Questions tagged [scope]
Use this tag when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why.
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Is it okay to ask questions about specific APIs with explanation?
My question that I'm trying to find an answer to is, in a broad sense, How to use Google Drive/Form's authentication process. I would provide more details such as what I'm trying to do, what I have so ...
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Post about programmatically upgrading an OS using Salt incorrectly closed
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: using salt to upgrade Linux Mint OS
This post was closed without any specific explanation. According to the boilerplate,
This question does not appear ...
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Is Proton "sieve" filter a programming language?
I'm going to post a question about how to solve a programming issue about the sieve filters by Proton Mail.
Searching for similar questions I didn't find anything that talks about this programming ...
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Are curious web programming questions allowed on Stack Overflow (even though it has no practical applications)?
I had a theory concerning the promise returned by fetch, and I wanted to verify if I am correct on the matter or not, since there aren't many good web resources on the topic. However, the response I ...
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Should a question about language version support be considered “not about software development"?
Many people have been surprised to find out that a top-tier programming language, PHP (#2-7 depending on metric), suddenly has an extra year of support, since sometime after March 2024.
When I posted ...
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Is a "Can I do A?"-type question answered with a "no, but you can do B"-type answer on topic?
Is answering a question that asks to do something with a specific tool or library off topic if another way to solve the problem without the tool is shown?
How to change some columns name when using pd....
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Questions about [cytoscape] seem mostly off topic and the surrounding community doesn't seem to understand the site
There has been previous discussion of the cytoscape tag which establishes why there might be on-topic questions about this platform. For reference, the tag description:
Cytoscape is an open source ...
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Can I ask this question on using Optuna with nested cross-validation for multiple model selection here?
I think this is in-topic, but I just wanted to double-check in case you think I need to move to the more AI-related groups:
How to perform hyperparameter tuning and model selection with Optuna and ...
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How to make this question more focused?
I asked about a best-practice strategy for field initialization. To keep it tight and clear, I specified a limited set of possible approaches and explained why they all may make sense in certain ...
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Why is this not a relevant question for Stack Overflow?
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: How to connect to AWS RDS on a private subnet?
The moderator just closed this question. I am not offended but it is so weird that I have to ask here. As ...
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Where to post a question about host configurations/issues
My question is something like this:
We are using Windows 2019 Server in our office, and the host PC uses Windows 10 mostly. Sometimes after the login credentials are entered, the OS doesn’t load ...
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Why is this question about shell programming closed as "not about programming or software development"?
How to stop a uboot macro using itest was closed as "not about programming or software development"?
Aren't shell programming languages like Bash or in this case U-Boot CLI in the scope of ...
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What makes these questions so different that one of them is bad and the second one is good?
Here are two different questions:
What is the best and fastest way to generate data way with std and ranges?
C++: compile-time "dominoe update" using fold expressions
Both have a lot in ...
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Why was this off-topic question about port forwarding in Kubernetes/Minikube reopened?
This question, "Enabling Dual-Protocol (TCP and UDP) Port Forwarding on the Same Port in Kubernetes with Minikube", was closed and then reopened.
It was deleted and undeleted and have a ...
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What should we do about Discussions that would be on-topic for another site?
There is a flag for Discussions that should be asked (in some form, maybe after clarifying edits) on Stack Overflow; these Discussions are usually deleted with a comment to post on the main site. ...
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