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I found a form I wanted to duplicate on a roof construction website. All my input boxes are centered except the last one that's a bit off and I cannot figure out why. Here is my code: HTML <...
I was tasked with an assignment where I should get a box to move to the 4 corners of the viewport by hovering on a button. Most of the code is already finished except for figuring out how to get th...
Context: I have a varchar column in a segment event table that contains version numbers. Most of these are formatted nicely as X.Y.Z (major.minor.patch) where X, Y, and Z are integers. However, the...
Found the example below in a book teaching logical database design, but I'm stuck on how one would implement this in PostreSQL: The diagram reflects the following business rule: An instructor...
My Android app needs to process lists that contain nullable elements. I am using JUnit 4.13.2 for unit testing. I am using Android Studio Flamingo | 2022.2.1 Patch 2 . I have a failing test,...
I need to pass URI's that contain special characters, using Spring Boot. The characters include spaces, curly braces ({ and }), square brackets ([ and ]), and hash signs (#). The problem is that ...
VS Code supports regex search, but the search/replace is UI is just a tiny dialog box. It's okay if you know regex well and the expression is not complex, but when trying to apply complicated expre...
print() normally adds text to STDOUT, it does not erase existing text. https://linux.codidact.com/posts/289869 describes various ways of doing the overwrite in shell scripts. How can you do this ...
I have git repo where the .git is deleted. I didn't realize it until after I made some changes to the code. I want to re-create the .git by cloning. However I don't want it to touch the files that...
Suppose you have a jinja template like this: I am going to {{ foo }} to get some {{ bar }}. I hope I can find: {% for i in baz %} - {{i}} {% endfor %} This template will require you to pass ...
Background + Example Code Let's say I have a SwiftUI ViewModel like so: class ViewModel: ObservableObject { @Published var strs: [String] = [] func fetchStrs() async { // T...
Question How can I read data from a NestJS Redis Cache as a stream? I'm using Nest.js and its @nestjs/cache-manager (using the Redis implementation), I need to read data I have stored in the cach...
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...
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...
I am migrating a WPF app to WinUI3. Things went well until I needed to put a combo box in the datagrid. That MS had removed the datagrid from the standard tools was overcome with Community Toolkit ...
I have created a directory named Temporary_add_to_version_control on Desktop. Now I am trying to reach that directory by typing the following in git-bash: cd ~/Desktop/Temporary_add_to_version_con...
I am in need of downloading some files (from dynamic list of URLs) and archive them into a single zip file. Since these files can be arbitrarily sized (totaling hundreds of MB), I want to avoid dow...
On a live boot of Ubuntu 20.04, I was trying to clone into a private GitHub repository. I went through the hassle of installing git, and then gh, and making sure I was signed in through the termina...
TL;DR Is (a and b) equivalent to tf.logical_and(a, b) in terms of optimization and performance? (a and b are tensorflow tensors) Details I use Python with Tensorflow. My priorities are Make t...
I have a Looker table look displayed to users using SSO embedding in an iframe. When displayed to users, the users can access the column options menu via a cog-wheel dropdown. In Admin > Platfo...
I understand that in object-oriented programming, an object is an instance of a class. If it's an instance, I misunderstand why does it need the term object at all (we could just say "instance"). ...
Hey, regarding a question on returning pointers as functions, why does my code produce this error & won't print out the sum = 6? #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int *A...
I want to ensure I understand the following code; credit to user:m3g4p0p on Sitepoint, for this code: const walker = document.createTreeWalker( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT ) let...
In Python 2, I was able to create a file named .env within a project folder like so: # .env MY_ID=abc123 TOKEN=4567890 Then in a Python file in the same directory, I could read these variable...
I am trying to create an app with two toolbars on top and a specific collapsing/expanding behaviour on scrolling. See the mockup to get a deeper understanding of what I'm trying to achieve: I fo...
