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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

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Convert Synapse SQL Server hex `sid` to Azure Entra group object ID.

Suppose I have an Azure Synapse Serverless SQL database. I can run the following to get the sid of added groups: select name, type_desc, authentication_type_desc, sid from sys.database_principal...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by daviewales‭

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Privilege escalation from Python like from systemd

When you try to do a privileged systemd operation without the privilege, you get an escalation prompt: $ systemctl stop docker ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ==== ...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Images won't fit flex container on chrome

I browse deviantArt from time to time and I wanted to make images display bigger, because there is so much useless whitespace on that site. On first glance that would be simple - remove the set di...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by martixy‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by martixy‭

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Why does `let map f = id >=> switch f` work in F#?

Asked How to implement map using the fish (>=>, Kleisli composition) operator in F#? a couple of hours ago, and r~~'s answer blew my mind: let map f = id >=> switch f It is perfect ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Alexei‭

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How can one import two classes with the same name in Java8?

Some development tools provide an error message when a user tries to import two things (classes, packages) with the same name. Some programming languages offer a syntax to import one of those thing...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by tarhalda‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Eclipse Custom Errors for Annotation Processing

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. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by tylerbakeman‭

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Understanding the Matrix protocol vs Matrix server and what can be implemented from scratch

Since Matrix messenger offers only a protocol,[1] as a software engineer I can choose to: Write my own client or use an existing client Write my own server with my own server logic or join an e...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by erjcan‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Integrating a standalone database 'engine' into an OLAP database

I'm trying to build a proper understanding of what an OLAP[1] datastore vs an OLAP data engine is. I tend to put too much value on keywords like "engine" vs "data store." If it has "engine," I thin...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by erjcan‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Kubectl exec: "Error from server (BadRequest): Upgrade request required"

I'm getting an error when trying to open a shell to a pod. This used to work. $ kubectl exec --tty --stdin --namespace my-ns my-pod -- sh Error from server (BadRequest): Upgrade request required ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Iizuki‭

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How to write a bash function to sanitize filenames for Linux and Windows

I'm trying to write a bash function that can sanitize filenames to make them compatible with both Linux and Windows file systems. The function should perform the following operations: Replace in...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by ShadowsRanger‭

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How to test if chrome dev tools are open in JavaScript?

Some web sites are able to detect that Developer Tools is open as output a message in a the console. How does JavaScript know that the Chrome DevTools are open? Could this be spoofed?

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by kreijstal‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Alexei‭

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VS code - stop reopening old tabs

When I open VS Code inside a project dir, it reopens all the tabs that were open last time, and re-expands all the folders that were unfolded last time. I find this annoying. Usually, when I close...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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How to break infinite loop in CTE

I have a parent-child relation in my table, with possibly circular cases. Is it possible to break the infinite recursion in CTE checking values of all previous rows? I would need something like thi...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by artaxerxe‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Can I access an array element from a pointer to an object contiguous with but outside the array?

C prohibits accessing an array out of bounds even if measures were taken to ensure that what should lie outside those bounds were known: struct MyStruct { int x[2]; int y, z; }; static...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by CPlus‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Lundin‭

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Is migrating emails from one hosting provider to another a trouble?

I rent a shared-hosting environment with CentOS-Bash, Apache, PHP, MySQL and a web-based IMAP email client (Roundcube) and some more tools, on which I host my personal website; I don't have Cpanel...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 8mo ago by Alexei‭

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How to implement `map` using the fish (>=>, Kleisli composition) operator in F#?

I'm learning monadic composition through Scott Wlaschin's Railway-oriented Programming post. Oncebind, switch, and >=> functions are defined, he introduces map to show how to "turn a one-trac...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by r~~‭

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What is a .gitkeep file?

Sometimes there are empty files named .gitkeep sprinkled around a repository. What are these files?

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Simplest way of getting failure notification emails from kubernetes

What would be the simplest (and most lightweight) way of getting email notifications of failures in kubernetes clusters. Mostly interested in failing pods, so notifying on certain kubernetes event ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Iizuki‭

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How to Select From Multiple images to display main product image? [closed]

Below are the links to code for my project. HTML CSS JavaScript I have created Magnifying Image which was successful now I am trying to add multiple images which can be display in main produc...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by abhishek27suvarna‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by CPlus‭

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Why does RFC 3986 (URI generic syntax) declare the "host" component to be case-insensitive when the syntax rules show it to be case-sensitive?

First, a reminder to future self (the figure RFC 3986, Section 3. Syntax Components complemented with Section 3.2. Authority): The following are two example URIs and their component parts: ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by toraritte‭

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How to easily support time frame grouping in queries?

I had a curiosity about how much the experienced users wait for their questions to be answered on Stack Overflow and had written a query for it: SELECT YEAR(q.CreationDate) * 100 + MONTH(q.Creatio...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Why is global evil?

Many languages discourage global variables. Why is this?

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by mavavilj‭

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PHP - Why using "global" considered bad?

In PHP why is using global like in the example below considered bad? $a = 1; class foo { public function bar() { global $a; // <-- Why is this considered bad? } } ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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How to start creating a Giraffe web project and how to serve it?

Having some trouble with giraffe-template on Mac M1, so decided to set up a Giraffe project manually. Started following the Doing it manually section of the Giraffe README, but got stuck right away...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by toraritte‭

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.NET dependency management: `dotnet add package` vs. Paket?

Many older projects (i.e., older than 5 years) provide instructions to the Paket .NET dependency manager (e.g., Suave), so I started digging into it, got confused, then gave up for while because er...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by toraritte‭

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What makes people able but unwilling to contribute to FOSS projects? [closed]

Suppose someone has the requisite knowledge and skillset to contribute to a FOSS project, they have the free time to do so and they are aware of the project. Yet, they decide not to contribute. Thi...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  closed 8mo ago by Alexei‭

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Is strcpy dangerous and what should be used instead?

