The trolling comments by stackoverflow.com/users/608639/jww?tab=activity may have been removed by moderator, when you reach there. The close votes or downvotes by him and other people with the same mindsets are still there. Their influences are still there.
I don't care about reputations at all. What I worry the most is that a post with net downvotes can be removed by community bot automatically, and become closed or invisible.
Now my second post has been deleted by moderator https://stackoverflow.com/users/106224/boltclock because I "demonstrated lack of interest in pursuing the matter", whileI never did and never will.
And my post was closed earlier by https://stackoverflow.com/users/584192/samuel-liew because "This will only be on-topic if there is some code/scripting involved", while my post mentions Linux kernel C structures and fields.
I don't know why SO have such moderators. I recalled I have had some unpleasant experiences with them before
@PrabhjotSingh Yes, of course. It looks like he has separate accounts for the Great Outdoors, SO, and U&L. None of them are linked together. While this isn't an absolute requirement, it's pretty standard practice.
@FaheemMitha No, not by email. I was searching article for you. Then it was a paid article. But since that day I ve been getting 2 articles under engage site in waterfox browser. Even i can't make this out.
You would be surprised to know since then I ve not visited EPW.
When I run python run.py I get dozens of lines on both stdout and stderr, but when I run python run.py 2>&1 |grep -v "XYZ" most lines do not appear. None of the lines contain the charaters "XYZ". Any idea what is going on?
I wrote run.py, it only does some boring calculations with a few prints and a few warnings caused by tensorflow.image.decode_jpeg ... no terminal/output tricks.
@Tim it seems to me that the moderator of the site -- sorry, two moderators of the site -- decided that your post was off-topic. I'm not sure that we have any more influence than they do. They also suggested that you raise the topic on Meta Stack Overflow, so if you want a positive experience on SO, I'd suggest listening to them.
@Tim I wonder if you're talking "past" each other on the definition of "coding" (one being "programming in the general sense" and the other being "C code")
@sebasth I am a non-native English speaker, and I do have English spelling checking in my Android and my Mac...the spelling checker in Linux acts up a bit......
@Fabby @FaheemMitha Just had beans with assorted meats and wine in my vacations....
I don't know other countries in Europe but India is so ignored from the media here in France... I don't even know if it's a democratic country or not. I'm ashamed of my own ignorance...
1.5 Billions inhabitants and no one ever talw about India except to mention how awesome was Gandhi ...
I don't really understand. Though lately there's apparently some information about possible financial exchange regarding plane sold to India by a French company that suck balls...
@Kiwy Chrome has much better nice fonts. Firefox on itś multiple encations can be and is lighter on resources, and exposes much more internal variables to tweak. And now you have SCT on chrome complicating things (Firefox most probably will follow suit, but they are "beta testing")
@Kiwy oh, and that nonsense of hiding www and m. and now backing away....users with browsers changing behaviour lo
@StephenKitt Do you by change now of any systemd/kernel change where those device names not using /dev/mapper are being ignored? Found some relates in Google of anedoctal tales of people having that same problem, but no concrete leads.
@StephenKitt Actually several related problems kernel?/udev/systemd/multipath interactions of old bugs and no security updates...SAP servers and the mentality if it works, leave them alone.
@StephenKitt Found some white papers, related bugs and anedoctal tales of people in the same situation....what a mess.
@StephenKitt I was just curious of that old notation, and being translated to dev mapper in mtab...did not find much about it.
@StephenKitt For sure, I just did not know that syntax/translation to dev mapper. SAP people only follow SAP bulletins, sAP tells them hey, interaction between kernel version and SAP, time to upgrade kernel, and the rest of the packages are in an older version....
@FaheemMitha We also here are a "democracy" when in fact we are somewhere between a plutocracy and an oligarchy
@PrabhjotSingh Sociecity is still somewhat fair and peaceful here at least. I can leave my mobile and wallet at my desk in an open office with 100 people without problems.
