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I am developing a modular HTML-PHP-CSS no-JavaScript (JavaScriptless) contact form and the HTML is becoming increasingly large, around 80 lines (and could easily grow to be significantly larger as ...
Trying to make a nannou app from the template but with a customizable model() function. The template has this main(): fn main() { nannou::app(model).update(update).run(); } The model t...
I have a simple HTML contact form and I wish to create a text area in it with <input type="text"> but without a <textarea> tag. The end product should be an <input type="text"> f...
I have a JavaScript file in GitHub which I typically run by copy-pasting all its data into different user script managers (USMs) on different web browsers. I need to start executing that remote fi...
#include<iostream> using namespace std; class Book{ public: string title; string author; int pages; Book(string aTitle, string aAuthor, int aPages){ aTitle = title; ...
I wrote a program named Kernel.c 2 months into my life in programming and created 4 functions at the time, and now there are 7 functions. Recently, I updated the program completely onto an online ...
I would assume the following content types would be standard when creating a web shop with Drupal but maybe I am wrong: Home page Article page Product page Service page Another page Are t...
Sometimes I will need to temporarily lock out other MySQL users when I am making large structure changes and want to make sure that nobody else is inputting or changing the data. The other use case...
If I have some text in a cell, how can I find the number of times another piece of text appears in it? For example, suppose A1 contains Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.. pick occurs 2...
A presently unanswered question on Stack Overflow asks: Does there exist a popcount function in libreoffice calc? and clarifies that "I often use BASE(A1;2;8) to show a number in binary".
As a person with no significant background in mathematics and computer science I thought that concatenation and AND are logically identical if not very similar because both add something to somethi...
I have a couple of 3d example projects in gcode for my printer but the printer bed has a couple of bumps in the center (where things are printed by default) and in order to print the objects I woul...
I'm trying to set up a simple test project, to unit test a change I'm working on. The change is to a file inside some existing project. I've tried to set up the includes as the original has it, but...
A user of Web Applications asked "How should I fix the formula?" with reference to: =IF($K4<2,$K4) applied as a Conditional Formatting [CF] formula to J4:J8, where the desired (green fill) f...
For use in connection with conditional formatting with alternating coloured fills in OpenOffice Calc, several years ago a user of Super User was applying this Ruby script: f = File.readlines("sha...
In an as yet unanswered Q from early this year a user of Stack Overflow asked: how to fill all non-empty cells of a column by 1 and the empty cells by 0. It's an xlsx file open with LibreOffice ...
A very recently asked Q on Web Applications has no answer yet (and, in my opinion, is so badly written may not receive an answer at all promptly). However it does seem (in my interpretation) to rai...
In response to a Q on Web Applications [WA] the asker self-answered with: =CONCATENATE("@ £/€ rate: ",text(J21,"0.00000")) The issue was that, with "in a cell J21 I have a set value 1.10000":. ...
A user of Web Applications gave the following as an example: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nPTBFXaIgpruPgNoWFSBUL2yKaibjeNJNExhnHVr8LE/edit#gid=0 and asked: How do I read a long ro...
A Q on Stack Overflow asks how to merge two columns where each row has only one populated cell. The example was from (on the left) to (on the right): a|b a 0| ...
I'm trying to create an encrypted¹ zip archive using bsdtar. Here's where I got stuck: bsdtar -c --options='zip:encryption' --passphrase "secret" -f test.zip test This is the error I get: bs...
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 have to modify a legacy Django web application where there are 2 tables to store the same information using the same database structure, and the only difference is the names of the tables (and th...
Sometimes when I try to install a third-party library for Python, I get an error saying that either distutils, or some part of it like distutils.core or distutils.util, could not be found. It's sho...
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 write a spec test for a (correctly working) Angular component, but it errors when calling a service method with: TypeError: _this.myService.getSomeData is not a function The service...
I have the following xarray Dataset: d: <xarray.Dataset> Dimensions: (x: 79, y: 63, t: 1) Coordinates: * x (x) float64 0.9412 1.882 2.824 3.765 ... 71.53 72.47 73.41 74.35 * ...
I'm trying to revive an old project of mine. It was built with Phalcon PHP 2 or 3 (I don't even remember which version, but quite old). There I could include a call to the loop inside the controll...
Is there a way in Ubuntu to run a given bash command for a given Key combination in Gnome (42.9)? I run an Ubuntu in Hyper-V and after a while the normal Keyboard layout change doesn't work (maybe...
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...
NOTE The meaning of the word "program" below is (PROGRAM) A federal or state initiative that offers grants for non-profits so that they can provide service at low cost or free of charge. a...
Amazon product URLs are often very long, but on experimentation it is revealed that the following pattern is sufficient: https://www.amazon.com/{dp|gp}/$ID ID is a 10-char string, which I'm gue...
I am currently working with LWJGL and the obstacle I face right now on my project is rendering textures to a cube, e.x a set of 8 vertices with position, color, and UV information. For now, I am st...
I've created a code snippet in "functions.php" that should add another product to your cart if you mark the checkbox, but somehow, only the original product is add (like the single product from the...
Is there a Python serialization format that has capabilities similar to Pickle, but is text based? The problem I always have with pickle is that it's binary, so I can't manually view or edit the d...
From reading about the Crossfilter data manipulation library for JavaScript, I take it that "groups" are an important concept in its operation. However, the Crossfilter documentation does not ever...
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....
By principle, I normally work with two different companies for establishing websites for myself: One for domain registration and domain-sole email address One for web application hosting My ...
I need to drop all of the stored procedures from my MySQL database before I recreate them. How can I do so?
Based on my understanding HTTP is something client and server speak in, I mean it is like a language for a server and client to communicate(not exactly a programming language). Then how to understa...
How do I mock tempnam() with vfsStream for code that uses it to create temporary files (for example, in a PHPUnit test)?
I have just created an ASP.NET Core 6 application and added NLog support for logging: NLogBuilder.ConfigureNLog("nlog.config").GetCurrentClassLogger() However, this API is almost deprecated as ...
I have to migrate a bunch of text from an old application into a new one. Some of these texts contain HTML tags and entities (HTML editor was used) and now they do not want to support this in the n...
Using Angular-IMask, I'm programatically updating the field that has IMask. So I'm getting the error: "Element value was changed outside of mask. Syncronize mask using mask.updateValue() to work p...
This data tree is comprised of clickable buttons and I want to expose all branches, in a single action, instead of clicking each vertical arrow button anew. I have tried the following code which d...
Credit for User:Meriton for developing the following code (first published here): function replaceIn(e) { if (e.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE) { e.nodeValue = e.nodeValue.replaceAll("a", "");...
I want use single layout xml file for two different activities in android. Is it possible? How can I do it?
The following code (credit for user:hkotsubo) moves the user to another page if Alt+Shift+E are pressed together. window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { let domain = window.loca...
I wish to view the revision-history-webpage of a webpage in MediaWiki without the conventional button to do so (I've disabled that button for aesthetic reasons). Please disable the MediaWiki View ...
I am working on adding uncertainty to some of my dynamics within a larger Monte Carlo simulation. As a way to perform multiple operations on each value, I decided to make and use a new function to ...
