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Sunday, 2019-07-28
08:23 How to handle a player that cannot be convinced his actions are a problem for both GM and party – rpg
08:23 Writing a clean implementation of Rock, Paper, Scissors game in c++ – codereview
08:23 Word for showing a small part of something briefly to hint to its existence or beauty without fully uncovering it – english
08:23 Why is drive/partition number still used? – unix
08:23 Why is it considered Acid Rain with pH <5.6 – chemistry
08:23 (2 of 11: Moon-or-Sun) What is Pyramid Cult's Favorite Camera? – puzzling
08:23 Checking if an integer is a member of an integer list – tex
08:23 How to avoid Patent Trolls when trying to obtain a Ph.D? – academia
08:23 Low-cost sound chip – retrocomputing
08:23 The Sword in the Stone – worldbuilding
08:23 Assuring luggage isn't lost with short layover – travel
08:23 Why do planes need a roll motion? – aviation
Saturday, 2019-07-27
20:23 Explain why watch 'jobs' does not work but watch 'ps' work? – unix
20:23 An inequality that eludes me. – math
20:23 We have several Stack Apps userscripts that help with moderation, but the recent UI changes break them – meta
15:23 Why isn't there a ";" after "do" in sh loops? – unix
15:23 What self-defense weapons are legal in London? – travel
15:23 Why was Sauron preparing for war instead of trying to find the ring? – movies
15:23 Giant space birds hatching out of planets; short story – scifi
15:23 Did the IBM PC use the 8088's NMI line? – retrocomputing
08:23 Can the 2019 UA Artificer's Returning Weapon and Radiant Weapon infusions stack on the same weapon? – rpg
08:23 Does the Intel 8086 CPU have user mode and kernel mode? – retrocomputing
08:23 Why isn't there a serious attempt at creating a third mass-appeal party in the US? – politics
08:23 TSA asking to see cell phone – travel
08:23 3D Statue Park: U shapes – puzzling
08:23 Why was Sauron not trying to find the Ring, and instead of preparing for war? – movies
08:23 Examples of simultaneous independent breakthroughs – mathoverflow.net
Friday, 2019-07-26
20:23 Trapped in an ocean Temple in Minecraft? – gaming
20:23 Why is my read in of data taking so long? – mathematica
20:23 expansion with *.txt in the shell doesn't work if no .txt file exists – askubuntu.com
20:23 Iterate over non-const variables in C++ – stackoverflow.com
20:23 (1 of 11: Numberlink) What is Pyramid Cult's Favorite Activity? – puzzling
20:23 How to judge a Ph.D. applicant that arrives "out of thin air" – academia
20:23 How do we explain the E major chord in this progression? – music
20:23 Are there any examples of technologies have been lost over time? – history
20:23 Why can't my huge trees be chopped down? – worldbuilding
20:23 Does academia have a lazy work culture? – academia
15:23 Commercial jet accompanied by small plane near Seattle – aviation
15:23 Character is called by their first initial. How do I write it? – writing
15:23 Is there anything wrong with Thrawn? – scifi
15:23 Is it legal for private citizens to "impound" e-scooters? – law
15:23 Is it legal to use cash pulled from a credit card to pay the monthly payment on that credit card? – money
15:23 How do I stop my characters falling in love? – writing
08:23 Spacing setting of math mode – tex
08:23 Memory capability and powers of 2 – electronics
08:23 Is there a reason why I should not use the HaveIBeenPwned API to warn users about exposed passwords? – security
08:23 Where to place an artificial gland in the human body? – worldbuilding
08:23 What to do when you reach a conclusion and find out later on that someone else already did? – academia
08:23 Convert a string like 4h53m12s to a total number of seconds in JavaScript – codereview
08:23 How can I prevent corporations from growing their own workforce? – worldbuilding
08:23 What is the difference between 1/3, 1/2, and full casters? – rpg
08:23 Area of parallelogram = Area of square. Shear transform – math
08:23 How do campaign rallies gain candidates votes? – politics
08:23 A planet illuminated by a black hole? – worldbuilding
08:23 Why no ";" after "do" in sh loops? – unix
08:23 Terence Tao - type books in other fields? – math
08:23 Why did Saturn V not head straight to the moon? – space
