Over the last month, on some of the sites I visit regularly there seems to be a marked decrease in new questions and answers.    I personally have not noticed as much on work related sites, like dba.se but on personal hobby and development sites, there seems to be a sharp decline.  Is it possible to define what the level of post activity has been in the last month compared to other related times (i.e. same month last year, last year overall)?
Ever since Everything That Happened with Stack Exchange, it's understandable that many users are hesitant to get re-involved on SE.  It's understandable that  are deleting their own accounts, out of protest, or out of frustration, or for many other reasons.  But I have noticed that, at the very least on , where I spend most of my time, questions are getting fewer views and fewer answers, fewer votes are being cast, and fewer questions themselves are being asked.  I've also noticed that flags are taking a long time to be processed, probably because of the fact that Writing.SE .    Are other sites also experiencing inactivity?  Is this in direct correlation with Everything That Happened?  Is it just this site, or are other sites experiencing the same patterns as well?
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Is there an easy way to disable this laptop's touchpad? Specifically, I'm on a . I'd like to disable the  so that I can re-enable if my mouse were to run out of batteries (so physically breaking the connection to the motherboard or uninstalling the driver will not be the best options). In the Control Panel, when I go to "Mouse" and find the touch pad, there is no disable option. Any ideas?  Edit: I am on Windows 7. There is a driver on the Dell site that might allow an option to disable it, but I cannot install it on Windows 7. How to add days to current Date using JavaScript. Does JavaScript have a built in function like .Net's AddDay? I am a total newbie to Ubuntu, and I'm not sure what to do here. I have a Toshiba Chromebook. I had a friend install the latest version of Ubuntu on it for me. For a while, the audio in Ubuntu was working fine, but now I can't hear any audio whatsoever.  How can I fix this? How do I backup and restore SMS Messages? How do I backup and restore SMS Messages? Ubuntu 19.10 change desktop environment Show that $\lim\limits_{a \to 0^+} \int^1_0 ax^{a−1}f(x)dx=f(0)$. Suppose $f$ is Riemann integrable on $[0,1]$ and continuous at 0. Show that $$\lim\limits_{a \to 0^+} \int^1_0 ax^{a−1}f(x)dx=f(0).$$   Can anyone share some insight on this one? I have no idea where to begin. Maybe a substitution? Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation tells us that the potential energy of object in a gravitational field is $$U ~=~ -\frac{GMm}{r}.\tag{1}$$  The experimentally verified near-Earth gravitational potential is  $$U ~=~ mgh.\tag{2}$$  The near-Earth potential should be an approximation for the general potential energy when $r\approx r_{\text{Earth}}$, but the problem I'm having is that they scale differently with distance.  $(1)$ scales as $\frac 1r$.  So the greater the distance from the Earth, the less potential energy an object should have.  But $(2)$ scales proportionally to distance.  So the greater the distance from the Earth, the more potential energy an object should have.  How is this reconcilable? During the beta of Windows 10 it was hard know what version you were running unless it had it posted to the desktop. Once that wasn't there - how do you tell what version / build you are running?   This will become more of an issue as Microsoft starts releasing more builds with the new update mechanism. In what occasion could the word “precious” be taken disapprovingly, or sarcastically? I understand that the word “precious” in the following quote of Maureen Dowd’s article “Heart of Darkness” (NYT, March 20) literally means “2. valuable or important and not to be wasted” as defined in OALD:     Congressman Jones read an e-mail from a former boss of General   Allen’s, giving the congressman this unvarnished assessment:   “Attempting to find a true military and political answer to the   problems in Afghanistan would take decades. Would drain our nation of   precious resources, with the most precious being our sons and daughters. Simply put, the United States cannot solve the Afghan   problem, no matter how brave and determined our troops are.   But I didn’t know “precious” has another meaning as defined in OALD: 5. (disapproving, people and their behavior) very formal, exaggerated and not natural, and Readers English Dictionary: 2.(colloquial) terrible, almost worthless, until I was told by my respected forum mate a few days ago.   Being encouraged by his suggestion for me to “ask another question if I’m not sure of what he means by describing his input as “precious” is actually rather “precious” phrasing, I would like to ask:   What is an example of “precious” being used as “disapproving” or sarcastic way (as neither OALD nor CALD provides examples)? Is there an easy way to discern the instance “precious” being used as “disapproving” from the case being used in the sense of genuine “great value” as used in the above quote other than judging from the context? As part of the definition of a cone spell in the handbook:     A cone's point of origin is not included in the cone's area of effect, unless you decide otherwise.   As an example, what would either case be for a casting of Burning Hands?   Could the caster include themselves? or does this mean that they can exclude the first square of the cone? Why have header files and .cpp files? Print LinkedList Recursively using C++