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Activity for Lundinâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Question | — |
Should recommendation questions be on-topic? Home Improvement seems like a site where recommendation type questions might happen quite frequently, including product/component recommendations as well as tool recommendations. I think these can be categorized as: 1. Which kind of technology/type of component/tool is most suitable for the job? ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289781 |
I found something resembling a datasheet here: https://assets.lutron.com/a/documents/maestrosatincolors.pdf. Rated for 15A. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289702 |
May I also add that "STEM" is not really a term used in non-English countries (if it is at all used in the English-speaking ones in the first place?). Whereas "Everyday Science" would be quite clear. And if we can get rid of yet another use of confusing abbreviations, we'd make the Internet/world a s... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289702 |
@r~~ That's nice input then, seems like the Physics site would benefit from this proposed one. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289702 |
Also, (and while it is not a must) ideally a new community should spring from a need such as "oh boy we are sure getting a lot of these lay science questions here at Scientific Speculation, it would be nice if there was another community where we could direct those questions". The Home Improvement/DI... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289702 |
This overlaps with a lot of other communities, existing or proposed. Most notably the Home Improvement/DIY proposal, but also the existing Scientific Speculation site. The DIY aspect questions is a direct overlap, and any "lay science" question of the nature "what if..." is probably on-topic at Scien... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289593 |
Oscilloscopes are for viewing/trouble-shooting the signals passing through the cable. They can't be used to verify the quality of the cable itself. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289593 |
@#61308 Resistance is not so much a factor. You can measure it, sure, but with a decent multi-meter you would get <1ohm both on the signal and the shield and that's it. But that only means that the cable isn't complete crap, not necessarily that it is suitable. The most important aspect here is if yo... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289593 |
And well, besides verifying that the cable/shield isn't damaged or broken, we can't really do anything without a LCR meter or other professional engineering equipment. Quality of cables depend on characteristic impedance which is hard to measure properly on some cable stuck in a wall, even if you hav... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289593 |
Just wanted to point out that these kind of "verify cables" questions would be on-topic at https://electrical.codidact.com/ as well, you might get a more advanced answer there. At the EE site you will also be assumed to have access to common tools like a multi-meter and a solder iron. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289609 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Add proposals to Codidact.com We should add proposals.codidact.com to the main site https://codidact.com/. The natural place to put it IMO would be at the end of the listed communities, just after meta.codidact. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289551 |
Please note that the advise for classic NiMH (Nickel-metal hydride) batteries are almost the opposite of those for Li/Ion. This is an important distinction since a lot of people who are used to the former take good practices from the former and apply them to the latter. NiMH likes to be fully dischar... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289499 |
@#61308 Although it may of course simply be a problem with the LEDs themselves, but if you experience the same problem on multiple places then maybe that's less likely. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289499 |
@#61308 Anything based on coils will produce voltage/current spikes whenever energized or de-energized: both the expected "EMF" used to drive whatever the coil is driving, as well as a "back-EMF" which is a current going in the opposite direction and may damage or interfere with other electrical equi... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289499 |
Maybe it would be a viable DIY troubleshooting to turn off fuses one by one and check if the LEDs stopped flickering, until the culprit is found (assuming a reasonably modern fuse box where you can just pull a switch on/off, not the old ones with ceramic fuses). That is, in case the problem is the wa... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289360 |
For the record we have the same abbreviated term in Sweden too, even though it's an English abbreviation. Which in turn suggests that it is indeed a common and potentially universal abbreviation. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289360 |
@#36396 Oriented strand board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriented_strand_board, seems like a common enough term. Similar to particle boards but a different flavour. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288881 |
Also, consider a question about "what do deer eat" - wild animal behavior, definitely on-topic at Outdoors, right? Then a question about growing flowers in your garden, definitely a gardening topic no matter where such questions belong. Now what about "how to protect my flowers from getting eaten by ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288881 |
@#8046 I assume you are referring to this: https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/140599. It had lots of up-votes and in addition to your self-answer, someone else also posted an answer which was also well-received. Not a single down vote in sight... so I don't understand why you think such questions ar... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288881 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Home Improvement versus a more general "home stuff" community? Regarding scope overlaps: - Outdoors currently accepts some of the topics proposed here, including questions about various outdoors equipment, gardening, accessibility (how do I visit place x given y). I would propose to either keep questions about gardening and misc outdoors equipment on Ou... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288876 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Are questions about selling one's crafts allowed? I think it should be off-topic. Since Codidact is an international site and laws, taxes, shipping and so on are very localized, it would seem that such questions would: - Quite easily stray far from the intended topic (artistry/craftsmanship). - Require answers from a different kind of user ba... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288837 |
Now of course this whole discussion is pointless if there are zero interest from any game developers to participate on the site. I wouldn't call myself one and won't likely participate either, since I've only created games as naive hobby projects: snake, tetris, stuff like that. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288837 |
@#53890 Is stuff like graphics libs, threading libs etc _related_ to game development? No doubt they are. What I'm aiming for is that we don't get a fuzzy overlap between communities. If general programming questions are to be on-topic, then I would say that it becomes very hard to justify a game dev... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288837 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Video games: site scope > On-topic > - Game and mod development is on-topic given that the question is specific to video games and not about general programming. > - Questions about tools, engines and APIs used in video game or mod development are on-topic. > > Off-topic > - General programming questions/debugging... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288836 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
Video games: site scope Please use this question for the discussion about site scope (on-/off-topic) for the Video Games site proposal. Answers below should make an argument regarding whether something should be on-topic or off-topic. Please stick to one topic per answer so that we may use voting to indicate agreement/di... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288551 |
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— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288551 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
| Question | — |
How to tell that a proposal is ready for launch? Previously in the old system, we asked around of how many that were willing to participate, posted scope proposals and declared interested with comments or voting. Now: - The "Descriptions" tab/category doesn't seem to invite any discussion. There's just a question and not really clear who should... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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