0 The Rules of Writing 1 Dear Stack Exchange, I am very disappointed in you - How to construct a strong opening line in a letter? 2 How do you write a Stack Exchange answer? 3 How to write a prompt email? 4 Whats the modern way to handle gender in tech writing? 5 How can I write about historical realities that readers mistakenly believe are unrealistic? 6 Using real words from a foreign culture feels like Calling a rabbit a smeerp 7 Do You Use Any Version Controlling Software/Methods As Writers? 8 Should an emoji come before or after a full-stop? 9 How do I translate into a gendered language where the gender would be a spoiler? 10 The Good, the Bad, and the Semicolon 11 The protagonist cant defeat the antagonist without the antagonist being stupid 12 How do I know if a concept is sexist or not? 13 How to overcome the fact that I cant write? 14 A critic made a comment that my female character sounds like she was written by a man 15 Is there a special software for writers? 16 How to avoid turning dialogue into Q&A session? 17 Avoiding racist tropes in fantasy 18 How do you communicate to people that writing is a job and prevent interruptions? 19 Is the hero guy saves girl trope misogynistic? 20 How to write a story without conflict, like My Neighbour Totoro? 21 Whats the least distracting method to inform editors Im a woman? 22 Is Wikipedia Trustworthy? 23 What kind of protagonist or writing style is Jack Sparrow? 24 Choosing character names is a constant difficulty 25 Sometimes a banana is just a banana 26 What are good reads about writing? 27 How do I write Show, Dont Tell as a person with Asperger Syndrome? 28 All of a sudden... ? 29 Traits of Bad Writers - Analysing Popular Authors 30 How to write a character that knows a lot about explosives? 31 How do I avoid the chosen hero feeling? 32 Should you use two spaces after a period, or just a single one? 33 How can I write an attention-grabbing first line? 34 How does one deal with world builders syndrome? 35 How to make the reader think that the *characters* logic is flawed instead of the authors? 36 How to trick the reader into thinking theyre following a redshirt instead of the protagonist? 37 How do I go from 300 unfinished/half written blog posts, to published posts? 38 What makes a poem a poem? 39 My kids first story 40 Killing the protagonist - should it be done? 41 Convincing argument about something I dont agree with 42 How to creep the reader out with what seems like a normal person? 43 The art of clickbait captions 44 I wrote a novel, now what? 45 Is there any good time-line software out there? 46 The Chosen One paradox 47 The flux capacitor--its what makes time travel possible. When to keep world-building explanations short 48 Is it a bad idea to have multiple bad endings and only one good ending? 49 If Im writing in US English, am I not allowed to use the metric system? 50 Avoiding spectacle creep 51 How to avoid mentioning the name of a character? 52 What are good places to post your work where it will be read by others? 53 How to make travel scenes interesting without adding needless plot diversions? 54 Why write a book when theres a movie in my head? 55 Help! Ive got Writers Block 56 Uh oh - My book stinks. Now what? 57 I have written my first novel and I think its ready. What next? 58 Do Writers Use LaTex/TeX for writing? 59 How unadvisable is it to flip the protagonist into a villain? 60 How to perpetuate the plot-driving riddle without frustrating the reader? 61 Im producing a play with a character who the audience isnt supposed to know is alive, can I credit the actor in the program? 62 What is the correct usage of P.S. in Emails? 63 Avoiding the not like other girls trope? 64 Averting Real Women Don’t Wear Dresses 65 What can a novel do that film and TV cannot? 66 How long can a fantasy novel stay in metaphorical Kansas? 67 What is a normal length for a chapter? 68 Do hard to pronounce names break immersion? 69 How do I recover my confidence after a harsh writing group? 70 Editors: Edit on first read, or read and edit on second round? 71 How do I say that a character said something without resorting to said Character every time? 72 Is it worth switching to Dvorak? 73 How do I hide Chekhovs Gun? 74 How do I convey that a relationship is platonic? 75 How can I explain my world if the character is technologically not yet capable of understanding it? 76 Is there a need for better software for writers? 77 How can I catch more errors when I proofread? 78 How often should I remind my readers of the setting? 79 How does one write a character smarter than oneself? 80 How do I keep the gender of my main character purposely ambiguous? 81 How can I portray body horror and still be sensitive to people with disabilities? 82 Is it expected that a reader will skip parts of what you write? 83 How do I construct a plot out of my many setting/character details? 84 Avoiding the as you know trope in exposition 85 Writing first programming book 86 Getting Inside Someone Elses Head 87 How do you avoid purple prose? 88 How to write a nice frame challenge? 89 How do I write LGBT characters without looking like Im trying to be politically correct? 90 Can I write a book of my D&D game? 91 Would readers feel cheated if the villain is successful in convincing the protagonist to change sides? 92 How to write strategy and schemes beyond my real-life capabilities? 93 How do you make characters relatable if they exist in a completely different moral context? 94 When is it okay to tell, instead of show? 95 Self Editing tips/tricks 96 Is it acceptable to use words like heaven and god when the narrator is agnostic? 97 What are the Pros and Cons of long names? 98 Protagonists race is hidden - should I reveal it? 99 Is it bad if I dont like the best books in my chosen genre? 100 How important is writing for games? 101 How does the 10,000 hour rule apply to writing? 102 Should software product release notes be in marketing voice or technical voice? (software documentation) 103 What is the balance between stating a problem clearly and Hemingways literary iceberg? 104 What is meant by purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous actions? 105 How to represent jealousy in a cute way? 106 How do I stop using the to start sentences so much? 107 How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood? 108 Real people dont make good fictional characters. Really true? 109 How should I respond to a supervisor/editor who thinks my technical writing is too conversational? 110 How to show a character being bored for multiple chapters without boring the reader 111 How can I avoid a predictable plot? 112 Is it true that good novels will automatically sell themselves on Amazon (and so on) and there is no need for one to waste time promoting? 113 Is the first page of a novel really that important? 114 Are there advantages in writing by hand over typing out a story? 115 Want to write, have ideas, no story telling techniques or experience, feeling lost? 116 How do I find an agent? 117 Why do hardcover books retail for more than three times the cost of softcover books? 118 Should I use the words pyromancy and necromancy even if they dont mean what people think they do? 119 How to write female characters with agency? 120 My story is written in English, but is set in my home country. What language should I use for the dialogue? 121 Should I self-publish my novella on Amazon or try my luck getting publishers? 122 How to *show* a controversial reality without seeming like Im treating it as acceptable and without stating that this is wrong? 123 How can I answer high-school writing prompts without sounding weird and fake? 124 How do I spot an unintentional promise in my story? 125 Why does an author need an editor? 126 The psychology of starting a piece of writing 127 Where to draw the line between fantasy and reality in a story? 128 Is no religion a bad thing? 129 Would it be cheating to change the main characters name partway through the story? 130 How can you write when youre upset? 131 Do I have any control over the grammar of my novel? 132 How to manage getting depressed by what my main character goes through? 133 How much can a reader remember? 134 Decide on a theme/overarching meaning before writing a short story? 135 Im afraid of quashing the hopes of a new writer 136 Is it okay to publish a book at a young age? 137 How many characters are too many? 138 Should I write a novel if I havent read many? 139 How to get my book taken seriously as a teenager? 140 Evil plans - how do you come up with interesting ones? 141 An LGBT main character, but the book isnt about LGBT issues 142 How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview? 143 How can I convince my reader that I will not use a certain trope? 144 Writing a novel, can I do [this or that]? 145 How Much Can You Make From Writing a Book? 146 Writing a Super Intelligent AI 147 Using fake swear words without them seeming out of place to the reader 148 Are illustrations in novels frowned upon? 149 How to write dialogue for someone who is intelligent but barely speaks the language? 150 Is there such a thing as too inconvenient? 151 How do I tell the reader that my character is autistic in Fantasy? 152 Is it a bad idea to adopt an English pen name as an Asian American writer to reach a wider audience? 153 Is there a hemisphere-neutral way of specifying a season? 154 Pitfalls of writing a main character of different gender to the author, specifically first-person perspective? 155 How can I get into the mindset to write? 156 Fan Fiction: a crutch or a good start? 157 Writing a love interest for my hero 158 When blogging recipes, how can I support both readers who want the narrative/journey and ones who want the printer-friendly recipe? 159 How does a writer go about consulting experts? 160 Avoiding repetition when there are two unidentified individuals 161 Organizing your Universe? 162 Explicitly correcting yourself while writing - how appropriate is it ? 163 How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around? 164 How would Facebook Sysadmins prevent the summoning of Cthulhu? 165 Tomorrow is Groundhog Day... For everyone. How does society respond? 166 How do you prove youre from the future? 167 Whats the smallest change to physics required to allow magic? 168 How to safely check if you are immortal? 169 Is there a single historic event which could be changed to cause the USA to use SI units? 170 Whats the most reasonable way to fit Monsters in your Pocket? 171 How can a Horror from Beyond Reason reliably communicate with mortals? 172 Im stranded on an alien planet. How do I measure an earth year without a clock? 173 How might modern humans leave a message for 50,000 years? 174 How do I protect my shop from teleporters? 175 How could dragons be explained without magic? 176 Humans are Gone: Do the Chickens Make It? 177 Russian Dolls - How do they reproduce? 178 You are an advanced AI that controls a smart house. How do you kill your master? 179 What is the least world changing reason why the government would pay for you to keep a llama during your 44th year of life? 180 If everyone in the world disappeared except 35 random people, how long would it take for one of them to realize theyre not alone? 181 Why fill a dungeon with puzzles? 182 Can a substance be more lethal in smaller doses? 183 Anatomically Correct Strange Women In Ponds Distributing Swords 184 How to best upgrade your Towel for military combat? 185 Would a bear cavalry be feasible? 186 If time travel is possible in the future, no matter how distant, why havent they come back to tell us? 187 The AI that fails to be evil 188 How to take down the internet? 189 Santa is Satan, but why? 190 You can control a Demon by knowing its True Name, but why? 191 What is the minimum human population necessary for a sustainable colony? 192 What single change would have given the best chance for the Axis to win World War 2? 193 A Most Subtle Magic 194 Why are there no toilets on the starship Exciting Undertaking? 195 How do Glass Ants create their tunnels? 196 Everything alive in the world dies this instant. Without bacteria to decompose anything, what happens to the remains? What does this look like? 197 Why would giant mechs use melee weapons? 198 How can I break down the task of creating a world into manageable chunks? 199 Everyone believes everything Joe says. How can he get around it? 200 What could people notice about someone who is two times as dense as a regular person? 201 How would I know if I were a 1 mm tall robot? 202 What cheap modern items can I use to bribe medieval people? 203 What vehicle would be the best one to start a >1000 km travel in a post apocalyptic zombie situation? 204 Releasing a T-Rex into a modern ecosystem wouldnt be that bad, right? 205 How can I ensure my Evil Tower is always stormy? 206 How can a banker successfully (and safely) lend money to an autocrat? 207 Why would characters spend time answering imaginary questions to fictional hypotheticals? 208 Could a planet made completely of water exist? 209 How can a Dragon keep humanity in check? 210 My carrier pigeons have been replaced by spoons: how can I send messages? 211 How does Santa protect himself from IP lawsuits? 212 In space, do shipping lanes make sense? 213 How many humans can I abduct without getting noticed? 214 How does a species who cannot distinguish left from right build their cities? 215 Which major solar system body could most realistically be artificial? 216 How far back in time would English be understandable to a modern speaker? 217 How long would it take to create a Windows 1.0 capable machine from complete scratch? 218 Could a Dwarven Civilization Exist? 219 In a medieval setting, how far apart should towns be? 220 What would make scientists realize they were on a flat world? 221 How can a race of eldritch abominations help humanity? 222 How would having multiple moons affect tides? 223 Would intelligent life evolve any other body plan than humanoid? 224 Who is spreading the rumour that Santa isnt real? 225 This sword is forged from meteorite iron - but how is that any good? 226 Why would a staff increase the magic power of a mage? 227 If our universe was a simulation, what could a bug look like? 228 What mechanism can prevent super-healing heroes from accidentally budding? 229 Truth Stone: Effects on the justice system, and criminal world 230 Would planets be cubic in my cuboverse? 231 How fast can I flood the Netherlands entirely and permanently? 232 How to build a trap to last the ages? 233 How to survive the heat death of the universe? 234 If 120 experts in 12 different fields were sent back 10,000 years, could they recreate the 21st century in 100 years? 235 If I went back in time, how could I handle being among the Black Death and survive? 236 Would relatively primitive people really confuse technology with magic? 237 What could make a star green? 238 A believable place for your secret lair 239 Would somebody from the middle ages be able to identify an atomic / nuclear bomb? 240 How to monetize uploaded consciousness? 241 Awesomeness powered magic - why would a group of awesome magicians want to keep their kryptonite near them? 242 Would a Moon made of water pose a threat to Earth during eclipses? 243 If the Romans found one working steam engine would they have been able to copy and use it? 244 The Challenge of Controlling a Powerful AI 245 A mosque on Mars? 246 Is there a scientific explanation as to why aliens should look similar to us? 247 How would it make sense that spellbooks or grimoires teach only one spell? 248 Great Old Ones Limited, or Why does Cthulhu need a Company? 249 How to keep humans pilots instead of AI in sci-fi future? 250 My time machine needs to know when it is 251 Why would vampires be incapable of entering a non-vampire human’s house uninvited? 252 What could an average modern human achieve in medieval times? 253 A poison that only works if you know it is there 254 How would society react if the existence of a god was scientifically proven? 255 Are there logical gaps in the periodic table in which you could insert a new mystery element for use as a fuel? 256 Would a submarine make a great spaceship? 257 Lembas bread (2000 Calories per bite) 258 How do you check if a room behind a door aboard a spaceship has an atmosphere/pressure? 259 Would a robot really need to use a heads up display (HUD)? 260 A list of worldbuilding resources 261 Effects of know before you vote political system 262 How to stop evil site moderators? ⦋quite firmly closed⦌ 263 Possible distance travelled by horse over 6 weeks? 264 Building a phone charger 500 years ago 265 For fiction purposes, are there any reserved or non-existent top-level-domains writers can use in stories? 266 My star will explode as a supernova. What can I do in order to ensure that my planet survives that? 267 Encrypting maps 268 Why would dead languages be the only languages that spells could be written in? 269 How to monetize free energy without revealing its existence? 270 Does a hive mind race need a written language? 271 0g pool: can I keep a big ball of water in space? 272 How soon can the first stars form? 273 How can a colony of teleporters make the most money while keeping their teleportation a secret? 274 What would be the best way to get clean, drinkable water in a medieval city? 275 Humans can now run 40 mph. How do I keep the stupid people alive? 276 Conquering a Metropolis with near-zero own casualties 277 Would a World Tree be feasible in real life? 278 Is it worth sending a manned mission to a black hole? 279 Are there techniques for creating alien or foreign sounding names? 280 Humans as Pets? 281 Tree Shape on a Tidally Locked World 282 How can I develop names for my fantasy land? 283 Can a casino system prove my (divine) luck as cheating? 284 How much mayhem could I cause as a sentient fish? 285 How can I build a door to repel a horde of zombies? 286 Whats the most likely post democracy form of political government? 287 How to protect shops in the medieval era against thievery? 288 How many cows would you need to drop on Mars to successfully terraform it? 289 Can stars that are not powered by nuclear fusion exist? 290 Random body shuffle every night—can we still function? 291 How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland? 292 Could astronauts find their bearings in the Universe after being transported 6 gigalightyears from Earth? 293 Sword in the rock - make it last the ages 294 Must magic be tied to medieval tech? 295 Is it physically possible for a planet to have seasons of different lengths? 296 Plausible Reasons for usage of Combat Mecha 297 Is there any real reason for Dwarves not to have cavalry? 298 Which professions warranted travel in Medieval times? 299 How Long Could an Eternal Fire Last? 300 Is there something like Open Source Elvish? 301 Concealing my earth-changing invention 302 Spiders In Space: How to design a space suit for an arachnid? 303 How quickly and accurately should news travel in a rural medieval setting? 304 What (modern) weapons could be used to destroy skeletal enemies as completely as possible? 305 Slow teleportation 306 How can Santa exist when adults buy the toys? 307 How would an aquatic race develop computers? 308 How can a pacifist country protect itself? 309 If magic is real, can it be true that rational scientific thought should exclude it? 310 Why would a country make a declaration of war instead of just invading? 311 How could an apocalypse kill off all adults -- leaving only those under the age of 18? 312 How can I move a planet? 313 Can Average Joe reboot the nuclear power plant? 314 Why would a God of Murder be worshipped by a society? 315 Why would a decision making machine decide to destroy itself? 316 How does the government cover up alien crash landings? 317 The opposite to Worldbuilding: World Destruction 318 What would be the possible issues with an IQ based voting system 319 What is the fastest way for a robot with superhuman capabilities to make money? 320 If the insects declared war, who would win? 321 Why would society not cremate its dead in a world where necromancy is possible? 322 Im on the Titanic, what should I do to survive? 323 Would we find alien music meaningful? 324 What makes supervillains want to tell their plans to adversaries? 325 What questions should I ask myself when designing a legal system for a fantasy world? 326 Is there any job that cant be automated? 327 How would primitive peoples detect radiation? 328 Is using the Sun as a sort of garbage dump safe? 329 How can Elsas power fuel my Industrial Revolution? 330 How could an ancient race warn the future in a universally understandable way? 331 Anatomically correct XKCDius lethalissimus 332 Ugh, Im stuck in an orbital spaceport. But why? 333 How could we fake a moon landing now? 334 Could aliens colonize Earth without realizing humans are people too? 335 How to prevent tiny mistake in programmable language magic spell causing horrible disasters? 336 Are geographically typed planets realistic? 337 How would people in 17th century Salem react to modern day clothing 338 Can Communism become a stable economic strategy? How? 339 How do I keep my slaves happy? 340 Everything Joe says will become true. Can anybody notice? 341 How do I make an alien technology feel alien? 342 How can a single person with unlimited lifetimes and persistent memory affect the world? 343 Taxing the superhero industry 344 Do centaurs suckle from horse nipples or human nipples? 345 How would a dragon be used in a modern military? 346 What is the utilitarian purpose of artificial waterfalls? 347 What kind of weapons could squirrels use? 348 Designing an animal that wants to be eaten 349 What would it take for society reach a point where the time it takes to learn leaves no time to discover? 350 Can a human colony survive on a hot world? 351 How to harness Jupiters gravitational energy? 352 Start a coup online without the government intervening 353 Can you simply scale up animals? 354 How to give a rationality-inducing drug to an entire software company? 355 How can you possibly stop/kill a person who has the ability to stop time? 356 Humans are gone - what can I harvest from their cities 30M years later? 357 In what war would one modern military vehicle make a difference? 358 Why Would Aliens Enslave Humans? 359 Why would any interstellar starship still bother with streamline body design? 360 How to keep a military technology secret while using it? 361 Would a culture with magic consider it magic? 362 Being reborn with your memories - Knowledge is power, but how much? 363 How could a natural road form across a sea? 364 How to butcher your dragon? 365 Why should humans risk a robot apocalypse by modifying Asimovs laws? 366 How can an unimaginably huge life form reliably communicate with mortals? 367 How can powerful telekinesis avoid violating Newtons 3rd Law? 368 How can I prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union? 369 How would a war between immortals be fought? 370 Is it possible to make an alloy that melts at low temperatures and solidifies at high temperatures? 371 Is it possible to create a practical sword thats naturally toxic? 372 Eternal space battle around a planet. But why? 373 Mineral that explodes when cooling down 374 Would earthlike planets in other solar systems have well-known Earth gemstones such as rubies, emeralds and sapphires? 375 How do I drug a population in the most efficient way? 376 Any good way for an AI to prove that they are an AI? 377 How often must carnivorous grassland eat? 378 Is there a real life substance like movie acid? 379 In a world with very advanced computer science, how would people be taught sufficient programming skills? 380 What modern technology would be most revolutionary to ancient Greeks? 381 How do we tell if were living in a virtual reality world? 382 Stealth in Space: How realistic is it? 383 Charging phone in medieval times 384 What single change would have given the best chance for the Allies to win the Battle of France in early WWII 385 How to monetize magical mirrors in todays world? 386 Where should a galactic capital be? 387 What would be left of a civilization founded in dinosaur times? 388 Why does the Conjoined Alliance of Space Travellers keep producing red uniforms? 389 Help! Our merchants keep turning into villains! 390 Can humans interact meaningfully with the economy when robots are better at everything? 391 How would an astronaut conclude hes on Earth, but 600 million years in the future? 392 Are flying plants possible? 393 How could a language that uses a single word extremely often sustain itself? 394 Is it possible to kill all life on Earth? 395 Is a pig-mounted cavalry possible? 396 Architecture of the perfect zombie apocalypse refuge 397 How much steel armor can you wear and still be able to swim? 398 On a world with differently sized humans, how do I keep wages fair? 399 The first McDonalds restaurant on Mars 400 How does vampire-dad keep the masquerade to his daughter 401 Lets weaponize jellyfish 402 I duplicate the U.S. President. What happens? 403 How can I hide my island? 404 How do I justify spending time to create a world in the first place? 405 Dealing With Dragonslayers 406 How can a hive mind secretly monetize its special ability to make lots of money? 407 Would a full body diamond armor and sword guarantee survival and victory against a medieval battalion? 408 How could I have modern computers without GUIs? 409 How can I imprison a wizard who can walk through walls? 410 Could a disaster kill all (human) life on Earth but leave astronauts in low orbit alive long enough to return? 411 How would people living in eternal day learn that stars exist? 412 How to verify or establish identity where shapeshifters exist 413 How can the NSA capture Santa Claus? 414 Justifying why a trolls skin would turn to stone in sunlight 415 What would a Boeing 747 look like if it were left in a hangar for 5,000 years. Could it still be flown? 416 Why might wizards be unable to wear armour? 417 How to prevent superluminal traveling idiots from wrecking half of the universe? 418 Is there any plausible reason for a robots eyes to glow? 419 Ultimate Australian Canal 420 Ensuring an endless war, and an endless stalemate 421 How to make money from a browser who sees 5 seconds into the future of any web page? 422 Making a sword in the stone, in a medieval world without magic 423 I dont want to live on this planet anymore 424 What would happen if an alien race gave us a computer capable of 2^256 calculations per second? 425 The land grows evil and corrupted ... but why? 426 Is Cancer Biologically Universal? 427 Magic rules without logical loopholes 428 Mosquito Armageddon 429 How can I make my languages structurally less like English? 430 Where can I transform without being noticed? 431 What sort of problem would drive a near omnipotent civilization to seek an outside the box solution? 432 How to solve the old gun on a spaceship problem? 433 Other blood colors 434 How to enforce a Ban on Vegetarianism 435 How can waste from the body be removed without being expelled from the anus? 436 A 40km diameter alien saucer is floating 2km above the ocean for a long time. What are the effects on the sea ecosytem below? 437 Making the Master Swordsman fantasy realistic? 438 I travel back in time: how could I know when I landed? 439 An Earth-like planet is found in another solar system. What are the top priorities after landing in order to create a self-sustaining colony? 440 Why would people bury their dead in tombs when they might become zombies? 441 Are there any rules or guidelines about designing a flag? 442 A city to last ten million years: Construction 443 Physically, how do dragons grasp and *transport* the contents of their hoards? 444 Are there any ways to allow some form of FTL travel without allowing time travel? 445 What would a medieval war against an aquatic race look like? 446 Zero Privacy: Culture 447 Is there a credible way a shapeshifter could gain/lose body mass when changing forms? 448 Could an average person take over the world? 449 What kind of natural armor would stop bullets? 450 How would humanity enter a Dark Age? 451 Is it plausible to have two written forms of one spoken language that are so different as to be indecipherable? 452 How could a planet have a sky without stars at night? 453 What is the minimum radius of a circular corridor for the walls to appear straight? 454 How can I get my DeLorean to 88 miles per hour without a train? 455 Realistic Santa and Reindeer 456 Why would two species of predator with the same prey cooperate? 457 How can humans coexist with an intelligent carnivorous species? 458 Is there a more effective way to build a language than a word frequency list? 459 Would the human body support living on planets with a greater gravity than Earth? 460 Is there such thing as a one-person door? 461 How would a medieval city get cold drinks? 462 Why would technology dictate graphical interfaces to be rare on spaceships? 463 What would be the impact of a modern programmer and laptop being dropped into World War II, possibly breaking Enigma? 464 My perfect evil overlord plan... or is it? 465 How to find out a year Im in? 466 Modern warfare theory in a medieval setting 467 How would merfolk society dispose of their dead? And would disposing of the bodies in the ocean have any negative effect on marine life? 468 Whats the most entertaining way to prove to someone that they arent real? 469 What are the conditions in which a creature would evolve more than one brain? 470 What realistic way could limit an FTL drive to only travelling between stars? 471 How to Kill the Thought-Crime Killer 472 What would it take to build a ship capable of crossing the Pacific? 473 How would government change if everyone died by the age of 25? 474 How does Santa fit down the chimney? 475 How would I limit the amount of magical bling a person could wear? 476 Why cant spaceships go underwater? 477 How quickly will government realize that I am printing money? 478 An infinite train circling the planet that never stops 479 Why would a Dystopian government promote education to its citizens, instead of ignorance? 480 Could extreme climate zones exist next to each other? 481 What would it feel like on the surface of a planet while it collides with another planet? 482 Does a grenade kill you the same way a gun does? 483 Safe way to eat zombies? 484 Dangerous pending task in world managing A.I 485 Why is this creature afraid of water but not of body or plant fluids? 486 From which point on would including a dragon on one side of a historical battle not be an instant victory? 487 How does the Booze-Rat fuel its defensive mechanism? 488 A Bird that Never Touches Ground 489 How would an AI self awareness kill switch work? 490 If reality were frame-rate based, how could we detect it? 491 Is space piracy orbitally practical? 492 Could a human engineer comprehend alien electronics? 493 What is the least expensive way to annihilate humanity? 494 How to Defeat a Precognitive Warrior? 495 Why would anyone build robots when they have human rights? 496 Could a submarine built during the cold war maintain pressure underwater for 50 years? 497 How do I make a space battle both realistic, with physics in play such as no sound and weird motion, but also very epic and intense still? 498 How Would a Post-Planetary Civilization Measure Time? 499 Galactic Law Enforcement - Handcuff Alternatives 500 What does Earth have to offer for an alien civilization 501 Why would there be any use for sea shanties in space? 502 Prehistoric messages to the future 503 Why is my Dark World so dark? 504 What impact would a dragon the size of Asia have on the environment? 505 How can there be different religions in a world where gods have been proven to exist? 506 What could a self-sustaining lunar colony slowly lose that would ultimately prove fatal? 507 How can a group of immortals hide in a modern society with extensive record-keeping? 508 Where in the solar system is the most viable place to put my colonists, after Mars and Luna? 509 How far away would an alien civilization need to be for us to not notice them? 510 How would someone hide an asteroid in the void of space so only they could find it? 511 How can Dwarves produce honey underground? 512 How would Muslims adapt to follow their prayer rituals in the loss of Earth? 513 Would it be possible for an Earth-sized world to speak a single language? 514 Million-year-old records 515 How long will an ageless person live? 516 Quenching swords in dragon blood; why? 517 Why would a civilization outfit buildings with separate portals for entering and leaving them? 518 Killing off Indiana Jones 519 Anatomically correct metalhead, part 1 - headbanging 520 Building a bridge to the stars 521 The Benign Apocalypse 522 Creating a realistic world map - Currents, Precipitation and Climate 523 Socialist country with good economy? 524 Would a fighter pilot with an invincible space ship be able to conquer the galaxy? 525 Is there a way to create a bomb to destroy a star? 526 What software is available for keeping and organising notes about your world? 527 If every star in the universe except the Sun were destroyed, would we die? 528 How do you power all the nanobots? 529 Would gorillas with human-level intelligence make effective soldiers? 530 How do spaceships determine each others mass in space? 531 I want to become a living god! 532 What is valid evidence in a world with perfect CGI technology? 533 FTL travel is impossible. How is interstellar trade possible? 534 How far is too far when worldbuilding? 535 Santa is broke. How much does it cost for someone else to be Santa? 536 How can an organ that provides biological immortality be unable to regenerate? 537 What circumstances could lead to city layout based on hexagons? 538 Can stone be recycled by melting and cooling it? 539 Build an impregnable fortress in the middle ages with modern technology 540 Why do people in Cryogenic sleep not wear clothes? 541 Is there a maximum size an ocean bound creature could grow to? 542 Military Tank drone, why are they not common yet? 543 Could a joke be funny enough to kill? 544 Is a man-eating plant realistic? 545 Plausible explanation for lack of reflection in a mirror 546 Explaining where energy comes from to power magic 547 Why would a civilization develop a taboo against a highly nutritious food that grows well in its climate? 548 How would people conceivably escape a planet too large for chemical rockets? 549 What would be the best way to fight a duel with lightsabers? 550 Selling the right to kill ones convicted abuser: how could an NGO make this profitable? 551 Would a castle built at the top of a mesa have unusual weaknesses? 552 Speedrun to the moon in one lifetime? 553 Hacking the universe 554 What sort of punishment would replace fines in a post-scarcity society? 555 Identify Batman without getting caught 556 Would charging unicorns survive the impact with a line of infantry? 557 If we put humans on planets with atmospheres different from Earths atmosphere, but still containing oxygen, would humans be able to breathe? 558 Are gunswords feasible? 559 Could a society use bullets as money? 560 How fast would a sword need to be to avoid getting blood on it? 561 Why would merfolk have hair? 562 Why would a race with high longevity but low numbers be aggressive and warlike? 563 What are the disadvantages of a long living race? 564 What could prevent players from leaving an island? 565 An environment where round beds are easier to build than rectangular 566 Can you shoot someone with a bullet... from orbit? 567 What skills would an early-1500s era ship captain need to learn to become a modern-day sailor (and eventually a captain again)? 568 How to subtly identify a weapon as powerfully magical? 569 Need to start a religion with a predefined self-destruct 570 What could cause sugary rain? 571 Infinite flat world 572 Crucial and unlikely discoveries in history 573 Why zero tolerance on nudity in space? 574 Plausible reason why my time machine can only go back a certain amount of time? 575 The 10,000 year skyscraper 576 Reasons why healthy people would intentionally want to get infected? 577 Are endothermic bombs possible? 578 Is roof-hopping through a city realistic? 579 How to introduce my perpetual motion invention to the scientific community? 580 How can a fish that explodes by itself prosper enough to reproduce on a grand enough scale to persist as a species? 581 Could two planets be tidally locked to each other so close they share their atmosphere? 582 Would a steam powered plane be able to cross the Atlantic ocean? 583 Most useful knowledge from the 30s to understand current state of computers & networking? 584 How do I defend an island nation from attackers with 15th century technology? 585 Farming after the apocalypse: chickens or giant cockroaches? 586 What could make an area of land be accessible only at certain times of the year? 587 Only the Swiss Are Left - Can They Survive? 588 Would a non-lethal military be effective? 589 Designing Hacking Arrows 590 Is it possible to have a planetary system with planets having perfectly synchronized orbits? 591 Realistic economic impact of a Hero 592 How would law enforcement be different if we could talk to the dead? 593 What technology would Dwarves need to forge titanium? 594 What if the speed of light were 100 times higher? 595 What US states are most likely to rebel? 596 If I travelled in time to 1979... would my smartphones gps still work? 597 How would exposing a female warriors (mostly) bare bottom help her in combat? 598 Create a world where Necromancy isnt considered as an evil type of magic 599 How would you bring wealth back to the past? 600 Wooden sticks are the only allowed weapons in a technological society - how far would these weapons have progressed by now? 601 How to be hidden from world for a year 602 Does my shipboard computer slow down as I approach light speed? 603 How could mushroom/fungi forests be possible? 604 Could dinosaurs breathe modern air? 605 In an atheist alien society where bodily functions (reproduction and waste elimination) are not taboo what would be used to curse? 606 What all stops working when I pause time? 607 How would an order of Monks that renounce their names communicate effectively? 608 What would an out-of-water submarine (for water-breathing mer-people) look like? 609 In a society of flying beings, would the wheel ever be invented? 610 Lifeform - resistant to gunfire but vulnerable to melee 611 Is there any organization to a shantytown of storage containers? 612 Implications of Newtonian universe 613 Planetary Scale Artworks 614 Creating a realistic world map - Landmass formation 615 How can I build a Nuclear Reactor in my backyard? 616 For how long after an apocalypse would modern cars remain usable? 617 How to completely destroy a city, without leaving clues for humanity 4,000 years later? 618 Is there an effective way to design a realistic religion for a world? 619 How long would it take to “domesticate” humans? 620 How can I provide reasons for racism? 621 What would induce a country to actively guard an empty wasteland? 622 Logical reason why my dystopian government exiles rebels instead of killing them? 623 What does the Minotaur eat? 624 If an FTL spacecraft entered Earth orbit, how long would it take for humans to build a FTL spacecraft? 625 Would a ring language be possible? 626 Reason for an exterior control panel on a space ship 627 If a large space ship crashes on a planet, what could kill passengers without obliterating the ship? 628 Creating a realistic world map - Coastlines 629 Assassinate a semi-omniscient crime lord 630 What possible scientific reasons could there be for a vampire to only be killable via wooden stake to the heart? 631 Shapes for an infinite animal? 632 How would an independent, illegal and secret group of assassins accept assignments? 633 Why was 1984 set in 1984? 634 How do we know Humpty Dumpty was an egg? 635 Snoopy can balance on an edge atop his doghouse. Is any reason given for this? 636 What is Hobbes? 637 Has copy protection ever been used in physical books? 638 Did Arthur Conan Doyle code Holmes and Watson as a gay couple? 639 Where did the idea of a true name come from? 640 Why is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy referred to as H2G2? 641 Why was The Call of the Wild banned? 642 What is Tom Bombadils importance in The Lord of the Rings? 643 Does Dr. Manhattan have free will? 644 Why is there so much technical detail of whaling included in Moby-Dick? 645 History of Spoilers 646 How did Wonkas Golden Ticket sweepstakes ensure that children would win? 647 What message is Bradbury trying to convey in Fahrenheit 451? 648 Why does Watchmen use the 9-panel grid? 649 Was the title The Lord of the Rings picked on purpose to be ambiguous? 650 Did Gaiman and Pratchett troll an interviewer who thought they were religious fanatics? 651 Why is a raven like a writing desk? 652 The author of a literary work disagrees with critics about meaning—whos right? 653 Should I read The Silmarillion before or after reading The Lord of the Rings? 654 Does Snape talk in code? 655 Meaning/translation of title The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett 656 Is there anything that definitely confirms that Svidrigailov actually committed murder in Crime and Punishment? 657 Was there a reason Victor Hugo chose 24601 as the number for Jean Valjean? 658 Did Shakespeare write his own stage directions? 659 In 1984, why did OBrien wait so long? 660 Is Judaism represented in the Narnia books? 661 George Orwells 1984 banned for contradictory reasons? 662 Why has Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) been retired for so long? 663 How many of Poes stories are interconnected? 664 Why do many Korean folk tales start with back when tigers smoked? 665 Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire? 666 Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”? 667 Is Babar an African or Asian elephant? 668 Has the phrase Elementary, my dear Watson ever truly appeared in a Sherlock Holmes book? 669 Is there any textual evidence to support that Dumbledore was gay? 670 What is the symbolism of Atticus killing the mad dog? 671 Why is Snape so fond of Malfoy? 672 What does Mark Twain mean by cheers and a tiger? 673 Did Lenore merely leave or is she dead? 674 What is the pun in Kiplings poem The Three-Decker? 675 How could sixty cents of $1.87 be in pennies? 676 Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle decide to kill off this character? 677 Are there any recorded discrepancies between The Odyssey as oral tradition and The Odyssey as Homer transcribed it? 678 Why dont Mr. Bennets daughters get to inherit the Longbourn estate? 679 In Brave New World, what caste is Lenina Crowne? 680 Was Odysseus considered unfaithful to his wife in the Odyssey? 681 Are quote marks used selectively in The Handmaids Tale or do I have a bad scan of the book? 682 Whats it called when a short quote appears at the beginning of a chapter? 683 Why does Mr. Poe cough so much? 684 English short story where a wife makes an investigation officer eat the murder weapon 685 Why are haiku usually of 17 syllables? 686 Is Sherlock Holmes religious? 687 Did Poe plagiarise someone elses work when writing The Raven? 688 Isnt Gríma Wormtongue a very revealing name? 689 What were the parts of each of the six Seuss books that ceased publication in March 2021 that were problematic? 690 Did J. K. Rowling base platform 9 3/4 on the Gump? 691 Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth? 692 What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)? 693 Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex? 694 When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA? 695 Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation? 696 Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound? 697 Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia? 698 Is there a linguistics term meaning its grammatically correct, but nobody says that? 699 Why do English transliterations of Arabic names have so many Qs in them? 700 Why do most words for mother, across languages, start with an [m], and for father with [p]/[b], but not vice versa? 701 Could the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been deciphered without the Rosetta Stone with modern tech? 702 Whats the difference between syntax and grammar? 703 Is there any language that uses different pronouns for we depending on whether the spoken to person is included in the group? 704 Whats the difference between phonetics and phonology? 705 How do linguists place the vowels of a language precisely on the vowel trapezoid? 706 Is English tonal for some words, like permit? 707 What is word order used for in free word order languages? 708 Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions 709 Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to? 710 Why is there (almost) no variety to the Hebrew accent in Israel? 711 Why isnt Ive a proper response? 712 Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages? 713 Is there really a difference between agglutinative and non-agglutinative languages when spoken? 714 Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages? 715 Why do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesnt? 716 Are there languages that dont have this kind of ambiguity? 717 Are there languages with other spatial deixis besides here, there and over there? 718 Why is “ß” not used in Swiss German? 719 Why are certain there-sentences infelicitous in English? 720 Why the prevalence of ph in transliteration? 721 Why do Japanese people have difficulties in pronouncing English? 722 How do I format an interlinear gloss for HTML? 723 Is the connection between right in the sense of direction and concepts like correct limited to Indo-European languages? 724 Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language? 725 Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward? 726 Why is the word war in Romance languages predominantly of Germanic origin instead of Latin? 727 What languages lack personal pronouns, and why? 728 Can you rhyme words in sign language? 729 What are the fundamental differences between Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics? 730 Is there a difference between an affricate and a plosive+fricative consonant cluster? 731 Is it hard for software speech synthesisers to handle IPA? If so, why? 732 Is future tense in English really a myth? 733 Why do English verbs inflect so little, especially in regard to person? 734 Why does English not have a cognate of words like heter, in Swedish, or llama, in Spanish, etc? 735 Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense? 736 Articles before the name of a person 737 What meaningful distinction is there between morphology and syntax? 738 Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the other Romance languages? 739 Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender? 740 Is there a technical name for when languages use masculine pronouns to refer to both men and women? 741 Lists of linguistic resources 742 Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance language? 743 Why dont you get back the original text when you use translation software to translate something into another language and then back into English? 744 Do the Khoisan languages resemble the worlds first language? 745 English text corpus for download 746 Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages? 747 What do you call an IPA symbol that lacks a name (e.g. ɲ)? 748 Do some languages have articles besides the definite and indefinite articles? 749 Is there a language without gender in third person pronouns? 750 Why did English lose declensions while German retained them? 751 The relationship between orange the colour and orange the fruit 752 American English : are [ə] and [ʌ] different phonemes? (schwa vs. chevron) 753 Is the seeming relation between the sound /n/ and negativity purely coincidental? 754 Are consonant mutations in Indo-European languages specific of the Celtic group? 755 Which Romance languages have reflexes of the Latin nominative in nouns? 756 Is it common to use the minor third for calling someone? 757 What are the historical origins of terms for north, south, east and west? 758 Are there any languages or cultures that have genderless given names? 759 Are some languages inherently harder for children to acquire? 760 Whats the origin of Youre welcome? 761 Fourth person (in Slavey language) 762 Are there any non-Indo-European languages with go-periphrasis? 763 Why was מֹשֶׁה‎ transliterated as [moʊzɨz]? 764 What has NLP/CL brought to the table of pencil-and-paper linguistics? 765 Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages? 766 Can Someone Identify This Diacritic? 767 Why do languages not share a root for butterfly? 768 Animals’ names change when we eat them: is that universal? 769 Why is constituency needed, since dependency gets the job done more easily and economically? 770 How did Korean become a language isolate? 771 Was there a Semitic influence on Proto-Germanic? 772 How do field linguists begin to study an undocumented language which they cannot speak? 773 Deciphering a handwritten script 774 What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar? 775 What did the Greeks and Romans believe about language relationships? 776 Are there grammatical analyses of languages that are extremely different from IE grammar? 777 False-belief verbs 778 Is there a language whose writing is 100% phonemic? 779 Whats the difference between a false cognate and a false friend? 780 Does Japanese have determiners? 781 What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages? 782 Why do some Indo-European languages have genders and some dont? 783 Is there a linguistics equivalent to Turing completeness? 784 Why do Polish and Belarusian have an atypical greeting if compared to other Slavic languages? 785 What is case? 786 In languages with grammatical gender, how do they determine the gender when a new word has been created? 787 Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)? 788 Do onomatopoeias resist sound change? 789 Why do different languages have different amounts of unique words for numbers between 10 and 20? 790 How do linguists distinguish between case endings and postpositions, especially in languages which have both and/or have no traditional grammar? 791 Why did some Hebrew words beginning with Yod become transliterated into Latin as hi? 792 Is double positive meaning negative a common phenomenon? 793 Is Yiddish a creole language? And if not, what is it? 794 Do any languages mark social distinctions other than gender and status? 795 Where did Spanish get its /x/? Arabic influence? 796 Is there a single origin for the connection between time and weather? 797 Is the schwa sound consistent? 798 What is the name for a placename that contains what the thing is in a different language? 799 Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child 800 Is the Dené–Yeniseian hypothesis widely accepted, and has it led to further research? 801 Paucal number without singular 802 Why was korea able to remove kanji but japan wasnt when both languages use homophones? 803 Why is /h/ called voiceless vowel phonetically, and /h/ consonant phonologically? 804 Do absolute synonyms exist? 805 When does copula absence occur in African-American Vernacular English? 806 How are languages deciphered? 807 Why 11 am + 1 hour == 12:00 pm? 808 How does the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop... joke work? 809 Canonical Post #2: What is the perfect, and how should I use it? 810 How should I refer to a friend who is a girl but not a girlfriend? 811 Why grand theft auto, not grand auto theft? 812 “GOD is real, unless declared integer.” 813 Is there any difference between “which” and “that”? 814 Why do we say I love cake but I love cars? 815 What does the line So long and thanks for all the fish! mean? 816 Is there any difference between being ill and sick? 817 How can native English speakers read an unknown word correctly? 818 Free as in free speech, not as in free beer 819 How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words? 820 What is the difference between “nope” and “no”? 821 Why does the i in naïve have two dots? 822 Should I say She is in the park or She is at the park? 823 As following vs as follows 824 Does a couple always mean two? 825 Whats the difference between center and centre? 826 Once, twice, thrice,..., what comes next? 827 Why is 7 the most feared number? 828 firstly ... secondly ... or first ... second ... ? 829 Why should we say play the piano instead of play a piano? 830 Whats up with the pun (not) intended thing? 831 (In, On or At) GitHub? 832 Meaning of respecting in no law respecting an establishment of religion 833 Difference between Do we have a blog? and We have a blog? 834 If potato chips come in contact with humid air, they become what? 835 Is there any more respectful word than beggars for these wonderful guys? 836 Shouldnt it be Nobody touch him! 837 Why do native speakers say Come on in rather than Come in? 838 Why is the correct spelling eating and not eatting? 839 Two thousand seventeen VS twenty seventeen: What is the rule for year pronunciation? 840 Why can low become lower and lowest, while up cant? 841 Wow, what a car! - Is it okay if I say Wow, what the car! 842 What is the right word to refer to a black person, when you dont know their name? 843 Why is a Japanese offensive? 844 How do native speakers guess the pronunciation of the letters in a word they see for the first time? 845 Is series Plural or Singular? 846 Can I write nonsensual data for data that makes no sense? 847 What do you call the act of drinking a whole bottle of, say, water in one go? 848 Is it OK to mix American and British English? 849 Whats the meaning of bee in hand and beauty in eye? 850 Conveince: A word commonly used in Pakistan having to do with transportation but no English person knows about it 851 Great Expectations [is written vs has been written] by Charles Dickens 852 Is I was had standard English? 853 Difference between illegal and very illegal 854 What does Although the Second Amendment people mean? 855 [I]t literally scared her to death - Why is I in brackets? 856 What does the Twelfth mean in Article 7 of the US Constitution? 857 In and on: How can I decide which one to use for vehicles? 858 What is the correct pronunciation of the? 859 Use him or her in this sentence about a hypothetical gender switch? 860 When a girl mentions her girlfriend, does she mean it like lesbian girlfriend? 861 Why is Zika capitalized and chikungunya and yellow fever are not? 862 Meaning of sesquiannual? 863 Why is Mary told the cake to be cut by John ungrammatical? 864 Whats the meaning of break your legs? 865 How do I avoid misspelling receive as recieve? 866 Im being corrected I had a headache yesterday vs I have had a headache yesterday 867 Usage in spite of and despite of 868 Why are nice picture/gif/video about foo called foo-porn? 869 The college in Electoral College 870 Explain why Who is she playing the piano? is incorrect 871 Is cops (= police) a slang/derogatory term? 872 Whats the difference between last and latest? 873 What does viewer discretion is advised mean? 874 Meaning of Sue me 875 Can I say fingers when referring to toes? 876 Ice cold vs. ___ hot in a professional context? 877 To death vs to the death 878 In the sentence: Drinking and driving IS dangerous, why does the verb to be need to be singular? 879 How it works? vs. How does it work? 880 Better way to say No bulls--t 881 What does call BS mean in the sentence We call BS? 882 Ask away - what does away mean? 883 What is explain like Im five? 884 Do all native English speakers actually pronounce the th sound? 885 How many meanings does I am in have? 886 IS or ARE? The only thing that I want you to hit right now IS/ARE the books 887 I demand that he leave or leaves? 888 What is understood if I say Im an English teacher? 889 Does the English language have a word explaining a song in your head that you cant stop singing? 890 How to understand I had two try 891 Using very to emphasize a noun where emphasizing is NOT possible! 892 “I had a flat in the centre of town, but I didn’t like living there, so …” 893 What do we call ketchup, cheesy dip , oregano and things like that collectively, as they arent side dishes? 894 What is the meaning of prairie-dog in this sentence? 895 What does it mean? I cant people today 896 A boiled egg in the morning is really hard to beat - explain the pun please 897 What does the expression seven for seven thirty mean? 898 When is the past perfect exactly needed? 899 Agnostic vs Atheist 900 Why do people, incorrectly, begin a sentence with the word But? 901 The Jesus who said - why is there a definite article before the proper name Jesus? 902 Why did he reject my thank you? 903 What is the difference between me neither and me either? 904 Help to do something or help do something? 905 Do you really answer “How do you do?” with “How do you do?” 906 Is she dont sometimes considered correct form? 907 How do I say “±” in English? 908 Husband is dead: He and his wife {are/were} great scientists 909 I hate red color or I hate red: why exactly is the first option ungrammatical 910 Do native English speakers notice when non-native speakers skip the word the in sentences? 911 Do native speakers still use ought to? 912 What is mom-pkin? 913 What is the difference among Sign up, Sign in and Log in? 914 Is it rude to say Id appreciate if you could reply as soon as possible? 915 The difference between Older and Elder 916 Plural of thats my boy 917 How to say something like my company without sounding like I own the company? 918 I cant login or I cant log in? 919 Can you please explain this joke: Im going bananas is what I tell my bananas before I leave the house? 920 Photo Vs. Picture Vs. Image : What is the difference between them? 921 An hour or a hour 922 What does Nailed it mean? 923 co-worker vs. colleague 924 Is Negro an offensive word, or do some people just take offense to it, and why? 925 Possible responses to thank you 926 He borrowed me some money.; right or wrong? 927 How can you recognize if an uncle is fathers brother or mothers brother? (Is there any default option? ) 928 Why is iron pronounced EYE-URN but not EYE-RUN? 929 as rich as him, as rich as he or as rich as he is 930 What does `s` mean in What CPUs will it run on?? 931 The first time I met my wife I knew she was a keeper. She was wearing massive gloves - Alun Cochrane 932 What is the basic unit of a chain called in English? 933 Who is frowning in the sentence Daisy looked at Tom frowning? 934 Whats the meaning of Can it, will you? 935 Whats the meaning of Ordinary shampoos need not apply! on a shampoo bottle? 936 Should nouns after any be singular or plural? 937 What is the difference between IMO and IMHO and IHOP? 938 Why is aircrafts bad English, while crafts is okay? 939 Bathroom or Restroom 940 Didnt use to get or Didnt used to get? 941 Whats the opposite of the phrase pay under the table? 942 How can one differentiate between who and whom? 943 Whats a polite way of asking who are you? on the phone? 944 What is the difference between do you like and would you like? 945 Why is a ph or gh used instead of an f in commonly used English words like Elephant and Enough? 946 What is the brown cardboard covering coffee cups called in English? 947 Can fluent English speakers distinguish between “steel”, “still”, and “steal”? 948 How can I get rid of my Indian accent and sound more neutral/native 949 Can I say: When was your train leaving? if the train leaves in the future? 950 Can I say Call it a project similar to Call it a day 951 What do you call this way of stacking rectangular objects on each other? 952 Why did my seldom get corrected? 953 What would natives take for Today is so yesterday? 954 Why do we not use the definite article in Where can I find the room 401? 955 What is the difference between wait and await? 956 Is it I or me in Keep Tom and I/me updated? 957 Is Let us = Lets? 958 What is the correct term back-end, back end or backend? 959 What does the very next day mean? 960 Why is The Chinese have invented the printer wrong? 961 How should I reply when I answer some question on Stack Exchange sites, people thank me and say it helped? 962 Is says you grammatically correct? 963 When you tell a joke and nobody laughs 964 Does unbuild in Unbuild your Legos before putting them back into the box sound natural? 965 Why is wine made from grapes, but tables are made of wood? 966 Is thru for through acceptable? Tho for though? 967 Important to me or Important for me 968 What does resp. mean in these sentences? 969 Possible meanings of IN CASE OF FIRE, DO NOT USE ELEVATOR. 970 Are the terms girlfriend and boyfriend limited to some age in the spoken language? 971 Is there an English equivalent for the Italian saying Its another pair of sleeves? 972 Why is science in Bachelor of Science singular, whereas arts in Bachelor of Arts is plural? 973 What does two-by-four mean in this context? 974 Why are south and southern pronounced with different vowels? 975 Whats the meaning of phrases that include ship, shipping, when there is a conversation about the heroes of TV series? 976 How to understand throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks? 977 What does have a pop-up feel mean? 978 Why would you say it changed me instead of it changed myself here? 979 Why is the t in often silent? 980 Your English is better than my > 981 Why are the pronunciations of bicycle and recycle so different? 982 Working in / for / at? 983 Differences between mandatory and compulsory 984 How do native speakers say the light bulb has stopped working 985 Grammatical gender of the word child 986 “When did you born?” 987 What is the difference between robbing and stealing? 988 Explanation for a joke about a three-legged dog that walks into a bar 989 Usage of they / them / their when the persons gender is not known 990 English equivalent of a Spanish expression that translates to iron fist, crystal jaw 991 What is the official criteria to measure current level of English? 992 Is until inclusive or exclusive? 993 Does one call regular men Sir in the UK? 994 What is the difference between can and could in Can/could you please explain this to me? 995 Is the language of The Economist artificially complex? 996 What does He has insurance, but Christ mean? 997 What does IKEA-like mean? 998 What does this will date me mean? 999 How do Americans respond when asked for their names? 1000 When is it acceptable to omit the subject I? 1001 Pronunciation of beaches and bitches 1002 What does chrome mean besides the metal? 1003 What is the difference between feet and very feet? 1004 Indefinite Article: Why a agreement rather than an agreement? 1005 a ten years old boy or a ten year old boy 1006 What is the name for these keys on a computer keyboard? 1007 How to write a plural form of ex (ex girlfriend..etc) 1008 One of THOSE days vs one of THESE days 1009 What do we call the half closing of eyes? 1010 What does on a day with no y in it mean? 1011 Not funny ha-ha, what does Siri mean? 1012 What is the cover of the head of a pen called in English? 1013 Do native speakers distinguish well the pronunciations of L and R? 1014 What does M.C. in M.C. Esker mean? 1015 What does it mean by my days-of-the-week underwear only go to Thursday in this context? 1016 When you Frankenstein a team together... - Is Frankenstein a new verb? 1017 Whats the English phrase to describe men who are standing next to each other, facing in opposite direction),? 1018 Does the question mark mean this is a question? 1019 The grammar of Stop Asian hate 1020 How can I negate or confirm a question tersely using negation? 1021 What is the correct way to write 1.5 hours? 1022 “file doesn’t exist” or “file doesn’t exists” 1023 You can contact me on/over/by Skype 1024 Word for someone who says yes, then no, then yes 1025 Do native speakers use ultima and proxima frequently in spoken English? 1026 Is there a word for the unutterable feeling when listening to a beautiful song? 1027 You prefer to eat soup or drink soup? 1028 Why is the W silent in sword but not in swore? 1029 Should I use a or an when I abbreviate a word? 1030 2 for 5 (bucks) vs 5 (bucks) for 2 1031 Follow me, and your urologist will be buying himself a new yacht 1032 Is Whom a deprecated word? 1033 Why is for a tortuous three days singular even though days is plural? 1034 How is double negation interpreted in English? 1035 Whats the accepted way to use criterion, criteria, criterions? 1036 What is the difference between hug and embrace? 1037 Do digits after the decimal point have a specific name? 1038 My son/daughter or Our son/daughter? 1039 What is the word for the metal things on boots where the laces go? 1040 How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb? 1041 Idiom request for describing a situation in which people pay attention to their minor problems rather than the fundamental related ones? 1042 I often buy fruits when I go to the supermarket – illogical? 1043 Whats the word meaning “normal-temperature” water? 1044 What do you call the things inside a fruit? 1045 Why is wont used instead of doesnt sometimes? 1046 scissors cut/cuts paper, which is correct? 1047 What does Scary-lookin fing, inee mean? 1048 Why is letter not plural in two letter words? 1049 Are there any solid reasons for the -st, -nd, -rd, and -th suffixes for numbers? 1050 Verb tenses when asking a question 1051 Why is the adjective for mutate not mutatable? 1052 Who decides whether something is standard English or not? 1053 Do we say - in the meeting or at the meeting 1054 I am cumming or I am coming 1055 Thank you in advance - how to replace? 1056 What do they mean with Hi, how are you doing? 1057 Which is the correct question (Who has vs Who have)? 1058 Is there a polite, formal way to say sh!t happens? 1059 Is She is under the shower a proper English sentence? 1060 What does go blue mean here? 1061 Sarcastic Idioms for being slow to notice something 1062 What do we call the gesture of hitting each others fists gently? 1063 What do you call an action that is less serious than a crime (that is not illegal, just against rules)? 1064 How do I respond to my Professors email, wherein he has mistaken my gender? 1065 Why are beef and pork and mutton used to refer to the meat of cows and pigs and sheep? 1066 Plastic part on the tip of a shoelace 1067 Why is “deal 6 damage” a legit phrase? 1068 Does the English language have a grammatical gender? 1069 Whats wrong with Most people in the country would like to own their house some day.? 1070 Whats the meaning of youre being G.O. Sixteened.? 1071 How to answer a negative question? 1072 I dont get this joke Massive Attack On Pentagon Page 14 News, can anybody explain me its meaning? 1073 Keeping my mouth shut, referring to avoiding weight gain 1074 Was twelve pronounced as TPELF? 1075 How are silent letters important? 1076 Why do we pluralize congratulations when we say it? 1077 Are some offensive words always masculine? 1078 When should I use thaw and melt? 1079 Why is it correct to say We should go see a movie, but not We should have gone see a movie? 1080 What is the meaning of Brown-Bagged it? 1081 Why cant I contract it has sometimes? 1082 Uses of the definite article (the) in generic noun phrases 1083 Does red apples and bottles mean the apples are red and the bottles are red or only apples are red? 1084 In how many ways can something not be right? 1085 dogs, not cats -> why not? 1086 Allow (to) + infinitive, substantive, verb+ -ing 1087 Difference between in time and on time 1088 Why is it If I were you and not If I was you? 1089 Is rain is falling entirely wrong? 1090 A user is it or he/she? 1091 Was it impolite for me to say Thats alright when someone ran into me? Are there any better expessions? 1092 quite vs pretty 1093 What does at 19.45 hours mean? 1094 What would you call someone who sneaks into and stays in places where they have to be signed up, e.g. classes/country clubs 1095 Verb for just opening a bit a window or door 1096 “I’m too tired to drive”: Why does removing too make this sentence ungrammatical? 1097 I have a doubt about whether this phrase is acceptable English 1098 Why is it correct to say me busy.? 1099 Why it is called Black Friday? 1100 Whats the meaning of be broker than the Ten Commandments? 1101 Whats the name for non-bribe payments taken forcefully and illegally? 1102 Is there a verb for listening stealthily? 1103 How to get rid of mistakes in spoken English? 1104 What is the Kool-aid reference? 1105 Why is it crouching tiger hidden dragon but not crouching tiger hiding dragon? 1106 Is there a verb that means to accept doing something unwillingly just to make the other person stop nagging? 1107 What is the document called that parents have to sign so their underage children can take part in something? 1108 “The,” “a” or no article: “See you in _____ court.” 1109 I cant imagine John is driving a car 1110 Whats the child doing in this picture? Is it called tongue twister? 1111 Difference between where are you from and where do you come from 1112 There is a lot vs. There are lot 1113 Two consecutive gerunds? -ing -ing? 1114 Meaning of the On guard! exclamation 1115 How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? 1116 Is plugging out electronic devices an American expression? 1117 coronavirus - Why no c capital? Why is there no space? 1118 Is Raining Cats and dogs still used nowadays? 1119 What do Americans call a person when they cannot remember the right name? 1120 What is the sports hall in schools called in English? 1121 Transgender versus the obsolete term transgendered 1122 Call yourself God 1123 How to deal with unknown genders in English? 1124 What are the correct pronouns for referring to someone whom I have never met in person when the gender is apparent? 1125 What does One CPU is going to smoke another CPU mean? 1126 Crashing at the Y What does it mean? 1127 Why do native speakers use the present continuous tense when talking about people in a picture? Why not the past continuous tense? 1128 An (obvious) problem or a (obvious) problem? 1129 Why dont we use articles for variables in math problems? 1130 Assigned to a job I know nothing about it - is there an idiom for that idea? 1131 What is the word for a property no more necessary but still present in a object? 1132 Youve earned the Nice Answer badge vs. Youve earned a Nice Answer badge 1133 Canonical Post #1: When to Trust Your Grammar Checker 1134 The summer training or (just) summer training 1135 Dates and times: on, in, at? 1136 Can you reply you too to wishes such as Good luck? 1137 When a word ends in s or x, do you add s or just an ? 1138 Is no more used to mean dead in English? 1139 Why is He knows to swim incorrect? 1140 Is there a word for losing something in order to gain some other thing? 1141 What is a non-vulgar synonym for this swear word meaning an enormous amount? 1142 Thanks, but no thanks OR No, thanks. Isnt thanks in the former redundant? 1143 Is the SVOMPT word order necessary in creating a sentence? 1144 what is the difference between yet and still? 1145 Whats the polite way to say I need to urinate? 1146 He is 80 years young 1147 What is the filling of the stapler called in English? (picture attached) 1148 What is the opposite of picky? 1149 Greeting with Ho 1150 Can any time on clock be spoken as it is in numbers only (hour + minutes)? 1151 Asking the position of a person in a sequence 1152 The female equivalent of dont break my balls 1153 Why doesnt the couple want to eat the dessert in this comic strip? 1154 What do we call English with dots and dashes? 1155 When to say I need money as opposed to I need the money? 1156 Is there any difference between temporary and provisional? 1157 What is the meaning of Dog ate my car? 1158 A pro and a con at the same time 1159 What does mean to get to the nuts and balls of something? 1160 The antonym of diss 1161 Why is New York often said with the word City in English? 1162 Why should are be used here instead of is? 1163 Meaning of 8 going on 48 1164 No more Hiroshima or No more Hiroshimas 1165 I get “the” train and “a” bus 1166 Terms to refer uniquely to each of the grandparents 1167 (Noun) the sh*t out of this — What nouns work? 1168 Why there are two weres in one sentence? 1169 a joyous and restful three days -- a three days? 1170 What is the expected response to Whats up? 1171 When to use drank and drunk 1172 Hi there! -- What does this there mean? 1173 Which pronunciation of either is preferred? 1174 My lady, Your honour, Your grace, how to decide whether to use my or your? 1175 Does this have two meanings: how do you like your coffee? 1176 I did my best vs I did the best I could 1177 Difference between One to One and One on One 1178 Rollbacked or rolled back the edit? And what about double-click? 1179 What should I say if someone from the opposite side of the earth says “good morning”? 1180 Theres vs There are 1181 An adjective for a woman showing lots of skin? 1182 What is the difference between you are being and you are? 1183 Whats the difference between words number, count, amount and quantity? 1184 Add-in salt to injury? 1185 How would a native speaker understand Time flies like an arrow? 1186 Is hello followed by ! or .? 1187 Does I have a daughter mean I have one daughter? 1188 None of the kids were hungry Or None of the kids was hungry 1189 Back in 2000 vs In 2000 1190 What does Rabbit hole mean? 1191 What does meat mean? 1192 How to pronounce Gradle? 1193 What does ima mean in ima sue the s*** out of em? 1194 Why do Russian names transliterated into English have unpronounceable ks before hs (e.g. Mikhail instead of just Mihail)? 1195 Hard work never hurt anyone Why not hurts? 1196 I dont have the time to cook or I dont have time to cook? 1197 Do native speakers pronounce found the remark without the the? 1198 Whats the difference between vanilla and plain when talking about yogurts? 1199 We missed the bus, which made us late for school - erroneous use of which? 1200 When is me used as a possessive pronoun, instead of my? 1201 Sorry for your loss. But why? 1202 Should cooking and cleaning be taken literally in ...two men at once. One cooking. One cleaning. 1203 Unusual meaning of wet 1204 Specific word to describe someone who is so good that isnt even considered in say a classification 1205 How much should I trust Wiktionary? 1206 How can I describe being temporarily stupid? 1207 Why do you say air conditioned and not conditioned air? 1208 Four is better vs Four are better. Which one is correct? 1209 Why is He is the kind of person who, if he had lived ..., people would not have been able to categorise him. ungrammatical? 1210 Why can populace be used as an adjective in most populace cities? 1211 What are the differences between to talk and to speak? 1212 Why do my How to questions often get renamed to How do I? 1213 Should always use uppercase I? 1214 Why is there a p in assumption but not in assume? 1215 Toward vs. Towards 1216 Does It snowed hard Monday require an on? 1217 my vs mine (adjectives vs. possessive ) 1218 at which time vs. at what time 1219 Out of curiosity means Im not curious at all. Isnt it? 1220 Is there a word or slang word to call a girl who loves brand products? 1221 Glass vs Cup - differences in usage 1222 Would saying who is this in normal tone be rude in an occasion not on the phone? 1223 very unique - Is it wrong? Why? 1224 What is this type of road called in English? 1225 What defines a native English Speaker? 1226 Phrases that express afraid of wife in English 1227 Is the term Invalid applicable for human beings? 1228 I dont give a rip! Whats a rip? 1229 Correct me if Im wrong 1230 to fart in child language 1231 Is calling a woman madam offensive? 1232 The meaning of half woman, half girl 1233 Is it good to call someone Nerd? 1234 She dressed like/as an owl. Which is correct? 1235 What are these holes in sinks and tubs called? 1236 a most talented writer - why not the most talented writer? 1237 Should I say: She is no student or She is not a student? 1238 Is there an idiom that means that you are in a very strong negotiation position in a negotiation? 1239 Does take a second mean take a second look? 1240 What is this mop-like tool called in English? 1241 What does Yes, you can. But you may not. mean? 1242 Why is a road incorrect in this test? 1243 Syntactical problem? Musks tweet I Am Become Meme, Destroyer Of Shorts 1244 Plurality of verb depending on plurality of list elements 1245 Are you an English? Are you a British? 1246 An idiomatic expression for the situation when a punisher in fact punishes himself rather than the one he intended to punish 1247 Is Ram married his daughter ambiguous? 1248 When people brag about their abilities and belittle their opponents before a battle, competition, etc 1249 Is it proper to use broke in Broke his feelings? 1250 Whats the pun in Clowns divorce. Custardy battle.”? 