A warning: This is feedback. My question is mostly rhetorical. I would like to state that I feel insulted and demeaned when another user edits my lovingly-crafted question or answer, removing elements of tone they judge to be superfluous. (Such as politeness, courtesy, or words intended to make new users feel welcome to the community.) I can understand why we might want to give ourselves the ability to remove bad advice, spelling and grammar errors, or content intended to abuse others. But when another user feels it is their duty to make a value judgement about my tone - removing anything welcoming or conversational  about it - five seconds after I post an answer... then what kind of a world have we created for ourselves? Is this what we want? To encourage our users not to contribute to these communities, but to attack the contributions of others?
I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:     --User   Should these items be removed during the editing of the post by an editor?
Use second argument for optional first argument if not provided in macro I'm trying to construct a command with one optional and one mandatory argument and I'd like the default if the optional argument is not provided to be #2.   Why does this not work?  (error: Illegal parameter number ...)  \documentclass{article}  \newcommand{\mycommand}[2][#2]{\label{#1}#2} \begin{document} \mycommand{mytext} \end{document}   And what would be a way around it?   EDIT: For clarification of my specific use case: I'm trying to define a command that passes a variable on as an option to an environment along those lines, where myenv can have options like optionone=X or optiontwo=Y so the default for the optional #1 should be optionone=#2 (not literally #2).   \newcommand{\mycommand}[2][optionone=#2]{\begin{myenv}[#1]\input{#2}\end{myenv}}   Maybe there's generally a better approach?   (The environment definition I'm using is from .) what does the ldapadd error: "additional info: objectClass: value #2invalid per syntax mean? Why can't Chromium suddenly access any partition except for /home? I just upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 and to my horror I discovered that the default browser Chromium can no longer access other partitions than /home.  This means that my partitions containing music and videos (/multimedia) for instance are no longer accessible e.g. to upload into Google Drive. This includes USB partitions.   I found another description of this phenomenon here:  where it says  "Also, while we acknowledge that most users will only need to access their home folders, it’s worthy to mention that you no longer can access system files &amp; folders from inside Chromium (You can’t access anything except your home folder). This means that if you are to upload a file or an image for example into the Internet using an uploading website, then this file/image must be in your home folder, as you can not access directories such as /usr, /etc or other directories located in your root partition. In fact, you no longer can access any other partition at all, this includes USB sticks and other booted partitions:"  I wonder why this behaviour been introduced? it violates the whole idea of multiple disks, partitions and symlinks. Btw, this still works for Firefox.  My questions are   Are there any plans to fix this? I expect one reason for this behaviour is about security. If so, is it possible to explain why and how that makes for better security? The files on other partitions are legitimately accessible by the user anyway e.g. through symlinks. But with this change, I'll have to move them to /home before uploading so still accessing them although more slowly and cumbersome.  If this behaviour is now permanent, the question is how should we incorporate multiple disks in our filesystem?  Alternatively, can someone tell me how to find and install the debian package. I haven't been able to locate it?   This is not a duplicate of  because that is about a specific error during installation that I didn't get. My question is about the access chromium has in Ubuntu 19.10.  Anyway, I solved the problem via the following command by using the original debian package from Google:  sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable   After that I can now access my other partitions again. I know this is hacky in the sense that the package isn't native to Ubuntu so I would really like to get some advice on how to incorporate multiple disks and partitions with this new restricted behaviour of Chromium.  Thank you very much 1.7.4 Problem with mobs spawning How can I always run the command prompt as administrator? Multiple vs single field capture for phone number form input Working on a form dealing with phone numbers, I've seen two methods to capture user input .   In past practices example 2 (image below) has proved effective in controlling phone number lengths on forms.   However with responsive in mind it would seem example 1 is considered a more popular pattern on forms. I've researched both patterns with the findings below.     Example 1  Pros   1 input = less taps on mobile device 1 input = less coding   Cons   could be difficult to control phone number format (1-555-555-5555, +22444455555, and etc)   Example 2  Pros   easier to control phone format reduced user error   Cons   3 inputs = more taps on mobile device more inputs = more coding   Both inputs have pros and cons and I'm not such which method would provide the best user experience for responsive environments. Can anyone share some insight or provide a better way to use phone number inputs? How do I protect random people pointing their domain to my server? Debugging errors of SAGA interpolation algorithms in QGIS Processing? I encounter recurrent problems with the geoalgorithms that perform interpolations. No matter what technique I use I end with the following errors. As stated in the OGR tab QGIS 2.0 is unable to open a file in C drive. I have very little IT background so the message error is meaningless.   Is there anybody able to decrypt the message and solve the problem?      here this is the algorithm i used So, today is July 21st and . gives me an option to download 16.04.1 LTS. However, attempting to upgrade gets me this message -  $ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release No new release found   What is wrong? Does it matter that I am running apt-get update behind apt-cacher-ng?  Note: Commenting out the files in apt.conf.d that used apt-cacher-ng did not make a difference.  Edit: Explanation for possible duplicates:  deals with upgrade from 12.04LTS to 14.04LTS. My question is specific to 14.04 LTS to 16.04.1 LTS upgrade. Old answers, while good for archival purposes are less relevant in a fast changing package like ubuntu. Moreover none of the answers answer what is wrong. The link  pointed out is mentioned in one of the comments. This Q &amp; A is more helpful for people upgrading today than the work around mentioned in "". How can I create a custom terminal command (to run a script)? Find and extract a number from a string A Polygon is inscribed in a circle $\Gamma$ A regular polygon P is inscribed in a circle $\Gamma$. Let A, B, and C, be three consecutive vertices on the polygon P, and let M be a point on the arc AC of $\Gamma$ that does not contain B. Prove that  $MA\cdot MC=MB^2-AB^2$  I inscribed the polygon P in the unit circle and let B=1. Past this, I'm not really sure how to proceed. It might be helpful to have M at 1 as well but given that the polygon would have the n-th roots of unity in it B seemed like a good choice. What would be a good way to proceed from here? How often did Gandalf return to Hobbiton after the events of The Hobbit? My pixel perfect picture gets blurry when compiled in LaTeX Disable Ctrl+Alt+Del on Windows 7 If n is such that every element $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})^{\times}$ is a root of $x^2-1$. Prove that $n$ divides 24. Where can I find historical data on flights, specifically Delta international flights?  I need to find out about cancellations, diversions and any other flight data pertaining on particular route at a given time.  This source has to be official and stand up to legal scrutiny. What does it mean when a %CPU exceeds (# of cores) x 100%? Several responses to a question  suggested I try Opera kiosk mode, so I decided to download it and give it a try. 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