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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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Meta How do we encourage answerable Philosophy questions?

The main problem isn't subjectiveness IMO - many philosophers would already object there and ask what knowledge that isn't subjective. But rather the risk of too many overly broad questions. To be ...

posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A Is Kant's categorical imperative applicable to Q&A sites like Codidact?

I think the categorical imperative is often trivialized as “basically the age-old adage of ‘the Golden Rule’”, whereas it is a more nuanced idea, especially in the context of related philosophical ...

posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Incubator Q&A Is the historical method a scientific method?

Historians resort to source criticism rather than reproducible experiments. Well this is clearly not true. The whole purpose of archeology is the "experiment" phase of the scientific method. S...

posted 8mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A What type of contractor does flooring?

When we were looking to replace a kitchen floor (in the US), we got our best results by searching for the type of flooring, not the type of provider. Tile, hardwood, and vinyl plank are pretty dif...

posted 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A What happens to TLS name constraints when the client does not support them?

If both the CA and the client software follow the RFC, the client software will refuse the cert. Section 4.2 (Certificate Extensions) of the RFC you link states ... Each extension in a certific...

posted 9mo ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Incubator Q&A What types of learning should I know about?

In machine learning there seem to be various types of learning. I commonly hear about supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. However, it is not always clea...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the most cost effective way to purchase specific, non-rare public domain English books online in the US?

Over the years I've done a lot of my reading through libraries, borrowed books and chance finds at garage sales and the like. Now I want to start working on my reading list, so I will be purchasing...

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

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

A canonical URL should be the primary URL to represent ALL the content on the page. The URL that highlights a particular comment creates a variation of that page. The comment URL should never be t...

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

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

You should consider a whole house standby generator rather than whole house batteries. From a cost perspective you can get a 20KW generator installed for around $10,000 (USD). A 20KW battery and ...

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

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Incubator Q&A Are blue eggs special in Wingspan?

The blue eggs are packaged separately to prevent the blue paint from marking up the other eggs. The blue paint is the most likely color to transfer to the other eggs. There is no game play differe...

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

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Incubator Q&A What is this electrical/ethernet conduit on the wall and how do I repair it?

That looks like it is a relative of the Legrand Wiremold 2300D Surface Nonmetallic Raceway System. Because you have 120 volt A/C power and low voltage communication wires in the same raceway, i...

posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Is there an abundant source for hearty food ingredients in TotK?

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...

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

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Incubator Q&A Is Google Analytics 4 able to integrate with domain properties from Google Search Console?

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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Meta Use tags instead of posts to describe sites?

We talked about using tag descriptions instead of the Descriptions category, but there were a few issues: We want the people interested in a proposal to be able to collaboratively edit the des...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Incubator Q&A should be the default landing page for Proposals

"Incubator Q&A" should be the default landing page when users go to proposals.codidact.com. The idea here is that whenever you propose a site, you can post some questions (and answers) to Incu...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A What income groups benefit from IRAs?

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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

If you assume the value of money will not significantly change over the course of the loan, it is normally better to buy down rates as much as possible. This is similar to how a larger down payment...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How to get back only code from ChatGPT responses?

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What computational resources are needed to train GPT-NeoX?

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Free alternatives to GPT-3/4?

Technically, chat-GPT (GPT-3.5) is also freely accessible via https://chat.openai.com Possible alternatives are: TII's Falcon LAION's Open Assistant Mosaic's MPT Google's Bard Anthropic's C...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Meta Would it be possible to enable special features in the Incubator Q&A?

Ok, this was weird. The setting was on, I pasted in some Mathjax, it didn't render, I turned it off and on, and now it's rendering. Experiment below: I need some Mathjax to test with, so I'm c...

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

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Incubator Q&A Will an XML sitemap improve SEO in terms of crawling, indexing, and ranking?

XML sitemaps are not necessary for SEO. They don't affect Google's decisions about which URLs get indexed, nor do they help the pages in them rank better. The two SEO benefits of XML sitemaps are...

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

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Incubator Q&A Income tax when selling a house

In US income tax system, your home is an asset referred to as "capital". When you sell your house, you might pay income tax based on your profit from the house. The tax terminology for that is "cap...

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

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Incubator Q&A Light fixture uses dimmable LEDs and a dimmer switch, but flickers -- how can I fix this?

The first thing I would try is to replace the dimmer. New dimmers work differently than old dimmers, at least the right kind of new dimmer. Old dimmers worked by turning on their output for part ...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A How to properly store cordless tool batteries?

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...

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