Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104768 More actions · Answer 1

Paul White NZ (4/7/2010)
47% getting my QotD correct today so far (361 attempts).
Any Threadizens going to help push it over 50%?
It will be interesting to see how the success rate changes once the answer goes out...

OK, 392 now and it's up to 48%.

A bit too easy, I thought. But was a clear question, didn't claim the wrong answer as the right one, and had no incorrect explanation, and I've stopped expecting QOTD to have all three of those attributes these days, so congratulations on that.

edit: typo

Tom

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 2

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Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

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Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

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Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 5

PHZZZZT!!!!!

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 6

Tom.Thomson (4/7/2010)
A bit too easy, I thought.

Seriously? Have you tried many other QotDs? Or are you just claiming to be super-intelligent? 😛

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 7

David Burrows (4/7/2010)
PHZZZZT!!!!!

Well done on hitting the 14,000, David 🙂

14K next up in 336 posts...

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 8

No celebrations for me until we hit 20,000.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 9

Grant Fritchey (4/7/2010)
No celebrations for me until we hit 20,000.

Your act of sobriety will not go unoticed 😀

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

george sibbald SSC Guru Points: 104210 More actions · Answer 10

this one is on a need to know basis only!

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Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90350 More actions · Answer 11

CirquedeSQLeil (4/6/2010)
Jeffrey Williams-493691 (4/6/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (4/6/2010)
Paul White NZ (4/6/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (4/6/2010)
I really thought the thread would surpass 14k today.
Probably will - though the definition of 'today' varies...;-)
Eight hours of 7^th April 2010 remain (local time).
Down to 3 hrs of April 6 remaining here.
Hey Jason - on the west coast here also. 3 hours to midnight...:-P
Where are you?
I'm in LV

I work in Anaheim, CA - live between there and San Diego.

Jeffrey Williams
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738683 More actions · Answer 12

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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April 7, 2010 at 8:34 am

#1147376

David

That felt slightly like cheating 😀

But congrats.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738683 More actions · Answer 13

Not my job, but I did work in a nuclear plant where we had an old HP that used tape reels and had to load that up one time for some test. We also had an old 1MB Westinghouse HDD. The diameter on this thing was around 2ft or so and you could *see* is spin as they read data. It was the original control system for the nuclear rods handling the reaction.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 14

Steve Jones - Editor (4/7/2010)
Not my job, but I did work in a nuclear plant where we had an old HP that used tape reels and had to load that up one time for some test. We also had an old 1MB Westinghouse HDD. The diameter on this thing was around 2ft or so and you could *see* is spin as they read data. It was the original control system for the nuclear rods handling the reaction.

Computers? On a nuclear power plant? Luxury.

We controlled the rods with a switch & some motors. No computing of any kind involved, except for calculators that we could use to determine the amount of criticality we were generating.

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- Theodore Roosevelt

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281344 More actions · Answer 15

Grant Fritchey (4/7/2010)
No celebrations for me until we hit 20,000.

You better get busy with that 😉

Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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