Isaac Moses, the patriarch of Mi Yodeya, wrote something that caught my eye the other day:
[...] the general Stack Exchange directive, expressed in the uneditable part of that section of the About page, to "Focus on questions about an actual problem you have faced. Include details about what...
I think the question there still needs a good answer to: Is there any simple test that can be used to identify answerable questions asked in good faith when the "problem to be solved" is... simple curiosity? Can we come up with a good answer based on our experience here?
How are we supposed to treat questions that are, or would be considered by many, to be ridiculous, but which the poster apparently takes very seriously?
I voted to close one such question as too localized to the poster's imagination. But he objected and stated that the probability of the scenari...
@TRiG I don't frequent EL&U much. I'd expect that there's a lot of value there in practical usage questions. What's an example of a "best" question that's not "practical"?
I first noticed in this answer that there is something sneaky going on with the word photon: its ‹t› is the stressed allophone of /t/, a fully aspirated [tʰ]. It does not reduce to [t] or [ɾ] the way it does in words like voting. Other words with the same issue include proton and lepton.
The o...
The "pirate speech" we hear/see/read at, for example, the website Talk Like A Pirate Day consists of a rhotic dialect characterized by phrases like "shiver me timbers," "ooh arh me hearties," and so on and so on.
What is its basis in fact?
@HodofHod Dunno. If so, it's a good thing he didn't try to use the title suggested by my surname. Anyway, like I said, "patriarch"'s an accurate statement of paternity in this case
I believe my answer has been wrongfully deleted. I answered this question. What was wrong with my answer?
My answer.
I understand that the arguments expressed by the asker of this quesiton are rooted in Hebrew tradition. I thought this wasn't a (strictly) Jewish site. I am not a Jew, and I do ...
Aw, bummer -- it looks like wherever people are storing icons (other than gravatar) is now blocked for me at work. No more HodOfHod icon for me, at least until I get home.
@IsaacMoses yeah, there was a brief moment when I thought that somebody's employer was even more restrictive than mine (while still allowing net access), but it turns out mine's just slower.
Isaac Moses, the patriarch of Mi Yodeya, wrote something that caught my eye the other day:
[...] the general Stack Exchange directive, expressed in the uneditable part of that section of the About page, to "Focus on questions about an actual problem you have faced. Include details about what...
The "pirate speech" we hear/see/read at, for example, the website Talk Like A Pirate Day consists of a rhotic dialect characterized by phrases like "shiver me timbers," "ooh arh me hearties," and so on and so on.
What is its basis in fact?
I believe my answer has been wrongfully deleted. I answered this question. What was wrong with my answer?
My answer.
I understand that the arguments expressed by the asker of this quesiton are rooted in Hebrew tradition. I thought this wasn't a (strictly) Jewish site. I am not a Jew, and I do ...
