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My HTML form got dir="rtl" attribute and value and in desktop computer systems it appears Right to Left (RTL) but in my mobile device (OnePLus 6) with Android and DuckDuckGo browser, the form's HTM...
I have used Drupal since 2010 to create websites and I recall a few years back reading that it can be used to create smartphone applications (or something similar). Is this only the "web-integrate...
I'm using Python to invoke another program in a sub-process. I've noticed my memory sometimes gets so large as to crash the system, and I'm wondering if I'm not correctly cleaning up the memory som...
I would like to maintain a log that is available to several modules in my Angular 8 system. So I created the following service: @Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' }) export class LogService { ...
For debugging running programs I often use whatever is integrated with the IDE I am using. QtDeveloper right now, but also used Eclipse, Netbeans and others. Most of them just use gdb under the hoo...
I've seen some regular expressions (regex) using \s when they want to match a space, but I noticed that it also matches line breaks. Example: the regex [a-z]\s[0-9] (lowercase ASCII letter, follow...
I'm writing some functions in C that parses a part of a XML file (using libxml), but instead of extracting the content of the XML node that has a specific name, it outputs a string that's not in UT...
I had installed mysql using the following command sudo pacman -Sy mysql Earlier, I was using Lampp(Xampp for Linux) where I could start using the command /opt/lampp/start start I am not sur...
I have a mobile-only HTML contact form divided in source code into three sections; each section should contain fields by a different context. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> ...
I have recently an issue at work after upgrading an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application to .NET 5. It worked correctly on all environments (e.g. PreProd, Prod) when targeting 3.1, but failed on Prod only ...
I want to remove a deprecated entry from the default build.gradle file as well as change the default layout of an empty activity to use Relative Layout instead of constraint. I'm using Android Stu...
Our web site has a widget that displays some date-based information that we retrieve from some JSON-formatted data (one object per date). We get the current date from the environment, possibly adj...
I have to debug an error which seems to only happen with some set of data present in our PostgreSQL database. I'd like to copy said database to my local machine so I can perform tests without affe...
When I review JavaScript files in various text editors (Visual Studio Code, Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey) I sometimes get notified about syntax errors. I never encountered this behavior with PHP file...
I have an array friends = Array.new friends[0] = "Mad man" friends[1] = "hey" There's two ways to print it (using print or puts). At first I tried print print friends which gave: ["Mad...
I have finally received access to a trial account on OpenAI and I took it for a spin. My interest is with code generation, so first tried something simple using the playground: Q: generate a stand...
I had build an application using following source code (following the steps). package com.decibal.level; import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.media.MediaRecorder; ...
Why do Content Delivery Networks are often developed in such a way that they would require adding a Cname value such as www. before example.com? I ask this after switching from one CDN (Cloudflare...
By "functional" I don't mean "procedural" (i.e. I don't mean to programming which is done solely or primarily with these data structures commonly known as "functions" but are actually procedures), ...
Overview Our development team is currently trying to develop and migrate a Web application that is split in two: legacy: ASP.NET MVC 5, jQuery, old-style JS programming overall "next": Angular...
Through the years I have "tasted" several website hosting companies; none of them had Markdown available in their support-ticket-systems (if all any formatting method available). Why is it? What's...
I wrote a program for calculating EMA, but my values differ from the values calculated on this site. My program: double[] x = Numbers();//array numbers int N = 5; double k = 2.0 / (N + 1...
In some situations, could it be problematic to migrate a website's database (MySQL) from one website hosting provider to another without the information schema or with the information schema? In m...
To start off, here is the complete HTML of a simple example table: <html lang="en-US"> <head> <title>Title</title> <style> table { width: 20em; ...
I have several classes (C_1...C_n) and their instances (I_1....I_m). I have a "Registry" R of these. There are several pieces of data (d_1...d_k) spread across various instances. This much is set ...
I had a curiosity about how much the experienced users wait for their questions to be answered on Stack Overflow and had written a query for it: SELECT YEAR(q.CreationDate) * 100 + MONTH(q.Creatio...
I'm trying to log error messages from Requests exceptions. Example: try: make_web_request() except RequestException as ex: logging.error(ex) Example output: ERROR : ('Connection abo...
I know I can change the font of each cell individually by overriding getCellRenderer(row, col) in JTable but I want to be able to change the font of an entire column at once and, ideally, have the ...
When creating a code-first solution in dot net core using Visual Studio, you manipulate the database by changing model classes and migrating the changes. I can set the schema for tables that I cre...
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As a big fan of tacit/point-free programming in general, I'm looking at different tacit programming systems for inspiration (for a language I'm creating). What are the advantages and disadvantages ...
I am trying to change the font type and size in a JTable cell. Ive looked at tons of posts and while most don't produce stack traces, they don't seem to do anything either. Here is the code I curr...
I heard rumours that the strcpy function is dangerous and shouldn't be used. Supposedly it can be exploited to create buffer overflows somehow. And indeed when I compile my C code in the admittedl...
Every URL is a URI but not every URI is a URL is a saying I know from long ago, but what is an example for a URI which is not a URL (whatever the user agent would be - a web browser, a *nix utility...
When I clear my Google Chrome browser history I can clear both "Cookies and other site data" AND "passwords and other sign-in data". Clearing just one of the two would require me to re-login t...
I'd like my web front end to be accessible, including to people who use screen readers. I know the basics about labels and alt text for images, but there are some areas where I'm not sure what a s...
I want to write a text file from multiple threads. The file structure is line-oriented. This means writing of lines should be atomic. I am using Qt 5.15.2. Is it enough to protect a shared QTextSt...
I have read that several programming languages, listed below are considered "typeless": Forth Brainfuck B MUMPS BLISS Lucid BCPL I have shared this data with a programmer who clued that...
Is it worth using the Java Platform Module System introduced in Java 9 to structure application code? Given that the Java Platform Module System introduced in Java 9 doesn't manage dependency vers...
I have around 20,000 .npy files in a directory. That main directory has no subfolders:- Main_dir | |--1.npy |--2.npy |--3.npy |--........ The absolute file paths are stored ...
In the C program below, I make a mistake and call the function with (ld, ld) instead of (d, ld). #include <stdio.h> #include <limits.h> void print_int_long(int n, long l){ pri...
I seek help in finding a term common in game development, particularly 3D First Person Shooter games (not at all in 2.5D games such as Doom). I understand that 3D first person shooter games can be...
I understand data compression as making data structures nearer (if they are mere machine code without any abstract representation) or representing them in less and less abstract computer languages ...
I have a parent-child relation in my table, with possibly circular cases. Is it possible to break the infinite recursion in CTE checking values of all previous rows? I would need something like thi...
As I don't have any significant experience with internationally-standard information security literature, I would like to ask here if some international information security organization took the i...
I am fairly new to working with @ngrx pattern in Angular which is a state management pattern relying on Reactive Extensions. One of the convenient structures is @ngrx/entity which helps with manag...
I am trying to save my question that was deleted from "Webmasters StackExchange" for not being about "a problem in a website" which I published there anonymously ; below is a shortened, directly-in...
We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucke...
How can one differentiate what is or is not a *nix operating system even if that operating system (or its core/shell/common-utilities) allegedly behaves like any "other" *nix operating system? Is ...
On a CentOS Apache-MySQL-PHP environment I have a website with a simple HTML-PHP-CSS contact form; the contact form itself is working. This is how I backendly redirect a user from the contact form...
