Recently, a user 'called to arms' on chat to cast flags on potentially incorrect advise on Stack Overflow. As this incorrectness was seemingly correct, I flagged en mass, without giving it much thought (main reason was that I trusted the user. That trust has now evaporated. Trust comes on foot, but leaves by horse...).  However, after looking more carefully, most answers only needed a simple caveat to be fixed! (this has since been added).   After looking even more carefully, I noticed the factual inaccuracy was due to a generalization of the question by the same users calling to arms!  Clearly, I have been misled! Personally, I will be more critical of these 'calls to flag' in the future, but I hope I can shield others from making the same mistake!  All that ends well is well, and the answers now have the caveat and that makes them correct.  However, all the flaggin was completely unnecessary! Hence, a call of      Hey, I think these answers are incorrect, can someone fix them?   Would have been a lot better than     Hey, these answers are wrong. Go flag them!   This is an advice to be very cautious when 'subverting the system' in this manner!  Perhaps this needs implementation as policy or a mod tool, but I think being aware of the issue is a good start.  So, my main point is this:  Wouldn't it be better if people simply called for attention, instead of for flags? And if such requests of the 2nd nature are made, assume the first.     is related but not a dupe. That one talks about when to flag. This one talks about when to listen to people who ask you to flag.
I came across some scenarios like these:     Case 1: Obviously not true       Q: Why does the sun rise and fall every day?   A: Because the Earth .   A2: Because .     Case 2: Letting the OP do what is declared not to       Q: How can I charge my phone without a charger?   A: Try the USB ports on your computer.   A2: Go buy a charger.    Case 3: Attempt to joke (despite looking like a real answer)       Q: What's this round bird in bright red? [An image]   A: It may be a rare or mutated species of sparrow.   A2: It's a .   A3: It's an .    Should I flag A2/A3 as NAA in those cases?
Odds of rolling doubles or triples given N 6-sided dice Over the holidays I played a dice game where each player had 3 to 7 d6 to roll each turn.  The game gave certain advantages to doubles and triples.  I wanted to know the odds of rolling doubles or triples given N dice to understand the importance of "upgrading" to more dice.  My question is really about how to reason about such problems:  It's easy to see that the odds of rolling doubles with 2 d6 are 1/6 (first die can be anything, and 1/6 of the time the second will match).  It's also easy to see that with 7 dice the odds are 1.0 (6 dice could be 1..6, but the 7th must match one of them).  The middle cases are fuzzier to me.  I ended up writing a program to enumerate all of the possibilities (even 6^7 is only 279,936 cases to evaluate) because that was the only way I felt I could verify any closed formula I came up with.  This also enabled me to distinguish cases of multiple doubles (or triples).  I would like to know how to derive closed forms and how to validate such solutions without brute-force simulation. View vote count button on mobile On the mobile site, can there be a button directly below the vote up/down buttons for viewing vote counts? When I am using the mobile site and I want to view vote counts, I have to switch to the full site to do it which is very inconvenient.   It could be a small link that says "vote counts," because I don't know what the button would be (the letter "V?" a "+/-" thing? I have no idea).  Related:  , but I am requesting an additional button below the vote buttons. That way you won't accidentally click a vote button. Invariant Subspace of Two Linear Involutions I'd love some help with this practice qualifier problem:  If $A$ and $B$ are two linear operators on a finite dimensional complex vector space $V$ such that $A^2=B^2=I$ then show that $V$ has a one or two dimensional subspace invariant under $A$ and $B$.    Thanks! Why does Java have an "unreachable statement" compiler error? independent variables in Random forest model Too much whitespace in "Thanks for the feedback" While attempting to downvote something on a site I don't have an account on, I see this message, which has too much whitespace:    The same thing happens with upvotes (and プラス票が):    (I think it's safe to say that this is a network-wide bug, since I took these all on different sites.)  However, it looks more reasonable when you are not logged into the network at all (e.g. in private browsing):    An earlier version of this issue was reported at , but the difference is that there is no newsletter UI on the right anymore. (The extra space could have been justified before given the height of the newsletter; now it's definitely a bug.)  