Ho hum... Users that just want to use a specific tool or set of tools for doing things... :-/
I'm going to try to get my very old "kusalananda" account merged with my current one. The only problem is that I don't have access to it and that I also don't have access to any of the email addresses that I might have used when registering the account. I recently saw one of my old answers from 2011 resurface...
I have submitted a request for that. I don't know how they handle cases when I can't actually reply to emails sent to the old account's registered email address though.
@FaheemMitha Yes, and the email address that the new password is sent to is a black hole.
@Kusalananda It's a fair amount of trouble to go to for something that doesn't actually matter very much, but if you contacted the admins at EBI, the chances are they would be willing to help out.
I mean, everyone knows SE.
@Kusalananda If you're not even sure of the email address, then that makes it very difficult. But the SE admins might be willing to tell you what the email address associated with the account is.
@StephenKitt I guess it is because I can't delete comments :D and I don't know how to and I think the big four you terdon gilles and slm make most of the work in this area :D
@Archemar I can't consult deleted answers but as much unrealistic it is to create ACL for every single binary it is possible
I do agree but still if you want to be super extreme in every way you could play with ACL but I guess that not being realistic and certainly not exploitable in real life.
The question doesn't make much sense, imo. I'm not sure I understand what the poster is trying to do. But ACL clearly isn't the answer here, in any case.
@FaheemMitha people dreamt about security so they want to have a root account with password I agree this is bullshitt but if this site was only about interesting relevant documented question there would be only a thousand members and it would be very sad not to see all those people trying to ask the most strangest things to finally say, what I want is that when I enter my office the light switch on automatically...
Also what is a wiki answer ? what the point to it ? I have wrote once a wiki answer and I though I wouldn't rep out of it but I still does how does it work ?
@Kiwy we can’t delete comments, but flagging them for deletion is quite effective here (and the mods appreciate it, which is pretty unusual on Stack Exchange)
@Kiwy I use them when I write up an answer which is just a remix of “answers in comments”
I'm leaning towards the first, namely the Soehnle KSD Page Digital Kitchen Scale, though this appears to be the Page Profi (also available on amazon.com).
@StephenKitt Huh?
Our options here are rather more limited than on Amazon, unfortunately.
The Zaap claims to be waterproof. I wonder if that is a desirable property for weighing scales. Though maybe this question would be better asked on Seasoned Advice Chat.
@FaheemMitha “kitchen weighing scale” suggests one should be able to weigh a kitchen with one, not just use it in the kitchen (and yes, I know what you mean)
math () {
case $1 in
scale)
shift
local scale=$1
;;
*)
local equation=$@
break
;;
esac
if [[ -n $scale ]]; then
bc<<<"scale=$scale; $equation"
else
bc<<<"$equation"
fi
}
I think I can do something like shift $# instead of break though
I was trying to save time by not having to quote my bc math but now * will expand to the current directory contents
it sort of works though like this:
math () {
while (( $# )); do
case $1 in
scale)
shift
local scale=$1
shift
;;
*)
local equation=$@
shift $#
;;
esac
done
if [[ -n $scale ]]; then
bc<<<"scale=$scale; $equation"
else
bc<<<"$equation"
fi
}
He's freaking asking so much question and they often end up being bad ones or very badly formulated or even terribly simple. but he looks like he's finding all newbie question of the internet to feed the site
I recently found this: Is it possible to convert audio to midi with the shell?
As you can see, the person actually leading to the answer, used the comments section to provide his answer, instead of posting a actual answer-post.
The person who asked the question, then added an answer based on wh...
@Kusalananda eh, I think I can explain some things well but I am lacking a lot of experience. I have only really been exposed to *nix heavily for a year or so now
@FaheemMitha Hmmm, no idea about those in particular, but (a) if the tare button is on the weighing platform, can be bloody hard to tare the scale w/o putting any extra weight on it; (b) make sure whatever you want to weigh doesn't block the display — common issue with compact scales.
@FaheemMitha The whole glass top is the weighing platform (probably) which looks like where the tare button is. The button is probably capacitive so doesn't need much pressure, but it's hard not to add at least a few grams when pressing it
And easy to make a mistake. You have 173 grams showing, need to add another 58 grams of something... Its far easier to hit tare and measure to 58 than remember to measure to 231.
I haven't used that scale, possibly they've found a solution... I've used one my parents have with a similar design, and its a pain. Not insurmountable...
@derobert Possibly not. Unless I decide to weigh postage stamps. Or maybe letters. But it doesn't come up much.
What do you do precision work for?
@StephenKitt Here is an extract from a review about the hold function:
> The hold function works perfect. You press hold, a beep sound indicates that it is on hold mode. Place item on the scale, another beep sound indicates that the reading is ready. Then you can remove the item and see the reading.
@FaheemMitha Salt, yeast are often in single-digits grams. Various food additives, too (like the sodium citrate I was ordering a few weeks ago). Some are in the <1g range (like the SHMP). And spices are often <1g.
So when making bread, I'll expect it to measure a few hundred g for flour, water; few tens of grams of fat, sugar, milk powder, etc; and <10g of salt, yeast.
@FaheemMitha Nothing wrong with that for things you can taste as you go...
A lot of things you can get away with eyeballing the ingredient amounts. How much onion goes in that stew? One big-ish onion. It doesn't matter that much. How much salt? Until it tastes right...
First of all, thank you for asking here on meta first - I know that the rules seem to be rather inconsistent between various Stack Exchanges.
The simple answer is no, however, most of the time, that's not what you really want. Anybody can recommend their favourite products, but when all is said...
So I guess you might get away with what should I look for when purchasing a scale...
> I'll start by saying that this question very broad and shows very little original research, and that this answer shouldn't be seen as an encouragement of that type of question, but I don't have the site rep to comment, downvote, or report.
Don't often get someone saying something like that. :-)
Sigh. This user now has three unregistered accounts and comments by adding answers: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/435794/… What's the boilerplate text to add to that?
(the comment-answers were converted into real comments by Michael)
I'm thinking of buying a modern, probably electronic kitchen scale, to replace my really ancient mechanical one. I'm located in Bombay, India.
I'm wondering what considerations should inform my decision.
After a brief discussion on U&L Stack Exchange chat, here were some points of discussion.
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I'm thinking of buying a modern, probably electronic kitchen scale, to replace my really ancient mechanical one. I'm located in Bombay, India.
I'm wondering what considerations should inform my decision.
After a brief discussion on U&L Stack Exchange chat, here were some points of discussion.
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