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I am currently using this code to display a GUI counter: USING: accessors arrays fonts kernel math math.parser ui ui.gadgets ui.gadgets.buttons ui.gadgets.editors ui.gadgets.labels ui.gadgets.pa...
So I was looking around for some async solutions and I found one on github, https://github.com/electronicarts/ea-async I follow the setup instructions for maven. Only to realize it didn't work (I ...
What factors should be considered when choosing web security measures for a site?
Let's say I have a client/server application with a data structure on the server side: type User = { name: string; superSecretGovernmentIdNumber: string; }; These fields are both non-nul...
The current project I am working on consists of a bunch of microservices (Web APIs) accessible only internally using Entra ID (formerly Azure ID). To simplify the development, all services expose ...
A page is very slow and laggy in Firefox. I am certain it's one of the many Javascripts slowing it down. Out of curiosity, I'd like to figure out which script is creating the heaviest load. Note t...
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...
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?
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...
Hi, I'm trying to code an Enigma machine in Haskell which were used by the German in WWII to transmit coded messages. An Enigma Machine consists of 3 rotors which are substitution ciphers and a re...
I'm trying to write a spec test for a (correctly working) Angular component, but it errors when calling a service method with: TypeError: _this.myService.getSomeData is not a function The service...
In a Qt application I have nothing more than a window with a button as its direct child. I set its background color and all is fine: Window::Window(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent) { but...
Question How can I read data from a NestJS Redis Cache as a stream? I'm using Nest.js and its @nestjs/cache-manager (using the Redis implementation), I need to read data I have stored in the cach...
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 ...
I am in need of downloading some files (from dynamic list of URLs) and archive them into a single zip file. Since these files can be arbitrarily sized (totaling hundreds of MB), I want to avoid dow...
When reading about various operators used by programming languages, the term "short circuit behavior" is often used. For example in this C code: int a = 0; a && b++ Someone explained t...
I am developing an application that targets Linux-based OS, and I need to store the user's configuration, metadata and other things in a persistent way (i.e. on the file system). I know that one c...
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...
print() normally adds text to STDOUT, it does not erase existing text. https://linux.codidact.com/posts/289869 describes various ways of doing the overwrite in shell scripts. How can you do this ...
I have to implement a JSON based REST web service for querying literature. Ordinary users should be able to query data and process it in their clients. The "main user" can adapt database entries vi...
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 does lifting state up in Flutter mean, and how does it work?
NOTE The meaning of the word "program" below is (PROGRAM) A federal or state initiative that offers grants for non-profits so that they can provide service at low cost or free of charge. a...
How to move the main branch back to an earlier commit in git?
I've turned the tables movies and scenes into media and now I don't know what to do with the movies_scenes relation. CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "movies_scenes" ( `movie_id` integer, `sce...
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 regularly run into the problem that I have a Python function that I want to use in both, eager and graph execution mode. I therefore have to adjust the code so that it can handle both situations....
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...
I have a few different projects that rely on open source technology that I wish to make modifications to (say, to add key features for business or personal use) that will vary between upstreamable ...
I've created a code snippet in "functions.php" that should add another product to your cart if you mark the checkbox, but somehow, only the original product is add (like the single product from the...
I have float noise values, between -1 and 1, for every x,y coordinate in a 2D area and I am trying to convert that to a whole number between 0 and 319 which represents a vertical z coordinate to re...
I have a large and complex PostgreSQL SELECT query that I would like to make faster. EXPLAIN suggests it should run quickly, with the worst parts being scans of a few thousand rows. When run, it do...
MWE import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(9, 4), columns=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']) df.plot.bar() plt.show() Question Ho...
class ExtendUserSession(MiddlewareMixin): """ Extend authenticated user's sessions so they don't have to log back in following 15 minutes (set by Django's default `SESSION_COOKIE_A...
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...
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...
Amazon product URLs are often very long, but on experimentation it is revealed that the following pattern is sufficient: https://www.amazon.com/{dp|gp}/$ID ID is a 10-char string, which I'm gue...
Context I am currently migrating a Web application from on-prem infrastructure to K8s. The legacy infrastructure relies on defining some tokens in the configuration files and these are replaced d...
From reading about the Crossfilter data manipulation library for JavaScript, I take it that "groups" are an important concept in its operation. However, the Crossfilter documentation does not ever...
The answer for this question is that there is something wrong with the expression of the first guard of this function below: congratulations :: [(String, Int)] -> [String] congratulations [] =...
Context I am currently working on migrating a legacy application to an ASP.NET Core + Angular application. The Web API's main project is based on Jason Taylor's template (clean architecture) and a...
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,...
Found the example below in a book teaching logical database design, but I'm stuck on how one would implement this in PostreSQL: The diagram reflects the following business rule: An instructor...
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 need to do a lot of calculations involving sets. There are relatively few values in the "universe" of candidates that could appear in any of the sets, but potentially very many such sets (they mi...
I have written a screensaver program that, in part, uses the current wallpaper for some visual effects. However, finding the current wallpaper in different operating systems and environments is les...
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...
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...
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 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 * ...