1251 To Google something: capitalize or not? 1252 The bass drop is so sick!... - What does it mean? 1253 The girl I love hates me or The girl who I love hates me 1254 Why write does instead of is What time does/is the pharmacy open? 1255 Term for bed sheet that embraces and partially encapsulates the mattress 1256 Can I say I speak Chinese as well as Spanish? 1257 What does Bless you mean in this context? 1258 must vs shall - are they the same, or is one a softened version of the other? 1259 Using present simple when talking about a past event in spoken English 1260 What does the word though mean and on which occasions can be used? 1261 Which one is correct, in the USA or in USA? 1262 fits or suits my needs? 1263 Difference between nice to see you and nice to meet you 1264 When is seems to be used instead of seems? 1265 Difference between fast food and junk food 1266 Double zero, double zeros or double zeroes? 1267 If something seems too good to be true, it probably is (not?) 1268 Difference between uptown, downtown and midtown 1269 The correct capital G and J in cursive 1270 Stuck writing a sentence because tea is a beverage and water is not! 1271 Are dude and man disrespectful words? 1272 Do never... vs. Do not ever... 1273 English equivalent of garam (warming) food? 1274 Can I use Dress for mens wear? 1275 $2,000 worth of items: two thousand dollar or dollars? 1276 Why cant we say snakes crawl? 1277 What is the English name for the palms spots of the working hands? 1278 What do you call or how do you describe this in English? overcooking the food? What do you call the black stuff? 1279 Why does the phrase drop dead gorgeous mean very gorgeous? 1280 Is there any difference between friendly and kind? 1281 Im baffled at this expression: If I dont talk to you beforehand, then...... 1282 What do you call a plan thats an alternative plan in case your initial plan fails? 1283 What do you call the imprinted pattern left behind a car in mud? 1284 I do not really understand the proposal: Dont hate Monday. Make Monday hate you 1285 Can he and man refer to all genders? 1286 I broke my arm vs my arm was broken 1287 You better did - is this acceptable? 1288 In “a so-called HPACK Bomb attack”, if so-called is not sarcasm then what is it? 1289 What is the meaning of stool” in the context of getting a job? 1290 it was backwards in heels 1291 Difference between ignite and kindle 1292 Why is it come and not comes in it is important that he come...? 1293 Do most Americans pronounce months as mons, and clothes as clos? 1294 Does upset victory mean a victory that people are not happy about? 1295 What does cap mean in this football (soccer) context? 1296 What is the name for this sarcasm-like form of words? 1297 Day vs 24h day? 1298 Any chances spell means pronounce? 1299 First, second and third conditional 1300 Best regards vs. Best Regards 1301 Aim vs Goal whats the difference? 1302 What do M, G and B buttons mean in an elevator? 1303 Can we use former and latter for plural nouns? 1304 Why do people say I am broke instead of I am broken? 1305 What does it mean to talk over someone? 1306 If “I woke up at 10” is okay, what about “I slept at 10”? 1307 Pretty versus quite 1308 How to parse these crazy sentences 1309 Can we call a divorced woman single? 1310 What is the plural of octopus? 1311 What does aye mean in this context? 1312 What do we call the small towel that we use only for hands 1313 What is the word meaning people who sell something in forceful way on the street or places? 1314 What do you call the bunch of hair you grow long on the back of your head? 1315 What would be a word for a product that is below the expected level of quality? 1316 Difference between pardoned and forgiven 1317 Is there any difference in pronunciation between the words fiancé (a male) and fiancée (a female)? 1318 What does my name was down for Eton mean? 1319 I immediately got her with child? 1320 a dollar and change. What does change mean? 1321 Does Excuse him. make sense? 1322 One of my friends OR friends wife? (My friend has only one wife) 1323 What do you call candidates in elections who dont actually have a chance to win and only create an illusion of competition? 1324 Does 49er mean A 49-year-old man? 1325 How to understand dont code today what you cant debug tomorrow? 1326 What does web-mistress imply as a job title 1327 What do we call these squeezed papers? 1328 Is tin foil for aluminium foil deprecated? 1329 I bought this shirt offline. Is this correct usage of the word offline? 1330 Do kidnappers only kidnap kids? 1331 What is the spelling of `~`? 1332 Which is correct, and why? My friend hasnt / hadnt been in church in two weeks 1333 Is mating only used with males? What if I use it with females? Is it incorrect? 1334 What is the word for searching for leftovers in a destroyed minimart in a zombie infested world? 1335 Why was not were in Nearly £20 was taken from my bank account 1336 Is there a special word for the numbers 11 to 19? 1337 Is The life is beautiful incorrect or just very non-idiomatic? 1338 Why has strangely been used instead of strange in the sentence Harry felt strangely? 1339 Why should rip a man apart like a rag doll be read ... like [it can rip apart] a rag doll instead of ... like a rag doll [can rip apart a man]? 1340 Whats the hidden joke/meaning behind Dont drink and park - accidents cause people? 1341 Idiom for not doing something that makes oneself look more awkward in an already awkward situation? 1342 Isnt charge a fee redundant? 1343 What is the inner cover of the winter shoes called in English? 1344 When do we use no women instead of no woman? 1345 How to pronounce the s in apples in English and American English? 1346 What does there lived here then mean? 1347 In cartography, what do you call the line that separates land from water? 1348 What is the meaning of the so-called pregnant chad? 1349 In-depth explanation of the difference between will and going to? 1350 Is it necessary to use commas in lists before the conjunction? 1351 How can I remember the difference between lay and laid? 1352 Hope this help or Hope this helps? 1353 What preposition is correct sleep on the bed or sleep in the bed 1354 In the morning VS on the morning 1355 Talking about inanimate objects in plural: they or it 1356 What does How come mean? 1357 it VS. this Vs. that 1358 Most of something is plural or singular? 1359 Too many tos? I am not able to come to office 1360 Tap, faucet, spigot - what are the differences? 1361 What does I have straight As. mean? 1362 Why do you get in a car but get on a train 1363 He likes swimming or He likes to swim? 1364 to versus in order to 1365 Is it correct to say I have class? 1366 What is wrong with have put in I have put the water in the freezer? 1367 Each others / each others 1368 What is the difference between look, see, and watch? 1369 What does “stop by my desk later” mean? 1370 What does I made him a cake mean? 1371 What is the drop in music? 1372 How do I invite a friend on my expense? 1373 Who is/are they? 1374 She does homework every day vs She does her homework every day vs She does the homework every day 1375 Word for a small burst of laughter that cant be held back 1376 Is uncle really limited to siblings of parents or their husbands? 1377 How to pronounce GB? 1378 Using at a jail vs. in a jail 1379 Wealthy and Rich, whats the difference 1380 I can downplay. Can I upplay? 1381 Is snows ever used as noun? 1382 According to Grammarly, this sentence is incorrect. But is it really? 1383 Is I do not want you to go nowhere a case of DOUBLE-NEGATIVES as claimed by Grammarly? 1384 How do we read 1906 in this text? 1385 Large, huge or big communities? 1386 Is it common to use gonna in written English and even in business English? 1387 All the beach bodies were sold out? Can a body be sold? 1388 Is there a single word for native English speaker? 1389 Why blame the Australians? 1390 Its and its - how to remember? 1391 You must wear a suit TO an interview vs You must wear a suit FOR an interview 1392 What is this opened cube called? 1393 What does this joke mean? 1394 is Ill correct as a short answer? 1395 Whats the meaning of shaves in Jesus saves, Bart shaves? 1396 How do you pronounce 2×4 (board) 1397 What do you call this when cats hunch their backs and their fur stands on end? 1398 A superlative form of right 1399 Why is it that when we say a balloon pops, we say exploded not imploded? 1400 Is it really OK to use because of? 1401 the wife instead of my wife, are there any other contexts where a possessive pronoun gets replaced by a definite article? 1402 Just because people dont talk doesnt mean they dont think 1403 What does it sound like vs How does it sound like 1404 What is the meaning of the phrase tack against? 1405 Why is crime story more correct than criminal story? 1406 Whether Vs. If 1407 you can just move on in -- isnt the wording strange a little bit? Why not just say you can just move in? 1408 What does the believoisie mean? 1409 Can I be mobbed by only one person? 1410 The vs. a: Surprising use of the 1411 the exact time of evening and night 1412 When to use is vs. does when asking a question? 1413 Is it less than or lesser than? 1414 Difference between logoff, logout, signoff and signout 1415 Plural form of brother-in-law when a possessive case is involved 1416 “I have little money” vs. “I have a little money” 1417 Whats a word for something you do, but you dont like to mention it? 1418 Same word used multiple times in a sentence 1419 Should you use a plural verb if you refer to a fraction? 1420 What do the British call the dish which is called pudding in the US 1421 How is better off different from just better? 1422 What is the difference between behavior and behaviour? 1423 What is the difference between thanks and thank you? 1424 is them only used for people? 1425 Does word someone refer to both an animal and a human being or only human being? 1426 Is the phrase suit yourself offensive? 1427 Are sort and order interchangeable? 1428 Man proposes and God disposes. 1429 Why do the British use the word flipping for emphasis? 1430 Why say Wait your turn but Wait FOR... everything else? 1431 Slang word for working overtime without being paid 1432 Why do we use an in the phrase an only child? 1433 Do you say “2 Byte” or “2 Bytes”? 1434 severe as a verb: is it acceptable usage? 1435 My boss was furious with me and I have been fired vs. My boss was furious with me and I was fired 1436 I wish to speak WITH a British accent or I wish to speak IN a British accent - is there a difference? 1437 She speaks an impeccable English vs She speaks impeccable English 1438 What to answer to this: youre too kind? 1439 Can marriage be used as a verb? 1440 What is the English equivalent of the Russian word тормоз which is used for very slowly working software? 1441 Is bananas is possible by any chance? 1442 What is the meaning of taking in each others washing 1443 Is it words in a song, words to a song, or words of a song? 1444 What does to be painted shut mean? 1445 difference between came along and along came 1446 Whats the English saying for That the ancestors are successful is inferior to that the descendants are successful? 1447 I wouldnt vote for Clinton if you paid me: what does this mean? 1448 Its them as should be sorry! grammar 1449 How can one wish someone a good night when they sleep during the day? 1450 What is the meaning of you know, be the pie? 1451 Why isn’t the third person singular used in “The Lord bless you”? 1452 What does the author mean by What did he there? 1453 Why is university not capitalised here? 1454 Can someone explain this joke about the Primer movie 1455 The origin of feed in line feed 1456 Big garden is incorrect? 1457 What do native speakers think of word roots? 1458 When should a and an be written in a list containing both? 1459 The victory, within four days, was just reward - why not was just a reward? 1460 Is ending a sentence with a preposition acceptable? 1461 Can vehicles sell themselves? Shouldnt it be passive voice? 1462 Articles: When do I use a, the, or __? 1463 the set of elements >whose each< pair is ... - Is this acceptable? 1464 Michael is a New Zealander or Michael is New Zealander? Article before nationalities? 1465 in/at one fell swoop(=at one time) Whats fell here? 1466 How should I construct a question from a sentence containing used to? 1467 soft as : why not underneath only? 1468 Can zero be used to describe uncountable nouns? 1469 Thank you for your continued support or continuous support? 1470 How should I answer Happy New Year? 1471 Responding to It was nice to talk to you 1472 I got a cold versus I caught a cold 1473 which one is correct Cost or costed 1474 How do I use also in a sentence? 1475 Whats a preferred alternative to the phrase do the needful? 1476 Most simple or Simplest 1477 What is the difference in meaning between A majority of and The majority of? 1478 What can I say when someone has dialed the wrong number? 1479 Which is the plural of forum: fora or forums? 1480 Thanks for sharing this - why isnt it Thanks for having shared this ? 1481 What does 80-odd mean? 1482 Difference between Trip, Travel, and Journey 1483 Does the word God get the pronoun it or he? 1484 learning the ropes should be followed by which prepositions? 1485 Whats the differences between get it right and make it right? 1486 There IS/ARE rice, meat and tomatoes on my plate 1487 What does rogue killers mean? 1488 What comes after tertiary? 1489 Is indices or indexes the plural of index? 1490 The meaning of baggage vs luggage 1491 She wants to poop -is that okay if used for humans? 1492 Is it sleeting? 1493 Is the phrase a bottle of water something a native English speaker would say? 1494 Triple negation: what does This aint no place for no hero mean? 1495 How to read this formula aloud: f(x) = x²? 1496 Why is there no plural s after hundred or thousand in cardinal numbers? 1497 How do native speakers say I have completed all the missions/levels in the game? 1498 What is the opposite of star (celebrity)? 1499 Is there a specific term to describe time 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 etc 1500 Difference between stomach and uterus 1501 Why are there so many specific words for groups of animals? 1502 Is this food a bread or a loaf? 1503 Whats the correct unit for homework? 1504 How many items are actually a few items? 1505 Would Americans say: He sat down 9 feet from me. or He sat down 3 yards from me.? 1506 Why does this documentation use or instead of =? 1507 What do you call something that goes against the spirit of the law, but is legal when interpreting the law to the letter? 1508 What does the proverbial middle finger mean? 1509 Can I say: “The train departs at 16 past every hour“? 1510 Is it common to use not at all as a no? If so, is it rude? 1511 You cant spell Slaughter without Laughter 1512 What is the meaning of Jump into the bridge? 1513 Are concur and agree exact synonyms? 1514 An English word describing a pseudo-job 1515 A word for getting colored? 1516 Even vinegar, once youve gotten it for free, tastes sweet: Is there an English equivalent for this saying? 1517 Is learning English with the Bible a good idea for ESL people? 1518 Proper term for hiring fewer people than required 1519 “Since the train was delayed for more than an hour, passengers were given a full refund.” – Why is there no article before “passengers”? 1520 How often do native speakers use the word to scathe? Is it OK if I use it instead of to injure? 1521 Me vs my [pronunciation] in British English 1522 Meaning of “we’ll cut him down as for the border he rides” 1523 Sentences containing refused to close his bar because 1524 verb describing stomachs singing 1525 Why sister [nouns] and not brother [nouns]? 1526 What do you call a group set up to undermine a political argument? 1527 The indefinite article with an amount modified by an adjective: It cost a mere 20 dollars. 1528 Is The two men Savchenko, an Iraq war veteran, was convicted of helping to kill were . . . grammatical? 1529 What do I call the ′ in mathematical formulae? 1530 Why is “others” used here? 1531 How to pronounce ll after ll? 1532 Can you please vs. Could you please 1533 What does Re: in a business letter mean? 1534 Difference between wont and will not 1535 Havent {eaten / ate}? 1536 Should I say what does it means or what does it mean? 1537 How to use the that being said 1538 Which time is 9 | 8c? 1539 Could you please help me vs Could you help me please 1540 When to treat Police as a singular noun and a plural noun? 1541 Furthermore versus moreover 1542 anyone vs someone. Which one? 1543 What is the term for music without singer voice? 1544 Usage of Rain check 1545 What do you call someone who attends the same university as you? 1546 How to improve or get rid of an Indian English Accent? 1547 Is it wrong to say You are smarter than me? 1548 Who is you – not are 1549 What do you call someone who likes to pick fights? 1550 When can an article be omitted? 1551 Im not afraid vs I dont afraid 1552 Meaning of Give a man a fire and hes warm for the day. But set fire to him and hes warm for the rest of his life. 1553 How is “any more than” used to compare two different situations? 1554 How do you address a policeman on duty? 1555 Is rendezvous pronounced like run-they-who? 1556 Which way: One and one ARE two? One and one IS two? 1557 Can I say Oh boy to a girl? 1558 Can things grow smaller? 1559 How do you read these mathematical expressions aloud? 1560 Flee from vs flee 1561 How to pronounce friends? 1562 What is the meaning of check out in a programming context? 1563 Why do they use small van in van Gogh? 1564 Can staff ever be pluralized? 1565 A tin of biscuits vs A biscuit tin 1566 When is using the past perfect tense not necessary? 1567 If I found two $5 bills on the ground, would it be acceptable to say $10 are on the ground? 1568 Man goes with Woman to ensure she is safe on her way to home 1569 Does You little liar mean You tell small and not so serious lies or just You tell lies in general? 1570 What do you call this thing? bag? 1571 Is there a rule that prohibits us from using 2 possessives in a row? 1572 Is it standard to add please after a question? 1573 Why is it necessary to add the of in approved of ? 1574 The baby cries this morning 1575 why American-born, not America-born? 1576 Meaning of pound in felt a fury that was not his own pound through his body 1577 Help me understand the word Doggo in this image 1578 What do you call this thing that comes with any Apple product 1579 What is it called when at university there are two subjects being held at the same time? 1580 Russia Fired Rockets INTO Ukraine - BBC 1581 What does a hairline crack where the grip meets the graphite shaft on my 3-wood mean in this English joke? 1582 Why does the spellchecker think this sentence is wrong? 1583 Grammar behind Whatever what is is is what I want. 1584 Can adjectives modify a pronoun like rich they, poor you and beautiful I? 1585 Is the sentence pay some in cash understandable? 1586 Why in shops do they put “B sold here” instead of “B sells here”? 1587 Usage of Pet in Pet Peeve 1588 What is the root word of Refactoring? 1589 Difference between if + present, will + infinitive and if + present, would + infinitive 1590 What do you call a table that is unstable? 1591 Why is of dropped in as X (of) a something? 1592 Use of without in the howling of wolves without grew louder... 1593 Why are there three pronunciations for the plural -s? 1594 These look like fragments. Help me to understand why they are okay to use 1595 Meaning of “Bulldog drooled courses through his jowls” 1596 Conditional in the past -- If Vietnam *would* fall... 1597 Past tense: learned/learnt, dreamed/dreamt? 1598 Would saying if in place of whether be a big mistake? 1599 Exercises for pronouncing I 1600 Whats a professional synonym for would love to? 1601 Difference between two years old and two-year-old 1602 Does *first of all* always go with *second of all*? 1603 What does just so you know mean? 1604 Could you clarify when to use Though at the end of a sentence? 1605 This is a good news. This is good news 1606 I am hurting in the meaning of I am hurt? Why? 1607 How can I tell whether c should be pronounced like s or like k? 1608 What is the plural of who? 1609 When to use wherein instead of where? 1610 What is the difference between hear and listen? 1611 Difference between “little”, “few”, “a little” and “a few” 1612 How is this called vs What is this called? 1613 Differences between the USA, the US and the States 1614 I did a few mistakes vs I made a few mistakes 1615 In simple words, what is the difference between possible and probable? 1616 What is the term for a person whose job is to place products on shelves in stores? 1617 differences between dependence and dependency 1618 What does the slang word hammered actually mean? 1619 SB and STH in dictionaries 1620 Do I have to use “do” in any “wh-” question? 1621 Whats the difference between replication and duplication? 1622 Ways to say get smaller, decrease in size in one word 1623 How to pronounce the schwa sound 1624 How can I say a period of four months in one word? 1625 I told you DON´T go vs. I told you NOT TO go 1626 Is I know appropriate or rude in conversation? 1627 How to distinguish between American Indians and Indian Indians in native English (language) parlance? 1628 “...than I am” vs. “...than me” 1629 If God bless someone/something; is it positive or negative? Same with All the best? 1630 Is there a word or phrase that means use other peoples wifi or Internet service without consent? 1631 Why is it “Cat in the Hat”? 1632 said as an adjective 1633 What does the expression Happy is as happy does mean? 1634 How do English-speaking kids loudly request something? 1635 The cow OR a cow OR cows in this context 1636 Word that includes food, alcoholic drinks, and non-alcoholic drinks? 1637 Why do we pronounce the university as thuh university rather than thee university? 1638 17 billions of bottles VS 17 billion of bottles 1639 How can knowing a root word help me? 1640 Clumsy vs awkward? 1641 Is it OK to respond to thanks with sure? 1642 What is wrong in Its quite often to hear such rumors these days.? 1643 I got a stomach flu or I got the stomach flu or I got stomach flu? 1644 Actual meaning of After all 1645 What word can be used to describe a bug in a movie? 1646 What is the difference between self-evident and self-explanatory 1647 Is Can I help you a suitable expression for offering help to a stranger? 1648 Spelling a word with two Us in a row out loud 1649 Singular or plural with zero: The temperature will drop to zero degree(s) 1650 In the USA, do you say my car runs on LPG gas or just my car runs on gas if your car runs on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)? 1651 I am [the / an] owner of a bookstore? 1652 Why does money take the in all the money in the world? 1653 What is the word that expresses both Clock and Watch? 1654 The difference between extra chair and spare chair 1655 Is dont mind if I do old-fashioned? 1656 Is there a simple and clear way to explain the difference between past simple and present perfect? 1657 What is the antonym of to friend? 1658 What does lickered up mean? 1659 What is the term for a......a.....a... in speech? 1660 Grammaticality: Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something 1661 English equivalent to the German zig 1662 Is the word like a preposition or verb in You made me like this. 1663 Work in a power plant, work on a power plant or work at a power plant? 1664 What is Latin Grammar? 1665 Can we use dare in this way? 1666 Why is the definite article used in I live in the city? 1667 What do blacks and missions refer to in this context about Australia? 1668 What does Stands the wind in that quarter mean? 1669 Meaning of the word bromide in an additional charge for special presentations (e.g. bromides) 1670 Regarding a metaphor Old Nick is not just lurking in the small print, 1671 Does a code snippet compile? Or does it get compiled? 1672 Why do dictionaries write /p/ instead of /pʰ/ for pie in the ipa? 1673 Why not Indian fisherman? Article headline: India fisherman killed as Pakistan navy opens fire 1674 When this battle will be finally over - shouldnt it be When this battle is finally over? 1675 Is there a missing definite article before caliph in the groups leader, XYZ, as (the) caliph? 1676 What is the saying to use when someone has long worked for an accident to happen? 1677 Why the schoolboy instead of a schoolboy in this sentence? 1678 Im born or I was born, which one to use 1679 How to write just so you know politely in formal letters? 1680 When should I use didnt instead of havent? 1681 Is people a countable or a non-countable noun? 1682 What is the difference between being and having been in this context? 1683 What does the word Print mean on a form? 1684 I work {on/with/in} a team? 1685 What does things went south mean? 1686 The USA versus USA 1687 What is a plural of To-Do? To-Dos or To-Does? 1688 Is Bunch of people a valid phrase? 1689 complete or completed 1690 Differences between hatred and hate 1691 Why is `enjoy to [verb]` incorrect 1692 What is the difference between dont & wont in the given sentences? 1693 Can I say copied-and-pasted? 1694 If you agree, you nod; if you dont agree, you _________? 1695 How to say person who invites another person with one word? 1696 What is the meaning of Redonkulous; is it an English Phrase? 1697 Is any difference between speak English and speak in English? 1698 On one hand vs on the one hand. 1699 Singular or plural for seconds 1700 How is pwned pronounced, and what does it mean? 1701 Usage of eyeglasses and glasses 1702 Can which be used with plural antecedents? 1703 Why a user instead of an user? 1704 Is it grammatical to say according to the law instead of according the law? 1705 What is the difference between I still use vs I am still using in this sentence? 1706 Why are baked and naked not pronounced the same? 1707 When you dont understand a joke right away 1708 Strange words people say when leaving 1709 Is forenoon commonly used? 1710 What do we call glasses with thick lenses 1711 What does its in the game mean? 1712 Should I say There are (a) very few animals there with an article or not? 1713 What does put on ones hat mean? 1714 Draw or tie in sports 1715 The meaning of already in the sentence Lets go already! 1716 How to say give your seat/place to somebody on transport? 1717 What do you call the main part of a joke? 1718 Are English consonant sounds [p], [t], [k] aspirated before another consonant? 1719 Can you use understand in progressive constructions? 1720 Is it not correct to say I have the brown eyes instead of I have brown eyes, and why? 1721 What do you call the process of filling up an electric kettle and turning it on in one verb or phrasal verb? 1722 What is the meaning of Put a bullet in something? 1723 What does Gringo Price mean? 1724 How do you describe a nut which does not tighten 1725 Is there a general rule how to create feminine words? 1726 Whats a lot of money {out of curiosity}? 1727 What is the verb for describing the movement of a cats paw when it is trying to hit something with it? 1728 A controversial GRE verbal reasoning question 1729 Is there an idiom that says not to change a perfectly good thing? 1730 Spelling/pronunciation of gross different from moss,floss, loss, toss etc 1731 What do we call a person who seems to always correctly predict unfortunate things? 1732 Stephen Hawking believes that the earth is unlikely to be the only planet ____ life has developed gradually 1733 Animals which lay eggs are called birds. and Animals that lay eggs are called birds. What is the difference between these two sentences? 1734 Are words ending in -ly adverbs? 1735 Haha over lol -Do natives consider hahaha as an offensive gesture? 1736 A joke about owls playing pool 1737 Is there a word for a gel turning into liquid? 1738 Is PC used as an English expression for a computer in English speaking countries? 1739 What does it mean to dine off something? 1740 What exactly is the word there in an existential construction? And related questions 1741 Are double contractions formal? Eg: couldntve for could not have 1742 What does “kilo-stones” mean? 1743 What does Trump mean here with They don’t need more as they are going up for the shot.? 1744 Do some people call all horses “Pony” and if so, why? 1745 Idiom for blaming a bad act on the devil 1746 All languages are interesting. Every language is interesting. Do they mean exactly the same thing? 1747 Why is help you save money wrong if the subject was plural? 1748 we women, you women, they women, we men, you men, they men 1749 What does I never stopped to think of it mean? 1750 Which is the most acceptable numeral for 1980 to 1989? 1751 Does nor he mine make sense here? 1752 How should I correct my spoken error? 1753 Slang from Fresh Prince from Bel-Air S01E03: Vacuumed, Cheese Dog, Harley, Fly for Me 1754 Can I use they to refer to my own skills? 1755 “I talk dog talk to the dog.” 1756 Golden spoon or Gold spoon -if the spoon is made of gold? 1757 Is the particle up redundant in phrases like to pick *up* berries? 1758 Is Tweety suitable as a persons name? 1759 Going up in smoke vs. going up in flames 1760 Why doesnt adolescent take any articles in listen to adolescent agonising? 1761 How to understand cupping backsides is taken as seriously as cooking books? 1762 How to pronounce scorpionll, Jimll, etc 1763 Is the sentence “Im not doing that because I hate you ambiguous? 1764 When is what used for living beings? 1765 A * doesnt a good * make 1766 the US. or the US 1767 What is the meaning of officially here? 1768 He gave the order to abandon ship. - why no article? 1769 How does the grammar work in here be dragons? 1770 in 60 seconds or less or in 60 seconds or fewer? 1771 meaning of the phrase play humans? 1772 Simple present for speaking about the future the way natives do 1773 In those days, you could have been (could be?) killed for any trifle 1774 Singular or plural when indicating something unique owned by many 1775 How can I explain to a non-native why the plural of a noun isnt used adjectivally? 1776 Is the sentence This whiteboard wont erase grammatically correct? 1777 Is it disappointed with, in, or by? 1778 I and John vs. John and myself vs. John and I -- Which is the acceptable way to refer to myself and my friend? 1779 Is the use of one of the correct in the following context? 1780 Did you watch this movie? or Have you watched this movie? 1781 at vs in (the hospital) - What is different? 1782 In the past few years Vs Over the past few years 1783 Which is correct: on foot or by foot? 1784 If anyone knows or Does anyone know? 1785 On the market or In the market? 1786 Differences between till now, as of now,yet, up till now 1787 What is the weather today? or How is the weather today? 1788 police are or police is 1789 How to politely ask someone to repeat what they said after theyve already repeated it once? 1790 Can all be used with both singular & plural verbs? 1791 How do you use the term running late? 1792 How can I say can in the future form? 1793 Personal circumstances? 1794 Using Contain vs. Include vs. Consist of appropriately 1795 couple versus couple of 1796 Everyone has their own stories vs Everyone has their own story - which one is correct? 1797 Suggest me or Suggest to me 1798 Do decades ever get apostrophes? 1799 Executer vs executor 1800 How to properly ask for store hours on phone? 1801 Addressing a group of women as you guys 1802 What does period mean in this conversation? 1803 English native speaker vs. Native English speaker 1804 especially vs. particularly 1805 Which word is correct, existed, existent or existing? 1806 Think of versus think about 1807 Why is it not correct to use 2 conjunctions in a sentence? 1808 help you learn vs. help you to learn 1809 Whats the meaning of there you go? 1810 Is the global in global pandemic redundant? 1811 Is it thumb is up in thumbs up? 1812 Arab vs. Arabian vs. Arabic — what are the differences? 1813 If something was vs If something were 1814 American equivalent of British takeaway 1815 Can it be used to refer to a person? 1816 She is at the dentists now 1817 What is the difference between gerund and infinitive? 1818 On a bus or on the bus? 1819 miss call or missed call when it is yet to be missed! 1820 Does Until when sound natural for native speakers? 1821 Is there a vs is there any? 1822 Why should the T in T-shirt be capitalized? 1823 What is the correct word for turn off lamp for a non-electric lamp? 1824 Mobile homes in American and British English 1825 How common is it to use the word bitch for a female dog? 1826 When can I use thy instead of your? 1827 The meaning of I’m very cheap? 1828 in order for I to do something -- for I? why not for me? 1829 When can you respond with affirmative? 1830 Official wife or Formal wife? 1831 Too expensive for me to afford it why ungrammatical? 1832 Is This brought me an idea correct English? 1833 Using THE before some countries 1834 What does join the dots mean? 1835 Dog can mean something of an inferior quality. What animals do we use, if any, to describe the opposite? 1836 What does it gets old pretty fast mean in these sentences? 1837 Last night at 9 PM, I ate dinner -- Does this sentence mean that it began at 9 or finished at 9? 1838 What does dont have a baby imply or mean in this sentence? 1839 If Olympics is singular, why does it use were? 1840 Is it correct English to write John he is my husband, or, Mary she went to the store? 1841 Does breakfast in Lets have breakfast denote an activity or a collection of edible items? 1842 A sentence in Present tense was understood as future tense 1843 What does the nutshell in “in a nutshell” stand for? 1844 What does Get a damn room! mean? 1845 When do we double the consonant before -ing affix? 1846 Word meaning: arguably 1847 The name of this part of a spoon 1848 Can Nightmare be seen? 1849 A word or a phrase for riding a bicycle on only one wheel 1850 What do you call the action of describing events as they happen like sports anchors do? 1851 What does a the prefix a- mean in a-changing 1852 100 apples are/is considered as a large number of apples 1853 Plural subject + Linking Verb + Singular predicate nominative 1854 Contrary of As its/their name indicates 1855 Why is there no article after no in I have no car 1856 Would it be went to sleep at one yesterday or ”...today? 1857 What does eating your hat mean? 1858 Word for something that is only noticeable when it goes wrong? 1859 Starve to death Vs. Starve to the point of death 1860 The US/UK word for Turkish sandwich filled with meat, salad and sauce 1861 to be jealous Vs. to envy - what is the difference? 1862 Whats the meaning of You get that much because that’s how much you get? 1863 How to pronounce the slash sign 1864 Die hard phrase meaning 1865 When to say dog, and when to say hound? 1866 Can do somebody mean imitate somebody in spoken English? 1867 Its time ... verb/verb-ed ... 1868 Parsing I was in the soup now good. 1869 What would you call, for the lack of a better way to put it, benign nationalism? 1870 A verb for proceed with difficulty 1871 What does the expression go to the vets mean? 1872 Why is a coat of arms called so? 1873 128-bit vs 128 bits 1874 Is the expression very worth proper English, and if not, what are some alternatives? 1875 When I say, they will get married, will it be fully understood as they will become a couple? 1876 Introductory word meaning considering what was previously said 1877 Do you know wheres Linda? vs Do you know where Linda is? 1878 Difference between alright and all right? 1879 What does Heaven mean here 1880 Whats the word for asking someone to deliver their promise? 1881 Physicians writing - to scribble like a chicken with claw 1882 Multiplication: names of some mathematical symbols 1883 Manhunt for three gunmen vs womanhunt for three gunwomen 1884 What would you call this weird metallic apparatus that allows you to lift people? 1885 We are aware of that we are short on time 1886 Flammable or Inflammable 1887 Youve spoiled/damaged the card 1888 They are Australian vs They are Australians 1889 How do you convey the effect of a poor phone connection? 1890 Debuggable - Is it correct? 1891 Why does spell sound like |sbel| while in dictionary it is |spel|? 1892 the police conspiracy vs. the polices conspiracy 1893 Why is hanged for this correct but not hung? 1894 What does to mean in A Complete Guide to...? 1895 How can I remember the difference between loose and lose? 1896 Is there a word for immediate future just like just for immediate past? 1897 What is the meaning of TV anchor words “scores of Russians? 1898 Cthulhu Fhtagn - is there a rule how to pronounce artificially created words? 1899 Is it wrong to hyphenate a phrasal verb like log in or is it a matter of style? 1900 What does capital L signify in labour? 1901 Can I use chance as a future-tense verb? 1902 Whats the name for the string attached to a zipper to help close or open a bag? 1903 Using the pronoun we when Im not a part of it! 1904 The use of an article before a possessive proper noun - The late Michael Jacksons old home 1905 Using south when referring to the southern part of a place 1906 Strong presence, but ________ absence? 1907 Does the notion of check word exist in English? 1908 Why is it Here you are! but Here comes the teacher.? 1909 When does lack need an article? 1910 Can you use plague as a general term? 1911 Meaning of I wont let a flat tire get me down, Tom said, without despair 1912 What is the grammar of the sentence this is not some science fiction movie come to life. 1913 Whats the meaning of has by? 1914 How to pronounce router in English 1915 A sentence with listing items: How to remove the ambiguity? 1916 Zero tolerance for walkers, or them to be. -- grammar, meaning? 1917 What do you call the walking lanes in lecture rooms? 1918 What does the phrase building hopping chop mean here? 1919 Can ‘is’ and ‘are’ be used in the same sentence? ‘The conclusion is both are harmful.’ 1920 What is the nuance of Pick yourself up a copy!? 1921 When to use some instead of a 1922 Saying for distracting someone with other activity? 1923 How to express that instructions (i.e. a recipe) should be followed precisely? 1924 Why do we say something is The same (using the article), but we say something is different (no article)? 1925 What should a language learner know about political correctness? 1926 Is there a general rule for Verb + Preposition/Particle idioms, such as come across? 1927 Is there a standard technique for practicing the th phonemes? 1928 Might vs. may. Whats the difference? 1929 Noun for people not yet confirmed as alive, or dead 1930 Do these two sentences convey different meanings? 1931 In a letter, what is the most polite way to ask for a quick reply? 1932 study in or study at (some university)? 1933 Information or Informations? 1934 Which of Question on, question about, question regarding, question related to is best? 1935 I am finished vs I have finished 1936 Here you are & Here you go 1937 Yours faithfully vs Yours sincerely 1938 “experience in” VS experience with 1939 What does she look like? vs. How does she look like? 1940 If twins are always plural, how do I refer to a single twin, or how do we count twins? 1941 Why do you say, see A doctor, but go to The doctor? 1942 fall into a category vs. fall under a category 1943 What is the difference between look at and look to? 1944 Help explaining Where am I? vs ...where I am 1945 What is the soft part of the palm called in English? 1946 What does if not mean in the given sentence 1947 When describing a ratio, should between or of be used? 1948 Why is many a man singular while many men plural? 1949 Difference between across and through 1950 Can either be used for more than two items? 1951 Its an interesting topic for me versus Its interesting to me: Does it really matter? 1952 I didnt know or I havent known? 1953 Capitalization of first letter after a dash 1954 Do once a year and once in a year mean the same thing? 1955 he leaves for New York tomorrow. vs. he will leave for New York tomorrow 1956 Is saying I figured it out! (past tense) correct usage? 1957 When is h silent and when is it not? 1958 What is the difference between general and generic? 1959 I look forward to hearing from you or looking forward to hear from you? 1960 Correct plural usage for hundreds and thousands 1961 Difference between fat chance and slim chance? 1962 Are double negatives like hes never not been in the family grammatically correct? 1963 Be yet to do vs have yet to do 1964 Living by himself vs Living on his own 1965 Is or Are with OR? 1966 Create vs. Generate vs. Make 1967 Can we say Yes, I would if someone asks Would you mind buying me a drink? 1968 Analysing the kind(s) of problem(s) are [ones]/[to be] construction 1969 A customer is someone who buys but what is he if theres no purchase made? 1970 Whats the difference between used to like and liked? 1971 What is meant by grammar? 1972 English equivalent of French quiproquo 1973 consists of or consists in? 1974 Word for searching through someones possessions without permission 1975 What is the difference between “do” and “make”? 1976 Difference between raise and lift 1977 An appropriate term for an overly by-the-rules person 1978 What is the difference between revenge and avenge? 1979 Do native speakers use so-so? 1980 What does scaredy mean in Dont be a scaredy cat? 1981 Meaning of doesnt even begin to cover it 1982 stairwell or staircase 1983 Why cant we say **What job** are you? instead of What is your job? to ask ones job? 1984 Is what the hell considered offensive? 1985 Can I say I was born in a place but bred in another place instead of using born and bred in pair? 1986 A secretary with ____ good knowledge of English: a or no article? 1987 Can domestic animal be used instead of livestock? 1988 He is honest (9 out of 10). How to construct a phrase in which a persons honesty is scored on a scale? 1989 Where you going is right? 1990 what do you call the edge that goes along ironed trousers? 1991 I wish I ate meat 1992 How long does an owl live? 1993 half of pound or half of a pound or half pound 1994 using next to days of the week 1995 Whats the word for a student who doesnt register but goes to a class anyway? 1996 I left them (at) home 1997 Should bring a plate be taken literally? 1998 Are mist and missed really pronounced exactly the same in English? 1999 Does Ive temporarily suspended mean that I did it? 2000 Is Vague the opposite of Vivid? 2001 The phrase to the Right of Attila the Hun 2002 Can I say I Java, or does it have to be I do Java? 2003 Would the One Ring even work for anyone but Sauron? 2004 Could I fake death to stop being Force-choked? 2005 Who or what was Tom Bombadil? 2006 Why dont Muggle-born wizards use Muggle technology to fight Death Eaters? 2007 Story where the number 3 is the monster? 2008 Why didnt Gandalf or Frodo Fly to Mount Doom? 2009 How long was Bill Murrays character (Phil Connors) supposed to be in a time loop in the film Groundhog Day? 2010 In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched? 2011 Why does everyone think that the Millennium Falcon is a piece of junk? 2012 Which 2015 technologies were correctly predicted by Back to the Future II? 2013 Are all stormtroopers as poor soldiers as the ones in the movies? 2014 How did Dumbledore, or anyone, know Lily had sacrificed herself for Harry? 2015 Why did C.S. Lewis use Turkish Delight as temptation for Edmund? 2016 Whose underwear is this? 2017 Did Tolkien really explicitly consider Sam the true hero of The Lord of the Rings? 2018 Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe? 2019 Hogwarts: So why arent the kids doing it? 2020 Was Yoda fully sane on Dagobah? 2021 Why does the Death Star have a trash compactor? 2022 Was the Millennium Falcon too slow? 2023 Why did Douglas Adams pick 42 as the ultimate answer? 2024 Is the basic premise of humans as a power source in The Matrix reasonable? 2025 Does Batman use Linux? 2026 What is the origin of the Riker Chair Maneuver? 2027 What does Gandalf mean by Secret Fire, Flame of Anor and Flame of Udûn? 2028 What order should Asimovs Foundation series be read in? 2029 What did Yoda do on Dagobah? 2030 How can Scrooge McDuck dive into money without hurting himself? 2031 Was Aragorns claim to the throne legitimate? 2032 Why didnt the basilisk bite in Chamber of Secrets destroy the Horcrux? 2033 If Luke Skywalker didn’t want to be found, why did he leave a map? 2034 Which ship can go faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS Enterprise-D? 2035 Where did Harrys parents get all of their money from? 2036 Why did the Matrix simulate 1999 instead of a pre-computer year? 2037 Why are ships in Star Wars so ridiculously easy to steal? 2038 Why didnt Sauron become invisible while wearing the One Ring? 2039 In-universe, is Aslan actually Jesus? 2040 Why are there so many 47s? 2041 Which finger was BB-8 sticking up? 2042 Why did Darth Vader die in Return of the Jedi? 2043 Does Hobbes ever do anything that Calvin himself could not do? 2044 If only the Sith deal in absolutes, why does Obi-Wan say it that way? 2045 Is there an official Marvel Cinematic Universe viewing order? 2046 In Civil War, why did Tony Stark and Steve Rogers choose sides that didnt reflect their attitudes? 2047 Was Darth Vader REALLY a Sith? 2048 How does Picard choose a warp speed? 2049 Given a magical world, why is the Quibbler ridiculous? 2050 In The Matrix Revolutions How Does Neo Stop the Machine Weapons in the Real World? 2051 What did Padmé die of? 2052 What is the significance of Sarumans Ring? 2053 Why would Snape set his office password to Dumbledore? 2054 Why is Shelob considered evil? 2055 When and why did the Enterprise get balls? 2056 Who created the Secret Stairs as a way into Mordor and for what purpose? 2057 What do people in Westeros eat during Winter? 2058 Why was Hermione not in Ravenclaw? 2059 Why does the Party allow playing chess in Orwells 1984? 2060 How much older was Hermione after her third year at Hogwarts? 2061 How many times was Obi-Wan less than honest with Luke? 2062 If diary Tom Riddle had succeeded, would there have been two Voldemorts? 2063 Why doesnt the Discworld run out of water? 2064 Why is The Matrix tinted green? 2065 Was the Cantina music deliberately off-tune or just an artifact of cheap production? 2066 How did no other engineer see the design flaw of the Death Star? 2067 Why does everyone face the same way on the transporter? 2068 Did Calvin ever realise that Hobbes was not real? 2069 Is Slytherin Evil? 2070 What is Marios full name? 2071 In Star Trek - Whats the Point of the Transporter Room? 2072 In Back to the Future, why was the speed 88 miles per hour? 2073 Did Palpatine intentionally lose to Mace Windu? 2074 Why did the Jedi want to bring balance to the Force? 2075 Why and how did the Star Trek Universe evolve to a cashless/commerce-less society? 2076 What is the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey about? 2077 What are Guinans powers from Star Trek: TNG? 2078 Why would the Force become so mysterious and unrecognized after only 20 years? 2079 Does any Looney Tunes character ever use any fictional brand-name product that isnt ACME? 2080 Is Lex Luthors 40-cake theft canonical? 2081 Why is Sauron called the Necromancer? 2082 What was the origin of Star Treks Borg? 2083 Why would killing Darth Vader or the Emperor turn Luke to the Dark Side? 2084 When and why did orcs go green? 2085 Why were the Elves so great at archery? 2086 Why is JK Rowling considered bad at math? 2087 Why doesnt Hogwarts have more teachers? 2088 What did Frodo mean by He told me the true story? 2089 Whats the recommended reading order of the Ender Wiggin books? 2090 Why is Tony Stark in the Iron Man suit unaffected by G-forces, inertia and blunt force trauma? 2091 Was any character alive during all of the Star Wars episodes from I to VII? 2092 When & how did Yoda come to know about the Rule of Two? 2093 Why would Dumbledore encourage people to call Voldemort Voldemort instead of Tom Riddle? 2094 Where does the archetypal image of the Grey alien come from? 2095 Can wizards create their own spells? 2096 Was Harry making a big mistake with his plan for Elder Wand? 2097 Do the Imperials know they are evil? 2098 Why did George Lucas set Star Wars in the past instead of the future? 2099 Is Thor the only Avenger who cant die? 2100 Does Katniss depict proper handling of a bow? 2101 Is the Dark Side of the Force more powerful? 2102 Story where scientist communicates with cities directly 2103 Who is Anakin Skywalkers father? 2104 Why does Leias accent change during A New Hope? 2105 What was the first Sci-Fi work to feature a spaceship? 2106 Why was Gandalf involved with the Dwarves quest to rob Smaug? 2107 Is there a Vulcan funeral blessing? 2108 Was Rorschachs Pagliacci joke a real joke? 2109 What plot points are missing in the Harry Potter movies that are in the novels? 2110 Why Cant R2-D2 Talk? 2111 Why isnt the system identifiable using only BB-8s map? 2112 Which wars are Star Wars? 2113 Was ST:VOY watered down? 2114 Is Luke Skywalker actually a Jedi? 2115 Why arent Muggles extinct? 2116 How many axes did Gimli bring on the quest of the Fellowship? 2117 Are Jedi required to abstain from all sexual relations, or only from the ones involving emotional attachments? 2118 Whats the story behind the Spock helmet? 2119 How could a raw, untrained Force user be so adept at using the Force? 2120 Why was Han Solo on Tatooine? 2121 Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house she didn’t have permission to enter? 2122 When and how does Vader learn that Luke is his son? 2123 Were the Smurfs the first to smurf their smurfs? 2124 Why Do Jedi Use One Lightsaber in Combat? 2125 Which seven kings does Saruman think Gandalf wants to control? 2126 Did Dumbledore consider the implications of leaving a baby on a doorstep overnight? 2127 Why didnt Yoda and Obi-Wan kill Darth Vader and the Emperor? Why wait for Skywalker? 2128 What is a year in Westeros? 2129 How is canonicity of derivative works determined for Star Wars? 2130 Why was Gandalf afraid of the Balrog of Morgoth? 2131 What is the reference Captain America understood? 2132 Tolkien calls Sauron Morgoths Greatest Servant - But does he ever really earn that with his actions? 2133 How do Star Trek viewscreens show perceivable depth? 2134 How well-known is the theology of Middle-earth, in Middle-earth? 2135 Is it true that The Doctor can only regenerate 12 times? 2136 Did Eru Ilúvatar trip Gollum? 2137 Why do castle gates in GoT open inwards? 2138 Why not let a dwarf carry the One Ring to Mount Doom, since their will cannot be dominated by the rings of power? 2139 Did Darth Vader wear the same suit for 20+ years? 2140 Does no one run in Star Trek? 2141 Is it possible to ruin one’s career by failing the Kobayashi Maru? 2142 Why was Darth Vader so careless? 2143 How is Shelobs name known? 2144 Why does everyone call Hagrid by his last name? 2145 How can Data lose a chess game? 2146 Is/was General Leia Organa expected to be in the next episodes (VIII and IX) of Star Wars? 2147 Why Does Samwise Gamgee Call Frodo Baggins Mr. Frodo? 2148 Why does Kylo Ren wear a mask? 2149 Who is / was the Lord of the Rings? 2150 Why is invisibility the power granted by the One Ring? 2151 Why do the people in MarvelVerse dislike X-Men more than other superheroes? 2152 Is there an actual army in 1984? 2153 Why do we hear Leias Theme during Kenobis death? 2154 Did Peter Jackson ever explain why he left out the Scouring of the Shire? 2155 Why is it that after 8,000 years, technology in Westeros has not evolved in the world of the Game of Thrones? 2156 Why does Zaphod Beeblebrox call Ford Prefect Ford when they meet on the Heart of Gold? 2157 Is there a term for the science fiction trope where a character lists two historical things and a future thing? 2158 Why didnt Harry feel the Cruciatus Curse at the end of Deathly Hallows? 2159 Why was Susan treated so unkindly? 2160 Why didnt Qui-Gon Jinn use his Jedi mind tricks to exchange his Republic credits? 2161 Boy transported to another planet where the being who owns the Earth lives 2162 Why does the paper in Battlestar Galactica have the corners cut off? 2163 How valuable are C-3PO and R2-D2? 2164 Why could Quirrell tolerate Harrys touch at the beginning of Philosophers Stone? 2165 Why werent the Three Rings for the Elven-kings destroyed as well? 2166 Why was Sirius ever convicted? 2167 Has an injured Flash ever used super-speed to walk on his hands? 2168 Which was the first novel set in universes where P=NP? 2169 Whats the best order to read HP Lovecrafts novels? 2170 Why did Lucas begin the episode numbering at IV? 2171 Why Was It Essential That Voldemort Kill Harry Potter? 2172 Where is the rest of Yodas species? 2173 Why didnt Frodo take a map with him? 2174 How come the Federation did not routinely use projectile weapons against the Borg? 2175 Story about humanity realizing they are in a simulation 2176 Why did Harry Potter intentionally lose the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest? 2177 Why didnt Saruman take Narya from Gandalf? 2178 How does Gandalf (or anyone) know how to destroy the Ring? 2179 Why does Millennium Falcon bank when turning in vacuum? 2180 Since when has Darth Vader had a sense of humor? 2181 Does Aragorn wear pants? 2182 Why were the Death Eaters so lenient during the fight at the Department of Mysteries? 2183 How do the Ninja Turtles get the money to pay for their pizza? 2184 Does Lwaxana Troi ever talk to herself (as the computer voice)? 2185 Why didnt the Order of the Phoenix assist in hunting Horcruxes? 2186 Why didn’t EVE recognize the little cockroach as a living organism? 2187 What kind of creature is Pac-Man? 2188 What is the logical reason for bullying Spock? 2189 How is Gandalf the White a significantly more powerful figure than Gandalf the Gray? 2190 Why couldnt the Jedi detect Senator Palpatine as having powers? 2191 How was the Chosen One meant to bring balance to the Force? 2192 Are there any programmers in Star Trek? 2193 Where is Hill Valley? 2194 Why would Shelob own Sauron? 2195 Why does Prof. Farnsworth run Planet Express? 2196 Why did Anakin lose against Obi-Wan in Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith? 2197 Why isnt Captain America worthy of Mjolnir? 2198 Why didnt the Dursleys gladly ship Harry off to Hogwarts? 2199 Why was Newt Scamanders name on the Marauders Map when Fred and George gave it to Harry? 2200 Why Did Gringotts Pay Out for Harrys Firebolt? 2201 Where do teachers sleep at Hogwarts? 2202 In the Avengers movie, why is Hulks behaviour inconsistent? 2203 Why was Hermione always late when she used the Time Turner? 2204 Why arent there any sieges in Lord of The Rings? 2205 Were there science fiction stories written during the Middle Ages? 2206 Is this Beverly Crusher? 2207 In which episodes did the Enterprise boldly go where no one had gone before? 2208 In what order should Tolkiens writings on Middle-earth be read? 2209 Why was the Black Pearl so special? 2210 Why is Cersei commonly referred to as Cersei Lannister instead of Cersei Baratheon? 2211 Is there any proof that Jaime Lannister is actually a good swordsman? 2212 Was Voyager really significantly slower than the Enterprise-D? 2213 Why did the Fellowship not choose to pass the Misty Mountains further north or south? 2214 What is this green alien supposed to be on the American covers of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? 2215 Who is the narrator of Star Wars? 2216 From which Star Trek TNG episode/movie has this famous facepalm image been taken? 2217 Why didnt Harry Potter play as the king? 2218 What order should the Babylon 5 movies and series be watched in? 2219 What are Gandalfs powers? 2220 Why do the lightsaber moves of Luke Skywalker look so uncoordinated and crude compared to the prequels? 2221 Why Did the Machines Even Bother With a Matrix? 2222 If the Galactic Empire had over 25,000 Star Destroyers, why were only 27 at the Battle of Endor? 2223 Why didnt Dumbledore realise that Moody had been replaced? 2224 Does Deadpool know he is breaking the 4th wall? 2225 Was there ever any actual Spaceballs merchandise? 2226 Is there a hidden significance behind the fact Galadriel gave 3 hairs to Gimli instead of one? 2227 Why was the identity of the Half-Blood Prince important to the story? 2228 Why did Eddard Stark keep Catelyn in the dark? 2229 Why does an X-Wing have this name when there is no X in the Aurebesh alphabet? 2230 Harry Potter: Why 7? 2231 Why couldnt Harry or anybody else see Peter Pettigrew aka Scabbers on the Marauders Map when Lupin could? 2232 Are orcs and goblins really the same thing? 2233 Did J.K Rowling have the Tom Marvolo Riddle anagram set up from the start? 2234 Why does Darth Vader stop Boba Fett from shooting Chewie in The Empire Strikes Back? 2235 How does Cypher exit/enter the Matrix without an operator? 2236 Did Voldemort actually curse the job of Defense Against Dark Arts professor after being denied the position? 2237 Since Voldemort knew that Dumbledore did not kill Grindelwald, why did he think that killing Snape was necessary for him to wield the Elder Wand? 2238 The use of the word gun in The Hobbit 2239 What is Hermione Grangers ethnicity? 2240 What is the reason that lightsabers have different colors? 2241 Why doesnt Quark wear a headdress? 2242 Why hasnt Anakin Skywalkers Force Ghost advised Kylo Ren? 2243 Werent there originally going to be nine Star Wars films? 2244 Why specifically was Obi-Wan Kenobi the only hope of Princess Leia? 2245 In Star Trek why is warp speed the ultimate litmus test on galactic acceptance of a civilisation? 2246 Was Tolkien good at his day job? 2247 What was Saurons plan for a Middle-earth conquered and ruled by him? 2248 What does Gandalf intend to chat with Tom Bombadil about? 2249 What is the first reference to an internet of computers in science fiction? 2250 Are the crew of the Enterprise-D famous? 2251 Did Philip K. Dick watch Blade Runner before his death? 2252 Why didnt Gimli know Moria had fallen? 2253 Why do some Jedi disappear when they die while others dont? 2254 Exactly how secret was the reveal in The Empire Strikes Back? 2255 How can Ron know that Voldemort was in Slytherin if nobody knows his real identity? 2256 Why did Gollum ever take off the ring in the first place? 2257 Short story where human explorers accidentally blind an alien race 2258 Which are the Two Towers in The Lord of the Rings? 2259 Were there any canon examples of Harry being an innately powerful wizard? 2260 Why didnt Sauron guard Mount Doom? 2261 The Matrix: When Neo and Trinity shoot security/police are they actually killing real people? 2262 Why was Han Solo acting like he’s never seen Chewbacca’s bowcaster before? 2263 Why do zombies eat our brains? 2264 Does it Matter if Han Shot First? 2265 Will Ezras lightsaber revolutionize dueling? 2266 Who actually sent the assassin to kill Bran? 2267 Why didnt James love and sacrifice for Lily protect her? 2268 What happened to warp drives destroying the universe? 2269 Whats the official explanation for Harrys (and everyone elses) absence from muggle school? 2270 Why Does Gandalf Think Rohan Should Stand and Fight? 2271 What keeps a lightsaber from going on infinitely? 2272 Why did Luke use his left hand to shoot? 2273 Why do people risk death by joining Starfleet if not for money or preservation of their homes? 2274 Why did the Voyager Doctor have to scrub in? 2275 Time Travel story where an imprisoned psychopath kills people from his past? 2276 Movie with magical book showing events of any day in history, except missing days of the Gregorian calendar change 2277 Why was Thors quinjet password Point Break? 2278 Why did all the Ringbearers leave Middle-earth in the end? 2279 Why does C-3PO have a silver lower leg? 2280 Why, exactly, does kryptonite hurt Superman? 2281 Is Big Brother an actual person in the novel 1984? 2282 How did Sauron feed the armies of Mordor? 2283 Why was Thor worthy to lift Mjolnir? 2284 Does Data need to cut his hair? 2285 Why did Gilderoy try to mend Harrys arm? 2286 What makes the world so oblivious to Clark Kents secret? 2287 Did Hermione ever fix her parents memories? 2288 Who was The Phantom Menace? 2289 Can anyone explain the Star Trek astrography (i.e. quadrants)? 2290 Was the Eye of Sauron Saurons actual physical form? 2291 What is the Jokers real name? 2292 What is written on Darth Vaders Chest control panel? 2293 In Stargate, how can you have a point of origin with only one coordinate? 2294 Whats the purpose of the earpiece Agent Smith is wearing? 2295 What lies in Mordor besides Mount Doom and Barad-dur? 2296 Safety railings in the Star Wars universe 2297 What was the tallest structure built in Middle-earth? 2298 Sol Ⅲ = Earth: What is the origin of this planetary naming scheme? 2299 Why was Dawlish not fired as an Auror, given his incompetence? 2300 Why four lights? 2301 Why did Batman do so much better in his second fight with Bane? 2302 Is there an episode of Game of Thrones where nobody dies? 2303 Why is there an adult Dianoga living on a brand new Death Star? 2304 Why didnt Harry want to be placed in Slytherin? 2305 When Did George Lucas Make Up the Stuff About the Sith and Midichlorians? 2306 They ARE Klingons, and its a long story... Whats the story? 2307 Are Tolkiens orcs immortal? 2308 What evidence is there supporting an alternative parentage for Jon Snow? 2309 Did Luke play any significant role in “Return of the Jedi?” 2310 What language(s) were Yodas speech patterns based on? 2311 Star Wars Imperial Ships: Oversized? 2312 In Episode VI, what did the good guys really accomplish since the bad guys are back stronger in Episode VII? 2313 Why cant Transporter technology be used as a weapon? 2314 Why not encase the One Ring in solid metal? 2315 Why are there so few robots in Star Trek? 2316 Why was Hitchhikers Guide censored? 2317 Why is there no night shift in Monsters, Inc.? 2318 Is there an identifiable origin for the association of minotaurs with battle axes? 2319 What went down at the July 1974 Comic Art Con? 2320 Why couldnt Harry see Thestrals at the end of Goblet of Fire? 2321 Why didnt Elrond or Círdan take the ring from Isildur by force and destroy it? 2322 What was Shepherd Books past in Firefly? 2323 How do humans dominate the Federation in Star Trek? 2324 Why did Voldemort assume that no-one knew about Room of Hidden Things? 2325 Why does the Star Wars universe use such a primitive technology as data-tapes? 2326 Why did Sauron think that no one in possession of the One Ring would want to destroy it? 2327 Where does Gandalf Live? 2328 How do the Turtles get their pizza? 2329 Why did the Terminator need sunglasses? 2330 In Tolkiens opinion, does Tom Bombadil (and the concept of pacifism) actually hold any power? 2331 Does anyone know what this fantasy script is from? 2332 What did Godric Gryffindor have a sword for, anyway? 2333 Where did Rockets repair tool come from? 2334 What is the viewing order of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica? 2335 What is the true origin of the orcs? 2336 Where did the Red Brick Road lead to? 2337 Did the Ring Bearers and Gimli die in Valinor? 2338 Why did Obi-Wan leave Vader on Mustafar? 2339 Why are there humans in the Star Wars Universe? 2340 Why didnt Sauron fight in the final battle? 2341 Why does Smaug have 4 legs in the 1st movie but only 2 legs in the 2nd? 2342 What are the rules and limits of Accio spell? 2343 Why arent there any fighter carriers in the Star Trek universe? 2344 Explanation of seasons in A Song of Ice and Fire 2345 What do the Death Stars do, other than destroying planets? 2346 Why did Moody suggest to Harry that he should consider becoming an Auror? 2347 Why did the One Ring betray Isildur? 2348 Why isnt the Memory Charm (Obliviate) an Unforgivable Curse? 2349 Why did Wood have Muggle golf balls? 2350 How did Weird Al Yankovic predict The Phantom Menace? 2351 How many episodes of Star Trek didnt happen? 2352 Why would Dumbledore say After all this time? to Snape? 2353 If Obi-Wan and Yoda were trying to keep Luke safe from Vader, why would they let him keep the Skywalker name? 2354 What happened to Yoda? 2355 Why are Starfleet bridges positioned so vulnerably? 2356 If Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard (allegedly), why would he work at a glorified boarding school? Is there a role with more responsibility? 2357 In The Matrix, why is Neo confusing left and right? 2358 Do the books ever say oliphaunts aren’t elephants? 2359 Does Sauron have any dialogue in any of the books? 2360 Who has been killed by a Terminator, a Predator, and a Xenomorph? 2361 How was construction of the Death Star(s) kept secret? 2362 When were female captains banned from Starfleet? 2363 Why was a young actor in age makeup cast in the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, rather than an older actor? 2364 Why didnt Nero visit his homeworld to warn of its destruction? 2365 Invisibility should cause blindness: how does hard sf cope? 2366 Why did Tony Stark keep the electromagnet in his chest? 2367 How Did Éowyn Slay the Witch King of Angmar if He Wasnt Alive? 2368 Would Smaug have actually followed and allied with Sauron had he lived on? 2369 Why was the Holdo manoeuvre not used earlier? 2370 Why was Spider-Man the only person to feel any physical sensation from this event in Infinity War? 2371 Why is killing someone using the Avada Kedavra spell considered worse or different than killing him with any other means? 2372 When Jedi lose parts of their body, does their midi-chlorian count and strength in the Force diminish? 2373 Was the rescue in Episode 6 Beyond the Wall achieved in a plausible time? 2374 Why didnt they make the dinosaurs all male? 2375 In Star Trek, why do Federation / Starfleet ships always seem to delay returning fire until its almost too late? 2376 Why exactly do the Death Eaters serve Lord Voldemort? 2377 What was Starbuck’s role? 2378 Is anyone else not buying the Buggers story? 2379 Why does Gollum calling the ring his own not alert Sauron? 2380 Was there ever a situation where a proposal from Worf was accepted? 2381 Why would Vulcans be vegetarian in an era with replicators? 2382 How does gravity work on Serenity? 2383 Short story about Neurosurgeon uses nanobots to cure patients, reprograms ex-wife to fall back in love with him 2384 How did the Death Star move? 2385 How did Harry become a Horcrux? 2386 What happened to Fawkes? 2387 Who created the first Transformer? 2388 Why did Palpatine care about Anakin Skywalker in the Prequels given Palpatines pretty good Force Vision? 2389 Why did Peter Quill wait 26 years to open his mothers gift? 2390 Was the mythology in Moana based on an established myth? 2391 What are those sticks on Jyn Ersos back? 2392 Did the robot that saved Spooners life in I, Robot break the 2nd law of robotics? 2393 Why was Dolores Umbridge not arrested after the end of Harrys fifth year? 2394 Why is The Wall so tall in Game of Thrones? 2395 Why do Hogwarts teachers have such strange names? 2396 Why does Battle School train kids in physical combat when its irrelevant to the ultimate goal? 2397 Why dont Wizards use wrist straps to protect against disarming charms? 2398 Are the mountains surrounding Mordor natural? 2399 How did J.R.R. Tolkien learn about the events of his books? (In-Universe) 2400 Why didnt Obi-Wan remember R2-D2 and C-3PO in A New Hope? 2401 Is there a story behind the misquote, Luke, I am your father? 2402 Why did Sméagol turn into a creature when addicted to the ring, but not Bilbo Baggins? 2403 What order should I be reading the Discworld books in? 2404 What episodes of Doctor Who should I watch first? 2405 Does Hogwarts teach non magical classes? 2406 What did Darth Vader mean by “There’ll be no one to stop us this time.” Who had “stopped” Vader—or the Empire—previously? 2407 Why did Peter Parker work as a poor photographer given that he was a top science student who could earn much more in Silicon Valley? 2408 Why does the Batmobile have a NO STEP sign? 2409 Out of Universe, was Vader always planned to be Lukes father? 2410 Why was the Triwizard cup portkey in Goblet of Fire two-way? 2411 What color is smurf blood? 2412 Would Gollum qualify, as a Ringbearer, to go to the Undying Lands? 2413 Whats the big deal about the Nazgûl losing their horses? 2414 Why do less-bright students end up in Slytherin? 2415 Why was the ...philosophers stone retitled to ... the sorcerers stone for the US Market? 2416 Was Palpatine an effective ruler? 2417 What is the largest (engineered) physical object dreamed of in science fiction? 2418 Why have most Superhero movies ditched the Secret Identity? 2419 Are Pokemon farmed and eaten? 2420 Why did the Nazgul start on horseback? 2421 Can you tell my robot to kill itself? (Three Laws) 2422 Who or what inspired the character Geordi La Forge? 2423 Man serves a sentence for the murder he will be allowed to commit in the future 2424 If the Borg assimilate a planet of idiots, does the Collective become dumber? 2425 Why did they name the movie Blade Runner? 2426 Is Tolkiens Middle-earth in our Universe? 2427 What is the benefit of an AT-AT walker over a conventional tank? 2428 Why is Sonic so fast? 2429 Did the trio (and others) go back to finish at Hogwarts? 2430 Why did Red Squadron give their call signs in random order? 2431 At what time can you start feeding Mogwai? 2432 Why didnt Molly Weasley remember the platform number? 2433 Why did Mark Hamill want everyone to “flip the bird” in tribute to Carrie Fisher? 2434 What prevents Asimovs robots from locking all humans in padded cells for the humans protection? 2435 What was the Watcher in the water? 2436 Why does Superman wear his underwear outside his pants? 2437 Why didnt Gandalf and Elrond equip the Fellowship (especially hobbits) better? 2438 How was Spider-Man persuaded to join the side he did? 2439 Is Vader sincere with Luke in ESB? 2440 Were McCoys medical instruments Swedish salt shakers? 2441 Has there ever been a good Sith? 2442 In the Aliens movie, what do the Xenomorphs eat? 2443 Why didnt Vader let Luke kill the Emperor, or even kill him himself? 2444 How could Fred and George have figured the exact password to the Marauders map? 2445 Why was Ron Weasley permitted to bring a rat to Hogwarts? 2446 So what was the answer to Varys riddle? 2447 What is Deanna Trois accent? 2448 Was the Sorcerers (Philosophers) Stone really that well protected? 2449 Why didnt Hermione get an Outstanding in her Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L.? 2450 Do the villains know Batman has no superpowers? 2451 Who is now the Lord of Casterly Rock? 2452 Is any reason given for the low sea level? 2453 What was Gandalfs plan for getting the Ring to Mt. Doom? 2454 How did they have time to build Balin a tomb? 2455 Whats the worst thing anyone could do in a fast-food restaurant? 2456 Does Pinocchios nose grow only when he knows he is lying? 2457 Were wizards initially intended to be much more common? 2458 Did Dumbledore lie to Harry about how long he had James Potters invisibility cloak when he was examining it? If so, why? 2459 Exactly when did Captain Picard perform his trick on Moriarty in Ship in a Bottle? 2460 What is this painting on the Enterprise showing? 2461 If a Jedi knight were frozen in carbonite, would they be able to use their Force powers? 2462 How could Count Dooku lose against Anakin Skywalker in a lightsaber battle? 2463 What happened to the Hobbits and the Dwarves after the Elves left? 2464 Why Did Sidious Tell Vader Who Luke Was? 2465 Did Darth Sidious and Vader ever discover how to cheat death? 2466 Why was the riddle on the way to Moria written in Elvish? 2467 Why werent Fred and George Weasley Placed in Ravenclaw? 2468 Why do Tolkiens wizards look Human, and not Elven? 2469 During the war of the ring did Sauron or Saruman actually win any major battles? 2470 Why are energy weapons seen as more acceptable in childrens shows than guns that fire bullets? 2471 Why didnt anyone stop Luke from leaving the second Death Star? 2472 How does Phineas put his shirt on? 2473 Is Jango Fett inept? 2474 How did Molly Weasley make sauce out of nothing if Gamps Law states that this is impossible? 2475 Nude time travel in Terminator Universe 2476 What is the architecture of the Floo Network? 2477 Book in which the mountain in the distance was a hole in the flat world 2478 Does the death penalty exist in comics? 2479 Why arent alien planets as varied in climate as the Earth? 2480 What research was being performed on Pinky and the Brain? 2481 What really happened to Voldemorts nose? 2482 How does Captain Americas shield work? 2483 When will copyright restrictions expire on The Lord of the Rings? 2484 Why didnt Voldemort suspect Snape as a double agent during Philosophers Stone? 2485 Was Vger responsible for the creation of the Borg? 2486 Why Does Vader say “No disintegrations…” to Boba Fett in particular? 2487 How does Superman shave? 2488 Why didnt Gandalf just fight Smaug directly? 2489 Why do the ellipses in the Star Wars opening crawl have four dots? 2490 Why do the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wear masks? 2491 How is the Starkiller Base supposed to work more than one time, given how it draws its power? 2492 Why did Stormtroopers leave their stations to watch lightsaber duel between Vader and Kenobi? 2493 Why was this character made Grand Maester? 2494 Was Luke in “Return of the Jedi” really “better” than Obi Wan in “Revenge of the Sith?” 2495 Is Joss Whedons Firefly based on the Traveller RPG he played? 2496 Why isnt there ever any mention of the Americas in Harry Potter? 2497 Why does C-3PO talk to R2-D2 in English? 2498 What is on Steve Rogers list of things to watch? 2499 Did Tolkien create any characters based on people he knew? 2500 Elvish tattoo - can it be translated into English? 2501 Why does Watney’s notebook in The Martian have four holes? 2502 Who was the fifth army in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies movie? 2503 What is the recommended viewing order for young first-timers to watch Star Trek TV episodes and movies? 2504 What is this man doing with a Starfleet mini-skirt? 2505 What do wizard children do before attending Hogwarts? 2506 Did Darth Vader ever talk to R2-D2 again? 2507 Are there other governments in The Hunger Games world? 2508 Why was the Triwizard Cup used as the portkey? 2509 Why is Belgium the rudest word in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy? 2510 Why were the Monsters, Inc. monsters told that touching kids would kill them? 2511 Why didnt a French actor play Captain Picard? What was the reaction to this on the part of the French? 2512 Why does a lightsaber turn off when a Jedi dies or drops it? 2513 What term is being referred to with reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits? 2514 Have the writers and actors of Game Of Thrones responded to its poor reception? 2515 Why do blaster bolts move slower than the speed of light? 2516 Has there ever been an instance in Star Trek where someone beamed into a solid object? 2517 Why did the Minister of Magic execute Dumbledores will? 2518 Could Harry ruin the Regeneration potion by willingly giving blood? 2519 Identify a movie in which aliens believed a sci-fi TV show to be true documentary 2520 In which Deadpool comic does he kill over liking Star Wars prequels? 2521 Why was a hobbit the most unlikely creature imaginable to pick up The One Ring? 2522 Does each season of Game of Thrones roughly equal a book? 2523 Who was The Chosen One: Luke or Anakin? 2524 After Star Trek: The Next Generation, can I skip to Voyager without watching Deep Space Nine and not get spoiled? 2525 Were there ever any good Orcs? 2526 How do the Incredible Hulks pants stay on but not his shirt? 2527 Where did King Arthur get his sword, Excalibur? 2528 Is Agent Smith a bug in the Matrix or a virus? 2529 What was the origin of the meme where Batman slaps Robin? 2530 Why did Harry Potter get a bedroom? 2531 Was Gandalf meant to confront the Balrog? 2532 Why is the clone army so...small? 2533 What does the blue pill in The Matrix actually do? 2534 Do any Harry Potter characters turn from good to evil? 2535 Are there any spells that a wizard/witch can cast without a wand in the Harry Potter universe? 2536 Why didnt Yoda or Obi-Wan tell Luke the truth about his father? 2537 What would have happened if the Balrog of Moria had taken possession of The One Ring? 2538 Which Sci-fi universe uses the most forms of FTL (Faster Than Light)? 2539 In Orwells 1984, why does the book even exist? 2540 If there are universal translators, why are some words/phrases not translated? 2541 Has the autodestruct sequence ever not been aborted on a Starfleet vessel? 2542 Why was only one person used as the template for the Clone Army? 2543 Do the Borg not wonder why everybody hates them? 2544 Is this a laptop in the Weasleys house? 2545 Why didnt the IF want Peter Wiggin? 2546 Are the Ferengi racially discriminated against by members of the Federation? 2547 Was the casting of Alan Rickman as Snape based on the full knowledge of the future of that character? 