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“situation where” vs. “situation in which” USB stick mysteriously become write protected So, somehow over the weekend, my 1GB USB flash drive has managed to become write-protected.  There is no switch on the stick, so I'm concluding that something has corrupted at some point.  Obviously I can't format it or remove.  The output from dmesg | tail is:  Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 328168 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Data Protect [current] Info fld=0x0 sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Write protected sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 05 08 00 00 00 01 00 Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 328200 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1   I think the second and final lines are a giveaway to corruption, but I don't know how to interpret this output.  Could someone help to see if this output gives any indication?  I usually eject the drive before removing it, but I may have been lax once or twice.  The data isn't critical, it's just bugging me.  Any suggestions on how to fix it (if the drive even can be) would be greatly appreciated. Unsung hero dilemma This is partly related to  question.  I ran some queries on odata for my work on Stack Overflow, and I have found that my statistics are the following ones:  Accepted answers: 148 Zero score accepted answers: 36 Percentage of total: 24,3%  I probably fit the idea of the Unsong hero badge, as I've mostly been active in  questions, from when it only had around 200 Questions until now.  To get the badge I could either try to get one of my accepted answers downvoted once, that would give me a 25% accept rate; I could also delete 4 of my accepted answers with 1 or more score. That would also give me the badge, but this just seems wrong: You are actually encouraging me to either try to get a down-vote on a good answer, or delete good answers.  So, should I delete good answers to receive a gold badge?  Update: It's not that I care much if I get a badge or not, it's only a badge after all and not why I spend time on Stackoverflow anyways. But it's not ideal [read: problem] that I'm encouraged to delete accepted answers or try to get downvotes to achieve a badge. I have a multi-line equation that I want to have matching sized parentheses. The advice I read online was to use \left( equation \right. \\ left. rest-of-equation \right) . However, this syntax leaves first half of the equation unaware of what is in the second half. For example, if you include a square root term after the break, the second parenthesis will be larger than the opening parenthesis. When you are using the aligned environment to split a long equation this can look somewhat offputting.    Compare the top equation to the bottom one. The parentheses match in size for the bottom equation, but the left hand parentheses for the top one is  noticeably smaller.  Top Code:   \begin{aligned}[t]   \gamma_{\text{u}} + \frac{1}{108}   \left(57\gamma_{\text{er}} \right. &amp;+  38\gamma_{\text{se}}\\ &amp; {}\pm  \left.\sqrt{2601 \gamma_{\text{er}}^2 + 3648  \gamma_{\text{er}}\gamma_{\text{se}} + 1444 \gamma_{\text{se}}^2}  \right)   \end{aligned}   Bottom Code:  \begin{aligned}[t] \gamma_{\text{u}} + \frac{1}{16} \left(9\gamma_{\text{er}}  +  6\gamma_{\text{se}} \pm  \sqrt{49 \gamma_{\text{er}}^2 + 76 \gamma_{\text{er}}\gamma_{\text{se}} + 36 \gamma_{\text{se}}^2} \right) \end{aligned} Windows 10 non-persistent installation (live ISO) We've got a Windows 10 installation running in an environment where it can occasionally lose power and restart. However, this sometimes leads to corruption of files.  I've had a look at Windows "To-Go" but this seems to be persistent. 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