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When reading posts at programming sites such as this one, I frequently encounter people saying things like: "There is no pass-by-reference in C, everything is passed by value." People claiming su...
As this is the first question about Google Apps Script, here is a very brief description: it is a platform that helps people easily get programmatic access to Google apps data like Gmail messages, ...
Context I have started working on an Angular upgrade for a medium-sized project (from v. 10 to v. 15) and this is a rather long activity that is interrupted by other changes that need to be perfor...
I am using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop. After using docker for a while I have noticed that C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\data\ext4.vhdx has grown quite a bit (20GB+...
When I run pip install foo, pip looks for foo in PyPi. I want it to look for it first in a private repo, let's say pypi.bar.com. Only if foo cannot be found in pypi.bar.com, should pip then look f...
My large, multi-module Maven project validation (Maven Enforcer plug-in) is playing tricks on me. moduleA> mvn validate correctly finds all modules runs enforcer on all of them displays co...
How to make Husky run git hook? I have a working git hook, prepare-commit-message, but the moment Husky was installed, the hook stopped working. Not finding much luck, I then tried to make it a "H...
Let's say I have a script that needs the user to set X number of variables at the start. One can either Pass the arguments in on the command line. Start the program and then have the user input...
I need to load a site based on a cookie. I wrote code to validate that, like this. if(!isset($_COOKIE['cookie'])){ $domain = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; setcookie('cookie', $cookie, time() ...
If I have some text in a cell, how can I find the number of times another piece of text appears in it? For example, suppose A1 contains Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.. pick occurs 2...
We have a console application using the Azure WebJob SDK. The WebJob relies on a WCF service using SOAP, which it accesses through a DLL we wrote that wraps the auto-generated WCF types in somethin...
This is a rather vague question, but I'm trying to solve a specific problem and I'm inexperienced in most of the potential solutions, so please forgive the inherent ambiguity. I have access to a d...
A couple of year ago a user of Super User reported difficulties with summing values purporting to be Euros imported to LibreOffice Calc in CSV format. In the Q the user does not mention the locale...
What does lifting state up in Flutter mean, and how does it work?
Perl is by far the language I have the most experience with, and I have (big) parts of the functionality I want in the new program in existing programs. So I'm looking for a way to do this in perl,...
A Q on Stack Exchange from a very long time ago included: I have first names in one column and second names in another, I want to create a third column that contains the first character from the...
A user of Web Applications asked "How should I fix the formula?" with reference to: =IF($K4<2,$K4) applied as a Conditional Formatting [CF] formula to J4:J8, where the desired (green fill) f...
An as yet unanswered question on Web Applications, INDIRECT cell reference - Can't copy cell as reference cell pattern remains same, from @Daniel Klose is: I have an Overview Sheet where I want ...
In this Q a user asked for a simple way to represent this data: - PERSON 1 | PERSON 2 | YES - PERSON 1 | PERSON 3 | YES - PERSON 2 | PERSON 1 | YES - PERSON 2 | PERSON 3 | YES - PERSON 3 | PER...
I have text (xml actually) files. Some files contain 'foo', some contain 'bar', some contain neither and some contain both. It's the both I'm interested in. How do I do an AND search on words in...
I am working with PHP and RedBean PHP ORM. I have a table user like so: id | username ---|--------- 1 | Alice 2 | Bob I want Alice and Bob to become friends. So I want to create M-M juncti...
I am trying to implement DocuSign's eSignature REST API by using Java SDK. I am following instructions here: https://developers.docusign.com/docs/esign-rest-api/sdks/java/setup-and-configuration/ ...
Suppose we have N points on XY plane, ie. (x, y) and x, y are integers and multiple queries where each query is of the form y = mx + c and m, c are integers. Is it possible to count number of poin...
When I run code . in a directory, Visual Studio Code opens two windows. The first is empty, the second shows directory I was in as expected. I checked ~/.config/VSCode/Workspaces and there is only...
Consider the following method as an example: List<int> Foo() { // ... } Are there any disadvantages of returning an interface instead of a concrete implementation in C#? IList<i...
According to the psql (version 14) man page, it's possible to set variables using the -v command-line parameter, then use the variable in a query, automatically quoted correctly, with :'variable_na...
When I set up my object mappings with SQLalchemy, everything works well enough. It even creates the tables for me if they don't exist. However, if I decide to add/remove columns (aka fields) from ...
(Full code available for cloning here) I've run into some odd behavior of EF-core's Find method. It seems like the returned entity doesn't include the rest of the data. MWE Models using Micro...
Is it worth using the Java Platform Module System introduced in Java 9 to structure application code? Given that the Java Platform Module System introduced in Java 9 doesn't manage dependency vers...
Let's say I have a variant that can hold a bunch of different types of values (say I got them from parsing a JSON or similar). using Value = std::variant<std::monostate, int, double, std::strin...
Let's say we have an object, we store it in a union (into some other narrower type, but with memcpy(3), so it's allowed --I guess--), and then read it from the union via it's original type (so no a...
A friend is involved in rewriting a distributed software application and while discussing the architecture, we noticed that in many cases the messages had duplication between headers and payload. ...
The proposed library would sit alongside cross-platform libraries in Xamarin apps for iOS and Android. However, it would include files with names like MyLibraryFile.android.cs MyLibraryFile.ios...
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 am creating a button that once clicked will change from off to on with react and i am also creating a responsive clock through useEffect. Yet the code still return that useEffect is undefined th...
What exactly does the static keyword do in C? I have seen it used in several diverse contexts: 1) As a variable outside a function: #include <stdio.h> static int x = 5; int main (void) ...
I have a query summarizing some transaction data that I'd like to summarize by day of week. For my use case, I need to return weekdays formatted according to ISO 8601, so Monday must be the first d...
I'm trying to subclass pdb to have a debugger that, in case of a call to a decorated function, can "step in" the decorated function directly and skip the decorator content altogether. A well-behave...
I'd like to write a TCP client in Rust that can receive the entire message sent by a server, but I have no information about the length of a message. I'm aware that TCP doesn't preserve message bo...
I'd like to organize my Matlab packages into folders. However, if I try to lay out my code like this +MyPackage |---foo.m |---SubDir |---bar.m then I'm unable to reach bar. F...
The Code using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore; public class BloggingContext : DbContext { public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; } public DbSet<Post> Posts { get; set; } ...
Can someone explain why this PHP code is not excluding the watched videos? The email_id parameter is used to specify the location of the watched videos array. The code should remove the watched_vi...
Using parentheses in Javascript is always needed when you want to create functions, if/else statements and for/while loops. But in Python it has a function that is called tuples. When using an if s...
There may be a better way to manage website's with JavaScript deployments. I added jest to my repo simply to execute tests when I make PRs as part of a GitHub action. This requires a package-lock.j...
char *p, *q; p = malloc(1); free(p); q = p; // lvalue conversion Is the last lvalue conversion (= p;) Undefined Behavior or not? We didn't take the address of the local p. C11::6.3.2.1...
The dictionary methods .keys(), .values(), and .items() all return view objects. Said objects reflect any changes to the underlying dictionary. This is often useful. Is there a way to get such a v...
I am developing a web app that is tied to a database. My codebase is stored on a private GitLab instance. I would like to set up a workflow that would look something like this: I have a developm...
I'm trying to do some DOM manipulation in jQuery, but am having issues with creating wrapper elements. For some reason, prepending to the wrapper doesn't work after I call wrap. Code <html>...
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 am working on a React Native app using Realm, Atlas Flexible Sync, and MongoDB, and I'm super confused about how subscriptions work. I'm coming from a .NET SQL background, so I'm completely new t...