08:23 How can I stop myself from micromanaging other PCs' actions? – rpg
Thursday, 2019-07-25
20:23 What is a Union Word™? – puzzling
20:23 Explanation for a joke about a three-legged dog that walks into a bar – ell
20:23 Keeping an "hot eyeball planet" wet – worldbuilding
20:23 "I you already know": is this proper English? – english
20:23 How can I receive packages while in France? – travel
20:23 High income, sudden windfall – money
20:23 Why are the sidebar stats for a question now under the title? – meta
15:23 How can I tell if there was a power cut while I was out? – lifehacks
15:23 Inadvertently nuked my disk permission structure - why? – askubuntu.com
15:23 For a MOSFET, does capacitive gate current only flow through to the source? – electronics
15:23 Is Grandpa Irrational? Another Grandpa Mystery – puzzling
15:23 Is a normal-sized rug with the Animate Objects spell cast on it able to carry a person and fly? – rpg
15:23 How important is a good quality camera for good photography? – photo
15:23 Sextortion with actual password not found in leaks – security
15:23 Is it normal practice to screen share with a client? – graphicdesign
15:23 Which creatures count as green creatures? – boardgames
15:23 Why are so many countries still in the Commonwealth? – politics
15:23 Please help, I’m a problem player – rpg
08:23 Film where a boy turns into a princess – scifi
08:23 What does the Find Familiar spell target? – rpg
08:23 What the purpose of the fuel shutoff valve? – aviation
08:23 Who has jurisdiction for a crime committed in an embassy? – politics
08:23 Who controls a summoned steed’s familiar? – rpg
08:23 How may I shorten this shell script? – unix
08:23 401k investment after being fired. Do I own it? – money
08:23 Symbol of the tennis ball – tex
08:23 How do I run a game when my PCs have different approaches to combat? – rpg
08:23 How could an engineer advance human civilization by time traveling to the past? – worldbuilding
08:23 Invert Some Switches on a Switchboard – codegolf
08:23 What do I do when a student working in my lab "ghosts" me? – academia
Wednesday, 2019-07-24
20:23 Why is chess failing to attract big name sponsors? – chess
20:23 What is the purpose of this "red room" in "Stranger Things"? – movies
20:23 Grid/table with lots of buttons – ux
20:23 Historicity doubted by Romans – latin
20:23 Sometimes you are this word with three vowels – puzzling
20:23 What exactly makes a General Products hull nearly indestructible? – scifi
20:23 What is an Eternal Word™? – puzzling
20:23 Why are there not any MRI machines available in Interstellar? – movies
20:23 Why is a dedicated QA team member necessary? – sqa
20:23 What's the explanation for this joke about a three-legged dog that walks into a bar? – ell
15:23 If a check is written for bill, but account number is not mentioned on memo line, is it still processed? – money
15:23 Alternative methods for solving a system of one linear one non linear simultaneous equations – math
15:23 Span command across LaTeX environments – tex
15:23 What's preventing Stack Exchange from becoming carbon neutral? – meta
15:23 Can GPL and BSD licensed applications be used for government work? – opensource
15:23 Using "Kollege" as "university friend"? – german
15:23 How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview? – writing
15:23 How to make this script shorter? – unix
15:23 Character Frequency in a String – codegolf
08:23 What rules turn any attack that hits a given target into a critical hit? – rpg
08:23 Where is this photo of a group of hikers taken? Is it really in the Ural? – travel
08:23 How to Sow[] until I've Reap[]'d enough? – mathematica
08:23 how to add 1 milliseconds on a datetime string? – dba
08:23 Monty Hall Problem with a Fallible Monty – stats
08:23 ExactlyOne extension method – codereview
08:23 The seven story archetypes. Are they truly all of them? – writing
08:23 Short story where a flexible reality hardens to an unchanging one – scifi
08:23 What was the rationale behind 36 bit computer architectures? – retrocomputing
08:23 Other than a swing wing, what types of variable geometry have flown? – aviation
08:23 How to work a regular job as a former celebrity – workplace
08:23 How can I make sure my players' decisions have consequences? – rpg