@JohnDoea show some links we might be able to explain why he did
@RuiFRibeiro hidding http and www is one of the worst design I ever see. I do not even understand who once says in a meeting: "hey we could hide valuable information that people are use to see. It could suck ass and annoys everybody but when you would use copy paste it would copy the hidden information so the user could rage even more. Ho and better the change would be reversible in a hidden/obscure variable in about:config. Who's in ? " "Ho yeah bandon that's actually an amazing idea !" "We should certainly do this ! Display useful informations to users is so main stream ! "
@FaheemMitha You're absolutly right, 1.3B. I live in year 2025, that's why I mistaken and says a wrong number... my apologize. Still it is the second most populated country... I know pretty much to nothing...
I try to understand Stephen Kitt's answer to this question where he created a temporary directory with the following code:
#!/bin/bash
scripttmp=$(mktemp -d) # Create a temporary directory
Each time I run this command I see a new temporary directory created under /tmp/ (I didn't know it will ...
None of the changes were particularly helpful, and one was actually detrimental: please don't use code formatting for things that aren't code. "inode" is a noun, it isn't a piece of code so it shouldn't be rendered as code.
That one is also kind of problematic. I don't see how any of the changes you suggested are improvements. You changed UK spelling to US spelling, you added the term "direct command" which doesn't make much sense, you changed the text in a comment in the code but your change made the comment ungrammatical.
user141350
IMO these were good, but where did I use code formatting in the first one?
And the changes you made to the first paragraph seem odd to me. They don't make the post clearer or easier to understand, they just change the phrasing.
@Kiwy The US spellings were changed to more closely represent the way some words are pronounced. Since we actually say realiZe when we speak, they made it correct to spell it that way. I guess this was Noah Webster's reform, but I'm not sure.
> Although realize is now regarded by many in the U.K. and Australasia as the American spelling, it is not an Americanism. In fact, the -ize spelling variant is older than –ise—realize predates the United States and Canada by nearly two centuries—and has been the preferred spelling throughout most of the word’s history in English. If we can believe the ngram below, which graphs the use of realize and realise in British books and journals published between 1800 and 2000, realise had a brief ascendancy in British English from the late 19th century through the early 20th, but
@terdon yeah, no problem. Was struggling with it :) Memory is not what it used to be and we need to shift to English at home again....shifted to Portuguese to teach grammar to my wife maybe 3 or 4 years ago.
@fabby I said "Forget about it" :P Actually there's quiet a lot of French that have a terrible french but I guess it's the same in pretty much every country
@Fabby I cannot say all the people here speak PT well. I do not need subtitles for Spanish, however for the inhabitants of our islands, I would prefer to have subtitles. ;)
@RuiFRibeiro but you would carry your little spy on your nose hearing anything people could told you and watching every of your moves... It would be so lovely !
which work neatly both ways and can cause lots of confusion !
anyway !
It's time to go home and have a beer !
ho and @StephenKitt If you happen to leave near by and want to hear some Irish music there's an irish jam in the bryan's pub Cours emile zola. I'll be there
Sure, but we've been reading them for decades. They make sense now, but we as users of this site, need to remember that they were much harder to read when we began.
And some people here leave really obnoxious comments like "this is all in the man page, go read that instead of wasting our time" and that really pisses me off.
Both because it isn't that simple to read a man page and because I just don't understand why someone would waste their time leaving such a pointless and unpleasant comment instead of simply moving on to the next question.
I mean, if you don't like a question, then move on. Or, if you must, downvote and move on. But why leave a comment which is nothing but noise? And unpleasant noise.
@terdon Two sides of the balance too there...there are bad questions, there are both comments. I do not enjoy entertaining bad quality questions either, you know it ;)
@terdon As for man pages, well we also read them when we did not understand much...it makes me think how I usually read a technical book actually. I tend to give it a first read cover to cover even I do not make much of it, and then do a much slower read. 2 pass parsing system lol
@RuiFRibeiro What do you mean? If a question is bad, you downvote.
I am talking about those people who choose to leave obnoxious, condescending comments calling out new users for their ignorance, as though they were born experts.
This site is not only for experts, it is 100% for newbies as well. And yet, some of us come here and leave comments making fun of new users because they don't know enough.
