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Posts by matthewsnyder
The past is a foreign country. The people resurrected from the past are much like people immigrating from undeveloped countries into developed ones. Especially the way these immigrants were in...
Occasionally a situation develops in a community of people where two members come into some personal conflict. Let's suppose that neither member is doing anything particularly against the community...
I've heard people talk about how mechanical keyboards are better. But they seem to be much more expensive than regular ones ($100+). What is the benefit of using them over regular ones?
There is a common notion that bonds and stocks hedge each other: When business is not going well, companies borrow money to make up for sales and investments drying up, and government (especially K...
For sample questions I asked, I elected to avoid the question in the title. My reasoning: It is redundant because the tag is already there If you clicked on the tag, you would get a list of que...
My thoughts are already apparent in the question body, but I will also add this: It is inevitable that many new users will not bother to read the details of our style preferences. It is certainly ...
There are some acronyms related to home improvement that are very well known: OSB, MDF, PVC. Most people who know the material they refer to, know the acronym. In fact, I would guess that a lot of ...
Oriented strand boards (OSB) are often sold with a blue dye on the edges: What is this? I'm assuming it's some kind of chemical protection. Does that mean that when you cut the board and leave a...
Prompt engineering has emerged as a critical concept in the use of LLMs. Are there any good resources for learning prompt engineering techniques?
What is hyperparameter tuning? What makes the parameters "hyper"? Is tuning the same as learning or training?
Is economics considered on topic for "everyday science"? There are many everyday situations which seem counterintuitive from an economics perspective, but a closer look reveals interesting forces ...
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 meanwh...
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...
Dair.AI maintains a free prompt engineering guide. There is also another similar project which is structured as a course. There is also a literature review from March 2023 which is more technical ...
I've been a heavy user of SO/SE for quite some time on and off. I never really understood the issue other longtime users have with "bad questions". It's one thing when it's something obvious like ...
The context window of various GPT-3 models is given as 4-16k tokens. One token corresponds to about 0.75 words of English text. However, if an average book is 64k words, the GPT-3's context is far ...
One design I've found is a beam compass, which requires three components: Beam - some kind of straight stick Point holder - the part that holds a needle that will stay fixed at the centers of a...
The "Make City" tool is not for creating cities. It's more like a palette, where you can pick a few related buildings, and plop them down more efficiently (supposedly) than going to their usual men...
How do I create new cities (white labels on the map)? I saw the "Make City" tool, but I can't figure out how to use it. How does it work?
When I want to extend my power lines, I first have to delete some so I can add a power switch. Sometimes I also have to delete entire power line sections so I can move them further out. But in real...
The customs houses provide some "foreign workers". These workers are assumed to come from neighboring provinces for temporary work. You need to purchase a bus for your construction office and set t...
In Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, the realistic mode requires bringing workers to construction sites and paying money to instantly complete is not allowed. But how will I build my first...
I don't know the full answer, but according to the official docs (linked in question): No. However, this does not lead to a significant security advantage over basic authentication. and On...
I haven't used WordPress in a long time, but it has its own internal functionality for taking backups: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/wordpress-backups/ This is likely the easiest opti...
Yes. If you are hosting it on an EC2, AWS has the Elastic IP service that provides you with a static IP on demand. Amazon docs explain it in detail. Just set up the eIP and point your DNS to that. ...