Tuesday, 2019-07-23
20:23 Does Impedance Matching Imply any Practical RF Transmitter Must Waste >=50% of Energy? – electronics
20:23 How could Barty Crouch Jr. have run out of Polyjuice Potion at the end of the Goblet of Fire movie? – scifi
20:23 Is the apartment I want to rent a scam? – money
20:23 Why do people say "I am broke" instead of "I am broken"? – ell
20:23 What's the 1 inch size square knob sticking out of wall? – diy
20:23 What kind of world would drive brains to evolve high-throughput sensory? – worldbuilding
20:23 What is "ass door"? – english
20:23 Can I pay with HKD in Macau or Shenzhen? – travel
20:23 Chemistry Riddle – puzzling
20:23 High income and difficulty during interviews – workplace
20:23 Is this type of content 'inappropriate content' for the chat? – meta
20:23 Considerations when providing money to one child now, and the other later? – money
20:23 Why did NASA use Imperial units? – space
20:23 Can't understand how static works exactly – stackoverflow.com
20:23 Does downing a character at the start of its turn require an immediate Death Saving Throw? – rpg
20:23 Are gangsters hired to attack people at a train station classified as a terrorist attack? – politics
20:23 Company requiring me to let them review research from before I was hired – workplace
15:23 "It is what it is" in French – french
15:23 How can Kazakhstan perform MITM attacks on all HTTPS traffic? – security
15:23 How to run a substitute command on only a certain part of the line – vi
15:23 Bounded Torsion, without Mazur’s Theorem – mathoverflow.net
15:23 Xcode 10.3 Installation – stackoverflow.com
15:23 Wiring IKEA light fixture into old fixture – diy
15:23 Is an easily guessed plot twist a good plot twist? – writing
15:23 Company PR Team forcing me to give up my rights or face termination – workplace
15:23 Gangsters hired to attack a train station classified as terrorist attack? – politics
08:23 90s (or earlier) book in which a human detective is hired by a vampire to find killer of vampires – scifi
08:23 Strange LED behavior: Why is there a voltage over the LED with only one wire connected to it? – electronics
08:23 What is a "staved" town, like in "Staverton"? – history
08:23 Help!. Wiring an IKEA light fixture into old fixture – diy
08:23 Capture SQL Server queries without third-party tooling and without using deprecated features? – dba
08:23 What does a black-and-white Puerto Rican flag signify? – politics
08:23 Considerations when providing money to only one child out of two – money
08:23 Why did computer video outputs go from digital to analog, then back to digital? – retrocomputing
08:23 Impact of throwing away fruit waste on a peak > 3200 m above a glacier – outdoors
08:23 How did pilots avoid thunderstorms and related weather before “reliable” airborne weather radar was introduced on airliners? – aviation
08:23 How can I deal with someone that wants to kill something that isn't supposed to be killed? – rpg
08:23 Do Dragonborns get unarmored defense? – rpg
08:23 Are there any English words pronounced with sounds/syllables that aren't part of the spelling? – english
08:23 Inverse Colombian Function – codegolf
08:23 Why did modems have speakers? – retrocomputing
Monday, 2019-07-22
20:23 Why is the UH-60 tail rotor canted? – aviation
20:23 Why was Quirrell said to be in the Black Forest if Voldemort was actually in Albania? – scifi
20:23 How should I handle a question regarding my regrets during an interview? – workplace
20:23 I am a dual citizen of United States and Mexico, can I use my Mexican license in california when visiting? – travel
20:23 What kind of curve (or model) should I fit to my percentage data? – stats
20:23 Strange LED behavior – electronics
20:23 Has Iron Man made any suit for underwater combat? – scifi
20:23 Is it OK to accept a job opportunity while planning on not taking it? – workplace
20:23 How to help my daughter fairly – money
20:23 Why Lie algebras if what we care about in physics are groups? – physics
20:23 How do you structure large embedded projects – electronics
20:23 What do Unicorns want? – rpg
15:23 sed '5i\n\n\n' myfile inserts first \n as a literal n, and the other two \n\n as new lines, is it possible to insert all 3 new lines? – unix
