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I have following setup: flutter plugin with an example app the plugin depends on a native library (flutter_plugin.podspec contains s.dependency 'native-lib', '0.1.0') for local development I pull ...
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...
When looking for Perl modules to handle JSON strings and/or documents, I found JSON::PP and JSON::XS. The documentation of JSON::PP says it is compatible with JSON::XS. What do these suffixes me...
I am building an Android app to perform a DICOM C-Echo. (DICOM is a standard for storing and transferring medical images; the specification is at dicom.nema.org). My purpose is to learn more about ...
Given ColumnA contains a Text header (A1), an allowed maximum number (A2), fifty tickboxes (A3:A62) and a formula in A63 of: =countif(A3:A62,TRUE) how can I block application of more than the a...
I just completed my first install of SQL as a server-based, Enterprise Edition. I wanted to check it out using SSMS on PC using my Admin Access. But could not connect. For security reasons my adm...
I need to add one column with the same name to all of the tables in my database, how can I find which tables don't currently have a column with that name?
I have noticed some time ago that Entity Framework assumes a CASCADE behaviour (implicit value, if not specified) for referential constraints (FKs) when deleting items. This means that by default, ...
I am using tf.keras.preprocessing.image_dataset_from_directory. According to the documentation, the related image_size parameter is the Size to resize images to after they are read from disk. How...
Context: Azure; Windows Server 2012; IIS 8 First up, here's the (redacted) web.config for reference <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="ReverseProxyInboundRule1" stopProcessing="false"&...
I'm using Jenkins with a branch parameter to specify the branch to build from. Other stuff downstream needs the branch name to not have the leading "origin/" -- just "feature/blahblah" or "bugfix/1...
Note: This is basically a question from Stack Overflow that was closed for a very long period of time and I fear it might get closed again as primarily opinion based. I am wondering if my ASP.NET C...
I was fooling around with the following C code on my trusty old x86 PC: #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> int main (void) { uint32_t u32 = 0xAABBCCDD; uint8_t* ptr = (u...
I have added Swagger UI for an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application and I have realized that all endpoints requiring Windows Authentication fail. This issue is created by the fact that generated HTTP reque...
I've been doing a lot of reading on implementing the repository pattern in C# projects and found controversy, or shall I say some strong criticism, made by seemingly very smart people with previous...
I'm developing the design framework for a certain Q&A site. We are currently using an external dependency for the tag selector on the post editor, but it has some disadvantages (not fitting int...
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...
Say I want to implement a very basic group chat application. I use the H2 database, a user class, a controller, and a text file in the Resources folder that stores the chat texts. All texts would b...
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...
When creating a new Blazor Webassembly project, there is a checkbox ASP.NET Core hosted where if selected will create three projects at once, a blazor webassembly project, an ASP.NET Core project, ...
I have found this nice library for parsing/writing .elf files as output by e.g. the GCC toolchain: ELFIO I have a bare metal embedded project with an ARM Cortex M target. My goal is to overwrite...
Some while ago a user of Web Applications asked after a function to avoid "an if/else just to handle negative numbers properly". Clarification provided was: Presently it round based on absolute...
When doing something simple such as this int a=1; int b=2; int c=3; printf("%d\n", a + b * c); then I was told that operator precedence guarantees that the code is equivalent to a + (b * c)...
To protect against dictionary and rainbow table attacks it is well known that passwords should be salted before hashing. The salt (unique to each password) gets stored with the hash, often in the s...
We are using Jenkins to run our system tests on a regular schedule. The Jenkins job downloads some python scripts from Perforce, runs them and compares the outputs with known-good results. The pro...
I have tables A and B and then I have a many to many join table with foreign keys to both called a_b. Neither foreign key can be null and the combinations for the foreign keys to A and B are unique...
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...
I am currently making a userscript to interpret the APL programming language in a Stackexchange chat window. This is the code I have come up with: // ==UserScript== // @name APL chat // @ver...
I have a function that which does some calculations. I would like to assign the result of the function to the global environment from within the function, how do I proceed? A minimal example: meanF...
How do I mock tempnam() with vfsStream for code that uses it to create temporary files (for example, in a PHPUnit test)?
I added a QPushButton to my ui file named pushButton, and manually connected it using connect. There are no errors or warnings emitted at any point in the compilation stage The button does show up...
I can't get a response from IPv4 dig on my server but I can get one from IPv6 dig. See the below output: $ dig +short myip.opendns.com a @resolver1.opendns.com # Doesn't return anything, this used ...
I have created this sensational program: #include <stdio.h> int* func (void) { int local=5; return &local; } int main (void) { printf("%d\n", *func()); } This prints 5 even thoug...
Its possible to execute a MySQL file from the command line like so, mysql -u USER -pPASSWORD < FILENAME which triggers a warning, mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line int...
I'm experimenting with different operators and have a hard time understanding the outcome of certain expressions. I try to combine the ++ operators with other operators such as assignment in the sa...
In the example.xsd file I have an import to an external xsd file that looks like this: <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://test.example.com" ...
I have a number of MySQL stored procedures that use a cursor to go through a select and then pass the results to other stored procedures one row at a time. This can take a while to run, what is hap...
I do a lot of rebasing and amending of my topic branches. I don't think it's especially useful for me or my colleagues to see in the logs what date it was when I first started working on the partic...
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 ...
Which concept is best for managed background services? 1. RunAsync(CancellationToken): interface IWorker { Task RunAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default); } ... IWorker worker =...
The Problem I have a path optimization problem that in some ways reminds me of the Traveling Salesman Problem, but differs in some key respects. I have a group of items that need to be used by a m...
I have line-based data on the form x1=y2; a3=b4; c5=d6; ... Matching this with a extended regular expression is fairly straightforward; for example, one can do something not entirely dissimilar...
I am using MediatR in an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application and I want use a generic query and a generic request that deals with getting lists of some standard items I am using in drop-downs and similar:...
I'm facing rsync full syncs every once upon a time, I think it's because DST, notice an hour of difference: $ ls -l tier2/VIDEO-2020-06-17-15-10-27.mp4 /Volumes/KINSTON2/dat/laptop_kinstones/tier2...
I have some SQL scripts that contain DDL to create tables and schemas for a database. I'd like to be able to comment this SQL and then use those comments to generate output documentation (in HTML)...
Due to a series of unfortunate events I have some tables where the auto_increment value got behind what it should be. If the auto_increment value is 9 and there are 20 rows in the table the next 1...
When writing Python-based apps (e.g. Django, Flask, etc.), it's often the case that import statements can be found all over the place, often more than once for the same module. For example, you can...
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...
We have two teams, dev and doc, and I'd like them to have shared access (via git) to a common subset of content. Specifically, I would like the examples that are used in the doc and that are scrip...
I have a small new Python 3.8 Flask project with some relative import quirks. For the DB I use SQLAlchemy with Flask-Migrate. My project has the following general structure: controllers/ static/ te...
