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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. ...
A lot of people who maintain FOSS projects would like to get more contributions. What can the maintainer do to ensure that potential contributors are converted into actual contributors? There are...
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?
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 ==== ...
I am working on a toy project where I have a container for which I would like to write an iterator that iterates over the values in the container. Because the values are stored in a (c-style) arra...
I have a project I normally build with nix and cabal, however I also want to publish my documentation onto gitlab pages. It's impractical to run my nix on the gitlab CI, so I've just been using cab...
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...
Whenever registering to diverse sites on the net, you are often forced to enter a so called "strong password", which would ideally contain both upper case letters, lower case letters, digits, and s...
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 ...
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...
The documentation for git stash list says list [<log-options>] List the stash entries that you currently have. Each stash entry is listed with its name (e.g. stash@{0} is the latest entry...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In Godot 4.1.1 I moved some scenes and started getting parenting errors. I think I got that fixed, but I'm mentioning it in case it is important. I have an Area2d called House. house.gd has two c...
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...
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...
The exam checking for the backend is working perfectly well but the front end keeps saying an error occurred. Am like ok then tried the demo version replaced the javascript and everything i can rep...
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...
Sometimes code needs to assign (or otherwise use) a value that depends on some condition. The naive approach is to use explicit branching, which in Python would look like: if some_condition(): ...
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...
I ran some Python code and it crashed with ModuleNotFoundError. What is the general approach for dealing with these situations?
When writing a dynamic web service, you broadly speaking have two paths: Use an existing web server (e.g. Apache, Nginx or Lighttpd) to handle the "raw" web requests and implement your own cod...
Taking the example from this Stackoverflow question: type Vector2D(dx : float, dy : float) = static let zero = Vector2D(0.0, 0.0) static let onex = Vector2D(1.0, 0.0) static let ...
On top of values seemingly coming from nowhere in multiple columns, they also affect each other's behavior: In the GIF below, if the cells in the left column have no value selected, then there is n...
Working with dbt version 2 I'm trying to set up source checks but I'm running into an issue where the column names I'm setting tests for have dashes (e.g. my_table.some-field-with-dash). I current...
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...
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...
I have created a simple bus topology connecting 2 switches and a router, with each switch connected to their respective end devices through ordinary star topology. The switch model used was 3560-24...
GitHub has a setting wherein they offer to "anonymize" your user email from, say, somebody@example.com to somebody@users.noreply.github.com. I presume this is to prevent you from getting spam from ...
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...
In git you can put your current changes aside for a moment with git stash. This is really neat but what often ends up happening is that you forget what was in there, and what was the state of the b...
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...
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...
For example, given this function head, this is the hint that is generated: let updateCell workbook sheetIndex rowIndex columnIndex value = // XSSFWorkbook -> int -> int -> int -> stri...
I am using a W25Q64 flash ic to store some stuff for an ESP-32 project. I used this library from Github as it seems intended for ESP. It seemed weird that the read function uses two 16-bit paramet...
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...
In JSON Schema one can use the additionalProperties key to validate properties whose names are not know. You can still impose restrictions on their type. How to do this in an Ansible role argument...
Sometimes when I try to install a third-party library for Python, I get an error saying that either distutils, or some part of it like distutils.core or distutils.util, could not be found. It's sho...
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 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 trying to set the transform attribute of a group within an SVG. Specifically, I'd like to set translate's value to 0 0. I tried using the set element for this but that didn't have an observab...
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...
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...
Is there a Python serialization format that has capabilities similar to Pickle, but is text based? The problem I always have with pickle is that it's binary, so I can't manually view or edit the d...
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...
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...
When you do: cd /some/path code . VS Code opens with that location shown in the "Explorer" sidebar. However, the state of the file tree and the currently open files will be the same as what wa...
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? } } ...
