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| Comment | Post #291462 |
I disagree that license/legal requirements are off-topic at EE. These are often highly technical matters which you need an engineer to understand. Typically the frequency band allocation spec in "legal" documents will go something like: "434,04-434,79 MHz, Non-specific SDRs, 1 mW e.r.p. and -13 dBm/1... (more) |
— | 5 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291192 |
You'd have to look at the whole product chain from mining to disposal/recycling to see the environment impact. It also means what you mean with "environmental impact" - killing the local wildlife at the place where you build the mines, or killing it (and/or humans) with chemicals leaking out of batte... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #291270 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: What can I do with used disposable batteries? In Sweden (and probably most of Europe?) you simply hand them in for the battery recycling at your local recycling station. People would get shocked if you threw batteries in the normal garbage. We stopped doing that in the early 1980s somewhere and the transition from NiCd to Alkaline and NiMH d... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291190 |
I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be merged with the recycling proposal. There is no user base for super-specific communities no matter the topic. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291154 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: Can you always interpose an intermediate effect into any causal chain? Charles Darwin more or less spent his whole life proving this theory to be true and it's essentially what On the Origin of Species is all about. So if you are looking for rigorous arguments in published literature, with plenty of examples, this book is surely it. In order to for his theory of natu... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291116 |
Trackballs, touchpads and so on aren't very ergonomic at all, in my experience. Stuff that's explicitly marketed as ergonomic tends to be the opposite, for whatever reason. I guess the key is that human hands are quite individually sized and shaped, yet this sort of equipment is marketed as "one size... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290999 |
I think this quite clearly belongs on Home Improvement and not anywhere else. We shouldn't use multiple tags if it can be avoided, I think.
Btw the contractor who does flooring must clearly be a _floorist_, right? 🙄 (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291116 |
After having tried an endless flood of mice over the years, my conclusion is that ergonomic = small and light. The more it builds in height, the more it strains the wrist. The more it weighs, the more it strains muscles overall.
Since some 5+ years, I'm using one of the less fancy Logitech gaming... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290999 |
@#64277 I made a proposal in a comment [here](https://proposals.codidact.com/comments/thread/8878#comment-22738) that we try to create some sort of translation/terminology posts, so that non-English speakers can check what a specific term is called in English. Because trying to find the correct Engli... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290999 |
(And regarding that, `united-states` might be too broad a tag too, because I suspect that houses in Alaska are built quite differently compared to houses on Hawaii.) (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290999 |
@#64277 I think the nature of the site means that we have to use tags for geographic regions. Most notably everything related to mains voltages is kind of different in North America compared to the rest of the world. But also how houses are built... if you look at a typical Norwegian house, it is war... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291051 |
@#53279 Yes but just because something is very hard or even impossible doesn't make the archeological endeavor or methods less scientific. Another myth/conspiracy theory I recall was that the Swedish King Karl XII who died in a battle was supposedly shot by his own men, because they were tired of war... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291051 |
@#53279 One obvious example of a confirmed/disproven event is that Christopher Columbus was for a very long time considered the one who first discovered America - it was still taught in schools until recently even. However, historians had a theory that Leif Eriksson from Greenland discovered it some ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291051 |
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— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291051 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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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. Some historian has a theory about for example how Roman baths were designed, based on records etc. Then s... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290755 |
And this site too sounds like a nightmare to moderate, much more difficult than the present, established Codidact sites. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290755 |
Credible sources would likely most often be respected media such as well-known news channels or papers, that actually in turn verify their sources. Perhaps it would be such a good idea to maintain a list of valid media sources. So that we don't end up with people quoting Fox News or random Youtube ch... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290755 |
When discussing politics these days, the need for valid sources for your claims is bigger than ever. There is tons of propaganda and blatant lies, often with no clear origin. Social media in particular is one big collection of lies and disinformation. So in order to discuss some premise laid out by a... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290931 |
The site will need to define a scope somehow, but I think it might have to be a more tolerant site, even compared to other Codidact communities. As the scope and format settles, I think this site will require a whole lot more from the moderators than the average Codidact site. They probably need at ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290901 |
@#8046 How is all of this handled by the Judaism and Christianity communities? They are really quite similar in terms of questions about existentialism and morality, and there's not necessarily some "one true answer", no matter if you consult different parts of holy books or if you consult different ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290893 |
Yes but proposals isn't for creating your own personal site, to be used by you and yourself. The one who creates a proposal gets no special status. The idea is rather to find consensus of something that a lot of other people as well can form up behind. And there's no getting there without discussing ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290893 |
I think step #1 here is to discuss on meta if the philosophy site should have an article/paper/resources category or not. Rather than to just jump the gun and assume that such will be on-topic and well-received. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290901 |
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— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290901 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: 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 reasonable, questions must have a somewhat specific scope (like on the rest of the Q&A sites). I think s... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290564 |
@#76955 "Computer science community is more about theoretical computer science, it has nothing to do with software and programming languages." It has _everything_ to do with software (and hardware) or otherwise computer science would be completely useless.
