Questions tagged [technology]
The Technology category includes proposals in subjects like computing, technology, gadgets, and electronics.
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How can I help this proposal get beyond the commitment phase?
Proposal: Synthetic Biology
Although this proposal is making good progress garnering the numbers of committed users needed to make it to private beta, it is still lagging behind in terms of committers ...
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Is there a bug in the "total reputation" tab when committed users are shown?
Is there a bug in the "total reputation" tab?
There is a "5k total rep" vs 56 shown for a username.
Proposal: Elrond
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If you are showing a rep of 51 or 151 the commitment may not be linked to your main SO account
See the discussion here: If you are showing a rep of 51 or 151 you may have committed incorrectly
Proposal: Substrate
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What is "Metaverse"?
Proposal: Metaverse
Wikipedia lists a half-dozen articles under the heading of "metaverse", and none of them seems like a good match for the example questions that have been asked. What is ...
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Uniswap proposal closed within hours and without justifiable cause - petition process?
Proposal: Uniswap
@animusen closed the uniswap proposal within hours of its creation. We've got >3,000 average weekly new users on discord looking for support, >500k followers on twitter, and ...
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Is this a duplicate of FPGA and ASIC, with a more limited scope?
Proposal: openchipdesign
Is this a duplicate (or a complete subset of) https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/125912/fpga-and-asic ?
Seems like it to me, but I want to defer to others.
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Why doesn't this belong in electronics Stack Exchange?
Proposal: FPGA and ASIC
This is already covered in Electronics.SE, which currently needs more traffic anyway. There is not enough support in Stack Overflow, nor in Electronics SE combined to even ...
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Go to Electronics.SE! [duplicate]
Proposal: FPGA and ASIC is a small subset already covered on Electrical Engineering
Bring your questions there (or, perhaps, find them already answered)
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New RC Vehicle Stack Exchange Website?
Currently there is a website for "Drones and Model Aircraft", but I think that it would super helpful to have one that is for any remote control (RC) vehicles, if not all, than just for RC ...
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Why is Harmony proposal closed?
Proposal: Harmony
I created Harmony proposal and it is closed by the moderators as a duplicate of Ethereum. Harmony is a separate layer-1 blockchain, although it is an EVM compatible blockchain, it ...
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log in doesn't work - sign up alternative
Proposal: Elrond
There are already 3 users who contacted me with the following problem, described step by step:
log into Stackoverflow using an old (not new) existing acount
visited area51 site
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Is there enough demand for Q&A about Cardano?
Recently a new Proposal: Cardano was made and I wonder if there is actually enough demand to answer questions about it.
When looking at stackoverflow there are 22 questions tagged with cardano. This ...
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When will Private Beta go live for Cardano?
Proposal: Cardano
Based on this question about a site launch which happened at almost exactly this time last year, the private beta of Drones.SE went live two Tuesdays after the proposal reached 100% ...
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Why is there no shopware site proposal?
Shopware is the leading e-commerce platform in german speaking countries with a growing Europian user base.
I am not able to find an existing site or proposal for Shopware and I would like to support ...
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Should people have to comment on why they downvoted?
Should people comment the reason for their downvote due to some people will do it just to try to reduce the reputation of others as sort of ¨Keying a car¨ and those others have to try to build their ...
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Why this site would be better for handling questions then forum.cardano.org?
discourse forum engine (forum.cardano.org based on that) has great features to handle questions efficiently, just like in stackExchange:
able to mark answers as solutions
hint similar questions to ...
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How can we get the word out to commiters with 200+ rep on other stackexchange sites?
Lack of awareness amongst potential commiters with Cardano/Haskell/Plutus/Marlowe/Solidity skills is the current challenge. I have tried generating interest among a few communities, but the numbers ...
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What topics should the Cardano StackExchange proposal cover?
Proposal: Cardano
Not sure what this proposal should cover. Stake pools, coding with specific Cardano ecosystem components, what else?
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Ethical Hacking Exchange
I love ethical hacking and I am thinking about making an ethical hacking site; does this already exist apart from IT. I thought I would ask so that I do not make a mistake and waste time.
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Should we make a dedicated site for Scratch?
The Scratch project just keeps on growing, and it isn't programming, exactly, so Stack Overflow isn't really a good site for this. Should we make a dedicated site for it?
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should people redirect from forum.cardano.org or telegram to this new site in case of Q&A type topic?
forum.cardano.org is a good place to raise questions related to pool operation or any technical question related to wallet usage, or anything.. also there is a official Telegram channel where you can ...
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Why is Area 51 NOT counted as a valid site for the commitment phase?
Proposal: Synthetic Biology (But this applies to all proposals in commitment)
I committed to the Synthetic Biology proposal on Area 51 (see above) and noticed that in the commitment statistics, it ...
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Will this site want to handle questions related to pool operation?
so this site would be dedicated to developers of Cardano Dapps or pool operators could discuss issues here as well?
Proposal: Cardano
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I want to propose a Windows SE but I don't have an organization for it
Since we already have Ask Different and Unix & Linux Stack Exchange, why not have a site for Windows?
I want to propose it, but I don't have an organization for it, and I don't know exactly who ...
