There is a badge for using 30 votes (Suffrage) in a day.  There is also a badge (Vox Populi) for using the maximum 40 votes in a day.  However, there are no badges for doing either of these multiple times.  What I am suggesting implementing a silver badge for using 30 votes in a day 100 times and a gold badge for using 30 votes in a day 300 times.  It has frequently been my observation that people tend to get the Vox Populi and Suffrage badges and then just kind of slack off of voting.  It would be substantially beneficial to the community if people were out trying to get more voting badges.  And yes, there are definitely people who spend enough time on some of the stacks to warrant getting a badge for 30 votes 300 times without randomly voting up whatever material comes to mouse.
Granted there are already quite a few badges for community service on this site, I thought, how about some more!  The theme is merging enthusiast/fanatic with suffrage/vox populi. Something like this (names and numbers open to suggestions)  Enthusiastic Voter - Voted 20 times per day consecutively for 30 days ????? - Voted 30 times per day consecutively for 50 days Fanatic Vox - Use the maximum number of 40 votes consecutively for 100 days
How can I save application settings in a Windows Forms application? What I want to achieve is very simple: I have a Windows Forms (.NET 3.5) application that uses a path for reading information. This path can be modified by the user, by using the options form I provide.  Now, I want to save the path value to a file for later use. This would be one of the many settings saved to this file. This file would sit directly in the application folder.  I understand three options are available:   ConfigurationSettings file (appname.exe.config) Registry Custom XML file   I read that the .NET configuration file is not foreseen for saving values back to it. As for the registry, I would like to get as far away from it as possible.  Does this mean that I should use a custom XML file to save configuration settings?  If so, I would like to see code example of that (C#).  I have seen other discussions on this subject, but it is still not clear to me. I have a simular issue to the question asked in :  I have tried the solution provided by Jake. This makes that my picture fails to resize (scale) as i intend.  Whether i give Set scale=0.4 or Set scale=0.8 The size of the  picture remains the same  This is the code i use:  \begin{figure}[ht!] \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[Set scale=0.4, every node/.append style={transform shape},] % STYLES \tikzstyle{every node}=[rectangle,rounded corners, minimum width=100pt,     align=center,node distance=3cm,fill=black!10,inner sep=5pt,text width=3cm,minimum height=1.75cm,&gt;=stealth,text badly centered] % Draw forces \node [force, above of=rivalry] (top) {Firm strategy, structure and rivalry}; \node [force, left=1cm of rivalry] (left) {Factor conditions}; \node [force, right=1cm of rivalry] (right) {Demand Conditions}; \node [force, below of=rivalry] (bottom) {Related and Supporting industries}; %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Draw the links between forces \path[&lt;-&gt;,thick]  (left) edge (right) (left) edge (top) (left) edge (bottom) (top) edge (right) (bottom) edge (right); \path[&lt;-&gt;,thick]  (bottom) edge (top); \end{tikzpicture} \caption{Porter's Diamond source:~\cite{Porter:1980}}% \label{fig:diamond}  \end{figure} I think I have heard that the following is true before, but I don't know how to prove it:     Let $A$ be a matrix with real entries. Then the minimal polynomial of $A$ over $\mathbb{C}$ is the same as the minimal polynomial of $A$ over $\mathbb{R}$.   Is this true? Would anyone be willing to provide a proof?    Attempt at a proof:  Let $M(t)$ be the minimal polynomial over the reals, and $P(t)$ over the complex numbers. We can look at $M$ as a polynomial over $\Bbb C$, in which case it will fulfil $M(A)=0$, and therefore $P(t)$ divides it. In addition, we can look at $P(t)$ as the sum of two polynomials: $R(t)+iK(t)$. Plugging $A$ we get that $R(A)+iK(A)=P(A)=0$, but this forces both $R(A)=0$ and $K(A)=0$. Looking at both $K$ and $R$ as real polynomials, we get that $M(t)$ divides them both, and therefore divides $R+iK=P$.   Now $M$ and $P$ are monic polynomials, and they divide each other, therefore $M=P$.  Does this look to be correct?    More generally, one might prove the following     Let $A$ be any square matrix with entries in a field$~K$, and let $F$ be an extension field of$~K$. Then the minimal polynomial of$~A$ over$~F$ is the same as the minimal polynomial of $A$ over$~K$. How do I restore the Unity 7 Ctrl-Alt-Numpad combination behaviour on Gnome 3? By default, instead of doing something useful, the Ctrl-Alt-Numpad key combination in Gnome 3 shoves a window in the specified direction across the entire workspace. These shortcuts do not show in the Gnome 3 keyboard settings panel; they're just there, and they're in the way.  How can I get this behavior back in Ubuntu 17.10? (Sorry to re-post this, I have lost access to my original account.)  I've recently installed Kubuntu 18.04.3 on a new AMD Ryzen 3000-series-based system. The system is installed on a SATA SSD, specifically on an Ext4 partition, with a SATA HDD formatted in NTFS mounted for storage. The system has been in use for a few days, with a maximum uptime of two days (so far).  My issue is this: the HDD indicator light on the case flashes every 1-3 seconds, even when the system is idle, and there is no obvious reason to access the disk. The flashes are not regular: sometimes the light is dark for as long as 3 seconds (obviously it is difficult to time such short intervals -- I am approximating), sometimes there are a few quick pulses less than a second apart. The flashes seem to vary in duration as well -- sometimes very brief, sometimes nearly a second. Unmounting the secondary HDD does not appear to have any effect.  Some searching lead me to try iotop. I ran sudo iotop -Pao, and waited until 10 flashes of the HDD light had occurred. This is the result:   6887 be/4 root          0.00 B      0.00 B  0.00 %  0.02 % [kworker/u64:1-events_power_efficient]   433 be/3 root          0.00 B      0.00 B  0.00 %  0.02 % [jbd2/sda2-8]  6302 be/4 root          0.00 B      0.00 B  0.00 %  0.01 % [kworker/u64:0-events_unbound]   The "kworker" processes seem to switch between various states, such as "events_power_efficient", "events_unbound", and "events_freezable_power_". The jdb2 process does sometimes write to disk, though that was not observed here (even though, as I said, 10 flashes of the HDD light occurred). The computer was otherwise idle during this test.  My searches also lead me to check /var/log. The result of ls -lth | head is as follows:  -rw-r-----  1 syslog adm             951K Aug 27 19:49 kern.log -rw-r-----  1 syslog adm             594K Aug 27 19:49 syslog -rw-r-----  1 syslog adm             528K Aug 27 19:49 ufw.log -rw-r-----  1 syslog adm              53K Aug 27 19:48 auth.log -rw-r--r--  1 root   root             40K Aug 27 19:15 Xorg.0.log -rw-rw-r--  1 root   utmp             79K Aug 27 18:29 wtmp -rw-r--r--  1 root   root              55 Aug 27 16:28 prime-offload.log -rw-r--r--  1 root   root              30 Aug 27 16:28 prime-supported.log -rw-r--r--  1 root   root            1.2K Aug 27 16:28 gpu-manager.log   I have no experience interpreting log files, so I don't know if anything here is out of the ordinary.  If the kernel version is relevant, the output of uname -r is 5.0.0-25-generic.  My questions are, 1. Why is my HDD light flashing, even though there is no obvious disk activity, 2. 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