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Activity for Michaelâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #292931 |
Megahertz is a frequency measurement, not an intensity measurement. Do you mean to be measuring intensity? Or is this "What is the resonant frequency of rock?" (more) |
— | 14 days ago |
| Edit | Post #292674 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What is the benefit of mechanical keyboards? Jon wrote Building a Lord of the Rings keyboard this week about getting a mechanical keyboard. I definitely commiserate with his membrane keyboard complaint: > But then I discovered that the "A" key on my keyboard only fired every other time I pressed it. I have the same issue with my "O" key. ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292542 |
Post edited: Add an audiobook version, too. |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292542 | Initial revision | — | 2 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? Philip K. Dick would posit[^the-defenders] that the surface war is all done by robots. The robots lie about what is happening on the surface, and ended the war as soon as no one could independently verify the situation. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292441 |
Post edited: iD |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292441 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country? I do not think this list belongs on Codidact. I am not opposed to asking on Codidact if such a list exists, though. Sam Carter suggested looking at OpenStreetMap, a suggestion I endorse. You could look at their wiki for tags like `building=`, `manmade=`, and so on. For a tighter list of interestin... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292422 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What can I do with used disposable batteries? > I asked the city and they told me that just dumping it in the garbage bin is fine. I doubt you're going to have a more authoritative answer than that. I take mine to the help desk at Staples or the local hardware store, but I think it's part of a program set up by the local government. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292358 |
Post edited: Add primary tag |
— | 3 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #292358 |
Suggested edit: Add primary tag (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291944 |
I kind of like the question as-is. **I** kept hearing about "Mechanical Keyboards" from people, and I didn't know what they were talking about, either. I mentally interpreted that as "noisy keyboards" for probably a decade. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291944 |
Honestly a fine question for Power User, as hardware is also in scope. Migrate? (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291871 |
Also see: [this comment thread](https://proposals.codidact.com/comments/thread/7805) on the proposal for Tabletop Games. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291871 |
I am less opposed to excluding equipment recommendations wholesale, *__but__* if they're included, I want them to be in a separate tab. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291871 |
Haha. I wrote basically the same thing at the same time in another thread. MOOOOOODS! HEEEELP! (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291871 |
Some people consider, say, billiards or darts to be a sport. Others do not. E-Sports (as I understand it) is further away from the physical/athletic than billiards... usually. DDR is _more_ vigorous than billiards, skeet shooting, or archery.
I don't have a strong opinion on the outcome, but I wan... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291662 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Do laws determine societal norms, or vice versa? I submit that neither direction is completely the case, but laws are typically the formalization of norms. They may be widely-respected norms[^murder] or merely codifying the norms (or hoped-for norms) of the group with legislative authority.[^temperance] Laws can be passed to change norms, too, t... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291656 |
Enforcement can come from any manner of sources:
- Government civil enforcement, like police.
- Government military enforcement, like gendarmes or actual soldiers.
- Private enforcement, like a goon squad as [Lundin mentions in another thread](https://proposals.codidact.com/comments/thread/9627#co... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290266 |
Post edited: Bright-background map to be kinder to printers. |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291208 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: One cert with many domains, or one domain per cert? Relevant to you - A single certificate is easier to manage, rotate, etc. Borderline - Before Server Name Indication (SNI), you could only bind one certificate to each IP/Port combination on a particular server. SNI had to be supported both on the server and on the client. If you have IE8 u... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290991 |
Post edited: Link LE. More LE detail from comment thread. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291115 |
I don't mind clicking the mouse wheel, but I _am_ interested in the body of your post (and your answer). Do you want to change the title? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291116 |
> Wireless means AA batteries, which means extra weight that you have to drag around, which means worse ergonomics. \[…\] Plus batteries are bad for the environment as well.
I have a USB-C rechargeable mouse[^1], so it's not strictly true that wireless implies disposable batteries. On the other ha... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291008 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can you summarize any explanation? > ### [Does] information content scale linearly with length, regardless of topic? Information content pretty clearly doesn't scale linearly with length. I used to joke that The Scarlet Letter author wrote everything at least three times, so you only needed to read 30% of the words to understand wh... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290991 |
I don't know if it's a concern for you, but be aware that your server's IP, as received by LE, will be recorded in [the Certificate Transparency logs](https://crt.sh/) in perpetuity. (At least, last time I checked the docs that's what it said.) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290989 |
I found a guy on ServerFault who [thinks he knows how to do it](https://serverfault.com/a/764699/115583). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290991 |
I suspected as much. I'm unfortunately not the right person to answer your real question, but I wanted to get the smaller options out there in case it was helpful for later visitors. Sorry it was unhelpful for your uses. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290991 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Proper way to create your own TLS certificates On sandboxes For sandboxed development and test environments, I have found `mkcert` to be pretty helpful. It creates a root CA and happily creates certificates for whatever DNS you want. `mkcert` warns you not to use it in production. Also, be aware that if you install the root CA to your local c... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290989 |
The CA/B forum which approves (or denies) root CAs for the major browsers grants some CAs only limited domains, usually ccTLD, to issue valid certificates for. Perhaps examine a CA for (eg) the Turkish government or something? I don't know how to get `openssl` commands to mint a CA with those limitat... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290931 |
Post edited: Markdown list |
— | 9 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #290931 |
Suggested edit: Markdown list (more) |
helpful | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290880 |
Is this a mathematics question? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290802 |
I liked the follow-up question at Power User: [Best practices for small, internet-critical company's ISP for maximal uptime](https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/290821). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290802 |
Olin is right. It seems unlikely that they would agree to a contract where you're entitled to business losses for interruptions. That doesn't prevent you from suing, but anyone can sue (almost) anyone over (almost) anything. They just typically lose.
If you have business-critical operations, you n... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290611 |
Post edited: Links! So many links! |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288434 |
Post edited: Nest content into the markdown list items. Use quote blocks. |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289126 |
I would need to find the article again to read the exact wording, but I am led to believe that for formulaic pulp novels (romance, crime fiction) some authors are already doing this. It costs them some money, but they make it back in the Kindle Store faster than writing the works themselves.
I pre... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288434 |
Suggested edit: Nest content into the markdown list items. Use quote blocks. (more) |
helpful | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290611 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What is a good, simple way to send electronic updates to a small group? Jon Ericson[^jon] is working on pretty much what you asked for. It seems to be [Discourse][] with a different base configuration that emails collaborators by default. There is a free open Beta for small communities. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290435 |
Is _streaming_ to your living room an option? Steam used to sell hardware for that. They stopped selling them, but you can build a Raspberry Pi one. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290413 |
This seems pretty extreme and unlikely: If there was a browser version disparity, it's possible that a CA was de-listed or added to the trusted list that's bundled by the browsers. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290266 |
Post edited: One version of the map has water tiles in the Great Lakes. |
— | 12 months ago |