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Why are keywords in SQL usually written in capital letters? For example: SELECT * FROM person WHERE mood = 'happy'; My understanding is that SQL is case insensitive, so the case doesn't actuall...
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 ...
This code: type A = Partial<Temporal.PlainDate>; const a: A = { day: 1, month: 1, year: 2025 } yields this error: Type '{ day: number; month: number; year: number; }' is not assignable ...
gh repo create doesn't have a flag to set GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions. Is there a way to do so, or am I have to visit the setting page to set it manually?
I have a nested python list structure, generated by a happily executed tolist() method on a more than 2 dimensional ndarray. How can I get back my numpy ndarray from the list?
Let's say we have a function void f(int argc, ...); where argc is the number of variadic arguments. Can we write a macro of the form #define F(...) f(CNT(__VA_ARGS__), __VA_ARGS__) which...
To have a successful "training session", these should cooperate. I.e. model generates an output from the input data, the loss function says, how bad or good is it, and then the optimizer tunes...
Suppose you have a largish git repository with many files of different types (both text and images) distributed among a number of nested directories. Parallel development has occurred on two branc...
Here I am trying to install a pip package. While installation, pip tries to compile something. With meson. Meson calls cmake. Cmake fails on a missing dependency. Then, meson fails on the fail...
How do I cast or convert a shadow/shaded class (a package relocated class which is generally generated via tools like gradle/maven) to its original class in Java? The assumption is that both the s...
My impression is that the regexps behave a little bit odd: >>> import re >>> r=re.compile("test") >>> r.match("test") <re.Match object; span=(0, 4), match='test'&g...
How can I get a free domain? I'm looking to start a website but want to avoid upfront costs. Can someone guide me on how to obtain a domain name for free, and what platforms or services offer this?
In zsh, I want to create a function that updates RPROMPT when I have typed cd .. into the terminal. As a starting point, I know I can, for example, add the + character to my RBUFFER when I have typ...
Let's say I mount a filesystem and then mount another filesystem over it the same location: (sshfs for example) sshfs foo@server1:/path /mnt/path sshfs foo@server2:/path /mnt/path The contents...
The microservices I am working on use multiple PostgreSQL databases on the same instance. Some of them require some cron jobs. I have decided to use the pg_cron PostgreSQL extension, but when tryin...
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(table=True) # don't want plot, ...
I'm trying to create an expandable/collapsible horizontal visualization of interlinked documents using a tree diagram that looks very similar this, where the documents spread outward from a single ...
I have recently stumbled across the Maybe (or Optional) modal usage in .NET Code: example code or this one example article Based on everything I read, there are multiple advantages on relyi...
I have a PHP script which I want to call a Bash script which then in turn calls another PHP script. This may be completely unnecessary, but nonetheless. PHP script 1: // Borrowed from https://sta...
I have been trying to learn about the cost of the insertion sort algorithm lately. I already understand the best case, worst case and average case formulas (eg $n-1$, $\frac{n(n-1)}{2}$, $\frac{n(n...
I have been using open-source software, and the open-source Community is great at maintaining such projects. But I have observed something in smaller open-source projects. Whenever I demand some f...
I have Box drive on Windows. I use it as a regular folder on the computer. I can store images there. When I store a small number of images (on the order of a couple hundreds) and I do not wait lon...
A while back, I made this post about reading specified sections in a text file formatted a particular way. I've since updated the format for that file to include links at the start of arbitrary li...
Normally you ask a DNS server to resolve a domain like example.org to the corresponding IP address. The server either knows the answer right off the bat (cached or authoritative), or where it might...
I see on this PyTorch model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-en (HuggingFace), which is an encoder-decoder model for machine translation: "bos_token_id": 0, "eos_token_id": 0, in its config.json. ...
How does one parse/decode/extract information stored by a web page in Firefox's browser local storage without the browser? So far, I've worked out that the data lives at ~/.mozilla/firefox/${profi...
