@Unihedron Is school still on break for you, or are you back now? I haven't heard much about hksar lately other than public opinion of the protests now seems to be waning.
> Stack Exchange no longer provides a subscription service nor can we license the software to create 3rd party sites. There is a Stack Exchange Enterprise version available for internal use only (i.e. not public internet), but it is very expensive and meant for very large enterprises only.
I think school from junior high up should be 85% or more online, with the rest outdoors. Save so much money on buildings that look like prisons, give students access to better teachers since can have way higher teacher/student ratio.
People trying to be "geeky" I guess. Though everytime an author outside the tech industry tries to write a cool tech article, this happens. (Formatting misuse, backslashes instead of forward slashes, oh boy!)
Next thing they'll do is say that moderating is stressful and thus is bad for kids' minds and so either (a) kids can't be mods, or (b) people can't do anything bad around kid mods. I'd prefer (b)
On the other hand, watching TV all day isn't as interesting as being able to dig around information to resolve issues casted by your fellow community members that needs your help. Treasure the responsibility! :D
(It's 1 am now, I don't even know what I'm saying anymore.)
DID YOU KNOW: Broken weed wackers are on-topic for Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair... even ones where the motor is running fine.(http://mechanics.stackexchange.com/q/12376/1743)
<rant> Off-topic; not vehicle related. – Lynn Crumbling Sep 19 at 19:33 declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it </rant>
methinks that they just need questions so badly that they don't want to throw ANY away.. even ot ones.
Automotive forums/Q&A is just a nightmarish hard in my opinion. There is just so many different parts/models/skill levels/etc/etc .. and mechanics are so busy all the time...
@lostsock I'd buy that, if the OP hadn't specifically said that engine isn't experiencing any issue. The way that I read the "What topics can I ask about here?" page is that it's on-topic if it isn't a vehicle, but still has a motor-related issue.
@lostsock If I had to guess, I'd venture to say that he broke a gear or a shaft. But the motor is getting spark, fuel, air, and runs fine, so... yeah. Anyway, I digress. Just annoyed at a declined flag. #firstworldproblems
If you search for score:n where n!=0, it searches for posts with score>=n, bug if you enter score:0 it searches for posts with zero score (only score=0). Bug?
I love it (wrongly?) when people get angry that I closed a question / rejected an edit of theirs. But I hate it when they downvote my two most recent answers because of it.
In previous conversations, the community has mentioned that the scope of our site appears to be restricted because of our name. In these conversations there have been a few suggested alternative names:
Communities
Community Building
Online Communities
The moderation team has talked with a com...
Back in August our top user asked how do we step off this plateau? Now here we are, six weeks later:
68 days in beta
0.6 questions/day
views/day hovering around 50
This is not good. They probably aren't going to shut us down just yet (c.f. Beer.SE, now at 8 months in beta and rather quiet),...
I think the right decision is to change it, but I keep coming back to the "I'm a moderator, I have to think about it to realize that what I do is really "community [management]".
Whereas I don't have to think about it to realize that a [moderators] site is related to what I do.
I see that point. I think many of the SE Moderators are the same way. But, being SE specific doesn't seem to generate enough traffic and it's hard to go off the network to other communities and say that there is a Q&A site for communities and community building/management and it is called "Moderators".
Holy cow. I can't believe I'm getting off topic based downvotes for a question asked almost 5 years ago. How are you guys even finding this question? — jfar4 mins ago
@jfar I'm one of the close voters but not a downvoter. Your question is clear and useful. It is off-topic by today standards. There are some queries that are run looking for specific words that might cause your post to pop-up. The closing is legimit IMHO, the downvotes are not needed. — rene24 secs ago
@jfar I'm one of the close voters but not a downvoter. Your question is clear and useful. It is off-topic by today standards. There are some queries that are run looking for specific words that might cause your post to pop-up. The closing is legit IMHO, the downvotes are not needed. — rene14 mins ago
@LynnCrumbling Right, it always does that. So in these cases you may want to a. not use "other," b. delete the autogenerated comment after you've voted, or c. ignore me completely, because this is just my opinion.
$\sin(x−5)$: Hm… $x$ is going to 5? How does sin(x) behave as ${x\to 0}$? As if it sin(x) was x (because sin(x) is x at 0 and the derivative of sin(x) (cos(0)) is the derivative of x (1) at 0).
So since the sine is basically an identity function in this limit, you have (after unfailing the denom...
@bjb568 Not bad. Don't forget to put backslashes before function names (sin, cos), etc. (Fixed now).
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The answer is a bit on the conversational side as far as transition from sin(x-5) to x-5 is concerned; this is perfectly fine for intuitive explanation. In polished product (i.e., for submission) I would put what mathlove wrote.
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(For questions like this one an explanation is preferable to complete solution, of course.)