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Incubator Q&A What is "strength axis" on OSB boards?

OSB boards often have a stamp that says "strength axis" with an arrow, usually parallel with the longer dimension of the board. What is this strength axis? Should it be parallel or perpendicular t...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Incubator Q&A Alternatives to engineered wood wall sheathing

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Spamalot‭

Question home-improvement engineered-wood constructions wood-frame
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Meta What should the "webmasters" site name and url be?

I'm recommending sticking with Webmasters as the name with webmasters.codidact.com as the URL. It is the shortest and most succinct way to encompass the entire scope of the site. The problem with...

posted 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Meta Video games: site scope

On-topic Game and mod development is on-topic given that the question is specific to video games and not about general programming. Questions about tools, engines and APIs used in video game ...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Are questions about selling one's crafts allowed?

I think it should be off-topic. Since Codidact is an international site and laws, taxes, shipping and so on are very localized, it would seem that such questions would: Quite easily stray far f...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Why can we not vote for community proposals?

Codidact is rather strongly centered around the idea of voting on content. Personally, I am open to revisit the manner in which we rank and asses content on the network, but for the time being, tha...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I find a good dumb TV?

Yeah, it is pretty much a lost tech. CRT times are over. And "feature rich" sells better than "feature poor", therefore the smart hype. It sounds that you actually not looking for a TV but need a ...

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

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Meta Scope discussion for Sports

I'm OK with all of your points except equipment recommendations and possibly E-sports. Equipment recommendations Shopping questions or "which model should I get" are a bad fit for this kind of si...

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

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Incubator Q&A How to change weapon aiming mode

How do I switch between weapon aiming modes? I must have tapped something on my keyboard by mistake, since my weapon no longer aims in the optic sight, but in third person instead.

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

Question video-games mouse keyboard Battlefront-II
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Incubator Q&A Do Large Language Models "reason"?

I'll note that this won't fully answer the question, because I don't know the modern academic scene to provide a "consensus." Maybe that makes for a bad first answer, here, and for that, I apologi...

posted 11mo ago by John C‭

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Incubator Q&A Book recommendations on intentional community building

Wikipedia's article on intentional communities has a short list: Creating a life together, Diana Leafe Christian - Amazon reviews seem good, and the blurb says it is a "how to"... Although it al...

posted 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the impact of potential cap gains exposure for a retail ETF investor?

Apparently, ETFs have a "potential cap gains exposure" in that, when the ETF buys and sells some underlying asset, it is subject to capital gains tax. Supposedly, this leads to things like buying a...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question finance united-states income-tax etf
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Meta Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?

I do not think this list belongs on Codidact. I am not opposed to asking on Codidact if such a list exists, though. Sam Carter suggested looking at OpenStreetMap, a suggestion I endorse. You could...

posted 7mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Michael‭

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

What can I do with used up disposable batteries, such as AA/AAA? It used to be that these had to be separated so they can be put through a special remediation process. However, apparently that was...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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

The Steam Deck uses a customized Arch with KDE and Wayland. The "gaming mode" is basically Steam running in Big Picture mode, but it uses the minimal window manager gamescope to avoid running the h...

posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A A little riddle / Creative Challenge: Pressure Plates in a Dungeon

Example: Jumping on a board Items: 1 wooden board, 3m in length Lay board across the pressure plates, then jump on it. Accuracy: Not amazingly accurate. Very dependent on the right spot to jum...

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

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Incubator Q&A Book recommendations on intentional community building

What books (or other sources) would you recommend for folks wanting to learn about intentional community building?

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by da5nsy‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Do laws matter without police?

Do laws only matter if there is a police force enforcing them? Police in the modern sense is a recent development. Before the 19th century, police forces as today were very rare. But people have m...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the point of police?

Philosophically, what role does police serve in society? Today, virtually every society has a police force. So, it seems like there must be some compelling reason to have one, i.e. police must ser...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the point of police?

It is not so strange. The police as we know it in Western democracies is something that became necessary with the introduction of said democracy. Prior to democracy, the laws would be enforced by t...

posted 10mo ago by Lundin‭

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

My thoughts are that morals come from empathy and empathy is something humans have evolved evolutionary as they were forced to act as a group. There has always been strength in numbers, but for tha...

posted 10mo ago by Lundin‭

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

I submit that neither direction is completely the case, but laws are typically the formalization of norms. They may be widely-respected norms[1] or merely codifying the norms (or hoped-for norms) o...

posted 10mo ago by Michael‭

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

The reason for this is because the bedrock layer is hardcoded into the shader packs. There's a uniform for exposing the data pack specified bedrock level in Iris. This is not available in Optifine...

posted 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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

Since I now have the tag edit ability, I have edited every single tag for proposed communities existing to this day. I'll do that going forward for new ones, too, but it was tremendously tedious an...

posted 7mo ago by Andreas demands justice for humanity‭

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

Extra bins to dispose them are not only present at recycling centers. Each shop/supermarket that sells those is obliged to have a place where to return them to. Sometimes you also can ask at the i...

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

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