2548 How does the Doctor know how old he is? 2549 Who was the old man at the beginning of The Force Awakens? 2550 Why did Luke Skywalker call Obi-Wan Ben? 2551 Why didn’t Voyager fly to the end of the Bajoran wormhole in the Gamma Quadrant? 2552 Is there evidence to suggest that Supreme Leader Snoke is Darth Plagueis? 2553 How to kill Wolverine? 2554 Why is Leia a princess? 2555 How old should you be when you begin Jedi training? 2556 How did Voldemort get his wand back? 2557 Why is Wednesday Addams named ... Wednesday? 2558 When did Obi-Wan Kenobi learn that Anakin was dead? 2559 Why would Arya reveal her fighting ability? 2560 Can the Doctor be female? 2561 Why hasnt Captain America been promoted? 2562 What does Sauron need with mithril? 2563 Is there a passage in Lord of the Rings told from the perspective of an orc? 2564 Are Stormtroopers paid or rewarded in any way for their service? 2565 Why doesnt anyone run a DNA test on Batmans blood? 2566 Has Snape ever given points to Gryffindor? 2567 Why dont the students of Hogwarts write with ballpoint pens? 2568 What was the purpose of having Zion? 2569 How could Harry and Ron bypass Hogwarts security in a flying Ford Anglia? 2570 How did Faramir know that Aragorn was the King in the Houses of Healing? 2571 Does any man ever cross his arms? 2572 Is the Star Trek (2009) movie considered canon? 2573 Did Tolkien popularize the generic description of a wizard? 2574 Are werewolves in the Forbidden Forest consistent with later explanations on werewolves? 2575 Where did the concept of a (fantasy-style) dungeon originate? 2576 Why was Crusher replaced with Pulaski who was replaced by Crusher? 2577 What was the intended ending of Monty Python and the Holy Grail? 2578 How do people understand astromech droids? 2579 Why did the Trade Federation blockade Naboo? 2580 When Frodo offers her the ring, is Galadriel really tempted, or just making a point? 2581 Why did it seem like only Voldemort and Snape could fly? 2582 Why did the Jedi serve a corrupt Republic? 2583 Why didnt the Marauders Map show Mad Eye Moody hidden in the trunk? 2584 How did first years obtain wands during Harrys 7th year? 2585 Why do starships fall when they blow up? 2586 Is the humanoid appearance of most alien species in the Star Trek universe ever canonically addressed? 2587 Why do the Rohirrim apparently find the H-word offensive? 2588 Why did other houses not demand this? 2589 Has Galactus ever been depicted as anything other than a humanoid? 2590 Was Agent Smith created by the Oracle and if so, with what purpose? 2591 Are there any known Sith from Yodas species? 2592 Why did Obi-Wan use his lightsaber in the Mos Eisley Cantina? 2593 Why does Captain America need to exercise? 2594 Does the Rule of Two Serve any Actual Purpose? 2595 Why didnt the Rebel Alliance (or the Empire) build YT-1300 light freighters with the same specs as the Millennium Falcon for space combat? 2596 If being unseated by a bludger is a common occurrence, why did everyone freak out about Harry falling off of his broom? 2597 Who is this character on the Star Wars: A New Hope poster? 2598 Were the Moon landings faked in Interstellar? 2599 Why did the Dwarves build Erebor with wide hallways big enough for dragons to fit in? 2600 Why is the stardate explicitly mentioned when creating a new Captains log? 2601 Is the Iron Throne in the show faithful to the books? 2602 Why do Klingons use cloaking devices? 2603 Do all Far Side cartoons take place in the same universe? 2604 Why did OBrien start out as a transporter chief in TNG? 2605 Were there any jokes in the Lord of the Rings? 2606 Firefly scenes with Han Solo in the background 2607 Is Daenerys Targaryen immune to fire? 2608 Do Non-Jedi (and Non-Sith) Use Lightsabers? 2609 How many different Enterprises were there? 2610 Why didnt the machine kill Neo after he was ejected? 2611 Why would the Terminator ask for a weapon that surely only exists in the distant future? 2612 Why didnt Voldemort kill Snape with Avada Kedavra? 2613 Why didnt Snape just kill Voldemort to buy more time while the latter was recuperating as a Horcrux? 2614 Why wasnt James Potter his own Secret Keeper? 2615 Why does Arthur Dent need to bring a towel with him in the film version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? 2616 How did Darth Vader know the rebel base was on Hoth? 2617 What are some examples of Lovecrafts racism in his published short stories? 2618 Why does Binary exist? 2619 Why did he call himself The Mule? 2620 Can the Delorean meet its speed requirement without moving? 2621 Did Ducktales actually ever rewrite history? 2622 Is Stan Lee playing the Watcher in all his cameos? 2623 What happened to Winston Smith at the end of George Orwell’s “1984?” 2624 How well does Shadow of Mordor fit into Middle-earth canon? 2625 Could Tom Bombadil have defeated Sauron? 2626 How was Dumbledore able to defeat Grindelwald, since Grindelwald had the Elder Wand? 2627 Do Lord of the Rings or The Silmarillion pass the Bechdel test? 2628 Is Tony Stark an atheist? 2629 Why are the names Sauron and Saruman so similar? 2630 Are there any bad elves in the Lord of the Rings universe? 2631 Why do the Jedi say May the Force be with you? 2632 Why is Robin Hood French in Shrek? 2633 Why did Voldemort kill Lily Potter instead of stunning her? 2634 Why dont elves have more babies? 2635 Asimovs story where a mans speech contains no information 2636 Who gets Muggle-born students onto Platform 9 3/4? 2637 Do lightsaber blades/blaster bolts cast shadows? 2638 What effect would the One Ring have on other people? 2639 Why does Sauron not permit his followers to use his name? 2640 If the galaxy far far away is really so big, how come it seems so small in the movies? 2641 Which Asimov story has malevolent 3-law AI? 2642 Do Morpheus and his crew kill potential Ones? 2643 How large was Khazad-dûm? 2644 Is there any relevance to Thor getting his hair cut other than comedic value? 2645 Why do the Agents bother trying to get the Zion mainframe codes? 2646 How does one ride a broom in Harry Potter films? 2647 Were there any democracies in Middle-earth? 2648 Why was Mal so quick to drop Bester in favour of Kaylee? 2649 Why was there a pit in the Emperors chamber on Death Star? 2650 Why was the Balrog beneath Moria 2651 Short story read ~25 year ago where changing persons name prevents a war 2652 Trying to identify I will measure the dust story 2653 A man takes riskier and riskier jobs (involving a transportation ring) for more money 2654 Why does Tywin correct Arya on usage of mLord and my Lord? 2655 Why is Lando wearing Hans clothes? 2656 Asimov - Start with Foundation or Robots 2657 If Galadriel had claimed the One Ring, would Sauron have become her servant, or would have Galadriel become his servant? 2658 Why did the Borg name Locutus? 2659 How can every Cubone be wearing its dead mothers skull? 2660 Were all titans as powerful as Thanos? 2661 Why did Tyrion visit the Wall? 2662 Why are the colors reversed between some blasters and lightsabers of the Republic/Rebels and Empire? 2663 Which button activates Skywalkers lightsaber, and why is it inconsistent? 2664 Is Quidditch an inherently flawed sport? 2665 Why did Dumbledore hire Lockhart? 2666 Was the Millennium Falcon a one-off or was it mass produced? 2667 The use of Darth as Vaders name, not title, in Star Wars 2668 Kessel Run in 12 parsecs: screenplay error, or part of the movie? 2669 When did Darth Vader get his red lightsaber? 2670 What flaw in the Matrix was Neo supposed to correct? 2671 How did Hagrid and Dumbledore know the Potters had been killed? 2672 Why is the Star Wars universe not a post-scarcity economy? 2673 Is Palpatines identity a spoiler? 2674 Why was Marty present in his jump to 2015 in Back to the Future 2? 2675 Did Saruman know about the Ents? 2676 Soviet statistician deduces the existence of parasites feeding on the human race 2677 Why wouldnt Luke use his lightsaber to cut the feet off the Imperial Walker? 2678 What characters in Game of Thrones have been recast? 2679 Has any Star Trek character appeared in all three division uniform colors? 2680 Why Was Obi Wan So Eager to Train Luke as a Jedi? 2681 How could rebels trust R2-D2? 2682 Does Ron Weasley successfully cast a spell on camera in books 2 through 6? 2683 Are there any more races in Middle-earth? 2684 Was anyone other than Edwards actually being considered for admission to the Men in Black? 2685 Did Luke accomplish anything by going to Cloud City? 2686 Has the phrase Star Trek ever been used in Star Trek? 2687 How do we know that the First Doctor was indeed the first? 2688 Toilets in the Star Wars galaxy 2689 How does one leave platform nine and three-quarters? 2690 When did pure-historical Doctor Who go out of fashion? 2691 What story does C.S. Lewis acknowledge in the preface to The Great Divorce? 2692 Was Gimli the last of his race? 2693 Why Couldnt a Time Turner Have been Used to Stop Voldemort? 2694 Why didnt Sauron find Bilbo when he put on the ring like Frodo? 2695 Why did Voldemort need to drink Unicorn blood? 2696 Is James Doohan’s missing finger ever noticeable in Star Trek? 2697 Why didnt Luke become disfigured when he was electrocuted by the Emperor? 2698 Why does Hermione say she hadnt used a memory charm before? 2699 Why doesnt either side in the Wizarding War use Felix Felicis? 2700 Why does Tony Stark not like being handed things? 2701 Why didnt Chewbacca get a medal after the battle of Yavin? 2702 Why did Neo even have to fight? 2703 Was the thermal exhaust port on the Death Star really a design flaw? 2704 Who is the eponymous Jedi in Return of the Jedi? 2705 Were parts of Harry Potter inspired by James and the Giant Peach? 2706 Can Superman get drunk? 2707 Why didnt Hermione use the Time-Turner to sleep more? 2708 How does Malfoy know about helicopters? 2709 Why did R2-D2 not fly in Return of the Jedi? 2710 Why are there no Imperial KX-series Security Droids in the original trilogy? 2711 In Star Trek TNG, why does everyone have plants at the head of their beds? 2712 Why did the villain in the first Men in Black movie care about Earths Cockroaches? 2713 Why doesnt Harry live with the Weasleys? 2714 Why did the best potions master have greasy hair? 2715 What exactly is a Hadouken? 2716 Why isnt everyone flabbergasted about Brans gift? 2717 Why do X-wings change wing configuration? 2718 What was the deal Lando made with Darth Vader? 2719 How are Stormtroopers uniquely identified in the field? 2720 Why does Hermione love Arithmancy so much? 2721 Whats the pyramid joke? 2722 After Gandalf kills the Balrog of Moria, do any more Balrogs remain in Middle-earth? 2723 Is Sam Gamgee an orphan? 2724 How was Lukes prosthetic hand in Episode V filmed? 2725 Where are Draxs nipples? 2726 What is the Positronic brain coined by Asimov? 2727 What do they do with all the plates and cups in Star Trek? 2728 What made R2-D2 reactivate in “The Force Awakens?” 2729 Is C-3PO a slave? 2730 Does Red Skull die at the end of Captain America? 2731 Why isnt Obi-Wans ghost young? 2732 Why did Deanna Troi keep wearing a Starfleet uniform after Chain of Command? 2733 When did the red shirt careers change to yellow shirts in Star Trek and why? 2734 Why didnt Aragorn keep going with the army of the dead? 2735 Who Erased Kamino from the Jedi-Archives? 2736 Why did the Rebels have to fly along the Death Star trench? 2737 Do students wear muggle clothing while not in classes at Hogwarts (like they do in the films)? 2738 In Dune, was the Golden Path really necessary? 2739 Does the intro sequence to the Game of Thrones TV series have any meaning? 2740 Why didnt Gandalf know what the Palantir was? 2741 Why is The Wall still manned? 2742 Why dont wizards rob muggle banks to become rich? 2743 Why didnt Yoda have any children to take care of him during his last days given that he lived up to 900 years old? 2744 Why did Harry tell Snapes secret to everyone? 2745 Why does Yoda mourn the Jedi after Order 66 is executed? 2746 Whos older: Treebeard or Tom Bombadil? 2747 Why was the battle set up *outside* Winterfell? 2748 Why does Quidditch allow faster brooms? 2749 Was there a Biggs Darklighter scene on Tatooine in A New Hope? 2750 What was the value of the Shire and everything in it? 2751 Who are the Avengers avenging? 2752 A Book where an Animal is advertising itself to be eaten 2753 Why does Seven of Nine pronounce Futile differently than Locutus? 2754 Why would the elves help destroy the One Ring? 2755 Why does Data have to use a computer in Star Trek? 2756 What is the point of evasive maneuvers in Star Trek? 2757 What exactly about Aunt Petunia is More than meets the eye? 2758 A cynical demon writing annotations into the book for puny human readers 2759 Looking for a really old novel where the people are geometric figures 2760 In which order should I start watching Star Trek? 2761 In what order should I watch the various Stargate TV Series? 2762 Whats the origin of Picards signature phrase, make it so? 2763 Are the Weeping Angels Timelords 2764 What did Madam Hooch do all day? 2765 How did Voyager replace its photon torpedoes? 2766 How do we know they were called Ewoks? 2767 Can the Force be used to fly? 2768 How did Dumbledore block the Avada Kedavra spell? 2769 Is the Han/Leia vs Luke/Yoda timeline in The Empire Strikes Back broken? 2770 Who was the student that previously brewed a potion of sufficient quality to claim the Felix Felicis? 2771 How did Jabba become such a powerful crime lord? 2772 How does Elsa resolve the practical problems of living in an ice palace? 2773 Has anyone else in the Star Wars universe ever run out of fuel? 2774 Why was Darth Vader given a downgraded version of General Grievouss mechanics? 2775 Could the Sorting Hat Have Told Dumbledore That Harry Was a Horcrux? 2776 Why do people say that Peter Jackson can not make LOTR/Hobbit sequels? 2777 Why didnt Voldemort know what Grindelwald looked like? 2778 If the Navi instantly recognize the Avatars as Sky People, what is the point of having them? 2779 How much does Commander Data weigh? 2780 The Moriarty Sentience Problem - A.K.A. Why isnt the Enterprise computer considered sentient? 2781 Whats in Naboos core, liquid water or plasma? 2782 Was Jumanji intended to be a co-op game? 2783 What did Aragorn mean when he warned Gandalf about entering Moria? 2784 Was Picard speaking French and being translated the entire time? 2785 Did Data murder Lore? 2786 How much would a ticket to Jurassic World cost? 2787 Did the writers of Wonder Woman have some kind of fetish for bondage, in the early comics? 2788 Did Sauron survive? 2789 Why not continue to prevent murders? 2790 Do you remember the memories that youve placed in a pensieve? 2791 Is it ever explained where Elsa got her powers? 2792 Why did Frodo start his adventure 17 years after he inherited the One Ring? 2793 Is Magnetos power magnetism or can he manipulate all metals? 2794 How did the black liquid work in Prometheus? 2795 What did Smaug eat for 60 years? 2796 Who is the most powerful user of the Force? 2797 Do the Q fear the Borg? 2798 Why does Hermione dislike Professor Trelawney from the start? 2799 Was Gollum always a hobbit? 2800 Whats the name of the galaxy far, far away? 2801 Why does Yoda speak the way he does? 2802 Why didn’t they just take the ring to Valinor? 2803 Treebeard: I always like going South, somehow it feels like going downhill. - Is it really? 2804 Why does Gandalf show such reverence for Galadriel and Elrond? 2805 Why do consoles explode in Star Trek? 2806 Why did Captain Needa apologize to Darth Vader? 2807 Why does everyone assume that the Architect was telling the truth about there being previous Ones? 2808 Was Sauron aware of what Gandalf was? 2809 Are Hogwarts teachers allowed to hit students? 2810 In Star Wars: A New Hope, why was one officer dressed in white? 2811 Why was Gandalf so concerned for Gollums well-being? 2812 Did Vader ever learn that Sidious controlled both sides in the Clone Wars? 2813 How does Asimovs second law deal with contradictory orders from different people? 2814 Why didnt Harry try harder to learn magic? 2815 What are the revisions in the (Revised Edition) of The Hobbit? 2816 Roughly how large is the population of Sandworms on Dune? 2817 What was the first story to be set in the future? 2818 Was the original Star Wars film originally called The Star Wars? 2819 Why arent we all Borg? 2820 Why did the stormtroopers care about hiding the fact that they killed the Jawas? 2821 Was Tolkien the first to invent languages purely for fictional works? 2822 How many Ents were at the Entmoot? 2823 Does Thor know that Thursday is named after him? 2824 Where did the Wizarding World think Harry was? 2825 Spaceship from a film or show that is semi circular in shape with a section jutting out of the middle 2826 Significance of the origami Deckard found in Blade Runner 2827 Do any clones refuse Order 66? 2828 Is it possible that Mace Windu survived his encounter with Sidious? 2829 What is the symbolism of the colors assigned to Istari wizards? 2830 Who was the little girl in the matrix and why was she so important? 2831 How did Vader saving Luke turn him to the good side? 2832 Why did Tony Stark build arc reactors into his extra Iron Man suits? 2833 Wasnt Harrys father just like Draco? 2834 How did the AT-ATs get to the surface of Hoth? 2835 Was Elrond, in Tolkiens opinion, more inherently powerful than Galadriel? 2836 Who or what is the oldest sentient being in Tolkiens lore? 2837 Why didnt Tom Riddle kill Harry Potter in Chamber of Secrets? 2838 Why arent there any main Federation battleships in the Star Trek universe? 2839 Did Sauron give any care to Saruman or was he just a pawn? 2840 How did Paul Atreides Differ From the Intended Kwisatz Haderach? 2841 How does Stark Enterprises maintain its cashflow? 2842 What order should the Chronicles of Narnia books be read in? 2843 Why did Gandalf not return to help Frodo and Sam? 2844 Which of Dumbledores abilities make him the greatest wizard of the age? 2845 What form would a boggart take for Snape? 2846 Did Harry Potter ever get on a Famous Witches and Wizards card? 2847 Why does the Trade Federation become so alarmed upon learning the ambassadors are Jedi Knights? 2848 Are any Harry Potter characters completely redeemed? 2849 Was it Dumbledores charm or Lilys that protected Harry all those years? 2850 Did Balrogs have their own language? 2851 How is it believable that Euron could so easily pull off this ambush? 2852 How does Ant-Man pick up a drop of water? 2853 Have there ever been 25 or more stars on Wonder Womans panties? 2854 Why isnt the religion of Rhllor, The Lord of Light, dominant? 2855 How do I get my PCs to not be a bunch of murderous cretins? 2856 What is my guy syndrome and how do I handle it? 2857 Managing a Medieval Low Orbit Ion Cannon 2858 Without a magic item economy, what is gold for? 2859 Dealing with difficult male players, when youre a new female player? 2860 How does rolling two d20 and taking the higher affect the average outcome? 2861 Im at a loss with “Dungeons and Dragons.” How does one play it, anyway? 2862 Player claims their wizard character knows everything (from books). Solutions? 2863 How does a player correct a GM mistake without being a rules lawyer or pushover? 2864 What are the primary differences between the rules of D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder? 2865 How to let my players fail their rolls intentionally, but covertly? 2866 Whats the greatest number of hands I can have to annoy my mother-in-law with? 2867 How to deal with players who like to use the local authorities to solve their problems 2868 How can DMs effectively telegraph specific dangers in D&D? 2869 Players skipping side quests just to have a laugh at the DM 2870 What is the source of the spells do only what they say they do rules interpretation principle? 2871 How do you help players not focus on the rules? 2872 Is there a maximum attainable beard thickness? 2873 Who created the idea of Experience Points? 2874 Can I begin roleplaying if Im visually impaired? 2875 Can you drink a potion one-handed underwater? 2876 Betrayed by my GM; how can I respond? 2877 How to stop players from making the game X-rated 2878 What can I do when I accidentally gave out an overpowered item? 2879 Where can I find other RPG players? 2880 Are peoples competencies really as flat in D&D 5e as its math suggests? 2881 New girl gamer in our D&D group is causing weird tension - what to do? 2882 What are the big differences among the D&D editions? 2883 Whats the point of long, empty hallways in dungeons? 2884 Evil Campaigns: How to explain the difference between being evil and being a jerk? 2885 As a man, how can I roleplay a woman better? 2886 PC ate a necklace of fireballs bead. How dead should they be? 2887 Why would I ever cast True Strike? 2888 What is a session 0? 2889 Given powerful low-level Clerical healing, how can sick, crippled or otherwise unhealthy people exist? 2890 As a player, I am approaching a situation where My Guy syndrome seems inevitable and almost appropriate. What can I do to soften any problems? 2891 How to prevent metagaming induced by trying to not metagame? 2892 Why is the D&D gorgon a metal bull? 2893 How to deal with player MacGyver-ism? 2894 What tools are useful to organize a GMs campaign notes? 2895 How can we handle firing our DM? 2896 Can a snake be prone? 2897 Is there a legal way to get D&D 5e core rulebook PDFs? 2898 How should a GM deal with standing orders? 2899 I failed to open a lock. Now what? 2900 As a player with ADHD, how do I avoid disrupting the game? 2901 Dealing with (supposedly) in-character bullying 2902 How can I test whether a die is fair? 2903 When should I fudge dice rolls? 2904 Is there a limit to Rule 0? 2905 Why are psionics controversial? 2906 How can I make my PCs flee? 2907 How many people does it take to steal a Star Destroyer? 2908 Why does everyone carry a 10 pole? 2909 What is E6? Why would I use it? 2910 What do you do when your players guess your plots? 2911 What are the most and least-resisted damage types? 2912 What do the terms lines and veils mean? 2913 How do I play a paladin without being a stick in the mud? 2914 Why does “dungeon” mean the places adventurers go to kill stuff? 2915 How do I not cheapen death, while also respecting my players time? 2916 3d6 vs a d20: What is the effect of a different probability curve? 2917 What are the playable D&D races in 5e, and where can I find them? 2918 How has D&Ds guidance to DMs on when to extrapolate from written rules and when to improvise changed over time? 2919 Where do adventurers keep all their stuff? 2920 Can you multiclass the same class twice for different class features? 2921 How do I handle my players killing things by catapulting a folding boat? 2922 As a girl, how can I voice male characters effectively? 2923 Is there a real use for the Medicine skill? 2924 How do I roleplay a character more intelligent than I am? 2925 Did I overstep my power as DM? 2926 How do I communicate to my players that a door is, for the time being, absolutely locked to them? 2927 Total Party Kill - What do I do as a GM? 2928 How do I keep the game moving without undermining player agency? 2929 Rolling a D10 (0-9) for hitpoints. What do I get with a zero? 2930 Why do Crawfords tweets seem to be treated on par with the actual rules? 2931 How should a GM deal with sexuality in an RPG? 2932 Do Cantrips use your character level or class level? 2933 Why is burying yourself not such a great plan? 2934 Player may be manipulating die rolls, but Im uncertain. How do I approach the situation? 2935 How do I stop my PCs from acting like insomniac monkeys on crack? 2936 What exactly is a murder hobo? 2937 What happens when an Immovable Rod is activated while in a vehicle? 2938 What is Pathfinders relationship to D&D? 2939 Should I warn my players when theyre about to do something stupid? 2940 What is the Oberoni Fallacy? 2941 What can I do to paper to make it look aged? 2942 How to ask nicely in Dungeon World 2943 My group member is displaying disturbing behavior, what do I do? 2944 Does this character concept involving never taking a long rest and converting spell slots to sorcery points (aka coffeelock) violate RAW? 2945 How much is a Gold Piece really worth? 2946 Is the Moonbeam spell amazing, or are we doing it wrong? 2947 How to stop a player constantly using Detect Magic/Evil? 2948 A player always wants to recruit NPCs into the party. How do I handle this? 2949 My PCs have a plan that will get them all killed; how and why should I save them? 2950 What does upper-case-A-Attack action vs. lower-case-a-attack mean? 2951 Can you choose to fail a saving throw? 2952 How should a DM resolve a smooth-talking player with a weak Charisma score PC? 2953 Why does dandwiki have a poor reputation? 2954 How can I stop myself from micromanaging other PCs actions? 2955 Who can use magic scrolls? 2956 Is saying Your PC wouldnt do that to a player denying their agency? 2957 D&D 5e and Theatre of the Mind in combat 2958 How can a GM quickly create interesting, engaging NPCs? 2959 How can I avoid players spending too much time planning? 2960 How can I suggest the DM stop trying to kill us? 2961 Running a game of Microscope that isnt totally insane? 2962 How can I get a player to accept that they should stop trying to pull stunts without thinking them through first? 2963 OD&D said it could be played with 20-50 players and one referee. How was that expected to work and still be fun? 2964 Where do I find the official rules for D&D 5e? 2965 Do you have to have thieves tools in order to pick a lock? 2966 Can a Black Dragon Hatchling be raised to be good? Or is it inherently evil? 2967 How should I respond to a DM who unfairly plays the rules-lawyer card? 2968 How can I explain to my player that Alchemists Fire is safe to carry? 2969 What happens when my players get promoted and their puns stop working? 2970 How can I help my PCs remember clues that they found? 2971 Why would I ever choose rolling hit points? 2972 As a GM, is it bad form to ask for a moment to think when improvising? 2973 What is Player Agency and what is it good for? 2974 What should I do about a religious player who refuses to accept the existence of multiple gods in D&D? 2975 Is it wrong to ask a player to justify their characters actions? 2976 Do I have to allow someone to play at my table in Adventurers League public events? 2977 The StackOMounts 2978 Does microwaving a die significantly alter its balance? 2979 Our DM keeps interrupting our long rests 2980 How to fix a terrible lapse in judgement 2981 What is role-playing, and where do I start? 2982 How can I prevent players from using Persuasion or Deception to weasel their way out of a murder? 2983 How to deal with a player who refuses to learn the description of their spells and abilities? 2984 Our GM wont let us affect the story; the more I play the less fun I have. What do I do? 2985 What is the purpose of easy combat scenarios that dont need resource expenditure? 2986 What is the origin of the phrase ‘orc and pie’? 2987 Whats the inspiration for the owlbear? 2988 Whats a good mechanic for rewarding players for keeping their characters happy? 2989 Im creating an original setting for D&D—where do I start? 2990 Are Trolls immune to all instant death effects? 2991 How can I get people to remember my characters gender? 2992 How do I narrate a players PCs actions without causing unintended consequences for the PC? 2993 Does Warlock combat just equal Eldritch Blast spam? 2994 How can I run an open-world game with vast power differences, without resulting in constant TPKs? 2995 How do I get my players to form a PC party without just forcing them to? 2996 Is starting a group with 5 newbies (DM included) possible? 2997 Is 4 hours long enough for a long rest for Elves? 2998 It seems like every skill check should always be made with advantage due to the Working Together rules. Is this accurate? 2999 Whats the deal with alignment languages? 3000 How to ease down the munchkin factor? 3001 What is a bag of rats? 3002 How to work with a player who cites ADHD as reason for disruptive behavior 3003 Problems with Party Formation: Youre the DM, you can figure it out. 3004 What dice mechanic gives a bell curve distribution that narrows and increases mean as skill increases? 3005 My DM insists on rolling a single save for groups affected by AoE save spells. How does this affect my odds of successfully affecting the enemy? 3006 How can metagaming retries on poor skill checks be prevented? 3007 Is it possible to fail an ability check on purpose? 3008 In a low-combat campaign, most PC abilities seem useless; what few fights there are barely use up resources. How do I deal with this as the DM? 3009 When do I use active vs passive perception? 3010 Are there any penalties for wearing armor all the time? 3011 Are melee combatants limited to standing around saying I attack? 3012 How do I manage a player who is handling traps by metagaming? 3013 What is the point of a spell component pouch? 3014 I think my DM is consistently faking dice rolls for saves against a specific spell; how do I call my DM out? 3015 What makes grease a good spell? 3016 I gave my players far too much wealth and they have far too much power. What do I do to get things back on track? 3017 How do I indicate to my players that an NPC is no longer useful and that they should move on? 3018 Dealing with PC that constantly lies to NPCs 3019 How can I invoke actual fear in my players? 3020 How should the DM manage the discrepancy between the players memory and their PCs memory? 3021 What is wrong with the D&D 3.5 FAQ? 3022 What is the highest possible AC? 3023 Does Bards Jack of All Trades grant them greater initiative? 3024 What are tiers, and what tier is each class? 3025 Why is mayo in the alchemy jug? 3026 What happens when you run out of movement while jumping? 3027 Is the old Linear Fighters Quadratic Wizards problem still around in 5e Basic? 3028 How does D&D 5e compare to AD&D 2e? 3029 How do you play D&D when we dont have dice to play with? 3030 How do I challenge my PCs who fight every battle like Mongol horse archers? 3031 How to deal with a player who is a bad sport? 3032 How can I impose consequences when PCs commit severe crimes? 3033 What is the probability of surviving my death saves? 3034 My player wants to watch the world burn 3035 How can I effectively drop clues of corruption in my campaigns? 3036 Can Ogre clerics use Purify Food and Drink on humanoid characters? 3037 How to communicate to the players that an encounter can be solved also through diplomacy? 3038 Shoe-themed race or class features 3039 Is it necessary to purchase all the D&D 5th edition books to have access to all player character options? 3040 Realistically, does Leomund’s Tiny Hut allow for indefinite long rests in a dungeon? 3041 What can I do about the guys being distracted by a new girl in D&D group? 3042 How do I encourage Drow players to not make Drizzt clones? 3043 How can I make Empty rooms interesting? 3044 Players playing weird characters breaking the immersion of my group 3045 How can I politely handle a GM who doesnt appear to get how Dungeon World works? 3046 As a GM, how can I stop killing my games? 3047 Is there a way to ask in game (i.e. in a non-meta way) what a characters class is? 3048 Abuse: Is it fair if its in-game? 3049 What is the whiskey flask problem with Paradox? 3050 How could towns restrain a magic user? 3051 Origin of the term Splat Book 3052 Is Greatsword superior to Greataxe? 3053 What is the Stormwind Fallacy? 3054 How are Fighters Linear but Wizards Quadratic? 3055 The fastest way to remove bones from a man 3056 Could Vampires use touchscreen devices (iPhone, etc)? 3057 If I run a game of Paranoia, will knowing the rules lead to a worse experience if/when I participate as a player in the future? 3058 What is the background of Christian resistance to role-playing? 3059 Looking for solo (one person) RPGs - do they exist? 3060 What defines a West Marches campaign? 3061 I dislike how players accurately place fireballs. Is there an alternative? 3062 What are the rules for PC-PC seduction attempts? 3063 Do Bugbears arms literally get longer when its their turn? 3064 As an unreliable player, how can I lessen the burden on my group? 3065 Why do Warlocks only have spells up to 5th level? Whats the correct progression for their slots? 3066 Is the Saltwater Float represented in this question a good way to test for loaded dice? 3067 Players get angry if anything negative happens to them 3068 As a DM, how can I handle my Druid spying on everything with Wild shape as a spider? 3069 Is it OK for me to give my players characters punitive backstories when they dont provide their own? 3070 Overview of D&D retro-clones 3071 Death by leveling? The effects of 0 max HP and leveling with negative CON 3072 Has Christianity ever been given stats? 3073 How can I engage players with melee monsters when players keep their distance? 3074 My players like to search everything. What do they find? 3075 Is it a violation of my player agency if another player is allowed to wish away memories from my character? 3076 How can I show-not-tell my players that they are The Bad Guys? 3077 How to play when you have little experience and speech difficulties? 3078 Can a party function without a Cleric or Paladin? 3079 What does minmax mean? 3080 Can the dungeon master have a player character? 3081 Why do Sorcerers use Charisma? 3082 A player was bucking my style and I lost my temper. What can I do from here? 3083 As a girl how can I roleplay a male character better? 3084 Player has arachnophobia: what to use in place of spiders? 3085 What can I do to encourage my players to use their consumables? 3086 Aiming at specific body parts 3087 Weapon attacks compared with damaging cantrips? 3088 What options do I have for changing my characters sex? 3089 The PC claims to know an NPC they just met, how should I react as the DM? 3090 How can I handle a player who pre-plans arguments about my rulings on RAW? 3091 Does Burning Hands really require touching thumbs? 3092 Would forcing armour on a wizard using an illusion spell and Illusory Reality harm them? 3093 How much damage does Great Weapon Fighting add on average? 3094 What is railroading, and what are its pros and cons? 3095 What are the differences between Holmes, Moldvay, and Mentzer D&D? 3096 What does the abbreviation “RAW” mean? 3097 Does forcing a Vampire indoors count as an invitation? 3098 How do I handle a group that does not understand the assumption rule? 3099 How can I roleplay a character more manipulative than myself? 3100 What do you do in Dungeon World when someone wants to perform an action they dont have a move for? 3101 How to get my Paranoia players to stop cooperating and start killing each other? 3102 Can someone explain what the Proficiency Bonus is in D&D 5e/Next exactly? 3103 How does one craft Potions of Healing? 3104 What spells are available to resurrect characters? 3105 Does casting a spell from an item allow you to apply class abilities that are used when casting a spell? 3106 What is GM/DM Fiat? 3107 How do I learn to become a good GM? 3108 Are Imps incapable of speech or is my DM messing with me? 3109 What happens when initiative allows a player to act before the player that started the combat? 3110 What is a spell slot in-lore, and how does it justify the limits on casting spells? 3111 How can I tell if I am a problem player? 3112 What RPG concepts does rules as written encompass? 3113 Can wizards really cast spells in armor? 3114 Are there ways to concentrate on more than one spell at a time? 3115 Does Power Word Kill kill druids in wild-shape? 3116 Should I boost a new players character level to match the rest of the group? 3117 Players argue and dont accept rulings to the point of arguments 3118 As the Dungeon Master, how do I handle a player that insists on a specific class when I already know that choice will cause issues? 3119 How to handle a rules-lawyer player? 3120 GMing for a hyper optimized character 3121 For seasoned 3.X players and DMs, what is the whats new summary for 5e? 3122 How do I allow the Rogue opportunities to be stealthy with a Druid in the party? 3123 How do I keep presenting progressively more challenging encounters to my PCs without making them think that the world is gaining Levels as they are? 3124 Need out-of-game solution for spell choice paralysis 3125 Are babies of evil humanoid species inherently evil? 3126 What to do when a player character does something that seems suicidal? 3127 How can I get players to realize that their enemies arent evil? 3128 Can a creature take turns as normal if they are inside an Antimagic Field while another creature casts Time Stop? 3129 Can you milk an Ivory Goat? 3130 Does D&D 5e have a rule for character knowledge about monsters? 3131 How to randomly generate a village or town for old school D&D game? 3132 Help, a player wont stop hitting on every female NPC! 3133 Can the DM forbid my character from using certain weapons because he doesnt like them? 3134 Can a raging barbarian carry live rabbits to kill them, in order to keep his rage going? 3135 How to deal with anti-authoritarian player characters? 3136 How do I rein in a player who talks over my descriptions? 3137 Is there “flavor text” in D&D 5e spells? 3138 I deciphered the meaning of a cryptic language out-of-game: should my character know what the meaning is? 3139 What happens to a Devil when its alignment is forcibly changed? 3140 Handling encounter elements that would realistically cause instant death 3141 Is there any known limit for how many dice RPG players are comfortable adding up? 3142 How do I make weather an important part of the game? 3143 Do 10 second turns/60 second rounds make spellcasters horrible? 3144 How does extra damage work for critical hits? 3145 Is it better to take the array and be Joe Average, or to roll for the odds of getting on average better scores? 3146 How do I kill a 20th level raging Zealot Barbarian? 3147 How do I keep spellcasters from casting while in jail? 3148 With the lifespan of elves, would you ever encounter a low-level elf? 3149 The power level of the Sword of Sharpness doesnt justify its very rare rating - am I missing something? 3150 How can I tell the DM that I wasnt having fun and that I fault him for it? 3151 What is Sandbox play? 3152 Can characters reach Mach 1 and higher? 3153 Whats the point of having a locked door if the players can just destroy it? 3154 How do you tell if a D&D book is 3.0 or 3.5? 3155 How to create a dungeon based on a realistic tomb, but still enjoyable to explore? 3156 My players went from 100% murderous cretins to 100% nonviolent diplomats; how can I achieve a middle ground? 3157 Dealing with fearless players 3158 How to get a new group into the spirit of the game Paranoia? 3159 Since advantage and disadvantage caused in a heavily obscured area cancel out, what effect does it have in combat? 3160 How can I play dumb? 3161 I unknowingly guessed what will happen next in the module and its angering the DM 3162 Are all players supposed to be able to see each others character sheets? 3163 As a DM, how to avoid unconscious metagaming when dealing with a high AC character? 3164 Is a creature in the area of a Wall of Water spell trapped in ice when hit by the Ray of Frost cantrip? 3165 How can I DM a character with more social skills than me? 3166 What to do if a player expected much more than DM gave? 3167 Does dealing 0 damage to a concentrating spellcaster require a saving throw? 3168 What approaches are there to lessen or eliminate reliance upon dice in an RPG? 3169 How can I make my game more noir as a GM? 3170 How can I persuade my DM to play my warlocks patron in a way that respects my characters concept? 3171 How can we kick our novice roleplayer out of the group for being a poor match, without alienating them from the hobby? 3172 How to challenge a pacifist party 3173 Player wants to steal items from previous character 3174 What is the purpose of old-school D&D class level limitations? 3175 How can I politely ask a player to leave my game? 3176 What to do when players bypass plot hooks 3177 Can Raise Dead revive a character with zero maximum Hit Points? 3178 Techniques for allowing character defeat without character death 3179 How do I deal with PCs who use kidnap and torture as an investigative technique? 3180 How do I help my players not get caught up on smaller plot points? 3181 Can the arcane/druidic focus staff double as quarterstaff? 3182 Can one enter Leomunds Tiny Hut from below? 3183 How to not let the Identify spell spoil everything? 3184 What is the etymology of the term Gish? 3185 Whats the best way to make time spent travelling more interesting? 3186 Can the DM change his/her mind after a player has rolled? 3187 How to handle players who make unmotivated characters 3188 Can a GM prohibit players from using external reference materials (like the PHB) during play? 3189 What makes a character/creature/power/ability/etc. over-powered? 3190 How can I check whether an extremely adult/mature plot idea would be accepted by players without revealing any details of the idea itself? 3191 GMs and MCs, When do you say, No, to your players? 3192 What are the essential features of a successful evil campaign? 3193 Can a multiclass character with 1 level of wizard copy any wizard spell they find into their spellbook? 3194 My DM has removed heavy armour from the game. How can I make a Paladin work or convince him not to do this? 3195 How to enjoyably include a 4–5 year old in a D&D 5e game 3196 My 5e character isnt very fun. How do I kill them off? 3197 How does D&D Vancian magic make sense in-game? 3198 Are there any rules for a Cleric to change his faith? 3199 What software is available for virtual table tops? 3200 Would striking someone at 0 hit points with an entire Magic Missile spell automatically kill them? 3201 My party bypassed a combat encounter. Should they still get XP? 3202 How to handle loot disputes as the DM? 3203 How can I end combat quickly when the outcome is inevitable? 3204 How do I deal with being envious of my own players? 3205 What is a social contract? 3206 How can I play a character who is scared without disrupting the gameplay? 3207 Is it possible to produce a bowl-shaped probability curve with dice rolls? 3208 How do you deal with metagaming based on die results? 3209 GMing for [dis]abled players, specifically blind players? 3210 How do I prevent myself from freezing up during a game Im DMing? 3211 How to approximate rolls for potions of healing using only d6s? 3212 What characterizes a Modern role playing game or gaming system? 3213 Can I Ready an action to do something Im not currently capable of doing? 3214 How do I get the PCs to stop focusing on a red herring? 3215 If someone is Out of Ammo, can they still shoot until compelled? 3216 What is the proper way to style references to D&D game elements? 3217 When can I make opportunity attacks? 3218 What are the downsides to multi-classing? 3219 How is Polymorph broken? 3220 What can I use in place of Fudge Dice? 3221 What alternatives are there to replace orcs, kobolds, and hobgoblins in low-level encounters? 3222 Is there a OGL or GSL license for D&D 5e? 3223 How can I keep a player from shutting down after a streak of bad rolls? 3224 How to break the Death Loop resulting from unfortunate initiative order 3225 How can I reward a character that doesnt want magic items? 3226 How should I handle players who ignore the session zero agreement? 3227 Medieval problems in a magical world 3228 How do I make interrogations interesting? 3229 How do I make an unwinnable fight fun? 3230 What inspired the D&D version of the Rakshasa? 3231 How do I know if an ability is magical? 3232 How should I deal with a difficult group and a DM that doesnt help? 3233 Problems with minecraft happy druids 3234 Preventing saturation in a horror campaign 3235 Make the player roll even if there is no chance of success? 3236 Dealing with a Repeatedly Cheating Friend 3237 Is the same page tool overkill for brand new players? 3238 Running games for a constantly unreliable group 3239 How can I quickly get a player back into a session after their character dies? 3240 How much should NPCs charge for spells cast as services to PCs? 3241 Optimizing a D&D 3.5 Monk 3242 Can a zero-HP, unconscious and stable character be woken up prematurely? 3243 Does passive perception supersede active perception? 3244 What do I know, when deciding whether to cast Counterspell? 3245 Is a fumble on a natural 1 an official rule? 3246 Can you cast banishment on yourself? 3247 Does a natural 20 on the attack roll still automatically hit if the target is wearing adamantine armor? 3248 What games are out there that could be played in a single night, with no prep? 3249 My own Party are ruining the game for me. What should I do? 3250 Is there a minimum damage rule? 3251 How much damage can a druid Wild Shaped into a spider take without dying instantly? 3252 Player is obsessed with shaving my wookiee 3253 How to handle wealthy player characters as a GM? 3254 What does DMG mean? 3255 What should be done if I suspect a player is using weighted dice? 3256 How do I get better at improvising city features? 3257 How can I use powerful NPCs without overshadowing the player characters? 3258 How do I deal with a player whose character wanders off for no reason? 3259 When and how does combat start in a standoff? 3260 How can a GM prevent growing disillusioned with their own game? 3261 What is a good way to become a better NPC/monster actor? 3262 Can you cast a spell learned from the Magic Initiate feat using spell slots? 3263 What are the major changes between Pathfinder first and second editions? 3264 How to build an evil campaign 3265 Why is this uncommon magic item better than this rare magic item? 3266 How to kill a character without making their player too angry 3267 Can I use my familiar from the Find Familiar spell as a safety deposit box? 3268 What to do with players who have done something very stupid, but unwittingly? 3269 Handling a character who frequently pickpockets teammates 3270 What are the statistical implications of doubling damage on crit instead of doubling the dice rolled? 3271 What makes the Monstrous Crab so dangerous? 3272 Risk of a TPK vs realistic NPCs 3273 A player constantly uses his mobile phone during our game session 3274 How can I convince players not to offload a seemingly useless weapon? 3275 NPC casting Suggestion on PC: who decides its reasonable? 3276 Why wouldn’t I just run away from the eldritch horror? 3277 What do jagged lines crossing a corridor mean on this old D&D map? 3278 Punishing a player for instant-actioning 3279 Can a new player join a group only when a new campaign starts? 3280 Should I prohibit a player from having a character goal that makes me uncomfortable? 3281 Does a PC know the general strengths and weaknesses of their stats? 3282 How can I check if a new group is OK with a plotline from an ethical standpoint without spoiling the plot? 3283 How can GMs make their game worlds more inclusive? 3284 Can deaf people play RPGs? 3285 How do I make skill checks more than just sequences of die chucking? 3286 Your friend wants to learn the ways of the Dungeon Master, what do you do? 3287 What are the key considerations to creating compelling environments? 3288 Two-Weapon Fighting & Bonus Actions 3289 What can a familiar actually do? 3290 Can spells with a verbal component be cast underwater if the caster cant breathe water? 3291 When are Opportunity Attacks provoked while holding a reach and a non-reach weapon? 3292 Prop Coins: How to get many coins for little (real life) money? 3293 Which item gets your soul first, Blackrazor or a Ring of Mind Shielding? 3294 My Wizard is conjuring a piece of the sun. How will this affect my setting? 3295 Are features that allow −5 to attack to get +10 to damage mathematically sound? 3296 How can I avoid problems that arise from rolling ability scores? 3297 What rules say that summoning undead is evil, and what rules say why? 3298 What to do about PC rerolling for great stats? 3299 How common is homosexuality in the Forgotten Realms? 3300 Cut off hand with Ring of Regeneration on it 3301 How can I convince my DM that my diplomacy will work on his characters? 3302 As a player, how do I deal with a spotlight hog? 3303 How can I deal with a soft alpha gamer player? 3304 What are the stand-out features of D&D 5e? 3305 Suggestions for decreasing metagaming and increasing player immersion? 3306 Should my fighter really punch that werewolf? 3307 What are the dangers of renaming spells and changing their flavour, without changing mechanics at all? 3308 How can I make my enemies feel real and make combat more engaging? 3309 How do you discourage player knowledge as a GM? 3310 How should I prevent a player from instantly recognizing a magical impostor without making them feel cheated? 3311 Which Article Helped Get Rid of Technobabble in RPGs? 3312 How do I deal with GM burnout? 3313 Best answer for people concerned about RPG activities being occult or dangerous? 3314 Does 5th edition have the equivalent of Taking 20? 3315 Do you take falling damage after a high jump of over 10 feet? 3316 What is D&D Adventurers League and How Does It Work? 3317 Can I be a follower of an evil god and not be evil? 3318 Need way to physically track initiative in face-to-face D&D game 3319 How does one handle a bottleneck of enemies in a doorway? 3320 Is 3d6 the same as 1d18? 3321 Am I overreacting or seeing things where they dont exist? 3322 Is it appropriate to disallow the players building the world? 3323 At level one, can you really never recover hit dice? 3324 Is a mushroom a plant for the purposes of Speak With Plants? 3325 What happens when a Mage Hand touches a mimic? 3326 How can mimic phobia be cured or prevented? 3327 What is the d20 bust, and what does post-d20 game mean? 3328 How to resolve multiple start of turn triggers 3329 How do I handle when my players overestimate the importance of an encounter/a location? 3330 How do you balance a group with both charismatic players who enjoy role-playing and introverted players who dont? 3331 As a GM, how does one deal with all of the players playing nearly identical characters? 3332 How many attacks can a fighter with two-weapon fighting make at 5th level? 3333 Handy Haversack vs. Bag of Holding 3334 What happens if I get the same skill from both my background and my class? 3335 Can a D&D Necromancer be of a good alignment? 3336 Are there any good tabletop RPGs for young beginning players? 3337 How can I speed up combat? 3338 Can clerics use swords? 3339 How should I go about stopping metagaming based on Roll20 showing unexplored areas? 3340 With the 2019 Sage Advice Compendium release, are Jeremy Crawfords tweets considered to be official rulings? 3341 My ranger has tamed an absurd number of Animal Companions with Handle Animal 3342 How can a boss enemy prevent being the most obvious target? 3343 How to communicate to my GM that not being allowed to use stealth isnt fun for me? 3344 After successfully hitting with an attack roll, when rolling for damage, if you roll a 1, is that a negative crit? 3345 I want to run vast and realistic dungeons, but my players get frustrated trying to search every room 3346 What is the easiest way a Wizard can copy-protect the scrolls he makes? 3347 Im a DM and I want a hiatus but dont know how to tell my players 3348 Is it better to dash or dodge across an open field? 3349 Identifying my late fathers D&D stuff found in the attic 3350 Is it fair to press the players for decisions during combat? 3351 How can I DM with aphantasia? 3352 Shame him into not shooting: multiple stress tracks in a single conflict 3353 Whats the starting wealth for higher levels? 3354 How does wizard & cleric spell preparation and casting work? 3355 What happens if you dont sleep? 3356 Can spells be cast through a Wall of Force? 3357 Does Repelling Blast work once per spell or once per beam? 3358 Does the Clone spell make someone effectively immortal? 3359 When exactly can a caster stop concentrating on a spell? 3360 When and how should I introduce my kids to RPGs? 3361 What would happen if you opened a Bag of Holding underwater? 3362 Necromancer PC Insisting On Disguising Undead Minions 3363 Power player is a problem. Any fix? 3364 Can a permanent Teleportation Circle be made on a moving vehicle? 3365 Does the UA Centaur stack actually work? 3366 How to secretly talk to one of the players while DMing? 3367 How do I deal with players persistently arguing for rules loopholes, even after Ive tried to finalise my rulings? 3368 Is it appropriate to punish a PC who snatches things from under the other PCs? 3369 How did D&D end up so focused on fighting, when its inspirations werent? 3370 Metagaming when there isnt actually anything there? 3371 Whats the simplest class for a child? 3372 How do I avoid lecturing my players 3373 What to do when you seem like you do not fit in with a group? 3374 Keeping the world alive whilst PCs take a rest mid-adventure? 3375 Maximum bookkeeping fantasy game with magic 3376 Whats the difference between a roleplaying game and a board game? 3377 Does an Ooze (Gelatinous Cube) float? 3378 How to get out of a story deadlock 3379 If you start casting a new concentration spell while concentrating on Haste, does the wave of lethargy interrupt the casting of the new spell? 3380 One of my friends/players committed suicide. How do I continue the game from here? 3381 What sort of cheat sheets for a new DM lead to a better flowing 5e game of Dungeons and Dragons? 3382 Is an Unarmed Strike considered a Weapon attack? 3383 How does the Divination wizards Portent feature interact with Advantage and Disadvantage? 3384 Can I choose to delay my turn in combat? 3385 To What Extent Can The Keen Mind Feat Replace a Wizards Spellbook? 3386 Players constantly capture enemies and question them, how to deal with it? 3387 What do I do with a player whos always trying to go out on their own to farm XP? 3388 How to deal with a player who says no all the time? 3389 How can I explain how to play D&D to new players without them falling asleep from boredom? 3390 How to deal with a PC being played as homophobic? 3391 How do I explain to an AD&D player that items that increase Armor Class in D&D 5e are overpowered? 3392 Techniques for making undead scary again 3393 How do I handle a player exploring the entire dungeon with his familiar? 3394 Can party betrayal be done successfully? 3395 What sound does an owlbear make? 3396 I Roll To Seduce The Dragon! (or, Do doublings of proficiency bonus stack?) 3397 How can I replace a player character with an impostor without alerting the group? 3398 As DM, how do I deal with PCs that expect everything in the game to be relevant to the story? 3399 Can multiple Bags of Holding banish Tiamat? 3400 Resources for Complex Puzzle-Traps 3401 Skills the player has, but the character doesn’t vs. skills the character has, but the player doesn’t 3402 Can a red dragon be boiled to death? 3403 Problems Regarding a Mary-Sue type Player Character 3404 How do you handle greedy shadowrunners? 3405 What makes the Forgotten Realms forgotten? 3406 Does the Rules Compendium overrule the core books? 3407 How do I avoid clichés while improvising? 3408 Does the Dueling Fighting Style prevent using a shield? 3409 What do MAD and SAD mean? 3410 When do Lair Actions occur? 3411 Clarification of Blink Mechanics, or Should Someone have Punched in my Sandwich? 3412 Can an unconscious person drink a potion? 3413 How far does a rogue move when dashing twice using Cunning Action? 3414 How loud/obvious is a wizard casting a spell? 3415 How can a character escape after being engulfed by a shambling mound? 3416 What happens when you put a Portable Hole inside a Bag of Holding while on the Astral plane? 3417 What happens to dying PCs when combat ends? 3418 What is a spellcaster for the purpose of magic item attunement? 3419 Do teleportation spells conserve momentum? 3420 How do I know which printing of the PHB I have? 3421 How can I, as DM, avoid the Conga Line of Death occurring when implementing some form of flanking rule? 3422 Creating the personality of a character different from myself 3423 How many editions of Dungeons & Dragons are there? 3424 Should I take a side in an external player conflict, or let my game die? 3425 How to deal with sniping spellcaster PCs? 3426 Can massive damage knock out rather than causing instant death? 3427 How should I handle retconning (or not) a session with a drunk player and character deaths? 3428 Who actually makes the Magic Books that boost stats? 3429 Unhate-able Villains 3430 My DM asked me to stop roleplaying hostility toward another PC, but it fits my character 3431 Can you cast Invisibility on a large box and hide inside? 3432 How can I prevent a TPK without obvious Deus Ex Machina? 3433 Im feeling like my character doesnt fit the campaign 3434 Can you cast Teleport to teleport to a ship, even if its not in a fixed location? 3435 8 hour sessions require a meal! How can we incorporate meal breaks into the game itself? 3436 How To Divide Up Loot? 3437 How does failure work in Dungeon World? How does it move the story forward? 3438 Can you escape a Maze spell by turning into a Minotaur? 3439 What happens if a caster is surprised while casting a spell with a long casting time? 3440 How do I cater to the Three Stooges and good roleplayers at the same time? 3441 Whose portrait is printed on the Waterdhavian gold coin? 3442 Does flanking always grant advantage, or is it up to discussion? 3443 Casting multiple spells in a single round 3444 Is a critical failure on a natural 1 a rule or house rule? 3445 Is the Warlocks Awakened Mind telepathy two-way, or only one-way? 3446 When rolling percentages, do 1d100 and two d10s (percentiles) share the same probabilities? 3447 Does a bard have to play a musical instrument when using it as a spellcasting focus? 3448 Is the omission of a racial +2 to wisdom intentional? 3449 Do magic items really cost at least as much to create as they do to purchase? 3450 Im a quarter Draconian, a quarter Dragonborn and half Half-Dragon? 3451 Does Evasion allow half damage even when unconscious? 3452 How do I deal with players who make friends with goblins? 3453 How do we feed a character whose mouth is magically sewn shut? 3454 If a secret door is noticed with a DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) roll, dont most characters notice it passively? 3455 I killed a PCs animal companion at the end of last session, but later realized it should have survived; what are my options? 3456 Techniques for making high level D&D play more manageable? 3457 Is a Dragonwrought Kobold a True Dragon? 3458 Our group keeps dying during the Lost Mine of Phandelver campaign. What are we doing wrong? 3459 What happens if you cast Resurrection on a found body part? 3460 Sentinel Raven uses too much awesome magic 3461 Can you play pen & paper roleplaying games over the Internet? 3462 In what medium does D&D get played nowadays? 3463 How to deal with a player who “jumps the gun” with premature rules-lawyering? 3464 Randomly-generating weather for a sandbox campaign 3465 Does a short combat or casting one spell interrupt a Long Rest? 3466 A player made a 4th-level character for our new game and didnt tell me. Now what? 3467 How do I play a quiet, lone wolf character but also engage my group? 3468 Can a lich redeem itself? 3469 How to avoid the determinism of Passive Perception 3470 How do I keep my players from focusing too deeply on unimportant details? 3471 How to avoid favoritism when only one PC pulls on plot hooks? 3472 How much do I tell new players about new monsters? 3473 How to play a devious character when you are not personally devious? 3474 How do I know which edition of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) the books Im looking at are for? 3475 Can a D&D campaign be successfully used as a Sunday school teaching instrument? 3476 Good examples of RAWs advantages over JPEG? 3477 What do all those cryptic number and letter codes in a lens name mean? 3478 What are the best techniques for photographing overweight people? 3479 What is the exposure triangle? 3480 What is ISO on a digital camera? 3481 When do the differences between APS-C and full frame sensors matter, and why? 3482 What is bokeh, exactly? 3483 How and why do you use an image histogram? 3484 What are your easiest photography beginner tips? 3485 In portrait photography, what is broad lighting? What is short lighting? 3486 What blogs should I be following if I am learning photography? 3487 How do I approach people for a natural look in street photography? 3488 How can I better organise and file my photos? 3489 What is RAW, technically? 3490 Why do breathtaking views turn into boring photos, and how can I do better? 3491 I know what a bad photo is, so why do I keep taking them? 3492 What can I do to get models to take my small camera more seriously? 3493 Why are lenses always round in shape? 3494 Can the sun damage the camera sensor? Under what conditions? 3495 What does an unprocessed RAW file look like? 3496 How do you photograph rain? 3497 What is angle of view in photography? 3498 What historic reasons are there for common aspect ratios? 3499 How should I photograph falling snow? 3500 How much do lens lineups vary across DSLR platforms? 3501 What is Rembrandt lighting, and when do I use it? 3502 Do fluorescent lighting and shutter speed create a problem with color cast? 3503 Is it worth trying to process film shot in 1989? (Fall of the Berlin Wall) 3504 How can I get my portrait subjects to look natural and drop the cheesy smile? 3505 How do I generate high quality prints with an ink jet printer? 3506 What advantages does manual mode have over aperture priority mode? 3507 How do I convert lens focal length (mm) to x-times optical zoom? 3508 How does one focus for landscape photos in very dark conditions? 3509 Is it lenses which make your photographs, not camera bodies? 3510 How do I set the proper exposure for nighttime moon photos? 3511 What kind of photography is still better done with film cameras? 3512 How is ISO implemented in digital cameras? 3513 What am I photographing INSIDE my camera? 3514 Is there a noticeable difference between 1.8 and 1.4 prime lenses? 3515 What is the Golden Ratio and why is it better than the Rule of Thirds? 3516 Are there any downsides to using a good-quality UV filter? 3517 Is there any significant difference between Nikon and Canon? 3518 What exactly determines depth of field? 3519 Where can I find reviews of lenses? 3520 When is black and white likely to enhance an image? 3521 What does f-stop mean? 3522 How to make female chest look bigger? 3523 Why are wide-angle lenses so much more expensive? 3524 How to get the best results for landscape and stars photographs? 3525 What is a diffraction limit? 3526 What should I look for when shopping for my first DSLR? 3527 Why do some lenses cost 10 times as much when the specs are very close? 3528 What are the key photography-related features from Photoshop that are missing in GIMP? 3529 How to compose flowering plants? 3530 Why are SLR mechanisms still prevalent among high-end digital cameras? 3531 Are there reasons to use colour filters with digital cameras? 3532 How do I get started in Astrophotography? 3533 Is watermarking worth it? 3534 What is something you learned recently about your gear that you wish you discovered earlier? 3535 What tools are available for RAW image processing in Linux? 3536 Arent all digital images ultimately just pixel values between 0 - 255? 3537 What should I pay attention to when choosing a tripod? 3538 Is there a free program to (batch) change photo files date to match EXIF? 3539 Is there development in the world of lenses? 3540 What is moiré? How can we avoid it? 3541 Why dont most cameras support PNG format? 3542 Whats a good strategy for choosing which photos to keep? 3543 What makes this interior photo look unrealistic? 3544 Why do pro photographers use huge lenses to take portrait shots? 3545 Whats the difference between saturation and vibrance in Lightroom? 3546 What is Ansel Adams Zone System? 3547 What are the first few photography books someone should read? 3548 Are Windows Photo Viewer rotations lossless? 3549 What is aperture, and how does it affect my photographs? 3550 What does expanded ISO mean? 3551 Why do light sources appear as stars sometimes? 3552 Is camera flash actually harmful to infants or newborns? 3553 What is the difference between a pentaprism and a pentamirror? 3554 Why are Red, Green, and Blue the primary colors of light? 3555 What methods can be used to micro-adjust autofocus of a camera body to a particular lens? 3556 Who, or what, is an Uncle Bob? 3557 Manual photography cheat sheet — where can I find one, or what should be on it? 3558 Why arent all viewfinders 100%? 3559 What can be done using a 18-55mm lens? 3560 What is the best way to remove texture from a scanned textured photo paper? 3561 What is tone mapping? How does it relate to HDR? 3562 How can I backup my RAW photos while travelling without Internet access? 3563 Where to get community-based feedback on my photos online? 3564 Why is a dark-room safelight safe? 3565 What should I look for in a monitor for photo processing? 3566 Is there a general formula for image size vs. print size? 3567 Which software to assemble a time-lapse from images? 3568 Do megapixels matter with modern sensor technology? 3569 Why is the 50mm prime lens the most standard? 3570 Which tools are good for creating panoramas/stitching multiple photos? 3571 How can one learn to shoot with both eyes open, and what are the advantages? 3572 Why do photo cameras lose focus when you zoom, when movie or TV cameras keep it? 3573 Whats the difference between CCD and CMOS image sensors? 3574 What is the best way to synchronize Adobe Lightroom databases between two computers? 3575 What quality to choose when converting to JPG? 3576 Can anyone suggest books/resources on the artistic side of photography? 3577 What image-quality characteristics make a lens good or bad? 3578 What does STM mean on a Canon lens? 3579 What apertures are required to enable autofocus, including cross-type or high-precision focusing, on Canon DSLR cameras? 3580 Why do we use RGB instead of wavelengths to represent colours? 3581 How can I take pictures through a skyscraper, airplane, or train window? 3582 What is the best way to clean lenses and filters? 3583 What are good photography projects? 3584 How to shift EXIF date/time created by time in days, hours, minutes? 3585 What is the Rule of 600 in astrophotography? 3586 Do professionals really never use a 24-70 lens? 3587 What is the Rule of Odds? 3588 Which focal-length lens is usually used for portrait photography, and why? 3589 How can I get photos showing the shaft of light effect? 3590 How do I achieve the technique which creates the illusion of busy locations being empty? 3591 How did photography work before auto-focus was invented? 3592 How many photos should I keep? 3593 What technique and camera settings should I use to capture lightning strikes? 3594 Should I buy an original manufacturer battery, or is a generic brand OK? 3595 Is it better to shoot with a higher ISO, or use lower ISO and raise the exposure in post-processing? 3596 How can I maximize the blurry background, sharp subject (bokeh) effect? 3597 HDR then Panorama, or Panorama then HDR? 3598 How do constant aperture zoom lenses work? 3599 What is crop factor and how does it relate to focal length? 3600 Has my idea for a time lapse technique been used before? 3601 Does this telescope only have a 4 blade aperture? 3602 Why does fungus form in lenses, and how to get rid of it? 3603 What is the Rule of Thirds? 3604 Whats the best way to get constructive critique of your photographs? 3605 Should I keep Image Stabilization (IS) off when I do not actually need it? 3606 Should higher ISOs really be preferred (all other things being equal)? 3607 Is switching to DNG worthwhile? 3608 Does Photoshop have an equivalent to Gimps Color to Alpha? 3609 How can I get dramatic shallow DOF with a kit lens? 3610 What does the number of elements and groups in a lens mean? 3611 What are the best sites to share photo galleries with friends? 3612 Why dont DSLRs come equipped with classic focusing screens (split prism, etc)? 3613 What does it mean for a photograph to be high key? 3614 What photo management software would you recommend for Linux? 3615 Are there cameras that can photograph Wi-Fi/WLAN or mobile phone radiation? 3616 What are the pros and cons when shooting in RAW vs JPEG? 3617 Is digital zoom really useful? 3618 Is there any photography equipment designed to ease use for the disabled? 3619 How does aperture work without cropping the image hitting the sensor? 3620 Unsharp mask - what do the parameters do? 3621 What are common beginner mistakes in photography? 3622 How do I calculate the distance of an object in a photo? 3623 What is the difference between EF and EF-S lenses? 3624 What are the dangers of removing a lens while the camera is on? 3625 Any good tutorials for learning how to post-process images? 3626 Is there a sane reason why ¹⁄₁₂₅ is not, instead, exactly half of ¹⁄₆₀? 3627 How to explain that the .jpg (digital file) of my photograph isnt free? 3628 Can you tell from a blurry photo if focus was too close or too far? 3629 How can I backup my photos while travelling? 3630 What is Hyperfocal Distance? 3631 When best to use Multi-Zone/Matrix, Spot, or Center-Weight exposure metering modes? 3632 Are there disadvantages to a prosumer camera for a beginner, aside from cost? 3633 Why do it in-camera rather than in post-processing? 3634 Is crop-factor a bad thing? 3635 How do I tell which point-and-shoot cameras take good low light photos? 3636 How many actuations are too many actuations? 3637 How do I combine multiple exposures for action shots? 3638 What should I consider when using DSLRs in cold weather? 3639 What can a fisheye lens be useful for? 3640 Why is a 1 sensor actually 13.2 × 8.8mm? 3641 What are the advantages and disadvantages of using auto ISO on a DSLR? 3642 Why is there an ISO setting when shooting raw? 3643 How does one create the Dave Hill effect for portraits/action shots? 3644 What does it really mean that telephoto lenses flatten scenes? 3645 Why use a dedicated light meter instead of the one built into the camera? 3646 Why dont cameras offer more than 3 colour channels? (Or do they?) 3647 How do you photograph a lunar eclipse? 3648 How were photographs printed in newspapers in 1929? 3649 What software can show my most frequently used focal length? 3650 Why is giving clients RAW files such a sensitive matter among photographers? 3651 Should I get DX for my APS-C camera, or FX lenses in case I upgrade to full-frame in the future? 3652 What is the best way for a hobbyist to start generating income from photos? 3653 Is there good free software for editing Canon RAW files? 3654 Whats the best way to store over 400 GB of digital photos? 3655 If an image is rotated losslessly, why does the file size change? 3656 Will too much time-lapse photography reduce a DSLRs life, or cause any other damage? 3657 What methods do macro photographers use to get so close to butterflies, bees, insects and the like? 3658 What is the point of the depressible peg on a quick release plate? 3659 Whats the point of capturing 14 bit images and editing on 8 bit monitors? 3660 Why do stars appear as circles, not points? 3661 How to get a miniature effect on pictures without special equipment? 3662 What are the must-have filters for a new photographer? 3663 How can I get sharp manual focus despite poor eyesight? 3664 Does my crop sensor camera actually turn my lenses into a longer focal length? 3665 What is the best way to clean the sensor on a interchangeable lens camera (mirrorless or digital SLR)? 3666 What should one look for when buying a used lens? 3667 What are alternatives to a tripod when I cant take one along? 3668 In which situations should I use my circular polarizing filter? 3669 What is the difference between a linear and a circular polarizer? 3670 Why no zoom lenses with a maximum aperture wider than f/2.8? 3671 Focus problem vs. motion blur vs. camera shake - how to tell the difference? 3672 Why are some big telephoto lenses so expensive compared to telescopes? 3673 Why are some lens hoods petal shaped and others not? 3674 What is the difference between digital high ISO noise and film grain? 3675 Why does a bigger sensor lead to a shallower depth of field? 3676 How can I get a good HDR image from a single RAW file? 3677 Are equipment reviews from websites like kenrockwell.com and bythom.com reliable? 3678 If I swallowed my SD Card would it be readable when it emerged? 3679 Why do people recommend 50mm or other prime lenses as starting lenses for learning photography? 3680 Why is The Steerage hailed one of the greatest photographs of all time? 3681 How to reproduce a photo with silhouette and bokeh? 3682 How can I show a slope? Even mountain roads appear flat in my photos 3683 What is back-focusing? 3684 How to nail focus for DSLR astrophotography? 3685 What is a macro lens? 3686 What makes a photo a good photo? 3687 Should I be shooting in RAW even though Im a beginner that doesnt know how to retouch photos yet? 3688 Why do flashes make a whistling sound when recycling? 3689 Does Auto White-Balance Really Work? How? 3690 When you zoom in with a lens on an SLR why does the lens go in then out? 3691 How do I interpret an MTF Chart? 3692 How do I give someone a critique of their photograph? 3693 How can I take advantage of fog in my photographs? 3694 Why dont they make all DSLRs with an electronic shutter? 3695 Whats a concise Im not dangerous phrase for a business card? 3696 Is GPU or CPU more important for Photoshop and Lightroom? 3697 What are the major differences between these camera series by Canon? 3698 How to have colors in Milky-way? 3699 How can I take shallow depth of field photos with a point-and-shoot camera? 3700 How can I test a new lens to make sure it is operating correctly? 3701 Why are there no dark yellows, or bright violets? 3702 Image rejected by Shutterstock because the main subject is out of focus and it contains noise 3703 Do sensors wear out? 3704 Why take diagonal photos? 3705 What is bokeh panorama (also called the Brenizer method)? 3706 How can I use my dSLR or mirrorless camera as a webcam? 3707 Is version control software used for photos? 3708 What situations are best suited for spot metering? 3709 How does one develop good photographic vision and style? 3710 Whats the best number of shots to combine to produce an HDR photo? 3711 What should one consider when choosing a style of tripod head? 3712 Is there any practical difference between saving at 300ppi or 72ppi? 3713 How do I capture the milky way? 3714 How to white-balance photos shot in mixed-lighting environments? 3715 Should I shoot underexposed photos? 3716 How do I copyright my photographs? 3717 How do I use spot metering? 3718 Better to buy an older high-level camera or newer entry-level camera? 3719 How does autofocus work? 3720 Whats the difference between using black and white mode in-camera, and converting in post? 3721 Why are tripods forbidden in some public spaces and how to deal with it? 3722 Can I publish photos taken in public legally? 3723 How are SpaceX rocket launches filmed? 3724 How can I know what speed card to get for my camera? 3725 What are some tips for shooting in low light? 3726 Do good lenses really last a lifetime? 3727 What software is focused on reviewing and organizing images? 3728 Should changing the shutter speed affect the moons color? 3729 What attributes should I look for when buying batteries for a flash? 3730 Is there a trick to shooting large group portraits without blinkers? 3731 Is there a software to automatically crop a scan of multiple images? 3732 What is one stop? 3733 How do I choose a title for a photograph? 3734 What do I need to get photos with a unifom black background (not with post)? 3735 Lightroom vs. Elements vs. Photoshop: Side-by-side comparison? 3736 Technically, why is the out of focus area blurred more when using a bigger aperture? 3737 Does it make sense to put an expensive lens on a cheap camera? 3738 Why is 18% grey considered to be in the middle for photography? 3739 Whats the difference between Adobe RGB and sRGB and which should I set in my camera? 3740 Do super-super-lightweight tripods exist? 3741 Why store both JPEG and raw? 3742 How do I keep the horizon straight when taking a photo (without a tripod)? 3743 What kind of camera do I need to capture deep space images? 3744 How do you find out the sweet spot of a lens? 3745 How can I hold my camera steady? 3746 Without modification, is the built-in pop-up flash EVER appropriate? 3747 What makes a strong wide-angle composition? 3748 (How) should I start with film photography? 3749 What are good gifts between $50 and $100 for photographers? 3750 What is the definition of a prime lens? 3751 Help motivate me to use my SLRs manual mode 3752 Why do higher end lenses use USM instead of STM? 3753 How does automatic sensor cleaning work? 3754 How does the dynamic range of the human eye compare to that of digital cameras? 