Also, is newsletter supposed to be gone? How to remove the association between two Gmail accounts? I want to remove that other account. Both of them are Gmail accounts. How could I do? Table fixed header and scrollable body (used to show two posts from MSE)   (there used to be a list of the accounts)   (it was there) seems to be fixed How do I run an executable using Lua? Prove $\operatorname{rank}A^TA=\operatorname{rank}A$ for any $A\in M_{m \times n}$ How can I prove $\operatorname{rank}A^TA=\operatorname{rank}A$ for any $A\in M_{m \times n}$?   This is an exercise in my textbook associated with orthogonal projections and Gram-Schmidt process, but I am unsure how they are relevant. I have several very similar images except some have some extra graphics that enlarge them slightly. This causes some pictures to be offset and not aligned visually when it's clear they should be.  How can I align several tikzpictures along the the same origin they were created and center vertically and horizontally properly?   First, I want to align the 3 large boxes regardless of the what the small boxes are doing Second, I want to be able to center them all without adding additional spaces the \begin{center} seems to do Third, I want to be able to reproduce the exact same results but everything in landscape mode without using the landscape package if possible. (as you can see, the problem is that TeX is putting one rectangle at a time which is not what I want) The methods should be easy and quick. I have many rectangles stacked and some need to be grouped arbitrarily. What these means is I want the methods to sort of be "smart" in that they can figure out themselves so I don't have to go change a lot of stuff each time I have to change the grouping. Basically I would like the first rectangle on the page to define the alignment location and the others on the same page to use it unless I tell them not to.   I've tried creating a custom bounding box as shown in  but it didn't do anything unless I make it too large which then causes other problems. (I can end up doing the alignment but it seems more complex than necessary)  \documentclass[10pt]{book} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (7,0); \end{tikzpicture}  \begin{tikzpicture}     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (7,0);     \draw[line width=20pt] (-0.4, 0) -- (-0.1, 0); \end{tikzpicture}  \begin{tikzpicture}     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (7,0);     \draw[line width=20pt] (-0.4, 0) -- (-0.1, 0);     \draw[line width=20pt] (-0.8, 0) -- (-0.5, 0); \end{tikzpicture}    \begin{center}% \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (7,0); \end{tikzpicture}% \end{center}%  \begin{center}% \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (7,0);     \draw[line width=20pt] (-0.4, 0) -- (-0.1, 0); \end{tikzpicture}% \end{center}%  \begin{center}% \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (7,0);     \draw[line width=20pt] (-0.4, 0) -- (-0.1, 0);     \draw[line width=20pt] (-0.8, 0) -- (-0.5, 0); \end{tikzpicture}% \end{center}%     \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (0,7); \end{tikzpicture}%   \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (0,7);     \draw[line width=20pt] (0,-0.4) -- (0,-0.1); \end{tikzpicture}%  \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (0,7);     \draw[line width=20pt] (0,-0.4) -- (0,-0.1);     \draw[line width=20pt] (0,-0.8) -- (0,-0.5); \end{tikzpicture}%    \begin{center}% \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (0,7); \end{tikzpicture}% \end{center}   \begin{center}% \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (0,7);     \draw[line width=20pt] (0,-0.4) -- (0,-0.1); \end{tikzpicture}% \end{center}%   \begin{center}% \begin{tikzpicture}%     \draw[line width=30pt] (0,0) -- (0,7);     \draw[line width=20pt] (0,-0.4) -- (0,-0.1);     \draw[line width=20pt] (0,-0.8) -- (0,-0.5); \end{tikzpicture}% \end{center}%   \end{document} Problem with babel and tikz using \draw I'm trying the next code:  \documentclass[pdftex,spanish]{article} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document}  Simple arrow:   \begin{tikzpicture}     \draw[-&gt;] (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0); \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document}   but it doesn't work. It throws the errors:    ! Argument of \language@active@arg&gt; has an extra }. ! Paragraph ended before \language@active@arg&gt; was complete.&lt;to be read again&gt;\par \draw[-&gt;]   What can I do if it works right without the babel package? Should my canonical URLs have only the ID with no slug so that they don't change? Our URLs will be created by the user's content.  