15:23 Host telling me to cancel my booking in exchange for a discount? – travel
15:23 What does the following chess proverb mean: "Chess is a sea where a gnat may drink from and an elephant may bathe in." – chess
15:23 Why can't a country print its own money to spend it only abroad? – economics
15:23 What kind of vegetable has pink and white concentric rings? – cooking
15:23 Does a "melee spell attack" use my spellcasting ability, or my Strength? – rpg
15:23 What is the best word describing the nature of expiring in a short amount of time, connoting "losing public attention"? – english
15:23 Is there any direct train from LHR Airport to Newcastle Gateshead? – travel
15:23 Why are Oscar, India, and X-Ray (O, I, and X) not used as taxiway identifiers? – aviation
15:23 Why is DC so, so, so Democratic? – politics
15:23 Are there any English words pronounced with consonants that aren't part of the spelling? – english
15:23 My current job follows "worst practices". How can I talk about my experience in an interview without giving off red flags? – workplace
08:23 Do I care if the housing market has gone up or down, if I'm moving from one house to another? – money
08:23 Why didn't NASA launch communications relay satellites for the Apollo missions? – space
08:23 Quickest way to move a line in a text file before another line in a text file? – unix
08:23 Is there an English word to describe when a sound "protrudes"? – english
08:23 How does mathematics work? – philosophy
08:23 Why does Plot only sometimes use different colors for each curve – mathematica
08:23 How deep is the Underdark? What is its max and median depth? – rpg
08:23 Do I have to mention my main characters age? – writing
08:23 What should I watch before playing Alien: Isolation? – scifi
08:23 I have a domain, static IP and many devices I'd like to access outside my house. How to route them? – superuser.com
08:23 "It is what it is" – french
08:23 Can anyone help me to adjust the following asterisks? – tex
08:23 1025th term of the given sequence. – math
08:23 How can I show that the speed of light in vacuum is the same in all reference frames? – physics
08:23 Is it better to have a 10 year gap or a bad reference? – workplace
08:23 Would using carbon dioxide as fuel work to reduce the greenhouse effect? – worldbuilding
08:23 Book in which the "mountain" in the distance was a hole in the flat world – scifi
08:23 Killing a star safely – worldbuilding
08:23 Is it ethical to tell my teaching assistant that I like him? – academia
08:23 Found more old paper shares from broken up companies – money
Sunday, 2019-07-21
20:23 Difference between string += s1 and string=string +s1 – stackoverflow.com
20:23 why neutral does not shock. how can a neutral be neutral in ac current? – electronics
20:23 Why didn't Balak request Bilam to bless his own people? – judaism
20:23 Has anyone ever written a novel or short story composed of only dialogue? – writing
20:23 Linearize or approximate a square root constraint – or
20:23 What is really the difference between uniform velocity and constant velocity? – physics
20:23 Nilpotent elements of Lie algebra and unipotent groups – mathoverflow.net
20:23 Applying for jobs when I have an obvious scar – workplace
20:23 Redirection operator, standard input and command parameters – unix
20:23 Making an example from 'Clean Code' more functional – codereview
20:23 What's the physical meaning of the statement that "photons don't have positions"? – physics
20:23 Why does airflow separate from the wing during stall? – aviation
20:23 ESTA Travel not Authorized. Accepted twice before! – travel
20:23 Trivial non-dark twist in dark fantasy – writing
20:23 What does a Nintendo Game Boy do when turned on without a game cartridge inserted? – retrocomputing
15:23 How is it possible for the induced emf to take negative values in Faraday's Law of induction? – physics
15:23 Found old paper shares of Motorola Inc that has since been broken up – money
15:23 How far off did Apollo 11 land? – space
15:23 Soft constraints and hard constraints – or
15:23 How much did all the space agencies spent on rockets launching and space exploration? What are the benefits for me and you? – space