3755 How can I calculate what the effect of an extension tube will be? 3756 Should I buy a camera with kit lens, or body plus lens separately? 3757 What options are there for a camera bag that does not look like one? 3758 Why am I unable to capture as many stars as I can see with my eyes with my new DSLR? 3759 What are the best techniques for making great photographs of LEGO creations? 3760 Why does storing a long exposure photo take almost as long as the exposure time itself? 3761 Why do people like square photos? 3762 How much benefit can one expect from a monopod? 3763 How does Kelvin for color temperature relate to Kelvin for actual temperature? 3764 Do I really need a fast 50mm lens? 3765 What is the Diagonal Method and should I use it instead of The Rule of Thirds? 3766 What factors cause or prevent generational loss when JPEGs are recompressed multiple times? 3767 How can I stop my HDR shots looking so fake? 3768 How was photo data processed and transferred back to Earth from satellites before digital photography became commonplace? 3769 What do Pentax and Sigma DSLRs offer that differs from Canon and Nikon? 3770 What is the advantage to back-button autofocus? 3771 What is an efficient way to digitize a family photo collection? 3772 How can knowledge of human perception of color be used in photography? 3773 What does a lens hood do? 3774 Are stock photo sites a viable source of income? 3775 Is it worth to upgrade from Canon 50mm f/1.8 to Canon 50mm f/1.4 on 550d? 3776 How to batch edit a collection of raw files in Darktable? 3777 How to capture the scene exactly as my eyes can see? 3778 How do Micro 4/3s cameras compare with DSLR cameras? 3779 Whats the best way to scan in hundreds of pictures? 3780 CSI image resolution enhance: How real is it? 3781 Does a photographer take pictures or make pictures? 3782 How can I create this medieval look using an entry-level camera like the Nikon D3300? 3783 How do you make the most stunning sunrise and sunset photos? 3784 What are the best online photo classes? 3785 Is it normal business practice for a contest site to solicit submissions and then, later, ask for a fee? 3786 What license do I use when I dont want stock image companies charging people money for photos? 3787 Why cant the ISO level on most digital cameras be set below 80? 3788 What do you learn in a BA in Photography that cant be self taught? 3789 How do I get over my shyness when taking photos of strangers? 3790 How does Image Stabilization / Vibration Reduction work? 3791 What is the difference between in-lens image stabilizing and sensor-based image stabilizing? 3792 Why does every digital camera save photos in a directory called DCIM? 3793 What is the best technique for long-exposure photography in good light? 3794 What is the difference between a telephoto lens and a zoom lens? 3795 Are airport x-ray scanners safe for DSLRs / lenses / storage media? 3796 What am I losing when using extension tubes instead of a macro lens? 3797 What does frequency mean in an image? 3798 How can I tell exactly what changed between two images? 3799 Why are my photos not crisp? 3800 Is it better to store edited photos as PSD or TIFF files? 3801 How do mountains affect lighting at sunrise and sunset? 3802 What is T-number / T-stop? 3803 Which lenses should be included in a travel photography kit? 3804 Can I show two sides of a card in one photo? 3805 What is a zone plate? 3806 What cheap colour calibrators are available for Linux? 3807 If I paid for photography am I entitled to raw images? 3808 Can anyone recommend a good open-source photo management platforms for power users? 3809 Why is the blue channel the noisiest? 3810 What does a hexagonal sun tell us about the camera lens/sensor? 3811 Is it true that the best images from all digital cameras can be obtained at ISO 200? 3812 When to use shutter priority instead of aperture priority? 3813 How do I make my photos sharp enough for print or selling online? 3814 What is a pancake lens? 3815 Do I lose anything converting to DNG? 3816 Is there a rule of thumb that I can use to estimate depth of field while shooting? 3817 Why would I want to select an autofocus point? 3818 What options are there for good, cheap online backup of photos? 3819 What is noise in a digital photograph? 3820 Why cant I see bokeh in the viewfinder? 3821 What is this physical filter, shaped like a shallow pyramid? 3822 Tips for photographing a wedding 3823 Why do RAW images look worse than JPEGs in editing programs? 3824 Can one tell, just by looking at a picture, if its a sunset or a sunrise? 3825 What is the advantage of the huge number of AF points? 3826 What are the names for Magics different colour combinations? 3827 What cooperative board games are there that I could safely play with my wife? 3828 How can I beat Big Money in Dominion? 3829 Why would you want to play with a deck bigger than 60 cards in MTG? 3830 Is pretending to want to trade before playing a monopoly card objectionable? 3831 Taking back turns, and forgotten privileges 3832 Does a player win Catan if they forget to count their points? 3833 Boardgaming Online 3834 Countermeasures to analysis paralysis? 3835 Is kingmaking in multiplayer games a problem that can be fixed? 3836 Are Bishops more valuable than Knights? 3837 Can every game of Klondike-Solitaire be solved? 3838 Should I trash Copper or Silver with Mine? 3839 Do my own villages/cities interrupt my longest road in Catan? 3840 Is it possible to design a two player game of skill with absolutely no luck? 3841 In MTG, what happens when a player loses in multiplayer? 3842 How do you make Settlers of Catan work well for 2 players? (Problems and play-tested solution described, alternatives requested) 3843 Which property group colour gives the best ROI , undeveloped or fully developed, in Monopoly? 3844 What are some good games or techniques for helping kids learn to lose gracefully? 3845 What happens if both players have the ability to pump their creature an unlimited number of times? 3846 Monopoly: Do I Collect Rent If I Am In Jail? 3847 There seem to be several different scoring systems for fields/cities in Carcassonne -- which is correct? 3848 How can I tell the difference between early Magic: The Gathering card editions? 3849 How do you calculate the likelihood of drawing certain cards in your opening hand? 3850 What exactly was so broken about Urzas Block? 3851 In Magic, when can I tap my opponents creatures to prevent them from attacking? 3852 What are mistakes beginners should avoid in Dominion? 3853 How can I improve my deck building skills? 3854 In Settlers of Catan, how do you overcome bad initial settlement placement? 3855 Must a player take a jump in checkers? 3856 Munchkin as a two player game 3857 Games that have no element of luck. 3858 Is there much strategy and planning in 7-Wonders or is mostly luck? 3859 Is giving resources away for free allowed? 3860 Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? 3861 How to mitigate bandwagon attacking from players? 3862 How can I play games with closed information with players who cheat? 3863 Land ratio vs mana curve 3864 How much would it cost to get started with Magic: The Gathering? 3865 What are good standard strategies for Carcassonne ? 3866 What are good general strategies for Pandemic? 3867 What techniques should I use to teach my 5-year old to play chess? 3868 In Magic: The Gathering, can I include a card in my deck that I cant play based on my land setup? 3869 Am I technically allowed to look up cards during a Magic tournament match? 3870 Why do some people use fetchlands in mono-colored decks? 3871 Does newer card text on a Magic: The Gathering card override the old wording? 3872 Can I cast a spell after a certain part of the stack is resolved in MTG? 3873 Which resources are better at the start of a Catan game? 3874 Can a settlement disrupt roads in Settlers of Catan 3875 Whats the deal with the new Wastes land and the diamond symbol on it? 3876 What are good placement strategies for Stratego? 3877 Do you collect $200 in Monopoly if you dont ask for it? 3878 Beginner Power Grid strategy 3879 Board games for two players 3880 Is prompting players with alternate moves poor etiquette? 3881 Can infinite scry 1 be shortcut by searching through your deck? 3882 Why is Pot of Greed banned? 3883 What is summoning sickness and how does it affect my creatures? 3884 In Catan, can I ask how many cards are in a players hand? 3885 How can I tell when to take a mulligan in Magic? 3886 Games that are quick to teach to new people, yet still fun and strategical 3887 Does my opponent need to prove his creature has morph? 3888 Does an ability resolve if the source of the ability leaves the battlefield? 3889 Good board games for single player 3890 How do you place your initial settlements in Settlers of Catan? 3891 What is the optimal strategy in Quantum Tic Tac Toe? 3892 Setup for more than 4 players in Dominion? 3893 Which of the 5 resources in Settlers of Catan (base version) is most important? Why? 3894 How can I estimate my chances to win a Risk battle? 3895 What happens if the legend rule doesnt apply to only one of a pair of legendary creatures with the same name? 3896 Which program to chose when designing my own cards? 3897 What are some alternatives to using dice in Settlers of Catan? 3898 Whats the difference between a tactic and a strategy? 3899 How is Test of Faith resolved? 3900 Does a creature with Lifelink provide lifegain equal to its power, or the defenders toughness? 3901 When should I buy copper in Dominion? 3902 Why is the strong 1NT so prevalent in Bridge? 3903 Which alternative methods of choosing a starting player actually WORK? 3904 Are the A-sides and B-sides of the wonder boards really balanced? 3905 What do you recommend to learn Go? 3906 Can instants be played after I decide not to block? 3907 If you pass GO, do you collect 200 at the end of the turn or as you pass GO? 3908 What order do triggered abilities happen in if multiple things trigger at the same time? 3909 Why are there fewer board games with a triangular grid? 3910 In Monopoly, Is it OK for a third party to make a trade with a player who is about to lose? 3911 What are the most busted cards in Agricola? 3912 How do you play the Master Spy in Guillotine? 3913 What is a safe and accurate technique for shuffling cards? 3914 Pandemic and Forbidden Island - How similar are they? 3915 Why do mana abilities not go on the stack? 3916 How do game designers come up with suggested (or minimum) age requirements for games? 3917 How should I approach teaching Magic:The Gathering to a new player? 3918 How do you determine the winner of a hand? 3919 Good games for playing in a bar 3920 Should I get $200 for passing Go if I then get a card that says dont collect $200? 3921 In Ticket to Ride, how do you overcome bad initial tickets? 3922 Can you throw animals into the stewpot if you dont have enough pasture room for any of them? 3923 Can a player choose to not pay {0}? 3924 Can there be two winners at the same time in Catan? 3925 How many lands do I need for a Commander deck? 3926 How to play a quicker game of Monopoly? 3927 What is the maximum score in Ticket to Ride USA, and how to aim towards it? 3928 Does anyone have a way to modify Ticket to Ride to accommodate six people? 3929 How Unethical Is A Purely Blocking Move In Ticket To Ride? 3930 What brand of card sleeves are most reliable for Magic the Gathering? 3931 Is adding a parallel word that only intersects the end letter of an existing word allowed in Scrabble? 3932 Why doesnt Undying trigger if a creature with +1/+1 counters dies from -1/-1 counters? 3933 Why is real-money-betting necessary for poker to be fun? 3934 When I put the robber on someone in Settlers of Catan, does the resource I take HAVE to be random? 3935 Comparisons Betwen Deck-Building Games 3936 What makes a cooperative game require multiple players? 3937 How to eliminate advantages gained from the seating position of inferior players? 3938 What is a good opening in Blokus? 3939 Where do you go for the nearest railroad in Monopoly? 3940 Why do people refer to Blue color as U in Magic the Gathering? 3941 What are effective strategies for passing cards in Hearts? 3942 Are general 3-to-1 or specific 2-to-1 ports better in Settlers of Catan? 3943 Is it possible to play 2-player, 2-character Arkham Horror successfully? 3944 Catan: when to buy development cards? 3945 When you Kings Court a Kings Court, when must you pick the three target cards? 3946 Does Scrabble allow playing words which contain diacritics in their original spelling? 3947 Why is Agricola named as such? 3948 Two players would gain control of a creature after it dies — who does? 3949 Is castling still done in the openings in modern chess? 3950 Why is it of high importance to control the center of the board in Chess? 3951 Seating orders effect on Puerto Rico 3952 What is the converted mana cost of a spell with {X} when cast with the Miracle mechanic? 3953 Why does a run of 4 in Cribbage score only 4? 3954 In plain English, how does casting spells and using creature abilities work with the stack and priority? 3955 Why is Skullclamp banned? 3956 What are good strategies against counterspell decks? 3957 Can someone explain the Damage on the Stack rule change? 3958 Why is Homelands considered among the worst Magic expansions? 3959 Is Pandemic harder with fewer players? 3960 What happens when you need to tear-down a hotel but no houses are in the bank in Monopoly? 3961 What are the differences between Chinese and Japanese rules in Go? 3962 What is offensive about the card Stone-Throwing Devils? 3963 What is the most balanced/competitive character set in Citadels? 3964 Why Does Magic Use The Paris Mulligan Rule? 3965 How can we play a shorter but satisfying game of Arkham Horror? 3966 Why does Dryad of the Ilysian Grove grant all basic land types even if it loses all abilities? 3967 How important is memorizing chess openings in casual play? 3968 What can I do to avoid being stuck being able to do nothing in Settlers of Catan? 3969 Was it ever the case that Scrabble tiles had to be placed contiguously? 3970 Interesting boardgames to play with children 3971 What makes a cooperative board game actually a game? 3972 Good General Strategies for Agricola? 3973 I have the Dominion base set only, in what order should I buy the expansions? 3974 How can I play Dominion with 5+ players without expansions? 3975 Are there any ways to lose in a You cant lose the game game? 3976 Who are Johnny, Timmy, and Spike and what do they do? 3977 In Pandemic, why take the extra step of eradicating a disease after youve cured it? 3978 Does anybody need the 6th epidemic card in Pandemic? 3979 Can I show my resource cards to other players in Settlers of Catan? 3980 What is the best strategy to avoid large farms in Carcassonne? 3981 What is this weird d12 for? 3982 How do I avoid the endless trade negotiations in Settlers of Catan? 3983 What is a good strategy for engaging children in playing go? 3984 If I buy a Mint, do I still get to use the coins from the treasures I played that turn to buy a Grand Market? 3985 How quickly does a player have to say Uno to avoid drawing extra cards? 3986 What is the best way to print cards for my game? 3987 Where can I find good tile layouts for Settlers of Catan? 3988 How does the double strike mechanic interact with other mechanics like lifelink or trample? 3989 Differences between Dixit versions? 3990 What Are The Official Rules for Carcassonne: The River? 3991 What are the differences between the four editions of The Settlers of Catan base game? 3992 How does Intrigue change your general Dominion strategy? 3993 What happens if you roll doubles 3 times then land on Go to jail? 3994 Recommendations for 6-player board game 3995 What are good standard tactics for Dominion? 3996 Help! Im A Cylon! 3997 Can non-creature permanents have +1/+1 counters? 3998 What are good strategies for booster drafts? 3999 How should I ship cards? 4000 If I cant win the game in multiplayer, do my opponents still lose? 4001 Why is Pandemics Bio-terrorist Challenge not recommended with five players? 4002 Is untapping my permanents during the untap step optional? 4003 In Magic: the Gathering, what is being gathered? 4004 Does priority matter in Magic? 4005 Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues 4006 How to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes in a feedforward neural network? 4007 What is the difference between likelihood and probability? 4008 What is the intuition behind beta distribution? 4009 What is the difference between test set and validation set? 4010 Why square the difference instead of taking the absolute value in standard deviation? 4011 Relationship between SVD and PCA. How to use SVD to perform PCA? 4012 The Two Cultures: statistics vs. machine learning? 4013 How to understand the drawbacks of K-means 4014 Bayesian and frequentist reasoning in plain English 4015 Explaining to laypeople why bootstrapping works 4016 Python as a statistics workbench 4017 When conducting multiple regression, when should you center your predictor variables & when should you standardize them? 4018 What happens if the explanatory and response variables are sorted independently before regression? 4019 What is your favorite data analysis cartoon? 4020 What is the difference between fixed effect, random effect and mixed effect models? 4021 Difference between logit and probit models 4022 How to normalize data to 0-1 range? 4023 Is normality testing essentially useless? 4024 Why is Euclidean distance not a good metric in high dimensions? 4025 What is the trade-off between batch size and number of iterations to train a neural network? 4026 How to understand degrees of freedom? 4027 Bagging, boosting and stacking in machine learning 4028 Whats the difference between a confidence interval and a credible interval? 4029 What is the meaning of p values and t values in statistical tests? 4030 Famous statistical quotations 4031 What does AUC stand for and what is it? 4032 Why does a 95% Confidence Interval (CI) not imply a 95% chance of containing the mean? 4033 What should I do when my neural network doesnt learn? 4034 Interpretation of Rs lm() output 4035 Is $R^2$ useful or dangerous? 4036 How would you explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to a layperson? 4037 Is there any reason to prefer the AIC or BIC over the other? 4038 How would you explain covariance to someone who understands only the mean? 4039 What is batch size in neural network? 4040 What are common statistical sins? 4041 What are the differences between Factor Analysis and Principal Component Analysis? 4042 How to know that your machine learning problem is hopeless? 4043 How to choose a predictive model after k-fold cross-validation? 4044 What is the best introductory Bayesian statistics textbook? 4045 Algorithms for automatic model selection 4046 What is the difference between data mining, statistics, machine learning and AI? 4047 Which mean to use and when? 4048 When (and why) should you take the log of a distribution (of numbers)? 4049 How should I transform non-negative data including zeros? 4050 ROC vs precision-and-recall curves 4051 How to interpret a QQ plot 4052 Why is Newtons method not widely used in machine learning? 4053 What does the hidden layer in a neural network compute? 4054 When should I use lasso vs ridge? 4055 In linear regression, when is it appropriate to use the log of an independent variable instead of the actual values? 4056 Can principal component analysis be applied to datasets containing a mix of continuous and categorical variables? 4057 How to deal with perfect separation in logistic regression? 4058 Rs lmer cheat sheet 4059 What is a data scientist? 4060 How do I get the number of rows of a data.frame in R? 4061 How to summarize data by group in R? 4062 PCA on correlation or covariance? 4063 How exactly does one “control for other variables”? 4064 Generative vs. discriminative 4065 Intuitive explanation for dividing by $n-1$ when calculating standard deviation? 4066 Why the sudden fascination with tensors? 4067 What are the advantages of ReLU over sigmoid function in deep neural networks? 4068 What intuitive explanation is there for the central limit theorem? 4069 How to determine which distribution fits my data best? 4070 Statistics Jokes 4071 Why do we need sigma-algebras to define probability spaces? 4072 A list of cost functions used in neural networks, alongside applications 4073 Choice of K in K-fold cross-validation 4074 Can a probability distribution value exceeding 1 be OK? 4075 Training on the full dataset after cross-validation? 4076 Whats the difference between variance and standard deviation? 4077 What does 1x1 convolution mean in a neural network? 4078 Cohens kappa in plain English 4079 Why is accuracy not the best measure for assessing classification models? 4080 Does Julia have any hope of sticking in the statistical community? 4081 What is the influence of C in SVMs with linear kernel? 4082 How does Keras Embedding layer work? 4083 Gradient Boosting Tree vs Random Forest 4084 How to intuitively explain what a kernel is? 4085 Are large data sets inappropriate for hypothesis testing? 4086 What is the difference between a consistent estimator and an unbiased estimator? 4087 Whats the difference between Normalization and Standardization? 4088 What is the difference between a neural network and a deep neural network, and why do the deep ones work better? 4089 Bottom to top explanation of the Mahalanobis distance? 4090 Whats the difference between principal component analysis and multidimensional scaling? 4091 R vs SAS, why is SAS preferred by private companies? 4092 When is it ok to remove the intercept in a linear regression model? 4093 Deriving the conditional distributions of a multivariate normal distribution 4094 The Sleeping Beauty Paradox 4095 How to reverse PCA and reconstruct original variables from several principal components? 4096 Amazon interview question—probability of 2nd interview 4097 How are the standard errors of coefficients calculated in a regression? 4098 Why are p-values uniformly distributed under the null hypothesis? 4099 Correlations with unordered categorical variables 4100 Does causation imply correlation? 4101 How to choose between Pearson and Spearman correlation? 4102 Help me understand Bayesian prior and posterior distributions 4103 Is Facebook coming to an end? 4104 Pearsons or Spearmans correlation with non-normal data 4105 Obtaining knowledge from a random forest 4106 Crossed vs nested random effects: how do they differ and how are they specified correctly in lme4? 4107 When is R squared negative? 4108 Batch gradient descent versus stochastic gradient descent 4109 Whats the difference between probability and statistics? 4110 Objective function, cost function, loss function: are they the same thing? 4111 What is the difference between linear regression and logistic regression? 4112 Why normalize images by subtracting datasets image mean, instead of the current image mean in deep learning? 4113 Why L1 norm for sparse models 4114 What is the difference between convolutional neural networks, restricted Boltzmann machines, and auto-encoders? 4115 Should one remove highly correlated variables before doing PCA? 4116 What if residuals are normally distributed, but y is not? 4117 What is the difference between linear regression on y with x and x with y? 4118 Why does a time series have to be stationary? 4119 Percentile vs quantile vs quartile 4120 What is the .632+ rule in bootstrapping? 4121 Whats wrong with XKCDs Frequentists vs. Bayesians comic? 4122 Differences between cross validation and bootstrapping to estimate the prediction error 4123 Free statistical textbooks 4124 What is the difference between off-policy and on-policy learning? 4125 Difference between neural net weight decay and learning rate 4126 Numerical example to understand Expectation-Maximization 4127 Why does the Cauchy distribution have no mean? 4128 Is there an intuitive interpretation of $A^TA$ for a data matrix $A$? 4129 Removal of statistically significant intercept term increases $R^2$ in linear model 4130 Nested cross validation for model selection 4131 How would you explain the difference between correlation and covariance? 4132 How does a Support Vector Machine (SVM) work? 4133 What exactly are keys, queries, and values in attention mechanisms? 4134 Most interesting statistical paradoxes 4135 Books for self-studying time series analysis? 4136 Clustering on the output of t-SNE 4137 At each step of a limiting infinite process, put 10 balls in an urn and remove one at random. How many balls are left? 4138 How to choose between t-test or non-parametric test e.g. Wilcoxon in small samples 4139 When to use gamma GLMs? 4140 Assessing approximate distribution of data based on a histogram 4141 ASA discusses limitations of $p$-values - what are the alternatives? 4142 Bias and variance in leave-one-out vs K-fold cross validation 4143 If 900 out of 1000 people say a car is blue, what is the probability that it is blue? 4144 Is it possible to have a pair of Gaussian random variables for which the joint distribution is not Gaussian? 4145 Whats a real-world example of overfitting? 4146 What skills are required to perform large scale statistical analyses? 4147 Intuitive explanation of unit root 4148 Comprehensive list of activation functions in neural networks with pros/cons 4149 What misused statistical terms are worth correcting? 4150 PCA and proportion of variance explained 4151 Why are neural networks becoming deeper, but not wider? 4152 Is it possible to train a neural network without backpropagation? 4153 Where should I place dropout layers in a neural network? 4154 What is an embedding layer in a neural network? 4155 Difference between confidence intervals and prediction intervals 4156 Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in layman terms 4157 Detecting a given face in a database of facial images 4158 How do you calculate precision and recall for multiclass classification using confusion matrix? 4159 tanh activation function vs sigmoid activation function 4160 KL divergence between two univariate Gaussians 4161 Difference between standard error and standard deviation 4162 What does a closed-form solution mean? 4163 US Election results 2016: What went wrong with prediction models? 4164 When should linear regression be called machine learning? 4165 Calculating optimal number of bins in a histogram 4166 What is covariance in plain language? 4167 How to select kernel for SVM? 4168 Conditional inference trees vs traditional decision trees 4169 How to annoy a statistical referee? 4170 T-test for non normal when N>50? 4171 What loss function for multi-class, multi-label classification tasks in neural networks? 4172 What are the main differences between K-means and K-nearest neighbours? 4173 What is rank deficiency, and how to deal with it? 4174 Best series of colors to use for differentiating series in publication-quality plots 4175 Why use gradient descent for linear regression, when a closed-form math solution is available? 4176 Locating freely available data samples 4177 Why does the Lasso provide Variable Selection? 4178 Explain Curse of dimensionality to a child 4179 What book would you recommend for non-statistician scientists? 4180 Softmax vs Sigmoid function in Logistic classifier? 4181 Does an unbalanced sample matter when doing logistic regression? 4182 Diagnostic plots for count regression 4183 Is this really how p-values work? Can a million research papers per year be based on pure randomness? 4184 Whats the difference between correlation and simple linear regression? 4185 Using k-fold cross-validation for time-series model selection 4186 What is the difference between zero-inflated and hurdle models? 4187 Including the interaction but not the main effects in a model 4188 Validation Error less than training error? 4189 How scared should we be about convergence warnings in lme4 4190 Is there an intuitive explanation why multicollinearity is a problem in linear regression? 4191 Interpreting plot.lm() 4192 What is the best way to identify outliers in multivariate data? 4193 What is the role of the logarithm in Shannons entropy? 4194 What are examples where a naive bootstrap fails? 4195 Why do we need to normalize data before principal component analysis (PCA)? 4196 Simple algorithm for online outlier detection of a generic time series 4197 Understanding variance intuitively 4198 Can someone explain Gibbs sampling in very simple words? 4199 What is the benefit of breaking up a continuous predictor variable? 4200 Why isnt Logistic Regression called Logistic Classification? 4201 Generate a random variable with a defined correlation to an existing variable(s) 4202 What, precisely, is a confidence interval? 4203 Why is ANOVA taught / used as if it is a different research methodology compared to linear regression? 4204 Under what conditions does correlation imply causation? 4205 How to choose nlme or lme4 R library for mixed effects models? 4206 Is there a way to remember the definitions of Type I and Type II Errors? 4207 Feature selection and cross-validation 4208 How much do we know about p-hacking in the wild? 4209 How to calculate Area Under the Curve (AUC), or the c-statistic, by hand 4210 Who Are The Bayesians? 4211 Essential data checking tests 4212 What is the relation between k-means clustering and PCA? 4213 Solving for regression parameters in closed-form vs gradient descent 4214 When to use regularization methods for regression? 4215 Convergence in probability vs. almost sure convergence 4216 If mean is so sensitive, why use it in the first place? 4217 How to efficiently manage a statistical analysis project? 4218 If I have a 58% chance of winning a point, whats the chance of me winning a ping pong game to 21, win by 2? 4219 Is it necessary to scale the target value in addition to scaling features for regression analysis? 4220 Mean absolute error OR root mean squared error? 4221 How to apply Neural Network to time series forecasting? 4222 Feature selection for final model when performing cross-validation in machine learning 4223 The Book of Why by Judea Pearl: Why is he bashing statistics? 4224 Given the power of computers these days, is there ever a reason to do a chi-squared test rather than Fishers exact test? 4225 Relationship between poisson and exponential distribution 4226 How to produce a pretty plot of the results of k-means cluster analysis? 4227 Correlation between a nominal (IV) and a continuous (DV) variable 4228 Does the variance of a sum equal the sum of the variances? 4229 How does the reparameterization trick for VAEs work and why is it important? 4230 Why to optimize max log probability instead of probability 4231 What is meant by a random variable? 4232 Are there any examples where Bayesian credible intervals are obviously inferior to frequentist confidence intervals 4233 How to compute precision/recall for multiclass-multilabel classification? 4234 What is the lasso in regression analysis? 4235 What is the difference between Multiclass and Multilabel Problem 4236 How to tell if data is clustered enough for clustering algorithms to produce meaningful results? 4237 Principled way of collapsing categorical variables with many levels? 4238 Rules of thumb for modern statistics 4239 How to sum a standard deviation? 4240 How does the correlation coefficient differ from regression slope? 4241 How should outliers be dealt with in linear regression analysis? 4242 Loadings vs eigenvectors in PCA: when to use one or another? 4243 What do you call an average that does not include outliers? 4244 How is it possible that validation loss is increasing while validation accuracy is increasing as well 4245 Kendall Tau or Spearmans rho? 4246 When to use an offset in a Poisson regression? 4247 What is a complete list of the usual assumptions for linear regression? 4248 What is an uninformative prior? Can we ever have one with truly no information? 4249 What is the single most influential book every statistician should read? 4250 Is there a minimum sample size required for the t-test to be valid? 4251 Calculating the parameters of a Beta distribution using the mean and variance 4252 Resampling / simulation methods: monte carlo, bootstrapping, jackknifing, cross-validation, randomization tests, and permutation tests 4253 Euclidean distance is usually not good for sparse data (and more general case)? 4254 What are principal component scores? 4255 An example: LASSO regression using glmnet for binary outcome 4256 How to plot ROC curves in multiclass classification? 4257 When to use Fisher and Neyman-Pearson framework? 4258 What are modern, easily used alternatives to stepwise regression? 4259 Line of best fit does not look like a good fit. Why? 4260 Why should I be Bayesian when my model is wrong? 4261 Why havent robust (and resistant) statistics replaced classical techniques? 4262 What is the meaning of All models are wrong, but some are useful 4263 Cross-Validation in plain english? 4264 Subscript notation in expectations 4265 What correlation makes a matrix singular and what are implications of singularity or near-singularity? 4266 What is restricted maximum likelihood and when should it be used? 4267 What do the residuals in a logistic regression mean? 4268 Why is it possible to get significant F statistic (p<.001) but non-significant regressor t-tests? 4269 What is the difference between a link function and a canonical link function for GLM 4270 What are the big problems in statistics? 4271 Mathematician wants the equivalent knowledge to a quality stats degree 4272 Examples for teaching: Correlation does not mean causation 4273 Why does k-means clustering algorithm use only Euclidean distance metric? 4274 Why is ridge regression called ridge, why is it needed, and what happens when $\lambda$ goes to infinity? 4275 When (if ever) is a frequentist approach substantively better than a Bayesian? 4276 How to interpret an inverse covariance or precision matrix? 4277 When is unbalanced data really a problem in Machine Learning? 4278 XKCDs modified Bayes theorem: actually kinda reasonable? 4279 Regarding p-values, why 1% and 5%? Why not 6% or 10%? 4280 Probability of a single real-life future event: What does it mean when they say that Hillary has a 75% chance of winning? 4281 Best way to present a random forest in a publication? 4282 Why is the L2 regularization equivalent to Gaussian prior? 4283 Mutual information versus correlation 4284 Please explain the waiting paradox 4285 Help me understand Support Vector Machines 4286 How to generate uniformly distributed points on the surface of the 3-d unit sphere? 4287 Choosing a clustering method 4288 Can bootstrap be seen as a cure for the small sample size? 4289 What is regularization in plain english? 4290 Whatre the differences between PCA and autoencoder? 4291 What is the reason that a likelihood function is not a pdf? 4292 How to visualize what canonical correlation analysis does (in comparison to what principal component analysis does)? 4293 Likelihood ratio vs Bayes Factor 4294 Skills hard to find in machine learners? 4295 Is there a name for the phenomenon of false positives counterintuitively outstripping true positives 4296 Rules of thumb for minimum sample size for multiple regression 4297 Explain the difference between multiple regression and multivariate regression, with minimal use of symbols/math 4298 What algorithm should I use to detect anomalies on time-series? 4299 How to interpret coefficients in a Poisson regression? 4300 What is the difference between R functions prcomp and princomp? 4301 What is an ablation study? And is there a systematic way to perform it? 4302 Free resources for learning R 4303 On the importance of the i.i.d. assumption in statistical learning 4304 What is a kernel in plain English? 4305 Famous statistical wins and horror stories for teaching purposes 4306 How to obtain the p-value (check significance) of an effect in a lme4 mixed model? 4307 Why not approach classification through regression? 4308 What are disadvantages of using the lasso for variable selection for regression? 4309 Diagnostics for logistic regression? 4310 Shape of confidence interval for predicted values in linear regression 4311 Is there any good reason to use PCA instead of EFA? Also, can PCA be a substitute for factor analysis? 4312 What is the best way to remember the difference between sensitivity, specificity, precision, accuracy, and recall? 4313 Variable selection for predictive modeling really needed in 2016? 4314 What are the major philosophical, methodological, and terminological differences between econometrics and other statistical fields? 4315 How does a simple logistic regression model achieve a 92% classification accuracy on MNIST? 4316 What is global max pooling layer and what is its advantage over maxpooling layer? 4317 What is wrong with extrapolation? 4318 How exactly did statisticians agree to using (n-1) as the unbiased estimator for population variance without simulation? 4319 Bayes regression: how is it done in comparison to standard regression? 4320 Does no correlation imply no causality? 4321 Do not vote, one vote will not reverse election results. What is wrong with this reasoning? 4322 Impractical question: is it possible to find the regression line using a ruler and compass? 4323 How and why do normalization and feature scaling work? 4324 What are good initial weights in a neural network? 4325 Multivariate multiple regression in R 4326 Why does including latitude and longitude in a GAM account for spatial autocorrelation? 4327 Why do neural network researchers care about epochs? 4328 Whats so moment about moments of a probability distribution? 4329 How to split the dataset for cross validation, learning curve, and final evaluation? 4330 Practical questions on tuning Random Forests 4331 What is an intuitive explanation for how PCA turns from a geometric problem (with distances) to a linear algebra problem (with eigenvectors)? 4332 What is the intuition behind SVD? 4333 Model for predicting number of Youtube views of Gangnam Style 4334 What are some of the most common misconceptions about linear regression? 4335 Unified view on shrinkage: what is the relation (if any) between Steins paradox, ridge regression, and random effects in mixed models? 4336 What is the difference between discrete data and continuous data? 4337 What are good RMSE values? 4338 Good GUI for R suitable for a beginner wanting to learn programming in R? 4339 Where to cut a dendrogram? 4340 When to use generalized estimating equations vs. mixed effects models? 4341 Having a job in data-mining without a PhD 4342 Practical thoughts on explanatory vs. predictive modeling 4343 Complete substantive examples of reproducible research using R 4344 What method can be used to detect seasonality in data? 4345 Understanding ROC curve 4346 What is the difference between ZCA whitening and PCA whitening? 4347 Do all interactions terms need their individual terms in regression model? 4348 What makes the Gaussian kernel so magical for PCA, and also in general? 4349 How should tiny $p$-values be reported? (and why does R put a minimum on 2.22e-16?) 4350 A psychology journal banned p-values and confidence intervals; is it indeed wise to stop using them? 4351 Removing duplicated rows data frame in R 4352 How to actually plot a sample tree from randomForest::getTree()? 4353 Understanding stratified cross-validation 4354 How to tune hyperparameters of xgboost trees? 4355 Basic question about Fisher Information matrix and relationship to Hessian and standard errors 4356 What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects? 4357 Is this the solution to the p-value problem? 4358 Covariance and independence? 4359 How to use Pearson correlation correctly with time series 4360 One-hot vs dummy encoding in Scikit-learn 4361 Proper way of using recurrent neural network for time series analysis 4362 How can adding a 2nd IV make the 1st IV significant? 4363 If A and B are correlated with C, why are A and B not necessarily correlated? 4364 Optimization when Cost Function Slow to Evaluate 4365 Is there any *mathematical* basis for the Bayesian vs frequentist debate? 4366 Whats the difference between feed-forward and recurrent neural networks? 4367 What are good basic statistics to use for ordinal data? 4368 Do the predictions of a Random Forest model have a prediction interval? 4369 Is PCA followed by a rotation (such as varimax) still PCA? 4370 What is the relationship between independent component analysis and factor analysis? 4371 What problem do shrinkage methods solve? 4372 How to normalize data between -1 and 1? 4373 What are i.i.d. random variables? 4374 How can an artificial neural network ANN, be used for unsupervised clustering? 4375 What is a saturated model? 4376 When are Log scales appropriate? 4377 ImageNet: what is top-1 and top-5 error rate? 4378 How is the minimum of a set of IID random variables distributed? 4379 Understanding the role of the discount factor in reinforcement learning 4380 Whats the difference between momentum based gradient descent and Nesterovs accelerated gradient descent? 4381 What is the difference between a neural network and a deep belief network? 4382 Assumptions regarding bootstrap estimates of uncertainty 4383 Look and you shall find (a correlation) 4384 What is a good, convincing example in which p-values are useful? 4385 Performance metrics to evaluate unsupervised learning 4386 Hold-out validation vs. cross-validation 4387 Statistics interview questions 4388 Central limit theorem for sample medians 4389 Intuition on the Kullback–Leibler (KL) Divergence 4390 Taleb and the Black Swan 4391 Where did the frequentist-Bayesian debate go? 4392 How to interpret F-measure values? 4393 How to simulate data that satisfy specific constraints such as having specific mean and standard deviation? 4394 Using principal component analysis (PCA) for feature selection 4395 Which pseudo-$R^2$ measure is the one to report for logistic regression (Cox & Snell or Nagelkerke)? 4396 Why bother with the dual problem when fitting SVM? 4397 Why is the Jeffreys prior useful? 4398 Intuitive explanation of Fisher Information and Cramer-Rao bound 4399 How to visualize what ANOVA does? 4400 Is the R language reliable for the field of economics? 4401 Standard errors for lasso prediction using R 4402 How can I help ensure testing data does not leak into training data? 4403 Why would parametric statistics ever be preferred over nonparametric? 4404 40,000 neuroscience papers might be wrong 4405 References containing arguments against null hypothesis significance testing? 4406 How much to pay? A practical problem 4407 Regression with multiple dependent variables? 4408 Random Forest - How to handle overfitting 4409 What does orthogonal mean in the context of statistics? 4410 Why is sample standard deviation a biased estimator of $\sigma$? 4411 KL divergence between two multivariate Gaussians 4412 What is translation invariance in computer vision and convolutional neural network? 4413 Why is multicollinearity not checked in modern statistics/machine learning 4414 Variables are often adjusted (e.g. standardised) before making a model - when is this a good idea, and when is it a bad one? 4415 What is the difference between a partial likelihood, profile likelihood and marginal likelihood? 4416 Why is the square root transformation recommended for count data? 4417 Real-life examples of moving average processes 4418 Why do neural networks need so many training examples to perform? 4419 Is this chart showing the likelihood of a terrorist attack statistically useful? 4420 Maximum likelihood method vs. least squares method 4421 Why is it that natural log changes are percentage changes? What is about logs that makes this so? 4422 Why is logistic regression a linear classifier? 4423 Why is ANOVA equivalent to linear regression? 4424 Why only three partitions? (training, validation, test) 4425 Why does ridge estimate become better than OLS by adding a constant to the diagonal? 4426 What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution? 4427 Criticism of Pearls theory of causality 4428 What is the difference between a nested and a non-nested model? 4429 Why do we minimize the negative likelihood if it is equivalent to maximization of the likelihood? 4430 Clustering with a distance matrix 4431 Does it make sense to add a quadratic term but not the linear term to a model? 4432 Derivation of closed form lasso solution 4433 Reduce Classification Probability Threshold 4434 Explain the xkcd jelly bean comic: What makes it funny? 4435 Do we need a global test before post hoc tests? 4436 How small a quantity should be added to x to avoid taking the log of zero? 4437 Efficient online linear regression 4438 Are bayesians slaves of the likelihood function? 4439 Who created the first standard normal table? 4440 List of situations where a Bayesian approach is simpler, more practical, or more convenient 4441 Why does collecting data until finding a significant result increase Type I error rate? 4442 Wald test for logistic regression 4443 Test if two binomial distributions are statistically different from each other 4444 What is the difference in Bayesian estimate and maximum likelihood estimate? 4445 Perform feature normalization before or within model validation? 4446 Is there a difference between controlling for and ignoring other variables in multiple regression? 4447 If we fail to reject the null hypothesis in a large study, isnt it evidence for the null? 4448 A more definitive discussion of variable selection 4449 What are the worst (commonly adopted) ideas/principles in statistics? 4450 How to statistically compare two time series? 4451 What is the effect of having correlated predictors in a multiple regression model? 4452 What is a contrast matrix? 4453 Software needed to scrape data from graph 4454 Examples of Bayesian and frequentist approach giving different answers 4455 Machine learning cookbook / reference card / cheatsheet? 4456 Brain teaser: How to generate 7 integers with equal probability using a biased coin that has a pr(head) = p? 4457 What does Scientists rise up against statistical significance mean? (Comment in Nature) 4458 Two-tailed tests... Im just not convinced. Whats the point? 4459 Is the hybrid between Fisher and Neyman-Pearson approaches to statistical testing really an incoherent mishmash? 4460 Interpreting Residual and Null Deviance in GLM R 4461 Variance of product of multiple independent random variables 4462 Is standardization needed before fitting logistic regression? 4463 Under what conditions should Likert scales be used as ordinal or interval data? 4464 Questions about how random effects are specified in lmer 4465 Should I use a categorical cross-entropy or binary cross-entropy loss for binary predictions? 4466 What is the difference between estimation and prediction? 4467 How to generate correlated random numbers (given means, variances and degree of correlation)? 4468 Does it ever make sense to treat categorical data as continuous? 4469 Why is tanh almost always better than sigmoid as an activation function? 4470 Which permutation test implementation in R to use instead of t-tests (paired and non-paired)? 4471 Binary classification with strongly unbalanced classes 4472 A generalization of the Law of Iterated Expectations 4473 Period detection of a generic time series 4474 What does the inverse of covariance matrix say about data? (Intuitively) 4475 Advanced statistics books recommendation 4476 What is so cool about de Finettis representation theorem? 4477 Why is the regularization term *added* to the cost function (instead of multiplied etc.)? 4478 Most famous statisticians 4479 A chart of daily cases of COVID-19 in a Russian region looks suspiciously level to me - is this so from the statistics viewpoint? 4480 Why is the validation accuracy fluctuating? 4481 How do you calculate the probability density function of the maximum of a sample of IID uniform random variables? 4482 How can I change the title of a legend in ggplot2? 4483 Data normalization and standardization in neural networks 4484 How does one interpret SVM feature weights? 4485 What is the relationship between a chi squared test and test of equal proportions? 4486 Why doesnt Random Forest handle missing values in predictors? 4487 Does 10 heads in a row increase the chance of the next toss being a tail? 4488 Difference between Random Forest and Extremely Randomized Trees 4489 Is adjusting p-values in a multiple regression for multiple comparisons a good idea? 4490 Is every covariance matrix positive definite? 4491 Measuring entropy/ information/ patterns of a 2d binary matrix 4492 Logistic regression in R resulted in perfect separation (Hauck-Donner phenomenon). Now what? 4493 Optimal number of folds in $K$-fold cross-validation: is leave-one-out CV always the best choice? 4494 How to derive variance-covariance matrix of coefficients in linear regression 4495 Is it meaningful to calculate Pearson or Spearman correlation between two Boolean vectors? 4496 How to calculate pseudo-$R^2$ from Rs logistic regression? 4497 Is it important to scale data before clustering? 4498 Comparing SVM and logistic regression 4499 Are mean normalization and feature scaling needed for k-means clustering? 4500 Why is expectation the same as the arithmetic mean? 4501 Best practice when analysing pre-post treatment-control designs 4502 What are the differences between epoch, batch, and minibatch? 4503 Clustering with K-Means and EM: how are they related? 4504 What is the variance of the weighted mixture of two gaussians? 4505 What are the shortcomings of the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE)? 4506 Are there cases where PCA is more suitable than t-SNE? 4507 How do I test that two continuous variables are independent? 4508 Choosing between LM and GLM for a log-transformed response variable 4509 What are disadvantages of state-space models and Kalman Filter for time-series modelling? 4510 Intuitive explanation of the bias-variance tradeoff? 4511 Why does shrinkage work? 4512 Examples where method of moments can beat maximum likelihood in small samples? 4513 Are all values within a 95% confidence interval equally likely? 4514 Industry vs Kaggle challenges. Is collecting more observations and having access to more variables more important than fancy modelling? 4515 Correlations between continuous and categorical (nominal) variables 4516 Manually Calculating P value from t-value in t-test 4517 Which activation function for output layer? 4518 Is chi-squared always a one-sided test? 4519 Which loss function is correct for logistic regression? 4520 What does standard deviation tell us in non-normal distribution 4521 How should one interpret the comparison of means from different sample sizes? 4522 Adam optimizer with exponential decay 4523 Neural networks vs support vector machines: are the second definitely superior? 4524 Recurrent vs Recursive Neural Networks: Which is better for NLP? 4525 Linear model with log-transformed response vs. generalized linear model with log link 4526 Box-Cox like transformation for independent variables? 4527 Bootstrap vs. jackknife 4528 Confidence interval for Bernoulli sampling 4529 Introduction to statistics for mathematicians 4530 Alternatives to logistic regression in R 4531 What is the intuition behind conditional Gaussian distributions? 4532 Resources for learning Markov chain and hidden Markov models 4533 How exactly does a random effects model in econometrics relate to mixed models outside of econometrics? 4534 Is ridge regression useless in high dimensions ($n \ll p$)? How can OLS fail to overfit? 4535 Interview question: If correlation doesnt imply causation, how do you detect causation? 4536 Why continue to teach and use hypothesis testing (when confidence intervals are available)? 4537 What is the difference between N and N-1 in calculating population variance? 4538 What does having constant variance in a linear regression model mean? 4539 Testing equality of coefficients from two different regressions 4540 Does the optimal number of trees in a random forest depend on the number of predictors? 4541 How to decide on the correct number of clusters? 4542 Difference between kernel and filter in CNN 4543 R libraries for deep learning 4544 How to interpret type I, type II, and type III ANOVA and MANOVA? 4545 How can a distribution have infinite mean and variance? 4546 What is the difference between a particle filter (sequential Monte Carlo) and a Kalman filter? 4547 How to apply standardization/normalization to train- and testset if prediction is the goal? 4548 What is the difference Cross-entropy and KL divergence? 4549 Are residuals predicted minus actual or actual minus predicted 4550 What is the objective function of PCA? 4551 Is it wrong to rephrase 1 in 80 deaths is caused by a car accident as 1 in 80 people die as a result of a car accident? 4552 Reference book for linear algebra applied to statistics? 4553 How do R and Python complement each other in data science? 4554 Statistics and causal inference? 4555 What are the breakthroughs in Statistics of the past 15 years? 4556 Are we exaggerating importance of model assumption and evaluation in an era when analyses are often carried out by laymen 4557 ANOVA assumption normality/normal distribution of residuals 4558 Mean absolute deviation vs. standard deviation 4559 Warning in R - Chi-squared approximation may be incorrect 4560 Standard error for the mean of a sample of binomial random variables 4561 Regression when the OLS residuals are not normally distributed 4562 How to determine best cutoff point and its confidence interval using ROC curve in R? 4563 What is the difference between GARCH and ARMA? 4564 Is random forest a boosting algorithm? 4565 Using deep learning for time series prediction 4566 How are regression, the t-test, and the ANOVA all versions of the general linear model? 4567 What are alternatives of Gradient Descent? 4568 Best PCA algorithm for huge number of features (>10K)? 4569 Book for reading before Elements of Statistical Learning? 4570 Why do Convolutional Neural Networks not use a Support Vector Machine to classify? 4571 When combining p-values, why not just averaging? 4572 What is the advantages of Wasserstein metric compared to Kullback-Leibler divergence? 4573 Is sampling relevant in the time of big data? 4574 Mathematical Statistics Videos 4575 How do we decide when a small sample is statistically significant or not? 4576 What are some examples of anachronistic practices in statistics? 4577 Backpropagation with Softmax / Cross Entropy 4578 Normalization vs. scaling 4579 Effect of switching response and explanatory variable in simple linear regression 4580 Graph for relationship between two ordinal variables 4581 Training a decision tree against unbalanced data 4582 A/B tests: z-test vs t-test vs chi square vs fisher exact test 4583 What is a difference between random effects-, fixed effects- and marginal model? 4584 Random forest computing time in R 4585 Why sigmoid function instead of anything else? 4586 Multivariate linear regression vs neural network? 4587 Standard deviation of standard deviation 4588 Practical hyperparameter optimization: Random vs. grid search 4589 Is the COVID-19 pandemic curve a Gaussian curve? 4590 Why on average does each bootstrap sample contain roughly two thirds of observations? 4591 Can a random forest be used for feature selection in multiple linear regression? 4592 How to tell the probability of failure if there were no failures? 4593 Modern successor to Exploratory Data Analysis by Tukey? 4594 Who are frequentists? 4595 Do we have a problem of pity upvotes? 4596 How to derive the ridge regression solution? 4597 How large should the batch size be for stochastic gradient descent? 4598 What is the difference between NaN and NA? 4599 What is maxout in neural network? 4600 How to identify a bimodal distribution? 4601 Correct spelling (capitalization, italicization, hyphenation) of p-value? 4602 Apply word embeddings to entire document, to get a feature vector 4603 Pandas / Statsmodel / Scikit-learn 4604 Prediction interval for lmer() mixed effects model in R 4605 Recommended books on experiment design? 4606 Should I normalize word2vecs word vectors before using them? 4607 What is a good algorithm for estimating the median of a huge read-once data set? 4608 What should I do when my neural network doesnt generalize well? 4609 Is it possible to do time-series clustering based on curve shape? 4610 Why do we use Kullback-Leibler divergence rather than cross entropy in the t-SNE objective function? 4611 Data APIs/feeds available as packages in R 4612 Intuitive explanations of differences between Gradient Boosting Trees (GBM) & Adaboost 4613 Can someone explain the concept of exchangeability? 4614 Is it true that the percentile bootstrap should never be used? 4615 Machine Learning using Python 4616 Why do we care so much about normally distributed error terms (and homoskedasticity) in linear regression when we dont have to? 4617 Why are MA(q) time series models called moving averages? 4618 Visually interesting statistics concepts that are easy to explain 4619 Most confusing statistical terms 4620 R - QQPlot: how to see whether data are normally distributed 4621 Is it a good practice to always scale/normalize data for machine learning? 4622 How to visualize a fitted multiple regression model? 4623 Interpretation of log transformed predictor and/or response 4624 Replicating Statas robust option in R 4625 Obtaining predicted values (Y=1 or 0) from a logistic regression model fit 4626 Why is the sum of two random variables a convolution? 4627 F1/Dice-Score vs IoU 4628 Multinomial logistic regression vs one-vs-rest binary logistic regression 4629 Why downsample? 4630 Software for drawing bayesian networks (graphical models) 4631 Statistical inference when the sample is the population 4632 Class imbalance in Supervised Machine Learning 4633 What book is recommendable to start learning statistics using R at the same time? 4634 Is there any gold standard for modeling irregularly spaced time series? 4635 Interpreting QQplot - Is there any rule of thumb to decide for non-normality? 4636 What are the main theorems in Machine (Deep) Learning? 4637 Where does the misconception that Y must be normally distributed come from? 4638 Intuition behind why Steins paradox only applies in dimensions $\ge 3$ 4639 Why is a Bayesian not allowed to look at the residuals? 4640 Excel as a statistics workbench 4641 Are all models useless? Is any exact model possible -- or useful? 4642 How to perform a test using R to see if data follows normal distribution 4643 How to read Cooks distance plots? 4644 Is there a test to determine whether GLM overdispersion is significant? 4645 What is the difference between a Normal and a Gaussian Distribution 4646 Linear kernel and non-linear kernel for support vector machine? 4647 Is there any difference between lm and glm for the gaussian family of glm? 4648 Cross-Entropy or Log Likelihood in Output layer 4649 Wont highly-correlated variables in random forest distort accuracy and feature-selection? 4650 Does anyone know any good open source software for visualizing data from database? 4651 Cost function of neural network is non-convex? 4652 Regression for an outcome (ratio or fraction) between 0 and 1 4653 How are propensity scores different from adding covariates in a regression, and when are they preferred to the latter? 4654 How to select a clustering method? How to validate a cluster solution (to warrant the method choice)? 4655 Why does the correlation coefficient between X and X-Y random variables tend to be 0.7 4656 Why do statisticians say a non-significant result means you cant reject the null as opposed to accepting the null hypothesis? 4657 Fast linear regression robust to outliers 4658 Consider the sum of $n$ uniform distributions on $[0,1]$, or $Z_n$. Why does the cusp in the PDF of $Z_n$ disappear for $n \geq 3$? 4659 Famous easy to understand examples of a confounding variable invalidating a study 4660 How are we defining reproducible research? 4661 What is a good resource on table design? 4662 Cumming (2008) claims that distribution of p-values obtained in replications depends only on the original p-value. How can it be true? 4663 Relationship between $R^2$ and correlation coefficient 4664 Logistic Regression: Scikit Learn vs Statsmodels 4665 Using lmer for repeated-measures linear mixed-effect model 4666 What is Deviance? (specifically in CART/rpart) 4667 If the t-test and the ANOVA for two groups are equivalent, why arent their assumptions equivalent? 4668 Neural Network: For Binary Classification use 1 or 2 output neurons? 4669 Cross Entropy vs. Sparse Cross Entropy: When to use one over the other 4670 How to simulate artificial data for logistic regression? 4671 Regularization methods for logistic regression 4672 What is the difference between the forward-backward and Viterbi algorithms? 4673 Percentage of overlapping regions of two normal distributions 4674 How to do logistic regression subset selection? 4675 How do I find peaks in a dataset? 4676 How does LSTM prevent the vanishing gradient problem? 4677 What algorithm is used in linear regression? 4678 Understanding almost all local minimum have very similar function value to the global optimum 4679 Why do my p-values differ between logistic regression output, chi-squared test, and the confidence interval for the OR? 4680 Understanding Naive Bayes 4681 What is your favorite data visualization blog? 4682 Statistical tests when sample size is 1 4683 Why is statistically significant not enough? 4684 Why does frequentist hypothesis testing become biased towards rejecting the null hypothesis with sufficiently large samples? 4685 A smaller dataset is better: Is this statement false in statistics? How to refute it properly? 4686 Different ways to write interaction terms in lm? 4687 Find expected value using CDF 4688 What is the proper usage of scale_pos_weight in xgboost for imbalanced datasets? 4689 Choosing the right linkage method for hierarchical clustering 4690 Is a sample covariance matrix always symmetric and positive definite? 4691 Difference between GradientDescentOptimizer and AdamOptimizer (TensorFlow)? 4692 CNN architectures for regression? 4693 Rule of thumb for number of bootstrap samples 4694 Logistic Regression - Error Term and its Distribution 4695 What is perplexity? 4696 Normality of dependent variable = normality of residuals? 4697 Is minimizing squared error equivalent to minimizing absolute error? Why squared error is more popular than the latter? 4698 Survival Analysis tools in Python 4699 Random forest assumptions 4700 Which has the heavier tail, lognormal or gamma? 4701 Are splines overfitting the data? 4702 Motivation for Kolmogorov distance between distributions 4703 How to determine whether or not the y-axis of a graph should start at zero? 4704 Is Amazons average rating misleading? 4705 Clarification on interpreting confidence intervals? 4706 Does correlation = 0.2 mean that there is an association in only 1 in 5 people? 4707 Eliciting priors from experts 4708 AIC,BIC,CIC,DIC,EIC,FIC,GIC,HIC,IIC --- Can I use them interchangeably? 4709 Logistic Regression in R (Odds Ratio) 4710 Logistic regression model does not converge 4711 How do I avoid overlapping labels in an R plot? 4712 What is difference-in-differences? 4713 Why would R return NA as a lm() coefficient? 4714 Derive Variance of regression coefficient in simple linear regression 4715 Why is median age a better statistic than mean age? 4716 Clustering a long list of strings (words) into similarity groups 4717 Suppression effect in regression: definition and visual explanation/depiction 4718 How to interpret error measures? 4719 What is the definition of a feature map (aka activation map) in a convolutional neural network? 4720 Dynamic Time Warping Clustering 4721 Regression: Transforming Variables 4722 How does the Adam method of stochastic gradient descent work? 4723 When conducting a t-test why would one prefer to assume (or test for) equal variances rather than always use a Welch approximation of the df? 4724 How does centering the data get rid of the intercept in regression and PCA? 4725 Can machine learning decode the SHA256 hashes? 4726 How are kernels applied to feature maps to produce other feature maps? 4727 What is the distribution of the Euclidean distance between two normally distributed random variables? 4728 Do we have to tune the number of trees in a random forest? 4729 Kullback–Leibler vs Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance 4730 Empirical justification for the one standard error rule when using cross-validation 4731 What can we say about population mean from a sample size of 1? 4732 How can I calculate $\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}\Phi\left(\frac{w-a}{b}\right)\phi(w)\,\mathrm dw$ 4733 Is it possible to interpret the bootstrap from a Bayesian perspective? 4734 Pitfalls in time series analysis 4735 Where to start with statistics for an experienced developer 4736 Can simple linear regression be done without using plots and linear algebra? 4737 First R packages source code to study in preparation for writing own package 4738 What is residual standard error? 4739 What do endogeneity and exogeneity mean substantively? 4740 How to interpret Mean Decrease in Accuracy and Mean Decrease GINI in Random Forest models 4741 Why do we use ReLU in neural networks and how do we use it? 4742 Logistic regression: anova chi-square test vs. significance of coefficients (anova() vs summary() in R) 4743 Rank in R - descending order 4744 How do I test a nonlinear association? 4745 Online vs offline learning? 4746 Expected number of ratio of girls vs boys birth 4747 Best method for short time-series 4748 How to interpret coefficients from a polynomial model fit? 4749 What is the distribution of the sum of non i.i.d. gaussian variates? 4750 What is the difference between prediction and inference? 4751 Why zero correlation does not necessarily imply independence 4752 Does the sign of scores or of loadings in PCA or FA have a meaning? May I reverse the sign? 4753 How does rectilinear activation function solve the vanishing gradient problem in neural networks? 4754 PCA and the train/test split 4755 Bootstrap vs. permutation hypothesis testing 4756 Features for time series classification 4757 What is the difference between posterior and posterior predictive distribution? 4758 Why is polynomial regression considered a special case of multiple linear regression? 4759 Generic sum of Gamma random variables 4760 Optimized implementations of the Random Forest algorithm 4761 What are the cons of Bayesian analysis? 4762 Is it unusual for the MEAN to outperform ARIMA? 4763 Where does $\sqrt{n}$ come from in central limit theorem (CLT)? 4764 How does saddlepoint approximation work? 4765 Bayesian statistics tutorial 4766 Why would someone use a Bayesian approach with a noninformative improper prior instead of the classical approach? 4767 Choosing variables to include in a multiple linear regression model 4768 Interpretation of Rs output for binomial regression 4769 What references should be cited to support using 30 as a large enough sample size? 4770 Using R online - without installing it 4771 Difference between forecast and prediction? 4772 SVM, Overfitting, curse of dimensionality 4773 How to make a time series stationary? 4774 Why does correlation matrix need to be positive semi-definite and what does it mean to be or not to be positive semi-definite? 4775 How does centering make a difference in PCA (for SVD and eigen decomposition)? 4776 Prediction in Cox regression 4777 Importance of local response normalization in CNN 4778 Alternatives to one-way ANOVA for heteroskedastic data 4779 Understanding LSTM units vs. cells 4780 Neural Networks: weight change momentum and weight decay 4781 Probability distribution for different probabilities 4782 Are there any good movies involving mathematics or probability? 4783 Bayesian equivalent of two sample t-test? 4784 Empirical relationship between mean, median and mode 4785 Statistical models cheat sheet 4786 Confidence interval around binomial estimate of 0 or 1 4787 Taking the expectation of Taylor series (especially the remainder) 4788 Does the reciprocal of a probability represent anything? 4789 Why do people use p-values instead of computing probability of the model given data? 4790 Are CDFs more fundamental than PDFs? 4791 What is the root cause of the class imbalance problem? 4792 How well can multiple regression really control for covariates? 4793 Understanding regressions - the role of the model 4794 How to interpret and report eta squared / partial eta squared in statistically significant and non-significant analyses? 4795 What are the values p, d, q, in ARIMA? 4796 Negative values for AIC in General Mixed Model 4797 How to interpret mean of Silhouette plot? 4798 What is quasi-binomial distribution (in the context of GLM)? 4799 Would PCA work for boolean (binary) data types? 4800 Logistic regression vs. LDA as two-class classifiers 4801 Danger of setting all initial weights to zero in Backpropagation 4802 Why is there a difference between manually calculating a logistic regression 95% confidence interval, and using the confint() function in R? 4803 Poisson regression to estimate relative risk for binary outcomes 4804 How to do community detection in a weighted social network/graph? 4805 How is softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits different from softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits_v2? 4806 Is regression with L1 regularization the same as Lasso, and with L2 regularization the same as ridge regression? And how to write Lasso? 4807 Approximate order statistics for normal random variables 4808 Why is softmax output not a good uncertainty measure for Deep Learning models? 4809 When is a biased estimator preferable to unbiased one? 4810 Deriving Bellmans Equation in Reinforcement Learning 4811 What exactly is Big Data? 4812 Rigorous definition of an outlier? 4813 Variational inference versus MCMC: when to choose one over the other? 4814 Why dont linear regression assumptions matter in machine learning? 4815 Computing Cohens Kappa variance (and standard errors) 4816 Why is multiple comparison a problem? 4817 How to plot trends properly 4818 Compendium of cross-validation techniques 4819 How seriously should I think about the different philosophies of statistics? 4820 Debunking wrong CLT statement 4821 Reviewing statistics in papers 4822 How to interpret F- and p-value in ANOVA? 4823 How to interpret the output of the summary method for an lm object in R? 4824 Using LASSO from lars (or glmnet) package in R for variable selection 4825 Lift measure in data mining 4826 How to assess the similarity of two histograms? 4827 PP-plots vs. QQ-plots 4828 Measures of variable importance in random forests 4829 How can I test if given samples are taken from a Poisson distribution? 4830 Is it valid to include a baseline measure as control variable when testing the effect of an independent variable on change scores? 4831 What are the differences between hidden Markov models and neural networks? 4832 Tiny (real) datasets for giving examples in class? 4833 Bayesian vs frequentist Interpretations of Probability 4834 Intuitive difference between hidden Markov models and conditional random fields 4835 Why does inversion of a covariance matrix yield partial correlations between random variables? 4836 What is the difference between Metropolis-Hastings, Gibbs, Importance, and Rejection sampling? 4837 What is the difference between a loss function and an error function? 4838 Is machine learning less useful for understanding causality, thus less interesting for social science? 4839 OpenBugs vs. JAGS 4840 When to use simulations? 4841 Would a Bayesian admit that there is one fixed parameter value? 4842 Intuitive explanation for density of transformed variable? 4843 What is your favorite statistical graph? 4844 Statistics published in academic papers 4845 Why does increasing the sample size lower the (sampling) variance? 4846 What is the reason why we use natural logarithm (ln) rather than log to base 10 in specifying function in econometrics? 4847 Mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) in Scikit-learn 4848 How to interpret p-value of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (python)? 4849 Negative values for AICc (corrected Akaike Information Criterion) 4850 what does the numbers in the classification report of sklearn mean? 4851 Softmax layer in a neural network 4852 What is the significance of logistic regression coefficients? 4853 What is the adjusted R-squared formula in lm in R and how should it be interpreted? 4854 Should covariates that are not statistically significant be kept in when creating a model? 4855 What is meant by weak learner? 4856 Explanation of min_child_weight in xgboost algorithm 4857 When will L1 regularization work better than L2 and vice versa? 4858 Why does Andrew Ng prefer to use SVD and not EIG of covariance matrix to do PCA? 4859 LDA vs word2vec 4860 What is the difference between conditional and unconditional quantile regression? 4861 PCA and Correspondence analysis in their relation to Biplot 4862 Who invented stochastic gradient descent? 4863 Were generative adversarial networks introduced by Jürgen Schmidhuber? 4864 What is the purpose of characteristic functions? 4865 Why are regression problems called regression problems? 4866 Why do we only see $L_1$ and $L_2$ regularization but not other norms? 4867 Neural network references (textbooks, online courses) for beginners 4868 When teaching statistics, use normal or Gaussian? 4869 Fake uniform random numbers: More evenly distributed than true uniform data 4870 How do I get people to take better care of data? 4871 What is the difference between a population and a sample? 4872 Random number-Set.seed(N) in R 4873 AIC guidelines in model selection 4874 Interpreting the residuals vs. fitted values plot for verifying the assumptions of a linear model 4875 Comparing two models using anova() function in R 4876 Difference between naive Bayes & multinomial naive Bayes 4877 How to calculate relative error when the true value is zero? 4878 How to interpret glmnet? 4879 How to quasi match two vectors of strings (in R)? 4880 R - Confused on Residual Terminology 4881 Multiple regression or partial correlation coefficient? And relations between the two 4882 Determining sample size necessary for bootstrap method / Proposed Method 4883 How to choose between ROC AUC and F1 score? 4884 When and how to use standardized explanatory variables in linear regression 4885 When should I balance classes in a training data set? 4886 Relative variable importance for Boosting 4887 Are pooling layers added before or after dropout layers? 4888 Hierarchical clustering with mixed type data - what distance/similarity to use? 4889 What are best practices in identifying interaction effects? 4890 Confidence interval for median 4891 How trustworthy are the confidence intervals for lmer objects through effects package? 4892 Why do I get a 100% accuracy decision tree? 4893 Understanding the parameters inside the Negative Binomial Distribution 4894 Gamma vs. lognormal distributions 4895 Time series clustering in R 4896 Are your chances of dying in a plane crash reduced if you fly direct? 4897 How often do you have to roll a 6-sided die to obtain every number at least once? 4898 Does the beta distribution have a conjugate prior? 4899 whether to rescale indicator / binary / dummy predictors for LASSO 4900 Differences between Bhattacharyya distance and KL divergence 4901 How to efficiently generate random positive-semidefinite correlation matrices? 4902 Correlation does not imply causation; but what about when one of the variables is time? 4903 The Monty Hall Problem - where does our intuition fail us? 4904 How do DAGs help to reduce bias in causal inference? 4905 How to calculate a confidence level for a Poisson distribution? 4906 How to interpret OOB and confusion matrix for random forest? 4907 Statistical test to tell whether two samples are pulled from the same population? 4908 Improve classification with many categorical variables 4909 How to sample from a normal distribution with known mean and variance using a conventional programming language? 4910 How can I test whether a random effect is significant? 4911 Test for bimodal distribution 4912 Dice-coefficient loss function vs cross-entropy 4913 How do you use the test dataset after cross-validation? 4914 What is the difference between finite and infinite variance 4915 How to present results of a Lasso using glmnet? 4916 K-fold vs. Monte Carlo cross-validation 4917 What is the difference between coefficient of determination and mean squared error? 4918 How are Random Forests not sensitive to outliers? 4919 how to weight KLD loss vs reconstruction loss in variational auto-encoder 4920 Gradient Boosting for Linear Regression - why does it not work? 4921 What does the term saturating nonlinearities mean? 4922 What is model identifiability? 