If an OP answer is own question, does we do something ?   At first I suggested if we allow moderators to mark that answer as accepted.  Does we let the system automatically show that answer first in the question windows in case other answer are provided by other user, like if it was accepted.  We warn the OP that it can accept its own answer at no drawback after he post the answer to is question. We change nothing.   Some example:           An image to show an example too. As I mean a question answered by the one asking it      NB: As the question will stay, I did that major edit to explain my idea, as with my poor English I'am not sure I explained my question correctly at first.
I think it would be cool if a question would eventually open up to moderators to accept answers on the user's behalf, once a time period has passed. The asking user would get the rep score for the accept.  I know I've seen questions successfully answered with lots of upvotes and no accepted answer that sit there for months unaccepted. This would give superusers a little more functionality and would tie up a lot of loose ends.  What do you think?
My multiple regression analysis model has a statistically significant F value however all beta values are statistically non-significant.   All the regression assumptions are met. No multicollinearity was found. Correlations among all predictors are all less than 0.60.   What else might be the cause of the insignificant predictors? Why is looping over find's output bad practice? This question is inspired by    I see these constructs  for file in `find . -type f -name ...`; do smth with ${file}; done   and  for dir in $(find . -type d -name ...); do smth with ${dir}; done   being used here almost on a daily basis even if some people take the time to comment on those posts explaining why this kind of stuff should be avoided... Seeing the number of such posts (and the fact that sometimes those comments are simply ignored) I thought I might as well ask a question:  Why is looping over find's output bad practice and what's the proper way to run one or more commands for each file name/path returned by find ? food safety regarding re freezing twice cooked chicken What is the autocorrelation for a random walk? Seems like it is really high, but this is counterintuitive to me. Can somebody please explain? I am very confused by this issue and would appreciate a detailed, insightful explanation. Thanks a lot in advance! How do I bake chocolate chip cookies like Subway? I want a chocolate chip cookie like the ones Subway has. Those cookies have a smooth top and chewy texture.  I have a recipe for 3/4 cup fat, 0.5 cup sugar 0,5 cup brown sugar, 3/4 cup flour, 1 egg, 2 tsp extract. I get a semi stiff dough, but also an airy cookie, not as dense like Subway. I use room temperature margarine.  I have tried to bake cookies with 2 eggs and with 1 egg, but they always come out wrinkly on top, not as stiff. Is it possible that using an egg and a yolk would work? (But wouldn't that waste a lot of whites if that's how they do it?)  I think as part of this I want a stiff dough, that'll leave the bowl clean, to minimize spread and keep the tops from getting wrinkly as stiffness will keep the the cookies from expanding and contracting. Is that true? If so, I'm afraid that if I add more flour to stiffen the dough will make the cookies cakey - is that the case? How would I avoid that? Show reference label when it is undefined When a reference is undefined, LaTeX shows simply [??] which doesn't give much information. I would like it to show the label instead. This is useful when more collaborators work on the same preprint and the references are yet to be done.  I'm using neither biblatex nor natbib. I do use bibtex but it is irrelevant for this question.  MWE:  \documentclass{article}  \begin{document}  This: \cite{undef} should look like: [{\bfseries ?? undef}]  \end{document} Standard purpose of favorites I am wondering if my behavior regarding favorites is typical.  More importantly, if it isn't typical, does my behavior conflict with an internal metric designed to reward favorite'd questions?  I mark a question as a favorite for a few reasons:  A -- I find the question/answer(s) remarkable enough that coming back to them time and time again is of benefit to me.  B -- I am waiting to see if a sub-par quality question is going to be revised enough for me to come back and answer it.  Either way, I eventually remove my favorite.  C -- I have answered a question (of any quality) and am wanting to be notified of any competing answers.    Situations B and C are the most common for me and they typically mean I will go back and remove my favorite star later; I don't remove it because the quality of the question degraded, I merely don't want to be notified any longer.  Even stranger, I am often favoriting questions that are rather low-quality (reason B) making me wonder if low-quality posts are being rewarded via some invisible metric because I (at least temporarily) have given it what looks like a stamp of approval akin to an up-vote.    I suppose the feature being called "Favorite" makes me confused because most of the questions I select are not my favorite.  Am I accidentally messing with an invisible metric that is drawing attention to posts when that isn't desired behavior? How do you integrate $\int \frac{1}{a + \cos x} dx$? How do you integrate $\int \frac{1}{a + \cos x} dx$?  Is it solvable by elementary methods?  I was trying to do it while incorrectly solving a homework problem but I couldn't find the answer.  Thanks! Brackets in if condition: why am I getting syntax errors without whitespace? After installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my HP Folio 13 I cannot get wireless to work. My kernel is 3.8.0-29-generic and my wireless module is a Broadcom BCM4313.  