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Suppose I have some code in a file myscript.py like: def my_function(): print("Test") What steps do I need to take in order to make my_function run? That is to say: how do I get Python to ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Context Our team is developing a solution mainly composed of several microservices relying on ASP.NET Core. We have decided that the simplest and most cost-effective solution would be for service...
My use case is a collection of CSV files, each with header row. What I want to know is what subset(s) of them are "union compatible", although I also want matching column names before stacking thes...
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?
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 ...
I have an Android 10 device where the OS is unlocked but the bootloader is not. I can't obtain the unlock code through the normal channels because of bureaucratic incompetence. Given that the devi...
Personal Project: I am new to Maven and have spent a few weeks troubleshooting pom errors with chatGPT. Tutorials are hard to come by online, because annotation-processing in Java is more complica...
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...
The answer provided in the How to set the cell color to a user defined value using NPOI from F#? thread solves the problem of how to set the right properties using F#, but it uses a new ICellStyle ...
Many languages discourage global variables. Why is this?
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...
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: ...
With Azure Data Factory I tried migrating from Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL to Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB. The export went fine from the NoSQL but the import to the MongoDB did not work. I got no reasonable ...
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...
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...
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...
I have a website about vacation villa rentals. Around 800 properties are listed. When i start a search, i get properties with my first query which filters type, style, area, no. of rooms, capacity ...
Are any of the popular Excel .NET projects have a functionality similar to Apache POI's DataValidationEvaluator class?
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...
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...
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 "$(ProjectDir)." log -1 --pretty=format:%ad" ...
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 ...
A well-known easter egg in Python displays some ideas about writing good Python code, credited to Tim Peters (one of the core developers). This question is about the last: Namespaces are one hon...
The F# language guide (see Signatures article) has a very sparse definition of what a "sealed" type is: Attribute Description [<Sealed>] For a type that has no abstract me...
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 am migrating a WPF app to WinUI3. Things went well until I needed to put a combo box in the datagrid. That MS had removed the datagrid from the standard tools was overcome with Community Toolkit ...
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...
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...
I'm trying to replace Flot.js with Chart.js. In my application, Flot.js is included as a normal JavaScript file, like so: <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jquery.flot-...
In VS Code, is it possible to run Python code on the text being edited? I realize that I can save my text, create a .py file, switch to a terminal (including VS Code's own terminal) and run the .p...
How do I concatenate two animated gifs together? The gifs are identical in dimensions and I would like to stitch them together so they play one after the other.
Sometimes there are empty files named .gitkeep sprinkled around a repository. What are these files?
We use Kubernetes on a cloud (GKE, to be precise). We use RabbitMQ for messaging and we need to upgrade it from 3.10 to 3.12 . FWIW RabbitMQ has been added to our system using a chart from Bitnami...
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...
I need to use azure.cognitiveservices.speech. However I am getting this error: Here is code on replit it produces the same error. https://replit.com/@mystickain420/Chatty main -- https://githu...
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 ...
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...
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...
I have little to no idea what happens after a client obtains the server's certificate. It has to make sure that it (somehow) valid, but how?
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 ...
I need help figuring out if my dependencies need upgrading or conflict with each other. I tried using the command prompt to solve problems but it didn't help. Here is my code. Android Studio Iguan...
For example, how to sort the output below by the values in "Column" in the psql shell itself? my_db=> \d auth_user Table "public.auth_user" Column ...
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 ...
More specifically: Is there a dedicated docs page listing "properties" that are idiosyncratic to F# .fsproj project files? Why am I asking? Started learning F# a couple of days ago, but just now ...
Just getting into F#, finally figured out how to add .NET packages to projects, but the way I managed to get it to work doesn't make sense. Once the package is installed (either with nuget or paket...
In a JSON schema, do the required properties need to be a subset of properties? E.g. is this a valid schema, even though cookies isn't mentioned in properties? { "type": "object", "properti...
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 ==== ...
