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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 16d ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 13d ago by celtschk‭

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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 20d ago by Lundin‭

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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 2mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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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 2mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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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 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3mo 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 4mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Iizuki‭

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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 4mo ago by CrSb0001‭  ·  last activity 13d 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 3mo ago by TRiG‭

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Meta Scope discussion for Sports

There are two obvious ways to set the scope: Physical sports only, or anything competitive. Physical sports only: This would pretty much exclude all overlaps. You might miss out on some "came to d...

posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I search for d6 dice with a blank 6th face?

I am afraid the best thing you can search for is "blank dice" or "custom dice" or "custom made dice" (this will maybe bring up someone who provides such services, those who also do engravings a...

posted 7mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A Why are many bond ETFs just like a worse-performing S&P?

This is a "recent" phenomenon. If you look back to 1900, bonds have a lower return on average, but in stock drawdowns they maintain a positive performance. Around 2000, they became correlated. Coi...

posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Shaders incorrectly render lower parts of vertically extended worlds

I have an older Minecraft world first created almost a decade ago, as a superflat desert world. In MC 1.18 or 1.19, I increased the world height with a simple data pack to y ∈ [-256, 1024]. Unfortu...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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Incubator Q&A What can I do with used disposable batteries?

I asked the city and they told me that just dumping it in the garbage bin is fine. I doubt you're going to have a more authoritative answer than that. I take mine to the help desk at Staples o...

posted 7mo ago by Michael‭

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Meta How do I object to a community proposal?

Public objection You can raise a discussion on either of: Proposals Meta, if you believe that the presence of the proposal itself is a problem. Codidact Meta, if you believe that either the pr...

posted 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta How do I object to a community proposal?

The answer by trichoplax is basically right. If there is an issue with a proposed community, raise it - preferably on Proposals Meta, but private is ok if it's sensitive. As much as possible, we ...

posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Do laws determine societal norms, or vice versa?

When society creates laws to govern themselves, do they simply codify what has already been established practice in society? For example, when a law is written that forbids theft, is this because s...

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

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Incubator Q&A Current record for minimally clued 7x7 Hidato (16 clues)

Note: I checked that the solution is in fact unique using this Picat program created by SE user Bubbler. Background So back in March, I posted this question on the Puzzling Stack Exchange asking ...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by CrSb0001‭

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

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 ...

posted 11mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

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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 11mo 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 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 7mo 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 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 7mo 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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