@terdon Yeah, I understood you were not. However, as we read man pages in the beggining, people also has to start somewhere, I think. man pages have their value...though I miss Ultrix man pages. They had actual examples. SE actually has a negative impact on the man pages, I think.
Also, you can't compare someone who works professionally with *nix systems and someone who just wants to use them as a tool. Not everyone has the time to sit down and read through documentation. You do that when *nix is the main object of your work. If you just need to get something done so you can continue with your real work, spending a few hours going through documentation isn't really an option.
And that's kinda what we're here for. I mean, 80% of all questions on the site could presumably be answered if you look through all available documentation closely enough.
But reading the entire rsync manual, for example, will take a very long time and you can't expect someone who isn't a sysadmin to always have the time to do so.
@RuiFRibeiro Precisely. But you're a sysadmin aren't you? Someone else using this site could be a dancer, or a florist or whatever and they don't have the time to sit down and read manuals cover to cover.
When your main interest or profession is about computers, then of course you'll read through the documentation. If, however, you're just a casual user (and we have a lot of casual users in the Linux world these days), then you won't. And you shouldn't need to.
I don't know about other places, but Indian hospitals are fairly horrible places to spend time in.
Whether one is sick or not.
Hmm, fetchmail seems to have got stuck. Weird.
@PrabhjotSingh So you think the SC judgment was a good one, then?
It's sad that there was only one dissenting opinion holding it unconstitutional.
@PrabhjotSingh Are you subscribed to rethink-aadhaar@lists.riseup.net?
Not a discussion list, just an announcement list.
For some reason, no discussion list exists for this Aadhaar thing.
user141350
6:23 PM
@terdon I see your point. Slebetman wrote:
# assume the only argument passed is -----------------# something we can "call"/execute
I believe I was confused due to the vast spacing and the extra # sign and misread the is the end, hence added "this" after "assume", trying to "complete" the author's intention.
Bad mental state due to insane stress which will hopefully fade away soon after some deep changes in my life... Geographical, Noiseonal, nutritional and more.
I'm really sorry for the trouble. I thank you for the review !!!
user141350
Note: Each hyphen is a space (the spaces omitted when publishing the comment so I replaced them with hyphens.
@PrabhjotSingh If you want to file a tax return yes.
Possibly for other reasons. It's not clear.
Based on what I've seen of judgements of the Supreme Court in the past, I'm not impressed in general. They seems as confused, muddled, and chaotic as the rest of the country.
@FaheemMitha Most important takeaway is Aadhar is constitutionally valid. I have one confusion related to "original" three judge bench cuz some petitions are still pending before that bench.
@FaheemMitha Three judge bench hearing petitions from start. after clubbing some petitions Five judgs bench Constitution bench was created that asked whether pdivacy is a basic right so 9 judge bench was formed.
I dunno whether that would be hearing. this ia my confusion. In privacy judgdment Justice Rohington Nariman said that three judge bench will hear some cases.
@FaheemMitha < I think these judges just don't want to upset the govt too much. 4 to 1, really? Why you think so?
@PrabhjotSingh Because they ruled the way they did. For example, putting it in a Money Bill was clearly improper, bordering on criminal. And trying to force everyone to use it was coercion, plain and simple.
And you notice they didn't hold the Govt in contempt.
Also, it sounds like they made no attempt to address the widely reported security Aadhaar issues.
@PrabhjotSingh About what? The Money Bill. Regardless, the intent is pretty clear. And numerous people have said as much. But India has always been a great place to engage in criminal activity. The law is as likely to help criminals as not.
> the judgement is totally misleading. if the Aadhar is to be linked with pan card and Itax. how not mandatory for bank account. for opening of any bank account you need to submit the pan card and pan card is linked to your aadhar automatically the aadhar details are with bankers.
Aside from the terrible English, as usual.
But see what I said above about Supreme Court judgments.
I try to understand Stephen Kitt's answer to this question where he created a temporary directory with the following code:
#!/bin/bash
scripttmp=$(mktemp -d) # Create a temporary directory
Each time I run this command I see a new temporary directory created under /tmp/ (I didn't know it will ...
