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I would like to use tf.timestamp() when it is available (eager mode and graph mode without XLA), and use 0. (or a better fallback if there is one) when it is not available (with XLA; @tf.function(j...
I have a Python program like this: done = False while u and not done: i = u.pop() print(f"Processing {i}") do_big_task(i) finish_up() Since this takes a long time, the user m...
TL;DR Is (a and b) equivalent to tf.logical_and(a, b) in terms of optimization and performance? (a and b are tensorflow tensors) Details I use Python with Tensorflow. My priorities are Make t...
I'm trying to create an automatic text-to-link conversion feature in a TypeScript application. The desired workflow is: Copy a URL to the clipboard Select some text Paste the URL - this should...
Consider the following arbitrarily-nested JSON as input to a jq filter: echo '[{"foo": [1, 2]}, {"bar": [{"baz": ["foo", "baz"]}]}]' | jq '.' My goal is to join leaf arrays into strings: [{"fo...
Looping in Ansible usually produces a neat output of one line per iteration (per host): ... ok: [Arch] => (item=something) ok: [Arch] => (item=something_else) ok: [Arch] => (item=yet_a...
What is the best way to convert Dos paths to Posix paths in Powershell? eg given: C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules\ I want something like: /Program\ Files/PowerShell/Modules/ Is the only so...
I'm trying to revive an old project of mine. It was built with Phalcon PHP 2 or 3 (I don't even remember which version, but quite old). There I could include a call to the loop inside the controll...
My Android app needs to process lists that contain nullable elements. I am using JUnit 4.13.2 for unit testing. I am using Android Studio Flamingo | 2022.2.1 Patch 2 . I have a failing test,...
Is it possible for a Python program to send itself in the background? For example, on Linux you can do nohup some_cmd & and any program will run in the background. Some programs also support s...
I want my CLI Python program to schedule a task, and then exit. After some times has passed (say 10 minutes) the task should execute. The task can be a Python method or a shell command, whatever i...
I have git repo where the .git is deleted. I didn't realize it until after I made some changes to the code. I want to re-create the .git by cloning. However I don't want it to touch the files that...
TL;DR: How to pass a interpolated double vector, such as a dvec2, from the vertex shader to the fragment shader? I have a vertex shader. In this the output variable out vec2 uv; is set. And i have...
According to the standard (C17 draft, 7.22.3.2) The function calloc void *calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size); "allocates space for an array of nmemb objects, each of whose size is size [and] i...
How do I clone the repository with only part of the history? For example, let's say I want to download only the last 5 commits out of thousands.
On a live boot of Ubuntu 20.04, I was trying to clone into a private GitHub repository. I went through the hassle of installing git, and then gh, and making sure I was signed in through the termina...
I have an application that works with a JTable, and in this JTable, I want each cell to have both an ImageIcon and some text. I see at this link, JTable supports ImageIcon OR text, but seemingly n...
I am writing a Python package where I have two classes in different files that (indirectly) depend on each other. If I wouldn't care about type-hints, there would be no problem, but unfortunately,...
I have a very simple source file -- HelloWorld.java public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("hello world"); } } I have th...
Background Many Python programs now recommend installing with pipx, and there is a sense that you shouldn't install with pip anymore, you should use tools like pipx. Main Question However, what ...
The C language has gone through many iterations and the latest one not yet released is informally called "C23", supposedly because they hoped to release it in 2023. The latest draft version N3096 i...
I have the following xarray Dataset: d: <xarray.Dataset> Dimensions: (x: 79, y: 63, t: 1) Coordinates: * x (x) float64 0.9412 1.882 2.824 3.765 ... 71.53 72.47 73.41 74.35 * ...
I'm currently writing an input and output handling library for the D language, and I'm not getting any kind of input language change messages when the language is being toggled with hotkeys, and on...
Mathematically, the purpose of a function is to return an output. However, in a programming context functions often have side effects. It is even common to call functions for the side effects alone...
