Simple Random Number Generator Infinite Loop
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Deploying a static site on AWS EC2/nginx: what am I doing wrong? Is $n^{th}$ root of $2$ an irrational number? Possible Duplicate:          Will every $n^{th}$ root of $2$ be an irrational number? If yes, how can I prove that? Apparently I inadvertently irked a moderator by creating a tag.  The moderator told me that my tag was "meta" and therefore not appropriate.  Having been a SO user for a long time (and a lurker on MetaSO), it was not clear to me what makes my tag "meta" and why meta tags would be inappropriate.  Many of the questions I see on SO aren't really about the topics in the title or the existing tag list.  For example, , isn't really about C++ or SetWindowText (or the Windows API as tagged).  It's simply somebody who had a bug, couldn't find it, and tried to outsource the debugging.  This seems to be a common category of question on SO.  So I started tagged questions like this with the label "findmybug".  Lots of frequent SO contributors regularly answer questions in this category rather than voting to close them as "Too Localized".  I took that as a cue that I should also try to answer rather than voting to close.  But leaving these questions open and tagged with "c++" and "winapi" even though the question isn't really about C++ or the Windows API seemed misleading.  Someone searching for answers on using SetWindowText from C++ probably isn't making exactly the same mistake and won't find that entry useful.  (In the end, the sample question was closed as "Too Localized", but this doesn't seem common for these types of questions.)  The Tags page says:     A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.   It seems to me that the "findmybug" tag does group these similar questions together.  So from that perspective, it seems to fit.  Lots of users seem to enjoy answering these types of questions, so it makes sense they'd want a way to find them.  If you want to suggest that all the questions I would tag as "findmybug" should be closed as "Too Localized", that's fine.  But I'm trying to ask the more general question:  What makes a tag meta, and are meta tags inappropriate? Is there a RegExp.escape function in JavaScript? What does it mean if a Python object is "subscriptable" or not? Which types of objects fall into the domain of "subscriptable"? What are good books for graduates/undergraduates in Astrophysics? There are no book recommendations for Astrophysics here. I will write my own answer, but I am also interested in what are others' views on the question (I will NOT mark my own answer as the best one). How to change background-color on text links on hover but not image links I have a CSS rule like this:  a:hover { background-color: #fff; }   But this results in a bad-looking gap at the bottom on image links, and what's even worse, if I have transparent images, the link's background color can be seen through the image.  I have stumbled upon this problem many times before, but I always solved it using the quick-and-dirty approach of assigning a class to image links:  a.imagelink:hover { background-color: transparent; }   Today I was looking for a more elegant solution to this problem when I stumbled upon .  Basically what it suggests is using display: block, and this really solves the problem for non-transparent images. However, it results in another problem: now the link is as wide as the paragraph, although the image is not.  Is there a nice way to solve this problem, or do I have to use the dirty approach again?  Thanks, Which packages should be loaded after hyperref instead of before? Find duplicate files Is it possible to find duplicate files on my disk which are bit to bit identical but have different file-names? Is it possible to remove "Show Desktop" from the Alt+Tab application switcher? Generalized Tube Lemma Change Text Color in Blender Game Engine? I want to change the color of some text in my game. I've tried adding materials, but whenever I press P to play the game, the text stays the same white color. Any ideas? What exactly did mv /tmp/folder/* /* do to my filesystem? It's hard to search for special characters on google, which is why I'm posting this here.  I recently ran (as root) a mv /tmp/folder/* /* when I meant to run mv /tmp/folder/* ./ Big mistake!  Things broke! A lot of files got mixed up and placed into strange places, none of the normal unix commands worked (ls, dir, cat, etc) and once you logged off, you couldn't ssh back in -- it would give you a prompt, but not accept the old passwords.  Running ls /* shows me that it performs ls on every directory in /. If I tried to draw a parallel, then mv should have simply moved (or copied?) the files to every directory in /. Instead, really weird things happened, and I was just curious what exactly was going on.  More info: The files in /tmp/folder had been transferred from a windows machine, and had been named file (#).txt, where (#) is a number up to two digits, with a space between file and the parenthesis. There were ~40 of these text files. Ubuntu 18.10: visual artifacts (black bar) in dock if extend-height is disabled I am using the default Ubuntu dock with bottom placement and org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock extend-height set to false. With Ubuntu 18.10 this produces a noticeable visual glitch, note the black empty spaces at the edges of the dock:    I am getting this both on an upgraded system and on a clean install inside a VM. This was working fine in Ubuntu 18.04. Also happens if the theme is set to something else than Yaru (the default theme in Ubuntu 18.10). Reboot does not help. Dock looks OK if extend-height is enabled.  Any ideas on how to fix this? I understand that the alphabet for the English language is not strictly English as languages such as French, Dutch and many more use the same alphabet, with few additions in other languages. Is Roman alphabet the common term to refer to this set of symbols for writing texts? How do I get the title of a .pdf document to appear as the page title? Why didn't Dumbledore simply cut off his hand and make a new one? Do messages in archive count to your inbox space? Pretty much as the title says, do messages in archive count to your total inbox space? How do I get the current location of an iframe? When to use virtual destructors?