I have flagged an answer as very low quality since it barely can help OP to solve their problem (see my comment there).
The answer got two “Recommend Deletion” votes when reviewed but then the review was invalidated as shown in the post’s timeline.
The reason to invalidate the review was an e...
When used locally on arch I can easily use tab for auto completion in vim when e.g. filling in a path with deoplete. If I SSH to this computer from my laptop then tab still works for completion. But if I SSH from this computer to an Ubuntu 18.04 (or any version I think) machine then when I type t...
I noticed recently that a YouTube user is scraping Ask Ubuntu (and possibly other stackexchange sites) and posting videos with the questions and answers. A few examples:
My wireless is hard-blocked
Ask Ubuntu question - My wireless is hard-blocked
Scraped video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
I have a piece of custom software that needs to know the name of a certain network interface on multiple systems (two of them to be more exactly) on which I cannot change anything like disabling the "consistent network device naming". Some systems use this new feature from the network manager and...
@AskUbuntuMeta Wow, this has absolutely no production value, beside the intro clip the rest seems to be even electronically made and he puts out mny videos per hour O_o
you also ended up triggering my "automated spam sniper mode" because for a moment I didn't realize you were cleaning things up and thought someone was edit-spamming things :p
Yeah I was worried about something like that or the idea that it was flooding the home feed, but there really is no way to avoid that
I also specifically avoided automating it because there are edge cases, especially with "Unbuntu" as some people have actually opened specific questions where if you fix the word the questions don't make sense anymore
@KristopherIves thank you for doing this, but since you're taking the time to edit, please try and make any other improvements the post might need. For example, you edited this question today and only fixed the Ubuntu mispelling which really is the least of that post's issues.
That was riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, formatting issues etc. Since you're taking the time to edit it anyway, it would be really helpful if you could try to fix it in general instead of just getting that one typo.
I agree, but it's very hard to do that, since sometimes I load a question and there are literally more incorrectly spelled words and overall problems than correctly spelled ones etc.
@KristopherIves I know the feeling, believe me I've fixed my fair share of those!
But if you're not going to actually fix the real issues, fixing the misspelling is not really helpful. If anything, you could say it's harmful since it'll bump a bad post to the home page.
I happened to have a quick look at you review history and the vast majority of post you've edited were basically fine apart from that "Unbuntu" typo or whatever, so it's really great that you're fixing those!
What I've done this time is I've used the API to find a bunch of posts that contain a common problem, and I've dumped them to a database with the idea that I will post a link to /r/Ubuntu where everytime someone goes to the link it picks the least-viewed-item from the list and redirects the user to the post, basically trying to crowdsource things
I'm not sure about that, I know that /r/Ubuntu has integration with AskUbuntu where it disables comments by default to drive discussion to AskUbuntu instead
(To avoid duplicate discussion on Reddit itself)
Looking at the numbers it has about 1,000 active users logged in
My thinking was we could utilize the numbers to help get through some of the backlog of unanswered questions and duplicates on AskUbuntu
However, I also am fearful that people won't have enough reputation to do things, in which case it gets ugly
Right now my focus is on basic issues like wrongly spelled versions of Ubuntu as more of a test case, because long term I plan to do more useful things like find all the different questions about a subject and where appropriate mark them as duplicates of a known good question
(For example, the massive number of questions that are duplicates of "How do I partition" etc.)
My theory is that doing this item-by-item is very hard because there are N number of different things, but given a context and doing it in "batches" it's actually doable.
You can't crowd source it dumb because the Stack Exchange search function automatically omits block quoted text, so it skips from one "the " to the next "the " and returns 90% false positives.
I just tested it with the API and the search there does work
For example I ran curl 'https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search/advanced?order=desc&sort=activity&site=askubuntu&body=the+the&pagesize=100' | gunzip > out.json
I've just purchased an RTX 2060 and so far everything works well in my environment / setup. However, I am still unable to profile my code --
(nvidia) brandon@b350-gaming-pc:~/projects/nvidia$ nvprof ./example.py
==29983== NVPROF is profiling process 29983, command: python3 ./example.py
Time: 0....
