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Context My ASP.NET Core application got stuck in Production with a 5xx error. By inspecting the logs, I have noticed that a database error occurred during application initialization, namely a SQL ...
I would like to maintain a log that is available to several modules in my Angular 8 system. So I created the following service: @Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' }) export class LogService { ...
I have a big Cypher query that is depending on a variable. Example: With REGION = 'Canada' query I want to execute this query several times based on different values on a list and return the UN...
I have extensive working experience with Entity Framework ORM and have noticed two major ways of writing LINQ (LINQ2SQL): lot of eager loading: the most prevalent, uses (lots) of Includes to eag...
I am slowly modernizing an older ASP.NET Core Web API and one of the steps involved migrating from database first to code first. Now, all schema changes and seeding is covered by migrations which ...
So I had a table with a primary key and a bunch of different columns. Columns A, B, and C were all unsigned ints (like the primary key column) and each column had a unique constraint I dropped the...
Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project seems to have some rather odd ideas of what values to use when loading projects. In particular, I have a number of projects with the following dependency: <Pa...
I have a very large table that I need to iterate through with a PHP script and I can't do all of the results at once so I do it in sections with a LIMIT like for ($x = 0; $x < 10000000; $x += 1...
I have a PHP program that does a SELECT and then updates some of the values based on an algorithm. Rather than updating one row at a time UPDATE example_table SET COLUMN_A = 1 WHERE primary_k...
In PHP one can either use include or require to include files, the difference is that if the file doesn't exist it will emit a fatal error and halt with a require and only emit a warning with inclu...
When you try to do a privileged systemd operation without the privilege, you get an escalation prompt: $ systemctl stop docker ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ==== ...
For example, how to sort the output below by the values in "Column" in the psql shell itself? my_db=> \d auth_user Table "public.auth_user" Column ...
If you have a class which needs to store a construction parameter internally, and you want to take advantage of move semantics, I understand that the parameter should be passed by value: class Foo...
Context I am currently migrating a Web application from on-prem infrastructure to K8s. The legacy infrastructure relies on defining some tokens in the configuration files and these are replaced d...
If my struct column has the data type of struct<string, integer> then what should be the equivalent java object that should be inserted into that struct column? I'm trying the following code...
Highlight.js version: 11.6.0 Node version: v18.12.0 npm version: 8.19.12 When I provide a plugin with the following code to highlightjs (full code is at github): /* Language: BQN Requires: A...
Let's analyze this code, assuming an architecture where the alignment of int64_t is the same as that of double: void bar(double *f, int64_t *j) { *(int64_t *)f = *j; } void foo(void) ...
MWE import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(9, 4), columns=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']) df.plot.bar() plt.show() Question Ho...
I noticed when attempting to generate random booleans that t and f are not treated in the same way: t random ! Error f random ! returns a value In the factor 0.98 and 0.99 documentation, t is ...
Is it undefined behaviour to cast an uninitialized variable to (void)? Example: int main() { int x; (void)x; return 0; }
The dictionary methods .keys(), .values(), and .items() all return view objects. Said objects reflect any changes to the underlying dictionary. This is often useful. Is there a way to get such a v...
I have the following code: use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize}; #[derive(Sereialize, Deserialize)] struct Container<const SIZE: usize> { contents: [String; SIZE] } But I'm getti...
I'm trying to do some DOM manipulation in jQuery, but am having issues with creating wrapper elements. For some reason, prepending to the wrapper doesn't work after I call wrap. Code <html>...
Problem How can I compress each column of a dataframe to the output of a function (i.e., mean), preserving columns? MWE import pandas as pd data = {"A": [1, 2, 3, 4], "B": [5, 6, 7, 8]} ...
As this is the first question about Google Apps Script, here is a very brief description: it is a platform that helps people easily get programmatic access to Google apps data like Gmail messages, ...
Hello everyone, I am seeking help with understanding why multithreading does not work correctly in this example: import time import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import concurrent.futures voltage...
My large, multi-module Maven project validation (Maven Enforcer plug-in) is playing tricks on me. moduleA> mvn validate correctly finds all modules runs enforcer on all of them displays co...
The Code using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore; public class BloggingContext : DbContext { public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; } public DbSet<Post> Posts { get; set; } ...
I am working with JSF 2.3 and have a selectManyMenu component that is marked as required but that I want to be cleared if the user unselects all items. Currently, the user can unselect all items, b...
Temporary notice: this is part of an ongoing project of transferring and splitting my canonical from Stack Overflow on common errors in Google Apps Script. As soon as the Q&As are finalized, ...
I know that I can display a single string in the terminal window like print("example") (or similarly with a string in a variable), and I know how to open text files and write to them. I also know ...
I have a function that loads JSON data and is declared to return a dictionary with string keys and values of any type (Dict[str, Any]). However, mypy is raising an error stating that I am returning...
I have a query summarizing some transaction data that I'd like to summarize by day of week. For my use case, I need to return weekdays formatted according to ISO 8601, so Monday must be the first d...
I'm trying to subclass pdb to have a debugger that, in case of a call to a decorated function, can "step in" the decorated function directly and skip the decorator content altogether. A well-behave...
I'd like to write a TCP client in Rust that can receive the entire message sent by a server, but I have no information about the length of a message. I'm aware that TCP doesn't preserve message bo...
Suppose we have N points on XY plane, ie. (x, y) and x, y are integers and multiple queries where each query is of the form y = mx + c and m, c are integers. Is it possible to count number of poin...
Here in Python, I created a program for this challenge and I'm having trouble debugging it. I already fixed most errors I have on my program but here's what I have left: x=y=z=[];i=0.0;a=int(input...
int arr[] = {10,123,14,14,15,16}; cout<<sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]); I was reading the article. When sizeof() is used with the data types such as int, float, char… etc it simply ret...
Primarily for learning, I would like to try to delete a specific character (letter or number or special character), wherever it is in a webpage, with vanilla JavaScript. The webpage won't change a...
I am looking to take a partial derivative of a sympy polynomial with respect to a symbol in the polynomial. In the sympy documentation for poly.diff(...) it gives sample code like this: from sympy ...
I am trying to listen to the event in which the keyboard key containing the Hebrew final-letter ך is pressed. This key stands for both the English letter L and the Hebrew final letter ך. If my op...
What does ptr() mean in this code? #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> void PrintHello() { printf("Hello\n"); } int Add(int a, int b) { return a+b; } int main...
For my company, I'm writing naming conventions for embedded code in C language. Function names must be named in lowerCamelCase() and start with a verb. Global variables are in Maj_started_lowe...
I'm using Python to invoke another program in a sub-process. I've noticed my memory sometimes gets so large as to crash the system, and I'm wondering if I'm not correctly cleaning up the memory som...
I'm trying to log error messages from Requests exceptions. Example: try: make_web_request() except RequestException as ex: logging.error(ex) Example output: ERROR : ('Connection abo...
I had installed mysql using the following command sudo pacman -Sy mysql Earlier, I was using Lampp(Xampp for Linux) where I could start using the command /opt/lampp/start start I am not sur...
I had build an application using following source code (following the steps). package com.decibal.level; import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.media.MediaRecorder; ...
I have an array friends = Array.new friends[0] = "Mad man" friends[1] = "hey" There's two ways to print it (using print or puts). At first I tried print print friends which gave: ["Mad...
I am styling a simple HTML-PHP-CSS contact form and I have considered to give some min-height pixel value CSS style to the form's submit button. I ran a Google search with the query: min-height...
I know I can change the font of each cell individually by overriding getCellRenderer(row, col) in JTable but I want to be able to change the font of an entire column at once and, ideally, have the ...