I heard rumours that the strcpy function is dangerous and shouldn't be used. Supposedly it can be exploited to create buffer overflows somehow. And indeed when I compile my C code in the admittedl...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Lundin‭

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How to surround jinja expression with curly brackets?

A jinja template expression starts and ends with double curly brackets, which the templating engine consumes. But what if you need a single pair of curly brackets left in the output? Something lik...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Alexei‭

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How to group a flat list of attributes into a nested lists?

I have a flat list where each item is the key and value for an attribute. I want to transform this into a nested list where each attribute is a sublist. Example input: [ "attr1 apple 1", "a...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by aditya98‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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ChromeOS Linux: Debian, how do I install Android SDK manager via command line?

ChromeOS Linux: Debian, how do I install Android SDK manager via command line? I wanted to try this repo https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/tree/master/examples/imageviewer and I g...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by propatience‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by propatience‭

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Why does bash seem to parse `sh -c` commands differently when called via `execl`?

When I do this in a shell: $ /bin/sh -c 'echo hello world' hello world it's my understanding that I'm running a process with argv = {"/bin/sh", "-c", "echo hello world"}. That is, the quotes c...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Emily‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Emily‭

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What guarantees does Bash make about order of :- Parameter Expansion when it is not in POSIX mode?

I tried to check info bash but only got a copy of the man page. This is when I learned that I could apt install bash-doc to get the "full" Bash manual. After checking both the info pages and the m...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by aghast‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Quasímodo‭

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What are the prefixes like "md:" and "ds:" in SAML metadata?

SAML service provider (and other types as well) metadata XMLs are full of prefixes like md: and ds:. What do these mean? To illustrate my point, here's a sample metadata file from Wikipedia (CC-BY...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Michael‭

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How to log first n lines of a stack trace in Java?

How to log first n lines of a stack trace in Java?

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by propatience‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by hkotsubo‭

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How to delete a remote branch in git?

How to delete a branch from a remote in git? E.g. maybe you had this branch locally too, but you deleted it already according to this question. Now you want to get rid of the corresponding remote ...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by hkotsubo‭

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Proper location of docstring on struct with attributes

When documenting a struct with attributes, where does the docstring go? Before or after the attribute(s)? Option 1: /// Does it go here? #[derive(Deserialize, Debug)] pub struct Metadata { ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by qohelet‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by qohelet‭

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How to pass command line arguments when using cargo run?

When developing a rust program you build and run using cargo run. However you cannot just append arguments to that as they will be caught (and likely rejected) by cargo itself. So how to pass argum...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Alexei‭

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Are there technical reasons to pick one struct coding style over the other?

C offers two different styles when it comes to structs (and union/enum too). Either declare them using a struct tag only ("struct tag style"): struct my_type { ... }; struct my_type x; Or ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Lundin‭

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Why does this work? .collect() automatic conversion to function return type

I'm completing the rustlings exercises as part of self-teaching Rust. While working on the third iterators exercise, I solved the exercise but don't quite understand why my solution works. Specifi...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by qohelet‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Git command formatting characters in msbuild are interpreted incorrectly

I wish to add a property with the date of the current Git commit to the assembly info. From my .csproj: <Exec Command="git -C &quot;$(ProjectDir).&quot; log -1 --pretty=format:%ad" ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by LyndonGingerich‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Michael‭

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What is the difference between hashing and encryption?

According to this article: Since encryption is two-way, the data can be decrypted so it is readable again. Hashing, on the other hand, is one-way, meaning the plaintext is scrambled into a uniqu...

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Building a language model completely from scratch

What I would like to do I would like to try to build a language model 100% from scratch if possible, for a learning experience. That means no external libraries and no pre-curated datasets. It ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Why does `Zip` require `Semialign`

The Zip class from Data.Zip requires an implementation of Semialign: class Semialign f => Zip f In my mind: Zip takes the intersection of two shapes. Semialign takes the union of two sha...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by WheatWizard‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by r~~‭

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What happens when you “Sign in with Google”?

I believe when you sign in with Google, the web application running in your browser calls a command to request the Google Sign In page, and includes a “callback URL” as a parameter in that HTTP req...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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How do you add "Sign In with Google" to a Ruby on Rails web application that is using the Devise authentication framework?

I want to add the ability to "Sign in with Google" into a Ruby on Rails web application, that is using Devise to handle authentication. How do I do that?

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Can Swashbuckle.AspNetCore generate exclusiveMinimum validation?

Is there a way to make Swashbuckle.AspNetCore generate a Swagger exclusiveMinimum range validation for a model property? There doesn't seem to be any way to do this with the attributes recognized ...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Kevin Krumwiede‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Kevin Krumwiede‭

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MongoDB Java Morphia case insensitive criteria query?

So I googled some on how to make a case insensitive criteria query but could not find the solution very easily. So I basically have code that looks like this: ... query.criteria("fieldName").con...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by propatience‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by propatience‭

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What is the purpose of having a wrapper class for JarFile in Spring-boot-loader?

My question relates to Spring-boot-loader v2.6.15. For the purposes of this question, I will refer to Spring's custom JarFile class as CustomJarFile to avoid confusion. Context I am reusing so...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Miss Skooter‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Miss Skooter‭

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Should a salt be stored in the same database as the hash?

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...

5 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by jla‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by bencurthoys‭

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Is there any rationale for the lack of local constants in PHP?

The last few years, PHP has basically exploded with lots of modern language constructs that makes the life easier. But local constants are still missing, and I find that very strange. I have found...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by klutt‭

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