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2:16 AM

I don't have the time right now, but perhaps someone can create a glossary entry for my keywords? ...I think the footnotes are ugly (though better than parentheses, in this case), and the question would have a better appearance if the keywords were linked to MY glossary definitions. — Shokhet 23 secs ago

^^^ words are "מחמיר" "מיקל," and "פיקוח נפש"

....please ping me here if you've done it; if no one does (במקום שאין אנשים...) then I will; perhaps sometime tomorrow.

TZT!

3 hours later…

YeZ

5:00 AM

Does anyone remember a question recently about the Aron eino min hamiddah gemara?

Double AA

5:37 AM

@YeZ it was deleted by Community on jan 17

Double AA

6:27 AM

Does anyone else see a phantom one extra comment on this answer judaism.stackexchange.com/a/53747?

It says there's one more comment to show, but then nothing when i click it. And it does that every time i refresh

Scimonster

@DoubleAA Yes.

Double AA

@Scimonster weeerd

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YeZ

1:30 PM

@DoubleAA Why?

Isaac Moses

1:47 PM

@MonicaCellio Sorry. I had edited the query to point to another post and forgot to change it back. Here it is, parameterized and pointing at the right post.

@MonicaCellio COUNT counts the number of non-null values in an expression. Typically, that expression is a column, but I don't think it can be a table. ID is a natural choice for counting up rows, since it's typically never null. COUNT(*) is also a standard idiom, since it'll return the number of rows that have a non-NULL value in any column. In the article linked above, I see that COUNT(1) is a better choice, performance-wise, if you just want to know...

... the number of rows and don't care about (or don't expect any) NULLs

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Double AA

3:48 PM

@YeZ no answers, negative score, 30 days IIRC.

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A: How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?

How can a post be deleted? By a user: You can typically delete your own posts at will; for exceptions, see "When can't I delete my own post?" below. To delete a post, just use the "delete" link below it. Moderators can delete any post instantly. Users with reputation >= 10k (more precisely, th...

Scimonster

4:14 PM

Q: Add indication of the existence of Meta.SE on all meta sites

Prompted by this answer of a relatively new SO user that he did not know there was a Meta.SE: I suggest putting a notice on all Meta sites. A good place would be to extend the bottom text of all meta front pages: Looking for more? Browse the complete list of questions, or popular tags. Help...

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havarka

5:33 PM

hi do you know where can i advertise that i teach reading alef-beis?!

Scimonster

in Discussion on Mi Yodeya Userscripts, 3 mins ago, by havarka

hi, do you know where can I advertise, that i teach alef beis, to total beginners for free?! over skype

Isaac Moses

@havarka reddit.com/r/judaism

YeZ

6:27 PM

@DoubleAA Is there a way to revive it? I wanted to answer it and finally got around last night to looking into the sefer I've been searching for.

I know I could ask myself...

Scimonster

6:43 PM

@YeZ If you have the link, you can vote to undelete.

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msh210

8:31 PM

(Not caught up in Bam yet but:) @Shokhet re your comment : The reason I upvoted the earlier question and downvoted the later one is that the earlier one explains the Jewish context of the question (redeeming sons, redeeming us) whereas the other gives uninteresting links: "What's the difference between X and Y? X appears in [copy-paste from concordance] and Y in [copy-paste from concordance]."

Scimonster

Should we create lechem-hapanim? I found 3 questions that could fit right now: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/53670/… judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/27738/… judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/16973/…

> lechem hapanim is listed among the m'nachos in various contexts, hence the tag. But it may be too confusing. Maybe lechem hapanim should have its own tag?

(by @msh210)

msh210

@Scimonster Thanks for bringing that here. I was gonna, sooner or later, if I didn't forget to. :-)

Scimonster

@msh210 Random subject change, but why do you always put a smiley in code formatting?

msh210

@Scimonster Screenreaders.

Scimonster

@msh210 How does it help?

msh210

8:38 PM

@Scimonster They should read code character-for-character (though I don't know whether they do), whereas otherwise :-) comes out sounding, I suppose, like a pause in the sentence.

I've never used a screenreader, and this is merely what I suppose to be true.

Scimonster

@msh210 I would expect a modern one to recognize a smiley. :)

msh210

@Scimonster That'd be nice. Maybe they do.

Scimonster

I've also noticed that younger people tend to leave off noses on their smilies. :P

Or that, um, older people add noses. ;P

msh210

@Scimonster I'm very old indeed. :---)

Scimonster

@msh210 Old Pinocchio. :P