4923 Manually calculated $R^2$ doesnt match up with randomForest() $R^2$ for testing new data 4924 What are posterior predictive checks and what makes them useful? 4925 Approximate $e$ using Monte Carlo Simulation 4926 Why is 600 out of 1000 more convincing than 6 out of 10? 4927 References for survival analysis 4928 Interpretation of p-value in hypothesis testing 4929 How to determine significant principal components using bootstrapping or Monte Carlo approach? 4930 Are there any good popular science book about statistics or machine learning? 4931 Is LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) dead? 4932 Does statistical independence mean lack of causation? 4933 Good games for learning statistical thinking? 4934 Evidence for man-made global warming hits gold standard: how did they do this? 4935 What is the relationship between the mean squared error and the residual sum of squares function? 4936 How to perform two-sample t-tests in R by inputting sample statistics rather than the raw data? 4937 Mixed Effects Model with Nesting 4938 How does linear regression use the normal distribution? 4939 Variance of product of dependent variables 4940 What exactly is a Bayesian model? 4941 Area under Precision-Recall Curve (AUC of PR-curve) and Average Precision (AP) 4942 Detecting Outliers in Time Series (LS/AO/TC) using tsoutliers package in R. How to represent outliers in equation format? 4943 How do I fit a constrained regression in R so that coefficients total = 1? 4944 What exactly is the alpha in the Dirichlet distribution? 4945 Purpose of the link function in generalized linear model 4946 What is the meaning of a confidence interval taken from bootstrapped resamples? 4947 Why do naive Bayesian classifiers perform so well? 4948 How to find a good fit for semi-sinusoidal model in R? 4949 Ridge, lasso and elastic net 4950 How do you do bootstrapping with time series data? 4951 How to test hypothesis of no group differences? 4952 Why do we need multivariate regression (as opposed to a bunch of univariate regressions)? 4953 Simulation of logistic regression power analysis - designed experiments 4954 Was mathematics invented or discovered? 4955 Is guns dont kill people, people kill people a good argument? 4956 Why dont fair coin tosses add up? Or... is gamblers fallacy really valid? 4957 Am I morally obligated to pursue a career in medicine? 4958 What logical fallacy is If you dont like it, move!? 4959 How does one know one is not dreaming? 4960 What would it take in a book to convince a rational person that it had been written by or directly inspired by a god? 4961 Could cogito ergo sum possibly be false? 4962 Is Kurt Gödels Incompleteness Theorem a cheap trick? 4963 Is it immoral to download music illegally? 4964 Can you prove anything in philosophy? 4965 How can an uneducated but rational person differentiate between science and religion? 4966 Logical fallacy: X is bad, Y is worse, thus X is not bad 4967 Why is there something instead of nothing? 4968 Why is faith seen as a sign of weakness, instead of an unexplored land/opportunity? 4969 Does human life have innate value over that of other animals? 4970 Is the omniscient-omnipotent-omnipresent definition of God consistent? 4971 In which way does quantum mechanics disprove determinism? 4972 How will learning about philosophy impact real-life? 4973 What is the difference between metaphysics and ontology? 4974 Why is a lion not evil? 4975 Why does the universe obey scientific laws? 4976 Why arent creationism and natural science on the same intellectual level? 4977 Why do they say I am committing a fallacy when I am just insulting someone? 4978 How can one not believe in god as the root cause of the universe? 4979 Why is Ayn Rands Objectivism philosophy dismissed by academics? 4980 Does Pascals Wager contain any logical flaws or fallacies? 4981 What is the moral difference between abortion and infanticide? 4982 Is there an alternative to the scientific method? 4983 What are the major branches of philosophy? 4984 Why do I accept some inconsequential claims as obviously true without evidence? E.g. Most people dont like to be hit on the head with a hammer. 4985 Is Mathematics always correct? 4986 What are the ethical problems with flipping a coin to decide in the trolley problem? 4987 Do numbers exist independently from observers? 4988 Did Russell understand Gödels incompleteness theorems? 4989 Is there a term for the belief that if its legal, its moral? 4990 What basis do we have for certainty in current scientific theories? 4991 Does a negative claimant have a burden of proof? 4992 What fallacy in Pascals Wager allows replacing God with the devil? 4993 What is the difference between free-will and randomness and or non-determinism? 4994 How to get started with philosophy without getting overwhelmed quickly? 4995 What did David Hume mean when he said that reason is a slave to the passions? 4996 What are the ethics of having children today? 4997 Fallacy by Sherlock Holmes Eliminate the impossible, and what remains must be the truth 4998 What should philosophers know about math and natural sciences? 4999 Is circular reasoning always a fallacy? 5000 Is faith necessary for man to survive / why is existentialism valued if it is unsubstantiated? 5001 How can one rebut the argument that atheism is inherently immoral? 5002 What are the necessary conditions for an action to be regarded as a free choice? 5003 Does happiness motivate every action? 5004 How come nihilism is so popular today? 5005 Should I respect other peoples religions? 5006 Is it a fallacy, and if so which, to believe we are special because our existence on Earth seems improbable? 5007 Why do atheist euthanasia proponents consider nothingness preferable to suffering? 5008 Is it a fallacy if someone claims they need an explanation for every word of your argument to the point where they dont understand common terms? 5009 Why doesnt philosophy have higher standards for its arguments? 5010 Asserting that Atheism and Theism are both faith based positions 5011 Fundamental idea on proving Gods existence with science 5012 Why has the philosophy of Bishop Berkeley fallen out of favor in academic philosophy? 5013 How can one differentiate nonexistent entities? 5014 What should a rational person accept as a miracle? 5015 Was Socrates a fictional character invented by Plato? 5016 What would Kant do when two categorical imperatives conflict? Could he ever justify lying? 5017 What is the difference (if any) between not true and false? 5018 If I said I had $100 when asked, but I actually had $200, would I be lying by omission? 5019 Why are believers criticized so much for being anti-science when so many scientists are ... believers? 5020 Why is scientism philosophically wrong? 5021 Why do some people care so much about empirical truth? 5022 Why is the complex number an integral part of physical reality? 5023 Three statements that contradict each other 5024 What is the purpose of the universe? 5025 Where and how can I get started in contemporary philosophy? 5026 In what sense is atheism scientific? 5027 How did first-order logic come to be the dominant formal logic? 5028 Is there anything that is totally random? 5029 What are some good introductions to philosophy? 5030 Is atheism just another form of dogma? 5031 How does mathematics work? 5032 How is Gödels incompleteness theorem interpreted in intuitionistic logic? 5033 Does humanisms rejection of God necesitate relativism? 5034 What are the philosophical implications of Gödels First Incompleteness Theorem? 5035 To what extent do we choose our beliefs? 5036 Is First Order Logic (FOL) the only fundamental logic? 5037 Are Methodological Assumptions of StackExchange Fundamentally Flawed? 5038 What is the difference between Fact and Truth? 5039 Do fundamental concepts in physics have any logical basis? 5040 Why should I read about philosophy? 5041 What does it mean for a book or a theorist to be post-modernist as opposed to modernist? 5042 Are we living in a simulation? The evidence 5043 Since words are defined in terms of other words in dictionaries, leading to infinite loops, does it mean natural languages are meaningless? 5044 Does the no true Scotsman fallacy apply to anti Stalinist etc. communism? 5045 Is I cannot imagine a mechanism for X to happen, so X can never happen a named logical fallacy? 5046 What are/were the main criticisms of logical positivism? 5047 Was Robin Hoods point of view ethically sound? 5048 When is absence of evidence not evidence of absence? 5049 Is it possible for something to have no cause? 5050 Why does Dawkins think it is wrong to posit that a paragon of 100% morals could theoretically exist? 5051 Where is the weakness in the ontological proof for Gods existence? 5052 Being alive today: the most improbable coincidence? 5053 If the Bible contains circular reasoning, does it discredit it? 5054 Does hypocrisy invalidate an argument? 5055 Isnt the notion that everything will occur in an infinite timeline an example of the gamblers fallacy? 5056 Im being drafted to the military but I have the option to refuse (legally), would it be immoral for me to serve? 5057 What arguments would support a secular pro-life position? 5058 What are the major research programmes in contemporary logic? 5059 What are some arguments against violence? 5060 Isnt the existence of Hell inherently evil, and isnt God therefore evil in allowing Hell to exist? 5061 How can one argue against income inequality while defending achievement and expertise inequality - beyond invoking Rawls difference principle? 5062 Can time exist without change? 5063 Does the lack of randomness imply the lack of free will? 5064 Have professional philosophers contributed to other fields in the last 20 years? 5065 Why is Aristotles objection not considered a resolution to Zenos paradox? 5066 In what way(s) does popular New Atheism fail to be philosophical? 5067 Is the claim this coin is fair falsifiable? 5068 What are some works that apply an axiomatic method to something other than mathematics? 5069 What is the difference between a statement and a proposition? 5070 Is infinite regress of causation possible? Is infinite regress of causation necessary? 5071 What is modal logic for? 5072 What are the philosophical implications of category theory? 5073 Is mathematics founded on beliefs and assumptions? 5074 What is Philosophy? 5075 Are people capable of generating a random number? 5076 Whats so fallacious about the Slippery Slope Fallacy? 5077 Are there any philosophical arguments to disprove or weaken solipsism? 5078 Why do color TVs make black and white snow? 5079 Why do glass windows still exist? (Why havent they been replaced by plastics?) 5080 Why is kVA not the same as kW? 5081 Why do cars have mirrors for rear view rather than cameras? 5082 Are toasters really electrified inside of the slots? 5083 How was Volkswagen able to trick the lab pollution test? 5084 My customer wants to use my products to do something unsafe. What is my ethical obligation? 5085 Is it possible for a bicycle chainwheel to have a fractional number of teeth? 5086 Transmitting power over long distances what is better AC or DC? 5087 What is the purpose of these diversions in a natural gas line? 5088 Is it possible to build a perfectly spherical Prince Ruperts drop? 5089 What is the purpose of these “partially filled in” locomotive wheels? 5090 How fast does solid waste fall in vertical drain pipes? 5091 Why dig out and then fill in before building a large structure? 5092 Is it possible to pump a powder? 5093 What are the pros and cons of a traffic circle versus a traffic light intersection? 5094 Why are railroad tank cars bent in the middle? 5095 Is it possible to build an air compressor with no moving parts? 5096 How to quantify martial arts strikes? 5097 Why do hydraulic systems use special fluid - whats wrong with water? 5098 Which is Worse: Car vs. Car or Car vs. Wall? 5099 How can a piece of paper be shaped to guarantee it falls slower than a plain sheet of paper? 5100 Calculating pitch, yaw, and roll from mag, acc, and gyro data 5101 Why are engine blocks so robust apart from containing high pressure? 5102 How are increasingly accurate machines made? 5103 From an engineering point of view what are the downsides of a too accurate model? 5104 Why would you launch a large ship by dropping it sideways? 5105 Understanding required torque for a motor lifting a weight 5106 Why use steam instead of just hot air? 5107 Why are rear wheels not placed at the extreme rear of a bus? 5108 Why doesnt a lightning strike destroy the lightning rod? 5109 Why dont hydroelectric plants use cascades of turbines instead of single turbines? 5110 What is the purpose of these steps in rivers? 5111 Why exactly does a washer help distribute the stress around a bolt? 5112 Why do car wheels have holes? 5113 What is a reason that handlebars fit to a motorcycle and steering wheel fit to a car? 5114 How to know whether the flow is supersonic in a nozzle? 5115 Why not put servers in a refrigerator? 5116 How do engineers really use numerical simulation? 5117 How much can Protactinium degrade the efficiency of the Thorium fuel cycle? 5118 How does width and thickness affect the stiffness of steel plate? 5119 Would it make sense to have a 12V lighting circuit in a house? 5120 How to make smoke for a small wind tunnel? 5121 Why does it take so long to restart a nuclear power plant? 5122 Why would a train automatically derail if a signal is passed at danger? 5123 Why did steam locomotives not transfer power by cogwheels? 5124 What makes suspension bridges unsuitable for railways? 5125 Why do cars turn by turning the front wheel? 5126 Does a roadway bridge experience more load when vehicles are parked or when they are moving? 5127 How does turning off electric appliances save energy 5128 Why are earthfills fully covered in concrete where they join bridges? 5129 Why does the Channel Tunnel enter the ground around 10 km from the coast? 5130 Sizing a pressure safety valve for two-phase flow 5131 Whats wrong with transporting a refrigerator on its side? 5132 How to stop water flow in a siphon? 5133 Windmills in empty fields. Why no trees? 5134 What is the purpose of building foundations? 5135 Why are truss bridges the way they are? 5136 How does a traffic light sense the proximity of vehicles? 5137 What are the engineering principles for a train to get electricity from the railway 5138 Is it structurally sound to cut an I beam to a T on one end? 5139 What are the major differences between Engineering degrees and Engineering Technology degrees in terms of employability? 5140 Pound-force (lbf) vs Pound-mass (lbm) 5141 Effective ways to drive a single shaft with multiple motors? 5142 What material is used to hold molten iron in a furnace? 5143 What is the most efficient means of warming a building with a high ceiling? 5144 Why does the microwave plate start in a random direction? 5145 Why do oil tankers heat crude oil? 5146 Why dont refrigerators have parts outdoors? 5147 How does measurement uncertainty combine with tolerances? 5148 How many train passes can railway tracks endure? 5149 How can I measure correctly with a ruler? 5150 Why doesnt epoxy stick to silicone? 5151 How are passive houses made in very hot regions (like Saudi Arabia)? 5152 How to design a house to be cooled passively? 5153 Fracture patterns in tempered glass 5154 Meshing of complex geometrical domains 5155 How can a storm drop 40 inches (1 metre) of rain? 5156 Impossible or improbable? Hurricane crossing the equator 5157 What place on Earth is closest to the Sun? 5158 Are there any saltwater rivers on Earth? 5159 Why does lightning strike from the ground-up? 5160 How many trees would I have to plant to solve Global Warming? 5161 How much oil is created each year? 5162 What started the US Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and could it happen again? 5163 Why is the pond in my backyard not frozen when it is -15 °C (5 °F) outside? 5164 How do greenhouse gases let heat in, but not let it out? 5165 Why do snowflakes form into hexagonal structures? 5166 Are Richter-magnitude 10 earthquakes possible? 5167 (How long) would Earths atmosphere last without a global magnetic field? 5168 Farthest point from the center of the Earth 5169 Are there any uncharted waters left on earth? 5170 How is the mass of the Earth determined? 5171 How its possible to measure temperature 2000 years ago with such precision? 5172 What would be the temperature of earth if there was no atmosphere? 5173 CO₂ level is high enough that it reduces cognitive ability. Isnt that a reason to worry? 5174 What does a mm of rain mean? 5175 Why do the Siberian methane craters have smooth vertical walls? 5176 How high must one be for the curvature of the earth to be visible to the eye? 5177 Why is Earths inner core solid? 5178 Is climate change a vicious circle? 5179 Is the sea level rise unusual? 5180 Does gravity increase the closer to the core you get? 5181 How do we know the asteroids formed at the same time as earth? 5182 Similarities between grand circulation solvers and mantle convection solvers 5183 Why is Earths age given by dating meteorites rather than its own rocks? 5184 How can we determine the size and composition of Earths inner core? 5185 Is there any river that does not discharge into larger body of water? 5186 How does anthropogenic heating affect global warming? 5187 How would plate tectonics differ if Earth had no water? 5188 Why do felsic materials have lower melting points than mafic? 5189 How and why did the oceans form on Earth but not on other planets? 5190 Is it true that earthquakes are not felt in a cave? 5191 Why does Coriolis determine the rotation direction of a cyclone but not my drain? 5192 What factors determine the number of Hadley cells for a planet? 5193 How much of the current global warming is due to human influence? 5194 Why is Earths outer-core liquid? 5195 Why does the salt in the oceans not sink to the bottom? 5196 At what humidity does it start to rain? 5197 Is it possible for rivers to freeze completely and stop flowing? 5198 Where on Earth is the magnetic field intensity stronger? 5199 Global warming - why doesn´t mankind collect heat (thermal energy) and turn it into electricity or send it to space? 5200 How would an icicle grow upwards? 5201 Is this XKCD comic an accurate timeline of the earths average temperature? 5202 How do weather models work? 5203 Is earthquake prediction possible? 5204 What is the status of the Raymo & Ruddiman idea that Tibet cooled the Earth? 5205 What are deconvolutional layers? 5206 How to set class weights for imbalanced classes in Keras? 5207 Micro Average vs Macro average Performance in a Multiclass classification setting 5208 Whats the difference between fit and fit_transform in scikit-learn models? 5209 Publicly Available Datasets 5210 K-Means clustering for mixed numeric and categorical data 5211 What is the dying ReLU problem in neural networks? 5212 Difference between isna() and isnull() in pandas 5213 How to draw Deep learning network architecture diagrams? 5214 When to use One Hot Encoding vs LabelEncoder vs DictVectorizor? 5215 When to use GRU over LSTM? 5216 Best python library for neural networks 5217 The cross-entropy error function in neural networks 5218 Train/Test/Validation Set Splitting in Sklearn 5219 How do you visualize neural network architectures? 5220 Python vs R for machine learning 5221 Why do people prefer Pandas to SQL? 5222 How to get correlation between two categorical variable and a categorical variable and continuous variable? 5223 SVM using scikit learn runs endlessly and never completes execution 5224 Choosing a learning rate 5225 Training an RNN with examples of different lengths in Keras 5226 Why do cost functions use the square error? 5227 When should I use Gini Impurity as opposed to Information Gain (Entropy)? 5228 Backprop Through Max-Pooling Layers? 5229 How big is big data? 5230 Advantages of AUC vs standard accuracy 5231 Time series prediction using ARIMA vs LSTM 5232 ValueError: Input contains NaN, infinity or a value too large for dtype(float32) 5233 How are 1x1 convolutions the same as a fully connected layer? 5234 strings as features in decision tree/random forest 5235 When to use (He or Glorot) normal initialization over uniform init? And what are its effects with Batch Normalization? 5236 Data scientist vs machine learning engineer 5237 Open source Anomaly Detection in Python 5238 In supervised learning, why is it bad to have correlated features? 5239 Convert a list of lists into a Pandas Dataframe 5240 Are Support Vector Machines still considered state of the art in their niche? 5241 What is dimensionality reduction? What is the difference between feature selection and extraction? 5242 What is the positional encoding in the transformer model? 5243 When is a Model Underfitted? 5244 Cosine similarity versus dot product as distance metrics 5245 What is the difference between equivariant to translation and invariant to translation 5246 Cross-entropy loss explanation 5247 GBM vs XGBOOST? Key differences? 5248 Clustering geo location coordinates (lat,long pairs) 5249 Adding Features To Time Series Model LSTM 5250 Tools and protocol for reproducible data science using Python 5251 RNN vs CNN at a high level 5252 Machine learning - features engineering from date/time data 5253 Why mini batch size is better than one single batch with all training data? 5254 Latent Dirichlet Allocation vs Hierarchical Dirichlet Process 5255 Neural networks: which cost function to use? 5256 Why do internet companies prefer Java/Python for data scientist job? 5257 How to clone Python working environment on another machine? 5258 What is the difference between Gradient Descent and Stochastic Gradient Descent? 5259 Does batch_size in Keras have any effects in results quality? 5260 How to fight underfitting in a deep neural net 5261 Is there any domain where Bayesian Networks outperform neural networks? 5262 IDE alternatives for R programming (RStudio, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio) 5263 Number of parameters in an LSTM model 5264 What is the difference between LeakyReLU and PReLU? 5265 Why Is Overfitting Bad in Machine Learning? 5266 Should I go for a balanced dataset or a representative dataset? 5267 How to set batch_size, steps_per epoch, and validation steps? 5268 Should a model be re-trained if new observations are available? 5269 Does scikit-learn have a forward selection/stepwise regression algorithm? 5270 How to deal with version control of large amounts of (binary) data 5271 Is the R language suitable for Big Data 5272 What is the Q function and what is the V function in reinforcement learning? 5273 Sparse_categorical_crossentropy vs categorical_crossentropy (keras, accuracy) 5274 What is the use of torch.no_grad in pytorch? 5275 Why should the data be shuffled for machine learning tasks 5276 How to get accuracy, F1, precision and recall, for a keras model? 5277 In softmax classifier, why use exp function to do normalization? 5278 How to interpret the output of XGBoost importance? 5279 How do subsequent convolution layers work? 5280 Understanding predict_proba from MultiOutputClassifier 5281 Data Science in C (or C++) 5282 How much of data wrangling is a data scientists job? 5283 Deep Learning vs gradient boosting: When to use what? 5284 How do I compare columns in different data frames? 5285 Opening a 20GB file for analysis with pandas 5286 How to force weights to be non-negative in Linear regression 5287 How can I transform names in a confidential data set to make it anonymous, but preserve some of the characteristics of the names? 5288 train_test_split() error: Found input variables with inconsistent numbers of samples 5289 What is experience replay and what are its benefits? 5290 How to prepare/augment images for neural network? 5291 What is Ground Truth 5292 Merging two different models in Keras 5293 Why not always use the ADAM optimization technique? 5294 Multi GPU in Keras 5295 Can machine learning algorithms predict sports scores or plays? 5296 Does XGBoost handle multicollinearity by itself? 5297 Do data scientists use Excel? 5298 Data science related funny quotes 5299 What is the difference between model hyperparameters and model parameters? 5300 Choosing between CPU and GPU for training a neural network 5301 Encoding features like month and hour as categorial or numeric? 5302 Why are Machine Learning models called black boxes? 5303 LightGBM vs XGBoost 5304 The difference between `Dense` and `TimeDistributedDense` of `Keras` 5305 What is the advantage of keeping batch size a power of 2? 5306 When to use what - Machine Learning 5307 Intuitive explanation of Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) loss? 5308 What loss function to use for imbalanced classes (using PyTorch)? 5309 Calculation and Visualization of Correlation Matrix with Pandas 5310 Calculating KL Divergence in Python 5311 How does Keras calculate accuracy? 5312 Are there free cloud services to train machine learning models? 5313 Does gradient descent always converge to an optimum? 5314 What is the difference between bootstrapping and cross-validation? 5315 Why is ReLU used as an activation function? 5316 Do I need to learn Hadoop to be a Data Scientist? 5317 Is it always better to use the whole dataset to train the final model? 5318 What are some standard ways of computing the distance between documents? 5319 StandardScaler before and after splitting data 5320 Difference between OrdinalEncoder and LabelEncoder 5321 What do you think of Data Science certifications? 5322 How to set the number of neurons and layers in neural networks 5323 When is precision more important over recall? 5324 Applications and differences for Jaccard similarity and Cosine Similarity 5325 What are the advantages of HDF compared to alternative formats? 5326 What would I prefer - an over-fitted model or a less accurate model? 5327 Organized processes to clean data 5328 How does the validation_split parameter of Keras fit function work? 5329 When to use Random Forest over SVM and vice versa? 5330 Why do we need XGBoost and Random Forest? 5331 How to do SVD and PCA with big data? 5332 Best practices to store Python machine learning models 5333 Quick guide into training highly imbalanced data sets 5334 Paper: Whats the difference between Layer Normalization, Recurrent Batch Normalization (2016), and Batch Normalized RNN (2015)? 5335 Do Random Forest overfit? 5336 Is it necessary to standardize your data before clustering? 5337 How to calculate mAP for detection task for the PASCAL VOC Challenge? 5338 Sentence similarity prediction 5339 What is the best Keras model for multi-class classification? 5340 Unbalanced multiclass data with XGBoost 5341 What is the meaning of The number of units in the LSTM cell? 5342 Why is xgboost so much faster than sklearn GradientBoostingClassifier? 5343 Meaning of latent features? 5344 Early stopping on validation loss or on accuracy? 5345 What is a good way to transform Cyclic Ordinal attributes? 5346 What are the use cases for Apache Spark vs Hadoop 5347 How to use the output of GridSearch? 5348 Hypertuning XGBoost parameters 5349 Should we apply normalization to test data as well? 5350 Guidelines for selecting an optimizer for training neural networks 5351 RNNs with multiple features 5352 Why use both validation set and test set? 5353 Neural Network parse string data? 5354 How to decide neural network architecture? 5355 Are there any tools for feature engineering? 5356 Gini coefficient vs Gini impurity - decision trees 5357 Using TensorFlow with Intel GPU 5358 What to set in steps_per_epoch in Keras fit_generator? 5359 Are there any rules for choosing the size of a mini-batch? 5360 What does Logits in machine learning mean? 5361 Why is gold golden? 5362 Why can we smell copper? 5363 Can an atom have more than 8 valence electrons? If not, why is 8 the limit? 5364 Why doesnt water burn? 5365 Is a negative pH level physically possible? 5366 Why is absolute zero unattainable? 5367 Is there a general consensus on the causes of the alpha-effect? 5368 How do you melt metals with super high melting points? 5369 Is it actually possible to dispose of a body with hydrofluoric acid? 5370 Is toothpaste solid or liquid? 5371 What is Bents rule? 5372 Why is the 2s orbital lower in energy than the 2p orbital when the electrons in 2s are usually farther from the nucleus? 5373 Does water really go bad after a couple of days? 5374 If nothing sticks to Teflon, how does Teflon stick to frying pans? 5375 Is it true that heavy water is not blue? 5376 Do all salts taste salty? 5377 Bonding in diatomic C2, a carbon-carbon quadruple bond? 5378 What causes the old book smell? 5379 Why would breathing pure oxygen be a bad idea? 5380 How do people know HCN smells like almonds? 5381 Ortho-effect in substituted aromatic acids and bases 5382 Could a magnet pull oxygen out of the air? 5383 How do organic chemistry mechanisms become accepted? 5384 Why do elements in columns 6 and 11 assume abnormal electron configurations? 5385 Why is it wrong to use the concept of hybridization for transition metal complexes? 5386 How does Walter White make pure crystal meth using a non-stereospecific reaction? 5387 Why does F replace the axial bond in PCl5? 5388 Why does pasta really boil over? 5389 How can one explain niobium’s weird electronic configuration? 5390 Why does shaking a match put the fire out? 5391 Why doesnt H₄O²⁺ exist? 5392 Is iron in the brown ring compound in a +1 oxidation state? 5393 Why add water first then acid? 5394 Why is FORTRAN so commonly used in computational chemistry? 5395 Striking examples where Kohn-Sham orbitals clearly have no physical meaning 5396 How do I figure out the hybridization of a particular atom in a molecule? 5397 Are diamonds really forever? 5398 Why do we write NH3? 5399 The last elements atomic number 5400 Positive or Negative Anode/Cathode in Electrolytic/Galvanic Cell 5401 Why do compounds like SF6 and SF4 exist but SH6 and SH4 dont? 5402 What makes banana bonds possible in diborane? 5403 Why do shampoo ingredient labels feature the term Aqua? 5404 What makes some metals melt at higher temperature? 5405 What is the pH of ice? 5406 Is carbon dioxide organic or inorganic? 5407 Why dont we explode after drinking water? 5408 Regioselectivity of acid-catalyzed ring-opening of epoxides 5409 How can I update a map/mesh and coordinates in a PyMol session file? 5410 Why is it important to use a salt bridge in a voltaic cell? Can a wire be used? 5411 Why does menthol (e.g. peppermint) feel cool to the tongue? 5412 Why isnt aluminium involved in biological processes? 5413 How does chloroform degrade nitrile gloves? 5414 Why does ice water get colder when salt is added? 5415 Why is an S-S bond stronger than an O-O bond? 5416 Unit of the equilibrium constant: contradiction of Bridgmans theorem? 5417 How can antibonding orbitals be more antibonding than bonding orbitals are bonding? 5418 Why doesnt frozen sugar solution taste sweet? 5419 What happens to a radioactive carbon dioxide molecule when its carbon-14 atom decays? 5420 Why does bond angle decrease in the order H2O, H2S, H2Se? 5421 Does oil break down condoms? 5422 Why does wood burn but not sugar? 5423 Why do the names of most chemical elements end with -um or -ium? 5424 Is there any substance thats a 4-4-4 on the NFPA diamond? 5425 Mechanism of arene side chain oxidation by permanganate 5426 Why is the recipe of Coca Cola still a secret? 5427 Why does nitration of N,N-dimethylaniline occur at the meta position? 5428 Fundamental forces behind covalent bonding 5429 Is buckminsterfullerene aromatic? 5430 What volume does one mole of an ideal gas occupy? 5431 Why does sulfur, but not oxygen, catenate? 5432 What is the reason for the exceptional stability of the cyclopropylmethyl carbocation? 5433 What is resonance, and are resonance structures real? 5434 Whats the biggest organic molecule that could have a smell? 5435 Why can we still breathe in valleys? 5436 Are the lone pairs in water equivalent? 5437 Difference between thermodynamic and kinetic stability 5438 How can carbon dioxide be converted into carbon and oxygen? 5439 Inductive effect of hydrogen isotopes 5440 Why does CaCO3 react with HCl, but not with H2SO4? 5441 Carbon atoms at the edge of a diamond 5442 Differences between phenols and alcohols 5443 How can I predict if a reaction will occur between any two (or more) substances? 5444 Is it safe to drink reboiled water? 5445 Does heavy water taste sweet? 5446 What is more acidic: D3O+ in D2O or H3O+ in H2O and why? 5447 Can an atom bond with more than 8 other atoms? 5448 The reason behind the steep rise in pH in the acid base titration curve 5449 Why does whipped cream use nitrous oxide instead of nitrogen gas? 5450 Why is methanes molecular formula conventionally CH₄, while water is H₂O (among others)? 5451 Why is the vanadium(3+) ion paramagnetic? 5452 Why do SN1 and SN2 reactions not occur at sp2 centres? 5453 Why can a diamond be broken using a hammer if its the hardest natural substance known? 5454 Why does cyclopropane react with bromine? 5455 Why do impurities lower the melting point of an isolated substance? 5456 What causes the rotting fish smell? 5457 Do molecules with bridges through rings exist? 5458 Do symmetric hydrogen bonds in neutral molecules exist? 5459 What is the inert pair effect? 5460 How to derive these general formulae for number of stereoisomers of a compound with a possible plane of symmetry? 5461 Is there ANY chemical that can destroy PTFE, or Teflon? 5462 How can the dipole moment of carbon monoxide be rationalised by molecular orbital theory? 5463 Can 100% covalent bonds exist? 5464 Which exotic salt can lower waters freezing point by 70 °C? 5465 How does ammonium nitrate explode on its own? 5466 Why is arsenous acid denoted H3AsO3? 5467 Why is fresh ice sticky? 5468 Five-pointed crown alkane C25H40: does it exist? 5469 Is Hexafluorocyclohexane the Most Polar Small Molecule? 5470 Why do we use helium in balloons? 5471 Choosing the right condenser 5472 Why is the bond angle H-P-H smaller than H-N-H? 5473 Why is BCl3 a monomer whereas AlCl3 exists as a dimer? 5474 What exactly is happening when sodium, potassium, or other alkali metal explodes in water? 5475 Relativistic effect: d-electrons in metallorganic complexes 5476 Why does carbon monoxide have a greater affinity for hemoglobin than oxygen? 5477 What is a non-classical carbocation? 5478 What is the difference between ∆G and ∆G°? 5479 Why super glue does not stick inside their own bottle? 5480 What do the prefixes meta, ortho, pyro mean in inorganic chemistry? 5481 Why is pyrimidine less basic than pyridine? 5482 Why does potassium react more violently with water than lithium? 5483 Generating neat orbitals/surfaces from molden/wfn-files 5484 How do I visualize an atom? 5485 DFT Functional Selection Criteria 5486 Difference between shells, subshells and orbitals 5487 Why does alcoholic KOH prefer elimination whereas aqueous KOH prefers substitution? 5488 Why do atoms generally become smaller as one moves left to right across a period? 5489 What is known about liquid carbon? 5490 Gibbs free energy-minimum or zero? 5491 Is methanol more acidic than water? 5492 IUPAC nomenclature: Smallest sum of locants? 5493 Why is chemistry unpredictable? 5494 A compound that absorbs all visible light 5495 Natural Bond Orbital analysis: Significance of stabilization energy determined by 2nd order perturbation 5496 Does any known substance ignite on cooling? 5497 IUPAC nomenclature for an interesting looking organic compound 5498 What are the maximum number of electrons in each shell? 5499 Chemistry behind Gales coffee maker in Breaking Bad 5500 A glass of water with ice-cubes in it. Wheres the water the coldest; at the top or bottom? 5501 What exactly is hydrogen bonding (and does it really need fluorine, oxygen, or nitrogen)? 5502 Splitting of multiplets in ¹H NMR spectra? 5503 What is actually the difference between valence bond theory and molecular orbital theory? 5504 Why isnt ethane used for cooking? 5505 Why are there two Hydrogen atoms on some periodic tables? 5506 Can hot food ever emit x-rays or gamma rays? 5507 What would follow in the series sigma, pi and delta bonds? 5508 Are metallic/ionic bonds weaker than covalent bonds? 5509 Why is gold unreactive when only one electron is in the outer shell? 5510 Is pyrene aromatic despite failing Hückels rule? 5511 Is density functional theory an ab initio method? 5512 Does O2 have a color in the gas phase 5513 Has anyone even taken a picture of a molecule to confirm the geometry predicted by theory? 5514 Why isnt chemically-strengthened glass made with potassium carbonate to begin with? 5515 May I treat units (e.g. joules, grams, etc.) in equations as variables? 5516 Stereoselectivity of dihydroxylation with osmium tetroxide 5517 Why is the letter J omitted in the spdf... sequence? 5518 Hypervalency and the octet rule 5519 Pauli exclusion principle and resonance 5520 Proper typography of NOx 5521 Synthesis Golf II: Erythronolide B 5522 Single-molecule magnet with electrically-controlled permeability: How does the Titan Shield from Deus Ex work? 5523 How do I extract cyanide from apple seeds? 5524 Tetrahedral or Square Planar 5525 Why is [PdCl4]2- square planar whereas [NiCl4]2- is tetrahedral? 5526 Acidity of substituted phenols 5527 Why cant Pd/C and H2 reduce both the alkene and carbonyl portions of α,β-unsaturated carbonyls? 5528 Why is the bond length of CO+ less than that of CO? 5529 Why do chemistry and physics have different sign convention in thermodynamics? 5530 Why dont the electrons move through the electrolyte (instead of the circuit) in a galvanic cell? 5531 Why is methanol toxic? 5532 Effect of drinking ultra-pure water 5533 Would it be possible to destroy gold? 5534 Middle row anomaly of the periodic table 5535 When is it true that more nodes equals higher energy? 5536 Soaps come in different colors, but why is soap lather always white? 5537 How much CO2 could you remove from the atmosphere with 2 trillion USD? 5538 Why are isotopes of hydrogen the only ones with special names? 5539 Is there an energy cost associated with flipping the spin of an electron? 5540 Synthesis Golf I: Sodium Fluvastatin 5541 Flammability (NFPA) - how is it defined? 5542 What would be the effect of the addition of an inert gas to a reaction at equilibrium? 5543 Whats the difference between a nucleophile and a base? 5544 Why does basicity of group 15 hydrides decrease down the group? 5545 Is the ammonium substituent (-NH3+) really meta-directing in electrophilic substitution? 5546 Where did amino acids get their one-letter codes? 5547 Realistic chemical spill accident in high school chemistry class 5548 What caused the flashes in the video footage of Chernobyl? 5549 How are poisons discovered? Does someone have to die/be poisoned from it first? 5550 Why does hyperconjugation help for ring cleavage? 5551 What do the different grades of chemicals mean? 5552 What are the meanings of dotted and wavy lines in structural formulas? 5553 Why does pyrite form cubic crystals? 5554 Why does burnt hair smell bad? 5555 What roles do neutrons play in an atom? 5556 Why does the unstabilised Wittig reaction selectively form cis alkenes? 5557 Relative stability of cis and trans cycloalkenes 5558 Are there non-transparent gases? 5559 What is the molecular structure of xenon hexafluoride? 5560 What makes ice slippery? 5561 What makes Gorilla Glass more durable with each generation? 5562 Why do transition elements make colored compounds? 5563 Difference between exothermic and exergonic 5564 What is the unit of pH? 5565 Why does the 3rd electron shell start filling up with scandium? 5566 What is the strongest acid? 5567 Why are there only 7 types of unit cells and 14 types of Bravais lattices? 5568 Melting and boiling point trend in Group II 5569 Why is -ethane in methane? 5570 What is the exchange interaction? 5571 Are graphite and hexagonal boron nitride aromatic 5572 Why dont gases escape Earths atmosphere? 5573 How to properly store acids at home? 5574 Is honey really a supersaturated solution? Does heating to un-crystalize redissolve it or melt it? 5575 d-orbital splittings in WS2 monolayer 5576 Imaginary Bonding Interactions 5577 What are angular and radial nodes? 5578 Is alcohol really a solution? 5579 Why are covalent bonds directional? 5580 What metals arent dissolved in/attacked by aqua regia? 5581 What is the pKa of the hydronium, or oxonium, ion (H3O+)? 5582 Carbon with 5 bonds? 5583 Microwaving a glass of water, what happens? 5584 Which is the densest gas known? 5585 Electrical conductivity of graphite 5586 Why are DCM and chloroform so resistant towards nucleophilic substitution? 5587 What substances do humans consume that are caloric but neither protein, carb, nor fat? 5588 Why does chocolate melt so easily? 5589 Is activated carbon classified as organic or inorganic? 5590 Why is the Vitamin B complex, a complex? 5591 Is stainless a bulk or a surface property of stainless steel? 5592 How do orbitals coexist with a nucleus? 5593 Is there radioactivity at absolute zero? 5594 How heavy should an element be, to be a Heavy Metal? 5595 How to name binary (inorganic) compounds given their chemical formula, and vice-versa? 5596 Why is −78 °C a magic temperature for organic reactions? 5597 Why is 1-ethylidene-4-methylcyclohexane chiral? 5598 How do non-polar substances dissolve in non-polar solvents? 5599 How do you separate enantiomers? 5600 Acid Accident Treatment 5601 Why are solids and liquids not included in the equilibrium constant? What about in a reaction rate calculation? 5602 Why do atoms want to have a full outer shell? 5603 What happens to gunpowder when it gets wet? 5604 Which carbocation is more stable, the ethyl- or 1-propyl-carbocation? 5605 Why is water the universal solvent? 5606 Why are noble gases stable 5607 Why isnt the American nickel magnetic? 5608 What are oxidation states used for? 5609 Can magnetic fields affect a chemical reaction? 5610 When a candle burns, why does the top of wick glow if bottom of flame is hottest? 5611 What properties of carbon dioxide make it a greenhouse gas? 5612 Why is cyclooctateraene shaped like a tub rather than a chair? 5613 What happens if you cool water in a container too small for it to freeze? 5614 Why is fluorine a gas, but lithium isnt? 5615 Do electrons have some volume, area or shape? 5616 Are the bonding orbitals in methane equivalent - photoelectron spectrum 5617 Why are there no cheap diamond equivalents? 5618 Why is heroin a more potent drug than morphine, despite having a similar structure? 5619 Unusual Friedel–Crafts alkylation with pivaloyl chloride 5620 Suggest methods and basis sets for a variety of systems 5621 How many molecules does it take to have a phase? 5622 Why is snow white? 5623 How do Quantum Software Packages Work? 5624 Whats a minimal yet chemically-meaningful kinetic system for an oscillating reaction? 5625 What makes a radical free? 5626 How does Palladium dissociate H₂ so easily? 5627 What is the difference between D and L configuration, and + and −? 5628 How much gold is there in our sun? 5629 How loud would the Sun be? 5630 Does the Sun rotate? 5631 How can there be 1,000 stellar ancestors before our Sun? 5632 Why is the discovery of merging neutron stars important? 5633 Why dont astronomers use meters to measure astronomical distances? 5634 Could the dinosaurs have seen the asteroid that killed them? 5635 Is the moon only 60 pixels? 5636 Why is only one side of the Moon visible from Earth? 5637 How does the Earth move in the sky as seen from the Moon? 5638 Why not take a picture of a closer black hole? 5639 Can gravitational waves pass through a black hole? 5640 Is it dark inside the Sun? 5641 Does the Milky Way move through space? 5642 Why is there a zig-zag in elemental abundances? 5643 If a massive object like Jupiter flew past the Earth how close would it need to come to pull people off of the surface? 5644 How many planets are there in this solar system? 5645 When will the Sun end all human life on Earth? 5646 Why is the asteroid belt shaped like a triangle? 5647 Would we have more than 8 minutes of light, if the Sun went out? 5648 If two black hole event horizons overlap (touch) can they ever separate again? 5649 Why hasnt the 9th Planet been detected already? 5650 What is the hottest thing in the universe? 5651 Where did TRAPPIST-1a go? 5652 If light has no mass, why is it affected by gravity? 5653 Why does Io cast a hard shadow on Jupiter, but the Moon casts a soft shadow on Earth? 5654 Why is moon light not the same color as sunlight? 5655 What would happen if an ice cube is left in space? 5656 Sun constantly converts mass into energy, will this cause its gravity to decrease? 5657 Is there any role today that would justify building a large single dish radio telescope to replace Arecibo? 5658 How powerful a telescope would allow me to view the astronauts aboard ISS do a space-walk? 5659 Is there a star over my head? 5660 Why has Venuss atmosphere not been stripped away by solar wind? 5661 How did Astronomers deduce that the Sun was not a ball of fire? 5662 Why does it take so long to transmit an image from New Horizons to Earth? 5663 Two species of dark matter? 5664 Does the Milky Way orbit around anything? 5665 If Earth is tilted, why is Polaris always above the same spot? 5666 Is it possible to achieve a stable lunarstationary orbit around the moon? 5667 Why is Mars cold? 5668 How can HD 140283 be older than the universe? 5669 Does matter accumulate just outside the event horizon of a black hole? 5670 Where does the Solar System end? 5671 What is in the center of the universe? 5672 Does the sun cross other spiral arms in its movement around the galaxys center? 5673 Why do Black Holes in the middle of galaxies not suck up the whole galaxy? 5674 How does neutron star collapse into black hole? 5675 How do we have photos of galaxies so far away? 5676 How old is the oldest light visible from Earth? 5677 Are photons aged? 5678 Why does the Sun have different day lengths, but not the gas giants? 5679 Why does gas form a star instead of a black hole? 5680 Why is Gaia operating around Earth orbit? Why not send it to Neptunes orbit? 5681 Why is our solar system tipped about 63° with respect to the plane of our galaxy? 5682 Are new stars less pure as generations go by? 5683 How are black holes found? 5684 Can the moon appear to be in any position in the sky? 5685 How do scientists know that the distant parts of the universe obey the physical laws exactly as we observe around us? 5686 Do all stars have an Oort cloud or is it a rare occurence? 5687 Why are we building larger land-based telescopes instead of launching larger ones into space? 5688 Is Earths moon the only one where a total eclipse of the sun covers the entire sun? 5689 Why are there uneven bright areas in this photo of black hole? 5690 How do we know that black holes are spinning? 5691 How large can a ball of water be without fusion starting? 5692 Closest star system to Alpha Centauri? 5693 How do we distinguish old craters from new ones on the Moon? 5694 How can comets have tails if theres no air resistance in space? 5695 How do I calculate the inclination of an object with an amateur telescope? 5696 Is it a coincidence that on the far side of the moon almost no seas are visible? 5697 9th planet location? 5698 Why cant we see Saturns phases from earth? 5699 Why does the Moon appear gray when passing between the Sun and the Earth? 5700 Are there any stars that orbit perpendicular to the Milky Ways galactic plane? 5701 Why does Jupiter have so many moons? 5702 Why doesnt the moon twinkle? 5703 Considering our methods of exploration, how likely is it that there are unfound planets (not dwarf planets) in our solar system? 5704 How exactly does Hawking radiation decrease the mass of black holes? 5705 Do moons have moons? 5706 If you lived on the far side of the Moon, how could you infer the existence of Earth? 5707 Whats the fastest moving object in the universe? 5708 Why do the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? 5709 Did I see another planet? 5710 Is Venus in some way tidally locked to... Earth? 5711 What did LIGO Actually See? (Gravitational waves discovery) 5712 How was the mass of Venus determined? 5713 Where can I find the positions of the planets, stars, moons, artificial satellites, etc. and visualize them? 5714 Could any known, living organisms on Earth survive on Mars? 5715 Why do (most of) the planets rotate counterclockwise, i.e. the same way the Sun does? 5716 How should I deal with becoming discouraged as a graduate student? 5717 How to ask dumb questions 5718 Upset by male classmates openly comparing female students according to physical appearance 5719 I dont want to kill any more mice, but my advisor insists that I must in order to get my PhD 5720 Should I share my horrible software? 5721 Moral dilemma in unwittingly being paid to complete a students work 5722 How to effectively deal with Imposter Syndrome and feelings of inadequacy: Ive somehow convinced everyone that Im actually good at this 5723 How to avoid procrastination during the research phase of my PhD? 5724 A paper I received to review has (independently) duplicated work that we are writing up. How to proceed in light of peer-review confidentiality? 5725 Why do American colleges and universities have sports teams? 5726 Sex worker student offering her (lawful) services 5727 How to read papers without falling into a rabbit hole? 5728 A published paper stole my unpublished results from a science fair 5729 Failing students when it might cause them economic ruin 5730 Female students coming to office hours in overly revealing clothing 5731 How to avoid being falsely accused of harassment by a student? 5732 Professor creates assignment making students advocate for a bill being presented to Congress. Is this legal? 5733 Have I embarassed my supervisors by solving a problem that a PhD student in my group was working on without success? 5734 I believe I have solved a famous open problem. How do I convince people in the field that I am not a crank? 5735 What to do when your student is convinced that he will be the next Einstein? 5736 University rank/stature - How much does it affect ones career post-Ph.D? 5737 Writing a recommendation letter for a student I reported for academic dishonesty 5738 Why would an academic write a textbook for free? 5739 Postdoc overwhelmed by incomplete work 5740 What to do with a student coming to class in revealing clothing, to the degree that it disrupts the teaching environment? 5741 How can I recover professionally from being a crank? 5742 Can I add a baby as a co-author of a scientific paper, to protest against co-authors who havent made any contribution? 5743 May a man attend a workshop entitled “Young women in [domain]”? 5744 How to deal with an advisor who wants a friendlier relationship with me than I do? 5745 How to stop hopping the learning chain and actually begin somewhere? 5746 How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers? 5747 How to deal with a student who most likely has a mental condition, and keeps arguing with me in class? 5748 Is it possible to recover after a career setback such as this? 5749 How do you cite a Github repository? 5750 Quoting a typo: Do I really have to do sic, or can I just fix the sentence? 5751 I realize I made a huge mistake in my thesis and am not sure what to do. Im defending very soon (days away). What should I do? 5752 Religious supervisor wants to thank god in the acknowledgements 5753 Is it acceptable to publish student names with the label stupid question, on a publicly-visible website? 5754 Grades are too high for the department - what should I do? 5755 My research paper filed as a patent in China by my Chinese supervisor without me as inventor 5756 Grant fraud, should I bust my PhD advisor? 5757 Why dont researchers publish failed experiments? 5758 What does the typical workflow of a journal look like? 5759 How do you come to terms with the fact that you might never be among the best in your research community? 5760 Do I have the legal right to demand information on plagiarism of my work from another university? 5761 Why are papers without code but with results accepted? 5762 In a formal paper, should I censor brainf**k, the name of a programming language? 5763 How do you judge the quality of a journal? 5764 Why do many talented scientists write horrible software? 5765 Profs neurological health is declining rapidly. What can I (TA) do? 5766 My paper is being cited in vaccine misinformation. What do I do? 5767 How honest should one be with their students when talking about the realities of academia? 5768 What to do about questions that are designed to embarrass the speaker? 5769 I (independently) solved a fellow students research problem. I want to publish it. What should I do? 5770 How to deal with failing a student? 5771 Is Obamas JAMA paper OK? 5772 Why are most scientific articles locked behind a paywall? 5773 What does first authorship really mean? 5774 How can a TA help a student who is certain she sucks at programming? 5775 Our teacher is encouraging us to use cracked software 5776 I am uncomfortable about students taking pictures of the blackboard, because I dont like appearing in them 5777 Appropriateness of dedicating my thesis to a Jewish mathematician who died in a concentration camp 5778 Teaching a class likely meant to inflate the GPA of student athletes 5779 Rediscovery of calculus in 1994: what should have happened to that paper? 5780 A student in my course does well on exams, but doesnt do the homework: Go easy on them, or make them pay the price? 5781 What to do if a referee plagiarises the result after rejecting a paper? 5782 Does one need to be affiliated with a university to publish papers? 5783 Is it appropriate for a professor to require students to sign a non-disclosure agreement before being taught? 5784 How to deal with a very weak student? 5785 Should I intervene when a colleague in a different department makes students run laps as part of their grade? 5786 How does the admissions process work for Ph.D. programs in the US, particularly for weak or borderline students? 5787 Will ISIS attacks hurt my PhD application as a Muslim? 5788 My professor is rigging data and plagiarizing. What can I do? 5789 Is declining an undergraduate award which causes me discomfort appropriate? 5790 Is it ethical to submit a paper with the name of a co-author who cannot be contacted? 5791 How do I handle a colleagues gender change when citing their paper? 5792 Best-practice models for research code? 5793 I slept with my advisors daughter and she is blackmailing me now. What can I do? 5794 Should I simply ignore it if authors assume that Im male in their response to my review of their article? 5795 Whats the point of PhD theses if nobody reads them? 5796 Why do most people think its a bad idea to read from slides? 5797 Why is my mood dictated so much by how well my research is going? 5798 Is there a place in academia for someone who compulsively solves every problem on their own? 5799 How hard do early-career academics in the United States work, really? 5800 Can leaked nude pictures damage ones academic career? 5801 How to build healthy working relationships with my male colleagues as a young-ish, attractive-ish woman? 5802 Useful strategies for answering dumb questions in a talk? 5803 Reporting a student who may be psychologically disturbed 5804 Is it ethical to profit by having my students buy my textbook? 5805 Two years into my PhD program, and Mom is dying of cancer. Should I tell my advisor about it? 5806 What to do about grade grubbers? 5807 I am an editor for a lousy paper and I found a better algorithm than theirs. Must I share it with them? 5808 Should a young professor avoid using dating apps? 5809 How do I identify predatory and low quality journals? With Bealls List gone, how can I tell if a journal is spam? 5810 Is publishing runnable code instead of pseudo code shunned? 5811 Why are professors websites so ugly? 5812 Should professors intervene if a student is wearing offensive clothing in their classroom? 5813 Is it ethical/acceptable to give a lighter penalty to students who admit to cheating? 5814 My students family wont let her study what she wants 5815 Should the slides in a presentation be self-explanatory or be as minimal as possible? 5816 Is it okay to report classmates cheating on exams? 5817 Should I quit my PhD - workload, self-esteem and social life 5818 Should I have doubts if the organizers of a workshop ask me to sign a behavior agreement upfront? 5819 Is ignoring emails acceptable in academia? 5820 How to supervise a bad PhD student 5821 Should I send professors money for illegally downloading their books? 5822 Taking an academic pseudonym? 5823 Slept through final, professor is giving me a zero and failing me – is there anything I can do to change this? 5824 How do you get a bad transcript past Ph.D. admissions? 5825 Knowing that most students submit assignments right around the deadline, is it advisable not to set deadline that is very late at night? 5826 I was caught cheating on an exam, how can I minimize the damage? 5827 How do you answer Oh, youre a professor? What do you teach? 5828 Choice of personal pronoun in single-author papers 5829 Software to draw illustrative figures in papers 5830 In a yes/no question, a student gives the right answer and an unnecessary but wrong explanation. How to grade? 5831 Do academics look down on well-designed academic websites? 5832 Asked again to review a paper, when the authors dont wish to modify it 5833 Fellow student asked question from take-home exam on Stack Exchange 5834 How to react when encountering students who have previously failed my course? 5835 How to deal with anxiety and depression after being kicked out of PhD program? 5836 What should I do after advisor got upset when I expressed belief in evolution and then said he couldnt add me to his research team? 5837 How to argue against questionable research practices such as P-hacking and Harking? 5838 What is this can I hire you as a tutor scam? 5839 Gender transition as a starting faculty member: a terrible idea? 5840 If I request a paper through my university library, must they pay a substantial amount of money? 5841 Is it appropriate to email a professor saying you enjoyed their class, after doing well in it? 5842 Advisor tries to reproduce my results to ensure my honesty. Is it the norm? 5843 What is the purpose of women-only meetings, panels, conferences, etc. in academia? 5844 How to come up with research ideas? 5845 Googling my name reveals silly things from when I was younger. I am embarassed. How will this affect me in my future academic career? 5846 What to remember when supervising female PhD students? 5847 How to stop feeling guilty about unfinished work? 5848 Asking questions in class: how can I exit a Q&A when I havent really understood? 5849 How to deal with arrogant e-mail of a student 5850 Why do researchers sometimes use extremely complicated English sentences to convey their meaning? 5851 Why are research papers written in language thats difficult for undergraduate students? 5852 Do I not have the personality for a PhD? 5853 Editor rejected manuscript claiming it is similar to a not-yet-published manuscript (that I havent seen). How to proceed? 5854 What are fake, shady, and/or predatory journals? 5855 Only one student answered an exam question - and I strongly suspect he cheated 5856 Why do students go for a PhD even when chances of getting academic jobs on its completion are slim? 5857 Is doing two PhDs a good path? 5858 How to silence the voice that tells you youre being financially irresponsible by spending 4 to 6 years doing a PhD? 5859 Why do Americans care so much about recommendation letters? 5860 What is the point of listing 1000 authors for a single scientific paper? 5861 How to approach a student with bad hygiene? 5862 Dressing down to impress in academic settings 5863 Why is plagiarism so harshly punished? 5864 What makes someone deserving of a Ph.D.? 5865 Student caught cheating when leaving class after handing me the exam 5866 What is the best last slide in a thesis presentation? 5867 How can I prevent students from writing answers on an assignment, then claiming I didnt see their answer? 5868 Is it okay for a professor to leave the classroom only 5 min past the class start if nobody has shown up? 5869 Is it reasonable for a professor to ask students to stay 30-45 minutes past scheduled class time every week? 5870 PhD Student : Publish Paper with Wife? 5871 Is Academia really just a huge competition? 5872 What can I do when some people stole my master thesis work and published it as their own work? 5873 What should I do if my advisor is forcing me to vote on a specific candidate in IEEE elections? 5874 None of 25 students at question session before exam has a question. What should lecturer do? 5875 Why is it acceptable that publishers sell papers they didn’t pay for? 5876 How to respond to a company that wants specific details on implementation of my PhD research? 5877 Should I recommend a student with a bad ideology? 5878 How to prevent students from using modified calculators to cheat on exams? 5879 Is it ethical for a professor to get masters students to work on open source modules related to the professors profit-making company? 5880 My teaching evaluations arrived and female students statistically gave me worse scores than male students. Is there any possible explanation? 5881 How to handle requests for a race-based exam structure? 5882 Ethical concerns regarding the review of a paper on autonomous armed drones 5883 Why do universities fund Ph.D. students in the sciences? 5884 What is a “sandwich thesis”? 5885 What is behind the Indian Undergrad Research Experience-spam? 5886 Submitting paper proving X soon after paper proving X-epsilon 5887 Assistant professor vs Associate professor 5888 What to do if I have seen an exam before I have taken it? 5889 Has anyone, based on great performance, ever been awarded a higher degree than the one they enrolled for? 5890 What to do if most of my students have switched to a better lecturers class? 5891 Professor falsely accusing me of cheating in a class he does not teach, two months after end of the class. What precautions should I take? 5892 Is it unethical to supply a marked solution to a student who has shown intent to cheat, with the intent of identifying them for punishment? 5893 A famous scholar sent me an unpublished draft of hers. Then she died. I think her work should be published. What should I do? 5894 My admission is revoked after accepting the admission offer 5895 Is having access to past exams cheating and, if yes, could it be proven just by a good grade? 5896 Will my cancer ruin my chances of going to graduate school in math? 5897 The overwhelming silence in shy classes 5898 Students bringing babies to class 5899 I lost my students quizzes due to a theft, what should I do? 5900 How can I address a student systematically boosting their grades by filing frivolous complaints? 5901 One of my student researchers is likely falsifying some results/data. What are the consequences? 5902 Professor does not care about cheating, what should TA do? 5903 What happens if a math PhD student fails to find a proof that is the main objective of his/her thesis topic? 5904 During peer-review, should I comment on the authors messy code? 5905 How do I deal with a candidate mentioning God twelve times in their application? 5906 Is it true that PhD students need to work 10-12 hours a day every day to be productive? 5907 Just started a postdoc, but it went REALLY bad, REALLY fast. Stay or go? 5908 I have stack-exchanged through my undergrad math program. Am I likely to succeed in mathematics PhD programs? 5909 E-mail address to use in publications 5910 The GRE: Why does this still exist? 5911 Do authors have to be politically correct in article-writing? 5912 Why do some instructors care so much about attendance? 5913 If I quit my PhD, would it make my advisor look bad? 5914 Im feeling discouraged after getting tenure; should I quit? 5915 What should I do when my accepted paper is subsequently rejected? 5916 Why cant universities work around the proposed reclassification of tuition remission as taxable income, by not charging tuition? 5917 How to be a co-author anonymously? 5918 Is it possible to work full time and complete a PhD? 5919 What to say to a student who has failed? 5920 How to tell an over-confident student they still have a lot to learn? 5921 When should a supervisor be an author? 5922 Are non-citizen Muslim professors and students going to be removed from US universities and subsequently deported by Trumps ban? 5923 Is web-presence important for researchers? 5924 Is there an affordable way for non-students to subscribe to multi-journals/archives? 5925 Should I report a PhD student’s incompetence to their supervisor? 5926 You are paid to answer my questions! - how to handle silly questions? 5927 I want to do research but Im too old for a PHD 5928 Why is peer review so random? 5929 Where do bad papers go to die? 5930 How do I talk about my abusive former advisor if people ask? 5931 Walk up and talk to random people at academic conferences - is that appropriate? 5932 What makes academic failure different from failure in another career? 5933 My supervisor doesnt believe in depression 5934 Techniques for good board handwriting 5935 Should I seek professional help because I have a lot of math books? 5936 Is it ok to upload joke papers to arXiv? 5937 PhD student, issued contract at year 3 which will sign over intellectual property. Is it legal? 5938 Donating money to scientific research after my death 5939 How to handle lecturer who doesnt let me use my phone? 5940 What is the justification for the typical punishment of a student who did not cheat but helped others cheat? 5941 How do mathematicians conduct research? 5942 Is it OK to refuse to cite paywalled papers? 5943 Are college students forbidden from sharing their grades with other students? 5944 How can I avoid being the negative one when giving feedback on statistics? 5945 Editor asks for π to be written in roman 5946 I am non-tenured and have been offered a tenure-track position at my current university, but I dont want to stay here long term. What should I do? 5947 Typical experiences of transgender people in academia? 5948 How to react to a student proselytising during office hours? 5949 How to quiet noisy undergrads students during lecture 5950 Why do professors want to make sure that their notes written on the blackboard will not be published? 5951 Two-thirds of my class colluded. Should I report them to the academic offences committee? 5952 How should I proceed when a (famous) professor says Im not good enough for research? 5953 What can I do if my advisor wants me to keep working, even while Im on medical leave for severe depression? 5954 How to avoid a hostile takeover of first authorship during medical leave? 5955 How to react when a team of colleagues obviously made up some results? 5956 As a department head, what to do if a professor leaves without giving out grades? 5957 How to become well-known in the research community while being a PhD student 5958 Should I report an accepted PhD thesis in which the literature review is copied verbatim from sources? 5959 Am I reading enough of the scientific literature? Should I read for breadth or depth? 5960 Should I explain to the graduate admission committee why I am older than most prospective PhD students? 5961 Strategies for teaching with facial aphasia (inability to recognize faces aka prosopagnosia, face-blindness) 5962 Use of first person in a PhD Thesis 5963 Is 8:00 AM an unreasonable time to meet with my graduate students and post-doc? 5964 A student keeps using a native language while asking questions in the class when the course is taught in English 5965 As a TA, how to react if I come across a Facebook group in which students insult me? 5966 What is the origin of the underwater basket weaving meme in Academia? 5967 Are there good reasons to avoid using color in research papers? 5968 What productive academic work can you do with minimal attention in a small (<30 minutes) block of time? 5969 How should I deal with very negative feedback from some students? 5970 What is the point of a lecture when you have a textbook? 5971 Where did I lose control of my studies? 5972 First year Math PhD student; My problem solving skill has been completely atrophied and continues to decline 5973 Referee says the proof is wrong, but it is not, what to do? 5974 Should I tell students that its my first time teaching the course? 5975 Why are some professors critical of even casual use of Wikipedia? 5976 Counter strategy against group that repeatedly does strategic self-citations and ignores other relevant research 5977 How to train students to write high-quality research papers? 5978 How do I reference the Python programming language in a thesis or a paper? 5979 What are the potential pitfalls of having a PhD? 5980 Accused of cheating due to the time accounted by Blackboard 5981 Is it acceptable for a professor to tell male students to not think that they are smarter than female students? 5982 Citing paywalled articles accessed via illegal web sharing 5983 How do teachers learn to grade? 5984 Should I take threats from a former professor seriously? 5985 Does publishing a paper on arXiv prevent me from submitting it to a non-open access journal? 5986 How to deal with a student who harasses the (inexperienced) teacher during class? 5987 How to respond to unfair to write English comments? 5988 Someone plagiarised my entire paper. What should I do now? 5989 How to help reduce students anxiety in an oral exam? 5990 How to deal with a professor who grades assignments and exams incorrectly 5991 Are results that are derived simply by using more computational power publishable? 5992 What are the advantages or disadvantages of using LaTeX for writing scientific publications 5993 How to let a PhD student know that their research is not as good as they think it is 5994 First author doesnt want a co-author to read the whole paper 5995 Why are many obviously pointless papers published, or worse studied? 5996 Can a lecturer force you to learn a specific programming syntax / language? 5997 Why upload to academic preprint sites like arXiv? 5998 Lecturer ridiculing me in front of class for making a mistake 5999 Is there any problem with students seeing faculty naked in university gym? 6000 Am I being exploited by my supervisor? 6001 What to answer an author asking me if I reviewed his/her paper? 6002 Is it ethical to use proprietary (closed-source) software for scientific computation? 6003 Why does this site give different answers about leaving a bad situation compared to Workplace.SE? 6004 How to deal with an academic stalker? 6005 My first authorship is being turned into co-first authorship, what can I do? 6006 A student forgot to answer an exam question 6007 Can I, as a reviewer, tell authors to get a native English speaker to proofread their paper? 6008 How to deal with people looking at their mobile phone during my presentation? 6009 What is a social strategy I can use to respond to Hows your PhD going? 6010 What good is engineering research with no practical relevance? 6011 PhD candidate vs PhD student 6012 Why do academics frequently write very short email replies? 6013 Is it valid to modify a students exam grade if you feel they did not earn it? 6014 Is it appropriate (as a PhD student) to email other researchers asking about some details in their papers? 6015 Why do researchers need universities? 6016 Is it acceptable for a professor to ask post-doc student to babysit for free? 6017 How can I tell if I have simplified my talk too much? 6018 Strikethrough with GitHub Markdown 6019 How do I add new styles to Google docs? 6020 How do I strikethrough text in Gmail? 6021 How can I get code syntax highlighting in Google Docs? 6022 How do I change my default account with Google multiple sign-in? 6023 Is there a way I can see a list of all my YouTube comments over time? 6024 Turning off Google search results indirection 6025 How can Google Docs and markdown play nice? 6026 How do I link a cell in Google Spreadsheets to a cell in another document? 6027 GitHub - Whats this Pro tag on my profile? 6028 Where can I see all my comments on issues on GitHub? 6029 Alternatives for Google Reader (with Android synchronizing) 6030 How to specify OR conditions for Gmail filter 6031 How to stop Googles people also search for 6032 How do I delete my Facebook account? 6033 How does one add a new line in a cell in a Google Spreadsheet? 6034 How do I retrieve a message I accidentally archived in Gmail? 6035 How to group data in a Google Spreadsheet? 6036 How to modify a URL to get a Google cached version of page? 6037 Hidden features of Google Search 6038 Make a single page landscape in Google Documents 6039 Is it possible to use strikethrough (, , ) in Trello? 6040 Is it possible to create a Gmail filter that works on headers other than From, To, Subject? 6041 How to view the parent folder of a Google Document? 6042 How do I escape formatting characters in Slack? 6043 What does shva=1#inbox mean when Gmail loads? 6044 How can I create a fixed column header in Google Spreadsheet like the first sheet? 6045 How to view the folder size in Google Drive? 6046 Google Sheets formula for if contains 6047 How to convert rows into columns in Google Spreadsheets? 6048 How to paste a comma separated string over multiple cells in Google Sheets? 6049 Add new alias to Gmail without SMTP (forwarding-only address) 6050 Is there a way to insert today’s date into a Google Docs? 6051 What does starring a repository on GitHub do? 6052 How to share a YouTube video with a specific start and end time? 6053 How do I calculate a time delta in my Google Spreadsheets? 6054 How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search? 6055 How can I filter my Gmail messages that arent labeled? 6056 A faster way to access Strikethrough on Google Docs 6057 Gmail & Google Docs: Paste just the text, not the formatting (Firefox, Safari) 6058 What is the easiest way to format code when pasting to Gmail? 6059 How to use boolean AND and NOT operators in Gmail search 6060 How do I download a YouTube video? 6061 Disable videos in YouTube, listen to the audio only 6062 How do I add a caption to an image in Google Documents? 6063 How to search the internet for terms with special characters 6064 Wildcard search in Gmail 6065 How to use GPG with Gmail? 6066 How do I check my promotional credit with Amazon? 6067 Is there any way to give more (or less) weight to words in a Google search? 6068 How to paste raw HTML into an email in Gmail? 6069 Export Gmail messages to text or HTML files 6070 Embed Google Spreadsheet in Google Document 6071 Can I merge two conversation threads in Gmail? 6072 How exactly does MEGAs download work? 6073 What is the cURL command-line syntax to do a POST request? 6074 Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster? 6075 How do I scroll in tmux? 6076 How do I make a machine blank screen for a period of time (as a penalty) if certain noise levels are reached? 6077 How can I sort the output of ls by last modified date? 6078 Getting curl to output HTTP status code? 6079 How to clear/flush the DNS cache in Google Chrome? 6080 Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows 6081 What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? 6082 How to tell git which private key to use? 6083 Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen? 6084 Is there a built-in checksum utility on Windows 7? 6085 Why does this PNG image display differently in Chrome & Firefox than in Safari and IE? 6086 What does source do? 6087 How to recursively chmod all directories except files? 6088 How are pseudorandom and truly random numbers different and why does it matter? 6089 macOS keeps asking my ssh passphrase since I updated to Sierra 6090 How to *disable* automatic reboots in Windows 10? 6091 How can I get the same SSID for multiple access points? 6092 How can I display the contents of an environment variable from the command prompt in Windows 7? 6093 From a quality perspective, what is better: turning volume up in the software, in the OS, or on the speakers? 6094 How do you reload your .vimrc file without restarting vim? 6095 Windows 7 SP1 Windows Update stuck checking for updates 6096 How to execute a command whenever a file changes? 6097 View list of files in ZIP archive on Linux 6098 How do I reorder tmux windows? 6099 How to copy with cp to include hidden files and hidden directories and their contents? 6100 How to stop an automatic redirect from “http://” to “https://” in Chrome 6101 Using ffmpeg to cut up video 6102 How to find a directory on linux? 6103 Permissions on private key in .ssh folder? 6104 What is the You have new mail message in Linux/UNIX? 6105 Difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile 6106 Create/rename a file/folder that begins with a dot in Windows? 