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Came in via a HNQ yesterday to read an accepted answer about how liberals are all against border security because they want to end countries as a concept and want illegal immigrants to vote for them.
I understand. I know this isn't an answer to your question. I added it for reference purpose (also could not fit in comment box). — sssreddy11 hours ago
IMO answers suggesting alternatives are fine, usually since they are being helpful, and indirectly can solve the actual issue, by suggesting another way.
@ShadowWizard no, still not liking that we accept EVERYTHING as an answer, even when the poster himself basically writes "oh, btw I am not answering your question"
@Derpy suppose someone says "I divide 5 by 0 and get error. Halp!". Answer telling them how to prevent the value from being 0 is even better than direct answer about what to do with such error.
So while it's not answer to the original question, it's very helpful.
@ShadowWizard that is an hyperbole, by which I mean the only answer I can give is once again MU. It depends on the purpose of the question.
If I am a programmer and my current logic performs a division by 0 and avoiding that could be useful to me, yes you are right.
If I am on math and ask someone to explain me why dividing by 0 makes no sense then someone telling me "you don't divide by 0, try to divide by 2 instead" is only useless noise at best and rep begging at worst
> The Japanese and Korean term mu (Japanese: 無; Korean: 무) or Chinese wu (traditional Chinese: 無; simplified Chinese: 无), meaning "not have; without", is a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions.
yep sorry, my bad. Have used the word MU so many times on SE that I often forget that others may not understand what I say.
@Tinkeringbell basically... any site? I was never able to have someone accept a NAA flag about an answer that does not reply to the question that was asked.
what can I say... apparently if you start with "I have to build a SharePoint webpart for a client" and someone replies with "try Alfresco instead" is perfectly fine. No need to delete, just downvote.
Basically, someone posted noise? Good, now you pay with your rep to "hide" it.
Because IPS also has 'respect the premise'. So you still have to answer the question asked, the only thing you can deviate on is the approach you're suggesting (if someone is asking about a particular approach). Basically we need that, to prevent people from saying 'Don't come out' on questions about coming out.
@ShadowWizard heh, I actually checked that edit (like I do with most of them), but somehow missed it (maybe it was in between a Gardening & Landscape edit?)
oh, much wow, so fitting. And obviously the parrot wrote it. Not a surprise. Wonder what would happen if you posted the same answer on my meta question - the one I linked before.
@Tinkeringbell Why? I was talking about the same question basically. Ok, I was talking about what to do with such answers that do not respect the question framing but the problem is still the same.
Yet the answer is basically the opposite
From my question:
> Here are some samples to help clarify what I mean (all sample have been made up):
Question ask how Superman can fly, Answer explains why Batman can't instead Question asks why Pluto is sometime not considered a planet, Answer explains why the moon isn't. Question ask how to translate a sentence into French, Answer explains how to translate it into Italian Question asks why a snippet of code copied from an online sample doesn't produce the same results as in the demo, Answer suggest moving to a different tool / framework instead.
@ShadowWizard I said that I have to manually set an item ID because that is a requirement for the problem I have to face. I documented that the approach suggested to do so by many other posts (both on SE and other sites) has a bug that may cause problem to people that have to do the same. The other reply states that you don't want to set the id in the first place.
@Derpy Unless the root cause of things being buggy for you was you using the setter for its wrong purpose, that's indeed a bit of a ... disappointment.
But in that case, a good answer would've explained that too, not just said 'use different setter' (IMO)
@Tinkeringbell point is. Normally the identifier of an item is something that is autogenerated and you don't want to set manually. In my case, I have to because I am trying to minimize the damage caused by another much bigger scope issue. To make it clear: not following best practices is not a problem since we are talking about damage control.
It is like if trying to update a table while using SET IDENTITY_INSERT failed if I used some specific character in the value of a column, I asked why that happens and the reply I got explained me what problems related to identifiers inconsistency/duplication I could face by using SET IDENTITY_INSERT
@Derpy I must've missed a part, but if your SET IDENTITY_INSERT fails because you're hitting one of the problems related to identifiers inconsistency/duplication because of using SET IDENTITY_INSERT... that explains why it fails ?
The problem I found is that when you try to update any of the list item field that are considered by SharePoint "protected" (the ID is one of those, but "_CopySource" is another one for example) Microsoft code is bugged. You have two ways to set the value and those should be equivalent. Yet, one tells you that you can't manually set a protected field, the other one let you do so. I was asking that is the cause of this.
The other answer is telling me why trying to update the ID field is generally a bad idea.
I don't have any idea. I know about search but first post ?????? Still searching and try to give answer: What happened in SOBotics 2018? Feel free to add as answer anything that you feel is related to SOBotics (chat, bots, GitHub etc) and the year of 2018. Question offer 200 Bounty :P
@Derpy I see weird response header in the thumbnail picture: cf-cache-status: MISS You also get it? The full image returns a different header value: cf-cache-status: HIT
So it might be CloudFlare fault.
@Derpy so for this user you don't see animated avatar? (disable your "show animated avatars" addon first.)
@JourneymanGeek the garden in one of the other video will be promptly crossreferenced with google maps pictures to find where you live and steal any future swag you may get.
Sorry @Derpy I disagree. The answer gives alternative. Suppose I wanted to convert array of strings to array of integers and got baffled about NaN values. Looking at the answer you linked to, I would be given a better alternative to achieve the same goal. I don't need to know why the original code I had (which happened to be similar to the code in question) isn't working, if I'm given alternative that has the same final output I want.
aka SO isn't personal help forum.
So yeah, the answer might not help the OP, but it does help others. So it better stay around.
And if such answers give bad alternative then by all means, should be downvoted to signal that, or deleted in extreme cases.
Referring to: https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/939/31259
Point 3 looks like the answer to your question because you got pinged with '@ber':
@Ton will notify you if you've been in the room in the past two days and there's no other user for whom this would be a better match, e.g. someone ...
@ShadowWizard Now I cant really tell if you are serious ?!? 0_o he asked WHY javascript behaves that way, not for an alternative! If I asked you why two substances combined together explode, would you tell me to mix some other substance instead?
sorry, @ShadowWizard but if you weren't joking... please, just read the question again. The example the original poster is a common "javascript is evil" joke. You would expect a result, yet you get a totally different one. There is no reason for an alternative, the only scope of the question was understanding why that code produces that result.
@Derpy yes, it is. As general advise for others. OP got the answer they wanted 16 minutes after posting the question. 8 years later someone came with alternative, meant for others, mainly, not for the OP.
@ShadowWizard SO: where saying thanks is noise and better remover, but answering other questions that nobody asked for is perfectly fine. I think it is also part of respecting the op intent but...
Another technique is to use the tree's leaves to filter the sun, and save the dynamic range for greater detail in other objects in the photo. Just move sideways a bit or stand still on a windy day and take a couple of shots to see one where the Sun is blocked out just the way you want.
Just noticed on this user profile:
Yes, all we know that internet is fast nowadays, but ... 1.5Mb for (scaled) 164x164 px image is too much.
Referring to: https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/939/31259
Point 3 looks like the answer to your question because you got pinged with '@ber':
@Ton will notify you if you've been in the room in the past two days and there's no other user for whom this would be a better match, e.g. someone ...
