nothing. Or at least nothing that I can remember it would help.   Are there general rules? Is there a "pattern"? Install Java JDK and JRE on Debian 8 Elements of $\mathbb Q(2^{1/3})$