Hello everyone, Is it OK to change your question from what is the problem ? to how to solve this problem ? https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/468548/53092 As I answered his first question, now my answer is offtopic while it was OK before the edit.
Question has gone from why am i seing this error ? to how can I remove this error which are two complete different question. So Should I encourage the OP to rewind and ask a new question ? or should I just remove my answer because I can answer the first question not the second one
@Kiwy Ideally, the poster should have asked a new question instead of changing the question. Especially if (as I understand to be the case) you had already answered the original question. You could ask him to change the question back to the original version, and ask a new question.
And if he won't do that (and it seems likely that he won't), probably the best thing to do would be to delete the answer.
In doubt you could ask the mods or other high rep users. I'm no expert on SE etiquette.
Judging from the comments he's left, he strikes me as one of those people who doesn't seem to understand that he is asking strangers for free help. His tone is generally inappropriate.
Well, he appears to be a new user, so perhaps he doesn't understand how things work.
It matters because this site is often in google results and is supposed to help people. If everybody edits its previous questions to ask the new one, we loose all the Q&A thing
@Kiwy I haven't looked at the question or your answer, but personally, if I had answered a question and the question changed, I would annotate my answer with something like "Answer before the question changed:" (possibly detailing what the question used to look like), and then possibly also answer the new question in the same answer, further down.
It kinda depends on how much effort I had put in the original answer and how annoyed I was.
I'll move one sure, I just try to play by the rules, I've seen lots of complain recently about how rude our community was, I don't think we are and I don't know if those critics have always been there but it encourages me to be more thorough on how t handle some situation
Thanks for your answers @Kusalananda and @MichaelHomer
@FaheemMitha It's the cost of the digger, verifying the plans, adapting the plans, move other underground items out of the way or tunneling underneath them (gas pipe breaches anyone???) Etc.
@Kiwy I normally leave a comment below such a question before reverting the edit :
You've substantially changed the question, invalidating the answers already posted. Therefore it is better to [ask a new question](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask) and leave this one as is *because we don't charge extra if you would ask an additional question and provide a link to this one if it provides additional context*... **;-)**
@Fabby ah right, yes, I’ve seen some maintenance on underground lines but not very often (but when it happens, you certainly notice, especially when it’s below your window at 2am)
in this case there was a substation failure and they realised a section of cabling on the backup link was bad and would cause the backup to fail too if they didn’t dig it up and fix it
so two huge trucks turned up, dug the road up in just a few minutes, and over the next few hours they fixed everything
but not many people got much sleep in the neighbourhood that night
incidentally, the area I live in now is mostly houses, with aerial power; all the HTA lines have been buried, but the BT lines are left up because the break-even point is very, very far out (I used to work for Enedis and saw the analyses)
This question was bumped to the front due to an edit. I was just about to answer it when I saw that I already had answered it. However, I can't for the life of me remember why I'm using [a]bc/ and not abc/ as the pattern. Anyone care to explain to me? :-) unix.stackexchange.com/a/456925/116858
Ah, I get it now. It's only needed if I want all the matching directories. Ha, I'm smart.
@Fabby short run? Yes, in Chicago, underground was the norm. I think is generally is in big cities. It's true here too, thousands of miles away from the United States. In NC they seemed to favor trees and possibly power lines. But even the buildings in NC aren't built to last.
Actually, around here, they regularly dig up the pavements to install or repair new stuff. Not quite sure what they are doing. And they are really slow about it. Often it's not clear what they are doing. The prevailing theory is that they often dig stuff up just because they feel like this. Given that this is India, this is not as absurd a theory as it might seem.
Recently, there is talk of fiber. But nobody actually seems to have fiber. Maybe they install the fiber and then nobody uses it? <Shrug.>
@PrabhjotSingh I see that that Huffington Post is reporting that the Aadhaar database is compromised.I'm absolutely astonished that a database developed by the Indian government to store confidential data about hundreds of millions of people isn't absolutely secure. Who would have imagined it?
@FaheemMitha Yeah, so instead of one contractor digging a hole, another coming in a week later and putting cables down and another coming back and filling up the hole, they now work together
Just 5m² is actually a hole and all the rest is closed.
@Fabby Still not sure I follow. You're saying they charge the contractors money for the area they dig up, so providing them with an incentive to not dig up more than necessary?
@FaheemMitha anything which causes part of the public roadway (or sidewalk etc) to not be usable by the public needs to be pre-approved, and needs the section of public roadway to be rented by the occupier
so the longer it’s occupied (dug up or otherwise), the more expensive it is
@StephenKitt I see. So they pay for the amount they dig up, as well as for how long they dig it up for? In that case, the term "rent" seems accurate, certainly.
@FaheemMitha whenever you cause a public area to no longer be available to the public, you need to rent it (for your exclusive use), and the cost depends on the size of the area and the duration
> Between 8.30am Tuesday and 8.30am Wednesday, the Santacruz weather station, representative of the suburbs and Mumbai, recorded 331.4mm rain, which is the highest 24-hour August rain in a decade. During the same time Colaba recorded 111mm rain. Before Tuesday, the highest 24-hour August rain for the decade was recorded on August 29, 2011, when the city received 232.6mm rainfall.
And compared to some places, the rainfall here isn't that high.
@derobert That's why it's called the rainy season. We had crazy rain in September 2016. And I think this July it was also pretty bad one week. It just kept raining.
@FaheemMitha in the not too distant past, it “was decided” that the sea wouldn’t ever rise more than x inches off the East coast of the US, and planning permissions etc. should only consider that, even though it was already known that the sea rose by much more than x (with storm surges etc.)
it would fit in with that for NWS forecast offices not to be allowed to forecast or record rainfall above a certain amount
because who cares about actual measurements, right?
