Currently, moderators cannot see quickly exactly which privileges a user who has flagged actually has. As described in  by animuson,     when reviewing flags, we   don't see your reputation. Without opening your profile, we have   absolutely no idea what privileges you actually possess.   In the linked question this has lead a moderator to advice a user to do something he/she doesn't have the privilege to do.  My opinion is that moderators should see the relevant privileges, as it is important when writing out a response. New, low-rep users take what moderators respond to flags for granted, and if the advice is wrong due to grounds that user hasn't got enough privileges, it's a really mixed message that will lead to unneeded frustration.  Here's  where lack of seeing the privileges has lead a moderator to do a wrong decision.
When reviewing flags, either from the queue or from the flagged post, I often want to know what the flagger could have done in addition to, or instead of, flagging for mod attention.  Does he have the rep to downvote?  To comment?  To vote to delete?  Knowing this doesn't necessarily affect how I handle the flag, but if there's a possible teaching moment there I use the flag response to point it out.  But I can't find this out unless I click through to the user's profile (unless I already know this user, of course).  Would it be possible to get the flagger's reputation in a tooltip, like what's already done for comments?
Usage of 'shall' in questions Let's say I want to arrange a lesson with my coach and I say:  Shall we have a lesson on Monday?  I understand the use of 'shall' in American English is considered to be formal, whereas this is not the case in British English. I would like to understand the different connotations (is it formal? is it a request for confirmation? is it a suggestion?) that the following questions have:  A. Shall we have a lesson on Monday? B. Can we have a lesson on Monday? C. Should we have a lesson on Monday? D. Could we have a lesson on Monday? E. Are we having a lesson on Monday? F. Will we have a lesson on Monday? G. Are we going to have a lesson on Monday? TV show that starts with debris encompassing Earth Fancy chapter headings The rule says if the order of two actions/events is clear then the past perfect is not necessary, i.e. you can use past simple. So if the sentence has before or after then the order is clear and therefore the rule applies.  says the first sentence is incorrect. Is he/she right? If so, how do you explain what appears, to me, to be contradictory?     If the Past Perfect is not referring to an action at a specific time,   Past Perfect is not optional. Compare the examples below. Here Past   Perfect is referring to a lack of experience rather than an action at   a specific time. For this reason, Simple Past cannot be used.      Examples:      She never saw a bear before she moved to Alaska. Not Correct      She had never seen a bear before she moved to Alaska. Correct   They say "a lack of experience rather than an action". Saying that just does not solve the problem I have which is the past simple fits the rule of order of events. Not seeing is a negative event with the verb "to see".  I hope the answer won't be this is how we speak or this is how English works or since when languages are logical! SR Flip-Flop: NOR or NAND? Saying that refers to not going overboard in solving a problem when a simple solution exists So I know I've heard this saying in American English before but I just can't quite find the original.  I have come up with several made up variations like:   I don't send the Navy (or whole army, or a battalion) when all you need is a diplomat. Don't buy the whole cow when all you need is milk.   What's the more commonly heard saying/phrase for this of expression? Question:   Answer:   The question was closed at 11:57:57 (according to the hover-over-"x-mins-ago" bar) and the answer was posted at 12:16:35. It's a fairly lengthy answer, so it's possible that it was started to be written before it was closed but I swear I've started to answer a question then I got a banner along the top saying "this question has been closed" and the answer was no longer post-able. Show that $\ker \hat{T} = \text{ann}(\text{range } T)$ This is an old exam problem: Let $V$ and $W$ be finite dimensional vector spaces over a field $F$ and let $T: V \to W$ be a linear transformation. Define $\hat{T}: W^* \to V^*$ by $(\hat{T}(f))(v)=f(T(v))$. Here, $U^*$ denotes the dual vector space $U$. Since $\hat{T}$ is a linear transformation prove $\ker \hat{T} = \text{ann}(\text{range } T)$ where $\text{ann}(Y) = \{g \in U^* : g(y)=0 \text{ for all } y \in Y \}$ for a subspace $Y$ of vector space $U$.  I'm really not sure how to start this problem. Any advice would be great! I can't find a way to close a view panel, in particular the horizontal at the bottom, is pretty useless to me at this moment. Will having multiple domains improve my seo? Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all.  The title of my "Website" says:    &lt;title&gt;Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here&lt;/title&gt;   Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when people searching for the term buy used cars, I end up on the second or first page.  Now, I want to end up higher, so I go to the google adwords page where you can check how many searches are made on specific terms.  