6107 How to turn off word-wrap in less 6108 Did I just get hacked? 6109 How does a computer restart itself? 6110 How do I convert a video to GIF using ffmpeg, with reasonable quality? 6111 directory junction vs directory symbolic link? 6112 Is there any sudo command for Windows? 6113 When reading a file with `less` or `more`, how can I get the content in colors? 6114 Automatically answer Yes when using apt-get install 6115 Does e-mail address obfuscation actually work? 6116 Reload a Linux users group assignments without logging out 6117 How can I make Chrome stop caching redirects? 6118 Can I delete the folder C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\? 6119 How can I remove malicious spyware, malware, adware, viruses, trojans or rootkits from my PC? 6120 How to decompress a .bz2 file 6121 How to remove one or all auto-complete text entries in Chrome? 6122 How to open files in vertically/horizontal split windows in Vim from the command line 6123 Why dont websites immediately display their text these days? 6124 How can I free up drive space from the Windows installer folder without killing Windows? 6125 How do I make rm not give an error if a file doesnt exist? 6126 How to download files from command line in Windows like wget or curl 6127 Test if a port on a remote system is reachable (without telnet) 6128 How do I run multiple commands on one line in PowerShell? 6129 How to check if a binary is 32 or 64 bit on Windows? 6130 An SSH tunnel via multiple hops 6131 How to delete directories with path/names too long for normal delete 6132 How do I rename a session in tmux? 6133 What is randomart produced by ssh-keygen? 6134 How can I download an entire website? 6135 How to check which apache modules are enabled/installed? 6136 How to remove an entry from Chromes Remembered URLs from the url bar? 6137 How to disable the Get Windows 10 icon shown in the notification area (tray)? 6138 How can I resume a stopped job in Linux? 6139 Is there a way to auto login in PuTTY with a password? 6140 How to enable execution of PowerShell scripts? 6141 How to save a remote server SSL certificate locally as a file 6142 Why are we still using CPUs instead of GPUs? 6143 How to rename the User folder in Windows 10? 6144 How do I exit telnet? 6145 Can I make cURL fail with an exitCode different than 0 if the HTTP status code is not 200? 6146 How to fix warning about ECDSA host key 6147 What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them? 6148 What is the difference between executing a Bash script vs sourcing it? 6149 Ping faster than light 6150 Clear cache for specific domain name in chrome 6151 Why does pinging 192.168.072 (only 2 dots) return a response from 192.168.0.58? 6152 Remove audio from video file with FFmpeg 6153 How to clear the contents of a file from the command line? 6154 If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? 6155 How do I compare binary files in Linux? 6156 How do I add text to the beginning of a file in Bash? 6157 How can I delete a symbolic link? 6158 Mac OS X equivalent of the Ubuntu tree command 6159 How can I give my wife emergency access to logins, passwords, etc.? 6160 What disk image should I use with VirtualBox, VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD? 6161 How can I make chown work recursively? 6162 Who provides the Internet service to Internet Service Providers (ISPs)? 6163 In Mac OS, what is the keyboard shortcut to switch between windows of the same application? 6164 How can I view two files side by side in Notepad++? 6165 How can I do a Cache Refresh in Google Chrome? 6166 How do I exit an SSH connection? 6167 How to get the summarized sizes of directories and their subdirectories? 6168 How do I detach a process from Terminal, entirely? 6169 chown is not changing symbolic link 6170 Find what package a file belongs to in Ubuntu/Debian? 6171 How can I search the bash history and rerun a command? 6172 Selecting columns in Visual Studio Code 6173 How to compact VirtualBoxs VDI file size? 6174 How to remove systemd services 6175 How to prevent Gnome-shells Alt+Tab from grouping windows from similar apps? 6176 Why does virtualbox only have 32-bit option, no 64-bit option on Windows 7? 6177 Move an off-screen window back on-screen on Mac OS X 6178 How do you list all processes on the command line in Windows? 6179 How can I send a Ctrl+Alt+Delete through Remote Desktop in Windows 8? 6180 Go back to previous directory in shell 6181 Restore tmux session after reboot 6182 Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell? 6183 tmux vs. screen 6184 How to force refresh without cache in Google Chrome? 6185 less command with multiple files: How to navigate to next/previous 6186 How to encode base64 via command line? 6187 How do I get the distinct/unique values in a column in Excel? 6188 If I know the PID number of a process, how can I get its name? 6189 How to list files of a Debian package without install 6190 Menu select item stuck on screen after context or command menu has closed 6191 Keyboard language keeps changing in Windows 10 6192 How to recursively delete directory from command line in windows? 6193 How do I list the SSL/TLS cipher suites a particular website offers? 6194 What does the Fi in Wi-Fi mean? 6195 Scroll shell output with mouse in tmux 6196 How can I clear a single site from the cache in Firefox? 6197 Show desktop keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X 6198 How do you prevent the dock from switching monitors in macOS Catalina or Big Sur? 6199 How do I view, add or edit Cookies in Google Chrome? 6200 Can I completely disable Cortana on Windows 10? 6201 What is the Windows equivalent of the Unix command cat? 6202 Determine which tab in Firefox is using CPU resources? 6203 Why is there such a big difference between Size and Size on disk? 6204 Bash: Iterating over lines in a variable 6205 How to append to a file as sudo? 6206 Whats the difference between 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0? 6207 Assigning custom extensions to a languages syntax highlighting in Notepad++ 6208 How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows? 6209 How to mess up a PC running Windows 7? 6210 Inverting direction of mouse scroll wheel 6211 How to read ext4 partitions on Windows? 6212 How to merge audio and video file in ffmpeg 6213 How does one swap two panes in Tmux? 6214 How to pin either a Shortcut or a Batch file to the new Windows 7, 8 and 10 Taskbar and start menu? 6215 How to get information about an image (picture) from the Linux command-line? 6216 What is the home directory on Windows Subsystem for Linux? 6217 How to move windows that open up offscreen? 6218 Remove or prevent sidebar from opening by default on Adobe Reader 6219 Switching back to last *used* tab on Chrome 6220 Conclusively stop wake timers from waking Windows 10 desktop 6221 How to reliably keep an SSH tunnel open? 6222 Whats the recommended way to move a VirtualBox VM to another computer? 6223 How do I make Windows 10s File Explorer open This PC by default? 6224 Too many authentication failures for *username* 6225 How can I find files that are bigger/smaller than x bytes? 6226 Maximizing a pane in tmux 6227 How to match whitespace in sed? 6228 Setting and getting Windows environment variables from the command prompt? 6229 Using cd command in Windows command line, cant navigate to D:\ 6230 Grep equivalent for Windows 7? 6231 Windows SSH: Permissions for private-key are too open 6232 How do I find the location of an executable in Windows? 6233 Sorting lines in Notepad++ without the TextFX plugin 6234 Why does my microwave kill the Wi-Fi? 6235 Getting colored results when using a pipe from grep to less 6236 How do I reset master to origin/master? 6237 My windows keyboard is being clever with the quote keys - how can I stop it? 6238 How to convert 2 horizontal panes to vertical panes in tmux? 6239 Rebooting Ubuntu on Windows without rebooting Windows? 6240 Which Unicode characters do smilies like ٩(•̮̮̃•̃)۶ consist of? 6241 How can I list all IPs in the connected network, through Terminal preferably? 6242 How can I clear cookies for a single site? 6243 How do I get different background images on my dual monitors? 6244 ps aux output meaning 6245 What can I do to stop the Play / Pause button from opening iTunes? 6246 Whats the equivalent of Linuxs updatedb command for the Mac? 6247 Linux unzip command: Option to force overwrite? 6248 How to automatically reload modified files in Notepad++ 6249 Clear 301-redirect cache in Firefox 6250 Why is Google so much faster than a hard-drive search? 6251 How to get SVG thumbnails in Windows Explorer? 6252 How do you gunzip a file and keep the .gz file? 6253 Why should I use Vagrant instead of just VirtualBox? 6254 How to search inside files on Windows 7? 6255 How can I search within the output buffer of a tmux shell? 6256 My cat sat on my laptop, now the right side of my keyboard types the wrong characters 6257 Delete all lines in Notepad++ except lines containing a word I need? 6258 Way to avoid ssh connection timeout & freezing of GNOME Terminal 6259 How to show the current column in the statusbar in vim? 6260 How to fix the wrong number of unread emails flag in Outlook? 6261 Is there a list of Windows special directories/shortcuts (like %TEMP%)? 6262 Combine one image + one audio file to make one video using FFmpeg 6263 How do I get an entire directory in sftp? 6264 Looking for HTTP debugging proxy for Mac similar to Fiddler on Windows 6265 How can I check the temperature of my CPU in Windows? 6266 How do you add a certificate authority (CA) to Ubuntu? 6267 Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Pythons tar library compared to macOS tar? 6268 How can I extract .rar files on the Mac? 6269 Is there a fix for the Too many open files in system error on OS X 10.7.1? 6270 Equivalent of Linux `touch` to create an empty file with PowerShell 6271 Recursively count all the files in a directory 6272 What do the parentheses and number after a Unix command or C function mean? 6273 Connect to the host machine from a VirtualBox guest OS? 6274 How do you redirect wget response to standard out? 6275 Should laptops remain plugged in when their battery is 100% charged? 6276 Get a list of Open Ports in Linux 6277 Mac OS X: Best Way to Make an ISO from a CD or DVD 6278 Choosing between .bashrc, .profile, .bash_profile, etc 6279 Stop MS Word from selecting more than I want 6280 How do I select all text in Vi/Vim? 6281 Notepad++ find and replace string with a new-line 6282 What is port forwarding and what is it used for? 6283 How can I install 7zip so I can run it from Terminal on OS X 6284 How to reinstall a package using apt-get? 6285 Is it possible to ping an address:port? 6286 Difference between OTF (Open Type) or TTF (True Type) font formats? 6287 How to quickly move current window to another Task View / desktop in Windows 10? 6288 How to control Windows 7 snap feature with two monitors? 6289 How can I prevent Ask.com Toolbar from being installed every time Java is updated? 6290 Purpose of a mystery key on an IBM PC 3270 keyboard 6291 Zsh not hitting ~/.profile 6292 Rename screen session 6293 How can one turn off spell checking in Notepad++? 6294 How can I remove outdated installed versions of Homebrew packages? 6295 32-bit vs. 64-bit systems 6296 How to have Linux ls command show second in time stamp 6297 How do I set system environment variables in Windows 10? 6298 How to convert .ppk key to OpenSSH key under Linux? 6299 Command-line application for converting SVG to PNG on Mac OS X 6300 Mouse pointer moving on arrow keys pressed 6301 Is there a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1? 6302 Is it possible to run a motherboard in distilled water? 6303 Does it make sense to keep different SSIDs for 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless networks? 6304 How to compare the differences between two PDF files on Windows? 6305 Windows 8 Hyper-V - how to give VM internet access? 6306 How to make an SSH tunnel publicly accessible? 6307 How can I give write-access of a folder to all users in linux? 6308 How can I execute a Windows command line in background? 6309 How can I produce high CPU load on a Linux server? 6310 Change Outlook Mark As Read Behavior 6311 How can I avoid SSHs host verification for known hosts? 6312 What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal? 6313 Is there still a reason to choose a 10,000 RPM hard drive over an SSD? 6314 How can this website reidentify me even after deleting all of my browsers history and using a VPN? 6315 Easiest way to open CSV with commas in Excel 6316 Windows 10 - disable reopening programs after restart/startup 6317 How to delete a file with a path too long to be deleted 6318 How can I change to the previous directory instead of going up? 6319 What are differences between VBoxVGA, VMSVGA and VBoxSVGA in VirtualBox? 6320 Copy JSON from console.log in developer tool to clipboard? 6321 What is a SSH key fingerprint and how is it generated? 6322 In bash, how do I escape an exclamation mark? 6323 How to add user to a group from Mac OS X command line? 6324 What is the advantage of using tar today? 6325 How do I reset the time on my computer without turning it on? 6326 Kill a process which says Access denied 6327 Get Last Modified Date of File in Linux 6328 How do I find out what version of Linux Im running? 6329 Refresh Icon Cache Without Rebooting 6330 How to find files with certain text in the Terminal 6331 Why are pixels square? 6332 What is the difference between a certificate and a key with respect to SSL? 6333 How do I disable the warning Chrome gives if a security certificate is not trusted? 6334 How to copy symbolic links? 6335 In vim, how can I quickly switch between tabs? 6336 Using watch with pipes 6337 How do I change the language of all Powerpoint slides at once? 6338 Windows equivalent of the Linux command touch? 6339 How to copy text from Console2? 6340 What is the purpose of the holes marked Do Not Cover on hard drives? 6341 How do I know what proxy server Im using? 6342 How do I extract files from an MSI package? 6343 Whats different between Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+C in Unix command line? 6344 Combine multiple images using ImageMagick 6345 Turn on the link hover statusbar in Google Chrome 6346 Why does Ctrl + V not paste in Bash (Linux shell)? 6347 Is there a way to display a countdown or stopwatch timer in a terminal? 6348 How to delete a file in Windows with a too long filename? 6349 Cut part from video file from start position to end position with FFmpeg 6350 How to make SUBST mapping persistent across reboots? 6351 Is there any program or way to make Mac OS Xs ⌘-Tab behave like Windows Alt-Tab? 6352 How can I direct a query to specific DNS server? 6353 Read the contents of a zipped file without extraction? 6354 How to use Markdown in Notepad++ 6355 How Can I Convert Github-Flavored Markdown To A PDF 6356 Preventing applications from stealing focus 6357 I am a victim of the Petya ransomware. 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Even calculator 6373 How to stop Microsoft from gathering telemetry data from Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 6374 How can I make ffmpeg be quieter/less verbose? 6375 Why do file URLs start with 3 slashes? 6376 I accidentally typed password into bash command line 6377 On my Windows machine, I had a folder with a name of four dots that acted like some kind of rabbit hole - how did that happen? 6378 What are CLOSE_WAIT and TIME_WAIT states? 6379 Why does emptying disk space speed up computers? 6380 How can I find only the executable files under a certain directory in Linux? 6381 How do I enable the shared clipboard in VirtualBox? 6382 With Bash + iTerm2, how to name tabs? 6383 Move pane to a new window in tmux 6384 PowerShell equivalent of curl 6385 How to disable internet search results in start menu post Creators Update? 6386 Typing “python” on Windows 10 (version 1903) command prompt opens Microsoft store 6387 Change the default sorting order in Thunderbird 6388 Disable These files might be harmful to your computer warning? 6389 How to reload /etc/environment without rebooting? 6390 This file came from another computer... - how can I unblock all the files in a folder without having to unblock them individually? 6391 Where should the .vimrc file be located on Windows 7? 6392 View RAW message source of an email in Outlook 2013 6393 How can I make tmux use my default shell? 6394 What are some options for transferring large files without using the Internet? 6395 How do you reuse a visual mode selection? 6396 Cant delete folder and I am admin. 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6414 How do I ensure Git doesnt ask me for my GitHub username and password? 6415 Git - List all files currently under source control? 6416 Why does 64-bit Windows need a separate Program Files (x86) folder? 6417 Linux Bash Script, Single Command But Multiple Lines? 6418 How to access Windows folders from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 6419 How to move VirtualBox files? 6420 Disable Microsoft Office Upload Center 6421 How to delete all lines that do NOT contain a certain word in Vim? 6422 How does Windows know if a program is not responding? 6423 What utility can move my Windows boot partition over to another hard drive? 6424 Customize Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts? 6425 How to prevent Windows 10 from automatically adding keyboard layouts (i.e. US keyboard) 6426 How do you run a SSH server on Mac OS X? 6427 Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller? 6428 What is the purpose/function of .ßßß files? 6429 How do I figure out which /dev is a USB flash drive? 6430 Whats the difference between SCP and SFTP? 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6468 How can I determine file type without an extension on Windows? 6469 Remove a certain line from Bash history file 6470 How do I get Notepad++ to associate a file type with a language? 6471 How can I put the computer to sleep from Command Prompt/Run menu? 6472 List Samba users? 6473 How do I set up SSH so I dont have to type my password? 6474 How does the tmux color palette work? 6475 VT-x is not available, but is enabled in BIOS 6476 Why does terminal say: You have mail? 6477 How is PNG lossless given that it has a compression parameter? 6478 All of my Firefox add-ons have been disabled suddenly, how can I re-enable them? 6479 How to easily reorder rows in excel with drag and drop or move-up or move-down? 6480 Pull for another Git branch without switching 6481 Can you GPG sign old commits? 6482 How to wipe free disk space in Linux? 6483 Is there a way to see any tar progress per file? 6484 How to find out Mac OS X version from Terminal? 6485 Will it damage my MacBook if I put it in the fridge to cool it down? 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Why? 6531 Why are laptop screens sized the way they are? 6532 My keyboard has no media keys; can I control media without them? 6533 How to use Mac OS X Keychain with SSH keys? 6534 How do I fix a cannot open display error when opening an X program after sshing with X11 forwarding enabled? 6535 How to disable Ctrl+Shift keyboard layout switch (for the same input language) in Windows? 6536 How do I convert an SVG to a PDF on Linux 6537 How to download favicon from website? 6538 Bash scripting: test for empty directory 6539 Google Chrome - Clear Cache for Specific Website 6540 Mac: 3 monitor setup: My desktop set keep switching places between monitors 6541 What is the D-shaped icon next to my USB-C port? 6542 How to run a batch file without launching a command window? 6543 How do I paste the Windows clipboard into my PuTTY session, using only the keyboard? 6544 Mass deleting files in Windows 6545 What Tiling Window Manager for Windows do you recommend? 6546 Why is there a percent sign % in the IPv6 address? 6547 Add directory to $PATH if its not already there 6548 Why are websites suddenly asking me about cookies? 6549 How do I get a static IP address for my teapot? 6550 Uppercase M at the right of window name in tmux 6551 How do I select all text from a file with nano? 6552 Obtain kernel config from currently running Linux system? 6553 Permanently remove/disable Touch Keyboard in Windows 8 taskbar? 6554 Disable Alt + Arrow display flip keyboard shortcut 6555 Why does the base64 of a string contain \n? 6556 Why is “/dev/rdisk” about 20 times faster than “/dev/disk” in Mac OS X 6557 What are the holes on the sides of a computer case frame for? 6558 mysql how to fix Access denied for user root@localhost 6559 How do I trim a video using Handbrake? 6560 Find outdated/updatable pip packages 6561 How to avoid exposing my MAC address when using IPv6? 6562 Windows 10 Search not loading, showing blank window 6563 Why do CDs and DVDs fill up from the centre outwards? 6564 How can I prevent a policy-enforced screen lock in Windows? 6565 Linux: find out what process is using all the RAM? 6566 Apostrophes and double quotes dont show up until I type the next letter 6567 What do green folders mean in Windows 7 Explorer? 6568 How to access linux/Ubuntu files from Windows 10 WSL? 6569 How to tab between buttons on an Mac OS X dialog box 6570 How does Linux know that the new password is similar to the previous one? 6571 What keyboard shortcuts move, resize, and maximize windows under Mac OS X? 6572 How to install a specific package version in Alpine? 6573 Hyper-V VM wont boot from Cd, error: unsigned images hash is not allowed 6574 Running upstart jobs as unprivileged users 6575 How and why is this string of text a fork bomb? 6576 How do I securely store and manage 180 passwords? 6577 How can I roll back 1 commit? 6578 Is there a way to edit a commit message on GitHub? 6579 Where does $PATH get set in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard? 6580 Is it possible to paste CSV formatted data into Excel 2007? 6581 Pros and cons of bzip vs gzip? 6582 How to use spaces in a bash alias name? 6583 Impossible to put a zero after an aleph? 6584 How do I edit text files in the Windows command prompt? 6585 Possible to snap top/bottom instead of just left/right in Windows 7? 6586 Finding the process that is using a certain port in Linux 6587 How can I launch the GNOME image viewer from the terminal? 6588 Why arrow keys are not recommended in Vim 6589 How to check the health of a hard drive 6590 How do I view my clipboard history on OS X? 6591 Hex editors for Windows? 6592 How do I use the Selection tool to move things in GIMP? 6593 How to delete a partition on a USB drive? 6594 What is the difference between yum, apt-get, rpm, ./configure && make install? 6595 How can I intentionally break/corrupt a sector on an SD card? 6596 Force a program to run *without* administrator privileges or UAC? 6597 Where is the list of pinned start menu and taskbar items stored in Windows 7 6598 How to configure PuTTY so that Home/End/PgUp/PgDn work properly in bash? 6599 How to add a custom search engine to Firefox? 6600 Equivalent of cmds where in powershell 6601 Google Chrome automatically adding websites to my list of search engines? 6602 Why does Excel treat long numeric strings as scientific notation even after changing cell format to text 6603 How do I change the character encoding for a webpage in Chrome? 6604 Getting ROBOCOPY to return a proper exit code? 6605 Why does my PC crash only when my cat is nearby? 6606 How can I find out when Windows was last restarted? 6607 How can I monitor the CPU temperature under linux? 6608 How can I determine what process has a file open in Linux? 6609 Can I disable the Alt+Shift shortcut to change language in windows 8.1 (or Windows 10)? 6610 How to disable sticky corners in Windows 10 6611 Why does Chrome sometimes download a PDF instead of opening it? 6612 SSID with very similar name, is this an attempt of hacking? 6613 How do I view a specific date in my Google Chrome history? 6614 How can I scan the local network for connected devices? (Mac OS) 6615 How to execute a command in screen and detach? 6616 Can Windows tell me what is using my USB drive? 6617 How can I tunnel all of my network traffic through SSH? 6618 How to move all files from current directory to upper directory? 6619 Is it safe to delete from C:\Windows\Installer? 6620 Change environment variables as standard user 6621 How do I get out my embedded Windows 8+ key from a Linux environment? 6622 Why is serial data transmission faster than parallel? 6623 How can I get control+left arrow to go back one word in iTerm2? 6624 7Zip - Command Line : Exclude folder(s) by wildcard pattern? 6625 Dont add hostkey to known_hosts for SSH 6626 If RAM is cheap, why dont we load everything to RAM and run it from there? 6627 Why does my browser think that https://1.1.1.1 is secure? 6628 How to download video with blob url? 6629 How do you shutdown or restart a Windows computer over a Remote Desktop connection? 6630 How to wget a file with correct name when redirected? 6631 How does Windows know whether it has internet access or if a Wi-Fi connection requires in-browser authentication? 6632 See available drives from Windows CLI? 6633 How can I mass rename files? 6634 How can I create a symbolic link on Windows 10? 6635 Is there a shortcut command in Windows command prompt to get to the current users home directory like there is in Linux? 6636 Disable Narrator shortcut key in Windows 6637 Whats the difference between KeePass / KeePassX / KeePassXC? 6638 Is there a way to move the current window to another desktop without using a mouse in OS X? 6639 How do I turn off Modern UI and get the old Start Menu back in Windows 8? 6640 My PC is not a phone - how do I remove the swipey pre-log in screen from Gnome 3? 6641 Is it possible to download using the Windows command line? 6642 Can I delete the folder C:\WINDOWS\Installer\$PatchCache$? 6643 What is the difference between 4K, UHD and QHD? Do we agree on one official resolution? 6644 Using Windows 7, how can you use multiple mice (to get multiple cursors)? 6645 Windows 10 Enable NTFS long paths policy option missing 6646 How to synchronize the home folder between multiple computers? 6647 Items unpinned from taskbar are back after restart/sign out on Windows 10 6648 Display the taskbar clock on multiple screens in Windows? 6649 Linux utility for finding the largest files/directories 6650 Which linux filesystem works best with SSD 6651 How can I stop Excel from eating my delicious CSV files and excreting useless data? 6652 SHA256 ssh fingerprint given by the client but only md5 fingerprint known for server 6653 How to run Unix commands from within Vim? 6654 Why is X11 forwarding so inefficient? 6655 Why do damaged hard drives freeze the entire system? 6656 which/whereis differences 6657 What is the power output of a USB port? 6658 How do I remove linebreaks in Notepad++? 6659 How do I join two worksheets in Excel as I would in SQL? 6660 What does /dev/sda in Linux mean? 6661 Why is CBS.log file size 20 GB 6662 How do I unzip a tar gz archive to a specific destination? 6663 Windows Linux Subsystem - Accessing Files outside of Ubuntu 6664 How can I get ffmpeg to convert a .mov to a .gif? 6665 What is the danger of inserting and browsing an untrusted USB drive? 6666 I regularly see gstatic.com in the status bar, what is that domain? 6667 Running DNS locally for home network 6668 How can I add an item to the new context menu? 6669 How do I type Home/End/PageUp/PageDown on a MacBook Pro? 6670 Keyboard shortcut to jump between tabs on OS X Terminal 6671 How to set the default program for opening files without an extension in Windows? 6672 How do I exit a Modern UI app? 6673 Git on Mac: How to set Nano as the default text editor? 6674 Excel: how to undo in current file only? 6675 vim freezes inside tmux 6676 Why does my microSD card have a second row of contacts? 6677 How to tell how many CPUs (cores) you have on Windows 7 6678 How to install the real Firefox on Debian? 6679 looping through `ls` results in bash shell script 6680 How do I stop the Windows 8 restart clock; 15 minutes and counting...? 6681 Copy entire file system hierarchy from one drive to another 6682 How do you re-install a package with Homebrew (Mac)? 6683 What is Windows equivalent of the which command in Unix? Is there an equivalent PowerShell command? 6684 What is the keyboard shortcut to focus to address bar in Mac Chrome? 6685 Why is Zip able to compress single file smaller than multiple files with the same content? 6686 Tiny copper waffle squares inside computer 6687 Manually closing a port from commandline 6688 How can I repair the Windows 8 EFI Bootloader? 6689 How to know which fonts are used in selected part of a PDF document 6690 create tar with multiple directories and file locations 6691 Keyboard shortcut to minimize Remote Desktop 6692 What is the exact use of a MAC address? 6693 VirtualBox guest OS accessing local server on host OS 6694 How do I open a blank new file in a split in Vim? 6695 Does bash have a hook that is run before executing a command? 6696 How to turn off Reload alerts? 6697 How to find and remove spicy media files from my PC 6698 How to identify whether my Linux computer was hacked? 6699 How to telnet to an IP address on a specific port? 6700 Windows 10 - How to move window to other monitor by using keyboard shortcuts? 6701 How to upload one file by FTP from command line? 6702 What does the Maximum Frequency number mean in the Windows Resource Monitor? 6703 How can you see the actual hard link by ls? 6704 How to install npm in alpine linux 6705 Unable to install fonts on Windows 10 6706 How to prevent Windows 10 waking from sleep when traveling in bag? 6707 How do I change my default shell on a AWS instance? 6708 How can I tell how many bits my ssh key is? 6709 Should I defragment my SSD? 6710 How can I determine which process owns a hotkey in Windows? 6711 How do I change the default font of Sticky Notes? 6712 Word heading number blacked out 6713 How to make Outlook Calendar reminders stay on top in Windows 7 6714 How to delete all files in a directory except some? 6715 Is there a way to show notification from bash script in Ubuntu? 6716 How can I create a file with a specific size from a command line? 6717 Windows Activation FAQ: How do language, version, 64-bit or 32-bit, and source affect ability to install and transfer Windows licenses? 6718 Why shouldn’t I use Unicode characters to simulate typographic styles (such as small caps or script)? 6719 How to check if I have sudo access? 6720 How do I expand all columns in Excel spreadsheet? 6721 Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? 6722 What is a Pem file and how does it differ from other OpenSSL Generated Key File Formats? 6723 How can I sort du -h output by size 6724 How to determine if a bash variable is empty? 6725 Ping a Specific Port 6726 Can scp copy directories recursively? 6727 How do I deal with a compromised server? 6728 How to automate SSH login with password? 6729 How do you find what process is holding a file open in Windows? 6730 In Nginx, how can I rewrite all http requests to https while maintaining sub-domain? 6731 How do I tell Git for Windows where to find my private RSA key? 6732 ssh returns Bad owner or permissions on ~/.ssh/config 6733 What exactly do the colors in htop status bars mean? 6734 What is the difference between double and single square brackets in bash? 6735 Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is? 6736 How does IPv4 Subnetting Work? 6737 Whats the default superuser username/password for postgres after a new install? 6738 How do you search for backdoors from the previous IT person? 6739 How to run a server on port 80 as a normal user on Linux? 6740 How do I change my private key passphrase? 6741 Anyone else experiencing high rates of Linux server crashes during a leap second day? 6742 How can I get the size of an Amazon S3 bucket? 6743 mysqldump throws: Unknown table COLUMN_STATISTICS in information_schema (1109) 6744 What permissions should my website files/folders have on a Linux webserver? 6745 Displaying a remote SSL certificate details using CLI tools 6746 100% uptime for a web application 6747 How do I get the current Unix time in milliseconds in Bash? 6748 Why is my crontab not working, and how can I troubleshoot it? 6749 Copying a large directory tree locally? cp or rsync? 6750 Showing total progress in rsync: is it possible? 6751 Can I automatically add a new host to known_hosts? 6752 How to bind MySQL server to more than one IP address? 6753 How do I select which Apache MPM to use? 6754 How to send ctrl+alt+del using Remote Desktop? 6755 How can I use environment variables in Nginx.conf 6756 Whats the command-line utility in Windows to do a reverse DNS look-up? 6757 What are the functional differences between .profile .bash_profile and .bashrc 6758 Useful Command-line Commands on Windows 6759 What are the obstacles to providing reliable Internet access and Wi-Fi at large tech conferences? 6760 How to set environment variable in systemd service? 6761 Redirect, Change URLs or Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About mod_rewrite Rules but Were Afraid to Ask 6762 How to assign permissions to ApplicationPoolIdentity account 6763 Can I nohup/screen an already-started process? 6764 Why do I need Nginx and something like Gunicorn? 6765 Ive inherited a rats nest of cabling. What now? 6766 Why is chmod -R 777 / destructive? 6767 Whats the difference between IP address 0.0.0.0 and 127.0.0.1? 6768 Finding out what user Apache is running as? 6769 How to Unban an IP properly with Fail2Ban 6770 Check if port is open or closed on a Linux server? 6771 Is it bad to redirect http to https? 6772 Moving an already-running process to Screen 6773 What’s the point in having “www” in a URL? 6774 What is this very short power cable called? 6775 How can I find out what AD groups Im a member of? 6776 How can I see which flags Nginx was compiled with? 6777 Create a public SSH key from the private key? 6778 How to tell which local branch is tracking which remote branch in Git? 6779 Nginx reverse proxy + URL rewrite 6780 Why does my hostname appear with the address 127.0.1.1 rather than 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts? 6781 Environment variables of a running process on Unix? 6782 Can anyone explain precisely what IOWait is? 6783 How can I run Debian stable but install some packages from testing? 6784 How to force or redirect to SSL in nginx? 6785 Symlink not updating as expected when using an absolute with relative path 6786 How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine? 6787 Whats the best way of handling permissions for Apache 2s user www-data in /var/www? 6788 Permission denied (publickey). SSH from local Ubuntu to Amazon EC2 server 6789 When does `cron.daily` run? 6790 How to see stdout of ansible commands? 6791 Linux command to inspect TXT records of a domain 6792 command for checking Apache configuration 6793 how to download the ssl certificate from a website? 6794 Docker Container time & timezone (will not reflect changes) 6795 Any benefit or detriment from removing a pagefile on an 8 GB RAM machine? 6796 nginx HTTPS serving with same config as HTTP 6797 What is archive mode in rsync? 6798 How to remove an image tag in Docker without removing the image itself? 6799 How to use Lets Encrypt DNS challenge validation? 6800 Do systemd unit files have to be reloaded when modified? 6801 How to include multiple domains in an spf TXT Record 6802 Can you pass user/pass for HTTP Basic Authentication in URL parameters? 6803 Using DD for disk cloning 6804 List all DNS records in a domain using dig? 6805 How do I add Access-Control-Allow-Origin in NGINX? 6806 How to run a command multiple times, using bash shell? 6807 Heartbleed: What is it and what are options to mitigate it? 6808 How do you add a Windows environment variable without rebooting? 6809 How to use rsync over FTP 6810 Setting the hostname: FQDN or short name? 6811 In my /etc/hosts/ file on Linux/OSX, how do I do a wildcard subdomain? 6812 How to check if a library is installed? 6813 How to reply with 200 from Nginx, without serving a file? 6814 Is it normal to get hundreds of break-in attempts per day? 6815 LVM dangers and caveats 6816 How do diff over ssh? 6817 df in linux not showing correct free space after file removal 6818 How do I load a sql.gz file to my database? (importing) 6819 Shell command to monitor changes in a file 6820 How to refresh hosts file without rebooting 6821 How to cd into a directory with this name -2 (starting with the hyphen)? 6822 How to read backward from the end of file in less or more? 6823 Meaning of the buffers/cache line in the output of free 6824 How do I do mount --bind in /etc/fstab? 6825 Physically locating the server 6826 What tool do you use to monitor your servers? 6827 What are the different widely used RAID levels and when should I consider them? 6828 How to setup passwordless `sudo` on Linux? 6829 How can I override CMD when running a docker image? 6830 Kubernetes stuck on ContainerCreating 6831 How to reconnect to a disconnected ssh session 6832 How to create a UUID in bash? 6833 What is a challenge password? 6834 What is the difference between Unix sockets and TCP/IP sockets? 6835 Should I quit using Ifconfig? 6836 Why couldnt MAC addresses be used instead of IPv4|6 for networking? 6837 When does /tmp get cleared? 6838 Good tools that fit on a thumb drive 6839 How do you restart php-fpm? 6840 hosts file ignored, how to troubleshoot? 6841 I am under DDoS. What can I do? 6842 how to disable SSH login with password for some users? 6843 Why is DNS failover not recommended? 6844 Add correct host key in known_hosts / multiple ssh host keys per hostname? 6845 Sudo as different user and running screen 6846 What port does SFTP use? 6847 ssh-agent forwarding and sudo to another user 6848 Possible to change email address in keypair? 6849 What is a glue record? 6850 SSH use only my password, Ignore my ssh key, dont prompt me for a passphrase 6851 What does a + mean at the end of the permissions from ls -l? 6852 Difference between KVM and QEMU 6853 Resolve host name from IP address 6854 How to know from which yum repository a package has been installed? 6855 How do I view the details of a digital certificate .cer file? 6856 How do I prevent accidental rm -rf /*? 6857 How to start/stop/restart launchd services from the command line? 6858 Nginx enable site command 6859 Non interactive git clone (ssh fingerprint prompt) 6860 VirtualBox: How to set up networking so both host and guest can access internet and talk to each other 6861 Whats the difference between authorized_keys and authorized_keys2? 6862 Nginx config reload without downtime 6863 How do I ask apt-get to skip any interactive post-install configuration steps? 6864 How to sleep in a batch file? 6865 How bad is IPv4 address exhaustion really? 6866 What does Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated mean when sshing with -X? 6867 How do I sleep for a millisecond in bash or ksh 6868 Is it possible to detach a process from its terminal? (Or, I should have used screen!) 6869 Check if array is empty in Bash 6870 Are SSD drives as reliable as mechanical drives (2013)? 6871 How to check sshd log? 6872 Run a .bat file in a scheduled task without a window 6873 How do you answer yes for yum install automatically 6874 DNS - NSLOOKUP what is the meaning of the non-authoritative answer? 6875 SSL Certificate Location on UNIX/Linux 6876 How to view all ssl certificates in a bundle? 6877 What does set -e do, and why might it be considered dangerous? 6878 Difference in sites-available vs sites-enabled vs conf.d directories (Nginx)? 6879 How can I read pcap files in a friendly format? 6880 How do I verify the speed of my NIC? 6881 What does Virtual memory size in top mean? 6882 What is the difference between authentication and authorization? 6883 What is the difference between Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy? 6884 What version of RHEL am I using? 6885 How to add dependency on a Windows Service AFTER the service is installed 6886 What is Active Directory Domain Services and how does it work? 6887 What is -bash: !: event not found 6888 How do you validate fstab without rebooting? 6889 Find name of Active Directory domain controller 6890 Disk full, du tells different. How to further investigate? 6891 How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy? 6892 Monday morning mistake: sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / 6893 Command line to list users in a Windows Active Directory group? 6894 Filename length limits on linux? 6895 Top level domain/domain suffix for private network? 6896 Should servers be turned off at night? 6897 How can I upgrade to Java 1.8 on an Amazon Linux Server? 6898 Are networks now faster than disks? 6899 Is there a reason to use an SSL certificate other than Lets Encrypts free SSL? 6900 Keeping a linux process running after I logout 6901 bash: print stderr in red color 6902 Find out symbolic link target via command line 6903 How do I find the UUID of a filesystem 6904 Is there a global, persistent CMD history? 6905 tar - Remove leading directory components on extraction 6906 How do VLANs work? 6907 The Joel Test for system administrator jobs 6908 How to see active connections and current activity in PostgreSQL 8.4 6909 What useful things can one add to ones .bashrc? 6910 Is my password compromised because I forgot to hit Enter after ssh username? 6911 How do I convert a .cer certificate to .pem? 6912 What port should I open to allow remote desktop? 6913 Whats the best way to check if a volume is mounted in a Bash script? 6914 How to dump a Microsoft SQL Server database to a SQL script? 6915 Sometimes PowerShell stops sending output until I press enter. Why? 6916 Can you help me with my capacity planning? 6917 Why cant a CNAME record be used at the apex (aka root) of a domain? 6918 Is it possible to generate RSA key without pass phrase? 6919 Getting Cannot ioctl TUNSETIFF tun: Operation not permitted when trying to connect to OpenVPN 6920 How do I rename a task in Task Scheduled on Windows Server 2008 R2 6921 How do you make it obvious you are on a production system? 6922 What causes the Connection Refused message? 6923 How to handle security updates within Docker containers? 6924 Running a cron job manually and immediately 6925 How can I debug a docker container initialization? 6926 Run an interactive bash subshell with initial commands without returning to the (super) shell immediately 6927 Meaning of directories on Unix and Unix like systems 6928 Where to check log of sendmail? 6929 Run Oracle SQL script and exit from sqlplus.exe via command prompt 6930 How do you install Node.JS on CentOS? 6931 FreeBSD performance tuning: Sysctl parameter, loader.conf, kernel 6932 How do I make ssh fail rather than prompt for a password if the public-key authentication fails? 6933 Cheat Sheets for System Administrators? 6934 Whats the meaning of @ in a DNS zone file? 6935 All servers flooded by salt water, is it possible to recover data from multi-platter drives? 6936 How can I verify if TLS 1.2 is supported on a remote web server from the RHEL/CentOS shell? 6937 How do I diff two text files in Windows Powershell? 6938 How to remove the path with an nginx proxy_pass 6939 ssh-keygen does not create RSA private key 6940 FreeBSD: Directory called ^C (really!) - how to remove? 6941 Force dig to resolve without using cache 6942 Can you run Docker natively on the new Windows 10 (Ubuntu) bash userspace? 6943 Amazon EC2 terminology - AMI vs. EBS vs. Snapshot vs. Volume 6944 How can I port forward with iptables? 6945 Does Windows have a built-in ZIP command for the command line? 6946 Cron job for lets encrypt renewal 6947 Wildcard SSL certificate for second-level subdomain 6948 Amazon Cloudfront with S3. Access Denied 6949 Delete Amazon EC2 terminated instance 6950 How to forcibly close a socket in TIME_WAIT? 6951 Why is RAID not a backup? 6952 How to add a timestamp to bash script log? 6953 How can I see Time-To-Live (TTL) for a DNS record? 6954 Certification authority root certificate expiry and renewal 6955 How does IPv6 subnetting work and how does it differ from IPv4 subnetting? 6956 Is there a way to view the members of an Active Directory group if you arent a domain admin and cant log into to a domain controller? 6957 How to output variable in nginx log for debugging 6958 Show full process name in top 6959 Job scheduling using crontab, what will happen when computer is shutdown during that time? 6960 How does CTRL-ALT-DEL to log in make Windows more secure? 6961 Engineers are using explosives to remove hard rock outside our office building. What countermeasures should we take? 6962 best way to clear all iptables rules 6963 Make nginx to pass hostname of the upstream when reverseproxying 6964 GRANT SELECT to all tables in postgresql 6965 How do you do load testing and capacity planning for web sites? 6966 Mount CIFS Host is down 6967 Colors in bash after piping through less? 6968 How to remove the installed manually flag and revert to automatically installed with apt-get? 6969 In Windows, using the command line, how do you check if a remote port is open? 6970 Clean way to write complex multi-line string to a variable 6971 How do I auto-start docker containers at system boot? 6972 Rsync difference between --checksum and --ignore-times options 6973 How to change an EC2 instances security group 6974 Why do we use a OS Base Image with Docker if containers have no Guest OS? 6975 What does Apaches Require all granted really do? 6976 How can I figure out my LDAP connection string? 6977 How do I get apt-get to ignore some dependencies? 6978 How to list Apache enabled modules? 6979 rm on a directory with millions of files 6980 How can I implement ansible with per-host passwords, securely? 6981 How to check if a port is blocked on a Windows machine? 6982 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream 6983 robocopy transfer file and not folder 6984 How do I create a symbolic link in Windows? 6985 how do you create an ssh key for another user? 6986 What is the difference between unicast, anycast, broadcast and multicast traffic? 6987 Prevent duplicate cron jobs running 6988 Switching to IPv6 implies dropping NAT. Is that a good thing? 6989 Can you mount a network switch upside down? 6990 How do you increase a KVM guests disk space? 6991 Is it possible to make Nginx listen to different ports? 6992 How can I monitor hard disk load on Linux? 6993 OpenSSH: Difference between internal-sftp and sftp-server 6994 GIT as a backup tool 6995 How do I get the history of apt-get install on Ubuntu? 6996 Why do consoles sometimes hang forever when SSH connection breaks? 6997 Best practice: Should I always install a fresh OS for new employees? 6998 What is a good SSH server to use on Windows? 6999 Setting expires headers for static content served from nginx 7000 Can I hide all server / os info? 7001 Why does the MySQL command line tool ignore the --port parameter? 7002 Why is Enterprise Storage so expensive? 7003 Linux command line best practices and tips? 7004 How can I kill all stopped jobs? 7005 How to check if an RSA public / private key pair match 7006 How to stop people from using my domain to send spam? 7007 How do I force sync the time on Windows Workstation or Server? 7008 Postfix - how to retry delivery of mail in queue? 7009 How can I tell what version of IIS is installed? 7010 Using wget to recursively download whole FTP directories 7011 Why does x86 represent 32bit when x64 represents 64bit? 7012 How to copy a large number of files quickly between two servers 7013 How to tell if a Linux system is big endian or little endian? 7014 How much network latency is typical for east - west coast USA? 7015 How can I rename an unix user? 7016 Find the location of a systemd unit file service 7017 Multiple SSL domains on the same IP address and same port? 7018 Fighting Spam - What can I do as an: Email Administrator, Domain Owner, or User? 7019 How can the little guys effectively learn and use Puppet? 7020 How to remove empty/blank lines from a file in Unix (including spaces)? 7021 How do I update a CentOS servers time from an authoritative time server? 7022 How to make Windows 7 USB flash install media from Linux? 7023 InnoDB: Error: log file ./ib_logfile0 is of different size 7024 Why does sudo command take long to execute? 7025 Can Mac OS X be run inside Docker? 7026 Nginx 1 FastCGI sent in stderr: “Primary script unknown” 7027 How to restart nginx? 7028 How can I show users privileges in MySQL? 7029 How to copy file preserving directory path in Linux? 7030 How can I automatically change directory on ssh login? 7031 Where can I find data stored by a Windows Service running as Local System Account? 7032 How to install tzdata on a ubuntu docker image? 7033 Why should I firewall servers? 7034 How can a single disk in a hardware SATA RAID-10 array bring the entire array to a screeching halt? 7035 What firewall ports need to be open to allow access to external git repositories? 7036 What ports to open for mail server? 7037 How to re-order windows, change the scroll shortcut, and modify the status bar contents in GNU Screen? 7038 How do I reattach to Ubuntu Servers do-release-upgrade process? 7039 How to determine JAVA_HOME on Debian/Ubuntu? 7040 POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! in /var/log/secure — what does this mean? 7041 Where does email sent to *@example.com go? 7042 Nginx: How do I forward an HTTP request to another port? 7043 Should I use tap or tun for openvpn? 7044 CentOS vs. Ubuntu 7045 REJECT vs DROP when using iptables 7046 How to run command as user who has /usr/sbin/nologin as Shell? 7047 How to zip/unzip files in Powershell? 7048 Allow SFTP but disallow SSH? 7049 SSH keypair generation: RSA or DSA? 7050 Tell Jenkins to run a specific project on a particular slave node 7051 How do I set the global PATH environment variable on OS X? 7052 Can I create a top level TLD? (.michael for instance) 7053 IPTABLES - Limit rate of a specific incoming IP 7054 Can I have multiple DHCP servers on one network? 7055 Is it possible to alias a hostname in Linux? 7056 Is Ping a reliable way to check if a server is available? 7057 Is there an equivalent of MySQLs SHOW CREATE TABLE in Postgres? 7058 Tips for Securing a LAMP Server 7059 Cooling Server Closet - No A/C Is Possible 7060 Best way to gracefully restart CentOS? 7061 How can I connect to a Windows server using a Command Line Interface? (CLI) 7062 SFTP logging: is there a way? 7063 How to check if Im in screen session? 7064 Postgres equivalent to MySQLs \G? 7065 How to start/stop iptables on Ubuntu? 7066 Windows Server restart / shutdown history 7067 How to display certain lines from a text file in Linux? 7068 How do I find if there is a rogue DHCP server on my Network? 7069 Adding a directory to $PATH in CentOS? 7070 How do I list loaded Linux module parameter values? 7071 Does getting disconnected from an SSH session kill your programs? 7072 How to reload screenrc without restarting screen? 7073 how to create a cron job that runs on the first day of month 7074 How to get pid of just started process 7075 How to test a HTTPS URL with a given IP address 7076 Is X.Y.Z.0 a valid IP address? 7077 Whats the difference between include_tasks and import_tasks? 7078 Does drilling a hole into a hard drive suffice to make its data unrecoverable? 7079 What significance does the user/host at the end of an SSH public key file hold? 7080 Smell of rotten eggs in the server room 7081 How to filter http traffic in Wireshark? 7082 mysqldump to a tar.gz 7083 What type of DNS record is needed to make a subdomain? 7084 Can you have more than one ~/.ssh/config file? 7085 Why does my OpenSSH key fingerprint not match the AWS EC2 console keypair fingerprint? 7086 Is it better practice to buy RAID disks individually vs. in bulk? 7087 Why hasnt rsync caught on in the Windows world? 7088 Send Ctrl-Alt-Del to nested RDP session 7089 How to prevent a user from login in, but allow su - user in Linux? 7090 Should a wildcard SSL certificate secure both the root domain as well as the sub-domains? 7091 How bad is it really to install Linux on one big partition? 7092 Windows server last reboot time 7093 How do I extract login history? 7094 What limits the maximum number of connections on a Linux server? 7095 Boot and Install Windows from a USB thumb drive 7096 How can I prevent the warning No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding? 7097 Differences and dis/advanages between: Fast-CGI, CGI, Mod-PHP, SuPHP, PHP-FPM 7098 What range of MAC addresses can I safely use for my virtual machines? 7099 Should we host our own nameservers? 7100 What sysadmin things should every programmer know? 7101 Transfer 10 TB of files from USA to UK datacenter 7102 nmap find all alive hostnames and IPs in LAN 7103 How to make PuTTY settings persistent? 7104 How to make bash scripts print out every command before it executes? 7105 list all packages from a repository in ubuntu / debian 7106 How do I prevent apache from serving the .git directory? 7107 escaping double quotes and percent signs (%) in cron 7108 Which ports do I need to open in the firewall to use NFS? 7109 What is ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services)? 7110 Is a wildcard CNAME DNS record valid? 7111 How can I export the privileges from MySQL and then import to a new server? 7112 Windows Active Directory naming best practices? 7113 How to add a security group to a running EC2 Instance? 7114 GPG does not have enough entropy 7115 Why cant MX records point to an IP address? 7116 How can one distinguish the host and the port in an IPv6 URL? 7117 In a PowerShell script, how can I check if Im running with administrator privileges? 7118 Disable caching when serving static files with Nginx (for development) 7119 What should I do to make sure that IIS does not recycle my application? 7120 Is there a directory equivalent of /dev/null in Linux? 7121 High load average, low CPU usage - why? 7122 How to fix PuTTY showing garbled characters? 7123 How to send emails and avoid them being classified as spam? 7124 Login without running bash_profile or bashrc 7125 Properly setting up a default nginx server for https 7126 Whats the difference betwen the single dash and double dash flags on shell commands? 7127 How to set default Ansible username/password for SSH connection? 7128 How to disable timeout for nginx? 7129 How to disable everything in crontab -l? 7130 How does try_files work? 7131 How to get the url of the current svn repo? 7132 413 Request Entity Too Large in Nginx with client_max_body_size set 7133 My /var/log/btmp file is huge! What should I do? 7134 List of files installed from apt package 7135 I have a keypair. How do I determine the key length? 7136 How to make a modification take affect without restarting nginx? 7137 How do I do Multihop SCP transfers? 7138 Should I install Linux applications in /var or /opt? 7139 Why dont EC2 ubuntu images have swap? 7140 ssh tunnel refusing connections with channel 2: open failed 7141 In systemd, whats the difference between After= and Requires=? 7142 Ansible: Execute task only when a tag is specified 7143 Whats the reverse DNS command line utility? 7144 Should network hardware be set to autonegotiate speeds or fixed speeds? 7145 Linux - Is there a way to prevent/protect a file from being deleted even by root? 7146 Is it possible to reboot a Linux OS without rebooting the hardware? 7147 How to determine the hostname from an IP address in a Windows network? 7148 Proxy Error 502 Reason: Error reading from remote server with Apache 2.2.3 (Debian) mod_proxy and Jetty 6.1.18 7149 How can I get processor/RAM/disk specs from the Linux command Line? 7150 How do I make a connection private on Windows Server 2012 R2 7151 How do I clear Chromes SSL cache? 7152 What is .crt and .key files and how to generate them? 7153 What does this nginx error rewrite or internal redirection cycle mean? 7154 Is there a way to see the execution tree of systemd? 7155 What is anycast and how is it helpful? 7156 Why drop caches in Linux? 7157 Why is TCP accept() performance so bad under Xen? 7158 Postgresql: what does GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE do? 7159 How do I create user accounts from the Terminal in Mac OS X 10.5? 7160 Should CNAME Be Used For Subdomains? 7161 dpkg-reconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No file or directory 7162 Heartbleed: how to reliably and portably check the OpenSSL version? 7163 How to delete cached temporarily credentials for a network share on a Windows machine without rebooting or logging off 7164 How to recover from Too many Authentication Failures for user root 7165 How to do the port forwarding from one ip to another ip in same network? 7166 an upstream response is buffered to a temporary file 7167 Why do systems generally disable virtualization by default in BIOS settings? 7168 Best system administrator accident 7169 10 servers to administer and Im a history major 7170 How to install/change locale on Debian? 7171 Supervisor not loading new configuration files 7172 Can I send some text to the STDIN of an active process running in a screen session? 7173 nested locations nginx 7174 Do you need separate IPv4 and IPv6 listen directives in nginx? 7175 What happens when you plug two sides of a cable to a single networking device? 7176 Recommended LogParser queries for IIS monitoring? 7177 How long before an s3 bucket can be created with same name after deletion? 7178 How does Ubuntu keep track of the System restart required flag in motd? 7179 How to backup 20+TB of data? 7180 Show all users and their groups/vice versa 7181 What is the maximum port number? 7182 How can I get diff to show only added and deleted lines? If diff cant do it, what tool can? 7183 SSH from A through B to C, using private key on B 7184 Can I make `find` return non-0 when no matching files are found? 7185 What solutions exist to allow the use of revision control for server configuration files? 7186 Whats wrong with always being root? 7187 How does ServerName and ServerAlias work? 7188 create home directories after create users 7189 IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) - HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized 7190 nginx - client request body is buffered to a temporary file 7191 How to let cp command dont fire an error when source file does not exist? 7192 Software vs hardware RAID performance and cache usage 7193 Caching/preloading files on Linux into RAM 7194 How to check what port mysql is running on 7195 Nginx Redirect via Proxy, Rewrite and Preserve URL 7196 How do you free up a port being held open by dead process? 7197 Can IIS be configure to forward request to another web server? 7198 Running Cron every 2 hours 7199 Difference between `curl -I` and `curl -X HEAD` 7200 What Linux distribution is the Amazon Linux AMI based on? 7201 How can I run arbitrarily complex command using sudo over ssh? 7202 How does a team of Systems Administrators share passwords securely? 7203 Why use Chef/Puppet over shell scripts? 7204 How to configure a Windows machine to allow file sharing with a DNS alias 7205 What is this IP address: 169.254.169.254? 7206 For what is the .well-known-folder? 7207 How to sort ps output by process start time? 7208 Dealing with HTTP w00tw00t attacks 7209 Vagrant / VirtualBox DNS 10.0.2.3 not working 7210 What does passing the -xe parameters to /bin/bash do 7211 Hundreds of failed ssh logins 7212 What is the literal escape character in Powershell? 7213 pg_dump and pg_restore: input file does not appear to be a valid archive 7214 How to force nginx to resolve DNS (of a dynamic hostname) everytime when doing proxy_pass? 7215 swap partition vs file for performance? 7216 Making `wget` not save the page 7217 How do I list all connected Salt Stack minions? 7218 Perform rsync while following sym links 7219 How to retrieve the last modification date of all files in a git repository 7220 Is a CNAME to CNAME chain allowed? 7221 Multiple data centers and HTTP traffic: DNS Round Robin is the ONLY way to assure instant fail-over? 7222 Choosing between meaningful and meaningless hostnames 7223 How to extend an ext4 partition and filesystem? 7224 Is there a proper way to clear logs? 7225 Human readable format for http headers with tcpdump 7226 How do I redirect subdomains to a different port on the same server? 7227 Why is there so much fear surrounding LiPo batteries? 7228 What is the difference between \$V_{CC}\$, \$V_{DD}\$, \$V_{EE}\$, \$V_{SS}\$ 7229 Rules and guidelines for drawing good schematics 7230 Choosing power supply, how to get the voltage and current ratings? 7231 Basic Electronics Book 7232 What is it that strips vocals from audio when a 1/8 audio jack is partially unplugged? 7233 Decoupling caps, PCB layout 7234 Good tools for drawing schematics 7235 Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB? 7236 What is a decoupling capacitor and how do I know if I need one? 7237 Whats the difference between a microcontroller and a microprocessor? 7238 Why does USB have 4 lines instead of 3? 7239 USART, UART, RS232, USB, SPI, I2C, TTL, etc. what are all of these and how do they relate to each other? 7240 How much does it cost to have a custom ASIC made? 7241 Is C++ suitable for embedded systems? 7242 How does the current know how much to flow, before having seen the resistor? 7243 What is the reason that the value 47 is so popular in electrical engineering? 7244 Why exactly cant a single resistor be used for many parallel LEDs? 7245 How can I efficiently drive an LED? 7246 Designing a Santa alarm (honestly) 7247 Why does Samsung include useless capacitors? 7248 What measures should I take to protect the USB ports of my PC during development of a USB device? 7249 Tradeoffs when considering SPI or I2C? 7250 Should chassis ground be attached to digital ground? 7251 What’s the proper soldering iron temperature for standard .031 60/40 solder? 7252 Are solder fumes bad for me? 7253 What limits CPU speed? 7254 Why does micro USB 2.0 have 5 pins, when the A-type only has 4? 7255 Why Are Ethernet/RJ45 Sockets Magnetically Coupled? 7256 Best One-Off DIY PCB Creation Technique 7257 Why does a resistor need to be on the anode of an LED? 7258 Are tantalum capacitors safe for use in new designs? 7259 My linear voltage regulator is overheating very fast 7260 Can microcontrollers be run at arbitrarily low clock frequencies? 7261 Measuring feline capacitance 7262 VHDL vs. Verilog 7263 How do I calculate the required value for a pull-up resistor? 7264 What is negative voltage? 7265 Difference between UART and RS-232? 7266 Why does a Tesla car use an AC motor instead of a DC one? 7267 Why are there 3 pins on some batteries? 7268 Whats the best way to store and categorise resistors/capacitors/ICs/etc? 7269 Why are there no 256-bit or 512-bit microprocessors? 7270 What is the difference between Flash memory and EEPROM? 7271 Ceramic caps vs electrolytic. What are the tangible differences in use? 7272 How to get more than 100mA from a USB port 7273 What are the different types of solder used for? 7274 What kind of components are black blobs on a PCB? 7275 How do I prove to my physics teacher that adding a battery in parallel doesnt double the current? 7276 Looking for circuit board material that can be dissolved 7277 What is the difference between a DSP and a standard microcontroller? 7278 Is there a correct resistance value for I2C pull-up resistors? 7279 Where does electricity go after being used? 7280 Relay vs. Transistor? 7281 Can you make a non-polar electrolytic capacitor out of two regular electrolytic capacitors? 7282 Why does smartphone GPS find its position much faster than a GPS module? 7283 How can I tell the size of a barrel power connector? 7284 Batteries. Why use 9V? 7285 Will radar/lidar still work when every car is equipped with them? 7286 What is the relation between FFT length and frequency resolution? 7287 Whats the cheapest way to link a few microcontrollers wirelessly at low speeds over short distances 7288 How many GPS channels make sense? 7289 What type of solder is safest for home (hobbyist) use? 7290 Why are circuitboards traditionally green? 7291 How does a capacitor block DC? 7292 What is forward and reverse voltage when working with diodes? 7293 What exactly is voltage? 7294 How much current can I draw from the Arduinos pins? 7295 When is a MOSFET more appropriate as a switch than a BJT? 7296 Why is there such a strong preference for 45 degree angles in PCB routing? 7297 Crystals, Oscillators, and Resonators. What the difference? 7298 Decoupling capacitors: what size and how many? 7299 What is ground and what does it do? 7300 Why are they called breadboards? 7301 Why did LEDs take so long to appear as light bulbs? 7302 My understanding of RC circuits is broken 7303 Can a bird, previously at earth potential, get electrocuted by landing on a powerline at high-enough voltage due to the initial equalization charge? 7304 How is using a transformer for isolation safer than directly connecting to the power grid? 7305 What is the name of these little plastic things that protect wires from being cut into by the sharp edges of a drilled hole? 7306 How much voltage/current is dangerous? 7307 What happened to electrolytic capacitors in the 21st century? 7308 Push-pull/open drain; pull-up/pull-down 7309 What are the freeware SPICE simulators available? 7310 Why arent FPGAs ubiquitous? 7311 Serbia, Kosovo power grid row delays European clocks. Why? 7312 How can anyone use a microcontroller which has only 384 bytes of program memory? 7313 When to use what transistor 7314 What is Copper Thieving and why use it? 7315 Why on earth are o-scopes earth referenced? 7316 I am a quadriplegic. Would it be possible to power my ventilator humidifier with a battery? 7317 Why is my circuit so incredibly sensitive to electric fluctuation? 7318 Why is kerosene stopping my red LEDs from illuminating? 7319 What do the PCB markings mean? 7320 Relation and difference between Fourier, Laplace and Z transforms 7321 Securing electrical cables to holes in enclosures? 7322 Can a circuit be powered from Earth with a return ground on Mars? 7323 How can we be sure that computers will never accidentally switch a 0 by a 1? 7324 What makes smartphones tilt-sensitive? Will they retain this ability in zero-gravity conditions? 7325 Does mAh measure how long a battery would last? 7326 What kind of glue should I use for PCB-mounted components to avoid vibrations? 7327 How to connect USB Connector shield? 7328 Fan and heatsink - suck or blow? 7329 MOSFET: Why the drain and source are different? 7330 Version control systems for hardware projects? 7331 Can a CPU function with nothing more than a power supply and a ROM, using only the internal cache as RAM? 7332 How does my screen driver handle so much data? 7333 Why are there only four passive elements? 7334 Why do many laptops run on 19 volts? 7335 What is a boot loader, and how would I develop one? 7336 Whats the purpose of two capacitors in parallel? 7337 Can I replace all electrolytic capacitors with ceramic? 7338 Why do electronics have a low temperature limit? 7339 What does the Y capacitor in a SMPS do? 7340 When to avoid using a breadboard 7341 What is impedance? 7342 Whats the use of a decoupling capacitor near a reservoir capacitor? 7343 What are these boxes mounted inline on each of the 3 phase wires of a high voltage power line in Miami? 7344 How do you cut PCB? 7345 How can an FPGA outperform a CPU? 7346 Why cant two series-connected diodes act as a BJT? 7347 How are integrated circuits fabricated? 7348 What exactly fries the chip when you invert power supply? 7349 Why is high input impedance good? 7350 How should I use a multimeter to determine which AA batteries to keep and which to toss? 7351 What is the ideal way to handle data pins D+ and D- on a USB power adapter to be compatible with fast charging on devices? 7352 Why do we need an isolation transformer to connect an oscilloscope? 7353 Why is RAM not put on the CPU chip? 7354 Reasons not to use a 741 op-amp? 7355 Why are there so many relays used in a car, instead of transistors? 7356 Whats so great about ARM? 7357 Difference between latch and flip-flop? 7358 How do I go from arduino breadboard to creating a real device 7359 Why are there teardrops on PCB pads? 7360 Duracell PowerCheck - How Does It Work? 7361 Is this video fake? I thought Tesla coils only worked on AC 7362 How do I saturate an NPN transistor? 7363 Is it true that a SD/MMC Card does wear levelling with its own controller? 7364 Why do some tactile switches have 4 terminals? 7365 Why would one drive LEDs with a common emitter? 7366 What is the practical difference between watts and VA (volt-amps)? 7367 Why am I not dead after repeatedly touching a high-voltage source? 7368 What is this object found on transmission lines? 7369 RTOS for Embedded Systems 7370 In a USB cable, is it OK to swap the D+ and D- wires? 7371 Why are digital oscilloscopes still so expensive? 7372 What does this symbol mean on my Samsung travel adapter? 7373 What is the voltage range of a standard headphone jack from a phone? 7374 How do I identify SMD components? (or how do I identify any component) 7375 How can I get my atmega328 to run for a year on batteries? 7376 How important is impedance matching in audio applications? 7377 Lightning bolt vs. batteries: a coulomb in everyday terms 7378 Fan speed switch: why OFF :: HIGH :: MED :: LOW? 7379 Can I cut an IC? 7380 How to choose a flyback diode for a relay? 7381 Can an Android tablet serve as USB Host and be charged simultaneously through a single port? 7382 How to choose value of resistor in voltage divider? 7383 Why is mains neutral tied to earth? 7384 Why would clipping a wire cause a bomb to explode? 7385 Which products should have FCC certification and about how much does that cost? 7386 Does a dangling wire really electrocute me if Im standing in water? 7387 Why weights on cables between utility poles? 7388 Programming microcontrollers: JTAG, SPI, USB oh my!? 7389 Remove After Washing on Piezo Buzzer 7390 Why is there no `nand` instruction in modern CPUs? 7391 Whats this importance of datasheets? 7392 Does my Arduino-based device need FCC certification? 7393 Amplification before tubes and transistors were invented 7394 Stripboard/veroboard/matrix board design software 7395 Why do we use 32.768 kHz crystals in most circuits? 7396 How can PCB trace have 50 ohm impedance regardless of length and signal frequency? 7397 What kind of components in a computer power supply can explode loudly? 7398 Are LEDs better than we think? 7399 Do I really need resistors when controlling LEDs with Arduino? 7400 When to use pull-down vs. pull-up resistors 7401 How safe is 48V DC? 7402 Why is an Ethernet cable not grounded? 7403 What does 3V3 or 1V8 mean? 7404 What is the latency of an LED? 7405 Why do transformers use so many turns? 7406 How do lasers measure short distances (<1cm) when electronics are too slow for time-of-flight to work? 7407 Personal electronics tool kit 7408 What is the purpose of tiny bumps on LED legs? 7409 What gauge of single strand wire works well with breadboards? 7410 What exactly is a current source? 7411 How to drive a Peltier element? 7412 JTAG vs SWD debugging 7413 What is the usage of Zero Ohm & MiliOhm Resistor? 7414 Whats the third wire on a piezo buzzer? 7415 Triac versus Relay 7416 Is a CAN enabled microcontroller sufficient to drive a CAN bus? 7417 Does pulsing an LED at higher current yield greater apparent brightness? 7418 How to go from a development board to a production board? 7419 Why are USB devices slower than 480 MBit/s 7420 Why does music synthesizer built from chain of astable multivibrator circuits get out-of-tune after a few hours? 7421 Does turning a lighbulb on and off repeatedly use more energy than just leaving it on for hours? 7422 Why use PLC instead of microcontroller? 7423 Complete alternatives to the Arduino IDE? 7424 Why isnt stripping wires by burning with a lighter a more common practice? 7425 Why do you need 2 resistors when hooking up a transistor as a switch 7426 I dont care how a transistor works, how do I get one to work? 7427 Why do some diodes have a glass package? 7428 Why is digital serial transmission used everywhere? i.e. SATA, PCIe, USB 7429 What standard UART rates are there? 7430 230V AC to 5V DC converter, lossless 7431 Can a 12V battery give you a shock or not? 7432 How to make traces on an universal PCB? 7433 Calculating the pulldown resistance for a given MOSFETs gate 7434 Which electronics components should I always have on hand? 7435 Why does more transistors = more processing power? 7436 Why dont we make CPUs with 1000s of layers to make use of space in the third dimension? 7437 Why hasnt my LED burned out by now? 7438 Using volatile in embedded C development 7439 Can a radio transmitter somehow detect the number of receivers in its area? 7440 Why is the voltage measurement of this circuit different when the switch is on? 7441 What should a contract Electrical Engineer deliver once a project is complete? 7442 Why arent decoupling caps built into the IC or IC package? 7443 How do I measure a negative voltage with a ADC? 7444 When a battery is your power source, what is ground? 7445 Is a current-limiting resistor required for LEDs if the forward voltage and supply voltage are equal? 7446 How can a CPU deliver more than one instruction per cycle? 7447 Why three-phase power? Why not a higher number of phases? 7448 Why are copper cables round? 7449 Why do 1 pF capacitors exist? 7450 Loud pop noise while plugging to a headphones jack 7451 How to go from newbie to manufactured? 7452 Why do fire and security systems run at 27.6 V? 7453 What is a good microcontroller for Ethernet applications? 7454 What are the differences between a gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer? 7455 Why dont microcontrollers generally have on-chip DACs? 7456 What do solid/striped lines on a wire indicate? 7457 MOSFET as a Switch - When is it in Saturation? 7458 Standard PCB trace widths? 7459 Maximum I2C Bus Length? 7460 STM32 Understanding GPIO Settings 7461 Cheapest FPGAs? 7462 Why dont we use wireless electricity today? 7463 Solid ground-plane vs Hatched ground-plane 7464 Why are vias placed this way on a PCB? 7465 Why does TI have so many microcontrollers? 7466 Why arent headphone jack shaped plugs used for data? 7467 Whats the reason to make power supplies external? 7468 Microcontroller shelf life 7469 How to choose a MCU platform? 7470 Why dont electrons take the shorter path in coils? 7471 What is wrong with my 50 Ω grounded coplanar waveguide? 7472 How do you simulate voltage noise with LTSpice? 7473 Noise and what does V/√Hz actually mean? 7474 Is the neutral wire considered safe? 7475 Is there a technical reason why most touch screens use glass rather than plastic? 7476 Software for workshop - electronic components stock management 7477 Can we build capacitors on a PCB board? 7478 How were the first microprocessors programmed? 7479 How do I measure 10,000 A DC? 7480 Why do fundamental circuit laws break down at high frequency AC? 7481 Why does hot plugging blow stuff up, and how to prevent it? 7482 Why aren’t the main conductors in this underground power cable made from copper? 7483 Why is there a diode connected in parallel to a relay coil? 7484 Easy way to figure out a LEDs Vf in order to pick an appropriate resistor 7485 Why use capacitors? 7486 Why is AVR used in Arduino? 7487 When would I use a voltage regulator vs voltage divider? 7488 Why are things like RESET/MCLR active low on most ICs? 7489 What are low cost circuit and PCB design software? 7490 Why does an antenna trace have this shape? 7491 How do you document your hardware design decisions? 7492 What are the advantages of this gold finger shape? 7493 Basic transistor questions 7494 How can I tell charge-only USB cables from USB data cables? 7495 What would happen if I connect two different DC voltage sources in parallel? 7496 Is Bluetooth Communication Possible Without Pairing? 7497 What is the ppm in the crystal oscillator? 7498 How can I implement regenerative braking of a DC motor? 7499 How to resolve I2C address clashes? 7500 Competing PCB Crystal layout recommendations 7501 The best stack-up possible with a four-layer PCB? 7502 Why would an op-amp use BJTs over MOSFETs? 7503 How is ASIC design different from FPGA HDL synthesis? 7504 Why are NAND gates used to make AND gates in computers? 7505 Why do CRTs have 3 electron guns? 7506 Am I insane to question that only with a closed path can electrons move? 7507 Whats special about 14.31818 MHz? 7508 What tools, equipment, and techniques do you use to solder fine-pitch SMT parts? 7509 Minimum operating temperature - Outer Space? 7510 Why do we connect a battery to ground when jumping a car? 7511 What is input and output impedance of an opamp? 7512 Step up 3.3V to 5V for digital I/O 7513 Switching DC with MOSFET: p-Channel or n-Channel; Low Side Load or High Side Load? 7514 CMSIS vs HAL vs Standard Peripherals Library 7515 Is paralleling diodes a bad idea? 7516 Why are relays so frequently driven by optocouplers? 7517 Why are car batteries still so heavy? 