I'm backpacking around Asia randomly so I won't be ordering anything online.
But my speedcube has started to get a bit sticky and I'd like to lube it.
So what are some easy to get alternatives to the professional speedcube lubrication products sold online?
Is there something suitable that most...
It's kind of tempting to use vegetable oil for lubricating door hinges and other similar basic mechanisms around the house - vegetable oil is readily available in almost any household. However I always hear it's a bad idea, but could never find any details of why exactly it is a bad idea.
What e...
I use olive oil, ok I use extra virgin olive oil since I'm Italian, whenever I have to lubricate something non-critical in a hurry and don't have access to dedicated greases. Obviously, olive oil won't substitute molybdenum grease on the rotating parts of a slip clutch. That goes without saying.
@mts I actually googled "using olive oil as lubricant" in order to find some data to back up my experience. ALL the results were about the safety of using olive oil as personal lubricant. NSFW NSFW!
Do we have some meta post or FAQ or guidance that one should first try to save a post by editing before voting to close? I thought that was best practice but now can't find anything. I'm about to write a post on meta.
I'm not sure on that one, thought about editing, in the end it is all valid asking for advice but the way it's asked is making it very broad. I mean I agree with you that the formulation is not very fit for TSE
I suggest best to give OP the chance to edit first (even if after closure). (i) is a fear it sets a bad precedent (will others bother to write a good Q?) but (ii) I have done so myself (not on TSE) and though fully convinced I knew what OP wanted, I was wrong (again!).
When a question comes up in the close-vote review queue you have four options.
I would like to draw your attention to the option to
edit
a question (instead of closing it). I suggest that this should be the best practice, i.e. one should
edit a question if that does saves it from being ...
If you mean delete the A I have no problem with that. It is the Q I don't like and just chose one way to demonstrate why - nothing else seems to have worked in cases such as this :)
Haha, I was joking, I'm not gonna vote for deletion.
@pnuts I just checked out your vote count... You downvote a lot! You probably have the highest down to up rate on the site. Not saying that's bad or anything. Downvotes are often important when posts are bad. But it's fascinating to see that you downvote almost as much as you upvote. You've lost > 1k rep from it :)
Unless there really is one time/day/season that stands out from all the others (as it happens I think there is in this case). But once you split best time for each day, best day for each season then the Q gets rather broad.
No, not nearly as much rep loss as that. It is mostly Qs that are so bad they deserve -1s and there is no rep penalty for those. I do try to avoid -1s for As (except spam etc) unless really bad (eg duplicates that just repeat another A from days earlier) or blatantly wrong (and unfixable).
Yeah. How is it different from downvoting an answer?
"Now, when I said "increase voting", I meant in both directions, up and down. I feel downvoting on questions is particularly useful to distinguish a well-written, researched, clear and useful question from .. well, a question that is none of those things.
Thus, to incentivize more balanced question voting, we are considering removing the -1 cost of casting a downvote on a question.
That is, downvoting a question -- and only a question -- would now be
As I'm sure you all know, downvotes "cost" 1 reputation. That is, every time you downvote:
-2 to post owner
-1 to you
This is done to make sure downvotes are cast only when you feel strongly that something is incorrect / wrong / dangerous / of low quality.
We've been tweaking a few thing...
Yes. Assuming a reasonably clear time of day with visibility of a couple miles (which is not at all a given, see comments about fog above), the island and the prison building are easily visible from along the northern waterfront or from a building with a view of the northern waterfront.
For exa...
gsamaras has been in SF for a while now. has he not tried looking north?
The Guardian is reporting on the planned ETIAS system (Schengen's answer to ESTA/ETA/eTA), with of course the Brexit angle that UK citizens may have to get these things and pay for them:
the whole thing went utterly off the rails once the US added the fee
it was free and then our idiot elected officials added a $10 "tourism promotion fee" to fund "visit the US" marketing (and a processing fee for the ESTA while they were at it)
because obviously it makes sense to tax people trying to visit the US to encourage more people to visit the US, right?
and the worst part is that there were all sorts of ESTA scams and the US gov could tell everyone "the real one is free, never pay for an ESTA" to try to discourage people from going through scammers, and then that all went out the window
When a question comes up in the close-vote review queue you have four options.
I would like to draw your attention to the option to
edit
a question (instead of closing it). I suggest that this should be the best practice, i.e. one should
edit a question if that does saves it from being ...
As I'm sure you all know, downvotes "cost" 1 reputation. That is, every time you downvote:
-2 to post owner
-1 to you
This is done to make sure downvotes are cast only when you feel strongly that something is incorrect / wrong / dangerous / of low quality.
We've been tweaking a few thing...
Yes. Assuming a reasonably clear time of day with visibility of a couple miles (which is not at all a given, see comments about fog above), the island and the prison building are easily visible from along the northern waterfront or from a building with a view of the northern waterfront.
For exa...
