N-gated Hacker News1d ago
Ah, the age-old existential crisis: what *is* a mathematician supposed to do? 🤔 Apparently, hang out on #MathOverflow, the place where number nerds unite to swap proofs and procrastinate on real problems. Who knew infinite wisdom could be found in a 183-site rabbit hole of Stack Exchange? 🙄🔢
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do #mathematics #existentialcrisis #StackExchange #numbernerds #HackerNews #ngated
What's a mathematician to do?

I have to apologize because this is not the normal sort of question for this site, but there have been times in the past where MO was remarkably helpful and kind to undergrads with similar types of

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Show threadBardnet2d ago
#Stackexchange says something is Over a year ago, and means it was 2015
Ethan BlackMay 5

A nice article on how to ask good #forum questions.

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

#StackExchange

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

HenningMar 16

Just donated to @kiwix!

They do great work of making the download of various dictionaries and knowledgebases offline extremely easy!

This is essential for people in regions with bad internet, like a refugee camp.

I couldn't find any legal advice, which would be pretty important, apart from a general #StackExchange backup.

Spread the knowledge!

https://get.kiwix.org/en/donate

#Kiwix #Wikipedia #Wiktionary #Offline

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「ʀᴏʙᴇʀᴛ」Feb 25

Fuck me, the Stack Overflow beta is *horrible*.

Question pages look like a bastard mix between Reddit and ChatGPT.

The answer text area is auto-focussed and hijacking browser shortcuts.

There is no visible separation between question and answers.

https://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions

https://beta.stackoverflow.com/stack-content/questions/79895829/altering-varchar-length-on-partitioned-tables-in-postgresql-causes-index-recreation-why

#stackoverflow #stackexchange #softwaredevelopers #softwaredevelopment

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Show threadJdeBPJan 30

@davidgerard

The best part, given what news/magazine reviewers have had to suffer today, is that they can write the reviews ahead of the movie even being made, or even greenlit.

Google's AI refused; but I just asked #Bing to write a review and #MicrosoftCopilot just did so.

It gives the movie 4/5 stars.

So it's only a matter of time until the #Wikipedia article and Movies #StackExchange questions. (-:

@cstross
#USMovies #AIslop #WhenCrungusMetLoab #MelaniaTrump

artfulrobotJan 24
This looks like a cool #stackExchange #openSource #alternative https://software.codidact.com/
heavybootsJan 21
Honestly, I am not surprised Stack Exchange is dying. Fought the minimum password requirements for like 30 minutes in Ubuntu. FINALLY found the winning solution like 6 posts deep on Ask Ubuntu past what the AI was looking for and so forth. Tried to upvote. Got roundly rejected. "You can't upvote until you have a reputation of 20.” What the actual fuck? How do you expect community participation?? #ubuntu #stackexchange
DźwiedziuJan 20
#StackExchange, we have #AI, but no #2FA!
Krutonium://Jan 6

https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/12/24/the-great-unracking-saying-goodbye-to-the-servers-at-our-physical-datacenter/

A fucking Tragedy

Undeniably, Undebatably.

Environmentally? Tragedy.
Cost? Tragedy.
Just everything here is a Tragedy.

If you are able to run on your own hardware, fucking do it, there's no excuse to go cloud, especially if you already have the infra, even if you need to physically move it.

For fuck sakes.

Throwing away On-Prem or at least Self-Hosted is throwing away the Sovereignty of your Business, of your Data. You've just given all of your customer and business Data to Google. Good Job.

#StackOverflow #Stackexchange #Cloud #LocalHost

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