7518 How can cache be that fast? 7519 Why isnt there a potential difference across a disconnected diode? 7520 Why do 7 segment LED displays break apart when I brush my teeth? 7521 What do you need 1.018V for? 7522 How can I use a 12 V input on a digital Arduino pin? 7523 When to use Capacitors? 7524 New eagle library: reuse standard package & symbol 7525 What is the truth about 1.5 V lithium cells? 7526 Smallest AES implementation for microcontrollers? 7527 What is electrical insulation tape officially for? 7528 Why do CPUs need so much current? 7529 For a lower voltage drop one could use Schottky diodes, but what are the disadvantages of Schottkys? 7530 Why do ICs have NC (No Connection or No Function) pins? 7531 Why does hardware division take much longer than multiplication? 7532 Can an FPGA design be mostly (or completely) asynchronous? 7533 Why wiggle nearby tracks on a PCB? 7534 What is the smallest and simplest seed for a random number generator? 7535 Whats radiating on my PCB? 7536 What is the failure mode of a solar panel? 7537 Is there a dual of the transformer? 7538 How to connect multiple i2c-interface devices into a single pin A4 (SDA) and A5 (SCL) on Arduino? 7539 At what voltage is a NiMH battery empty? 7540 What sensor to choose to track human presence indoors? 7541 How to list all installed packages 7542 How to unzip a zip file from the Terminal? 7543 How can PPAs be removed? 7544 How do I install a .deb file via the command line? 7545 The following packages have been kept back: Why and how do I solve it? 7546 Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it? 7547 How do I save terminal output to a file? 7548 How can I copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a different directory using terminal? 7549 How can I use docker without sudo? 7550 What command do I need to unzip/extract a .tar.gz file? 7551 Is there a command to list all users? Also to add, delete, modify users, in the terminal? 7552 Where is the cron / crontab log? 7553 How do I determine the total size of a directory (folder) from the command line? 7554 How to get bash or ssh into a running container in background mode? 7555 How to upgrade a single package using apt-get? 7556 How do I uncompress a tarball that uses .xz? 7557 How can I update my nodeJS to the latest version? 7558 How do I shut down or reboot from a terminal? 7559 How can I add a user as a new sudoer using the command line? 7560 How to enable or disable services? 7561 Error message sudo: unable to resolve host (none) 7562 How to add a directory to the PATH? 7563 Find and replace text within a file using commands 7564 How to keep processes running after ending ssh session? 7565 How to install updates via command line? 7566 How to extract files to another directory using tar command? 7567 How do you monitor the progress of dd? 7568 How to add existing user to an existing group? 7569 How do I search for available packages from the command-line? 7570 Command for determining my public IP? 7571 How do I reset a lost administrative password? 7572 How do I remove old kernel versions to clean up the boot menu? 7573 How can I recursively delete all files of a specific extension in the current directory? 7574 How to delete a non-empty directory in Terminal? 7575 What Application Indicators are available? 7576 How to increment a variable in bash? 7577 How do I rename a directory via the command line? 7578 What should I do when Ubuntu freezes? 7579 What is the correct way to completely remove an application? 7580 Change folder permissions and ownership 7581 How do I find the amount of free space on my hard drive? 7582 How to run scripts on start up? 7583 What is the difference between apt and apt-get? 7584 What does sudo apt-get update do? 7585 How do I get the CPU temperature? 7586 How can I extract a page range / a part of a PDF? 7587 How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA? 7588 How to check Internet Speed via Terminal? 7589 Why crontab scripts are not working? 7590 How do I find the package that provides a file? 7591 How do I install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file? 7592 How do I set up a Cron job? 7593 How do I free up more space in /boot? 7594 How can I record my screen? 7595 How to create a soft or symbolic link? 7596 How can I install Sun/Oracles proprietary Java JDK 6/7/8 or JRE? 7597 How do I install Ubuntu alongside a pre-installed Windows with UEFI? 7598 Unity doesnt load, no Launcher, no Dash appears 7599 How can I reduce the file size of a scanned PDF file? 7600 How do I fix my locale issue? 7601 How to install Google Chrome 7602 Which one is better: using ; or && to execute multiple commands in one line? 7603 How do I add environment variables? 7604 What is the difference between adduser and useradd? 7605 Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop 7606 How can I decode a base64 string from the command line? 7607 How to redirect stderr to a file 7608 How do I check which shell I am using? 7609 How do I check if I have a 32-bit or a 64-bit OS? 7610 How to create animated GIF images of a screencast? 7611 How to make python program command execute Python 3? 7612 How do I change the hostname without a restart? 7613 How do I check the version of Ubuntu I am running? 7614 What are PPAs and how do I use them? 7615 What are Unitys keyboard and mouse shortcuts? 7616 What is the difference between a hard link and a symbolic link? 7617 How do I retrieve the public key from a SSH private key? 7618 How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu? 7619 How do I install Guest Additions in a VirtualBox VM? 7620 How to display network traffic in the terminal? 7621 My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? 7622 Where is the Ubuntu file system root directory in Windows Subsystem for Linux and vice versa? 7623 How do I get a list of installed files from a package? 7624 What is the difference between apt-get update and upgrade? 7625 Apache error Could not reliably determine the servers fully qualified domain name 7626 What is dist-upgrade and why does it upgrade more than upgrade? 7627 How do I modify or disable the HUDs use of the Alt key? 7628 How do I install Sublime Text 2/3? 7629 How do I report a bug? 7630 How to list all enabled services from systemctl? 7631 How do I create a permanent Bash alias? 7632 How to merge several PDF files? 7633 How to really clear the terminal? 7634 How to prevent updating of a specific package? 7635 How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? 7636 How to convert PDF to image? 7637 How do I fix the GPG error NO_PUBKEY? 7638 How can I edit/create new launcher items in Unity by hand? 7639 What does cp: omitting directory mean? 7640 How to let `dpkg -i` install dependencies for me? 7641 How to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from terminal? 7642 How to show the transfer progress and speed when copying files with cp? 7643 How to know what program is listening on a given port? 7644 How can I get octal file permissions from command line? 7645 How to see the command attached to a bash alias? 7646 How do I upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu? 7647 How to list all variables names and their current values? 7648 Mount error: unknown filesystem type exfat 7649 How to use grep command to find text including subdirectories 7650 How do I use variables in a sed command? 7651 What do the different colors mean in ls? 7652 How can I suspend/hibernate from command line? 7653 Trouble downloading packages list due to a Hash sum mismatch error 7654 How to enable hibernation? 7655 How do I install Python 3.6 using apt-get? 7656 How do I run .sh scripts? 7657 How can I break out of ssh when it locks? 7658 How to force a clock update using ntp? 7659 Easiest way to copy ssh keys to another machine? 7660 What kinds of desktop environments and shells are available? 7661 How do I configure swappiness? 7662 How to check hard disk performance 7663 How to empty swap if there is free RAM? 7664 How do I disable mouse magnet on middle edge with multi monitors? 7665 How do I change my username? 7666 How to select video quality from youtube-dl? 7667 How can I deactivate Bluetooth on system startup? 7668 How do I start applications automatically on login? 7669 Execute sudo without Password? 7670 How do I turn on workspaces? (Why do I only have one workspace?) 7671 How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?) 7672 How do I change the GRUB boot order? 7673 How can I tell Ubuntu to do nothing when I close my laptop lid? 7674 How do I check the batterys status via the terminal? 7675 Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers 7676 How can I install just security updates from the command line? 7677 How to remove all files from a directory? 7678 What is the whoopsie process and how can I remove it? 7679 How to downgrade a package via apt-get? 7680 How do I fix a Problem with MergeList or status file could not be parsed error when trying to do an update? 7681 How can I accept the Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer? 7682 How do I move all files from one folder to another using the command line? 7683 How to download an MP3 track from a YouTube video 7684 Clock time is off on dual boot 7685 Unable to mount Windows (NTFS) filesystem due to hibernation 7686 How to download a file from a website via terminal? 7687 Differences between /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin 7688 How to install specific version of some package? 7689 Is it possible to remove a particular host key from SSHs known_hosts file? 7690 How to get to the GRUB menu at boot-time? 7691 What is the difference between #!/bin/sh and #!/bin/bash? 7692 Why use apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get dist-upgrade? 7693 How to show line numbering in nano when opening a file 7694 How to make a file (e.g. a .sh script) executable, so it can be run from a terminal 7695 Getting System program problem detected pops up regularly after upgrade 7696 How can I uncompress a *.7z file? 7697 What does 2>/dev/null mean? 7698 How can I improve Ubuntu overall system performance? 7699 How to set JAVA_HOME for Java? 7700 How do I change the computer name? 7701 How is the /tmp directory cleaned up? 7702 What is an AppImage? How do I install it? 7703 How to prevent Write Failed: broken pipe on SSH connection? 7704 How can I stop being prompted to unlock the default keyring on boot? 7705 Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module” .... but already installed 7706 Comparison of backup tools 7707 How can I see all versions of a package that are available in the archive? 7708 How do I install fonts? 7709 Is there a program like Microsoft Paint? 7710 How can I view the contents of tar.gz file without extracting from the command-line? 7711 Run a shell script as another user that has no password 7712 Command-line to list DNS servers used by my system 7713 How can I change the date modified/created of a file? 7714 How can I check the available version of a package in the repositories? 7715 How to check if a command succeeded? 7716 How to see time stamps in bash history? 7717 Convert a directory of JPEG files to a single PDF document 7718 Are PPAs safe to add to my system and what are some red flags to watch out for? 7719 Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade 7720 How to install OpenJDK 8 on 14.04 LTS? 7721 How do I install a root certificate? 7722 How to clear bash history completely? 7723 How to format a USB flash drive? 7724 How can I resize an ext root partition at runtime? 7725 Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages 7726 Boot drops to a (initramfs) prompts/busybox 7727 fsck error on boot: /dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY 7728 How to disable strict host key checking in ssh? 7729 How to backup settings and list of installed packages 7730 How can I monitor the memory usage? 7731 How can I empty the trash using terminal? 7732 sudo su - vs sudo -i vs sudo /bin/bash - when does it matter which is used, or does it matter at all? 7733 How do I increase the hard disk size of the virtual machine? 7734 How can I get a list of all repositories and PPAs from the command line into an install script? 7735 How do I view all available HDDs/partitions? 7736 Why did the command :(){ :|: & };: make my system lag so badly I had to reboot? 7737 How can I configure Unity? 7738 How to easily resize images via command-line? 7739 I have 16GB RAM. Do I need 32GB swap? 7740 What is the safest way to clean up /boot partition? 7741 Is FFmpeg missing from the official repositories in 14.04? 7742 How can I fix a 404 Error when using a PPA or updating my package lists? 7743 How do I check the SHA1 hash of a file? 7744 How do I find out my motherboard model? 7745 Change password on root user and user account 7746 Where is the user crontab stored? 7747 How to fix The system is running in low-graphics mode error? 7748 How to restart X Window Server from command line? 7749 How can I tell, from the command line, whether the machine requires a reboot? 7750 Reset the password in Ubuntu / Linux Bash in Windows 7751 How to access a usb flash drive from the terminal? 7752 How do you restart Apache? 7753 How can I configure a service to run at startup 7754 How can I set up password-less SSH login? 7755 How to use manual partitioning during installation? 7756 How can I create launchers on my desktop? 7757 Unable to locate package while trying to install packages with APT 7758 How do I find the kernel version, Ubuntu release and disk partition information from the terminal? 7759 How do I find out the model of my graphics card? 7760 How do I remove an alias? 7761 How do I zip up a folder but exclude the .git subfolder 7762 How to install specific Ubuntu packages, with exact version? 7763 How can you log out via the terminal? 7764 What software can I use to view epub documents? 7765 How to restart the networking service? 7766 How do I find my internal ip address? 7767 How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)? 7768 How to list dependent packages (reverse dependencies)? 7769 How do I make rsync delete files that have been deleted from the source folder? 7770 Simple image editor? 7771 How to modify an invalid /etc/sudoers file? 7772 How to add Open terminal here to Nautilus context menu? 7773 Run adduser non-interactively 7774 What is the difference between Terminal, Console, Shell, and Command Line? 7775 (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) error in the syslog 7776 ssh: automatically accept keys 7777 How can I remove Amazon search results from the dash or disable the feature? 7778 Where are the Apache and PHP log files? 7779 How can I create a zip archive of a whole directory via terminal without hidden files? 7780 How can I adjust the mouse scroll speed? 7781 What is the difference between Redirection and Pipe? 7782 How do I remap certain keys or devices? 7783 How do I check if a package is installed on my server? 7784 What is a process, and why doesnt it get killed? 7785 How do I set Windows to boot as the default in the boot loader? 7786 Hitting arrow keys adds characters in vi editor 7787 How can I install Windows after Ive installed Ubuntu? 7788 How to change time-zone settings from the command line 7789 How to get the GPU info? 7790 How to run sudo command with no password? 7791 Error sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found 7792 How can I uninstall software? 7793 What is LVM and what is it used for? 7794 cant login as mysql user root from normal user account in ubuntu 16.04 7795 Why is No new release found when upgrading from a LTS to the next? 7796 How to SSH on a port other than 22 7797 How do I install .run files? 7798 Where are sudos insults stored? 7799 How do I start/stop mysql server? 7800 Can I move the Unity launcher? 7801 Where are MTP mounted devices located in the filesystem? 7802 How do I find out which process is eating up my bandwidth? 7803 How do I check my version of GNOME-Shell? 7804 How to unzip .tgz file using the terminal? 7805 How to choose the default gcc and g++ version? 7806 How can I securely erase a hard drive? 7807 How can I find my User ID (UID) from terminal? 7808 Ubuntu 16.04 ssh: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation 7809 Whats a command line way to find large files/directories to remove and free up space? 7810 How can I highlight or annotate PDFs? 7811 vi shortcut to delete until the next X character 7812 Why is swap being used even though I have plenty of free RAM? 7813 Customizing tray/taskbar date display in Ubuntu with GNOME 3 7814 How to send mail from the command line? 7815 Generating list of manually installed packages and querying individual packages 7816 How do I search my command-line history for commands I used before? 7817 How to pin Eclipse to the Unity launcher? 7818 How can I update all Snap packages? 7819 What is hardware enablement (HWE)? 7820 What is the difference between /etc/init/ and /etc/init.d/? 7821 Flash video appears blue 7822 How to burn a Windows .iso to a USB device? 7823 How do I disable X at boot time so that the system boots in text mode? 7824 How do I run specific sudo commands without a password? 7825 What is the Difference Between `apt-get purge` and `apt-get remove`? 7826 How to revert to GNOME Classic Desktop? 7827 Difference between systemctl and service commands 7828 How to understand the Ubuntu file system layout? 7829 Is there another way to restart the sound system if pulseaudio/ALSA dont work? 7830 How to disable the touchpad? 7831 Find a file by name using command-line 7832 When installing user applications, where do best practices suggest they be located? 7833 How do I clear the DNS cache? 7834 How to make partitions mount at startup? 7835 Trouble with batch conversion of .png to .pdf using convert 7836 How can you completely remove a package? 7837 Screen Resolution Problem with Ubuntu 14.04 and VirtualBox 7838 How to uninstall a .deb package? 7839 Cant format Ubuntu installation stick 7840 Terminal incognito mode? 7841 Any way to check the clock speed of my processor? 7842 How to make ZSH the default shell? 7843 Whats the difference between Google Chrome and/or Chromium? What are the advantages/disadvantages to each? 7844 How to rename a file in Terminal? 7845 Do I need to have antivirus software installed? 7846 How do you run Ubuntu Server with a GUI? 7847 How to get the MD5 hash of a string directly in the terminal? 7848 How do I configure a new Ubuntu installation to accept ssh connections? 7849 How to Edit PDFs? 7850 How to control fan speed? 7851 How do I install different (upgrade or downgrade) PHP version in still supported Ubuntu release? 7852 No such file or directory? But the file exists! 7853 What PDF viewers are available for Ubuntu? 7854 How do I add SSH Keys to authorized_keys file? 7855 Is it okay to delete the ~/.cache folder? 7856 How do I diff the output of two commands? 7857 How do I set the grub timeout and the grub default boot entry? 7858 How do I add a DNS server via resolv.conf? 7859 SSH connection problem with Host key verification failed... error 7860 Give specific user permission to write to a folder using +w notation 7861 How do I change the color for directories with ls in the console? 7862 How can I fix apt error W: Target Packages ... is configured multiple times? 7863 How can I find what video driver is in use on my system? 7864 Any way to search for text within nano? 7865 How to determine which window manager is running 7866 Skipping acquire of configured file main/binary-i386/Packages as repository xxx doesnt support architecture i386 7867 How can I find the version of Ubuntu that is installed? 7868 How do I enable or disable Apport? 7869 How to create an empty file from command line 7870 How to open a PDF file from terminal? 7871 How do I provide a username and password to wget? 7872 mv: Directory not empty 7873 How do I install the Firefox Developer Edition? 7874 How to delete file(s) in secure manner? 7875 Why do I get wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock error? 7876 How do I uninstall MySQL? 7877 What is the difference between Vi and Vim? 7878 Installed Teamviewer using a 64-bit system, but I get a dependency error 7879 How to copy paste contents in the vi editor 7880 How to create a permanent alias? 7881 Why doesnt `sudo cd /var/named` work? 7882 How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot? 7883 Setting timezone from terminal 7884 How to install the latest versions of NodeJS and NPM? 7885 Is there a GUI client for Git? 7886 How to list all symbolic links in a directory 7887 How can I retrospectively create a default home directory for an existing user in terminal? 7888 How to exclude multiple directories with rsync? 7889 How do I find out which repository a package comes from? 7890 How to open file with default application from command line? 7891 How to show only hidden files in Terminal? 7892 What do the STAT column values in ps mean? 7893 What are the meta, super, and hyper keys? 7894 How to change tooltip background color in Unity? 7895 How do I add a user to the sudo group? 7896 How do I add locale to ubuntu server? 7897 How do I create a desktop wallpaper slideshow? 7898 Avoiding user interaction with tzdata when installing certbot in a docker container 7899 How do I enable the Universe repository? 7900 What is umask and how does it work? 7901 How do I enable syntax highlighting in nano? 7902 How to increase swap space? 7903 tracker-store and tracker-miner-fs eating up my CPU on every startup 7904 How to customize the Ubuntu Live CD? 7905 Force alt + tab to switch only on current workspace in GNOME shell 7906 How can I make my shell prompt look like a cheeseburger? 7907 How can I get apt to use a mirror close to me, or choose a faster mirror? 7908 Why is Wayland better? 7909 Annoying flickering in 16.04 LTS - Chrome 7910 How to split larger files into smaller parts? 7911 Whats the difference between <<, <<< and < < in bash? 7912 How to make Gimp run as a single window? 7913 Extracting embedded images from a PDF 7914 How do you test the network speed between two boxes? 7915 Why is it bad to log in as root? 7916 Why is Ubuntu moving to Snap packages? 7917 How do I download a YouTube video? 7918 Why ~/.bash_profile is not getting sourced when opening a terminal? 7919 How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on? 7920 How to access a shared folder in VirtualBox? 7921 What is the Linux equivalent to Windows Program Files? 7922 How do I free up disk space? 7923 How to install Oracle Java on Ubuntu 14.04? 7924 How to install Eclipse? 7925 Is it possible to get a list of most recently installed packages? 7926 Can I make Tab auto-completion case-insensitive in Bash? 7927 How can I shorten my command line (bash) prompt? 7928 How do I install curl in php5? 7929 How can I see what ports are open on my machine? 7930 How do I scan for viruses with ClamAV? 7931 How to resize an image through the terminal? 7932 Traditional search-as-you-type on newer Nautilus versions 7933 How to make a disk image and restore from it later? 7934 How do you reset a USB device from the command line? 7935 Automatically enter input in command line 7936 How do I copy files that need root access with scp? 7937 How to add programs to the Unity Launcher or Ubuntu Dock? 7938 How can I measure the execution time of a terminal process? 7939 What to use to quickly cut Audio/Video 7940 How do I remount a filesystem as read/write? 7941 How do I compress a directory? 7942 What is the command to run System Settings from a terminal? 7943 How do I make my terminal display graphical pictures? 7944 How do I add a kernel boot parameter? 7945 Detect and mount devices 7946 How do I kill processes in Ubuntu? 7947 How to mount an ISO file? 7948 How to read and write HFS+ journaled external HDD in Ubuntu without access to OS X? 7949 Why does (base) appear in front of my terminal prompt? 7950 How to install and configure Wine? 7951 How to change Gnome-Terminal title? 7952 Is there a Google Drive client available? 7953 SSH Permission denied (publickey) 7954 Difference between the i386 download and the amd64? 7955 How do I make my systemd service run via specific user and start on boot? 7956 How to enable TRIM? 7957 Is aptitude still considered superior to apt-get? 7958 Aliases not available when using sudo 7959 Find the correct php.ini file 7960 What is the best way to uninstall nginx 7961 How do I detach a screen session from a terminal? 7962 How to create an animated GIF from MP4 video via command line? 7963 How to fix sudo: unable to open ... Read-only file system? 7964 How to uninstall LibreOffice? 7965 How can I restart pulseaudio without having to logout? 7966 How to fix W: Duplicate sources.list entry? 7967 Why am I getting authentication errors for packages from an Ubuntu repository? 7968 How can I reduce or increase the number of workspaces in Unity? 7969 How to restart nautilus without logging out? 7970 Keyboard locks in IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu 14.04 7971 Why is a virtual terminal virtual, and what/why/where is the real terminal? 7972 How to change LCD brightness from command line (or via script)? 7973 How to find the number of CPU cores including virtual? 7974 How do I show the git branch with colours in Bash prompt? 7975 Bash history search, partial + up-arrow 7976 How to install Chrome browser properly via command line? 7977 How do I include lines in resolv.conf that wont get lost on reboot? 7978 What is the simplest Debian Packaging Guide? 7979 How to extract a zip file to a specific folder? 7980 Running a .desktop file in the terminal 7981 How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www? 7982 Disable auto-opening nautilus window after auto-mount 7983 Can I directly download audio using youtube-dl? 7984 Is there any Sound enhancers/equalizer? 7985 How to remove symbolic link 7986 How can I make a script that opens terminal windows and executes commands in them? 7987 How do I change fonts and adjust their size? 7988 How do I install Ubuntu to a USB key? (without using Startup Disk Creator) 7989 How do I get and modify the source code of packages installed through apt-get? 7990 How to check RAM size? 7991 Missing System Settings after removing some packages 7992 How to install Android Studio on Ubuntu? 7993 How to download playlist to mp3 format with youtube-dl? 7994 Parsing filters unsupported error during extraction of RAR file 7995 What is difference between the options autoclean, autoremove and clean? 7996 Is there a power saving application similar to Jupiter? 7997 What lenses for Unity are available? 7998 Is there an easy way to rearrange or move the icons in the Unity launcher? 7999 keyboard shortcut to switch between windows within an application 8000 How do I install the latest Python 2.7.X or 3.X on Ubuntu? 8001 Graphics issues after/while installing Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 with NVIDIA graphics 8002 How to move multiple files at once to a specific destination directory? 8003 How do I install Java? 8004 Find number of files in folder and sub folders? 8005 How do I open a text file in my terminal? 8006 How to connect to WiFi from the command line? 8007 If I build a package from source how can I uninstall or remove completely? 8008 Tips to extend battery life for laptops and notebooks 8009 Why doesnt this show the hidden files/folders? 8010 How do I disable the guest session? 8011 How do I add swap after system installation? 8012 How do I reset my Unity configuration? 8013 How can I remove gpg key that I added using apt-key add -? 8014 How to find owner and group of a directory? 8015 Comparing the contents of two directories 8016 How can I install and use powerline plugin? 8017 How to completely uninstall Java? 8018 How do I install a different Python version using apt-get? 8019 What Debian version are the different Ubuntu versions based on? 8020 I have a hardware detection problem, what logs do I need to look into? 8021 Why does my cat keep patting my face? 8022 How should I discipline my cat for bad behavior? 8023 How can I fix my relationship with my 7 month old cat after Ive constantly abused her the past month? 8024 How much purring is too much purring? 8025 What is this street cat asking for, with continuous meowing? 8026 Can cats safely eat raw meat? 8027 Who should win at tug of war? 8028 Overly friendly stray cat wants to come in our house 8029 What causes a dog to lunge at an unknown child and how should the owner respond? 8030 Is this normal first day home behavior for my kitten, or should I be concerned? 8031 Does purring tire cats? 8032 How do I apologise to my cat? 8033 Is blinking slowly at cats a way to tell them that you love them? 8034 How do I give a cat a pill? 8035 How to introduce my aggressive dog to other canines? 8036 My cat is not eating or drinking anything after the death of the fellow cat 8037 Why does my cat put toys in my shoes? 8038 Can I rename a dog I get from a shelter? 8039 How can we find a dog to test drive? 8040 What to feed kittens that are only a few weeks old? (Their mother died) 8041 Why do cats lick plastic bags, and is there any harm in it? 8042 Cat is tipping over bed-side lamps during the night 8043 Is it ok to pick my adult cat up by the scruff of the neck? 8044 How do I get my cat to wear a tuxedo for several hours? 8045 My cat gets angry and scared at me if I stand 8046 How to prevent my dog from barking constantly when I am not at home? 8047 Why do dogs eat grass? 8048 Can my dog get sick from my human illness? 8049 Cat meows for wet food in morning despite dry food being available 8050 Putting a cat into a carrier 8051 How can I help my obese cat lose weight? 8052 How long is a cats memory? 8053 How can I gain back my dogs trust after accidentally kicking him? 8054 Can I feed my cat whenever she wants? 8055 My cat demands a lot of attention 8056 When is declawing a viable option for cats? 8057 Does neutering have any negative effect on the health of a dog? 8058 How do you safely evacuate with cats? 8059 What can I do to ease my dogs fear of loud noises? 8060 How can I stop my cat from eating too fast and throwing up? 8061 How to let an indoor cat have some outdoors time safely? 8062 How do I keep a cat out of my Christmas tree? 8063 How do I discourage my cat from biting? 8064 How to keep my cat stress free during periods of constant 90dB+ sound? 8065 What to do when moving next to a bird sanctuary with a loosely-domesticated cat? 8066 I cant afford vet treatment, what are my options? 8067 How do I introduce our dog to a brand new baby 8068 Is dry food better for pets’ teeth? 8069 How can I stop my dogs from scooting / dragging their butts? 8070 Why does my cat bring me her toy? 8071 My cat seems to dislike the idea of a morning walk. Should I continue? 8072 Can I make a baby wild rabbit a pet? 8073 Is it okay to feed my cats canned tuna? 8074 What happens if cats drink coffee? 8075 How can I measure the weight of my cat? 8076 Active wildlife outside the window- Good or Bad for Cat psychology? 8077 Recommendations for introducing kittens to adult cats 8078 How can I prevent my cat from extending his claws when being petted? 8079 Why does my cat like licking my armpits? 8080 How can stop my adult cat from urinating in inappropriate places? 8081 How can I keep my cat from climbing on my desk? 8082 Why is iceberg lettuce bad for rabbits? 8083 How can I safely pick up a garden snail? 8084 When leaving my dog alone is it better to leave some lights on or all off? 8085 Why does my cat wash her paws in her water? 8086 How can I free a snake from duct tape? 8087 How can I train a dog to behave with a cat? 8088 How to train a dog to poo in a particular part of the garden? 8089 Are there health risks to leaving a dead fish in the aquarium? 8090 How deep should I bury my pet (should I rebury)? 8091 How can I tell if my cat is happy? 8092 What forms of body language can be identified in snake behaviour? 8093 What is required to house break a rabbit? 8094 Why is my dog eating poop? 8095 Do dogs commit suicide? 8096 Can I feed my cat a vegetarian or vegan diet? 8097 Do invisible fences pose long term health risks to dogs? 8098 My friend is allergic to only some of my cats; why is that (and how do I mitigate for future cats)? 8099 How do you clean poop out of a long hair cats fur? 8100 How long can a healthy cat go without food? 8101 What is the optimal age to neuter a male dog? 8102 Is it okay for an elderly cat to be sleeping in the litterbox? 8103 Is it ok to adopt a kitten if you have a murderous cat? 8104 One month old puppy pacing in circles and crying 8105 How can I know if my cat is in pain? 8106 How often is too often to bathe a dog? 8107 How can we prevent our cats from scratching on our chair? 8108 How to deal with excluding my son from the favourite activity of his peers? 8109 How to prevent my child from being indoctrinated with Christianity? 8110 Teenage daughter refusing to go to school 8111 The teacher erased 3 pages of my 5 year olds completed homework 8112 My 3 year old daughter thinks she is white. Should I tell her shes not? 8113 What can I as a teenager do about my insanely strict parents? 8114 Should I punish my teenage sister, whom I have full custody of, for lying to me in order to secretly see her boyfriend? 8115 My girlfriend has mentioned disowning her 14 y/o transgender daughter 8116 I am 21 and I am terrified beyond belief of my father 8117 Im losing it, with a talkative toddler, a colicky baby, chores, work, and lack of sleep 8118 What to do with my pre-teen daughter who has been out of control since a severe accident? 8119 My 13-year-old son made a foolish and wasteful donation. How can I teach him he was wrong? 8120 How to comfort my dad after telling him that I dont like to do anything with him? 8121 How can you deal with tantrums without spanking? 8122 Son was sent home from sleepover for behavior 8123 If my 5yr old is an exceptional liar, should I expect that she will continue lying as she gets older? 8124 How can I prevent my 8-year-old from spending time with his bad friend? 8125 My wife wants a homosexual child 8126 Seventeen year old daughter wants to take an international trip to meet someone she met online 8127 Wife agrees with parenting, but is intentionally less strict 8128 Limit access to screens (phone, computer) to my kids, whereas I benefitted from no limit during my own childhood 8129 Should you let a toddler win? 8130 Why would you lie to your children about Santa? 8131 Why dont children know why they do things? 8132 How to respond to 17 year old daughter going out with a 25 year old man? 8133 Grandparents want our three year old daughter to throw tantrums like her cousin did 8134 How to teach children Santa is not real, while respecting other kids beliefs? 8135 Should I allow or forbid my son to visit the education of a religion that I do not share? 8136 At what age should I tell my daughter that her real mother is dead? 8137 Being told Im father to a son I dont want 8138 How to convince a 4-year old child that professional cyclists are not littering during a race? 8139 What do I do about my mom setting her expectations too high? 8140 My 16 year old daughter got a speeding ticket 8141 Is having a sibling better for a child? 8142 What are some strategies for raising a bilingual child? 8143 My 2.5 years old daughter asks to learn to read 8144 Four year old started calling me by my first name. Is this problematic? 8145 Lying to my daughter about her mothers death 8146 Impact on kids NOT having TV? 8147 How should I handle a little boy who likes girls toys? 8148 How to answer my 5 year old why I can tell her what she has to do, and why she cant tell me what to do 8149 Is bribing children with cash incentives a good idea? 8150 Should a parent delete a teens social media account if it was handled badly? 8151 Is it bad being a bad influence for my younger cousin? 8152 Should I buy my college child a vehicle when I can afford to or make him earn it on his own? 8153 My child witnessed a toddler being taught to cuss by older kids. How to deal with rude language at social gatherings? 8154 How to talk to a teen daughter about her weight 8155 Can The Giving Tree be explained in a way that isnt an unhealthy lesson? 8156 Teenagers Ogling my Daughter. What to do? 8157 Programming with a baby 8158 Have I lost my daughter? 8159 My daughters friend faked having cancer - our daughter found out via Facebook and is devastated. What do we do? 8160 My 21-year-old adult son hates me 8161 How can I prevent my parents divorce? 8162 Whats wrong with Dr Seuss? 8163 How do you teach a child religious views? 8164 From what age should one heed But Im not cold!? 8165 How can we get some free time (on daily basis)? 8166 12 year old boy is totally out of control 8167 How do you cope in the first few months? 8168 How do I calm a frustrated 6-year-old? 8169 My 4-year-old refers to himself as me 8170 How should I handle an 8 year old lawyering and quibbling? 8171 Should we circumcise our son? 8172 My husband, who is my teen daughters step father feels bad that he cant have a closer relationship with my daughter 8173 Is it ok to disagree in front of the kids? 8174 How can I make my kids passionate in science while being religious? 8175 Should I be concerned about my 1-year-old and her mother moving in with a man Ive never met? 8176 How do you raise an intelligent and happy daughter in a sexist world? 8177 Should you play games with a toddler that theyre very good at and always win? 8178 Why do toddlers hate getting their face cleaned off with a wet washcloth and is there a better way? 8179 Is it safer to install a back seat car seat behind the driver or behind the passenger? 8180 Teaching my son a language he doesnt want to learn 8181 What are the legal, emotional, and/or behavioral repercussions of confiscating money as a punishment? 8182 Just found out my 13 year old girl is Bi and dating a 17 year old girl in an open relationship. Huh? Now what? 8183 My parents are taking over my life, I think Im going insane 8184 Neighbors child is trying to spend all her time with us 8185 How can I be more sympathetic towards my children when they are injured? 8186 What should we do when our 15 year old wants sex with his 13 year old girlfriend? 8187 What is a positive way to handle a boy who acts like a girl? 8188 How can I undo the bad behavior my 2.5 year old daughter learned from 5 year old children? 8189 How to help a bullied child (without involving parents or teachers) 8190 How to work-at-home given no daycare 8191 Why does my infant wake crying the instant we put him in his bed? 8192 My toddler calls me Mommy, but Im his father 8193 How should a stepfather respond to You are not my Father!? 8194 My kids watch YouTube - how do I control what they see? 8195 What is the most efficient food to take a for a 12-15 day hiking trip? 8196 Is it warmer to sleep naked in a sleeping bag? 8197 Why would one aim off when navigating with a map and compass? 8198 My car broke down in Siberia. What do I do now? 8199 Is it actually useful to ration food? 8200 Should I run if I see wild dogs? 8201 Where in Europe is wild camping permitted? 8202 Commuting by canoe 8203 Sleeping solo in a double sleeping bag 8204 Which will keep my food colder longer, draining the melted ice water, or leaving it in the cooler? 8205 Whats wrong with swimming out far? 8206 Ive just been bitten by a rattlesnake; how, exactly, do I keep calm? 8207 When hiking, why is the right of way given to people going up? 8208 What are essential items in an emergency kit? 8209 Etiquette of playing musical instruments on popular hikes 8210 How do you take field notes at below 0 °C, without freezing fingers? 8211 What are good knots to know for camping and backpacking? 8212 How do you determine how long a hike will take? 8213 Can I safely eat grass? 8214 How can I take keys with me while swimming? 8215 Is it warmer to sleep in a car or in a tent? 8216 What is the safest way to purify water? 8217 How does water depth affect swimming safety? Why do signs, especially in the UK, say DANGER: deep water? 8218 What are some common mistakes to avoid when trying winter camping for the first time? 8219 Is it OK to throw pebbles and stones in streams, waterfalls, ponds, etc.? 8220 Does eating snow help dehydration? 8221 How should I prepare my body for prolonged exposure to heat? 8222 How should I remove a tick? 8223 How long does water need to be boiled for to kill all bacteria / viruses? 8224 A list of suitable foods for a long hike 8225 Why is it prohibited to sleep in a tent? 8226 How do you know you have reached North or South Pole without GPS? 8227 How to avoid exploding rocks 8228 Is it dangerous to rope together on an ascent of hard packed ice? 8229 How to deal with condensation in a tent? 8230 Should you pop a blister? 8231 Does cotton really kill? 8232 What are the dangers of walking barefoot in towns/cities? 8233 Is ankle support a myth? 8234 Is drinking urine safe? 8235 Are there any advantages while backpacking to hike during the night and sleep during the day? 8236 Is there an organization for adults to learn outdoor skills with their kids? 8237 How to safely rescue someone drowning as an untrained bystander? 8238 How can I get a GPS location for this tree on a distant hillside? 8239 Why would a seal be flinging an octopus around above the water and then slapping a kayaker with it? 8240 I never adjust for true north. Is this bad practice? 8241 Can I eat the rabbits my cat catches? 8242 I am lost, I found a trail, which way do I go? 8243 How do I make people not be afraid of me and my dogs? 8244 Why is it bad to use your whole foot in rock climbing 8245 When should I avoid geotagging? 8246 How to clean rock-climbing shoes? 8247 Is it better to wear one pair or two pairs of socks while hiking? 8248 Is it possible to rappel with only a rope? (No harness, Prusik cord, or other gear) 8249 How can you navigate without a compass or GPS 8250 Can I use a bicycle helmet as a climbing helmet? 8251 What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? 8252 How can I tell if I am dehydrated or have low electrolytes (need salt, etc.)? 8253 Will drinking lots of water in the day(s) prior to a long trek mean I will need less water on the trek? 8254 How to harden feet to avoid blisters on long hikes 8255 Can I eat rotten meat and carcass given enough cooking? 8256 Why do I always wake up freezing? 8257 Given limited space and weight what should I carry to get a fire going with damp wood? 8258 Why go without socks with climbing shoes? 8259 How do I evade or pacify a bee? 8260 Can removing dead wood harm the ecosystem? 8261 As a tall female should I be looking at male or female backpacks? 8262 How to react to cattle charging towards you? 8263 Should overweight people ever climb? 8264 How to carry water in freezing temperatures? 8265 Is it warmer to sleep with an empty bladder? 8266 What are some good tips and techniques for packing a backpack? 8267 What is this tool on a Swiss Army knife for? 8268 FiveFingers or hiking boots? 8269 What essential items should go in a small first aid kit? 8270 Why do so many people hike with such light footwear? 8271 Why do minor keys sound “sad”? 8272 Why is the guitar tuned like it is? 8273 Why are there twelve notes in an octave? 8274 Whats the point of keys other than C and Am? 8275 Is there any real-world difference between time signatures such as 4/4 and 8/8? 8276 What is good software for learning how to sight-read? 8277 What are the most effective ear training methods? 8278 How do professional accompanying musicians (seem to) figure out songs instantly? 8279 How can I significantly improve my hand independence on piano? 8280 Ten Minute Practice Techniques For Guitar? 8281 Purpose of double-sharps and double-flats? 8282 How to play a song without making mistakes? 8283 How long would it take to learn to tune a piano? 8284 Is there a way to measure the consonance or dissonance of a chord? 8285 Quickly flip a page of sheet music while playing 8286 How do you draw a quarter rest with a pen/pencil? 8287 What is the relationship between do re mi and note letter names? 8288 How often should I replace the strings on my guitar? 8289 Why are there both sharps and flats? 8290 Best method to learn to play barre chords? 8291 Changing the strings: one by one, or by taking all strings off at one time? 8292 What is the difference between a mode and a scale? 8293 How can a classical pianist learn jazz piano? 8294 Ways to get out of a scalar rut? 8295 What does a conductor actually do? 8296 Whats the difference between a G♭ and an F#? 8297 How can I overcome the fear of performing in front of an audience? 8298 Position of white dots in guitar fretboard 8299 Why Is Just Intonation Impractical? 8300 Will learning to play another instrument help me to become a better guitarist? 8301 Why is C the base note of standard notation and keys? 8302 Why does string strummed with finger sound different from the one strummed with pick? 8303 Found in an 1800s newspaper--what kind of march notation is this? 8304 A (440 Hz) and A (880 Hz) are completely different sounds to me. Does this mean Im tone deaf? 8305 (1/√π)/√⅔ as a time signature? 8306 Have orchestras included any modern instrument lately? 8307 Are there any games useful for ear training? 8308 Do advanced musicians still practice scales every day? 8309 Why are some people so paranoid about music theory? 8310 Which notes are optional in jazz chords? 8311 Is there a standard or typical drum kit layout? 8312 Why do Guitar chords work the way they do compared to a Piano? 8313 What are some chord substitutions for a I-IV-V blues progression? 8314 Why isnt there a classical composer like Beethoven, Chopin or Mozart today? 8315 How do you identify a good acoustic guitar? 8316 Does it really make difference to play a song in a different key? 8317 I accidentally composed a song that sounds like a famous song 8318 Is there a standard width for piano keys? 8319 Glossary of Guitar Effects 8320 What are the differences between tone, note, and pitch? 8321 Guitar practice: more often but less time or once in a few days but for a few hours? 8322 Does 3/4 time signature differ from 6/8? 8323 What Does a Compressor Pedal Do? 8324 What to look for when buying a digital piano for a beginner? 8325 In live performance, what is a monitor 8326 Why cant drums produce melody? 8327 How do I make piano chords sound interesting when playing along with popular songs? 8328 Why are orchestras tuned differently? 8329 The major scale - why and how? 8330 Why do instruments have a key? 8331 Why are pianos traditionally tuned out of tune at the extremes? 8332 How to know what notes will go together while improvising? 8333 Why is a C7 chord named a dominant seventh chord? 8334 Why does the scale have seven (or five) notes? Why not six? 8335 List of average genre tempo (BPM) levels? 8336 What is the difference between a xylophone, a glockenspiel, a marimba, a xylorimba and a marimbaphone? 8337 Key signature for writing in modes other than major and minor 8338 How can I improve my piano sight reading? 8339 What instruments are inexpensive, portable and not too loud? 8340 What are the practical reasons for still having transposing instruments? 8341 When were the terms Major and Minor applied to keys? 8342 Is there any research in music theory? 8343 What does a small x-like symbol before a note mean? 8344 Why learn scales? What are they for? 8345 Why do I yawn while singing? 8346 How to transcribe music by ear? 8347 As a guitarist, how can I learn to sight-read music? 8348 Will playing without mistakes at all become easy for me in the future? 8349 What is the origin of the up bow and down bow symbols for bowed string instruments? 8350 Does the difference in harmonic series between instruments have a significant effect on the consonance of the sound? 8351 Whats the difference between modal music and tonal music? 8352 How to minimize the pain for a beginning guitar student so they won’t give up before they develop calluses? 8353 WHY do harmonics happen? 8354 Can a flute soloist sit? 8355 How to start playing by ear/improvising? 8356 Why doesnt my synthesized note sound natural? 8357 What does it mean to write a song in a certain key? 8358 Is there a difference between 2/4 and 4/4 8359 Etiquette of Quitting a Band 8360 What are modes and how are they useful? 8361 Why does conventional playing style give the string manipulation to the left hand? 8362 What do you do when a string breaks or you drop your pick on stage? 8363 Why do notes have multiple names? 8364 Major scale of one note is the Minor scale of another note? 8365 How not to touch neighbouring strings? 8366 Is there any practical difference between 3/4 and 3/8 time? 8367 Why is my guitars saddle at an angle? 8368 Why are the white and black keys on the piano placed the way they are? 8369 My son is 6, and his guitar teacher wants me to buy him a 4/4 guitar! 8370 What are some useful and effective exercises for training absolute pitch? 8371 Software that allows playing in different temperaments 8372 What do vent holes do on a music stand? 8373 Forgetting the musical notes while performing in concert 8374 What exactly should I have to learn to understand why certain combination of chords are harmonic when played in a sequence? 8375 What is the difference between a riff and a lick? 8376 How should I store my guitars? 8377 Why is the double bass the only instrument in the violin family tuned in fourths? 8378 Why do many songs in major keys use a bVII chord? 8379 Hands-separate piano practice doesnt seem to help with hands-together playing 8380 Is it possible to write a song without a key? 8381 What exactly does practising scales teach? 8382 Why do octaves sound equivalent? 8383 How to interpret half notes combined with thirty-second stems? 8384 Why do people sometimes write notes as E♯ or C♭? 8385 How can I practice in an apartment without annoying the neighbours? 8386 How does scale length affect my playing? 8387 What is the difference between sharp note & flat note? 8388 How can I teach a student who seems to have no rhythm? 8389 How can I train my ear for music? 8390 Why are violin bows longer than viola bows, than cello bows, than double-bass bows ? 8391 Why is music theory built so tightly around the C Major scale? 8392 Whats so special about minor and major scales? 8393 Appreciating the music of J. S. Bach 8394 Why shouldnt I put electric guitar strings on my acoustic guitar? 8395 What are the benefits of guitars with fanned frets? 8396 Are there any music programming languages from after the SuperCollider era? 8397 How do I use a metronome? 8398 Why cant I play with a backing track or other musicians 8399 It is ok to correct wrong notes when playing piano? 8400 Why do pianos not need to be tuned every time you play? 8401 Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D: Why do some recordings seem to be in C sharp? 8402 How does your brain learn to play the piano two-handed? 8403 Why is a grand piano better than an upright piano? 8404 Why is the bridge pickup on a Stratocaster angled? 8405 What makes an interval Perfect? 8406 Does an accidental apply to all octaves? 8407 Can wind instruments be played out of tune? 8408 Noise while not touching guitar strings or metal parts 8409 How to tell the time signature of a song by listening? 8410 Can anyone learn to sing higher? 8411 How to turn any (pop) song into a jazz song? 8412 How can I learn to compose? 8413 When tuning a guitar, should you always end with tightening the string rather than loosening it? 8414 Is it recommended to learn a piece you really like, but is way above your level? 8415 Bored when playing instrument 8416 B flat minor - the key of death ... seriously? 8417 How to play songs that contain one guitar when we have two or more guitarists? 8418 Is there a broader term for instruments, like the gong, whose volume briefly increases after being sounded instead of immediately decaying? 8419 Do composers take advantage of the position of players in an orchestra for effect? 8420 How can I safely extend my vocal range? 8421 How high from the ground should the keyboard from a piano be? 8422 How many hours of practice total are typical for different piano grades? 8423 What does a triangle mean in chord notation? 8424 Finger Exercises for Piano when not playing 8425 Polymeter vs Polyrhythm 8426 How do classical composers write music? 8427 Can people really sight-read advanced pieces? 8428 Arthritis In Hands (Playing With Pain In Hands) - Are There Recommended Approaches? 8429 What does this note - B# - mean? 8430 Does leaving a capo on hurt the strings? 8431 Can I play pipe organ as a pianist? 8432 How do you determine if youre ready to join a band? 8433 Why is the key included in classical music titles? 8434 Pay-to-Play Gigs 8435 What is the best way of learning the notes on the fretboard. 8436 Using keyboard/MIDI controller to learn piano 8437 Why is dropped D tuning used so often? 8438 How necessary is a USB Audio Interface? 8439 What is the difference between a band and an orchestra 8440 How often is it recommended to change bass strings? 8441 How do harmonics work? 8442 What is the difference between chorus and refrain? 8443 Why are there many guitarists, but only one drummer in a band? 8444 Why do guitarists put tape on their amplifiers? 8445 Why isnt D the most central note? 8446 Why do some artists tune their guitars half a step or whole step down? 8447 How do I know when its time to change a tube on my amplifier? 8448 Will a 61-key keyboard severely restrict my piano repertoire? 8449 What is the definition of playing in the pocket? 8450 How is counterpoint different from harmony? 8451 When is a piece in A minor versus C major? 8452 How is this B flat guitar chord physically possible? 8453 Why do people with perfect pitch perceive tunes not in 440 Hz out of tune? 8454 What is the difference between a riff and a melody? 8455 Why are C♯ and D♭ different frequencies? 8456 Im learning music theory, but none of the songs Im trying it on are playing by the rules 8457 How do jazz players communicate while playing? 8458 Why is A4 the standard pitch reference for tuning? 8459 Why is it that I can sometimes guess the next note? 8460 What is the Difference between Maple and Rosewood Fretboards 8461 What are the Solfège names of the semitones between the basic do, re, mi, etc? 8462 Why note B is marked with H in Scandinavia and Germany? 8463 What is intonation and how can I find out if my guitar has correct intonation? 8464 What is the relationship between the melody line and the rhythm chords? 8465 What does it mean when two notes are stuck together? 8466 Do musicians count the meter all the time? 8467 How do experienced pianists sight-read chords? 8468 Is it easier to play softly on a grand piano? 8469 When to use a dot or a tie in music notation? 8470 Why dont classical stringed instruments mark their note positions? 8471 How can I be sure that I am singing effortlessly in my natural voice? 8472 Why do E♯ and F♮ not sound the same (according to Wikipedia)? 8473 How should one practice a piece that is learned, but not fully mastered? 8474 How did composers test their music? 8475 Why does violin sound differently after playing on it for some time? 8476 Beginning adult piano for musicians 8477 Is there a way to develop Perfect Pitch? 8478 Why is bass note so important in harmonic analysis of music? 8479 Can one tell by ear whether a bowed instrument is being played up or down? 8480 How to identify the root note of a chord 8481 The differences between natural, harmonic and melodic minors 8482 How do I know when Im singing in key? 8483 What exercises can I do to improve my timing? 8484 Rest above a note in a piano piece 8485 Coated Strings—Gimmick, or worth the money? 8486 Why arent there attempts to evolve classical musical instruments so that theyre easier to play? 8487 Why is the saxophone not common in classical repertoire? 8488 Is there any way to improve composing? 8489 What do the letters D and E above the staff represent here? 8490 Aldous Huxley and 5/4 Meter in Music Predating Take 5 8491 Recycling guitar strings 8492 The notes outside the major scale form a pentatonic scale 8493 How to play a long sustained note on an electric guitar? 8494 Unknown notation - thick horizontal bars between notes 8495 Why is the lowest note on the piano an A? 8496 Understanding minor key harmony 8497 Are doubly augmented and doubly diminished intervals practical? 8498 Physics behind why a bugle can play several notes, while a whistle only plays one note 8499 Is there any way to find a key of song somehow mathematically/algorithmically? 8500 Can I just tune my guitar how ever I like? 8501 What kind of a guitar can I play without thumbs? 8502 Why are measures (aka bars) important? 8503 Is CD audio quality good enough for the final delivery of music? 8504 How can a non-musician recognize anacrusis? 8505 How do I get out of my song writing rut and compose something new and fresh for a change? 8506 Why do tube-based guitar amplifiers sound so good? 8507 Advantage of 7-note based theory over 12-note alternative 8508 How to bend and release without flicking the other strings? 8509 How do I connect my musical instrument to a computer? 8510 What is the difference between Overdrive and Distortion? 8511 Is You shouldnt play all 6 strings together on an electric guitar good teaching? 8512 Do guitar strings wear when not used? 8513 How to dramatically change the feeling of a song while keeping the melody largely the same? 8514 Is 16va proper notation? 8515 Boiling/washing used guitar/bass strings - is it worthwhile? 8516 Do musicians that began playing from an early age have an incontestable advantage? 8517 What is the practical reason for reentrant tuning on ukulele and similar instruments? 8518 Which fingering to use when playing the same piano key twice in a row? 8519 one finger per fret - is it worth following this rule? 8520 My childs violin practice is making us tired, what can we do? 8521 Why does music seem to transpose when I yawn? 8522 Why can I easily sing or whistle a tune Ive just heard, but not as easily reproduce it on an instrument? 8523 How do you remember your music and how do I improve in this regard? 8524 How do professional electronic musicians/sound engineers combat listening fatigue? 8525 Do different synthesizers have different timbres and/or produce different harmonics for the same given waveform? 8526 Sites with a good selection of sheet music 8527 Examples of songs or phrases played in different temperaments 8528 What are the limitations of the ABC notation format? 8529 What tools should every guitarist have? 8530 Has music notation become more prescriptive? 8531 Is there a Relative Pitch Clef? 8532 What is the difference between mono and stereo? 8533 Software that slows down music to help in transcribing 8534 Classical music theory notation for chord inversions (figured bass) 8535 Learn piano one hand at a time or simultaneously? 8536 What are the ergonomic / playing differences between the guitar and the piano? 8537 Cleaning the fretboard of an electric guitar 8538 Why does the dominant chord contain a flattened 7th? 8539 Why is music for strings more likely to be in keys with sharps? 8540 What to check when buying a new electric guitar? 8541 Why do we use such complicated notation? 8542 What does play with feeling mean? 8543 Tapping 3 times on one leg and 4 times on another leg in 4 beats. What is it called and how to do it? 8544 How to do metal harmonics (pinch etc) 8545 Why does the orchestra tune to the oboe? 8546 Which instrument can a person play with 2 malformed fingers on each hand? 8547 Why you need a rest here in this score? 8548 Why are the 4th and 7th scale degrees removed from the major scale to make the Pentatonic scale? 8549 Algorithms for music composition 8550 To what extent is music theory just giving us a language to describe/break down music, or does it really have significant scientific content? 8551 Why does a 97 / 92 key piano exist by Bösendorfer? 8552 How to create Chord progressions that make sense 8553 Why does the C7 chord on guitar omit the G note (5th) in open position? 8554 How do I know when the next note starts in sheet music? 8555 I want to learn how to sing. Where do I start? 8556 Difference between hi and low on amps? 8557 How many (major and minor) keys are there? Why? 8558 Why is plexiglass not used for car windows? 8559 Does Downshifting (Engine Braking) Cause Extra Wear and Tear? 8560 Why dont we rotate tyres but you rotate tires? 8561 Does the amount of fuel in the tank matter? 8562 What are the benefits of premium (high octane) petrol? 8563 How can I keep stray cats off my car? 8564 Should I resurface or replace my rotors everytime I replace brake pads? 8565 Why does my A/C blow foul smelling air when it first turns on? 8566 Are classic cars safe? 8567 What actually happens when there is not enough oil in a car engine? 8568 What to check when buying a used car? 8569 How long does it take for gas to go bad? 8570 How to maintain a sometimes-used vehicle? 8571 Effective way to clean inside of windshield? 8572 Why do heavy vehicles almost always use diesel engines? 8573 What is the most efficient method of getting your car unstuck from snow? 8574 Reviving a vehicle that has been idle for a long time 8575 Why dont rally cars have airbags? 8576 How do I save myself from a sinking vehicle? 8577 Jump starting a dead battery: Connect black wire to negative pole of battery or grounded metal? 8578 How far can I drive with 1 gallon too much oil? 8579 what is the difference between DOT3 and DOT4 brake fluids? 8580 Is there a way to put Prius with dead battery into neutral? 8581 Why dont people hand pump their tires? 8582 How do I remove a destroyed lug nut? 8583 What does a water like drop coming out of the exhaust of the car signify? 8584 Is it necessary to burn in or break in a new car? 8585 Is tire rotation important? 8586 What are the benefits of a lightweight flywheel and why arent they lightweight already? 8587 Why is a motorcycles neutral between first and second gears? 8588 When do brake rotors really need to be replaced? 8589 Why doesnt anyone ever repair an automatic transmission? 8590 Does kicking a tire off your car from underneath it while its held up by a stable jack pose safety threats? 8591 What is in fossil fuels that we cant mass produce? 8592 Changing Firing Order in a 4 Cylinder Car 8593 Whats the Purpose of Park on an Automatic Transmission? 8594 Why are the blades of car radiator fans unevenly spaced? 8595 Why is my car equipped with a battery shutdown timer? 8596 Is it safe to use a hydraulic jack as a stand? If not, why? 8597 Why do manufacturers detune engines? 8598 Do I really need to wash the outside of my car? 8599 Can a vehicle be harmed with bad inputs via an OBD-2 port? 8600 Could a car left sitting for 6 years ever run again? 8601 Is it necessary to have the wheels of a car aligned with the body when parked, due to weight on the axle? 8602 What is the point of the exhaust? 8603 What causes battery terminal corrosion? 8604 Is it okay to leave a car for 5 months without driving it? 8605 Spark plug broke off in engine - can I drive the car? 8606 Difference between FWD/RWD/4WD/Part-Time 4WD/AWD? 8607 What is the difference between normal, platinum, iridium plugs? 8608 what is difference between DOHC and SOHC? 8609 Running with straight water as coolant in the summer. Is it fine? 8610 Difference between OBDII and CAN 8611 Why does the reverse gear in manual transmission cars sound different 8612 Can I leave my car sitting outside for about 5 years? 8613 Why do two-stroke engine exhaust pipes look so strange? 8614 When is a cold air intake system beneficial? 8615 Static vs. Effective compression: Why does higher effective compression not require higher octane gas? 8616 We have fuel injection, why not air injection? 8617 Why is engine displacement frequently a few CCs below an exact number? 8618 Why use snow tires on all 4 wheels on 2-wheel-drive cars? 8619 5-Stroke Engines - What are these things? 8620 How should I remove a paint scuff on my vehicle? 8621 What causes an engine to burn oil? 8622 Will higher octane fuel improve gas mileage? 8623 Top off gas with old oil, is that bad? 8624 Do cars consume less fuel when in Neutral? 8625 How to deal with rust 8626 Whats the point of the D3 gear in an automatic transmission? 8627 Manual transmission at stop: 1st with clutch in, or neutral with clutch out? -OR- Throwout Bearing wear 8628 Do I have an oil leak if I have to add oil? 8629 Fill nitrogen in tires poster - are the claims credible or just hot air? 8630 What actually happens when there is way too much oil in a car engine? 8631 Is it safe to drive a car that has a broken suspension spring? 8632 What are the risks of overfilling a small engine with oil? 8633 Pros/cons of higher capacity car battery? 8634 What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of a Boxer engine? 8635 Is it really impossible to fix a seized engine? 8636 Is Start & Stop technology good or bad for my car? (Alfa MiTO) 8637 Rats biting off fuel line ( again and again and again )! 8638 How do I test my car battery? 8639 What emergency gear and tools should I keep in my vehicle? 8640 How do I loosen stuck lug nuts in order to change a tire? 8641 What is the best way to remove a stuck/rusted exhaust bolt? 8642 Clutch less shifting - why does it work? Is it bad? 8643 How old is too old for a new tire? 8644 How to get rid of a decal on the rear window? 8645 What is my friends wife not telling him (about this tire)? 8646 Strange metallic stickers on rims after repair shop visit 8647 Symptoms of Lean or Rich carb settings on a motorcycle 8648 Is idling bad for your engine? 8649 Why should the fuel petcock valve be turned to “Off” position when not using the vehicle? 8650 Does a timing chain need maintenance? 8651 Is starting your car with the A/C on bad? 8652 Why do cars die after removing jumper cables? 8653 What are the benefits of low profile tires? 8654 Accidentally left car idling for 14 hours. What are possible consequences from this? 8655 Why do pickups and large SUVs use 4x4 and generally not AWD? 8656 Is the drivers door supposed to unlock from inside? 8657 Small amount of wrong fuel type put in the tank 8658 Why does a gas engines torque and horsepower curve always meet at 5252 RPM? 8659 Why could my vehicle be shaking around 60mph after hydroplaning? 8660 How do cars drive through deep water as shown on many videos online? 8661 Will engine braking damage my transmission? How can I tell? 8662 Why do the brakes freeze the suspension? 8663 What damage does a car suffer if not regularly used? 8664 What does the cc mean on a motorcycle? 8665 Must I Replace All 4 Tires on an All Wheel Drive (AWD) vehicle? 8666 How long should I let my car warm up in the winter? 8667 How can you tell the oil needs to be changed? 8668 What is the purpose of plastic engine covers? 8669 How to raise the car higher than the jack stands will allow? 8670 What happens if I change the oil when the engine is cold? 8671 My car has moisture on the inside of the glass but other cars do not 8672 If I am just replacing the car engine, do I need to replace the odometer as well? 8673 Why do we need to cool air after it leaves a turbocharger? 8674 Static electric shock as I leave the car 8675 Cheap winter tires vs high quality all seasons 8676 Why are wheels labeled R16 when the 16 is actually the diameter? 8677 How slow ( not zero) can a car engine run without hurting engine and saving on fuel 8678 Are tyre repair kits a viable alternative for a spare wheel? 8679 A/C loses chill when turning on blower. Why? 8680 What happens if a single spark plug unexpectedly goes down in a multi-cylinder engine? 8681 Is Prestone All Makes/All Models coolant *really* compatible with all models? 8682 What is causing this terrible grinding/groaning noise when I come to a slow stop sometimes? (but not always!) 8683 How can I repair cracks in leather seat? 8684 Leaving car with automatic transmission in Neutral instead of Park 8685 Will fitting a physically bigger battery reduce the working life of the alternator? 8686 Aluminium engine vs Cast Iron engine 8687 Grease on wheel bolts or not? 8688 LTFT and STFT values are off and dont make sense 8689 Is it ok to use a scissor jack instead of a floor jack? 8690 Why doesnt the engine stall out when you come to a stop with an automatic transmission? 8691 Why do tyres go flat after a few weeks of non-usage? 8692 Is a bigger car safer than a smaller car? 8693 How do I know when to change my spark plug 8694 Leaving car for 3 weeks, change oil before or after? 8695 What differences between synthetic and dino oil? 8696 Whats the point of servicing a car? 8697 How do the latest automatic transmissions match the efficiencies of manual gearboxes? 8698 Why would I want to measure torque while loosening a bolt or nut? 8699 How exactly does a differential work? 8700 Are there requirements for building a car-PC and its software? 8701 What are good features to look for in an OBD-II reader 8702 When is an engine flush a good idea? 8703 Battery drains by itself when vehicle is parked (parasitic draw) 8704 Can OBD-II be used to control the vehicle? 8705 What is the best way to prevent my doors from freezing shut in the winter? 8706 What is the small metal square attached to the wheel or tire? 8707 Is it safe to drive my car to a repair shop with a bolt in the tire? (picture) 8708 Is revving the engine to redline on idle at morning bad? 8709 Why is towing a manual transmission car, in neutral, with the drive wheels on the ground, considered safe? 8710 How do you un-seize an engine? 8711 Garage tech drained oil and forgot to refill. I drove off - what damage could this have caused? 8712 Should I really keep my gas tank at least half full? 8713 What is valve float and how does it impact engines? 8714 Does flooring the throttle while traveling at lower speeds increase fuel consumption? 8715 Replace car batteries with capacitors? 8716 What are these loops in the brake line for? 8717 How do I roll my 4x4 vehicle back onto its wheels? 8718 What are the benefits of a dry sump? 8719 What does pie cut exhaust mean? 8720 proper oil for 1940s era aluminum ford engine 8721 Does a carburettor engine apply fuel at high speeds when the pedal is no longer depressed? 8722 How To Read Car Tires 8723 Will Putting An Extra Quart of Oil In My Car Ruin It? 8724 Steering wheel shakes at high speeds 8725 I drove with my Parking Brake on for 30 mins: should I be worried? 8726 Wheel stuck or fused to drum 8727 What is a rod knock? 8728 HOW urgently should I replace this tire? Is it safe to drive on at all? 8729 What does a flywheel do and what is it connected to? 8730 Why does a Turbocharger only produce boost when the engine is under load? 8731 Does putting an automatic car into neutral at stop lights significantly harm the transmission? 8732 Should I pull my wipers away from the windshield when parked during a winter storm? 8733 Should negative trickle charger clips be attached to the battery negative terminal, or ground? 8734 Can a weak battery destroy an alternator? 8735 How is engine load determined? 8736 Need I press clutch pedal while starting my car in neutral? 8737 When the handbrake is not working, is it safe to fully depend on putting car into park instead? 8738 Why do Harley Davidson engines suffer from such poor performance? 8739 Does resting your foot on the clutch wear it out? 8740 Is it worth switching to full synthetic or blend oil in my older car/truck? 8741 Should I replace fuses as a part of regular maintenance? 8742 What is regenerative braking and why dont we use it? 8743 Are manual transmission cars disappearing? 8744 Are oils from the skin a problem with turn signal bulbs? 8745 What possible causes for the check engine light can I check for myself? 8746 Does (forcefully) overriding the self-canceling damage my indicator levers? 8747 What causes brakes to pulsate right after rotor and pad replacement? 8748 What exactly is a burnt valve and what causes it? 8749 Use of Neutral Gear in Automatic Transmission 8750 Is it Safe to Drive With Low Engine Coolant? 8751 How to dispose of engine coolant? 8752 Engine oil change and getting rid of old oil completely 8753 Does a strut tower bar have any useful effect on chassis stiffness for a car with 100K miles? 8754 Lugging the Engine (Manual Transmission) 8755 WHY does an engine stall? (manual transmission) 8756 Why do car starter motors draw so much current? 8757 Is it OK to mix oil of different viscosity in a Wankel engine? 8758 What are the dangers of refilling your air conditioner yourself? 8759 Adding a additional battery to car 8760 Should I depress the clutch pedal when braking to a stop? 8761 Can I connect wires by just twisting them together and insulating with tape? 8762 Is this what is making my car sound like a racecar? 8763 What does under-square and over-square mean? 8764 Normal to leave nail in tire after a flat? 8765 Why did Ducati decide to use the desmodromic valve train rather than a more tradition valve train? 8766 shifting stops when critically low on gas 8767 What is happening when a two-stroke engine is said to be four-stroking? 8768 Have I damaged my car by attempting to reverse with hand/park brake up? 8769 At what time of day/temperature should I refuel my vehicle? 8770 Why do cars have plastic shrouds over the engine? 8771 Vibration at idle, much worse after warm 8772 Seized nut & bolt - difficult to access 8773 Should interior panels be held together with cable ties? 8774 Whats the most environmentally responsible method of car parts cleaning? 8775 Can I drive a car with only water and no coolant if it has a leak? 8776 What is the pin or keycode for ELM327 bluetooth OBDII adapter? 8777 What happens if you put the wrong kind of gas in your car? 8778 Push start a car with automatic transmission 8779 What iPhone/iPad app works best with ELM327 Bluetooth OBD-II reader? 8780 Engine power specification at different rpm? 8781 I ran my car on almost no oil for a few weeks before realizing the problem. Now what? 8782 Can I jumpstart a non-hybrid car from a hybrid or full electric car? 8783 Driving in second gear at 65+ mph 8784 What should always be replaced when rebuilding an engine? 8785 I got this screw in my tire, should I plug or replace? 8786 Heavy condensation inside car during winter. Tried multiple things, but no results! 8787 Whats the best gear to leave a manual vehicle in when parked? 8788 What are these metal clips where my wheel rims meet the tires and what are they for? 8789 what is round cylinder on top of classic car engine 8790 How does the cars ECU detect a misfire? 8791 How can an oil plug just fall out after three months and 3,000 miles and the car has just 35,000 miles on it, 2014 Ford Escape 8792 Will higher octane fuel improve towing power? 8793 Is it true that most of the engine wear during its life time occurs during a cold start up? 8794 How to test a clutch 8795 Why does diesel engine need a warm-up before the start-up? 8796 Why or why not increase engine efficiency by running the car fuel-lean (using a turbo or supercharger)? 8797 How often should I replace windscreen wiper blades? 8798 2000 Jetta runs rough, shudders on cold start only on wet days. 8799 Why not use gasoline on diesel engines or vice versa? 8800 Where does the power in an idling engine go? 8801 Do mobile air conditioners exist for cars? 8802 What can I do to combat wire embrittlement? 8803 What is the difference between a 180° V4 and a true boxer motor? 8804 How can I keep my cat off my keyboard? 8805 Where to put used-but-usable clothes (a.k.a. alternative to The Chair)? 8806 How can I work out my girlfriends ring size, without asking her or using a ring? 8807 Best (law-abiding) ways to inconvenience cold callers? 8808 How can I figure out which side of the car the gas hatch is on (without getting out)? 8809 How do I stop my earphones from getting tangled 8810 How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan? 8811 How do I stop cars from tailgating? 8812 Is there any way to kill a fly without a flyswatter? 8813 How to sleep with a stuffy / blocked nose? 8814 How can I black out a bright bedroom at night? 8815 Tricks for opening very tight jars 8816 How can I (painlessly) add or remove keys to my key ring? 8817 Driving into garage where there is little room for error? 8818 How does one efficiently clean-up hair from sink after shaving or trimming beard? 8819 How can I overcome using the snooze function of my alarm clock? 8820 How do I fill a hot water urn that doesnt fit in the sink? 8821 What is the best way to open clamshell packaging? 8822 How can I stop my glasses from slipping down my nose? 8823 How can I humidify a room without a humidifier? 8824 How can I destroy sensitive documents without a paper shredder? 8825 Permanent marker on a dry erase board? 8826 How do I find and kill a single mosquito in the middle of the night? 8827 How can I remove ants from my laptop keyboard? 8828 How can I avoid hurting my fingers when using a hammer 8829 How can you cut fingernails and toenails without nail trimmings flying everywhere? 8830 How can I boost my wifi range? 