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| Edit | Post #289770 |
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| Edit | Post #289777 |
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| Edit | Post #289777 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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How can I test a monopole timer switch? I have a Lutron Maestro MA-T530G. I installed this to control an old bathroom fan which was malfunctioning. I'm planning to replace the fan anyway later, but I wanted to have a timer in the meanwhile. After some time of working as expected, the fan stopped working entirely. I know for sure the ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289770 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Shopping Site Name shopping.codidact.com Description Shopping advice, product recommendations and buying guides. I think this will be an interesting topic for this site because buying products is in everyday necessity in the today's world. Modern economics produce a huge selection of consumer good... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289747 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Why does water flow twist my shower hose? I have a showerhead with a flexible, 5 foot hose. I don't know if this matters, but the flexible hose is made of metal rings. When you yank on it, it stretches a little (there's probably some elastic inside) and the rings move a bit further apart. It's a very common design that you will find if you s... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289676 |
It is hard to imagine a site about discussing OSS/FOSS where contract, IP, copyright and patent law are not permitted. Realistically open source exists meaningfully only because of licenses (like the GPL) that have been carefully engineered to protect FOSS against predatory business interests. Withou... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289676 |
There's a lot of overlap with software development and similar programming topics. Proprietary and OSS are after all developed with virtually identical methods. This proposal should clarify how that overlap will work. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289676 |
"Open source hardware" is used for electronics to indicate that plans/blueprints/schematics and/or firmware code is publicly available. The extreme case of this is DIY mechanical keyboards that provide 3D printer models.
For non-electronics (furniture, tools, jigs, DIY trinkets), there's been an i... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289593 |
So I actually know that resistance is a factor here. I actually have a tool that detects shorts based on resistance (in addition to a plain multimeter). However I don't know how many ohms it's supposed to be, and whether that's ohms per feet or if longer cables should be more conductive.
I also sa... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289593 |
I was wondering about that! I'm a bit confused because unlike the Stack version, it's about *electrical* engineering questions, not electronics. Previously I think I saw people asking whether questions about electronics would belong there, and it appeared that the consensus was "no".
I also don't ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289594 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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How do you test the quality of an ethernet cable? How can I confirm that an ethernet cable is free of defects? I have a bunch of ethernet cables around my house. Some are apparently defective, and cause network problems when used. When these problems happen, they are often intermittent and hard to reproduce or diagnose. I don't want to blindly... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289593 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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How do you test the quality of a coax cable? My internet is provided via a coax cable. The speeds are much less than advertised, and the ISP's technician said it's because my coax cables are low quality and degrade the signal. The cables are long, go throughout the house, and basically I don't want to go to all that trouble without a way to ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289552 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Running cordless tools from the outlet Is it possible to run cordless tools (which normally take a battery) from the outlet somehow? While obviously the intended use of these is cordless operation, occasionally you don't have a charged battery on hand and it would be convenient to have the option to just plug them in. In principle, you... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289551 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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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 the battery unplugged, let it discharge if it will, and charge only when I am going to use it? Or should... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289545 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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What stages are important for water filters? Many companies sell water filters for improving the composition of water received from city mains. There is a variety of models with different number and types of filter stages, and corresponding price differences. I suspect not all of these stages are equally critical to most people. Probably, th... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289499 |
It's not clear to me why things on other circuits would cause this. I don't have anything in my house that uses more than 1-2A, and all the breakers are 20A max btw. Residential service is usually 100-200A.
The flickering lights don't have anything except the lights on that circuit/breaker. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289469 |
When on. I suppose there could also be a current leak with the switch off, but that is not my situation. Edited. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289469 |
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| Edit | Post #289469 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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LEDs flicker even without a dimmer The LEDs in some rooms of my house flicker when the switch is on. There is no dimmer, it's a basic toggle switch. When the switch is off, they stay off as normal. How can I troubleshoot and fix this? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289360 |
Very well, I've added a note to the question as well. Feel free to use the "edit" link if you'd still like something to be changed.
>By the way, the obvious answer is plywood.
Well, I don't think so. The question is asking for alternatives to *engineered wood*, and plywood is a type of engineer... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289360 |
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| Comment | Post #289360 |
@#36396 Since we have now established that OSB stands for oriented strand board, and since you appear to have knowledge of this material, would you like to post an answer to the question? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
>increases page load time drastically
I wonder what is considered drastic here. I never noticed a big difference between pages that have MathJax and don't. MathJax usually loads last, so you see the content pretty quickly, just with equations mangled. And the equations usually render within a seco... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
Also, this is not even a "new syntax" vs. MathJax. MathJax supports custom delimiters. See other comment.
You do have a point that it is syntax different from a *popular misunderstanding* of what MathJax is. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
The reason people say inventing syntax is bad, is because usually syntax has a lot of rules and it takes much effort to learn.
In this case, I am proposing a *trivial* syntax change. It is literally changing a single element, and using one more of a symbol that everyone knows to otherwise collide ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289372 |
>"If you don't know that, you don't belong here" attitude.
No, this is an incorrect reading. The attitude in this post is:
> If you don't know, feel free to disregard this question. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289377 |
Looks like MathJax doesn't even recognize `$` by default: https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/input/tex/delimiters.html You have to enable it with a config block, and that config looks like it allows any arbitrary sequence and not just `$`. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289379 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Image upload broken in Incubator Q&A I recently uploaded an image to a question. I didn't encounter this problem, although I would expect that I should have. I'm able to view the image with `Right click -> Open image in new tab` and it goes to https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.codidact.com/mhnq6m6s8yv3nq450wqgf92xad7t which also works... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289371 |
Oh, I think I got too ahead of myself and misunderstood your comment. Sorry! You're saying that we can just have the site itself add acronym expansions without altering the post content. That would also work though, and indeed it would be less work. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289360 |
Funnily enough, I also used to call it "particle board" (and "was-wood"). More recently I found out that "particle board" is actually a [completely different thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_board). So now I feel like I should be saying *OSB* specifically. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289374 |
This answer describes my thoughts quite well (better than I could).
Incidentally, it occurs to me that this is quite comparable to the question of whether questions on the software section should expand IDE into *Integrated Development Environment* or OOP into *object-oriented programming*. It's i... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289375 |
I'm actually surprised by this. Fun fact - English is not my first language, and I learned what MDF and PVC is as a little kid (from parents discussing furniture) before I ever learned any English, let alone construction terms. Kind of sad now that I think of it.
Thank you for the detailed respons... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289377 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Should proposals all have MathJax or none have MathJax? MathJax should be enabled everywhere. Many communities either need it or will need it. It's tedious to ask for it every time, and then when it's added, to go back and edit dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of questions which used some crude backtick syntax to make do in absence of MathJax. What is the... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289360 |
Also, and I mean no disrespect @#36396, but if you truly don't have any idea what OSB could possibly mean, it would seem that the question is far outside your areas of interest and I would expect that you ignore it. So what exactly is the harm being done here? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289371 |
Oh, well if automation is on the table, could we not make the site, or some "edit-bot" user, just suggest an edit that either:
1. Expands the first occurrence of each acronym with the most likely expansion (based on some index of acronyms)
2. Adds a link from the first instance of each acronym to... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289360 |
Thank you, Lundin!
See also: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289371 (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289359 |
I think this is worth a meta discussion: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289371 (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289357 |
I think this is worth a meta discussion: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289371 (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289356 |
I think this is worth a meta discussion: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289371 (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |