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What is the difference between operator precedence and order of evaluation?

When doing something simple such as this int a=1; int b=2; int c=3; printf("%d\n", a + b * c); then I was told that operator precedence guarantees that the code is equivalent to a + (b * c)...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3d ago by Lundin‭

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How does the strict aliasing rule enable or prevent compiler optimizations?

Inspired by https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/432242, and the relevant main-space questions. I have heard that C and C++ something called the "strict aliasing rule", which means for exa...

2 answers  ·  posted 4d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 4d ago by Lundin‭

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Unable to Login with Flask-WTF and Flask-Login

Title: Unable to Login with Flask-WTF and Flask-Login Description: I'm building a Flask application with user login functionality using Flask-WTF for form handling and Flask-Login for user auth...

0 answers  ·  posted 5d ago by misbahskuy‭

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Best Practices for Precalculating Expensive Variables in Functions

A class might calculate static variables during instantiation, which are then used by various functions. A common technique to optimize function performance is to precalculate expensive variables u...

2 answers  ·  posted 6d ago by wagimek‭  ·  last activity 5d ago by wagimek‭

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Understanding "logical OR" and "logical AND" in programming languages

I'm posting this as a language-agnostic catch-all for a simple class of logical errors, so that beginner questions can be duplicated to it in the future. In my experience, the large majority of q...

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Lundin‭

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empty line in table cell in reStructuredText (rst)

I would like to have an empty line in the cell of a table in reStructuredText. Consider the following example: .. list-table:: :header-rows: 1 * - aaa - bbb * - ccc - ddd ...

0 answers  ·  posted 7d ago by Trevor‭  ·  edited 7d ago by Trevor‭

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Simultaneous comparison in Python

I want to make multiple comparisons at once, of the same type, in a Python program. For example, to check whether all of a certain group of strings are in a longer test string; or whether a specifi...

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Understanding "de Morgan's laws"

While trying to understand logical 'or'/'and', I encountered another problem (I'm writing Python code here, but my question is about the logic, not about any given programming language). I have som...

1 answer  ·  posted 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Common string handling pitfalls in C programming

This is a self-answered Q&A meant as a C string handling FAQ. It will ask several questions at once which isn't ideal, but they are all closely related and I'd rather not fragment the post in...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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How to Suppress System Sound for Keyboard Shortcuts in C++ Desktop Application [closed]

In my desktop application developed in C++, I am encountering an issue where pressing the Ctrl + X, Ctrl + Shift + X, and Ctrl + D shortcut keys triggers a system sound. I would like to suppress o...

0 answers  ·  posted 13d ago by Junior_Dev‭  ·  edited 8d ago by Alexei‭

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Why not call nullptr NULL?

In C++11 the nullptr keyword was added as a more type safe null pointer constant, since the previous common definition of NULL as 0 has some problems. Why did the standards committee choose not to...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by user253751‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by alx‭

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Generating combinations of elements, which are themselves sequences of the same length, where the elements have no value in common at any position

This question is adapted from a question I just helped fix up on Stack Overflow. I'm giving a different motivating example which I think will make it clearer what the requirements are and why a n...

2 answers  ·  posted 8d ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Do Where and OfType preserve List capacity?

Unless I am mistaken, myList.Select(a => a).ToList() initializes the resulting list to the capacity of myList.Count. Does myList.Where(a => true).ToList() do so or does it build up from the i...

1 answer  ·  posted 24d ago by LyndonGingerich‭  ·  last activity 9d ago by rcmosher‭

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Can UWPNuGetPackages be moved to another drive?

I'm trying to make a UWP app in Visual studio, but the NuGet package files have been huge. They just don't fit on my SSD, but I do have an HDD I could theoretically use. After a bunch of tinkering...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Ullallulloo‭  ·  last activity 9d ago by Alexei‭

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Tilt: Ignore directory changes

I have a generated file I want Tilt to ignore for re-building. However, when that file changes, Tilt also detects that the parent directory has changed based on its contents changing. I can fix tha...

0 answers  ·  posted 9d ago by rcmosher‭

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Why are model_q4.onnx and model_q4f16.onnx not 4 times smaller than model.onnx?

I see on https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct/tree/main/onnx: File Name Size model.onnx 654 MB model_fp16.onnx 327 MB model_q4.onnx 200 MB m...