One of the legacy applications our team manages contained the following pattern (in the controller): // initialization private readonly IServiceScopeFactory _serviceScopeFactory; public FooCon...
One of the legacy applications my team has to maintain has almost always this pattern for dealing with data modification: try { // get the connection // begin transaction // optional...
There are a lot of articles and presentations that show little love for ORMs. This is mainly because some queries are so complex and heavy on the database that they lead to significant issues in p...
Our team is finally focusing on writing more automatic testing and one of my ex-colleagues recommended to try out the Verify library. The tool does the following: runs the test and compares the...
I am stumped at Maven exec plugin. Running mvn exec:exec -Dexec.executable="curl" (or "echo") works. But when running mvn exec:exec or mvn exec:exec@b (or @a) it fails saying The parameter 'exe...
Is there a way to add support for "move symbol" in Python code for VS Codium? PyCharm can do this, but I am looking for a VSC solution. PyLance can do this, but PyLance itself is closed source, a...
I want to pass a variable to TeamCity (on prem) to choose between deployment environments (there are 14 of 'em - don't ask) when running a TC deployment configuration build which uses a PowerShell ...
I am all new with using Redux Toolkit, I followed the official documentation to setup the store: // store.ts import { configureStore, ThunkAction, Action, combineReducers } from '@reduxjs/toolkit...
I like using NATURAL JOIN in Snowflake, because I find it more elegant than explicit join clauses. However, it appears that the natural join behaves similar to an inner join, in that null values o...
Flutter supports packaging a SQLite instance with a Flutter app using the Sqflite plugin. I do not like the speed of SQLite or the fact that it does not enforce column datatypes and want to use som...
I installed Node.js using NVS to manage my node installations. This works great, except that I haven't been able to figure out how to debug using VS Code. When trying to launch, I receive this err...
I am migrating an application from Log4j1 to Log4j2 using the API bridge jar. All references to the log4j1.jar have already been removed. I set the system property in Websphere as a JVM argument -...
We have done a reverse proxy to forward blog.example.com to example.com/blog. As I think it gives great help in getting the “link juice” to the root domain. However, I am concerned about any possi...
I'm looking at the behaviour of Chrome and my test framework and trying to understand what the correct behaviour should be before raising an issue/ticket on one or the other (or revisiting how my t...
Suppose I have some variables like: >>> count = 8 >>> status = 'off' I want to combine them with some hard-coded text, to get a single string like 'I have 8 cans of Spam®; b...
We have a console application using the Azure WebJob SDK. The WebJob relies on a WCF service using SOAP, which it accesses through a DLL we wrote that wraps the auto-generated WCF types in somethin...
MWE import random import pandas as pd from itertools import product random.seed(12345) dies = [1, 2] cells = list(range(10)) currents = [100, 200, 300] dcc = list(product(dies, ce...
Hi, I'm trying to use the JSON Generator to create data with nested repeating values. I want to create 100 objects with an ID, Name, and Code. The Id is incremented from 0 to 99, but the Code (pr...
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...
I am working on a toy project where I have a container for which I would like to write an iterator that iterates over the values in the container. Because the values are stored in a (c-style) arra...
Suppose I have some code in a file myscript.py like: def my_function(): print("Test") What steps do I need to take in order to make my_function run? That is to say: how do I get Python to ...
In a stored procedure let's say I have a VARCHAR variable, DECLARE example_variable VARCHAR(100); how much memory is allocated to it and is that independent of the length of the data in the var...
I am interested in performing a LEFT JOIN using LINQ-2-SQL when working with method call notation. This answer suggests a way that relies on GroupJoin but it is more verbose than expected: var le...
I have decided to convert a legacy database-first ASP.NET Core project to code-first. However, I have noticed that the project used the same database as another bigger project and the Entity Framew...
Using the below graph as an example: I am trying to determine all Persons which are_sons of Persons all born in the same country. Is there an elegant way to achieve this with Cypher?