15:23 Why is there an extra "t" in Lemmatization? – english
08:23 What is the intuition for higher homotopy groups not vanishing? – mathoverflow.net
08:23 Table Formatting Suggestion – tex
08:23 Why should fork() have been designed to return a file descriptor? – unix
08:23 Could Europeans in Europe demand protection under UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? – politics
08:23 Project Euler # 25 The 1000 digit Fibonacci index – codereview
08:23 Is this guy trying to scam me? – money
08:23 Does the Bracer of Flying Daggers really let a thief make 4 attacks per round? – rpg
08:23 Do pedestrians imitate automotive traffic? – travel
08:23 How does the Gameboy's memory bank switching work? – retrocomputing
08:23 Did Hitler say this quote about education? – skeptics
08:23 Is it ethical to tell my teaching assistant that I like them? – academia
08:23 Aren't all schwa sounds literally /ø/? – french
08:23 Do gauntlets count as armor? – rpg
08:23 Can a creature sustain itself by eating its own severed body parts? – worldbuilding
Saturday, 2019-07-20
20:23 Extract the attribute names from a large number of Shapefiles – gis
20:23 Linux ext4 restore file and directory access rights after bad backup/restore – superuser.com
20:23 Discontinuous Tube visualization – mathematica
15:23 When a ball on a rope swings in a circle, is there both centripetal force and tension force? – physics
15:23 Why teach C using scanf without talking about command line arguments? – cseducators
15:23 What are some intuitive examples of categories which aren't made from structured sets and functions between them? – math
15:23 Will copper pour help on my single-layer PCB? – electronics
15:23 When will the last unambiguous evidence of mankind disappear? – worldbuilding
15:23 Inside Out and Back to Front – puzzling
08:23 Align the contents of a numerical matrix when you have minus signs – tex
08:23 You have no, but can try for yes – english
08:23 What is a Romeo Word™? – puzzling
08:23 Why would word of Princess Leia's capture generate sympathy for the Rebellion in the Senate? – scifi
08:23 Is it centripetal force or tension force? – physics
08:23 Making a Dataset that emulates `ls -tlra`? – mathematica
08:23 Are there foods that astronauts are explicitly never allowed to eat? – space
08:23 Last-minute canceled work-trip means I'll lose thousands of dollars on planned vacation – workplace
08:23 Brute-force the switchboard – codegolf
Friday, 2019-07-19
20:23 Could a US citizen born through "birth tourism" become President? – politics
20:23 Improving an O(N^2) function (all entities iterating over all other entities) – gamedev
20:23 How important are the Author's mood and feelings for writing a story? – writing
15:23 Why are flying carpets banned while flying brooms are not? – scifi
15:23 Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits? – space
15:23 Do higher dimensions have axes? – math
15:23 Real orthogonal and sign – mathoverflow.net
15:23 Does 5e follow the Primary Source rule? – rpg
15:23 Do pedestrians imitate auto traffic? – travel
15:23 How to tell readers that I know my story is factually incorrect? – writing
15:23 May I use a railway velocipede on actively-used British railways? – travel
15:23 How was Luke's prosthetic hand in Episode V filmed? – scifi
08:23 Demographic consequences of closed loop reincarnation – worldbuilding
08:23 What makes MOVEQ quicker than a normal MOVE in 68000 assembly? – retrocomputing
08:23 Does unblocking power bar outlets through short extension cords increase fire risk? – diy
08:23 Is it possible to have a career in SciComp without contributing to arms research? – scicomp
08:23 The most secure way to handle someone forgetting to verify their account? – security
08:23 Applying for jobs with an obvious scar – workplace
08:23 Which modern firearm should a time traveler bring to be easily reproducible for a historic civilization? – worldbuilding
08:23 Why aren't there any women super GMs? – chess
08:23 How to delete all messages in the message window programmatically? – mathematica
08:23 Inscriptio Labyrinthica – codegolf
08:23 Should I have shared a document with a former employee? – workplace
08:23 What could make large expeditions ineffective for exploring territory full of dangers and valuable resources? – worldbuilding
