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My internet is provided via a coax cable. The speeds are much less than advertised, and the ISP's technician said it's because my coax cables are low quality and degrade the signal. The cables are...
Is it possible to run cordless tools (which normally take a battery) from the outlet somehow? While obviously the intended use of these is cordless operation, occasionally you don't have a charged...
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...
Many companies sell water filters for improving the composition of water received from city mains. There is a variety of models with different number and types of filter stages, and corresponding p...
The LEDs in some rooms of my house flicker when the switch is on. There is no dimmer, it's a basic toggle switch. When the switch is off, they stay off as normal. How can I troubleshoot and fix th...
My dining room includes a chandelier ceiling fixture with five sockets, controlled by a dimmer switch on the wall. I've lived here for 20 years and this was already in place when I moved in; I don...
In North America, it is common to build wood-frame houses with pieces of lumber making up the frame and OSB boards acting as wall sheathing. The OSB sheathing reinforces the frame against various ...
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...
Suppose I want to use OSB for a home renovation project. The OSB will be permanently attached in a habitable part of the house. It will be exposed directly to the room, without any coating, films, ...
When an ordinary person sells their house in the US, what happens to their tax situation? Usually, houses sell for half a million and up, and considering also regular (ie. salary) income, this woul...
I want to give an AI the ability to read, write and manipulate files on my computer, such as with the OpenAI function calling feature. The goal of this is to use the AI to work on a project compris...
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...
I know what Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are and how they work, but I regularly get confused by what exactly the support vectors are. In case of linearly separable data, the support vectors are ...
What free alternatives are available to the GPT-3 and GPT-4 large language models (LLM)? Are there competing models with similar capabilities that I can download and run on my own computer?
Prompt engineering has emerged as a critical concept in the use of LLMs. Are there any good resources for learning prompt engineering techniques?
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...
The Python library for OpenAI has a method openai.ChatCompletion.create which takes various parameters like messages, functions, and so on. I could not find documentation for these in the context o...
Sometimes responses from the OpenAI API are large and it takes a long time to receive them. During this time the program appears to hang since there is no output. Is there a way to incrementally r...
The context window of various GPT-3 models is given as 4-16k tokens. One token corresponds to about 0.75 words of English text. However, if an average book is 64k words, the GPT-3's context is far ...
I recall that back in the dark ages of web search (Altavista), search engines were naive and keywords were a huge thing in SEO. People would even create landing pages stuffed with keywords in tiny,...
Some lenders offer an option where one can pay additional money in closing costs to get a lower APR. This is often called a rate or point "buy down". Is this a good idea?
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...
I've seen recommendations that search engines like "fresh" content and that I should be continually launching new content on my website for SEO. Is that always the case? That seems to directly co...
How can I make my own compass out of wood? (I mean the drawing tool, not the direction-finder.) Ideally, I'd like something that: Handles diameters from 3 in to 2 ft Has minimal non-wooden pa...
In Zelda Tears of the Kingdom you can feed luminous stones to animals called "dondons" which then later produce gems. How do you optimize this process? You can feed each dondon up to 5 stones, bu...
I've been working on improving my site's domain authority as reported by Moz in the hopes that it helps our Google rankings. I have some doubts about it though. Google won't be able to see Moz's c...
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 ...
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 ...
When cooked in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom or in Breath of the Wild, hearty ingredients produce food that completely fill up your hearts and give you extra temporary hearts. They are some of the mo...
My house has some conduits put in by previous residents. The conduits are plastic enclosures running along walls, which contain electrical outlets as well as ethernet plugs (actually it also has RH...
When I use content from other sites on my own website, I don't know if I should call that "content aggregation" or "content syndication." What are the definitions of "content aggregation" and "con...
I have a website hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The load balancer is the newer "application" type. I've...
In the last few years my area has seen increased power outages -- usually a few hours, occasionally longer. I'd like to defend against these better so that a poorly-timed outage doesn't ruin my wh...
I played Wingspan at a convention recently and then bought a copy of the game. When unpacking it, I noticed that there was a large bag of mixed egg tokens and a smaller bag containing only blue eg...
Canonical URLS are highly recommended for SEO and to prevent competition between duplicate pages. I've been trying to implement this, but I'm unsure how to implement this for pages which repeat but...
Most everyday electrical wiring has two wires, usually one white and one black/red. When installing a switch, does it matter which wire I put the switch on?
I've heard the term "wall fishing" in the context of interior wiring of a house. What does this mean?
Port Orford Cedar is a type of lumber which naturally emits a pleasant aroma. I'd like to make some wooden crafts with this wood, because the wood itself seems nice and I really enjoy the smell. ...
I've seen a lot of domain names expire or hosting go dark when a website owner stops maintaining the site. Is there a way to prevent that for my own site? I'd like it to remain up, well after I'm ...
I'm used to four-player games of Splendor, with high competition for the cheap, engine-building cards in tier 1. I've now played a couple of two-player games, and with cards much more plentiful, t...
When discarding a drawn tile that already exists in your hand, is it better to discard the draw (tsumogiri) or discard from hand (tedashi)? Assuming that you're not planning to riichi (open hand o...
I'm designing a board game that involves rolling several dice simultaneously each turn (usually between 1 and 20), and in testing I found that this is surprisingly loud. I'm aiming to keep the gam...
In riichi mahjong, the term suji is often thrown around when deciding what tiles to discard. What is suji, and how does it factor into mahjong strategy?
I like the crayon rail games. I've played a lot of Iron Dragon, some EuroRails, and a smattering of others. I'd like to introduce acquaintances who aren't already experienced gamers to this cate...
Let's say I want to host a public website, for use by anyone on the internet. I am deliberately leaving the exact nature of the website vague, because I want to ask for general things that are appl...
Apache has modules for both digest authentication and basic authentication. I've seen recommendations to use digest authentication because it doesn't send the password in clear text. However, if ...
How do I create new cities (white labels on the map)? I saw the "Make City" tool, but I can't figure out how to use it. How does it work?
On harder difficulties, it's easy to run out of money in the beginning and get stuck with no way to progress. How can I create a positive cash flow early on?
When I want to extend my power lines, I first have to delete some so I can add a power switch. Sometimes I also have to delete entire power line sections so I can move them further out. But in real...
In Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, the realistic mode requires bringing workers to construction sites and paying money to instantly complete is not allowed. But how will I build my first...
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