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How to search for posts that contain "Falcon" but are not about a SpaceX rocket?
You can exclude certain terms with the - operator, as described in the Help Center. In this case, since the keywords you want to exclude, you have to make them ...
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How can I avoid posting duplicate questions?
You say that like duplicates are bad.
You asked the same question, but in a different way. Someone may find your question and the linked duplicate with the answer, but not find the linked question ...
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How can I find something I wrote years ago in The Pod Bay?
Chat has limited search functionality, but it is possible to search for text written by user X in room Y. Here is an example:
https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=space&user=131397&room=...
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What is "NIX" on the NASA Technical Reports Server?
NIX doesn't really exist any more. It was one of the many redundant image sites NASA had, specifically one hosted at Langley. It used to look like this.
(internet archive link)
Note that the weblink ...
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Did you mean: satellit altitud
This is a feature we're working on when there are typos or misspellings that produce zero results. Obviously we're still testing this and tweaking as we go:
Testing Search Feature - 'Did you ...
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Did you mean: satellit altitud
My guess is that for some reason it things you are trying to use a non-english language, using something about how your OS and/or browser is configured. Still, this is strange... It did not happen to ...
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How to search for posts that contain "Falcon" but are not about a SpaceX rocket?
You can abandon the largely useless stack exchange search capability and use duckduckgo, which supports the negation operator much better than google.
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How to search for posts that contain "Falcon" but are not about a SpaceX rocket?
You can also remove tags using -[spacex], for instance. Try this query.
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How can I avoid posting duplicate questions?
I agree with the sentiment of @JRE's:
You say that like duplicates are bad.
in that as long as the fraction of your questions that end up as duplicate is not too large and you're not getting ...
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I don't understand why - by design - "ion-thruster" tag remains hidden when I start typing "ion..."
Hyphens are excluded from tag autocomplete. ion-thruster appears as you type ion-t or iont -- hyphens are ignored both ways.
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What is "NIX" on the NASA Technical Reports Server?
According to NASA itself,
The NASA Image eXchange (NIX) is a web-based search engine for simultaneously searching one or more of NASA's online image and photo collections.
As the saying goes, a ...
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