I am running Pop!_OS 19.04 with nvidia drivers. When I boot into "NVIDIA Graphics" from the gnome menu everything works fine.
$ nvidia-smi
Mon Sep 9 17:06:06 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 435.21 Driver Version: 43...
@KristopherIves Sorry, I had to get some work done so I stepped away. I am really not very comfortable with the idea of doing this on redit. While such drives could be great, my gut feeling is that they should be organized here, on meta and not on an external site.
The idea is really good, but since we have Meta here which has often been used for this sort of thing, it seems much better to do it here.
For one thing, you'd give the community a chance to let you know if they want it in the first place. Many folks feel one-word edits to fix typos are disruptive. I personally don't agree, but that is a common position.
So, @KristopherIves, before getting a bunch of folks from redit to descend on the site and start suggesting edits, please post a question on meta about this and see what the response is.
@KristopherIves Maybe so, but the meta is where this community can express its views and starting some sort of collaborative effort about this community without checking that this community wants what you have to offer seems wrong.
I guess I'm having terrible visions of a mass of redit people with no knowledge of this site or its norms descending upon us with loads of minor edits which will create a lot of work for the reviewers for very little net benefit. But that's me.
But that's why I think it's important to get the opinion of meta first. If only to be able to point to a meta discussion if anyone accuses you of flooding the front page and/or the review queues.
@KristopherIves Yes, that's the problem. Edit suggestions for just minor typos are usually frowned upon since that requires 3 people to review.
And we already have a dearth of reviewers, so taking up the time of those few users who do review with things like fixing Ubuntu misspellings can be taken as a waste of their time by some.
@KristopherIves I think it will probably be well received, to be honest. I personally tend to be in favor of anything that improves the site, even a little, but it should be done delicately so the locals here don't feel like a horde of rediters just came down on us like a ton of bricks! :)
And there's a lot of bad blood between SE and reddit. Or, so I gather, I'm not active on redit at all. But there have been various reddit threads about how awful SE is and reddit is one of the places people gather round to bash SE. Not entirely without reason, mind you, but still.
There are reddit threads about everything being bad and lots of cranky people who just want to rage bait and complain about whatever is fun that specific day / hour / minute.
When i install ubuntu 18.04 i adjusted vm.swappiness = 10
Everything perfectly works and still.
But today decided to make video about influence of it to parameter on a system.
Changed parameter to 90.
rebooted a system (I know about sysctl -p !)
A result all the same in swap begins to dump ...
On a virtual ubuntu box the mailx command has -a refers to the content headers and -f adds attachments. Whereas on my school's virtual machines (I think they run centOS) -a adds attachments.
I tried installing both bsd-mailx and mailutils but both had -a as referring to the content headers.
Is ...
@KristopherIves I'm not sure what to do in that case, because one answer is for one of the two questions, and the other answer is for the other one.
I might be overlooking something, but I'm not finding anything about this on Ask Ubuntu Meta. I might be worth posting there to see what more people think.
I have flagged an answer as very low quality since it barely can help OP to solve their problem (see my comment there).
The answer got two “Recommend Deletion” votes when reviewed but then the review was invalidated as shown in the post’s timeline.
The reason to invalidate the review was an e...
I noticed recently that a YouTube user is scraping Ask Ubuntu (and possibly other stackexchange sites) and posting videos with the questions and answers. A few examples:
My wireless is hard-blocked
Ask Ubuntu question - My wireless is hard-blocked
Scraped video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
I am running Pop!_OS 19.04 with nvidia drivers. When I boot into "NVIDIA Graphics" from the gnome menu everything works fine.
$ nvidia-smi
Mon Sep 9 17:06:06 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 435.21 Driver Version: 43...
When i install ubuntu 18.04 i adjusted vm.swappiness = 10
Everything perfectly works and still.
But today decided to make video about influence of it to parameter on a system.
Changed parameter to 90.
rebooted a system (I know about sysctl -p !)
A result all the same in swap begins to dump ...
On a virtual ubuntu box the mailx command has -a refers to the content headers and -f adds attachments. Whereas on my school's virtual machines (I think they run centOS) -a adds attachments.
I tried installing both bsd-mailx and mailutils but both had -a as referring to the content headers.
Is ...
