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50 votes

How do I use swap space for emergencies only?

linux memory swap asked Feb 8, 2019 at 14:28
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44 votes

What specifically can swap do that RAM can't?

linux swap asked Dec 10, 2019 at 1:13
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27 votes

How discoverable are IPv6 addresses and AAAA names by potential attackers?

domain-name-system ipv6 autodiscovery discovery asked Apr 15, 2019 at 11:25
serverfault.com

21 votes

Serial down voting those who write serially bad answers

discussion down-votes serial-voting asked Nov 25, 2019 at 16:14
meta.stackexchange.com

20 votes

Why are bountied questions immune to close votes?

discussion vote-to-close bounties asked Jun 8, 2020 at 8:34
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18 votes

Can finalize be called after a constructor throws an exception?

java exception constructor asked Jan 23, 2013 at 15:33
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18 votes

Can't set 64 bit target for Setup Project in Visual Studio 2017

windows-installer visual-studio-2017 asked Nov 6, 2017 at 18:49
stackoverflow.com

13 votes

How can you determine the hostname associated with an IP on the network?

networking hostname ip-address asked Nov 19, 2019 at 14:43
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12 votes

Why is grub incompatible with the raspberry pi?... Answer - It's not

bootloader asked Jun 11, 2019 at 9:23
raspberrypi.stackexchange.com

12 votes

Separate "duplicate" close vote and "unclear" vote counts entirely

feature-request vote-to-close close-reasons asked Aug 14, 2020 at 10:03
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Top Answers
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Add timestamp column with default NOW() for new rows only
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Character with byte sequence 0x9d in encoding 'WIN1252' has no equivalent in encoding 'UTF8'
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Can not connect to local PostgreSQL
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66
Is multiplication faster than float division?
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66
What is the XY problem?
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41
How can I recursively delete all empty files and directories in Linux?
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32
How can it be that ssh somename works, while nslookup somename does not?
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32
Does C++ support 'finally' blocks? (And what's this 'RAII' I keep hearing about?)
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30
Why does catting a symlinked file and redirecting the output to the original file make the latter file empty?
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30
I think I have multiple postgresql servers installed, how do I identify and delete the 'extra' ones?
serverfault.com

28
Does the Linux kernel need a file system to run?
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27
pgsql return table ERROR: column reference is ambiguous
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25
Can I download and write a disk image to partition without saving as a file?
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25
Is there a compelling reason why columns in SQL are nullable by default?
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23
Unmount /boot after booting
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21
IndentationError when pasting code in Python 3 interpreter mode
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20
How to install cross-compiler on Ubuntu 18.04?
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18
what is the difference between sqlite3 and pdo_sqlite
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18
Bash script should only kill those instances of another script's that it has launched
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17
IndentationError when pasting code in Python 3 interpreter mode
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17
How to convert a db in postgreSQL to utf8?
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16
How do you stop PostgreSQL from starting a cluster under linux (Ubuntu)
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16
Piping 'false' does not give non-zero result code
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15
Are two periods allowed in the local-part of an email address?
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14
Can I have a single server listen on more than 65535 ports by attaching an IPv4 address
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13
In PostgreSQL, can we directly compare two timestamp with different time zone?
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11
Can I get UNIX file permissions to take effect immediately for all processes?
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9
Why does DNS work the way it does?
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9
Is it required to execute 'ROLLBACK' upon error?
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9
Why postgres returns unordered data in select query, after updation of row?
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