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Why do we need a SynBio.SE when we already have Bio.SE, Bioinformatics.SE and researchgate?
Proposal: Synthetic Biology
I'd like to know what the response is to the elephant in the room: why do we even need a SynBio SE in the first place? Researchgate already provides a Q&A site for ...
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Should people be required to link to a protocol when asking for debugging help?
Proposal: Synthetic Biology
There is lots of variation between labs/practitioners on how to execute even common protocols. Thus, if people are asking for help on a protocol, it may be problematic to ...
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Fedora linux distribution?
Would anyone support a site similar to AskUbuntu that focuses on the Fedora distribution?
I know they abandoned their own Ask Fedora project and now are lacking for a similar site.
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New technology category for SMARTPHONES seems to be missing
In the stackoverflow area we have sites for coding questions, Linux, hardware, Mac, Mathematics, Physics. But no site regarding SMARTPHONES! How can that be?
A site where you can ask questions like
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Please someone propose for an identification.stackexchange.com site
I don't know why I can't create a proposal
A specific website is necessary for the SE; since identification questions aren't on-topic on Movies & TV StackExchange. Also, you can't ask movie ...
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Why a new community about Computational Quantum Chemistry?
Proposal: Computational Quantum Chemistry
Computational Quantum Chemistry is an active topic since almost 100 years and has driven development of both hardware and software (see e.g. Hartree). This ...
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Is there not a spreadsheet exchange?
I believe there needs to be a proposal for a spreadsheet community. I don't have a community organization website, so I can't post the proposal.
There are stats and database related communities, but a ...
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Is "Programming Languages" a duplicate of "StackOverflow" and/or "Programmers"?
Would you agree that Programming Languages a duplicate of StackOverflow and/or Programmers?
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How is ProgramErrors different from Stack Overflow?
Proposal: ProgramErrors
The description of this proposal is:
Proposed Q&A site for who doesn't like StackOverflow spamming, Copied questions, etc.
What exactly does that mean in terms of scope? ...
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Were there attempts to create a Dash site?
I have noticed that many cryptocurrencies have their own site on SE. (Here, here, here here, here, here, here.)
Were there attemtps to create one for Dash? I find that there is larget community behind ...
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Can we have a SE site for energy information system?
I'm working on a regional project that deals with energy data collecting and reporting.
There are lot of sources including the International Energy Agency (IEA) website, however for people who are new ...
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Place to ask generic electronic hardware questions?
Is there a place in the StackExchange network for questions on any hardware related issues? It seems the answer is no, but please correct me if I'm missing something.
For example, StackOverflow is ...
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Will you allow comparisons of electronic products (recommendations on purchases?)
Proposal: Consumer Electronics
I was wondering if the recommendation of products to be purchased would be allowed.
Example:
Q. I want to buy a headset for gaming which model should I get?
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Proposal: Web design Q&A
I always have questions to do with web design considering the amount of frameworks out there that you can use, its massive! This site could be for questions ranging from React to bootstrap, HTML to ...
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Proposal of new site for Kali Linux
Users are posting in questions of kali in askubuntu which is not the place
So there should be a site for kali where people should only post questions of KALI
It will be helpful for ubuntu users as ...
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How about a new site for docker enthusiasts?
Proposal:
Dockers are currently a new hype, and although we've a docker tag on stackoverflow, it doesn't feel quite right. In fact, even the docker questions have very low views there. I feel, with ...
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There're ~5000 questions tagged on SO related to "extended reailty"
Proposal: Extended Reality
Stack Overflow tagged questions: *reality
What is this proposal going to do that's fundamentally different from what SO already offers?
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Drones: When will our private beta launch?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aircraft
My understanding is that private beta sites are launched on Tuesdays or Wednesdays during business hours in the USA. Since this has not happened, I wonder when we ...
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Is experimental and strange drone designs also a topic that will be discussed in this sub?
Hi I am a researcher and currently I have some unusual ideas about drone designs that I wish to try and know more about.
Is this site also going to go towards more experimental/scientific ...
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Microsoft Windows is on-topic on Super User
Proposal: Microsoft Windows
Super User kinda already does this, the second most popular tag is Windows 7, then Windows, and Windows 10 is up there as well.
If you look at the Windows tags, they all ...
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Could a large number of supporters help offset a <100 number of commiters with >200 rep?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aircraft
Going forward, I'm afraid this proposal is in a difficult spot. As is evident from the general support and self-reported demographics present on the proposal page, ...
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Are military drones on-topic?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aircraft
As a total nobody, I mostly hear about drones in the news in military drone strikes. I thus guess that this site will end up with questions about military drones.
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Should questions asking for support for a specific software suite or firmware be on-topic?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aviation
This proposal has a number of example questions that amount to "How to do X in Y software suite?" Some of these might be better suited to the specific product's ...
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Should questions about legality be on topic?
I anticipate quite a few questions like "Can I fly a drone above roads in Xyzia?" and "What is the legal distinction between a drone and a model aircraft in Canada?"
Should these be on-topic?
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Could we get rid of the ufos and 'area51' type of branding please?
I feel that all this type of stuff makes it really hard to convince established people in technical fields to take proposals here as something serious. Opening a website with funny UFOs flying around ...