Lets say the term "used cars" has 20 million searches each month.  Here comes the question, could I just go and buy that domain with the search terms adress, in this case www.usedcars.com and make a redirect to my original page, and this way when people search for "used cars", my newly bought domain name comes up redirecting people to my original website (www.automobile4u.com)?  The reason I believe this benefits me is because it seems search engines first of all check website adresses matching the search, so the query "used cars" would automatically bring www.usedcars.com to the first result right?  What are the downsides for this?  I already know about google spiders not liking redirects, but there are many methods of redirecting...  Is this a good idea generally? Lighting in a Minecraftian World Minecraft is a game that is largely based on a heightmap and uses that heigtmap information to flood the world with light.  From my understanding the highest point in the heightmap is the end of the sunlight influenced area.  Everything above that is lit by sunlight, everything below that just is influenced by light nearby in a radius of 8 blocks.  Thus if you have a floating island on the top of your world everything below that will be seen essentially as a cave.  When two lights influence the same point the brighter light wins (unsure about that).  Either way there are a couple of problems with minecrafts lighting model: first of all, if your world does not have a heightmap it becomes trickier to figure out what exactly is supposed to emit sunlight and what not.  A simple way would be to assume that the world is (in my case) a floating rock and then traverse each axis from both directions and figure out where the rock starts and ends.  But this does not fully eliminate the problem as dents in the rock are not supposed to be in darkness.  Minecraft itself will cache the light information in its chunks together with the information about the material of a block.  Thus only if the world is modified the lighting has to update.  Unfortunately that process is still pretty slow on updates and on quick light changes one can see the lighting lag behind.  That's especially true if a lot of blocks change (TNT, sunset etc.) and you're not running the fastest computer (Or Java on Mac).  From my still limited understanding of 3D graphics lighting a world like minecraft shouldn't be the biggest issue.  How would you tackle the problem?  I think the basic requirements for lighting in a voxel world would be   update fast enough that it could happen in a single frame.  One might be able to do the lighting in the graphics device and download the changed light information to the main RAM. light information must be quickly available for the main game logic so not entirely based on the graphics device: reasoning: light affects the growth of grass, spawning of monsters etc. light updates would have to be local to a chunk or have some other limit so that one does not have to relight the whole world which might be very large in size.   The main idea would be to make the light updates fast, not necessarily more beautiful. For general light rendering performance improvements one could easily add SSAO on top of that which should result in much nicer worlds. How to "shuffle" an array? Find a function value given 2 points Given $f(x)$, which is differentiable at every point such that: $f'(x) \ge -5$ for every $ x \in R$   $f(2) = -13$, $f(9) = -48$  Prove that:$ f(3) = -18$  Now it's quite obvious that $ f(3) = -18$ since that if we know that the lowest value of the derivative is -5, the difference between $f(2)$ and $f(9)$ is $-48-(-13)=-35$  that means that that in the area $[2,9]$, $f'(x)=-5$ right? that's why I told that $f(3) = -18$, but I feel that my proof is insufficient, probably because I'm missing some theorems or such. can someone help me structure this proof into something RIGHT :)?  Thanks a lot! I am trying to find a story where a children's nursery turns into a jungle I read this short story(I believe it was under novella length, but I could be mistaken) a while back, and I am trying to identify the title for a friend.   Plot:      Parents(male and female) get a computer aided/holographic nursery for their children. The mother becomes increasingly agitated as the children withdraw more. The children are barely even featured in the story, and the ending concludes with lions possibly eating the parents.   Publishing date: Years ago.   Tech level: Seemingly functional AI, not much more. Java Command line arguments I am trying to detect whether the 'a' was entered as the first string argument. How to run scripts every 5 seconds? I have a script that needs to be run every five seconds. I know that cron can do tasks by the minute, but is there a way to run something every second? An Open Interval and a Half-open Interval are not Homeomorphic How do I remove Windows but keep Ubuntu? Why is the amount of photos that fit on one card dependent on ISO? How can I recursively clear the "Hidden" file flag on Windows Vista? A friend's computer was recently infected with a virus.  I hope the virus has been removed successfully. But, it appears that the virus set the "Hidden" flag on most directories and files on the system.   What's the most convenient way to clear this flag from selected directories and their contents?