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5:34 AM

Jon Quixote: The meristocracy theory of community

posted on May 20, 2019

This post is inspired by Makoto’s post on Medium. As I considered the conversation, I realized I needed to sit down and think about why different members of the sites perceive content in very different ways. My mediation got rather far afield from the exact situation at hand, so instead of replying directly, I want to take a hard left turn into a story that I swear will be relevant. I listen …

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1:46 PM

Q: Ejecting external SSD or sparsebundle disk image doesn't complete (macOS 10.14.x)

I use an external SSD for Time Machine. The SATA SSD sits in a dock which is connected via USB3. The SSD mounts correctly and is used by Time Machine correctly. If I eject the SSD from Finder (by clicking the eject icon) the Logical Volume is unmounted (and so disappears from Finder). However, lo...

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4:28 PM

Q: Cannot Open .Sparsebundle

My computer crashed few days ago, I took it to computer store and they told me that the logic board is damaged but the hard drive is fine. So they migrated all files from old mac to a new mac. All users are there as before, hard drive data are there for all users, except one user-"User1". when I ...

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5:04 PM

Jon Quixote: Unicorn Meta Zoo #3

posted on May 21, 2019

(Originally published on meta Stack Exchange by Jon Ericson.) Welcome to the Unicorn Meta Zoo, a podcast by members of the Stack Exchange community team. If you want to avoid spoilers, jump straight to the audio. Participants We’re talking about whether or not there is such a thing as a bad question and how we might detect one if it exists. Links How is question quality …

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MathOverflow Meta

6:22 PM

Q: How to edit tags correctly?

I attempted to edit the tags for this question. I got the message: This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. Tags should help to describe what the question is about, not just what it contains. Can somebody explain in more detail what this means? I belie...