Eg:  www.example.com/bar-1234/i-went-to-baz-4321  The "i went to baz" portion is user generated, included with the aim of being helpful to the person viewing the URL and also to possibly contain useful keywords for search engines.  However, the string that forms that portion is user editable. So it could become:  www.example.com/bar-1234/we-drove-to-baz-4321  AFAICT the canonical URL should be:  www.example.com/bar-1234/4321  The string portion is discarded by the controller, which means that there's potential for duplicate content from limitless URLs!  So, my question is, does it matter if my canonical URL is 'non SEO friendly'?  It seems logical to me to provide search engines with the "id only" version of the URL which is always consistent, but the canonical URL is the one that appears in search results, so is there any benefit from trying to use more 'SEO friendly' URLs? Basically I would like to use on website a "Norasi" font, that was bundled with Ubuntu, but I cannot find any license. Am I allowed to distribute that font through website? What is its license? Is every sufficiently large positive integer of the form $ab + ac + bc + 1$? Is every sufficiently large positive integer $A$ of the form $ab + ac + bc + 1$   where $a,b,c$ are some positive integers larger than some given positive integer $d$ ?  How large is sufficiently large , in other words how do we know our number $A$ is sufficiently large ( as a function of $d$ ) ?    Update :  I read the following about positive integers that are not of the form $ ab + ac + bc $:    And I quote about that sequence above : " Note that for n in this sequence, n+1 is either a prime, twice a prime, the square of a prime, 8 or 16 "  This is why I considered the weird +1 in $ab + ac + bc + 1$  So composites larger than 16 not a prime , twice a prime or the square of a prime are of the form $ab + ac + bc + 1$.  And I wonder why !  I guess that relates strongly to the Original posted problem. Maybe I should have mentioned that before , sorry.  Will Jagy's answer gave the same OEIS link which I already knew. This also explains some of the comments.  Im no expert in genus theory or Galois theory but I assume this has a simple answer. How should a user's death be handled? Linux Bulk/Remote Administration Beside our internal IT infrastructure, we've got around 500 Linux machines hosting our services for the on-line world. They are grouped in a bunch of clusters like Database A-n, Product A-n, NFS, Backoffice and so on. Furthermore, they are administered by an external provider, according to our specifications and requirements.  However, we face a lot of trouble during (web-) software development, roll-out and deploy - especially because the dev- and staging-environments have almost nothing in common with the live systems (I spare out the nasty details..).  Thus, I've tried to create virtual machines, copied the various live-systems as exactly as possible and prepared them to connect to e.g. the development-databases instead of the "real" ones transparently for developers (they aren't root). This works pretty well, but...  I was wondering how one could administer those systems remotely and in bulk? Is there some software family I'm not aware of? Or, at least, some techniques or principles one should be familiar with?  We would provide every developer with a bunch of images to be run locally (VirtualBox). The QA dept. would get virtual clusters (XEN or Hyper-V). If I need to provide an additional server-module, re-route a new database connection or just want to update everything provided by the package manager... how could I possibly do that without being forced to log on to every system and/or ask my colleagues to download and run some fixture-script?  I believe there are plenty of solutions. Well, somehow I'm too stupid to enter the correct keywords into the search engines... Or isn't this issue as trivial as it sounds?  For the record:   Almost all systems are running Debian GNU/Linux 6.x "squeeze" No developer is forced to use a particular OS at his/her workstation The budget is limited, of course, but not too small to buy proprietary software A solution that would involve our aforementioned provider is preferred Max length for HTML How to restrict the maximum number of characters that can be entered into an HTML &lt;textarea&gt;? I'm looking for a cross-browser solution. GeoTools CRS.getAxisOrder(CRS.getAxisOrder("EPSG:4326")) returns EAST_NORTH (LON_LAT) All is in the title, with GeoTools if I do :  AxisOrder order = CRS.getAxisOrder(CRS.getAxisOrder("EPSG:4326"));   It returns EAST_NORTH (= LON_LAT), but EPSG:4326 is defined as ordering latitude first and then longitude, as stated here :   So, what is happening here ? Am I doing something wrong ?