Note: I originally posted this on Stack Overflow on Stack Exchange here however I am posting the same question here as I might be able to get a answer more quickly here. Project Euler+ #250 on H...
Are there libraries that allow deploying data science notebooks (like Jupyter notebooks) on servers with no root access (for example, shared servers)? A shared (non-VPS) server is, for example, a ...
I've recently discovered that php curl does not load cookies from a cookie file until after at least one request is made. For instance, assume I already have a cookie file from a previous session ...
How can I save a plot in a file in PyCharm without changing the code? I used plt.show(), so that the plot shows like this: But how can I save a plot in a file without changing the code? I don'...
Running import onnxruntime as ort from datasets import load_dataset yields the error: (env-312) dernoncourt@pc:~/test$ python SE--test_importpb.py Traceback (most recent call last): File...
I am using ANSI escape codes in a shell script to colorize some parts of a string. For example, here I add the text NOTE with a red background color at the end of $var: $ var='test' $ echo $var'...
I can't run a Python file in PyCharm: why? The run icon is greyed out: I went to Run → Edit Configurations… to make sure the correct Python interpreter is selected. Debug, coverage, and profile...
I deployed a finetuned GPT 4o mini model on Azure, region northcentralus. I getting this error in the Azure portal when trying to edit it (I wanted to change the max hit rate): This model is no...
I converted the PyTorch model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-en (HuggingFace), which is an encoder-decoder model for machine translation, to ONNX using this script: import os from optimum.onnxruntime im...
I have a .NET Framework project in Visual Studio. While trying to build it, I get the following error message: Error The "DllExportAppDomainIsolatedTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.Argume...
When I write and execute a prompt in Cursor IDE, what specific information is included in the context that gets sent to the underlying language model (such as GPT or Claude)? E.g., does it include ...
I follow Azure's tutorial on fine-tuning GPT. I follow the deployment phase. Code: # Deploy fine-tuned model import json import requests token = '[redacted]' subscription = '[redacted]' ...
Although record classes in Java are implicitly final, it's valid to add the final modifier/keyword when declaring a record: final public record Person(String name, String location) {} Does fina...
I use Gemini via CLI via Google Vertex AI. I keep getting google.auth.exceptions.RefreshError: Reauthentication is needed. Please run gcloud auth application-default login to reauthenticate. ...
I'm currently working on an architecture for a microservices-based platform and I would like to get some feedback in this regard — best way to handle integrations between the internal microservices...
Suppose I have the following directory structure: folder/ aaa/ f.txt bbb/ f.txt I want to compare the file f.txt as it is common to both directories. So in zsh I type this: % d...
I think it would be funny if my web application that is hosted using an nginx reverse proxy (proxy_pass) returned something like 200 Could Be Worse rather than 200 OK, when the page load was succes...
I'm writing a function which reads specified sections in a text file formatted a particular way, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to locate the last line number. Here's an example of the...
Continuing from What is the advantage of creating instances from a method rather than constructor?, I want to construct a method that create a new instance of a class without using the constructor....
E.g., I have a variable name options. Then I write a prompt. How can I autocomplete the variable name in prompt in Cursor? (i.e., instead of typing options, I want to only type o then it'll autocom...
How can I automatically delete any deployment of a fine-tuned OpenAI model on Azure that hasn't been used in the past x hours? I am aware of 15-day timeout. However, this is too long for me, as th...
How can I automatically delete any deployment of a fine-tuned OpenAI model on Azure that hasn't been used in the past x hours? I am aware of 15-day timeout. However, this is too long for me, as th...
I added my Azure OpenAI account show up in Cursor in the settings: But I don't see the Azure OpenAI model as one of the available models: Why doesn't my Azure OpenAI model show up in Cursor? ...
Take the newly Temporal.PlainDate class as an example. New instances can be created via the constructor: new Temporal.PlainDate(year, month, day) new Temporal.PlainDate(year, month, day, calendar...
