Firstly:    Enter my email address, then hit enter takes me to:    Feels like it's unnecessarily staggered, but maybe I'm missing something? This is a relatively new occurrence as well
I am not asking about the two factor authentication process where the user needs to enter both a password and a one-time-password.  Gmail recently (I don't know from when exactly) changed their login process which is depicted in the following screenshot:     So, the new steps are as follows:   Enter email   Click Next  Enter password   Click Sign In    as opposed to the previous and usual way of logging in:   Enter email and password   Click Sign In    Isn't the new process non-user friendly requiring extra user interactions?  Since, Google does not usually make UX blunders can you explain the reasoning behind the new process? I'm looking for details like user interaction simplicity or any other hidden advantages.  Note: The question  doesn't cover the reason behind the change while Mervin Johnsingh's answer cites Google's reason.
How do I show for an ideal transformer $M^2=L_1L_2$? I've been stuck on this problem for about an hour.     In an ideal transformer, the same flux passes through all turns of the primary and of the secondary . Show that in this case $M^2=L_1L_2$, where $M$ is the mutual inductance of the coils, and $L_1$, $L_2$ are their individual self-inductances.   My first instinct was the following: If we isolate the response of each coil to the other one, we get the equations $N_1\Phi_1=MI_2$ and $N_2\Phi_2=MI_1$, where $\Phi$ is magnetic flux going through a single turn of the coil and $I$ is current. Likewise, if we isolate the response of each coil to itself, we get the equations $N_1\Phi_1=L_1I_1$ and $N_2\Phi_2=L_2I_2$. I would now naturally want to say "Now just multiply $N_1\Phi_1$ and $N_2\Phi_2$ both ways, and get the desired result!" i.e.,  $$(N_1\Phi_1)(N_2\Phi_2)=(MI_2)(MI_1)=(L_1I_1)(L_2I_2)\implies M^2=L_1L_2$$  But that's incorrect, because the response of the coils to themselves and to the other coil are different quantities (i.e. not necessarily equal).  Realizing this, I write down the more general equations.  $$N_1\Phi_1=MI_2+L_1I_1$$ $$N_2\Phi_2=MI_1+L_2I_2$$  Now even with the hypothesis that $\Phi_1=\Phi_2=\Phi$, I still can't see how the identity $M^2=L_1L_2$ follows. Could you help clear up my confusion?  *Taken from D. Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics (4th ed.), Problem 7.58. Following an earlier question ,  I would love to implement the  as suggested by Russell McMahon.   That way I could switch between 4AA batteries (1.2V*4 or 1.5V*4) and USB power. The battery voltage would nicely be regulated to 5V too. And the idea was to use the shutdown pin of the chip IF USB power is detected. The device also has to work when no batteries are present.  I am not too experienced with this, but I thought to connect the 5V from the USB to the SHUTDOWN pin from the LDO chip. Pitywise, the pin function is inverted, if SHUTDOWN is low, Vout from the LDO chip is low.  I am now considering using an XOR gate to make the thing work:         &ndash; Schematic created using   I would love to limit the amount of components, but the number of diodes is already high, and the whole thing feels a bit crafted   My questions:    Is there a better suitable chip (with an inverted shutdown pin) is there a better circuit (without voltage drop) to get this (I would prefer to get rid of D1, but then, the XOR has no desired operation) Is there a way to view the site without having to look at reputation information? I do not want to track my rep information or see anyone else's.  I think that'll let me focus more on the questions themselves.  Is anyone else interested in this feature? I don't see anything on Stack Overflow itself, but are there any add-ins or  scripts that do this? While proving a universal quantification, we begin by "Let ... in ..." or "Arbitrary choose ..."? How do I connect to a MySQL Database in Python? How do I connect to a MySQL database using a python program? Rewrite Sharepoint URL (Sharepoint 2013) I'd like to rewrite all my site urls in the way the the user can't figure out the exact name of the the page his viewing. let's say that my site is "www.justarandomsite.com"  and may page is "page.aspx" I' like to have instead of "www.justarandomsite.com/pages/page.aspx" sothing like this: "www.justarandomsite.com/skdhfjksdgfjksdgfjdsgvdjhsgfjdsdsjfgkdsjgfkdsgfjdsgfjkdsg" How to cite own unpublished work in text and reference? I would like to cite one of my own unpublished work (under review). Is it okay to cite as following?  In text According to author et al. (year of submission)................. In reference authors list, year of submission, title, name of the Journal (status)   How about the results?   How will the reviewer access those results cited here?   Is it okay to provide them as supplements?   