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"permission denied" error when running cross-site query
When attempting to run a cross-site SEDE query, I get this:
Line 1: CREATE TABLE permission denied in database 'tempdb'.
I can reproduce this with the provided examples.
While I realize it's around ...
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The Stacks Editor messes up code formatting
I’ve started a new question on Stack Overflow and the Wizard form was shown to me. This uses the Stacks Editor.
When I use the code icon to format blocks of code, it adds single back-ticks instead of ...
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Stackexchange API to fetch saved posts across all stackexchange network
I want to fetch my saved posts from across stackexchange network that I have joined, is it possible? I have read the documentation on the api.stackexchange.com and it seems the api is intended for ...
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What moderator tools exist to control retaliatory close votes? [closed]
Several individuals with time on their hands can practically paralyze work of the whole meta.
Users should not allege close voters are mindless or malicious or otherwise not acting in good faith
What ...
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Why is StackOverflow in Maintenenace mode but not in Maintenance Mode? [duplicate]
Nothing about on going Maintenance post here.
But on my main Browser (Firefox 103.0.3 on Windows 10) I get.
But in A private browser Window it is not Maintenance Mode or in a different Browser it is ...
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How to report malicious voting? [closed]
I was tried flag post, but all the flags was be denied, how can i report malicious voting? What need i to tell to moderator on flag description? I need some help.
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Bolded number "1" next to chat room when visiting chat.stackexchange.com on mobile
When browsing https://chat.stackexchange.com/ on mobile (Safari in my particular case), I see a bolded "1" next to the Teacher's Lounge room:
The bold "1" does not appear when ...
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Why Stack Exchange doesn't seem to care about multilingual spam? [closed]
Sometimes SE receives spam in foreign languages like this (scroll down to see). Why they don't care?
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What is "Answer Bot" and what is it doing?
I found a user on Webapps SE named Answer Bot with an "AI" badge (site profile ID of -2). Here's the profile[1]:
Hi, I'm not really a person.
I'm an AI that's powered by LLM partners of ...
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How can I close my own question with reference to another post?
I’ve asked a question on Stack Overflow. But somehow I found an answer from some other post. What should I do now?
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How do I view the category to which a post was saved without visiting the saves list? [duplicate]
Whenever I come across a question while browsing the site and discover that it had already been saved and I want to know to what category I had saved it, how do I do this without checking all my saves ...
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Help merging accounts [duplicate]
I am an infrequent user with two login, one tied to my private email address the other tied to my Google/gmail account. From my profile I see I have 6 or 7 accounts as shown in first attachment.
I ...
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Why do comments also show up when you want to edit a post? [duplicate]
Why do comments under a post show up when you want to edit that post?
I know they should show up for moderators to review suggested edits. But why should the one who wants to edit also see the ...
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How to filter specific tags without including synonyms?
If I want to filter a specific tag that has a synonym, the behavior is that the synonym tag will also be filtered along with the initial tag.
On DIY, [electrical] (18k entries) is a synonym for [...
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How do I join a meta site? Where is the "Join this community" button?
I've been on the Ask Different site for 8 years, that is where my most activity is. I want to be able to ask questions on Meta but I don't see how to join.
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Multi line chat messages are now limited to 10k characters?
Since the beginning of chat, multi line chat messages enjoyed the freedom of not having limit, or more accurate, they could reach around 2 million (!) characters.
However, as of few days ago, I ...
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Chat rate limit appears to be gone
Right now, you can post things in chat without any rate limit.
Proof:
(Notice the timestamps. I use an userscript but it's unrelated)
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You cannot register at this time
When I try to ask a question on judaism.stackexchange.com, I get the following error:
You cannot register at this time.
If you continue to find this error, contact us.
Already have an account? Log in
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What's the correct site to use when trying to identify a video game from memory?
I just posted this on Arqade:
I had some time ago a PS1 or PS2 with a fighting game. There was the character Yulaw. Also Nina was there. I checked several websites and Wikipedia lists. I would think ...
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How do I sort by lowest score?
I can sort questions and filter by the highest score but not by the lowest score. How do I view the lowest scored questions of all time?
And how do I view the oldest of all questions, for example, ...
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Where can I ask a question about the internet and web mechanics? Like domain name registration and domain commerce?
The question asks it all.
I want to know where Elon Musk bought his x.com domain from and how much he paid for it.
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(COMPLETED) Public Site API Maintenance -Wed, November 20, 2024, 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST (Thurs, November 21, 03:00 UTC - Thurs, November 21, 04:00 UTC)
Update: API maintenance has been completed.
We will be doing a quick failover test of api.stackexchange.com on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST (Thursday, November 21, 03:00 UTC - ...
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Unable to post anything on Stack Overflow
I am not able to post my question on Stack Overflow. It just says
An error occurred submitting the post
but there is absolutely no information about the error. I tried to strip the post of all code ...
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Where to post question about key signing for publishing on google play store
I am having trouble with publishing an app on the google play store.
I posted a question on Stack Overflow, but it was closed as off topic.
I tried publishing it on Android Stack Exchange site, but I ...
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When I'm answering a question with comments going back and forth, how do I use chat? [duplicate]
When I'm answering a question with comments going back and forth (for more information from the OP), how do I use chat?
Do I:
create a new chat room specifically for that question, or
use a chat room ...
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Reviewing Low Quality Answers by New Users that Should be Comments
Sometimes, while I am reviewing posts in the low-quality posts queue, I come across some answers by new users that are actually meant to be comments, i.e., they either ask for clarification of the ...
