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If one finds where the past number of months equals the past number of days like this, select distinct DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 92 DAY),DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL 3 MONTH) The numbers that are curre...
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've noticed that a lot of sites have something like this going on: <div class="has-margin-0 has-padding-4"> <div>...</div> <div>...</div> ... </div>...
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?
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...
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, ...
The default Swing look and feel can be set in $JAVA_HOME/conf/swing.properties What else can be set in this file? I can't find any other documentation of it.
I am writing a spoof of the fs module; the actual storage mechanism is not the the filesystem but rather a database. Overall, however, the api will function exactly like fs. So far my code is compa...
On a Linux server, if you leave the .git folder unprotected in the public_html folder, its possible that someone could download the folder and then gain access to your files. There are two ways I h...
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 saw at least one compiler (Codewarrior for HC12) warn me if I use a function without using it's return value. Other compilers (clang/gcc) do not issue a warning though, even when using the std=90...
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...
I have a number of command line PHP scripts that are either run by a user or by Windows Task Scheduler. These scripts use DB and API credentials and I am wondering if there is a better way of stori...
In order to test that coredumps are generated and that they contain useful information which can be retreived with gdb I need to generate a SIGSEGV. Or anything else which causes a coredump. The co...
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...
When I want to print a number or a string, I can use f-strings (Python >= 3.6) or str.format, and I can use just the variable between braces, or use format specifiers. Ex: num, text = 10, 'abc' ...
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...
I need to rename one column in 170 tables in a MySQL database and its going really slow. The columns all have an index plus a foreign key on them, would dropping the index/temporarily removing the...
Angular CLI official page indicated how to install the CLI, but provides no information about how to upgrade it. I am interested in how to upgrade the CLI.
I'm working on an API to respond some data about a bunch of orders and items. The order and item numbers are always an integer (it's the order.id and item.id value, respectively). Originally the re...
I have heard that it is undefined behaviour to make a pointer point outside boundaries of an array even without dereferencing it. Can that really be true? Consider this code: int main(void) { ...
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...