After running rfkill list all:  0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no   The wired connection works fine. The driver activation for Broadcom STA wireless driver fails every time. in the log it says  FATAL: Module wl not found. FATAL: Error running install command for wl   After running lspci -nnk | grep -iEA3 "(wireless|network|wlan)":  02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4727] (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1795] Kernel modules: bcma 03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209] (rev 01)   I have also tried this method and it did not work: . Is it wasteful to use a heating element, instead of doing useful work? Consider a computer CPU consuming electrical energy to perform calculations and consequently emitting heat.  Assumption: That a CPU consuming x Watts of power, emits the same amount of heat as an incandescent heating element which consumes the same amount of power.  The rest of the question assumes that this is true: the energy has to go somewhere, and I can't see that the outcome of the calculations counts as "somewhere".  I've long repeated the claim that "wasteful" appliances such as incandescent lightbulbs, over-full kettles, computers left running, etc. are not wasting power if we make the assumptions:   the appliance is in a room which we aim to maintain at above a certain temperature, warmer than the external temperature (cf a home in winter) the room leaks heat to the outside faster than the "wasteful" appliances emit heat. the room contains an electric heater the electric heater is regulated by a thermostat   In these circumstances, I think (?), if a light bulb produces excess heat, its only effect is to cause the thermostat to switch off sooner, so what energy you've "wasted" in the light bulb, is "saved" at the heater.  I don't think that's controversial.  But my question is:   If a CPU does useful work, and emits all the input energy as heat as a side effect But a heating element emits the same heat, without doing useful work Is it therefore wasteful to use heating elements? Is it more efficient to (for example) run  on a CPU, to get "free" computation as a side-effect of heating?   One reason to heat a room with a heating element, rather than with CPUs, is that the heating element is much cheaper to produce. But ignoring the initial cost of the hardware, would a "heater" made out of 20 CPUs, each running at full capacity and consuming 50W each, output less thermal heat than a 1KW element that does nothing else useful?  To be useful, of course, the CPUs would need to output the result of their computations, which would account for a tiny amount of energy. Let's assume that's negligible.  I'm sure there's a flaw in there somewhere; probably that the assumption above is false. What have I missed? collapse vs minimize I am looking for a positive, passionate word to describe the all-round capabilities of a person.   Are there any words better than 'all-rounder'? How can I get exactly 5 logarithmic divisions of an interval? How can I monitor the memory usage? I have used top to see the memory usage at the moment. But I would like to monitor the memory usage over a period of time. E.g start monitoring and then execute a few commands, and final stop the monitoring and see how much memory that have been used during the period.  How can I do this on Ubuntu Server?  I guess I could start a cronjob every 5th second or so, and invoke a command that log the current memory usage in a textfile. But what command should I use to get the current memory usage in a format that is easy to log to a text file? What is Renly's basis for removing Joffrey? Related question:   I get that he considers himself a better king than Stannis, but why isn't he ?  Did Renly know about Joffrey being illegitimate? I always thought he didn't and was distrustful that Cersei would accept Ned as Regent.  I think in both the books and the series, Renly finds out Joffrey is illegitimate from Stannis' letters, but rewatching that clips makes me think Renly was with Ned, Varys and LF in the plan to arrest Joffrey and Cersei.  [looks up something]  Oh also . So Renly did know? What would have happened if Voldemort had won Priori Incantatem before Nagini had been decapitated? As wielder of an elder wand that belonged to Harry, during Voldemort’s Last Stand, there are two instances of Priori Incantatem occurring, back to back.  Basically, the current order of events makes total sense. Since Nagini was the last horcrux, when the body died, the fragment of Voldemort’s soul locked in it was released. This disrupted the first instance of Priori Incantatem, and Voldemort was now significantly weaker than Harry – so Harry won. Naturally, the Elder Wand’s killing spell was reflected back on Voldemort because of Priori Incantatem outcome.   But, if Voldemort was just told by Harry that the Elder Wand wouldn’t work against Harry because it belonged to Harry, and was a wand that would win any duel for its master, why would Voldemort willingly try and continue to use it? This is doubly so, since after he had cast the killing spell on Harry once it had only torn Voldemort’s soul from Harry’s body – wouldn’t that even imply that the Elder Wand would realistically refuse almost any attempted direct harm against its owner?  Also, wouldn’t a first refusal of the Elder Wand to kill it’s own master also imply an additional refusal even if Voldemort had won either of the Priori Incantatem matches (in which case, the worst that could happen in this line of thinking is, Voldemort has Harry’s wand since Harry’s spell is Expelliarmus)? What are the advantages and limitations of dynamic type languages compared to static type languages?  See also:  (a far more argumentative thread...) Length of a JavaScript object Prove that $A = B = C = D$ $A, B, C, D$ are sets, where $A \not = \emptyset$ and $B \not = \emptyset$. Equation $(A \times B) \cup (B \times A) = C \times D$ is true.  Prove that $A = B = C = D$.  I tried to find $A, B, C, D$ separately, but that didn't get me anywhere. Any ideas how to solve it?