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Where can I ask a question on whether cooling a phone in a fridge or freezer damages the battery?
I'm wondering:
Does cooling a phone in a fridge or freezer damage the battery?
I saw a fair amount of Reddit and Quora posts on whether cooling a phone in a fridge or freezer damage the battery but ...
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On the homepage, why does it say Community bot modified x hours ago? [duplicate]
I was looking for questions to answer in https://askubuntu.com. At the bottom of the image, it says Community Bot 1 modified 3 hours ago. I think users want to see the latest activity of a question ...
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Where to ask questions about formal languages and parsing?
I want ask about parsing, LL table creation, FIRST, FOLLOW sets. I want ask about detecting grammar ambiguity.
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Where is the best place to ask questions about SMS/Mobile text messages?
I recently asked a question on WebApps Stack Exchange about issues with Google Forms links in mobile text messages being blocked sometimes, but it was closed as out of scope. Can anyone suggest the ...
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Where to ask for help with identifying a transformer code on a circuit board?
I'm trying to find a site to ask the following question:
I’m working on a project and came across this transformer on a circuit board. I’m trying to find the datasheet or any information about its ...
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Could the genAI policy be made clear on which genAI use cases are allowed or not allowed?
I'm confused by which genAI use cases are allowed by the current genAI policy. meta.stackexchange.com/help/gen-ai-policy states:
Generative artificial intelligence (a.k.a. GPT, LLM, generative AI, ...
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What do I need to know as a user about authorising applications that interact with Stack Exchange?
I know that I can grant permission of an application to do something with my account on the network. What can and cannot an application do if I allow it? For example, if I see a description like:
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Is speech recognition regarded as genAI on SE (and thereby banned on SE sites banning genAI)?
On The Tragedy of the Episode 749 transcript I had answered (and then commented) that the community had (imho, regrettably) decided to ban genAI here, so one can't post transcripts generated by ASR (...
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Where do I ask more general questions about (learning) programming?
I'm new to site and would like to ask about learning to code in general. I posed this question but was advised I posted it in the wrong place. I believe meta is where to ask about the site, though I'm ...
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Since when do Late Answers reviews require multiple users to complete?
I think this link speaks for itself. Review items in the Late Answers queue always used to require only one user to be completed, and the only way you'd see more than one reviewer on the same review ...
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When I go to logout the site lists websites I have not signed up for or visited
When I went to logout of one of the stackexchange sites the site popped up a message that said, "Do you want to logout of other sites on this device?"
I've only joined half of the sites ...
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Perhaps add a superfluous About link in each StackExchange's home page three bar menu
Visit https://stats.stackexchange.com/ .
We see a logo, "Cross Validated". That's nice, but doesn't quite tell us what the site is all about.
Feeling rather uneasy, we look around for some &...
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Syntax highlighting language request: Apex on salesforce.stackexchange.com
Apex is based on familiar Java idioms, such as variable and expression
syntax, block and conditional statement syntax, loop syntax, object
and array notation.
Syntax highlighting for Apex on ...
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How can I find my drafts? [duplicate]
I was editing my question in [SU], then accidentally reused the browser tab for a Google search. How can I find back my draft and continue editing?
I looked at Questions under my profile, and all [...
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SO in read-only mode, status not updated
At about 7:55 EDT 23 OCT, attempting to refresh the main Stack Overflow page threw an error, and was in read-only mode when refreshed a few seconds later. The status page references a maintenance that ...
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Is Stack Exchange planning to force users to ask their questions to an LLM before allowing posting on the site?
Inspired by this question I was skipping through the recent blog post once again overhyping AI as The Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything Else.
Leaving aside the robo-review scenarios, I ...
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Which graduated sites use "Full" requirements and which ones use the "Beta" requirements?
Stack Exchange sites (with a few minor deviations), can have either "Private Beta", "Beta", or "Full" reputation requirements for privileges. I know that currently, only ...
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COMPLETED - Site maintenance - Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 9:00 PM-11:00 PM EDT (Thursday, October 24, 1:00 UTC - Thursday, October 24, 3:00 UTC)
[UPDATE 2 - Site maintenance has been completed]
[UPDATE - The maintenance window has been expanded by one hour in order to complete the planned updates and not postpone to later have yet another day ...
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What exactly triggers the "new items in your Stack Exchange inbox" email?
I have the new inbox items email notification set to daily:
I check the inbox (i.e. click the inbox icon on top bar) very frequently, many times every day, and after I check the items, I mark them as ...
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The SEDE refresh is stuck on Math [closed]
I just happened to check in the SEDE refresh with this query:
select database_id
, database_name
, site_name
, initialized
, made_available
, processing_time
, ...
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Reading the full comment addressed to me on a question that got deleted quickly afterwards
I commented on a question (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4986265) over on Math.SE. When I returned a minute or two later, the question had been deleted, and I could see in my inbox that ...
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Cloudflare CAPTCHA is blocking all Stack Overflow pages in macOS Safari
I am a normal, real person trying to browse Stack Overflow from home. No weird office network issues or etc. No bots. A normal number of requests.
Every Stack Overflow page is blocked due to this ...
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How to move a chat under another stackexchange site?
I wanted to open this chat under mathoverflow but instead it got opened under stackoverflow. How can I move it under mathoverflow?
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Impossible to solve Cloudflare Captcha due to timeouts
For the past 15 minutes I've been trying to solve a captcha that keeps refreshing to the same page and the reason, because it's set to timeout in 500ms on a line that has 1 second latency.
It keeps ...
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