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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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Incubator Q&A Is Google Analytics 4 able to integrate with domain properties from Google Search Console?

In the old Universal Analytics, I was unable to show stats from a "domain" property that I had created in Google Search Console. I was only able to integrate a "prefix" property. I haven't tried ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Meta Use tags instead of posts to describe sites?

We talked about using tag descriptions instead of the Descriptions category, but there were a few issues: We want the people interested in a proposal to be able to collaboratively edit the des...

posted 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Incubator Q&A should be the default landing page for Proposals

"Incubator Q&A" should be the default landing page when users go to proposals.codidact.com. The idea here is that whenever you propose a site, you can post some questions (and answers) to Incu...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A What income groups benefit from IRAs?

In the United States, there are various IRAs intended to help ordinary people save for retirement. It appears that generally, one funds these accounts and purchases securities with the funds. In ex...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Should I buy down my mortgage rate?

If you assume the value of money will not significantly change over the course of the loan, it is normally better to buy down rates as much as possible. This is similar to how a larger down payment...

posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How to get back only code from ChatGPT responses?

I want to use ChatGPT to edit individual source code files. When I give it the file and state what changes I want, it tends to do those quite well, but it's also very chatty and includes a lot of e...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What computational resources are needed to train GPT-NeoX?

GPT-NeoX is provided as open source software which you can train yourself: https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox What are the hardware requirements like for training this model within a reasonabl...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Free alternatives to GPT-3/4?

Technically, chat-GPT (GPT-3.5) is also freely accessible via https://chat.openai.com Possible alternatives are: TII's Falcon LAION's Open Assistant Mosaic's MPT Google's Bard Anthropic's C...

posted 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Meta Would it be possible to enable special features in the Incubator Q&A?

Ok, this was weird. The setting was on, I pasted in some Mathjax, it didn't render, I turned it off and on, and now it's rendering. Experiment below: I need some Mathjax to test with, so I'm c...

posted 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Will an XML sitemap improve SEO in terms of crawling, indexing, and ranking?

XML sitemaps are not necessary for SEO. They don't affect Google's decisions about which URLs get indexed, nor do they help the pages in them rank better. The two SEO benefits of XML sitemaps are...

posted 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Income tax when selling a house

In US income tax system, your home is an asset referred to as "capital". When you sell your house, you might pay income tax based on your profit from the house. The tax terminology for that is "cap...

posted 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Light fixture uses dimmable LEDs and a dimmer switch, but flickers -- how can I fix this?

The first thing I would try is to replace the dimmer. New dimmers work differently than old dimmers, at least the right kind of new dimmer. Old dimmers worked by turning on their output for part ...

posted 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Home Improvement: Is it necessary to expand acronyms like OSB?

One solution, which I know has been discussed in other contexts, is to have a community-specific glossary of terms. A really neat way to do this would be for the first time something is included in...

posted 9mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Incubator Q&A How to properly store cordless tool batteries?

How should I store rechargeable lithium batteries for common cordless tools, to maximize their longevity? I use the tools occasionally, so they often go months without use. Is it better to keep th...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A How do you test the quality of an ethernet cable?

There are two levels of testing you can do with Ethernet twisted pair cables, or technically twisted pair cables in general (e.g., telephone, serial, etc.). You can verify the wiring - i.e., does e...

posted 9mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Incubator Q&A Why does water flow twist my shower hose?

The hose is probably coiled up normally. When there is no water pressure, there is little force trying to uncoil it. When water pressure is increased in the hose, the little extra diameter from u...

posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Should recommendation questions be on-topic?

I think this might be a sensible approach: On-topic Questions seeking recommendations for components/tools/materials most suitable for a certain task. Questions looking for hardware reco...

posted 8mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A How does climate change research establish causality?

How does climate change research establish causality? For example, when it is said that human activity causes global warming, what sort of logic is used to justify this claim? Let's not get into t...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Loosen quality standards without losing our power users

Our website relies heavily on user generated content and power users that edit, curate, and moderate that content. Recently the amount of content contributed to our site has taken a nose dive. Loo...

2 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Why won't setting a CNAME DNS record for the domain apex work?

I am setting up a domain that uses a CNAME record so that is hosted on the same server as another site. I seem to be able to set up the www subdomain just fine with a CNAME but I'm having trouble ...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Google AdSense application: insufficient content

I applied to Google AdSense to be able to use their system to put ads on my site, however my application was rejected due to "insufficient content." Googles help page is pretty vague about how muc...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A When choosing a domain name, is it more important to have keywords in the domain name, or to brand my website?

I'm building a company with a website about widgets. The .com domain name with just "widgets" is already taken, and so are a lot of other keyword related domains. I could get a domain on an alter...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Incubator Q&A Will multiple dashes in a domain name look spammy to search engines and hurt SEO?

I'm trying to choose between domains with and without multiple dashes: my-awsome-company.example myawesomecompany.example The dashes make it much more readable to me, but I've heard that sea...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Should redirecting URLs be included in an XML sitemap?

I have some old pages on my website that I now redirect to new pages: /old.html -> /new.html Should I include https://example.com/old.html in my XML sitemaps so that search engines find the re...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Is wordpress.com the official hosting site for the WordPress content management system?

I've been told that I should get a WordPress website. Looking into it, there is an open-source content management system available from wordpress.org and hosting available for it from wordpress.co...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by manassehkatz‭