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How do I add functionality to the back button in Android without reimplementing the back button entirely? Prior to last year, I would just call onBackPressed() and then simply override it: overri...
Flutter supports packaging a SQLite instance with a Flutter app using the Sqflite plugin. I do not like the speed of SQLite or the fact that it does not enforce column datatypes and want to use som...
Functions in C have external linkage by default. In other words, the storage class specifier extern is applied to functions by default, with the effect that they are visible to all translation unit...
Question What is the current state of the art database app? How does it compare to SQL? Can pandas be used in place of either? If not, is there something that bridges the gap between SQL and pand...
I am cleaning up java code in vscode to make it more readable. When I format my document there are instances when vscode inserts new line character when I don't want it. Here I show 2 examples of w...
I am looking for a way to programmatically edit and save .dbc files that are meant for J1939 CAN communication. I have a few large files that need to be compared/edited. Being able to import, edit...
Context Using the lemmy API, I'm trying to get a list of sublemmies (lemmy communities) that a user is following. Reading the documentation, I using the /site endpoint, I should be able to get a ...
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, ...
I have a dataset of car bookings like this: car_id user_id 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 3 In this dataset, two separate groups/sets of cars and users...
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...
What does lifting state up in Flutter mean, and how does it work?
I am working with JSF 2.3 and have a selectManyMenu component that is marked as required but that I want to be cleared if the user unselects all items. Currently, the user can unselect all items, b...
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,...
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...
When running various Python scripts, I often need to do this annoying dance: $ python script.py ... ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'foo' $ pip install foo $ python script.py ... Module...
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/ ...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
MWE import random import pandas as pd from itertools import product random.seed(12345) dies = [1, 2] cells = list(range(10)) currents = [100, 200, 300] dcc = list(product(dies, ce...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Code using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore; public class BloggingContext : DbContext { public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; } public DbSet<Post> Posts { get; set; } ...
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...
Suppose I have two variables that are called animal and age, and print them as a string in the console like so: animal = "giraffe" age = 25 print("A %s can live up to %d years" %(animal,age)) ...
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...
What does it mean that we can use memcmp(3) on invalid values? ISO C allows comparing an invalid value through memcmp(3), because it doesn't read the value, but rather its representation, and "rea...
How to verify if a year is leap? Given a numeric value (such as 2023) or some object that represents a date (such as Date, Calendar, LocalDate, etc), how can I do it?
Problem How can I compress each column of a dataframe to the output of a function (i.e., mean), preserving columns? MWE import pandas as pd data = {"A": [1, 2, 3, 4], "B": [5, 6, 7, 8]} ...
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>...
For example: I have noticed that this does not work for any vocabulary's tests. What is the alternate way to USE: these test vocabularies? EDIT: The test word appears to run all tests alongside...