8831 How can I keep cables from falling off of desks when unplugged? 8832 How can I effectively black out my room for sleeping, cheaply and such that I can still open the curtains during the day? 8833 How should I store super glue to prevent it from drying out? 8834 How to keep your hands warm in winter while working on a laptop? 8835 How can I quickly cool a water bottle? 8836 Find out if an egg is boiled or not without cracking it 8837 Finding a gold ring lost in the lawn 8838 How do I seek justice against vending machines? 8839 How to revive dried up pens 8840 How can I improvise a magnifying glass? 8841 I forgot my toothpaste and it is impossible to buy in this situation, are there any substitutes? 8842 Ηow can I keep my jeans zippers from unzipping on their own? 8843 How can I clean my sticky keyboard? 8844 Best way to know if somebody has broken into my room without camera 8845 How can I eat my bagel when I lack a knife to cut it? 8846 Waking up in the morning when standard alarms fail 8847 How can I get food unstuck from my teeth while at work? 8848 Cleaning a dirty computer screen 8849 How can I neatly eat messy food without common utensils? 8850 How to shred papers/letters without using a shredder machine 8851 How to keep bread fresher for longer 8852 Which is the best lure to use on a mousetrap? 8853 How to jump start a car without another car 8854 Can weeds be put into compost, or will they grow again when the compost is used? 8855 How do you identify a plant? 8856 What are the best conditions for basil? 8857 How do I apply spent coffee grounds as a fertilizer? 8858 Tips on lawn maintenance and weed control 8859 Is it bad to water plants in the evening? 8860 How do you know if you are watering a plant too much vs. too little? 8861 How long before poisons like Round-up become inert? 8862 How often should you mow a growing lawn? 8863 Whats an organic way to discourage crabgrass from a large lawn? 8864 How do you safely and effectively stop a cat from pooping in your yard? 8865 How to prevent avocado from drying out indoors? 8866 How hot can my compost get? 8867 Crop rotation theory v. practice 8868 What factors affect the spiciness of jalapeños? 8869 How often do you need to turn the compost heap? 8870 Does unused compost keep on getting better and better? 8871 How do I encourage lawn seeds to germinate successfully? 8872 How should I speed up the decomposition of sickly sweet smelling giant compost heap? 8873 When should I pile more dirt onto a growing potato plant? 8874 How do I work with soil that has a high clay content? 8875 How do I know when and how much to aerate my lawn? 8876 Is rain water better than tap water for plants? 8877 Is it possible to kill a large area of weeds organically/naturally? 8878 What is the best organic way to defeat slugs? 8879 Whats the best mulch material for a vegetable garden? 8880 What is an effective organic pesticide to use against aphids or cabbage loopers? 8881 What are some natural ways of killing ground ivy (creeping charlie)? 8882 Do tomatoes really need support to grow? 8883 Are household LED bulbs suitable as supplemental light for plants? 8884 How can I revive a tree thats been stripped of bark? 8885 What is a good grass replacement plant? 8886 My lettuce is flowering - does that mean it has bolted? 8887 Why did my carrots split in a way that looks like legs? 8888 Making a yard thats settled more level? 8889 How long does it take for the compost to ripen? 8890 Can aloe be grown indoors, in an office with artificial light only? 8891 Does eating fruits and vegetables watered with greywater affect your health? 8892 How can I tell if a plant given to me is patented? 8893 How do I grow a usable vegetable garden indoors? 8894 How efficient are stump removal chemicals? 8895 How do I compost a large pile of branches and heavy shrub clippings? 8896 Can my lawn be saved or is it time to dig it up and re-sod? 8897 Any benefit to watering whole plant (leaves and all) instead of just the soil/roots? 8898 Ants in my garden: good or bad? 8899 What are some low maintenance plant choices for apartment (indoor) living? 8900 What are these hard white/brown spots growing on my houseplant? 8901 Is it safe to grow food plants near the road? 8902 How should I prune my vine tomatoes? 8903 Hugely different results storing apples from different trees? 8904 Whats the most effective way to harvest rhubarb? 8905 Why do people paint some tree trunks white at the bottom? 8906 How do I remove dandelions without damaging my lawn? 8907 Is it OK to grow plants in clear (transparent) pots? 8908 Ant colony in my compost bin: are they beneficial? 8909 What is the best way to prevent animals from eating my garden without a fence? 8910 What are some sustainable alternatives to peat for potting compost? 8911 Is it wise to reuse potting soil? 8912 How do you prune a rose bush? 8913 How is an Avocado plant started? 8914 What are some houseplants that can clean the air, especially chemicals from cigarettes? 8915 What is a good alternative to pressure treated wood for raised beds? 8916 How do I get rid of white flies on my basil? 8917 How do I keep mosquitos out of my fountain? 8918 How can I control thistle in a lawn? 8919 Is staking young trees helpful or harmful? 8920 What is a fast-growing deciduous tree for shading house in summer? (Long Island, NY) 8921 Is it necessary to purchase seed potatoes? 8922 My second year garlic has flowers. Is it safe to eat? 8923 What woods shouldnt be used for hugelkultur? 8924 How should I properly prepare a raised bed vegetable garden? 8925 Why do my upside-down tomato plants curve up and break? 8926 What is this fast growing plant with blue/black berries? 8927 How do I grow root vegetables in pots/grow-bags? 8928 How do I help my kitchen window herb garden thrive? 8929 What is Compost Tea good for? 8930 How do you discourage cilantro/coriander from bolting too quickly? 8931 What are the criteria for picking out vegetables to grow together in Three Sisters garden? 8932 Which side of a house will get the most sunlight? 8933 What food crops grow well in a hot/dry desert climate? 8934 Why has my mint plant gone all woody/sparse/stringy? 8935 Can plants have too much light, or do they need night/rest? 8936 How to keep chipmunks out of my garden? 8937 Which leaves should I harvest in a mint plant? 8938 How can I prevent squirrels (or other small mammals) from eating my tomatoes? 8939 What is an easy vegetable to grow in a hot, dry summer / cool, wet winter climate? 8940 What plants will deter mosquitoes? 8941 What vegetables will grow well in limited sunlight? 8942 What is this vine-like weed and how do I kill it? 8943 What are inexpensive materials for homemade tomato cages? 8944 How true is the idea that weeding your vegetable garden is necessary? 8945 What vegetables can be grown effectively in a small, urban garden? 8946 Can I cut off exposed tree roots without harming the tree? 8947 What conditions are necessary to make a potted aloe vera bloom? 8948 Why do plants root when placed in water, but die in standing water 8949 How can I get rid of gophers in a non-lethal way? 8950 What actually occurs for manure to become considered well-rotted? 8951 What house plants or flowers act like a dehumidifier 8952 Does water temperature affect vegetable plant growth? 8953 How can I discourage ragweed from growing? 8954 Does fruit on fruit trees need to be thinned? 8955 How can I keep my compost wet? 8956 Onion seeds v. onion sets 8957 How can I control/remove unwanted grass in flower beds? 8958 Can I save my damaged Aloe vera plant? 8959 Why did my jalapeños turn black? 8960 Can I put coffee filters into my compost? 8961 Is it really important to give blueberry plants acidic soil? 8962 Should I stop adding fruit and vegetable seeds to my compost 8963 Insect infestation on my pepper plant, what do I do? 8964 What is this green-ish thing inside the orange? 8965 How does one determine when to pick corn? 8966 Do legumes provide nitrogen to their companions? 8967 How do I keep an indoor plant hydrated while Im away? 8968 Nothing will grow where tree was 8969 Why are pots typically wider at the top than at the bottom? 8970 Can I harvest vegetable seeds and store for the next year? 8971 What plants will keep ladybugs happy? 8972 Garden Hoses: how safe are they? 8973 What is a proper container to preserve seeds? 8974 How can I naturally encourage birds into my garden? 8975 Why do many landscapers put gravel around the base of buildings? 8976 How to fill low spots over existing grass in my yard? 8977 Why is an indoor pepper plant flowering but not producing fruit? 8978 What is the right way to pick peppers so the plant keeps producing? 8979 What is the functional difference between cow manure and sheep manure? 8980 What do purple tomato leaves mean? 8981 Why wont my venus fly trap eat? 8982 How can I tell if my lawn needs to be dethatched? 8983 What are the (essential) Tools that every gardener should own? 8984 How often should I fertilize my lawn? 8985 How often should I harvest herbs? 8986 Why is it a problem to use manure as a fertilizing amendment over the long term? 8987 How do I go about planning the layout of a sprinkler network for my lawn? 8988 Starting tomato from seed 8989 Should I insulate my compost heap? 8990 Advanced care of an indoor avocado plant 8991 Should I add water to my compost heap? 8992 Are there benefits to changing the direction you mow a lawn? 8993 What is a Perched Water Table? 8994 What is the name of this weed with red/green leaves and little white flowers? 8995 Is there any way to prevent vole lawn-destruction during snow-cover? 8996 How can I correct a nutrient excess in soil? 8997 How should I use corrugated cardboard for mulch? 8998 What is the purpose of this bundle of sticks? 8999 How and when to plant young grafted fruit tree? 9000 How can we grow grass in our heavy clay yard? 9001 Should I burn out my tree stumps? 9002 Why does my grass have bright green patches? 9003 How to get the dirt out of the rocks in rock landscaping? 9004 Can salt be used to control weeds permanently? 9005 How is a lumpy lawn flattened out? 9006 Will I get lemons from a tree grown from a lemon seed? 9007 How to plant a new lawn on a hillside? 9008 How large a cultivation area to feed one person? 9009 What is my citrus deficiency, based on leaf appearance? And how to treat? 9010 How much should blackberries grow in their first year? 9011 Rats have transferred poison into my compost. Is the compost usable on vegetables? 9012 How should I prune lemon trees? 9013 Composting Bins - DIY vs Bought 9014 How healthy are seedlings sent by mail? 9015 Should I remove the dead flower heads from my hydrangea? 9016 How do you tell if a tree is male or female? 9017 How much lighting do I need for growing lettuce using indoor hydroponics? 9018 Do peppers change color when left on the plant? 9019 Does cauliflower produce secondary growth after the main harvest? 9020 How can I get rid of rabbits in my yard? 9021 How to get rid of insects on basil while leaving the leaves safe to eat? 9022 What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? 9023 Is it OK to put moldy fruits and vegetables in the compost heap? 9024 What kind of plants will survive the heat from an air conditioner? 9025 How do I care for potted apple seedlings over the winter? 9026 Will a cedar tree grow new limbs? 9027 Why are my apples rotting on the tree? 9028 Can jalapeños be grown from pickled jalapeño seeds? 9029 Will dumping paint destroy a nearby tree? 9030 Amending clay soil on a large scale 9031 How do I start an oak tree from an acorn? 9032 What is the proper way to prune a Fig Tree? 9033 Which tomatoes grow the best in high temperatures? 9034 What is the point of a greenhouse? 9035 My garden soil is devoid of nutrients, how should I improve it this winter? 9036 What is the purpose of these holes on my wire stripper? 9037 How to prevent heavy rainwater from jumping the gutter? 9038 Is there an easy way to measure the height of a tree? 9039 When should I not use WD-40? 9040 How can I add a C wire to my thermostat? 9041 Why does my freezer get a little warmer every 14 hours? 9042 How do I make a height adjustable desk? 9043 Should a washer go on nut side, or the bolt side? 9044 How to remove screws with stripped heads? 9045 Why did my electrician put metal plates wherever the stud is drilled through? 9046 Are solar panels cost-effective? 9047 Is there a case where nails are better than screws, from an engineering/structural standpoint? 9048 Understanding US Screw Sizes 9049 What should I consider regarding LAN wiring before building a house? 9050 How can I improve the water pressure in my shower? 9051 If metal expands when heated, how does heating a bolt loosen it? 9052 Should I set fence posts in dirt, gravel, crushed rock, or concrete? 9053 Is there a trick to applying caulk using a caulk-gun? 9054 When I turn down the dimmer switch on my lights, do I actually use less electricity? 9055 What are the tools that every Do-it-Yourselfer must own? 9056 How to avoid stripping screw heads? 9057 How can I fix electrical outlets that dont hold plugs that are plugged in to them? 9058 When would one use an impact driver versus a regular drill? 9059 When pre-drilling for screws, how do you determine the correct bit diameter? 9060 Which way is up? (electric outlet) 9061 How can I remove a lemon from a toilet drain? 9062 Can Romex (NM-B) cable be run through conduit? 9063 What is the purpose of this Y shaped bit? 9064 Half my power out, but firing up an appliance turns it back on 9065 When drywalling a room, should I do the ceiling before the walls? 9066 Doors are sticky and noisy when opened? 9067 Should I use a subfloor for a finished basements floor? 9068 Why are there so many different types of screws (phillps/flat/hex/star/etc)? 9069 How can I speed up my slow hot water? 9070 How long should I wait before plugging in a new refrigerator? 9071 How do I run wires for a wall-mount flatscreen TV? 9072 Are there ways to determine if a wall is load bearing? 9073 What are insulated screwdrivers for if you’re not supposed to work on a live circuit? 9074 Are gaps above and below framing members a concern? 9075 Can I heat one room and cool another with an in-wall AC? 9076 How can I paint over mold to prevent it from coming back again? 9077 How can I pull a wire through a pipe that has too many turns for fish tape? 9078 Is there a way to unscrew a light bulb that has broken? 9079 What is this cable in my yard, why is it exposed, and what can I do about it? 9080 Is using 15 amp components on a 20 amp breaker against code? 9081 What does 1 Gang, 2 Gang, and so forth mean when talking about electrical boxes? 9082 Should I use steel or wood studs for basement exterior walls? 9083 Should old knob and tube wiring be replaced? 9084 Why dont you connect unused hot and neutral wires to complete the circuit? 9085 Why is there a 1/4 jack in my oven? 9086 Is the Electrician trying to scam me? 9087 How can I restore power after a switch was shorted with scissors? 9088 How to reinforce a joist with plumbing running through it? 9089 Why do my LED lights stay on, even when the switch is off? 9090 How should I rewire a miswired 3-way switch? 9091 Why does this receptacle have the ground tied to the neutral? 9092 How do I drill a 2⅛ inch door knob hole over an existing 1½ inch hole? 9093 Why is my voltage dropping with load and why is current flowing on my ground wire? 9094 Can I run CAT5/6 cables parallel to electrical cables? 9095 What are the guidelines for holes in joists? 9096 How do I run ethernet cable through a wall cavity? 9097 If a light bulb is dead, does it still consume electricity if the switch is in ON? 9098 This fell out of my toilet when I unscrewed the supply line. What is it? 9099 How to avoid wires when drilling into the wall? 9100 Are push in connectors up to code? 9101 How can I allow 911 first responders to access a locked residence? 9102 What on earth is this small wall-mounted computer? 9103 Why do gas water heater exhausts have an air gap before the chimney? 9104 Is there a proper name for this kind of toothed disk? 9105 What is the best way to seal caulk tube? 9106 How do I secure my house against intruders? 9107 How do you know when and where it is safe to drill into a wall? 9108 How should I go about installing a 12 volt DC residential circuit? 9109 How do I fix a water hammer problem? 9110 When doing electrical work, what do I use to check wires are safe? 9111 How best can I discover what is up with my electrical bill? 9112 How much weight can screws in drywall hold? 9113 How do I wrap pipe threads with teflon tape? 9114 How do I ensure the bathroom door stays open unless someone is inside? 9115 Is this cracking foundation under a jack post a problem that requires repair? 9116 What kind of IKEA screw is this? 9117 Need to understand my home electrical meter to see why bill is so high and/or if neighbor is on same meter 9118 Are mobile air conditioning systems an inherently flawed design? 9119 Home electronics break daily and wiring is OK. Any ideas? 9120 What are the dangers of operating a mini excavator? 9121 How can we dry out a soaked water heater (and restore a novice plumbers dignity)? 9122 How do I properly feed coax through an outside wall? 9123 What is the purpose of tape when finishing drywall? 9124 Is there a way to safely have exposed electrical wires? 9125 Why are carpenters pencils flat? 9126 Why does my homes power fade and surge when I plug things in? 9127 Are soldered electrical connections code-compliant? 9128 Is it worth spending extra to get a nicer circular saw? 9129 Are there skilled professionals who will supervise unskilled DIY labor? 9130 How to fix bathroom tiles falling off 9131 How do I find and dispose of the dead animal thats presumably in my ceiling? 9132 Why Do 240V Circuits Not Require Neutral? 9133 What kind of lubrication should I use for a lock? 9134 How do I finish off a silicone sealant like a professional? 9135 Why are “Wire Nuts” not used in the UK? 9136 What is a humane, safe and clean way to dispose of a live mouse caught in a glue trap? 9137 How do I wire an old house with Cat6? 9138 Why does this pipe feeding a hot water heater dip down like this? 9139 How do I stop a creek from eroding my steep embankment? 9140 Is it a problem that my bathtub drains directly into the wall? 9141 Can I gain AC efficiency by spraying condensate water on the outdoor coils? 9142 How to future-proof a long cable run 9143 Why can I not assemble conduit around cable, but must pull it after assembly? 9144 When should pipe dope vs thread tape be used? 9145 Whats the practical difference between latex and acrylic water dispersion paint? 9146 What temperature should I set my water heater to? 9147 When pouring concrete, is it safe to add large rocks to increase volume? 9148 Why am I getting an electric shock from the water in my hot tub? 9149 How to remove nails with heads cut off? 9150 Is there a technique to make a shower mirror fog-free? 9151 Why is my garage grounded ONLY when it rains? 9152 How do I fix this 30 ft (9 m) dryer vent abomination? 9153 How do I make around-the-room shelves for a seriously skewed room? 9154 Is is safe to use LED strips that shine onto stair risers instead of directly onto treads? 9155 Can I DIY fix the broken main feeder support cable? 9156 How can I remove a really stuck screw? 9157 What humidity should I set my dehumidifier to? 9158 Is it ok to have mixed grounds and neutrals on bars in a breaker box? 9159 How much load can a (wood) board support, if it is supported only at the ends? 9160 What are cheap ways to build strong shelves with a large span? 9161 Purpose of Fill Valve Tube Going into Overflow Drain 9162 Are toilets supposed to be caulked to the floor? 9163 Why does my dishwasher back up into the sink, but running the disposal allows it to drain? 9164 Extension cord and power strip safety 9165 Should I use nails or screws for hanging drywall on the ceiling? 9166 Should I agree to have more insulation added to my attic? 9167 What do you call the fastener thats like a metal zip tie with a screw? 9168 Metal spike with heavy metal cord found in front lawn 9169 What is a NON-self-tapping screw? What does self-tapping mean, really? 9170 Should I tilt my DIY self-standing bookshelf backwards to prevent it falling down? 9171 Protecting solar panels from kids who may throw stones to get monkeys off roof 9172 Why do Contractor Levels have two vials with the same orientation? 9173 Would it be Code legal to have an all-240V house in the United States? 9174 What are the must do tasks before winter hits? 9175 How many CFM for a range hood do I REALLY need? 9176 I have a basement floor with lots of moisture, can I paint or seal it to make it waterproof? 9177 How to determine the type of wall on which Im putting up a shelf? 9178 How do I rehang a wooden door with worn screw holes? 9179 How can I get rid of a mouse in my house? 9180 How do I build an ice rink in my backyard? 9181 What are the most important things to check/do after buying a home? 9182 What is this vertical metal pipe in my backyard? old well? septic? 9183 Is it safe to remove the bottom chords of a series of garage roof trusses? 9184 Good way to remove something from a bathroom sink overflow drain? 9185 How should I support this large drywall patch? 9186 If DC adapters are so prevalent, why is AC used in construction by default? 9187 Is there a standard height and depth for stairs? 9188 How do I install a GFCI receptacle with two hot wires and common neutral? 9189 Is there a way to simply splice in an additional length of 12/2 NM-B cable? 9190 Why do my led bulbs state: not for use in totally enclosed luminaires? 9191 How do I change a light bulb I cant grip? 9192 Is it OK to borrow a ground wire from a different circuit? 9193 Is it unsafe to remove one stud from a load bearing wall? 9194 What is a tandem breaker (aka duplex, cheater, twin, double-stuff, etc.)? 9195 Propane appliances throwing orange flames suddenly and generators back firing 9196 Why is my fire extinguisher emptied after one use? 9197 Electric shock - was I stupid, unlucky, or a combination of both? 9198 Why does dirt kill saw blades? 9199 How did my ground and neutral become energized by a short in the buried main line? 9200 What spacing difference is acceptable with a contracted tile job? 9201 What are the pros and cons of a whole house humidifier? 9202 How do I prepare an already painted wall for new paint? 9203 Should all Federal Pacific panels be replaced? 9204 Do you really need a p-trap on bathroom sinks? 9205 How to open a door that has the insides of a door handle inside without a door knob 9206 Are water boilers dangerous when showering? 9207 What is the best method to patch a large hole (2-3 inches) in drywall? 9208 Why do British houses have indoors windows in some rooms? 9209 Why has my 10 year old ceiling fan suddenly started shocking me through the fan pull chain? 9210 Can you cut open a plastic junction box and just lay splices inside? 9211 Is this 230V steampunk metal robot lamp safe? 9212 Why does my shed door expand/shrink? 9213 Locating source of excessive energy use 9214 How do you determine if a door is Right Handed (RH) or Left Handed (LH)? 9215 What actually happens if I vary proportions of cement and sand in mortar? 9216 How much gap to leave between basement concrete floor and bottom of drywall board? 9217 Why are homes wired using solid wire rather than stranded? 9218 Does Pex tubing have any advantages over copper? 9219 Is there a trick to opening a tube of caulk? 9220 Does a refrigerator compressor need settling time after being laid on its back or side? 9221 How do I remove and reinstall baseboards (Skirting Board) without damaging them? 9222 Why does my house heat up, even when its cool outside? 9223 How to improve HVAC system to make upstairs rooms more comfortable? 9224 How to drive a nail in a confined space? 9225 Marijuana smoke migrating to my condo! 9226 Can anyone tell me what this little white box on my outlet is? 9227 Why do I have voltage on a plumbing ground strap, and is it dangerous? 9228 Is twisted and taped splice on cable, objectively any less stable than wire-nuts or terminal blocks? 9229 What is the best tool for cutting up scrap wood? 9230 How can I lift a sunken paver in the middle of my driveway / patio / walkway / sidewalk? 9231 I ran a nail through a wire at home, should I worry? 9232 How can I add an ammeter and/or voltmeter to my home breaker panel? 9233 How do I remove this wall plate with no visible screws? 9234 What is an air conditioner compressor hard start kit and how does it work? 9235 Seemingly overbuilt basement wall - load bearing? 9236 How can I get roof rain runoff into pond with an aboveground wall? 9237 What wire gauge do I need for a 100 Amp subpanel at the end of a 60 wire run? 9238 Does a bathroom exhaust fan have to vent to the outside? 9239 What grit sandpaper should I use between coats of polyurethane? 9240 Safe/professional way to transport lumber with just a roof rack 9241 Can I replace a 30A breaker with a 40A breaker for a new water heater? 9242 How to prevent batteries leaking out in devices? 9243 What should be done before using a fireplace that has not been used in decades? 9244 Is it damaging to turn off a small fridge for two days every week? 9245 While drilling into kitchen wall, hit a wire - any advice? 9246 Whats the 1 inch square knob sticking out of the wall? 9247 Diagonal brace left in the basement by builder. Can I remove it? Replace it? 9248 Is it harmful to remove gas stove knobs on a regular basis? 9249 Avoiding dust scattering when you drill 9250 Now I realize I used too many GFCI outlets. How can I reclaim them? 9251 How do I hand saw in a straight line? 9252 Is it normal to use a grinder to finish a new driveway? 9253 Why are the inside diameters of some pipe larger than the stated size? 9254 How can it be dangerous to feed a water heater from two separate panels? 9255 What is this bolt in my basement floor? 9256 Why do my toilets flush slowly and often incompletely? 9257 How do I remove polyurethane spray foam from my hands? 9258 How do I compensate for the sun confusing my garage door openers sensors? 9259 Going to be away for 4 months, should we turn off the refrigerator or leave it on with water inside? 9260 Where should I NOT use a GFCI or AFCI? 9261 Do I really have to fasten interior-wall electrical wire to a stud to keep it from moving? 9262 How do I find studs when stud finders wont work? 9263 How do I run cable through my ceiling? 9264 Humidity Levels 9265 Are 1/4 turn water supply valves more reliable than multi-turn valves? Or vice-versa? 9266 Why are 2x4s really 1.5x3.5? 9267 Any hidden disadvantage to lever-type door latches? 9268 How to dig a trench for a cable for a garden office 9269 Is there a freezing-water-resistant metal pipe? 9270 How can I repair rusty tools? 9271 Can a toilet get too old to the point where it can never be unclogged and must be replaced? 9272 Why should we replace smoke alarms every 10 years? 9273 Why dont electrical receptacles have more than one ground? 9274 How to find electric device(s) driving a high electric bill? 9275 Do smart or programmable thermostats actually save money? 9276 How do I fix a hole in drywall? 9277 What type of lightbulb is this? 9278 How do you find helpers for larger DIY projects? 9279 What is the advantage of PEX pinch clamp vs. crimp rings? 9280 How do you plan capacity for electrical circuits? 9281 I added insulation to my attic rafters, but should I have left room for airflow? 9282 My inflatable hot tub says dont use with an extension cord... but can I? 9283 What items in a house can potentially be damaged by shutting them off at the circuit breaker? 9284 What should we look for when buying a fixer-upper house? 9285 What benefit do plasterboard/drywall screws have? 9286 Drilled into studs, light flickered momentarily but everything else seems fine now - should I be worried? 9287 Why dont I have ground wiring on any of my outlets? 9288 Why aren’t there water shutoff valves for each room? 9289 Mounted tv too high, OK to use same studs to remount? 9290 Why would two circuit breakers be connected inside the service panel? 9291 Is my plan to safely remove asbestos siding sound? 9292 Can I pour concrete over a PVC sewer pipe without damaging it? 9293 Why do single electrical receptacles exist? 9294 Why are there ovens with control panel toward the back? 9295 How can I get rid of ants in an environmently friendly way? 9296 What is the right tool for old, rusty, flat cross head bolts? 9297 When installing hardwood floors, should I use rosin paper, roofing felt, or nothing underneath? Why? 9298 Do I really need a special bulb in the oven? 9299 How do you trigger the HVAC with wiring only? 9300 Is it bad to turn off the water while on vacation? 9301 What is simplest strategy to map circuits to breakers in the panel? 9302 What happens if I use vegetable oil instead of machine oil or grease? 9303 What is the proper way to install/paint baseboard? 9304 Should I release the pressure out of an air compressor when it is not in use? 9305 How can I fix a garbage disposal with crushed glass in it? 9306 How would I go about turning a tree in to a tabletop? 9307 What is the proper way to run Category 6 underground? 9308 Does a homeowner need a permit for electrical work in Massachusetts? 9309 What are framing dimensions like in the metric world? 9310 Is it safe to re-use drill holes in a wall? 9311 Ethernet cable instead of Thermostat wire? 9312 What should I use to secure/organize data cable runs? 9313 How do I reattach a shelf to the wall when it ripped out of the wall? 9314 Would bullet proof glass help deter burglars? How does it compare to normal glass? 9315 Is it important not to scratch copper wire when removing insulation? 9316 Is it OK that the frame of my house doesnt line up with the slab? 9317 Make a hole deeper than the drill bit is long 9318 Can a 40amp breaker be used safely and without issue with a 40amp device on 6AWG wire? 9319 Architect drawing home addition by hand 9320 Is it safe to flush newspaper down the toilet? 9321 Is my repair to this plug safe? 9322 How can I fill a wheelbarrow tire when the bead is gapped away from the rim? 9323 Repurpose telephone line to ethernet 9324 Do I have to secure an IKEA TV stand to the wall? 9325 Panel breakers are alternately 90 V and 140 V 9326 How do I remove this fastener under my bathroom faucet 9327 Why exactly is WD-40 not a true lubricant? 9328 240v Outlet with 120v and 215v - How? 9329 Central Vacuuming: Is it worth it, and how does it compare to normal vacuuming? 9330 Will window shrink-wrap make a noticeable difference in heating bill in house with single-paned windows? 9331 Is this correct? Welder suggests 15A outlet on 20A breaker, or 20A outlet on 30A breaker 9332 How can I remove material from this wood beam? 9333 Replacing 2-prong outlets in basement - existing wiring has two hot wires, one neutral? 9334 What is the proper procedure to apply multiple coats of Polyurethane? 9335 Should a gas water heater be shut down if the water main has to be turned off? 9336 Whats the most common cause of A/C refrigerant lines freezing? 9337 Should drywall be hung horizontally or vertically? 9338 Does bare drywall need to be primed before painting? 9339 When wiring outlets should I use pigtails or both sets of outlet screws? 9340 Why does the shower get cold when I flush, and how can I prevent it? 9341 What do I need to install LED strip lighting? 9342 Lutron LED/CFL Dimmer switch turns lights off the wrong way, up is down and down is up. Whats the problem? 9343 Whats the best way to account for saw blade width (kerf) when cutting boards? 9344 How do I feed an ethernet cable through a doorway without damaging the door or wall? 9345 Are cracks in a newly poured concrete basement floor a problem? 9346 How can I close a gap between my fence and my neighbors thats on his side of the property line? 9347 Lubricant for squeaky doors 9348 Is my rapidly failing foundation dangerous? 9349 Are there any cordless power tool systems that offer a corded option? 9350 Are standard light bulb bases being phased out? 9351 Turning a hard to access nut? 9352 Why is my house wired with two coax in every room and an RJ11 splitter? 9353 Bathroom exhaust fan without duct 9354 What projects should never be DIY? 9355 What is the safe/correct way to work on gutters? From a ladder or from the roof? 9356 How can I fix this gap between bookcases I made? 9357 How to get rid of CO₂ in a house with A/C in hot summer? 9358 What is the use for this different threading near the head of a large screw? 9359 Paint-stripping purgatory - stuck in the middle - what should we do? 9360 Car in driveway is source of garage door opener interference 9361 Will removing shelving screws from studs damage the studs? 9362 Are there LED lamps available for ovens? 9363 subpanel breaker tripped as well as main breaker - should I be concerned? 9364 What code applies to projects that I do in my own home? 9365 Whats the standard height for an outlet? 9366 Can I backfeed a portable generator into my houses electrical system? 9367 How do I properly wire GFCI outlets in parallel? 9368 How do I refill a fire extinguisher or should I just buy a new one? 9369 Which Kitchen outlets do NOT need GFCI? 9370 What is a GFI outlet used for, and where should I install them? 9371 How can I find the source of a mysterious bad smell? 9372 What are the differences between SDS, SDS Plus, and SDS Max drills? 9373 Should the backer board be in front of or behind the tub flange? 9374 How much weight can I hang from a drywall ceiling? 9375 How can I fill a screw hole so it can be used again? 9376 What is the proper, safe, and effective way to apply diatomaceous earth? 9377 How to unscrew screws that are barely accessible? 9378 How do I stop the dripping noise from my gutters? 9379 Whats the best way of replacing a plug or switch in a house with aluminum wiring? 9380 Why dont programmable thermostats automatically switch between Cool and Heat? 9381 Should I cover my air conditioner for winter? 9382 What can I do to keep my shed (or house) free of spiders? 9383 Do USB sockets draw power when not in use? 9384 Can I safely use a 9w LED bulb in place of a 40w incandescent? 9385 What is the best way to incrementally finish an unfinished basement? 9386 Is running ethernet cable through an air return allowed under US code? 9387 Is there a lifetime failure count for a breaker? 9388 How do you protect solar panels from hail? 9389 How do I mount this towel rack that was ripped off the wall? 9390 What are the different types of drywall anchors, and what are the advantages of each? 9391 Is this light switch installation safe and legal? 9392 How do I remove wallpaper from drywall? 9393 Why does Tesla recommend such a small gauge wire for their chargers compared to this chart I found online? 9394 How to disconnect air conditioner lines from outdoor unit? 9395 What bit should I use to drill a two inch hole in a solid concrete wall? 9396 What is this pipe coming out of the basement floor? 9397 What danger/code violation is oversized breakers? 9398 What is an affordable 2D drafting software for amateurs? 9399 My room lights brightness pulses when I turn on my toaster oven 9400 Contractor is installing a vinyl fence and posts but is not using any water with concrete. Is he doing it right? 9401 How should I deal with a cable found underground on my property? 9402 Does A/C encourage mold growth 9403 Does unblocking power bar outlets through short extension cords increase fire risk? 9404 What is this tool called and what is it used for? 9405 Why does US Code not allow a 15A single receptacle on a 20A circuit? 9406 What should I do with a powered switch that seemingly does nothing? 9407 Is all copper pipe pretty much the same? 9408 How is DIY done so much on fixer uppers in areas where AHJs demand permits and licenses? 9409 What types of home radon mitigation systems have you used, and how well do they work? 9410 Setting cut depth on a circular saw 9411 Where does the lawn string trimmer line go? 9412 What is the name of this part of drawers? 9413 Should lintels above wall portals be considered for smoke alarm placement? 9414 What are some scalable, affordable home automation options? 9415 Is flushing a waterheater a good idea? 9416 What is the proper way to run wires along/across basement ceiling joists? 9417 I have a 3-pronged receptacle but no ground wire connected to it. Is this ok? 9418 Is it worth it to insulate hot water PEX tubing? 9419 What types of electrical outlets are found in a typical home in the USA? 9420 Whats the best/easiest way to paint edges? 9421 What is the best way to cut receptacle holes when hanging drywall? 9422 How can I repair a puncture in a hollow-core wooden door? 9423 What are some cost-effective tips for reducing external sound from entering a room? 9424 Best way to stick a very long Ethernet cable semi-permanently to walls? 9425 What is the right way to connect 7 conductors in an electrical box? 9426 How can I unscrew the faucet nuts in the tight space behind my sink basin? 9427 Do new wire runs in an existing ceiling need to be stapled down? 9428 What are these orange outlets directly attached to my breaker box? 9429 How do I optimally cut a bolt to length? 9430 What is the best order for interior painting (walls, trim, windows, etc.)? 9431 Weird Power Outage in Certain Rooms- Condominium 9432 Is it more economical to use hot water before boiling or to bring cold water to a boil? 9433 Hang indoor swing chair BETWEEN two ceiling joists 9434 Can anyone help me identify this old audio cable? 9435 How to add on to a concrete patio? 9436 Damage when drilling a mirror — normal or not? 9437 Is it OK to create a third prong ground from a cold water pipe, for a 2-wire circuit? 9438 How to remove very stuck stripped screws? 9439 How can I get a wire that is outside a wall to be inside a wall 9440 How do I safely replace a worn out electrical outlet? 9441 New home with gaps in stairs 9442 How does a ball bearing door hinge work? 9443 Why would you use copper over CPVC or PEX? 9444 Can my municipal water line siphon from my house water lines? 9445 What is this bug and should I be concerned? 9446 Make a built-in desk level with uneven floor, or true level 9447 How to deal with broken compact fluorescent (and its mercury) without breaking the bank? 9448 Should I make my two steps have the same rise or keep one closer to a typical height? 9449 Nicely mounting 2x4s to wall 9450 How can I calculate my anticipated peak current load? 9451 What is this balloon with eyes printed on it, hanging from the eave on this house? 9452 Can you identify this receptacle? 9453 What is this component in my microwave? 9454 What type of tool or bit is a metal shaft with splines? 9455 1lb of cure is worth 10 tons of mold: DIY repair of a poorly sealed window? lots of photos herein 9456 What do you do/ask when hiring a contractor 9457 Is it permissible to have exposed mains conductors in holiday lights? 9458 What type of tool has rings of teeth that spin freely on a shaft? 9459 What direction should laminate flooring be placed in? 9460 How do you release the wires from a push-in wire connector? 9461 How do I remove a flush mounted ceiling light fixture dome? 9462 How do I fix a sticking toilet refill float? 9463 How do I calculate the length of a ladder I need to reach a certain height? 9464 Must I remove all mortar between tiles before grouting? 9465 What are the black spots on my bathroom ceiling? Are they mold? 9466 Why would plastic anchors pull out of the wall? 9467 How big a hole in drywall can be fixed by spackle alone? 9468 What can I do about my drains constantly getting blocked? 9469 How much weight can you mount to a wall? 9470 What is the recommended way to destroy mold? 9471 Why little holes/dots when I apply joint compound? 9472 How to remove screws from old decking 9473 Disable the LG washer/dryer melody at end of the cycle? 9474 How long should I wait to plug in my refrigerator after unplugging it? 9475 Is fiberglass mesh tape a good choice for drywall? 9476 What are the pros and cons of steel vs. aluminum metal roofing? 9477 How should masking tape be used when multiple coats of paint are being applied? 9478 What is causing/caused these brown circular stains in my cabinetry? 9479 Which tools should not be operated while wearing gloves? 9480 Do thermostat-controlled, auto-adjust HVAC vents exist? 9481 How do I replace this cast iron toilet flange? 9482 Is there supposed to be a gap between the wall and the roof? 9483 Should I use nails or screws to refasten my subfloor to the joists? 9484 Caulking a corner instead of taping with joint compound? 9485 What is the right way to strip power wires? 9486 Can I cause damage to electrical appliances by unplugging them when they are turned on? 9487 Why is my table saw blade burning oak boards as I make rip cuts? 9488 Half my house losing power, HVAC the key factor 9489 Alarms on Doors that have Access to a Pool 9490 How can I stop a toilet seat from rapidly loosening? 9491 What is this welding tool I found in my attic? 9492 Wind from kitchen sink drainage pipe 9493 How do I remove these Ikea screws? (studs inside holes) 9494 What happens to foam insulation board after you pour concrete slab? 9495 What sorts of appliances will malfunction on a reversed AC outlet? 9496 Do I need to be legally qualified to install a Hive smart thermostat? 9497 Small branch stuck in electric wire 9498 Should hardwood floors go all the way to wall under kitchen cabinets? 9499 Ive released a lot of lead-paint dust in our house. What to do? 9500 What is this sticking out of my wall? 9501 How to keep screws in a hollow door 9502 Whats this plastic thing along my sidewalk pavers? 9503 How can I insulate my garage door? 9504 Is this saw blade faulty? 9505 Can I hang this heavy and deep cabinet on this wall safely? 9506 How do I prepare my home for a power outage? 9507 Buying a home with 2 prong outlets but the bathroom has 3 prong outets 9508 Is there a benefit to having a switch control an outlet? 9509 How to cut a rectangle out of a STEEL ruler? 9510 What are these capped, metal pipes in our yard? 9511 Can you identify this tool? 9512 What are wrenches called that are just cut out of steel flats? 9513 How to get a wrench into this location to remove this nut 9514 How to avoid breaking electric wires, telephone wires, and water pipes in the garden while digging 9515 Can I still be sold plumbing fixtures that contain lead? 9516 What is the cause of this short in the outlet receptacle? 9517 How can I effectively use Google Sketchup to render walls, doors, and windows? 9518 Is it better to waterproof a basement from the outside or the inside? 9519 Inch-long block-and-spring part came with drill - what is it? 9520 Can white bread be used to temporarily plug pipes for repair? 9521 Recommend attachment for a drill/driver for drywall screws 9522 What basic safety equipment should everyone have? 9523 Which home improvement projects produce the highest return on investment when selling? 9524 What are some tips for finishing wood? 9525 What is this velcro-like product? 9526 Where could all these flies be coming from? 9527 What would cause air bubbles in the toilet when Im showering? 9528 What does that mean if my LED light bulb starts blinking when I turned it on? 9529 Do I need to sand my entire deck before staining? 9530 What is my drill hitting and not penetrating when I hang curtains? 9531 How do I fix a leaky toilet that only leaks from underneath? 9532 If my wall has metal studs, is it better to anchor heavy objects through just drywall or also through the studs? 9533 How do I repair/prevent woodpecker holes in cedar siding? 9534 What is the best technique for using a drill to insert screws? 9535 What should I do to increase the dimming range of LED bulbs? 9536 When bolting down a porcelain toilet, how tight is too tight? 9537 Are both legs of a homes power supply equally used? 9538 How do I fix a sinkhole in my backyard? 9539 Can you rout plywood? 9540 How can I change light bulbs in a fixture located 20ft above the ground? 9541 What are the rules for unplugging a refrigerator? 9542 How can I fix the issues Im having with large double gates? 9543 What is better for a roof, plywood or OSB? 9544 Should gaps be left between sheets of drywall for any reason? 9545 Is there an ideal height for a workbench? 9546 How to tell if your locks are bump proof? 9547 If I install a GFCI on the first outlet in a circuit will the other receptacles on that breaker circuit have GFI protection? 9548 Why is there a beaded tie on new fire extinguishers? 9549 How do I fix a squeaky floor below my carpet? 9550 How can I cut off 1/8 inch from ceramic tile? 9551 Fix drywall around outlets 9552 How to get locks that are keyed alike? 9553 How can I coil up a rope so that it doesnt get tangled? 9554 How do I choose between ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms? 9555 Is notching a flange on an I-Joist ever acceptable? 9556 Does XPS+OSB subfloor need to be anchored? 9557 Is there ever a reason for reversing hot and neutral on a receptacle? 9558 When drywalling, do the pros cover electrical boxes, or work around them? 9559 240 V outlet is not delivering 240 V 9560 Elegant method of punching a hole through a wall to run cables? 9561 Exhaust fumes seeping into our 4th floor apartment at night through bathroom and shower vents/fans 9562 How do you push a cable through a standard conduit inside the wall? 9563 Broken door jamb - Whats the easiest way to fix this? 9564 What type of cable should I bury for a small utility shed? 9565 Multiple holes in exterior wall studs for electrical wiring 9566 Could a layman build a house from plans? 9567 Should I hire an architect to design my house? 9568 What can cause a never-frozen indoor copper drain pipe to crack? 9569 How to convince plumber that there is a gas leak? 9570 One circuit on two 20 amp breakers 9571 What should I be aware of in buying second-hand sinks and toilets? 9572 Strange mud-like formation on ceiling 9573 Should I dig a separate trench for CAT5e wire to shed? 9574 Getting UPS Power from One Room to Another 9575 I live in an older home without ground wiring. Is it safe to install 3-prong GFCI with only a hot and neutral? 9576 Is it safe to screw into a single support beam holding up an entire house? 9577 How can I seal 8 inch round holes in my siding? 9578 Technique for driving hinge screws to minimize misalignment 9579 240 V dryer outlet is reading 245 V 9580 Can Teflon thread tape be reused? 9581 How to (more) securely attach a latch to a frequently-used wooden gate 9582 Scientifically speaking, how and why does sweating (soldering) copper pipes work? 9583 What is your advice on repairing this PCB trace? 9584 Bosch Drawer Microwave causes ARC Faults 9585 What is this measuring tool for? 9586 What kitchen counter material would you recommend and why? 9587 What does cant mix neutrals mean, and how would neutrals get mixed? 9588 How can I get a bolt with no head out of my wall? 9589 Metal braided cord in the wall 9590 How can I open or identify this lamp? 9591 What precautions should I take before moving my family into a pre-1978 (lead-paint-era) house? 9592 What do I do if there are only two wires coming from my ceiling electrical box? 9593 Can I connect ground to neutral in a 3 wire outlet? 9594 What is the proper per code method for running nonmetallic sheathed cable above a ceiling in the attic? 9595 How do I repair a curtain rod anchor that was ripped out of the wall? 9596 How good do I need to make my primer coat? 9597 What are the pros and cons of medium-density fibreboard (MDF)? 9598 What are the pros and cons of installing a roof heating cable? 9599 Why is it safe to use 15 A receptacles on a 20 A circuit? 9600 How much water do water softeners waste? 9601 How can I hang a shelf with no visible fasteners? 9602 When to use holes instead of side terminals to wire an outlet 9603 Is switching the neutral OK? 9604 What is electrical code for number of wires in a breaker? 9605 How do I adjust a door so it doesnt swing on its own? 9606 What is the best method of hanging drywall on ceiling? 9607 When is pipe dope/tape needed? 9608 How to reduce noise from my refrigerator? 9609 What size dowels to use for joints? 9610 How do I use an extension ladder to get onto my roof? 9611 My house was hit by lightning. What should I do? 9612 Should I run the tap while dumping boiling water? 9613 How often do septic tanks typically need to be pumped? 9614 What is this kind of security bolt head called, and how can I remove it? 9615 How to cut drywall over stud? 9616 How do I run ethernet, speaker wire, and coax through a wall into a crawlspace? 9617 How can I stop birds from hitting my sunroom windows? 9618 I hit a pipe with a mower and now it wont turn 9619 How much damage can a grow-op do to a house in 3 months? 9620 Contractor cut joist hangers to make them fit 9621 How do I drywall when the studs are not flush? 9622 CO detector starts beeping every morning at 6am 9623 How do you reduce floor sound transmission? 9624 How to remove a shelf fastener with a round head and no slot 9625 Why tape black garbage bags to outside windows, not between inside windows and blinds? 9626 How do electric hot water heaters explode and what can be done to prevent that from happening? 9627 Why are these receptacles so difficult to plug into? 9628 Is Electric Central Heating worth it if using Solar Panels? 9629 Is it dangerous to run electrical cords through heating vents? 9630 How do I build a French drain? 9631 Wood glue versus epoxy for doweling stripped screw holes 9632 How to sharpen a lawn mower blade? 9633 Is it safe for plumbing to use rainwater to flush toilets? 9634 What is this metal rail in the basement ceiling 9635 Can I run a 15A table saw on a 15A circuit if there are also shop lights on the same circuit? 9636 My apartment door unlocked by itself. Can anyone offer an explanation please? 9637 Would providing shade for my air conditioners condensor improve its efficiency? 9638 Why is all this exterior trim rotting and how do I fix it? 9639 Considering doing a 100A sub panel install on my own. Any guidance would be much appreciated 9640 Confused about Ethernet wiring in new home 9641 What is the difference between a handle tie and common trip in circuit breakers? 9642 What is this attaching my toilet seat and how can I unscrew it? 9643 What is this set of claw-levers and bolts? 9644 How to reduce drywall hole size 9645 What is this stake in my yard and can I remove it? 9646 Moisture leaking out of chip in floor tile 9647 Is it safe to remove old rusty nails from a wooden beam? 9648 Hole in granite countertop for kitchen faucet slightly small 9649 Any problem to build a house that covers a same-sized hole in the ground? 9650 How do I protect myself from bad contracting jobs? 9651 Is abandoned sewage pit hazardous? 9652 Turn off hot water without hot water valve 9653 How to choose a weekend warriors finishing nail gun? 9654 What kind of nut is this 9655 Which water heater types do you recommend? 9656 How do I connect a 4 prong cord on my GE dryer which is currently connected with a 3 prong cord? 9657 Orange material in grout lines - need help to identify 9658 How can I override a motion detector light? 9659 Should my toilet flange sit on top of the backer board or the tile of the floor? 9660 How do I fix a door frame that my dog chewed? 9661 How should I run wiring for my above-fireplace mounted TV? 9662 Why energy saving bulb flashes when the switch is off? 9663 Why wont a LED bulb work in a standard light fixture? 9664 Which type of PVC for exposed outdoor use? 9665 Should I put a dimmer switch on a ceiling fan? 9666 What kind of mortar should I use to point a fieldstone foundation? 9667 How many cables are you allowed to run through a single hole in a wooden floor joist? 9668 How do I install transition molding between my new hardwood and existing tile floors? 9669 What is the difference between R20 and PAR20 lightbulbs? 9670 Do all wires on basement walls have to be in conduit? 9671 Why do builders say that wet concrete/mortar is not as strong? 9672 What is the optimal configuration of a cross brace on a wooden gate? 9673 How do I improve Pergola Stability? 9674 Is it possible to convert a truss attic into living space? 9675 Should I sand each layer of mud when joining drywall? 9676 How to drill a hole in a space too small to fit a standard manual or electric drill? 9677 Does voltage play any role in choosing the appropriate wire gauge? 9678 Can I run a central air conditioner in the winter? 9679 How do I fix seams that open up at the corners of walls during the winter? 9680 How can I tell if these pipes are gas lines or water lines? 9681 How do I tell if my house is brick or brick veneer? 9682 How to finish wide gap in drywall at edge of ceiling 9683 Splitting a 240V line into two 120V lines 9684 How can I install a cable jack without a box? 9685 Safely hang a mirror that does not have hooks 9686 When should I replace a circular saw blade? 9687 How can I detect reverse polarity on an ungrounded receptacle? 9688 How much pressure should you apply when rolling on paint? 9689 Why are all towel bars 24 inch? With studs being 16 inches apart - how do people mount them? 9690 What is this mysterious pipe in my back yard? 9691 How do I clean vinyl siding without a pressure washer? 9692 What is the recommended home design software? 9693 Using a sealant to stop a toilet tank leak 9694 Is there a device that will allow a bathroom fan to run for 5 minutes after it is switched off? 9695 How can I protect my fingers while using a band saw? 9696 Is it normal for GFCI receptacles to explode and burn? 9697 Accidentally left hose on and now have no pressure 9698 Why is the cut using a jigsaw not a perfect straight line? 9699 What open source home automation software exists? What are the differences between them? 9700 What should I look for when choosing a stud finder? 9701 Is there a wall outlet power meter that I can interface with from a computer? 9702 Can I use old bowling alley lanes as counter tops? 9703 GFI outlets tripped after power outage 9704 Can I use 220 V outlets on a 15 ampere breaker and wire it up as 110 V? 9705 A guest pushed in my shower wall tile. How can I fix it? 9706 What are these tools used for? 9707 How can an outlet with only 2 wires (hot and neutral) be grounded? 9708 Are rechargeable 9-volt batteries suitable for use in smoke detectors? 9709 Are my wires in this junction box too short? 9710 Loss of power when I remove item from the outlet 9711 Whats the term for a hole with a screw thread? 9712 Condensor went, HVAC guy is blaming electrician, is this possible? 9713 What are my options for asphalt driveway repair and/or sealing? 9714 Can I run 300 ft of cat6 cable, with male connectors on each end, under house to other side? 9715 How can I unscrew this nut with little clearance? 9716 What would cause excess CO2 in cellar 9717 How do I fix a broken power cord 9718 Does a drainage pipe need to be continuously sloped? 9719 Why are there loops of copper water pipe coming out of my concrete floor? 9720 What causes standard door hinges to close up to a certain amount automatically? 9721 Should rooms be designed to minimize waste of sheet goods? 9722 How do I release a bit from a jammed keyless drill chuck? 9723 What type of bulb is this? 9724 Are pressure-treated posts that have been submerged for a few days ruined? 9725 How to prepare home to prevent pipe leaks during a severe winter storm? 9726 Do studs in wooden buildings eventually get replaced as they lose their structural capacity? 9727 Is this box bonded properly to the ground? 9728 Is it safe to use a drill bit with a half broken tip? 9729 How much power do LED smart bulb wireless control systems consume when the light is turned off? 9730 Crack in concrete block garage wall 9731 Is white paint the same color regardless of the company? 9732 Basic power tool set for Home repair and simple projects 9733 Should I run 240v for any supported appliances? 9734 What tool is a solid metal cube with dimples or half spheres on every side? 9735 How can I remove a plank from the middle of the field? 9736 Can cable splice devices be concealed? 9737 What is this electrical cord for? 9738 How does Schlage SecureKey Re-keying mechanism work? 9739 How can I have a pond but prevent mosquitos from nesting there? 9740 Putting together a tool set for children 8-11 9741 3 position light switch beeps and flashes when down 9742 Is it worthwhile to have ductwork cleaned? 9743 Why is my hot water running out quickly regardless of other household water usage? 9744 Why would a GFCI trip on refrigerator circuit? 9745 How do I fix a bad sweat (solder) joint? 9746 How can I stop my lights dimming when my Air Conditioning turns on? 9747 What are the pros and cons of adding a vapor barrier behind shower backer board? 9748 How effective are outdoor foam faucet covers to prevent freezing? 9749 How do I keep my Christmas tree from falling over? 9750 Can I use an LED bulb in a 3-Way fixture? 9751 Who is the right professional to call for drainage issues? 9752 What can I do about a toilet flange that is 1/4 below the finished floor? 9753 Does a plumbing vent need to penetrate the roof? (Can it penetrate a wall?) 9754 How do I find where mice are entering my house? 9755 What is the purpose of a bathroom exhaust fan? 9756 What would cause the water pressure to be too high for just a second? 9757 Are curtains effective for keeping the room warm? 9758 How should I clean and repaint a painted wooden deck? 9759 Can I add a standard receptacle on a GFCI circuit 9760 How do I stop a bed frame from squeaking? 9761 Whats the minimum depth that an electrical box can recess into a finished wall? Does it have to be flush? 9762 What is the easiest way to remove a large root in a post hole Im digging? 9763 How should I conceal gaps between laminate flooring and wall trim? 9764 Is there any code for running Ethernet cable (through attics)? 9765 Which is better for deck flooring: 2x6 or 1x6 deck boards? 9766 Should I attach the fence post(s) where my fence meets my house? How do I do it? 9767 How do I meet the 7 feet high ceiling requirement after finishing the basement? 9768 How to cut a tiny circle in paper? 9769 What is the proper way to sharpen a pencil? 9770 How can paper be glued to cardboard without creating wrinkles? 9771 What is the advantage of having an angled drawing desk? 9772 Calligraphy pens not laying ink evenly 9773 How can I avoid smudging my pencil drawings? 9774 How do I remove labels from glass jars/bottles? 9775 What are the advantages of watercolour paper over sketch paper? 9776 What are good ways to spray paint a QR code on a footpath? 9777 I need an alternative to leather 9778 I have a model with a latex allergy: what are my other options? 9779 Differences between HB pencils 9780 Why do pencils offer larger color variety than watercolor? 9781 What are good options in colored pencil blending, especially for a traveller? 9782 What can I do to smooth and polish hand cut glass edges? 9783 How do I cut the bottom off a glass wine bottle? 9784 How can I make a sketch under a watercolour painting and have it not be seen? 9785 How do you choose a stitch length when straight stitching an arbitrary fabric? 9786 How to prevent the paper from getting damaged due to a steel compass? 9787 What is the difference between cheaper oil paints and more expensive ones? 9788 How can I safely sharpen a small craft knife? 9789 Whats the difference between crochet, knitting, and tunisian crochet? 9790 How do I know when my sewing machine needs a service? 9791 Making thin brittle sand design that holds together 9792 What are food safe finishes for woodworking projects, e.g. turned bowls? 9793 How do you bond clear acrylic to wood? 9794 What should I use to draw under oil paint? 9795 What are the little pieces of wood that come with pre-made canvas for? 9796 What is a good technique for drilling holes in glass bottles? 9797 What criteria should I be considering when looking at a second hand sewing machine? 9798 How to prevent tufts in paper when cutting fine details? 9799 How do I get a blur (blended) effect in pencil drawings? 9800 How can I prevent watercolor paper from buckling? 9801 Determining a station point for a perspective drawing 9802 How do I choose which adhesive or material to repair action figures? 9803 Can I use an airbrush inside? 9804 How to plan a drawing? 9805 What are some waterproof materials that meet my criteria for folding origami stars and cranes eggs? 9806 Durable T-shirt design methods 9807 Is there a way to cleanly cut styrofoam? 9808 What can I do to ensure I only erase the smaller details without affecting the area around it? 9809 How to protect & preserve water color paintings 9810 What is the difference between linen and cotton canvas? 9811 Is there a way to determine the fiber content of a yarn if Ive lost the label? 9812 What is the conversion for UK and US crochet hooks to mm? 9813 Does knitting needle material make a difference in knitting? 9814 When mixing paint colours, what is a good technique for ensuring consistent ratios each time a new batch needs to be created? 9815 Should I stain wood then use acrylic or vice versa? 9816 What do you call negative paint? 9817 Which glue should I use to attach paper to glass? 9818 How can I figure out how much caffeine is in my cup? 9819 How should I store whole bean coffee? 9820 Why is it not recommended to drink coffee immediately after its roasted? 9821 How will cold brewed coffee differ from traditional hot-water extraction methods? 9822 Why isnt coffee commonly sold in sachets, like tea bags? 9823 Whats the most effective way of generating crema from an Aeropress? 9824 What is the hexagon funnel shaped thing that came with my aeropress for? 9825 When does coffee go off? 9826 Does the hardness of water matter when making coffee? 9827 How can I minimize the amount of grounds at the bottom of my French press coffee? 9828 Is Kopi Luwak safe to drink? 9829 What is the process to reduce bitterness in coffee? 9830 What is the science (if any) behind bulletproof coffee? 9831 Are robusta and arabica the only bean varieties? 9832 Chemically, whats happening to coffee after its brewed? 9833 I run my espresso machine until my whole cup is full. Whats my coffee called? 9834 What roast level is recommended for cold brew? 9835 Did people actually drink coffee off the saucer? 9836 How do brown and white paper filters compare? 9837 Should I rinse paper coffee filters before use? 9838 What is the background of brewing coffee with eggs? 9839 How to grow coffee at home? 9840 How to avoid soya milk curdling in coffee? 9841 Brewing with the same coffee grounds twice? 9842 Is it safe to use paper towel as a filter when brewing? 9843 Is it possible to burn coffee while brewing? 9844 What do I need to start cold-brewing? 9845 What is coffee bloom 9846 Is Nespresso real espresso? 9847 What coffees are the least acidic? 9848 What does a coffee cherry taste like? 9849 What gives diner coffee its distinctive taste? 9850 Does storing coffee in a freezer preserve freshness? 9851 How is instant coffee made? 9852 How can I cost-effectively improve the coffee supply in my company break room? 9853 What is the next best milk substitute for a latte? 9854 Why would anyone want to hand grind their coffee? 9855 How important is tamping coffee for an espresso machine 9856 Why do the coffee shops give sparkling water along with the Espresso? 9857 End result of Americano vs Long Black? 9858 How can I go about developing my ability to taste flavors in coffee? 9859 How do I get started in roasting my own beans at home? 9860 Coffee Bean Vs Espresso Bean 9861 Latte: Milk before or after coffee? 9862 Coffee cup patina; is there any logic in not washing the cup 9863 Do I need to use a tamp if using a Moka pot stove top espresso maker? 9864 What is the difference between Robusta and Arabica? 9865 Does coffee cause dehydration? 9866 Whats the difference between a percolator and a moka pot? 9867 Freezing brewed coffee 9868 Terminology index - a list of bike part names and cycling concepts 9869 Why ride a fixed-gear bike? 9870 How do I deal with a dog chasing me when Im touring? 9871 Safety data: Which is safer, head/tail lights which blink or emit a steady beam? 9872 How to clean up at work after a commute? 9873 Why are disc brakes rare on road bikes? (circa 2010) 9874 Why do cyclists prefer messenger bags over backpacks? 9875 Can I use WD-40 on my bike? 9876 Is pollution a problem in urban cycling? 9877 How to pass a bicycle while driving a car 9878 How to ride to work without sweating? 9879 Why is it safer to bike with traffic, instead of facing oncoming cars? 9880 How to use drop handlebars properly? 9881 Why arent Tour de France riders going any faster? 9882 When or how often should I replace my bike helmet? 9883 Can I ride home with a broken spoke? 9884 What advanced cycling skills are useful for a commuter or city rider? 9885 Do skilled cyclists really use the front brake alone probably 95% of the time? 9886 Whats the difference between All-Mountain, Cross Country, Freeride, Downhill bikes? 9887 Why dont cyclists wear all-encompassing motorcycle-style helmets? 9888 Periodic Maintenance Task for Bike Commuters 9889 How to store a bike outside and still avoid rapid decay? 9890 What are the pros and cons of internal gears? 9891 Hydraulic Vs. Mechanical disc brakes 9892 Is listening to music dangerous while cycling? 9893 What is the best method to teach a young child to ride? 9894 How to prevent drafting? 9895 What is a reasonable speed for long distances on a bike? 9896 Can you be ticketed for breaking the speed limit on a bike? 9897 What is the practical advantage of disk brakes over rim brakes? 9898 What type of tires can prevent goatheads? 9899 What are the effects of completely filling tires with water instead of air? 9900 How can I make my bike (and myself) visible at night? 9901 How to get a very tight tire back on the rim? 9902 Homemade bicycle degreaser liquids 9903 How to commute to work on your bike and dress up 9904 Protocol for downhill cyclist overtaking a car? 9905 What are advantages and disadvantages of CO2 inflators over frame pumps? 9906 Does a helmet-mounted light affect the safe functionality of the helmet? 9907 Locking your bike in public areas 9908 How to get over anger at inconsiderate drivers 9909 Which way do I orient my bike tires tread direction? and why? 9910 How long should a road tyre hold its pressure? 9911 How can I tell which size chain my bike uses? 9912 Why are higher-end freewheels so much louder when coasting? 9913 Is it really going to damage a bike to wash it with a hose? 9914 Whats the real difference between cheap and expensive helmets? 9915 How can I make it clear to other road users that Im an inexperienced cyclist? 9916 How do you operate a used bike business without contributing to theft? 9917 What is the proper etiquette for overtaking a horse? 9918 How are the categories for climbs decided? 9919 What is the difference between brake cables and derailleur cables? 9920 Why dont brakes come with Safety Levers any more? 9921 Are there any scientific studies proving the benefits of clipless pedal systems? 9922 Safest way to slow down a bike quickly if both sets of brakes fail 9923 Why ride a single-speed bike? 9924 Is it possible to measure your sit bones at home? 9925 Are mountain bikes good for urban riding? 9926 Are slick tires worth it for commuting? 9927 Why do mens bicycles have a top tube while womens bicycles dont? 9928 Best type of bike lock (materials, style, etc.) 9929 How do on-road mountain bike speeds translate to road bike speeds? 9930 Toddler bike seat vs. bike trailer? 9931 Why do bikes have their drivetrains on the right? 9932 Is commuting 10 km on an empty stomach harmful? 9933 About 20-30 people bike to where I work. What equipment/supplies should we have on hand? 9934 How do I know when to replace my tires? 9935 What do you wish someone had told you before your first commute? 9936 Ride with someone who is less trained 9937 Can I use a Presta tube in a Schrader rim? 9938 How to achieve an always clean chain 9939 Whats the efficiency of hub gears compared to derailleurs? 9940 How do I gear up a bike for winter riding? 9941 How often should I change road bike tyres? 9942 What is a thru axle? 9943 Alternatives to buying a repair stand? 9944 What is a narrow wide chainring and what are its benefits and drawbacks? 9945 What are the disadvantages of puncture proof (or puncture resistant) tires? 9946 Why is the front brake lever on the right if you drive on the left and vice-versa? 9947 Why are license plates for bicycles no longer used? 9948 Why is it easier to follow a cyclist up-hill 9949 Creaking from cranks/spindle. How to fix? 9950 Different kinds of Handlebars 9951 How often should I lube my chain? 9952 How do I make my rim brakes stop squealing? 9953 Why do e-bikes need dedicated tires? 9954 Is it considered rude to draft other random cyclists? 9955 What cadence should I aim for? 9956 How to do a track stand? 9957 Why do the majority of people on an ebike ride at a fairly low cadence? 9958 What do I get by paying more for a bicycle? 9959 Leaving lock on the parking rack - is this rude? 9960 Building from scratch vs. buying new 9961 Is it better to have a slightly big or slightly small bike? 9962 Pros and cons of single-sided forks (Cannondale Lefty)? 9963 At what time of year can I buy a bicycle for the best price? 9964 Bicycling apps for Android 9965 How much does bike price correspond with maintenance needs? 9966 What pressure should I run my Road Bike tyres at? 9967 Why would one ever buy a 12-25 cassette when an 11-25 is available? 9968 Do I really have to replace the cassette when I replace the chain, or is this a scam? 9969 How to move a bicycle by bicycle 9970 Should I change both tires when I need to change one? 9971 How to ride when the weather is hot? 9972 My bike got stolen a second time (in Amsterdam) - what should I do? 9973 Best ways to avoid getting hit by cars? 9974 Are bananas still a good food to carry when cycling? 9975 What is the optimal cadence? 9976 Why do cyclists shave their legs? 9977 What is the difference between folding bead and wire bead tires? 9978 New chain is pre-lubricated, should I clean it before use? 9979 When should I not use my front brake? 9980 Why are emergency inflation cartridges filled with CO2? 9981 Group riding etiquette 9982 How do I separate hydraulic disc brake pads after pulling the brake while the wheel is off? 9983 What does the c in bicycle tire size mean? 9984 Is it safe to ride a racing road bike in very wet weather? 9985 Does the chain direction make a difference? 9986 Why are both Schrader and Presta valves still used on tubes? 9987 Whats the purpose of cycling gloves? 9988 Should I buy this (gently) used, 15 year old, helmet? 9989 How to know when to change a chain? 9990 Why dont road bikes use v-brakes? 9991 Using a ski helmet for winter biking 9992 Are there advantages of dedicated bike computer instead of smartphone apps? 9993 How can you recognise a quality steel frame? 9994 How much do components really matter for a non-competitive rider? 9995 Perfectly setting up gears - how? 9996 Threatening swerving by driver - should I report it? (Canada) 9997 What should I look for in a good pair of cycling shorts? 9998 Difference between Cyclocross, Touring, and Road Bikes? 9999 What is the difference between a horizontal top tube and a sloped one? 10000 Any experience with shaft driven bikes? 10001 I wish to get fit, therefore should I have a heavy bike? 10002 How to keep my testicles from freezing on a recumbent 10003 Whats your most useful cycle accessory? 10004 Theft deterrents (in addition to locking up a bike) 10005 Tactics for riding in strong winds 10006 New to bicycle riding. Questions about adjustments and upgrades 10007 How can I be visible in the dark when Im signalling a turn? 10008 What is the preload setting on the front fork suspension? 10009 How can I check tire pressure without a pressure gauge? 10010 Why are regenerative brakes uncommon on e-bikes? 10011 Why do bike tires suffer from frequent punctures whereas car tires dont? 10012 How to get a bike from one city to another in the U.S 10013 How to choose a bike for a very tall and heavy person? 10014 What is the maximum or minimum tire width I can fit on my bicycle 10015 Triple vs Double chainring? 10016 How do I open a master link in a chain? 10017 What headset/radio products exist for bike-to-bike communication? 10018 Can your rims wear down from too much braking? 10019 How to climb a hill as a beginner 10020 What should I look for when buying a used bicycle? 10021 Cycling uphill on a road - sitting or standing on pedals? 10022 What clothing is best for wet weather/cycling in the rain? 10023 Why are most bicycle gears designed to have so much overlap 10024 I am a beginner to commuting by bike and I find it very tiring. Is it my fitness level or my single-speed bicycle? 10025 What makes a good entry level road bike? 10026 What are the holes in the mudguard for? 10027 Can I use a cyclocross bike for regular road-biking purposes? 10028 What are the differences between mens and womens bike frames? 10029 How to lubricate cables? 10030 What is the best breakfast right before cycling? 10031 What purpose do the rubber hairs have on new tyres? 10032 Why do we rarely see recumbents and almost never see velomobiles? 10033 Is there such thing as an automatic transmission for bikes? 10034 Why does pedalling backwards not move my bike backwards? 10035 Is it difficult for one person to ride a tandem bike? 10036 Why should I wear bicycle clothes made of spandex? 10037 Why does my bike constantly break/need servicing? 10038 What are the pros and cons of panniers vs messenger bags? 10039 Broken glass on the bicycle path, what to do? 10040 Safely overtaking pedestrians 10041 Pros/Cons of Bar-Ends? 10042 Why is carbon fiber inherently weak? Or is it? 10043 Front suspension or full suspension mountain bike 10044 Do glueless tube patches work as well as glue ones? 10045 For a long (25mile each way) commute, what kind of bike should I look at? 10046 Does toddler need a helmet inside a bicycle trailer? 10047 What makes the bicycles in Amsterdam suitable for riding with jeans on? 10048 Why arent electric bikes mainstream? 10049 What are the conditions for removing training wheels? 10050 What are the differences (and their practical implications) between a 29 mountain bike and a cyclocross bicycle? 10051 Invested too much in my car! How can it be worth cycling to work? 10052 How do I determine the correct position for my bicycle seat? 10053 What is best for your brakes when stopping at the bottom of the hill? 10054 Runny nose while biking 10055 Braking one-handed to signal down steep traffic-heavy slope 10056 Intersection detection doesnt notice me, what should I do? 10057 How do I efficiently shift gears on a road bike with downtube shifters? 10058 Is it really OK to hang a bicycle by the wheel from a hook? 10059 Is there difference in quality for disc brake rotors? 10060 Simplest and best way to keep water bottles clean and hygienic? 10061 Why cant Yellow Jersey change hands on last day of Tour De France? 10062 How many miles of riding require the same effort as one mile of running? 10063 How do self-adjusting hydraulic disc brakes work? 10064 What is the hand gesture for Im sorry? 10065 Carrying Pizza on a Bicycle 10066 How to indicate you are going straight? 10067 Why do the front and rear brakes work independently? 10068 Are there any bicycle computers that will log ride data? 10069 What is a good camera arrangement for city riding? 10070 What pressure should I run my Mountain Bike tires at? 10071 Is rubber cement in stationery stores the same as in tire patch kits? 10072 Road bike carbon fiber frame life span 10073 Need cycling eyewear, but fogging is a big problem 10074 Arguments for/against bike lanes? 10075 Is there a way to hop up onto a parallel curb? 10076 Do I really need to replace my helmet every 2-3 years if it hasnt been in a crash? 10077 How can I improve my pedal stroke? 10078 Formula for Homemade sports drinks 10079 What are the differences between clincher and tubular tires? 10080 Commuting: How to carry office clothing so it doesnt get crushed? 10081 What to use to clean your chain (and cogs)? 10082 Whats the safest way to turn left from a right-side bike lane? 10083 How do I keep my pants/trousers from getting caught in the gears? 10084 Is there a difference in having tires filled with CO₂ vs air? 10085 How bad is road salt for my bike? 10086 Least worn tyre: front or back? 10087 What is the foam tube on the top of bmx frame for? 10088 What bike+equipment for a long daily urban commute? 10089 Getting over a downhill phobia 10090 Polite way to ride in the dark 10091 Does drafting cause resistance to the lead rider? 10092 Why do we need air-filled tires? 10093 Why shouldnt I care what model/make/year my bicycle is? 10094 How to give away lights to cyclists without lights? 10095 Converting a MTB to a Road Bike 10096 Direct Pull (V-Brake) vs. Center Pull Cantilevers (pros and cons)