1 answer  ·  posted 12d ago by Franck Dernoncourt‭  ·  last activity 12d ago by Derek Elkins‭

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What is C23 and why should I care?

The C language has gone through many iterations and the latest one not yet released is informally called "C23", supposedly because they hoped to release it in 2023. The latest draft version N3096 i...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 14d ago by Lundin‭

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How to invoke dialog modal from module instead of using directly showModal() method

Good day! I need to have 2 different models to create projects and todo lists. I've figured out, that for HTML there is only one dialog menu that can be invoked with window.dialog.showModal(); dire...

0 answers  ·  posted 19d ago by Sevenfold‭  ·  edited 18d ago by Sevenfold‭

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Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'map') error in MERN stack project

In my project, I try to fetch data from the backend to display in the frontend using fetch API. Each time I do this I get Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'map') error. When I check the...

0 answers  ·  posted 19d ago by emmaluga‭  ·  edited 19d ago by Alexei‭

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I can't install the Spacy library using the terminal in VSCode on Windows 10

I am trying to install the Spacy library in VSCode in a folder with a virtual environment. The output appearing in the terminal is excessively long; I will share it with a pastebin later. My versio...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Richard‭  ·  last activity 21d ago by Alexei‭

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Which platforms return a non-null pointer on malloc(0)

What is the portability of malloc(0);? Which platforms return NULL without setting errno? Which platforms return a non-null pointer? Do any platforms have some other behavior?

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by alx‭  ·  last activity 21d ago by Alexei‭

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What does an exclamation mark mean in a GraphQL schema?

Types are often followed by exclamation marks in GraphQL schemas. What do they mean? type User { id: Int! email: String! name: String! updatedAt: String! createdAt: String...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 21d ago by Alexei‭

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C#: Performance hit from using calculated property instead of get-only property with initializer?

JetBrains Rider suggests that I change this (for example): public class Foo { public int OnePlusOne { get; } = 1 + 1; } to this: public class Foo { public int OnePlusOne => 1 + 1...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by LyndonGingerich‭  ·  last activity 24d ago by Michael‭

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Recursive traversal of composite tree of mutable "trait objects"?

I'm working on a background service/daemon for an embedded device, in Rust. The daemon manages several hardware components and these are structured using the Composite design pattern. The composite...

2 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 27d ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

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LocalDate format in fields stored as json via Hibernate

Setup I have a database table with field of JSONB type. I access said database using Hibernate. In hibernate I have entity mapped on said table. Entity contains field marked with @JdbcTypeCode(...

1 answer  ·  posted 28d ago by talex‭  ·  last activity 28d ago by talex‭

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How can I interact with the target widget from a drop event

I'm trying to update a ListBox widget after dropping some files on it. This is the relevant part of my current code: fn on_file_drop(target: &DropTarget, value: &Value, ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by GeraldS‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by jmb‭

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How do you implement polymorphism in C?

The topic of how to implement polymorphism in C tends to pop up now and then. Many programmers are used to OO design from higher level languages and supposedly OO is a "language-agnostic" way of pr...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Lundin‭

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Differences between Haskell tools Stack and Cabal?

Haskell tooling can be confusing. Both Stack and Cabal appear to be build tools with similar goals. How do they differ? Why should you pick one over the other?

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Alexei‭

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Multiple versions of scala libraries detected!

While compiling my scala project I'm getting following error. org.scala-lang.modules:scala-parser-combinators_2.13:2.4.0 requires scala version: 2.13.13 org.scalatest:scalatest_2.13:3.2.19 requ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by talex‭

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ffmpeg script outputs video with unexpected resolution and frame rate despite scaling and fps filtering

I'm having trouble with an ffmpeg script that's supposed to convert videos to a specific resolution and frame rate, but the output video has unexpected dimensions and frame rate. Here's my script a...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by ShadowsRanger‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by harmony‭

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Hexagonal Architecture + Domain Driven Design. How to perform a correct implementation?

Hello! Currently, I am trying to implement these two architectures together with Java and Spring (although technology shouldn't matter I think). But I'm encountering problems getting them to work...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by rudahee‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by harmony‭

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make: How to compile all files in a directory.

I am learning how to write makefile to compile a c program. I have a directory structure like this: . ├── include │   └── library.h ├── lib │   └── library.c ├── makefile └── obj My makef...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭

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How to mock methods like `pathlib.Path.is_dir`?

