Sorry if this is perhaps a duplicate of an already answered question. I am very curious of the purpose of being blocked from deleting answers after the limit of 5 daily deletions have been reached?
I was improving some of my old posts on Stack&nbsp;Overflow when I ended up encountering this:     You have already edited 5 of your own post today; futher edits are not   allowed until tomorrow   I know this it is not a major deal, but what's the logic underneath to this restriction?
How to find the 'sizeof' (a pointer pointing to an array)? First off, here is some code:  int main()  {     int days[] = {1,2,3,4,5};     int *ptr = days;     printf("%u\n", sizeof(days));     printf("%u\n", sizeof(ptr));      return 0; }   Is there a way to find out the size of the array that ptr is pointing to (instead of just giving its size, which is four bytes on a 32-bit system)? Overload a C++ function according to the return value No internet after 16.04 LTS 18.04.01 upgrade This may seem like a duplicate, but many solutions have been unsuccessfully tried. Currently I have no internet, WIFI or Ethernet. Sometimes: "no wifi adapter found".  The device is HP dm4, dual boot with Windows 7.    Here is the  The issue started 3 weeks ago as no GUI after 16.04 LTS to 18.04.01 upgrade.  At that time, I was able to use the terminal to connect to the Internet and run "fixes" in   Then mysteriously, the GUI ran after restarting several times.  But since then, I am unable to connect to the Internet in the terminal or GUI.    There is a chatroom  about my issues.  sudo nmcli c up &lt;saved WIFI connection&gt;   only appears to connect.   sudo nmcli d wifi list   shows strong signal strength, but ping to google and nyt fails.   The phone I use as a hotspot shows a successful connection.    In the GUI Network Tools show the phone/hotspot recently used minutes ago, the Available Networks list shows the phone/hotspot as available with a check mark, but the "connect" button is grayed out and unfunctional.    REGDOMAIN=00 and attempts to change this has failed as others describe. I have a similar set up to the one described by cipricus in  and the situation described in Chrome: Site has updated in the background I keep getting these notifications despite not having an RT tab open. What gives? Wilson and Fermat's Theorem Question!     Show that the pair of positive integers $n$ and $n+2$ are twin primes if and only if $$4[(n-1)! + 1] + n = 0 \ (\text{mod} \ n(n+2)),$$ where $n$ does not equal $1$. Feature request - links underlined Avoid synchronized(this) in Java? Whenever a question pops up on SO about Java synchronization, some people are very eager to point out that synchronized(this) should be avoided. Instead, they claim, a lock on a private reference is to be preferred.  Some of the given reasons are:    (very popular this one, also has an "accidentally" variant)     Other people, including me, argue that synchronized(this) is an idiom that is used a lot (also in Java libraries), is safe and well understood. It should not be avoided because you have a bug and you don't have a clue of what is going on in your multithreaded program. In other words: if it is applicable, then use it.  I am interested in seeing some real-world examples (no foobar stuff) where avoiding a lock on this is preferable when synchronized(this) would also do the job.  Therefore: should you always avoid synchronized(this) and replace it with a lock on a private reference?      Some further info (updated as answers are given):   we are talking about instance synchronization both implicit (synchronized methods) and explicit form of synchronized(this) are considered if you quote Bloch or other authorities on the subject, don't leave out the parts you don't like (e.g. Effective Java, item on Thread Safety: Typically it is the lock on the instance itself, but there are exceptions.) if you need granularity in your locking other than synchronized(this) provides, then synchronized(this) is not applicable so that's not the issue Why did Obi-Wan Kenobi choose that moment to appear to Luke? In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker violently escapes from the lair of a wampa ice creature, finds himself in the middle of a life-threatening snowstorm on an inhospitable planet, collapses from cold and fatigue, and will likely be dead in a few minutes. As :     Luke lies face down in the snow, nearly unconscious. Slowly he looks   up and sees Ben Kenobi, barely visible through the blowing snow. It is   hard to tell if Kenobi is real or a hallucination.     Why did Obi-Wan Kenobi choose this moment to appear to Luke and deliver rather important instructions concerning next steps in his Jedi training?  It seems lucky that Luke remembered anything of the encounter at all. He probably thought he was hallucinating. Is there a difference in meaning among 'should', 'happens to', or 'should happen to'? Map a function across a list conditionally How does Ubuntu partition the disk when we choose "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" during installation? CPU usage is too high with Yosemite and an external monitor I use Yosemite 10.10.4 on my MacBook Pro (2012).  I used to work with an external monitor: Apple Thunderbolt 27" monitor.  The issue is that, according to Activity Monitor, the kernel_task process consumes more than 600% of CPU even when no tasks are running! The computer becomes totally unusable.   The workaround is to disconnect the external monitor, but I really need this secondary screen to work.  Why didn't Apple fix this issue in the latest Yosemite update?  Is there a fix for this? For each positive even integer $n$, set   $$P_n = \displaystyle {{n} \choose {\frac{n}{2}}}\frac{1}{2^n}.$$  Show that $\displaystyle \lim_{n \to \infty} P_n$ exists and determine its value.   Here's what I have so far: each $P_n$ can be thought of as the probability of tossing a fair coin $n$ times, and obtaining exactly $\frac{n}{2}$ heads. My expectation is that $P_n \to 1$, since in any large trial, one would expect to record just about as many heads as tails. But I'm not sure how to mathematically justify this hunch.  Hints or solutions are greatly appreciated. "along the river" vs "alongside the river"? In a question on "along" vs "alongside", I have seen this question and the correct answer on the web site makes me confused.      The question is: I enjoyed my walk _________________ the river.  a) along b) alongside  I selected "...along the river" as the correct answer, but on the web site it is shown as wrong and the correct answer is "alongside".  How can that be? I still do not agree, because I have studied the difference between the two. "along" is just the right preposition for thin and long places like road, path, street, beach etc".   So, why would the correct answer be "alongside" which simply means "next to"? Do you not think "along" seems to be better fitting?  Regards,  Note: I would be more than gratefull, if somebody show it to me in a video, like "a walk along the river" and "a walk alongside the river". Maybe I can understand the how "a walk along the river" and "a walk alongside the river" would take place. Escaping regex string I want to use input from a user as a regex pattern for a search over some text.  It works, but how I can handle cases where user puts characters that have meaning in regex? For example, the user wants to search for Word (s): regex engine will take the (s) as a group.  I want it to treat it like a string &quot;(s)&quot; .  I can run replace on user input and replace the ( with \( and the ) with \) but the problem is I will need to do replace for every possible regex symbol. Do you know some better way ? maybe that's an idiot question. Given a finite field $k$ and some irreducible polynomial $f(x) \in k[x]$, then $k_f \cong k[x]/(f(x))$? I know that it's true if $k$ is the prime field and I think that the statement is not true for general finite fields, however I could not find any counter example.  Thanks in advance. If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? Reason for LCM of all numbers from 1 .. n equals roughly $e^n$ I computed the LCM for all natural numbers from 1 up to a limit $n$ and plotted the result over $n$.  Due to the fast-raising numbers, I plotted the logarithm of the result and was surprised to find a (more or less) identity curve ($x=y$).  In other words, $LCM(1, 2, 3, ..., n)$ appears to be roughly the value $e^n$.  Is a there a simple explanation on why this is so?  $LCM(a, b, c, …)$ shall be defined as the least common multiple of all arguments $a, b, c, …$ The propagation of electric field Closed form for $\int_0^1\log\log\left(\frac{1}{x}+\sqrt{\frac{1}{x^2}-1}\right)\mathrm dx$