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Activity for Peter Taylorâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #292532 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years? I've read one novel with a similar setting where the answer was: a small number in the government know the truth, but they intentionally deceive everyone else in order to retain power. Anyone who wants to go outside is given a protective suit and sent into exile, but the suit is sabotaged and kills t... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291871 |
I was thinking that the line between games and sports is a tricky one, and since you've brought it up... What about pub games? Darts, pool, bat and trap, etc. require some physical ability, but don't involve much physical exercise. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291658 |
What asymmetry do you claim exists between that scenario and a crime being committed by a high-ranking police officer? (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291657 |
As illustrated by my argument with Lundin in comments on their answer, the question of the "unique... role in society" of police is complicated by the fact that the organisations called "police forces" have different roles in different societies (and some societies have many different "police" forces... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291658 |
Crime can be investigated by judges rather than police: that's essentially the Napoleonic system. Criminals can be arrested by the army or by the general public, as happened before professional police forces. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291658 |
You need fair courts with minimal corruption to execute the principle that everyone is equal before the law, but the existence of fair courts is not predicated on the existence of a professional police force. There is also an element of defining what "police" means: not all police forces have histori... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291658 |
Very little of this answer is about the police, who are separate from the courts; organised police forces predate modern democracy, rather than following it; class, wealth and gender still affect the chances of winning in democracies; advocates to plead someone else's case go back well before the Mid... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291191 |
The answer to this will depend on where you live, because differing local regulations and economies will result in differing available options. Where I live, no-one would need to ask because there are specific collection points at the doors of all the supermarkets. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291147 |
Post edited: This must have been a typo because otherwise it's not an example of the title |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291147 |
Suggested edit: This must have been a typo because otherwise it's not an example of the title (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291000 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
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 certificate is designated as either critical or non-critical. A certificate-using system MUST reject the ce... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290991 |
Two corrections: LE recommends rotating certificates every month, but they're valid for 3 months; and it's possible to use certbot with a DNS plugin to authenticate instead of serving a challenge response over HTTP, so your machine only needs outbound access and credentials for a supported DNS server... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290880 |
Yes, it is, although my best guess is that there isn't a specific notation and natural language words are used instead. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290832 |
"Resign" is an odd choice of word. Realistically you would simply refuse to take the oath of office, so you would never hold the office and therefore wouldn't be resigning it. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290564 |
All of those examples are in the intersection between mathematics and TCS, and I see questions about automata and complexity theory on sites like Math Overflow. (Proving the correctness of DFS/BFS would be closed there as not research rather than as not mathematics). math.codidact would welcome good ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290422 |
It's perfectly possible to cache in a way which doesn't expose you to MitM: you store a whitelist of (host name, certificate hash, last checked timestamp) tuples. That can save having to redo the potentially expensive walking of the chain back to the root.
Another way that caching can be relevant ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290167 |
Would this be on-topic in the existing Linguistics site? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289920 |
Occupying the same ecological niche as a native species is precisely the kind of thing that makes a non-native species problematic, unless it's outcompeted and fails to establish itself in the ecosystem. And, in fact, *Branta canadensis* is listed as an invasive species in northern and central Europe... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289920 |
Why does it matter whether it's been *classified* as invasive? Isn't the important question whether it's native or not, for which a list of native species is more useful than a list which might not include the species I'm looking at because I'm the first person to see it? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289920 |
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "official list of invasive species". Are you drawing a distinction between a registry of sightings of non-native species and some other registry, perhaps of species that should be killed on sight if you can do so humanely? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289920 |
@Lundin, aren't 1) and 2) really the same question? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289770 |
I thought this was an international network of sites. Promoting American exceptionalism, even if only in the targetting of one site in the network, seems detrimental to the network as a whole. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289702 |
I don't think we've had an explicit scope discussion on Cooking Meta, but my impression is that the Cooking site would already accept any food-related question which fits this scope. Certainly there are some questions with a quite scientific angle. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289676 |
The term "open source" originated in software development but is now used more widely. If the intention is that the site is about software, I think that should be included in the name. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288625 |
I have a moderate amount of professional experience in computer game development, but always using in-house engines so I may be quite limited in the questions I'm qualified to answer (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289165 |
From a practical point of view, boardgamegeek.com is probably a better place to offer that kind of support because (a) it's forum-based, which is a better fit for discussions; (b) it shards by game, giving a stronger identity than a tag wiki entry. This comment shouldn't be interpreted as precluding ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288625 |
With respect to "Questions regarding which technology is better to use to make a game aren't allowed", I think the exclusion is too broad. The kind of question which I think it's trying to eliminate is better eliminated by requiring that questions be specific, which they should be anyway. I think it ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288368 |
It took me several attempts to figure out "Questions about mobile apps such as Google Analytics, HTML coding, or app marketplace optimization". I hope I'm right to interpret it as "Questions about things like Google Analytics and HTML coding in the context of mobile apps rather than websites". If so,... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |