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How do I ask git-show-branch to display a commit range?

For some tasks, I find git show-branch easier to follow than git log. For example, inspecting the history on someone's PR before merging it. git show-branch master topic stops at the first common ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by ajv‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

git git-show-branch git-history
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Uncaught ReferenceError: variable is not defined

I have a variable defined using const keyword. function Text() { const variable = "Hello!"; } console.log(variable); When I try to access this variable, I get: Uncaught ReferenceError...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

javascript constant variable reference-error
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Proper way of sending large amount of data from View to ViewModel

The problem I am working on a simple drawing app for Android. I have a custom view on which the user can draw. This means that a lot of data (a list of points) is generated in this View. I want t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by nnlei‭

java android binding
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How to parse a date with more than 3 decimal digits in the fractions of second?

I'm using SimpleDateFormat to parse a string containing a date/time, but the result has a different date, hour, minute, second and millisecond: SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by hkotsubo‭

java date simpledateformat date-parsing
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What is the difference between a hook and a code injection?

I would define a hook as: A piece of code which changes the response to a certain event, without changing the original code that caused the event How is that different than "code injection", if a...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by BobJarvis‭

terminology event response code-injection hook
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Unable to use pyttx3 (libespeak.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

from tkinter import * from tkinter import messagebox, filedialog import pyttsx3 import PyPDF2 import os import webbrowser root = Tk() # root.geometry("500x500") root.title("Audio Book") ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexei‭

python-3 pyttx3 pyaudio
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How do I redact values when Save()ing a yaml structure with YamlDotNet?

I handle several projects that use yaml files for configuration, and load them with YamlDotNet. It is sometimes useful to log the effective configuration when the program starts, to aid future debu...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by ajv‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Troy‭

c# .net yaml yamldotnet
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Migrating a MediaWiki website to Drupal

I consider to migrate a large MediaWiki website to Drupal 9. All the webpages include MediaWiki syntax, just one example is the link syntax: [[ARTICLE NAME|LINK_TEXT]] for internal links [URL ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user

mediawiki drupal
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How to get string length in D?

I'm new to D and am planning to use it for golfing. I want to make a ROT13 converter and I want to determine the length of an inputted string. Is there a function for this? If not, what ways can I...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by hkotsubo‭

string function d
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theme always not changing [closed]

const body = document.body; const light = evt => { body.setAttribute('data-theme', 'light'); localStorage.setItem("theme", "light"); console.log("light"); } const dark = ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  closed 4y ago by Alexei‭

javascript html theme
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Why does Firefox block based on a restrictive default-src directive, when more specific, more permissive *-src exist?

I am working on a website which unfortunately uses a mix of linked and inline CSS and Javascript (and, even more unfortunately, I can't do a lot about the use of inline CSS and Javascript), and am ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Moshi‭

content-security-policy
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Why storing variables inside a variable?

In the past I have read about the fact that some programmers use a variable to hold two or more variables (instead holding a mere value or an array). There might also be cases when programmers use...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by Derek Elkins‭

design-patterns constant variable
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error[E0507]: cannot move out of X which is behind a shared reference.

Making a Nannou App that draws a line to the screen. My model only contains the window itself and a vector of tuples describing the points and color. Similar to this example(under Drawing Lines) ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by telefza‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by telefza‭

rust nannou
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What's the difference between =, == and === operators in JavaScript?

While learning JavaScript, I started to see =, == and === operators. What's the difference between them?

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by hkotsubo‭

javascript operators
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What's the difference between placing <script> in the <head> and placing in the <body>?

While learning JavaScript, I started to see sometimes the <script> is placed in the <head> and sometimes it is placed in the <body>, What's difference between placing the <scri...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

javascript html performance
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Are the terms "property" and "method" practical in programming languages other than JavaScript? [closed]

I would say that the terms "property" and "method" are basic in JavaScript programming (at least in the context of web/front), but are they basic or common in other programming languages such as C,...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  closed 4y ago by Alexei‭

terminology
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A standard about content types when creating a web shop with Drupal

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user

drupal
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How do I communicate with a subproject in qmake?

When working with a qmake subdirs project you may want to share configuration between multiple projects. In a less common case you may including a external project within your own as code and want ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by dmckee‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dmckee‭

qmake subproject
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updating a function within a struct

What I want: An object that contains a function that I can update after creation. I created a struct that contains a parameter b and a function(closure?) named Internal_Fn. struct MyThing { ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by telefza‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Derek Elkins‭

rust lifetime
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Strange change of object lightness and colour in Nannou application

Building a Nannou App from their template. I want a circle to slowly fade in color and randomly change color when hitting the boundary of the window. But there is something strange going on when ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by telefza‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by telefza‭

rust nannou
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Why does this code that uses a pointer-to-pointer-to-int segfault?

Hello folks, can someone resolve this seg fault with me please, i can't find the error where it occur. Thank you. #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int ft_ultimate_range(int *...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by M3dc0d‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

c gcc segmentation-fault
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How to find out which packages target .NET 3.1 in a .NET 5 application?

After upgrading a Web application from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to ASP.NET Core 5.0, it worked fine on an existing server. However, when deployed on a server that had only .NET 5.0 installed, the applicat...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexei‭

asp.net-core-3.1 upgrade asp.net-core-5.0 nuget-package
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Path separator for Atom / JavaScript on Windows

I have developed an Atom package which calls SyncTeX (a utility for reverse lookup for LaTeX), and then opens in Atom the file specified in the SyncTeX response. I'm developing on Linux, but now a ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by A. Donda‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

javascript atom-editor path-separator
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How to call a function from ruby-on-rails (HTML)?

Let I have a button <button type="button" onclick = "myfunction()" class="collapsible">Expand content</button> And, I have a JS function. function collapse() { var coll = docu...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

javascript function html ruby-on-rails
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Storing input from different frontend webpages of a multi page contact form

I consider to create a multi page contact form in which there is one backend page but about 5 front-end pages (stage 1-5). Pages 1-4 are input pages and page 5 is for a submit button and a success ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by elgonzo‭

javascript persistence
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Separation of password cookies from all other types of cookies

When I clear my Google Chrome browser history I can clear both "Cookies and other site data" AND "passwords and other sign-in data". Clearing just one of the two would require me to re-login t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

web cookies browser
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Reading contents of XML node

I'm writing some functions in C that parses a part of a XML file (using libxml), but instead of extracting the content of the XML node that has a specific name, it outputs a string that's not in UT...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by southernisles‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

c xml-parsing segmentation-fault xml libxml
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Splitting a large HTML file into two or more HTML files without JavaScript

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by deleted user

php html modularization
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What are the types of contact forms?

I get the impression that there are two general types of contact forms: A regular contact form where all fields are in one webpage ; such form might be very long for a potential customer ("too m...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

terminology contact-form
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An HTML form in Hebrew is Right to Left in general but a select list inside it is Left to Right

My HTML form got dir="rtl" attribute and value and in desktop computer systems it appears Right to Left (RTL) but in my mobile device (OnePLus 6) with Android and DuckDuckGo browser, the form's HTM...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by deleted user

html right-to-left
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redirect to "main" code in Ruby using Ctrl

In Android Studio, when I click on a variable. It redirects me to where the variable was declared. Even, when coder writes lot of code than, it becomes hard to find "main" object by scrolling. Rub...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

ruby-on-rails go-to-definition
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Why use an asterisk after a type?

#include<stdio.h> struct Node{ int data; struct Node* next; }; Here I used an asterisk after Node. What is it used for? What if I don't put any asterisk after Node (both Node...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by hkotsubo‭

c pointers
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Print value from constructor

#include<iostream> using namespace std; class Book{ public: string title; string author; int pages; Book(string aTitle, string aAuthor, int aPages){ aTitle = title; ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

c++ constructor initialization
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Saving modified data in gridview on clicking SaveButton

I am struggling to do a save button in C# Windows Form Application where I have a GridView and I want to save all modifications I do in GridView Table(I connected it to SQL). This is the data sourc...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Cri‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

c# winforms gridview
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Input taking only first character of a string

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by elgonzo‭

c string input
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How to do "out-of-source" build properly with cmake?

There are two broad types of build environments - in-source and out-of-source. "In-source" means the compiled files will appear in the same directory as source files. "Out-of-source" means there is...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by anatolyg‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by alex‭

cmake
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Mixing "operational" database models with archiving ones in the database context

Context Our product owner has realized that some entities are duplicated from time to time and that a merge is required. This should clean up existing duplicates and also allow special users to me...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by meriton‭

entity-framework-core architecture archiving
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Accessibility standard/s for multilined <input type="text"> fields

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by hkotsubo‭

html accessibility
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Where did my proper divisor sum program went wrong?

Here in Python, I created a program for this challenge and I'm having trouble debugging it. I already fixed most errors I have on my program but here's what I have left: x=y=z=[];i=0.0;a=int(input...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by hkotsubo‭

python debugging
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How to create a MySQL generated column that uses a join in a concat?

I have a column that is a concatenation of 5 other columns plus a join to a different table. UPDATE db.a JOIN db.b ON fk_b = b.pk SET concat_field = CONCAT(field1,field2,field3,b.field,field4,fi...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexei‭

mysql generated-columns
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Validate All Object Properties with JSON Schema

I'm writing a JSON schema to validate asset files for a program. The JSON I need to parse is structured so: { "jobs": { "software-developer": { "job-description": "sw-dev.md:0", "pay": 800...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Josh Hyatt‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by elgonzo‭

json validation
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How can I emulate regular expression's branch reset in Java?

I've got this sample regex: Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?:([aeiou]+)[0-9]+|([123]+)[a-z]+)\\W+"); It basically has the following parts: one or more lowercase vowels ([aeiou]+), followed by one ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by hkotsubo‭

java regex
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Freeing sub-process resources?

I'm using Python to invoke another program in a sub-process. I've noticed my memory sometimes gets so large as to crash the system, and I'm wondering if I'm not correctly cleaning up the memory som...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Hyperlynx‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Patol75‭

python memory-management subprocess resources memory-leaks
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Can Drupal be used to develop native (non web) applications?

I have used Drupal since 2010 to create websites and I recall a few years back reading that it can be used to create smartphone applications (or something similar). Is this only the "web-integrate...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by corporat‭

drupal
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Why content delivery networks often require a www. redirect?

Why do Content Delivery Networks are often developed in such a way that they would require adding a Cname value such as www. before example.com? I ask this after switching from one CDN (Cloudflare...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by corporat‭

web cdn redirect
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Is there a problem in making Captcha an HTML builtin with an attribute setting which type of Captcha

Many web login and contact form features could be set as standard HTML builtins without the need to develop and backend and/or (non HTML) frontend for them, for example: Select field Input Date...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by corporat‭

html security standard w3c built-in
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How to set text-align for whole column of HTML table?

To start off, here is the complete HTML of a simple example table: <html lang="en-US"> <head> <title>Title</title> <style> table { width: 20em; ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

html text-align alignment
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How to retain a service's data between components in Angular 8 ?

I would like to maintain a log that is available to several modules in my Angular 8 system. So I created the following service: @Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' }) export class LogService { ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by nelson777‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by nelson777‭

javascript angular angular-services
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Modern CSS for splitting form sections into columns

I have a mobile-only HTML contact form divided in source code into three sections; each section should contain fields by a different context. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

css css-multicolumn-layout mobile
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How to generate multi-line completions (code generation) with OpenAI?

I have finally received access to a trial account on OpenAI and I took it for a spin. My interest is with code generation, so first tried something simple using the playground: Q: generate a stand...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 4y ago by deleted user

c# openai code-generation gpt-3