In the following question and answer, I've explained how one could go to a certain bus station in Tbilisi to catch a minibus to Yerevan. I added two things, the address of the station along with the geocoordinates, as "X bus station" can sometimes be hard to find in developing countries like Geor...
I'm a UK passport holder, my wife isn't we don't live in UK, if she gets a UK visit visa, does this entitle her to travel to the Schengen area or do i need to get her a separate schengen visa ?
@Gayot I think somewhere Joel or Jeff recommend downvoting answers that are just repetition of another on the same post, provided there is a time gap (I seem to recall 30m?) IMO the time gap is irrelevant (the second answer, if of equivalent quality is 'not useful' even if posted a second later). However there is a small (I suspect minority) school of thought that has 'duplicates' useful as confirmation of the quality of one another. I am not of that school.
@pnuts If both users published within moments of each other, that's a wonderful happen-so, it means the answers are easy to find. When the separation is more than an hour or so, then it's a different thing.
From a rep point of view, indeed may seem harsh (I guess that's why the ~30m or whatever) but from the point of view of operation of the site for the benefit of others, the first 'copy' is enough. I have deleted answers of mine timed microseconds later. Note that "more readable wording" counts as a different answer here (in my book).
thanks. when the answer's owner gets snarky about helpful community improvements then there can be no harm in submitting a clearer wording as a new answer I suppose
@pnuts please do not delete when the situation is parallel composition! It takes me longer because I have to get the links. Do not delete until I have a chance to up vote
my favourite rewording answers are ones that summarize the disparate facts from multiple other answers especially hard to read multiple answers that have useful facts that are hard to sift out
@hippietrail If one is better than the other then they are not duplicates. On SO though it can often happen that both answers show the same code - and very little else!
@GayotFow Not sure what you are asking me to do, but may be worth bearing in mind I rarely answer on this site so would guess I have deleted my own (earlier) answer only two or three times here.
i haven't noticed it going on here not that notice everything
has anyone tried using airbnb in rural areas of developing countries?
i've never used it at all but since i found free wi-fi in this little township i was just looking to see what the cheapest level of accommodation was. and some things on airbnb are cheaper than the cheapest hostels i've stayed in so far
bah it shows results that are actually pretty far away
@Gayot The context is answers that are the same - so there is still one version for your vote! If you are trying to use all your allowance, may I suggest more -1s? Almost every Q gets at least one +1 and about a third of them are duplicates or off topic. I would appreciate -1s on those.
my plan was to stick as close to the cost so i could find a spot for the tent with a sea breeze. but because there's lots of rivery bits the smaller roads don't have bridges over, i'm a mile or two inland. and i'm on the flat west coast.
@CMaster I think not supposed to +1 them! Anyway, vote how you like, I consider them not useful. SEO and FAQ should, in my opinion, be balanced against the sort of mess SO has got itself into - as TSE is heading for once volumes increase.
Downvote tooltip on questions says "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful"
help centre says "When should I vote down?
Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy, no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps dangerously incorrect.
You have a limited number of votes per day, and answer down-votes cost you a tiny bit of reputation on top of that; use them wisely."
@CMaster I am well aware of that, as I said I find duplicates "not useful" (and obviously, with the same Q already on TSE, makes "research effort" distinctly dubious).
Which, by the way, I need my allies to upvote my question on the main site. It is a full, SERIOUSLY important question and is getting SFA attention from the self-absorbed geeks over there
I have a Windows 10 folder with lots of multi-part RAR files. The 'root' rar and its parts need to be segregated and then moved into their own folders. I can do this manually by creating a folder and inspecting the file names such that the root rar and then 'part01.rar', 'part02.rar', etc. are a...
@hippietrail hey, you spent a lot of time in Georgia right ?
caravanistan says you don't need a letter of invitation for a regular tourist visa, but the georgiaconsul website doesn't specify, it doesn't even say it's mandatory
no idea because it never came up with anyone i knew there from anywhere. this is the first i'm hearing of georgian LOIs. but then again it doesn't feel impossible to me that citizens of some country might need it for some kind of visa
i'm gonna log out and get food. dunno when food places close here.
@blackbird Yeah, I can be like that too. But I don't have any to offer right now. I remember reading something to that effect in an official document (maybe the regulation defining the customs allowances?) but there is such a maze of rules and documentation...
Error 1 'SharpCompress.Common.Rar.RarVolume' does not contain a definition for 'VolumeFile' and no extension method 'VolumeFile' accepting a first argument of type 'SharpCompress.Common.Rar.RarVolume' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
no joy with the nuget version
@CMaster That author needs a serious check-up from the neck-up. His versioning is a nightmare
@CMaster the FileInfo class is there, but it's private. I will have to use string parsing on the names :( Uncool. If nobody answers my question I'll accept yours; I already gave it +1 :)
never ever assume some trivial sounding thing is indeed trivial
it's probably not 10k to unpack some RARs but 10k to communicate with the client, understand their needs, iterate their needs over the timeframe of the project, deliver on time something working which is effin rare in the sw industry
i know all this
i have been making a living out of this for quite a few years
someone handed me a 50k row XLS sheet written in Farsi and asked for some data extraction thinking I will do machine learning and stuff. Hell no. I extracted a few strings by hand, ran a string search, extracted a few more and so forth at the end (as expected by the way) there were about 75 strings extracted in less than an hour. Machine learning, blargh.
Never underestimate the "big data" capabilities of awk :P
@GayotFow, I am trying to write an answer out of that comment on the Irish visa for parent but not for child. I wonder if I have to dive into the regulations or whether it is an easy one.
I am travelling from Lagos to Dublin via Edinburgh and I have an Irish biometric visa marked "BC", this qualifies me to transit without a visa, however my son who is a minor, 5 yrs old was exempted from biometrics so his visa has "no BC" but clearly marked that he is accompanied by me.
Can he t...
Not to make easy rep, I do not find this easy at all, but to help OP and others with the same problems. An answer is easier to find that some hidden comment.
Sofie has been on the site a while, she did come back to tell she is not part of the company but a friend who wants to help out. (now deleted 'answer' which I edited in when it was posted.)
I have seen check-in desks pop up, be open for an hour and disappear before the flight it due, with airport changing to digital displays of airlines on the desks it is even easier.
In some airports each airline has its own bag drop off. In others there seems to be a more centralized drop off point, accepting for more airlines. (Some might even do for all airlines, but I can not remember one of those.)
In AMS you used to have a bag drop off at each check-in position and only a few specialized ones for special luggage, (oversized and such) Maybe he was looking for one of those.
I'm a UK passport holder, my wife isn't we don't live in UK, if she gets a UK visit visa, does this entitle her to travel to the Schengen area or do i need to get her a separate schengen visa ?
I am travelling from Lagos to Dublin via Edinburgh and I have an Irish biometric visa marked "BC", this qualifies me to transit without a visa, however my son who is a minor, 5 yrs old was exempted from biometrics so his visa has "no BC" but clearly marked that he is accompanied by me.
Can he t...
