This cool series is apparently (creepy search tells me) soon to feature @MonicaCellio. Would people here be interested in a similar series of interviews with Yodeyans? I would propose to try to get people in order of total 2015 reputation, which, at a glance, looks like potentially a nice cross-section of different types.
@IsaacMoses I wondered when your creepy search would alert you to that. :-) FYI, there are a few posts queued up in that series, so it'll probably be a couple week before the one featuring me shows up. (But hey, I got a nod in the one you linked. :-) )
@IsaacMoses cool idea, and that list does look like a good cross-section. Where would we post them? The Worldbuilding interviews are one series on its blog (we started the blog a few months ago). We don't have a blog, though it's come up from time to time and there's no reason we couldn't.
(We just can't have an SE blog; they're not making new ones. WB asked for an exception to that and SE pointed us at the platform we're using instead.)
@MonicaCellio I don't know if medium.com would be the right platform, but there are plenty of free blog platforms out there. This sort of interview could be an easy way to generate enough content to form the initial basis for a blog.
... with this content, the entire potential readership is other Yodeyans, but it'd be a start, and I think it could be genuinely interesting to the community.
@IsaacMoses Medium has pluses and minuses. There are plenty of other platforms too. One useful feature of Medium is that a blog can have multiple editors and people can submit posts, so it needn't all block on one person to post things the way some do. (I'm not current on this space, though.)
Anyway, I like the idea of having a blog, with an interview series being one of several types of posts.
Another type of post we do there that would also work here is the "question highlighting" type, either by tag or by time. One person does a post about his favorite Q&A from challenges for a month. I just did one on a particular tag and somebody will be doing another of those.
@HodofHod any objection to me adding "highlight posts/tags" (a la the above discussion) to the list in your meta post? (I think that's the one useful thing from one of my answers; I've thought better of the inward-facing stuff. So I could move the one thing to your answer and then delete mine.)
@Daniel it's not, something I try to remain mindful of when I write anything on the Internet.
@MonicaCellio Hey Monica, you mentioned that you have borrowed the Hebrew chanting book. The full edition is far outside my price range, and i don't know if the student edition has the information i'm looking for. Do you have the student edition or the full? And if it is the student, does it have the information regarding the grammar?
@Aaron sorry, I haven't borrowed it; my cantor pulled it out and showed me some things, and we'll be working with it in future meetings. The book was fairly hefty, a couple inches think I think, for what that's worth.
@HodofHod 3.5 years ago you answered a question on meta about having a blog with a list of things that a Mi Yodeya blog could include. I also answered, suggesting (among things) that we could highlight interesting questions. I'd like to fold that into your answer and delete mine, along the lines of what we were discussing in this room earlier.
@HodofHod it would fit in mine, but I want to remove the inward-facing stuff from mine (questions needing good answers, etc), and once I do that all that's left is this suggestion. Since yours is pretty comprehensive anyway and I don't think this is controversial (read: I don't think voters will object), I figured folding into yours is easier.
Huh. I just earned the Cleanup Crew hat here; the last thing I did here before it showed up was to delete some obsolete comments from today here. (I commented with a question; we had a bit of a back-and-forth; the author edited the post; I deleted our conversation.)
@Daniel If that prescription is according to Halacha, then it is telling you how to evaluate a situation of risk according to Halacha, and therefore, you can't be in a situation where you don't know how to evaluate risk according to Halacha.
@Daniel No, seriously, it's valid to ask, besides "What's the Halacha?", "What should I do when I don't have a way of knowing what the Halacha is?". Normally, the answer to the latter is "Ask your rabbi," but emergent possible p"n conditions are an interesting case in which that may be off the table as an option.
@Daniel Once you know the Halacha that essentially any risk is sufficient and to take care of it first and ask later, that resolves the question of what to do if you don't know if the risk is sufficient. It is.
@MonicaCellio "When you're in the midst of the situation on Shabbat, is it better to phone your rabbi (guaranteed melacha) in order to minimize further violations" I know that rabbis always say to call your doctor before driving to the hospital to give birth in case the doctor says to wait a while
But calling your rabbi on Shabbos might be an exercise in futility
@IsaacMoses It's an interesting thought. But the rabbi doesn't necessarily have the benefit of pikuach nefesh considerations that a doctor does
Although he might
But if someone asks the rabbi "Can I carry all this stuff out of my house because we're being evacuated?" the rabbi might have to just put down the phone
@Daniel it probably wouldn't work if he didn't have an answering machine, but those are so common now that I was assuming the chance that the caller might be heard and that could lead to the rabbi picking up (if an emergency).
As per our discussion in Creating a new tag for simple questions we want to decide on objective criteria before launching this new tag. What makes a question qualify for the tag Judaism101?
The primary purpose of this tag is to allow interested users to track basic questions.
Some examples of q...
@MonicaCellio Yes and no. They were more common ten years ago than now, I think: now, I think, more people have voicemail that they cannot screen. (That impression is based on very little data. Or, for the pedants, very few data.)
@IsaacMoses (Thanks for the link. I was going to question you on that: the last electromagnetics I took was in eleventh grade, and I don't even remember the definition of resistance, but I'd expect more resistance from a longer wire. But the link clarified that you meant sectional area, not length.)
@IsaacMoses (That link also tells me that resistivity of a substance is measured in ohm meters. Copper, for example, has a resistivity of ~10^−8 ohm meters, which requires a good saw and a very good scale.)
@IsaacMoses Well, as overall size goes down, assuming shape stays the same, sectional area goes down more than length, so resistance goes up, as you said.
@IsaacMoses No doubt. Alongside the reference candygram.
@IsaacMoses That's a unit of error. Typically, measurements result in two values at once (due to Heisenberg uncertainty, I guess) -- and they are positive and negative values of the same magnitude.
We discussed making a blog in a previous post.
Now that we graduated, what do people think about starting an official Mi Yodeya blog?
As per our discussion in Creating a new tag for simple questions we want to decide on objective criteria before launching this new tag. What makes a question qualify for the tag Judaism101?
The primary purpose of this tag is to allow interested users to track basic questions.
Some examples of q...