If I provide couple of figures as supplements, whether it will violate the copyright of the under reviewed paper? Java Swing: Displaying images from within a Jar what I want to do is this. I have an external hard disk drive, a SEAGATE expansion 1TB, you can take it a look here:  As you can see this is not a flash usb hard drive, it is a USB hard disk drive. What I want to do is installing Ubuntu in this external hard disk drive... BUT NOT PLACING THE GRUB ON MY C: DRIVE. In other words, I don't want to see the GRUB splash Window asking me every single time if I want to load Windows or Linux. I want my PC turn on or restart and go directly to Windows... BUT... I want to have Linux in my external USB hard disk drive How do I want to load Ubuntu then? Easy, when I restart my computer or just start it... in ASUS mother boards I have the possibility to select the boot device by pressing F8, and I get the boot menu. I want to turn on my computer, press F8, my mother board ask me what drive I want to use to load the Operating Sytem, I select the USB external hard disk drive where do I have Ubuntu, and bingo, I run Ubuntu. When I finish to use Ubuntu, I close it and turn off my computer. Later, I turn on my computer, and if I don't press F8, automatically load the hard disk drive C: and load Windows. My question about this, is what are the necessary steps to install the latest version from Ubuntu, doing exactly this. Not placing the GRUB in my C: hard disk drive, and installing it entirely in the external USB hard disk drive (normal one, not flash one). TTY doesn't wait for password I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F3 I get the terminal which prompts for the username. When I type my username and press Enter, it doesn't wait for my password (its as if I pressed Enter without entering anything). Even if I enter something, the text shown in plaintext and then it keeps on saying my password is wrong. After few times, the screen is cleared and it prompts for my username again and the same loop goes on. To select a child node in jQuery one can use children() but also find().   For example:  $(this).children('.foo');  gives the same result as:  $(this).find('.foo');  Now, which option is fastest or preferred and why? My PC was working yesterday without any problem. I shut it down and tried to open this morning. It prints out these messages on the black screen:  systemd-udevd[713]: failed to execute '/bin/systemctl' '/bin/systemctl start --no-block nvidia-persistenced.service': No such file or directory  systemd-udevd[852]: failed to execute '/bin/systemctl' '/bin/systemctl stop--no-block nvidia-persistenced': No such file or directory   It then continued with the login screen. I entered my password and pressed enter. It waited for a while and the login screen reappeared again.  How can I fix the problem? latexmk: jobname option and clean up incompatibility? I'm using  in a Makefile to compile my document. Since I want my output filename to be different from the input filename, I use latexmk's option jobname.  The problem is: it seems to be incompatible with latexmk -c to clean temporary files.  Here's the specific entry in my Makefile:  these.pdf: header.tex $(OBJS)     latexmk                 \         -pdf                \         -pdflatex="$(TEX)"  \         -jobname="these"    \         -use-make $&lt;   Input files are header.tex containing the latex instruction header and other latex content files. The output files are these.{aux,bbl,bcf,...}. Then latexmk -c does not remove temporary files: .{aux,bbl,bcf,...} files. Why does the introduced part-title in letter appear twice? Understanding Lasso Regression's sparsity geometrically Whenever someone writes about Lasso and Ridge Regression thy draw this diagram with the circle or with the diamond.    In the case of the diamond (Lasso regression) it is then always stated that Lasso forces one of the coefficients to 0. Therefor it introduces sparsity. I understand it somehow, but whenever I see the diagram my doubts return. Why couldn't one just draw it like this:    Obviously none of the coefficients is forced to zero in this case. Both can take number between -1 and 1. What am I missing? My drawing has to be wrong, but I don't get it why they always draw so that it hits $\beta_1=0$  Edit:  Just found this quote:     However, the lasso constraint has corners at each of the axes and so the ellipse will often intersect the constraint region at an axis   Is that it? It will intersect often with the constraint region, but it doesn't have to? Can't wrap my head around it. I can only imagine that in higher dimensional cases hitting a corner becomes more likely or even inevitable. Read fixed width record from text file Now that I've reached 2k on Stack Overflow, I get access to the "Suggested Edits" review queue.  Although I only have 20 edits per day, the "suggested edit awaiting" icon in the top bar is always there and it bothers me a lot!  My suggestion is to apply one of three solutions:   Remove the suggested edits icon when we reach the maximum (50) edits Remove the Highlight (orange) on the suggested edits Remove the suggested edits part when we click on it   What do you think? Can somebody explain "leveraged debt investment positions" and "exposures" in this context for me, please? "The strong bond performance has led to a surge in leveraged debt investment positions that are ultimately funded by the banks' interbank exposures and WMPs. But nobody really knows how levered these positions are, who has financed them, and by how much," S&amp;P said. "The contagion risks for the financial sector could be high."  source: What defines the maximum size for a command single argument? biblatex: Full Citations in Footnotes on Every Page How can I create this sort of bibliography using biblatex, ie, bibliography at the footer of every page?