In Python, multiprocessing is easy to do if you follow a "list projection" paradigm. Say you want to take a list of inputs X and apply some function f to every x_i, such that y_i = f(x_i) and the y...
Why does git merge take the source branch rather than the destination branch as a parameter? The most common merge case by far for me is "Okay, this branch looks good, let's merge it into branch X...
My redirect in javascript somehow gets "hijacked" and I don't understand how. Previous developer (who is no longer working with the company) on page load initialized onbeforeunload event like so: ...
I know that I can display a single string in the terminal window like print("example") (or similarly with a string in a variable), and I know how to open text files and write to them. I also know ...
Suppose I have some variables like: >>> count = 8 >>> status = 'off' I want to combine them with some hard-coded text, to get a single string like 'I have 8 cans of Spam®; b...
I'm looking at the behaviour of Chrome and my test framework and trying to understand what the correct behaviour should be before raising an issue/ticket on one or the other (or revisiting how my t...
How to use static functions in ColdFusion? How to import component? How to call a static function using both tag and script syntaxes? Adobe added support for static functions in ColdFusion...
When I have tried to read technical explanations of the syntax rules for programming languages, and when I am trying to decipher error messages, I often encounter the terms expression and statement...
Temporary notice: this is part of an ongoing project of transferring and splitting my canonical from Stack Overflow on common errors in Google Apps Script. As soon as the Q&As are finalized, ...
I have the following code: use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize}; #[derive(Sereialize, Deserialize)] struct Container<const SIZE: usize> { contents: [String; SIZE] } But I'm getti...
I installed Node.js using NVS to manage my node installations. This works great, except that I haven't been able to figure out how to debug using VS Code. When trying to launch, I receive this err...
I use git submodule foreach git pull to update my submodules. There's quite a few and it appears that foreach is updating them one by one, instead of in parallel. How can I do it in parallel?
I have a git repository with some submodules. When the submodule repos get new commits on the remote, how can I pull them all?
Temporary notice: this is part of an ongoing project of transferring and splitting my canonical from Stack Overflow on common errors in Google Apps Script. As soon as the Q&As are finalized, ...
I have a function that loads JSON data and is declared to return a dictionary with string keys and values of any type (Dict[str, Any]). However, mypy is raising an error stating that I am returning...
I have created a tag in my project, using git tag v2023 However, I forgot to commit a few changes. Now I would like to move this tag to the current point (after having committed the changes I had...
I am working on adding uncertainty to some of my dynamics within a larger Monte Carlo simulation. As a way to perform multiple operations on each value, I decided to make and use a new function to ...
Is there a way to add support for "move symbol" in Python code for VS Codium? PyCharm can do this, but I am looking for a VSC solution. PyLance can do this, but PyLance itself is closed source, a...
I am migrating an application from Log4j1 to Log4j2 using the API bridge jar. All references to the log4j1.jar have already been removed. I set the system property in Websphere as a JVM argument -...
I am all new with using Redux Toolkit, I followed the official documentation to setup the store: // store.ts import { configureStore, ThunkAction, Action, combineReducers } from '@reduxjs/toolkit...
I wanna make a form in React native. A field in this form in (non-native) React would be like this: <div> <label htmlFor="lastName">Last Name:</label> <input type="text...
I am stumped at Maven exec plugin. Running mvn exec:exec -Dexec.executable="curl" (or "echo") works. But when running mvn exec:exec or mvn exec:exec@b (or @a) it fails saying The parameter 'exe...
In the last few months, AI has advanced considerably, notably in the area of generating images. We now have powerful models like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. These are quite competent at generati...
I'm experiencing an issue where my program appears to freeze when executing the post_comments_to_lemmy function. This function fetches comments from the GitHub API and posts them to a Lemmy instanc...
Can anyone explain to me why my Haskell function gives rise to a type-definition error? Originally, I wrote the following function to subtract one from the first n elements in a list: dec_first :...
I like using NATURAL JOIN in Snowflake, because I find it more elegant than explicit join clauses. However, it appears that the natural join behaves similar to an inner join, in that null values o...
