Theodore R. Smith hopeseekr

Disclaimer: I'm in the Top 1% of StackOverflow contributors with 23,315 rep points.

I asked 1 high-quality question in 2024, and it was closed almost immediately, and I haven't engaged with the site since.

If someone with 20,000+ karma has their nicely-formatted questions closed so quickly, what must the newbies and rank-in-file encounter? This is probably a big reason why it's declining.

The Inspiration

You know, I want to write a scifi story now about how aliens make #FirstContact with us, despite our aggression and disunity...

They choose to land at an #Ethereum conference in 2023 and say, “We want to welcome you to export consensus algorithm DAOs to the #GalacticFederation!”

	# Prequiste: For security, set Calibre to listen to 127.0.0.4:8083:
	# Edit `/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/calibre-web.service`:
	# Change to `ExecStart=/usr/lib/calibre-web/cps.py -i 127.0.0.4`
	# sudo systemctl daemon-reload
	# sudo systemctl restart calibre-web

	<VirtualHost *:443>
	ServerName read.your.site

	# SSL Configuration

	# Prequiste: For security, set Calibre to listen to 127.0.0.4:8383:
	# Admin -> Basic Configuration -> Server Settings: Server port 8383.
	# Then edit `/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/calibre-web.service`:
	# Change to `ExecStart=/usr/lib/calibre-web/cps.py -i 127.0.0.4`.
	# sudo systemctl daemon-reload
	# sudo systemctl restart calibre-web

	server {
	listen [::]:443 ssl;
	listen 443 ssl;

	<?php

	namespace Bettergist\Tests\Feature;

	use Bettergist\Tests\TestCase;
	use Composer\Semver\Constraint\Constraint;
	use Composer\Semver\Semver;
	use Composer\Semver\VersionParser;

	class ComposerConstraintsMatcherTest extends TestCase

	-- Combine these two queries into a table.

	SELECT
	sub.min_version AS version,
	COUNT(*) AS count
	FROM (
	SELECT
	package,
	min(version) AS min_version
	FROM

	#!/bin/bash

	shopt -s extglob

	# generated from util-linux source: libmount/src/utils.c
	declare -A pseudofs_types=([anon_inodefs]=1
	[autofs]=1
	[bdev]=1
	[bpf]=1
	[binfmt_misc]=1

	Redis Contributors with more than 10 Active lines of code in the `unstable` branch, ignoring whitespace changes.

	Statistics based on HEAD
	Active files: 1,566
	Active lines: 417,517
	Total commits: 9,516

	Note: Files matching MIME type image, binary has been ignored

	+----------------------------------+---------+---------+-------+--------------------+

	<?php
	/ See it live: https://onlinephp.io/c/551a0 /


	$helloWorld = [
	'ascii' => 'Hello, World!',
	'utf-8' => 'Hello, World!',
	];

	$spacePos = strpos($helloWorld['ascii'], ' ');

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<script src="js/our.min.js"></script>
	<!-- Conditionally load the non-minified JS if needed -->
	<script>
	(function() {
	if (typeof SOME_VAR === 'undefined') {
	document.write('<script src="js/our.js"><\/script>');
	}

Theodore R. Smith hopeseekr

The Inspiration

The Backdrop