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I have a project I normally build with nix and cabal, however I also want to publish my documentation onto gitlab pages. It's impractical to run my nix on the gitlab CI, so I've just been using cab...
With Azure Data Factory I tried migrating from Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL to Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB. The export went fine from the NoSQL but the import to the MongoDB did not work. I got no reasonable ...
I'm trying to build a proper understanding of what an OLAP[1] datastore vs an OLAP data engine is. I tend to put too much value on keywords like "engine" vs "data store." If it has "engine," I thin...
I'm trying to write a bash function that can sanitize filenames to make them compatible with both Linux and Windows file systems. The function should perform the following operations: Replace in...
I am using a W25Q64 flash ic to store some stuff for an ESP-32 project. I used this library from Github as it seems intended for ESP. It seemed weird that the read function uses two 16-bit paramet...
As far as I can tell, it is in part determined by the HTML spec's History API1, specifically the value of history.scrollRestoration. Quoting the HTML spec's scroll restoration mode paragraph: ...
According to this article: Since encryption is two-way, the data can be decrypted so it is readable again. Hashing, on the other hand, is one-way, meaning the plaintext is scrambled into a uniqu...
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...
The current project I am working on consists of a bunch of microservices (Web APIs) accessible only internally using Entra ID (formerly Azure ID). To simplify the development, all services expose ...
C offers two different styles when it comes to structs (and union/enum too). Either declare them using a struct tag only ("struct tag style"): struct my_type { ... }; struct my_type x; Or ...
Whenever registering to diverse sites on the net, you are often forced to enter a so called "strong password", which would ideally contain both upper case letters, lower case letters, digits, and s...
I'm learning monadic composition through Scott Wlaschin's Railway-oriented Programming post. Oncebind, switch, and >=> functions are defined, he introduces map to show how to "turn a one-trac...
The last few years, PHP has basically exploded with lots of modern language constructs that makes the life easier. But local constants are still missing, and I find that very strange. I have found...
In Eclipse, is it possible to setup custom errors or markers in the editor, for annotation processing? For example, the standard squiggly lines with descriptions. This question is not important. ...
I browse deviantArt from time to time and I wanted to make images display bigger, because there is so much useless whitespace on that site. On first glance that would be simple - remove the set di...
Taking the example from this Stackoverflow question: type Vector2D(dx : float, dy : float) = static let zero = Vector2D(0.0, 0.0) static let onex = Vector2D(1.0, 0.0) static let ...
C prohibits accessing an array out of bounds even if measures were taken to ensure that what should lie outside those bounds were known: struct MyStruct { int x[2]; int y, z; }; static...
Below are the links to code for my project. HTML CSS JavaScript I have created Magnifying Image which was successful now I am trying to add multiple images which can be display in main produc...
A well-known easter egg in Python displays some ideas about writing good Python code, credited to Tim Peters (one of the core developers). This question is about the last: Namespaces are one hon...
My actual motivation is to understand the semantics of the .gitignore file syntax in precise detail, for a program which is expected to emulate them as accurately as possible. However, while coming...
I have little to no idea what happens after a client obtains the server's certificate. It has to make sure that it (somehow) valid, but how?
The answer provided in the How to set the cell color to a user defined value using NPOI from F#? thread solves the problem of how to set the right properties using F#, but it uses a new ICellStyle ...
I need to use azure.cognitiveservices.speech. However I am getting this error: Here is code on replit it produces the same error. https://replit.com/@mystickain420/Chatty main -- https://githu...
Many older projects (i.e., older than 5 years) provide instructions to the Paket .NET dependency manager (e.g., Suave), so I started digging into it, got confused, then gave up for while because er...
Context Our team is developing a solution mainly composed of several microservices relying on ASP.NET Core. We have decided that the simplest and most cost-effective solution would be for service...
The F# language guide (see Signatures article) has a very sparse definition of what a "sealed" type is: Attribute Description [<Sealed>] For a type that has no abstract me...
I ran some Python code and it crashed with ModuleNotFoundError. What is the general approach for dealing with these situations?
I'm getting an error when trying to open a shell to a pod. This used to work. $ kubectl exec --tty --stdin --namespace my-ns my-pod -- sh Error from server (BadRequest): Upgrade request required ...
I am writing some scripts that operate on emails in Maildir format. A lot of things are easy in this format, but the filenames are absolutely incomprehensible. For example, one script moves mails ...
How to delete a local git branch which hasn't been pushed to anywhere, and only exists locally?
When you do: cd /some/path code . VS Code opens with that location shown in the "Explorer" sidebar. However, the state of the file tree and the currently open files will be the same as what wa...
I'm trying to set the transform attribute of a group within an SVG. Specifically, I'd like to set translate's value to 0 0. I tried using the set element for this but that didn't have an observab...
I've figured out that code --new-window /foo/bar/baz.txt will open baz.txt in a new window. But when I do this, it says "no folder opened" in the file explorer pane. That makes it hard to work with...
My question relates to Spring-boot-loader v2.6.15. For the purposes of this question, I will refer to Spring's custom JarFile class as CustomJarFile to avoid confusion. Context I am reusing so...
How to delete a branch from a remote in git? E.g. maybe you had this branch locally too, but you deleted it already according to this question. Now you want to get rid of the corresponding remote ...
I loaded a binary into Ghidra for analysis. The decompiler says undefined8 main(void) { basic_ostream *pbVar1; char *pcVar2; [--snip--] pbVar1 = std::operator<<(pbVar1,"PXZ ");...
GitHub has a setting wherein they offer to "anonymize" your user email from, say, somebody@example.com to somebody@users.noreply.github.com. I presume this is to prevent you from getting spam from ...
What I would like to do I would like to try to build a language model 100% from scratch if possible, for a learning experience. That means no external libraries and no pre-curated datasets. It ...
In PHP why is using global like in the example below considered bad? $a = 1; class foo { public function bar() { global $a; // <-- Why is this considered bad? } } ...
I'd like to get the minimum and maximum values of the axes on a Chart.js 4.4.0 plot. When the plot is created, these values must be calculated somewhere. However, reading through the Chart.js doc...
I wish to add a property with the date of the current Git commit to the assembly info. From my .csproj: <Exec Command="git -C "$(ProjectDir)." log -1 --pretty=format:%ad" ...
Personal Project: I am new to Maven and have spent a few weeks troubleshooting pom errors with chatGPT. Tutorials are hard to come by online, because annotation-processing in Java is more complica...
I'm completing the rustlings exercises as part of self-teaching Rust. While working on the third iterators exercise, I solved the exercise but don't quite understand why my solution works. Specifi...
I regularly run into the problem that I have a Python function that I want to use in both, eager and graph execution mode. I therefore have to adjust the code so that it can handle both situations....
First, a reminder to future self (the figure RFC 3986, Section 3. Syntax Components complemented with Section 3.2. Authority): The following are two example URIs and their component parts: ...
I have created a tag in my project, using git tag v2023 However, I forgot to commit a few changes. Now I would like to move this tag to the current point (after having committed the changes I had...
So I googled some on how to make a case insensitive criteria query but could not find the solution very easily. So I basically have code that looks like this: ... query.criteria("fieldName").con...
What is the best way to convert Dos paths to Posix paths in Powershell? eg given: C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules\ I want something like: /Program\ Files/PowerShell/Modules/ Is the only so...
A jinja template expression starts and ends with double curly brackets, which the templating engine consumes. But what if you need a single pair of curly brackets left in the output? Something lik...
Just getting into F#, finally figured out how to add .NET packages to projects, but the way I managed to get it to work doesn't make sense. Once the package is installed (either with nuget or paket...