Computer science is still a very young s... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288863 |
@#36396 I addressed potential overlap with EE in this meta post: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/288864/288881#answer-288881. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288881 |
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— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290478 |
This question would suit better for https://cooking.codidact.com/. Specifically, the statement "From what I read, the temperature of the food must stay below 80F for cold smoking" is about cooking, not shopping. Similarly, "Are there actually electric smokers you can buy that can reliably cold smoke ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288863 |
One thing we might want to consider allowing is terminology-related posts. It's hard for non-English speakers to give the proper names of electrical or plumbing components, even when they happen to be professionals themselves. What is incredibly helpful is to have a couple of terminology posts naming... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290303 |
There's plenty of sites offering classic discussion forums. No need to develop anything, just register a site for your group. Then have people register to the forum which requires e-mail verification and optionally with manual verification/invitation of the user. Whoever got admin privileges on the f... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
@#61308
> Random people asking random questions about random topics...
> This would be one of my top 3 reasons to use this site.
Okay. It would probably be one of my top 3 reasons to avoid the site. I'm not interested in reading a flood of random questions about anything.
> Other people's... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
Rather: Codidact should be about gathering a group of individuals with a common interest about something into a community about that topic. Then gather interesting, helpful, quality content there - at the interest of those part of the community. If that would somehow scare away certain people because... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
@#61308 I'm concerned about increasing _quality_ activity - all activity is not necessarily good or constructive. Random people asking random questions about random topics is nothing unique to Codidact nor is it particularly valuable - it is not a selling argument about why someone should post on Cod... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
"Requiring this would not stop people from asking oddball questions" No but is the goal of Codidact to answer any question any human can ask at any time? I think no such ambition exists. There will always be oddballs and oddball questions, but we need not necessarily provide a forum for _everything_ ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
"Proposals are easier to compose when you already have a bunch of existing questions that would fall under your proposal." Everyone and their mother are already creating proposals at rapid pace then far from everyone follows up, but just leave the proposals there to freeze to death. Seems to me it n... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
"Proposal tags can always be added later, it's easy to do even in bulk" Well what if the posts don't match the scope of the site now, because community consensus of what the community should be about has switched? The Q&A will not be a list of good questions to bring to the new site at launch, it wil... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290138 |
And as I already argued in the linked thread, how do we moderate questions when there is no scope, no rules, no posting guidance, no expertise? With no rules it is anarchy.codidact.com. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290121 |
@#61308 This has been pretty clear since day one. https://proposals.codidact.com/help/proposals. Nobody said that the same person has to do the proposal (which should be regarded as a community effort not the work of one person) and the Q&A. We need to have the proposal first or else how do we know w... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290127 |
@#53890 Actually I just noticed as much too, while browsing the site after posting it. But the difference is minimal, to the point where I didn't even notice it. It needs to stand out much more, an entirely different colour. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290127 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Make proposed community tags mandatory I agree - the obvious candidate for these mandatory "community" tags are those listed for each community below "Descriptions". The "community" tags should be optional on meta, since posts here might also be about this site in itself (like for example this very question). Maybe we can also make ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290121 |
Questions below the "Incubator Q&A" category are supposed to be attached to a Community proposal under the "Descriptions" category. I can't find one matching your question and tags. There was an old proposal for Medical Advise in the old site proposal system [here](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289195 |
@#61308 Right now we already have far more proposals than the total number of users working with actively supporting _any_ proposal. The purpose of this Incubator thing shouldn't be a place where people drop a new wild idea every week then leave - that's not constructive or helpful. So it would be ni... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289195 |
I think that if you launch a site idea and there is not an _immediate_ burst of interest and activity, with lots of people posting Q&A or meta discussions, then that will probably still be the case some 6-12 months later. So rather than speaking just about reactions decaying, perhaps the whole site p... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289920 |
@#36356 Also, I really think this needs to avoid "oh wow I'm the first person to spot x in country y" questions, because then identification questions are necessary. Are we really expecting the user base to consist solely of domain experts (botanists, zoologists, ornithologists etc) that can confiden... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289920 |
@#36356 A foreign species is not necessarily causing damage to the existing ecosystems - it may often peacefully co-exist. For example the Canada goose is not natural to northern Europe but was purposely imported by various foolish people. But I don't think it is considered invasive since it behaves ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |