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What's the regular expression that matches a square bracket? How to fill in the Schengen visa application form when going to several countries? I will be traveling to France, Italy and Germany with France being my main destination. So I am applying in the French consulate for Schengen visa. I will be traveling on my own and will be staying in hotels.  I had some doubts with regards to filling the application form for Schengen visa.    Q22- Member State(s) of destination: Should I fill in all three of my destinations ? Q31 Surname and first name of the inviting person(s) in the Member State(s). If not applicable, name of the hotel(s) or temporary accommodation(s) in the Member State(s) : This field has barely a line of space to enter. Should I just enter the hotel name in France (my main destination) ?  Q32 Surname and first name of the inviting person(s) in the Member State(s). If not applicable, name of the hotel(s) or temporary accommodation(s) in the Member State(s): Same problem as Q31. Very little space. Should I just enter address of the one hotel I entered in earlier Q ? Book ID: Astronauts and Lab Students can create portals through space Desperate to locate and re-read exceptional book/series, but cannot remember the title. The high concept: The U.S. has just sent the first successful expedition to Mars, and it has just landed. As the astronauts make their initial exploration outside their ship, a tear in the fabric of space opens up right in front of them, and they look through to the insides of a laboratory (at a California university?) and two students who just figured out how to create arbitrary portals between two points in the Universe. The rest of the novel/series is a consequence of this breakthrough. But I can't remember the author and title(s). Surely someone reading this forum will remember it well! TIA.  (Reposted .) Continuing example in Beamer Dual boot. How do I reinstall the Ubuntu partition? Inhumans vs. Mutants in the Marvel Universe What's the difference between those two? Aren't Inhumans supposed to be an evolution of the human race "forced" by the Kree? Which is almost the same as Mutants, the natural evolution of the human race...  What exactly am I missing? Analysing Bounce Rate and Time on Page I'm working on an eCommerce site and there's a perceived problem with the bounce rates on product pages. The best performing page (in terms of views), tends to have a very high bounce rate, at about 80%. This page is also targeted with Ads, but in both non-paid and paid traffic, the bounce rate stays high.  What's weird about it is that the time on this page is about 2 and a half minutes. The others pages have a slightly lower bounce rate (between 50% and 75%) with visit times between 1 minute and 2 minutes.  I'm not entirely sure about how to analyse this data. I've checked all the possible technical problems (faulty GA code, JS race conditions, breaks in the chain), and whilst there were some things that need improving, no technical fix budged the bounce rate at all.  The other thing we noticed was that the product pages were getting lots of traffic for very generic and brand based search terms. In these cases the pages come up as sitelinks, could this explain a high bounce rate too?  So in short :  If the page view time is so high, should I be worrying about the bounce rate at all? What's the chances of someone visiting the page and then leaving to compare prices? And how do sitelinks affect bounce rate on eCommerce sites? ArcMap Attribute Table not seen when second screen disconnected from Main Computer? I see these two expressions are used almost identically in different contexts. Is there a difference between I have got and I have gotten? Make Blender usable on high resolution screen Why don't websites immediately display their text these days? I've noticed that recently many websites are slow to display their text. Usually, the background, images and so on are going to be loaded, but no text. After some time the text starts appearing here and there (not always all of it at the same time).  It basically works the opposite as it used to, when the text was displayed first, then the images and the rest was loading afterwards. What new technology is creating this issue? Any idea?  Note that I'm on a slow connection, which probably accentuates the problem.  See below for an example - everything's loaded but it takes a few more seconds before the text is finally displayed: Running JAR file on Windows I have a JAR file named helloworld.jar. In order to run it, I'm executing the following command in a command-line window:  java -jar helloworld.jar   This works fine, but how do I execute it with double-click instead? Do I need to install any software? Is it possible to follow a user automatically? I've been looking around and I can't seem to find an automatic (i.e. buzz- or Twitter-like) way to follow users inside Stack Exchange. Why haven't the developers added such a feature? It could help beginner users follow other beginners with the same interests. We would be able to learn from each others' questions and pitfalls. Also, it would reduce double posting. I always wondered on what algorihm the best league of mine is chosen.    I am in the 0.16% of this quarter. That is rank 171 this quarter. But I am also ranked 113th this month.  Why is the stat for the quarter displayed when I have a better ranking in the month? In the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, there's a scene where the students are preparing for the Yule Ball.   Professor McGonagall is instructing the boys and girls, while Filch is choosing a vinyl record to place in an enormous turntable phonograph with a horn as big as Hagrid.   This has me wondering if the wizarding world, in general, plays vinyl records. Or, if this was just a Muggle artifact that Hogwarts kept as a novelty.   Are there other instances of witches or wizards using or owning phonographs or record players in either the books or movies? If so, what are they? (Examples help to illustrate if this was a one-off or a trend) How can I install themes in Lubuntu? How to represent it with UNIQUE indexes and foreign keys? Strange nonexistent link in a specific user's Top Network Posts I discovered a strange, blank link in 's Top Network Posts:        The above link and screenshot are of the user's Unix &amp; Linux site profile, but this issue can be reproduced on any of the user's site profiles other than Meta Stack Exchange (as the blank post appears to be on this site, and posts from the same site are excluded).  The link seems to go to , which features a really negative question ID (close to the lowest value that can be represented by a 32-bit signed integer, specifically -(2^31) + 1005), and lacks the title in the URL that is present in all of the other links. It leads to a 404 error.  Going to the  seems to go to an actual answer on a question migrated to this site, which happens to have a score of 13 (as of the time this was asked).  Why is the question ID incorrect here? Based on the duplicates, it seems that this affects posts (both questions and answers) that were migrated from other sites: somehow, the question ID seems to be getting messed up.  Update: It looks like the above linked user has deleted their account on this site, so the issue cannot be reproduced on the profile I originally reported. It can, however, be reproduced on . The errant link in that profile is , and the errant question ID seems to also be close to the lowest possible 32-bit signed integer, -(2^31) + 3412. Why does unequal amounts of RAM in each slot decrease performance? describes the RAM specifications for many of the MacBook laptops. In the section for my laptop (13" Pro Late 2011), it says:     Additional Notes: For best performance, fill both memory slots, installing an equal memory module in each slot.   This isn't the first time I've heard of this phenomenon, and it's definitely not specific to Apple.   Why is this the case? Other than the obvious decrease in available memory, why would it be worse to run with 6GB (1x4GB + 1x2GB) than with 8GB (2x4GB)? int fn();  void whatever() {     (void) fn(); }   Is there any reason for casting an unused return value to void, or am I right in thinking it's a complete waste of time?  Follow up:   Well that seems pretty comprehensive.  I suppose it's better than commenting an unused return value since self documenting code is better than comments. Personally, I'll turn these warnings off since it's unnecessary noise.    I'll eat my words if a bug escapes because of it...