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I have a showerhead with a flexible, 5 foot hose. I don't know if this matters, but the flexible hose is made of metal rings. When you yank on it, it stretches a little (there's probably some elast...
Oriented strand boards (OSB) are often sold with a blue dye on the edges: What is this? I'm assuming it's some kind of chemical protection. Does that mean that when you cut the board and leave a...
There are some acronyms related to home improvement that are very well known: OSB, MDF, PVC. Most people who know the material they refer to, know the acronym. In fact, I would guess that a lot of ...
My thoughts are already apparent in the question body, but I will also add this: It is inevitable that many new users will not bother to read the details of our style preferences. It is certainly ...
A lot of TVs on the market these days are "Smart TVs" which I don't want. I've had smart TVs in the past and found that I don't use any of their features. Further, the software is often laggy, bugg...
How come country and state/province is often excluded from WHOIS privacy? So everything else is redacted, but not country and state. However, apparently there's no special requirement from ICANN, s...
I am no specialist on audio processing, but I believe the general task of converting raw audio to discrete symbols is called transcription. However, this does not distinguish whether these symbols...
Is the historical method a scientific method? When I was a child in grade school, I learned that "The Scientific Method" had the following steps: Observe a phenomenon: find things by curious ex...
Is economics considered on topic for "everyday science"? There are many everyday situations which seem counterintuitive from an economics perspective, but a closer look reveals interesting forces ...
[Does] information content scale linearly with length, regardless of topic? Information content pretty clearly doesn't scale linearly with length. I used to joke that The Scarlet Letter author...
As I understand it, this sort of thing fits well with what I had in mind, yes. I had already intended that the site would include practical economics questions related to household finance; underst...
On sandboxes For sandboxed development and test environments, I have found mkcert to be pretty helpful. It creates a root CA and happily creates certificates for whatever DNS you want. mkcert war...
Consider Shamir's secret sharing. The idea is you need $k$ out of $n$ parts of a key to recover some secret $S$. Then, if you "summarize" a key and encrypted text without providing at least $k$ par...
I think the categorical imperative is often trivialized as “basically the age-old adage of ‘the Golden Rule’”, whereas it is a more nuanced idea, especially in the context of related philosophical ...
I have slowly been influenced by this question as a new perspective has crept into my mind. It could be interesting if Codidact had higher standards for “answerability” than Philosophy SE. It would...
What is hyperparameter tuning? What makes the parameters "hyper"? Is tuning the same as learning or training?
Is incremental training the same as transfer learning? What exactly is the difference?
Unsupervised learning covers a variety of different tasks. Depending on the task at hand, different techniques can be used. However, there are a few common paradigms that are used to extract info...
Historically, philosophy is broadly scoped and does not exclude any particular domain of knowledge. Most branches of formal knowledge today started out as discussions between philosophers. I think ...
The Steam Deck comes with an OS which is basically a customized Arch, plus Steam, Plasma and some extra programs. The Steam Deck mounts most system dirs as read only, so for example it's not possi...
You don't provide the specific contract you have, but let's look at the Comcast Business Services Terms of Service for purchases on or after 4/1/2013 as an example. Article 6.1: NEITHER PARTY W...
I used to use AbeBooks, which I understand to be owned by Amazon. My experience has been good. Most of the books I've purchased appear to be purged from various libraries (for shelf space?) in pret...
There are many depending on what your goals are. First, pretty much any foundational system will let you do this via encoding. It is a tedious but straightforward exercise to encode the syntax of ...
As you already mentioned in your question, dirt and moisture. A finish makes it easier to wipe dirt off, and prevents it getting into the wood. It also vastly slows the uptake of liquid water and h...
The key is in the name, in this case. Oriented Strand Board (generally shortened to OSB) means, literally, that the wood chips are (roughly) oriented so that the majority of them have the grain of...