08:23 Three Subway Escalators – puzzling
08:23 Last-minute canceled work-trip mean I'll lose thousands of dollars on planned vacation – workplace
Thursday, 2019-07-18
20:23 Why were these characters absent in Spider-Man: Far From Home? – scifi
20:23 Company looks for long-term employees, but I know I won't be interested in staying long – workplace
20:23 How slow can a car engine run? – mechanics
20:23 Grouping into more groups in one iteration – codereview
20:23 How can one convert an expression to a string while keeping the quotation marks of strings that are part of the expression? – mathematica
20:23 How to belay quickly ascending top-rope climbers? – outdoors
20:23 I have found a mistake on someones code published online, what is the protocol? – academia
20:23 Is encryption still applied if you ignore the SSL certificate warning for self signed? – security
20:23 Why did my "seldom" get corrected? – ell
20:23 How to not confuse readers with simultaneous events? – writing
20:23 How did Jayne know when to shoot? – scifi
20:23 Operation Unzalgo – codegolf
20:23 How do you send money when you're not sure it's not a scam? – money
20:23 May I use a railway velocipede on used British railways? – travel
15:23 Is this Android phone Android 9.0 or Android 6.0? – android
15:23 Do dragons smell of lilacs? – rpg
15:23 Zhora asks Deckard: "Are you for real?". Was this meant to be significant? – scifi
14:02 Why won't some unicode characters print to my terminal? – unix
14:02 "Je suis petite, moi?", purpose of the "moi"? – french
14:02 Could we be a little less eager with the duplicate votes to close? – meta
13:20 Random piece of plastic – bicycles
13:20 How would you say "Sorry, that was a mistake on my part"? – german
13:20 how slow a car engine can run – mechanics
13:20 What were the problems on the Apollo 11 lunar module? – space
13:20 Why don't commercial aircraft adopt a slightly more seaplane-like design to allow safer ditching in case of emergency? – aviation
13:20 Should I use a resistor between gate driver and mosfet (gate pin) – electronics
13:20 When designing an adventure, how can I ensure a continuous player experience in a setting that's likely to favor TPKs? – rpg
13:20 Upgrade magento 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 – magento
13:20 Time signature inconsistent – music
13:20 Wordplay addition paradox – puzzling
13:20 Is it ethical for a company to ask its employees to move furniture on a weekend? – workplace
13:20 Did Hitler say this quote about homeschooling? – skeptics
13:20 How can electric field be defined as force per charge, if the charge makes its own, singular electric field? – physics
13:20 How to find location on Cambridge-Mildenhall railway that still has tracks/rails? – travel
13:20 How fast does a character need to move to be effectively invisible? – rpg
13:20 Is surviving this (blood loss) scenario possible? – worldbuilding
13:20 Is there an English equivalent for "Les carottes sont cuites", while keeping the vegetable reference? – english
13:20 Everyone but three – puzzling
13:20 What details should I consider before agreeing for part of my salary to be 'retained' by employer? – workplace
13:20 What happens if a company buys back all of its shares? – money
13:20 What would be the safest way to drop thousands of small, hard objects from a typical, high wing, GA airplane? – aviation
13:20 Why do space operations use "nominal" to mean "working correctly"? – space
13:20 Why is Google approaching my VPS machine? – serverfault.com
13:20 Is it legal for a supermarket to refuse to sell an adult beer if an adult with them doesn’t have their ID? – law
13:20 Sending a photo of my bank account card to the future employer – workplace
13:20 How can I help our ranger feel special about her beast companion? – rpg
13:20 Why is the Intel 8086 CPU called a 16-bit CPU? – retrocomputing
13:20 Could we be a little less eager with the dupehammers? – meta
13:20 What is this green alien supposed to be on the American covers of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"? – scifi
13:20 Operation Unz̖̬̜̺̬a͇͖̯͔͉l̟̭g͕̝̼͇͓̪͍o̬̝͍̹̻ – codegolf
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