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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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

You're not really using these dice as dice, but as markers. It sounds like you won't be "rolling" these dice, and therefore expect an even outcome between landing on each of the 6 sides. Paint th...

posted 5mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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

I haven't found what I'm looking for online, so I'm wondering if there is a specialist term for this type of dice that would give me better luck. What I'm seeking I'm looking for dice that are id...

3 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A How does science generalize local results to global scale?

Science tends to discover knowledge by performing experiments in the lab. For example, suppose we have a hypothesis that a volume V of atmospheric air, when compressed quickly to a certain ratio, ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Why can we not vote for community proposals?

The viability of a community doesn't depend on votes; it depends on activity. If a proposal attracts a body of Q&A (and other posts) from enough people, those are signs of a solid community. If...

posted 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the gender distribution in each of the Star Wars trilogies?

What is the gender distribution in each of the Star Wars trilogies, and how does it distribute over each faction or group, such as the separatist droid army, empire officers, jedi, etc? I am somew...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Incubator Q&A What would be the best way to breathe for a creature that shoots fire from its mouth?

I've had an idea where there's this humanoid based life-form that has no real origin other than being found on some remote island. Kind of like skull island and seems be a complete anomaly in the n...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A What are the drawbacks of leaving wood unfinished?

I've mostly worked with pine wood, because it's cheap and easy to work with. I've had some projects where I finished it (polyurethane coat, sometimes a stain) and other projects where I didn't (jus...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Incubator Q&A House-level battery backup now, solar panels later -- what do I need to know?

The trick is getting everything to work together. Typical solar (without battery) installations actually work with the grid. If you generate more power than you need, the balance goes to the utilit...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Incubator Q&A How should canonical URLs be used with comments?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Ullallulloo‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A How to fix spade bits wobbling in drill press?

I have a cheap drill press and a set of cheap spade bits. Some of the spade bits wobble, the tip makes a circle of as much as 5 mm in diameter for some of them. Others wobble less, 1-2 mm. Since t...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Incubator Q&A How viable is generic SEO in 2023?

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,...

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

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Meta What happened to Finance questions on Incubator Q&A?

There were two questions, both with flags and several downvotes (no upvotes). One was deleted for plagiarism. The other included a bunch of links and asked for counter-arguments; it was broad and...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Income tax when selling a house

No, because you get to account for the basis. If you bought a house at \$300k and later sold it for \$500k, then only the $200k profit is under consideration for income taxes. Further, the federa...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A Should I buy down my mortgage rate?

Do the math! Calculate the present value of each loan. Add the buy down amount to the cost of the loan with the lower interest rate. Whichever is lower wins. That said, there are some additiona...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A How viable is generic SEO in 2023?

The fundamentals of SEO haven't changed in two decades: Create great content. Use the words and phrases for which you want to be found in search engines. Ensure that search engines can crawl y...

posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Meta Experiment: indicating interest and expertise

A healthy community requires both activity and people. The Incubator Q&A category is the place to build activity (and Meta is the place to flesh out issues that come up in doing so), but we'd ...

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

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Meta Broaden the scope of AI tech into all ML?

I created the AI tech proposal primarily because I thought it would be good to have a place to discuss doing stuff with AI models rather than the details of how they are trained and how they work. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by pbloem‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the blue dye on edges of OSB boards?

From the Georgia Pacific page on OSB: Blue edge seal helps prevent moisture intrusion And on the specifications page downloadable from the Georgia Pacific web page: BlueRibbon Rated Sheathing ...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Meta Home Improvement: Is it necessary to expand acronyms like OSB?

Personal opinion, not speaking for the team: There is a tension between being accessible to all, on the one hand, and assuming a baseline of knowledge in a site's topic. On a software-development...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Home Improvement: Is it necessary to expand acronyms like OSB?

One solution, which I know has been discussed in other contexts, is to have a community-specific glossary of terms. A really neat way to do this would be for the first time something is included in...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Meta Should recommendation questions be on-topic?

Home Improvement seems like a site where recommendation type questions might happen quite frequently, including product/component recommendations as well as tool recommendations. I think these can ...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Reduce the number of characters needed in description titles from fifteen

Could number of characters required in the title of descriptions be lowered from 15 to 4? I would have liked to name my proposal just "Webmasters," but that is too short. It seems like the propose...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Will incubator Q/A questions get moved to the site once it is launched?

Once a proposal is out of the incubator and it has its own site, is the plan to move the incubator Q/A questions to it?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta How many tags should incubator Q/A questions get?

I think it is useful to add in tags that the question might actually have on the community when launched. It makes a more realistic "sandbox", which means that we start to figure out how we want t...

posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Incubator Q&A Is the TITLE tag or the H1 tag more important for SEO?

I've heard that for good SEO you need both a <title> tag and an <h1> tag on each page. I have pages that are very visual, think full screen map or full screen images. I'm not sure that...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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