I used to have some testing code for mocking a simple directory structure when working with pathlib. I recently tried to run these tests to learn that some of the internals in pathlib have changed ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Unable to use conditional Must term in C# NEST client for Elastic Search

I'm trying to write a Elastic Search query using the C# NEST client, but right now I'm stuck on an issue with a conditional query. The query takes in two optional values, meaning they are both all...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by hest‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by hest‭

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How can I get the same "not all control paths return a value" behaviour across Clang and MSVC?

I've recently discovered that it's not actually an error to have control reach the end of a non-void function without returning anything, it's merely undefined behaviour. I want to promote the rele...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Hyperlynx‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by celtschk‭

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Webpack can't recognize modules

I've got errors Uncaught TypeError: setting getter-only property "todo" and Uncaught TypeError: lib is undefined. I assume that those errors appeared when I created a new module for local sto...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Sevenfold‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Sevenfold‭

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How to create Factory Functions instead of using Classes

Instead of classes, I want to use factory functions. Original code with classes: export class MyProject { constructor(title, description, dueDate, priority) { this.title = title; ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Sevenfold‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Unit Testing #define Directives in Visual Studio

I have some methods in my codebase that utilize the #if DEBUG preprocessor directive to provide specialized behavior that differs between the debugging environment and the production environment. I...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Orladdin‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Using sqlline, how do you filter/find tables using the !tables command

I need to filter/find and list tables using the sqlline !tables command. For example, these are the type of queries i wish to fire Find out all the tables in a particular schema s1 All tables ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Abbas Gadhia‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Abbas Gadhia‭

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How to detach my terminal window from a program ran from it? [closed]

I want to run a program, e.g. Firefox, from terminal, but whenever I close the terminal, program closes too. How to detach my terminal window from a program ran from it?

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by kujaw‭  ·  closed 2mo ago by Alexei‭

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Json deserialization of enum, forbid int

I have a DTO that contains an enum field: @Getter @Setter static class Foo { Bar bar; } enum Bar { X, Y } When I deserialize a JSON, it allows int as values: var objectMapper ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by talex‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by hkotsubo‭

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SQL scripts referenced in persistence configuration must have each statement on its own line

I'm currently working on a Java application using Jakarta Persistence with EclipseLink and PostgreSQL. While setting up the application to test the database layer, the persistence configuration is ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by ɯıpɐʌ‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by ɯıpɐʌ‭

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How to format Markdown in terminal

When printing Markdown text to the terminal, how can I get a bit more formatting so it looks nicer? I realize that this is a bit of a contradiction, since terminals generally use only one font. Bu...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Michael‭

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Filter stashes by pathspec

The documentation for git stash list says list [<log-options>] List the stash entries that you currently have. Each stash entry is listed with its name (e.g. stash@{0} is the latest entry...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Michael‭

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VSCode go is confused about what version of Go I have installed

I'm trying to work with a Go project that I'm taking over from another developer. The go.mod file says I need at least version 1.13, and I have 1.22.3 installed according to go version. However, wh...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Andrew Ray‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Alexei‭

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Map<?, Optional<T>> to Map<?, T>

I have a Map with Optional values. I want to filter it to remove empty values. Map<K, Optional<T>> input; Map<K, T> result = input. // here is some code I'm looking for ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by talex‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by hkotsubo‭

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Execute SQL queries stored in a table

Let's say I have a table with SQL statements in a column. I want to execute them all. create table sql_command( sql_text text ) I know how to execute one SQL statement using EXEC, but I wa...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by talex‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Michael‭

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Why is package.json needed for running a SvelteKit application?

I'm trying to containerize a SvelteKit application that uses the @sveltejs/adapter-node. The Build and Deploy section from the documentation recommends to build the application, and then run the a...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by ɯıpɐʌ‭

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Identifying non-daemon threads in an Android ANR stack dump

One of "my" Android apps is showing a heavy frequency of "slow exit" application-not-responding (ANR) problems. The Play Console has the "insight": Slow exit Problem The main thread has finish...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Peter Taylor‭

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multi-arch code fails on mingw 64bits

I have a C/++ codebase that compiles in Windows x86_64 targeting x86 using the mingw32 32-bit shell of the MSYS64 project. (It also compiles fine on linux x86/x86_64 and android's 4 archs.) Howev...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by JohnRando‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by JohnRando‭