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Incubator Q&A Calculating load for OSB flooring

The span ratings are generally deflection limited for most applications, not breaking load limited. https://www.innovativepanel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/American-Plywood-Association-Load-Spa...

posted 1y ago by Spamalot‭

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Meta Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?

I'm looking for a very long and sufficiently detailed list of every possible type of facility that exists in the world today, or perhaps is likely to exist in the future. For example, the list woul...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Link back to the proposal post in the wiki for the proposal's tag

When I'm browsing through questions in the Q/A category, I often want to look closer at the community proposal that the question belongs to. The most obvious path to follow, then, is to click on th...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Incubator Q&A One cert with many domains, or one domain per cert?

Relevant to you A single certificate is easier to manage, rotate, etc. Borderline Before Server Name Indication (SNI), you could only bind one certificate to each IP/Port combination on ...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Can you always interpose an intermediate effect into any causal chain?

Charles Darwin more or less spent his whole life proving this theory to be true and it's essentially what On the Origin of Species is all about. So if you are looking for rigorous arguments in publ...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A Which is larger: 4^(6^5) or 5^(3^8)?

This is a [calculation-puzzle], which is a puzzle that involves numerical calculations, generally using the basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Without using a...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by CrSb0001‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by celtschk‭

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Incubator Q&A Which is larger: 4^(6^5) or 5^(3^8)?

Let's first look at the exponents: \begin{align} 6^5 = (2\cdot 3)^5 &= 2^5\cdot 3^5\\ 3^8 &= 3^3\cdot 3^5 \end{align} We see that both exponents have a factor of $3^5$, which we can th...

posted 2mo ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by celtschk‭

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Incubator Q&A Is this the neatest way to draw strokes on a Typst table?

Is there a more idiomatic way to create a table like this? What I wrote (after a fair bit of trial and error) did achieve the result I was looking for, but the stroke commands seem a bit complex a...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by TRiG‭

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Meta How can Worldbuilding support more open-ended questions? [duplicate]

The Worldbuilding proposal has some "conventional" questions and some that are more open-ended or even "idea generation". This happened in the SE Worldbuilding community too, and the latter got sh...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  closed as duplicate 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta How can Worldbuilding support more open-ended questions?

I had forgotten about this question when I asked this. There's some good discussion there, including a possible category name that I'm including here. Let's create a separate category called some...

posted 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Which method of lifeforms shooting fire would be better in real life, gaseous chemicals or liquid chemicals

So I've been noticing that when it comes to most of my character and monster designs involving shooting fire most of them do this primarily through chemical reactions using gasses such as methane l...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Where to put proposal-community-specific help pages?

What works out pretty ok with the tools we have, is to make a separate meta thread per help page. Example from when we started up Software Development: Community feedback: What type of questions ca...

posted 2mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Potential MathJax section in the formatting help

MathJax is enabled in this community, but it is not mentioned in the formatting help. If MathJax guidance is wanted, there is some in the Mathematics Codidact formatting help (at the end). This co...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Where to put proposal-community-specific help pages?

I agree with this suggestion to use Meta to develop drafts (and was about to suggest the same thing). Another thing we could do, when initial drafts have settled down and if there are several page...

posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Which versions of Atomic Heart include all the content DLCs?

I wish to buy Atomic Heart from Steam.[1] I want all the playable DLCs (skins etc don't matter), current and upcoming. Which version of the game I should get? Here are the options: "Default" G...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Incubator Q&A What would be the pros and cons of a soldier having only mechanical arms and legs and a mostly organic torso and would be even be practical

Backstory I had an idea of a large project to breed specialized soldiers who will be used to fight and kill members of a story-specific group known for being super powered with some of these soldi...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Highlighting the games we play with screenshots on Codidact

One screenshot per post. If someone posts for example a bunch of screenshots in different angles of the same object, then that gives them an unfair advantage in the friendly little competition. M...

posted 6mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A Can I set up a regular machine like the Steam Deck?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the technical term for converting a sound recording to a phoneme vector?

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...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Meta Is economics on topic for everyday science?

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Incubator Q&A Can you summarize any explanation?

[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...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

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Meta Is economics on topic for everyday science?

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...

posted 1y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Incubator Q&A Proper way to create your own TLS certificates

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...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Can you summarize any explanation?

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...

posted 1y ago by Quintec‭

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Incubator Q&A Is there a specification meta-language for logics?

Is there a specification meta-language for logics? A formal language which can express, “a logic with variable symbols, unary predicates, and connectives”?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

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