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I'm very active on the Code Review site and I know what is required of a question there (the code must be included in the question). I've looked through the help/asking section and I've searched the ...

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While I've been a member for a long time, I have only asked 1 question and that was a long time ago. I decided to review the guidelines in the help pages before I ask a new question. I was looking at ...

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A couple of weeks back I posted (as a guest) an edit to an answer on What is the difference between Times and Dup in Assembly Language?. The edit is about correcting an error in the answer that was ...

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A question posted 12 years ago ended up today on the home page. I thought, originally, that it probably received a spam answer—which happens occasionally—but it appeared that it all has to do with two ...

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When I click prompt: "Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?" a small error box without text appears and no chat is ...

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I have a question in mind for the main site. The question has several parts that ultimately culminate in a single document: An Explainer. I would prefer to not go through all of the work to post the ...

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Since this is mostly visited by programmers, I think it would be a great improvement to follow StackOverflow and add that functionality here.

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My question Optimizing a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" parser was closed with this reason: Right now, your question may contain multiple distinct questions or is too broad to easily address ...

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Moderator election #5 on Software Engineering has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...

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The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...

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The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. Software Engineering Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election ...

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I've been hanging out in chat more often now. I tried starting a topic of discussion, but it was quickly drowned out by Duga, a bot that looks for mentions of software engineering at StackOverflow. I ...

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Even though there's a designated tag for naming, naming questions (like this one) are often frowned upon, disliked, even closed as off-topic on this site. Are naming questions on-topic?

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I've tried using mobile version of chat. It is polluted with deleted/frozen/whatever rooms and there is no obvious way to hide them. I've tried hiding those on Desktop version, but the changes did not ...

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Generative AI answers are banned here. And obviously some of them are easy to spot: usually they are longer thant needed, take a didactic tone, and do not directly conto the code of the question. ...