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Unlike docker, Podman won't (understandably) use docker hub by default. You can use it explicitly like this: (just using a random example here, it's an OpenAPI linter) podman pull docker.io/dshanl...
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. ...
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...
I've seen macros use parentheses to enclose its arguments. Most of these make sense, as in #define sum(a, b) ((a) + (b)) The outer prevents the following: #define sum_bad(a, b) (a) + (b) ...
Is there a way in Ubuntu to run a given bash command for a given Key combination in Gnome (42.9)? I run an Ubuntu in Hyper-V and after a while the normal Keyboard layout change doesn't work (maybe...
I'm getting an error when trying to open a shell to a pod. This used to work. $ kubectl exec --tty --stdin --namespace my-ns my-pod -- sh Error from server (BadRequest): Upgrade request required ...
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...
According to the standard (C17 draft, 7.22.3.2) The function calloc void *calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size); "allocates space for an array of nmemb objects, each of whose size is size [and] i...
A jinja template expression starts and ends with double curly brackets, which the templating engine consumes. But what if you need a single pair of curly brackets left in the output? Something lik...
Context: I have a varchar column in a segment event table that contains version numbers. Most of these are formatted nicely as X.Y.Z (major.minor.patch) where X, Y, and Z are integers. However, the...
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?
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 ...
Are any of the popular Excel .NET projects have a functionality similar to Apache POI's DataValidationEvaluator class?
I've figured out that code --new-window /foo/bar/baz.txt will open baz.txt in a new window. But when I do this, it says "no folder opened" in the file explorer pane. That makes it hard to work with...
I have created a directory named Temporary_add_to_version_control on Desktop. Now I am trying to reach that directory by typing the following in git-bash: cd ~/Desktop/Temporary_add_to_version_con...
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: ...
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...
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...
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/ ...
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...
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...
Is it possible for a Python program to send itself in the background? For example, on Linux you can do nohup some_cmd & and any program will run in the background. Some programs also support s...
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?
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Consider the following arbitrarily-nested JSON as input to a jq filter: echo '[{"foo": [1, 2]}, {"bar": [{"baz": ["foo", "baz"]}]}]' | jq '.' My goal is to join leaf arrays into strings: [{"fo...
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 ...
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 ...
I'm writing exception handling around a call to Socket.AcceptAsync in a loop. One of the exceptions it's documented to throw is SocketException, but the documentation is vague: An error occurred...
In a C implementation in <stdio.h> on Linux I saw something like: extern FILE *__stdinp; extern FILE *__stdoutp; extern FILE *__stderrp; And then: #define stdin __stdinp #define stdou...
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...
Say I've made a bunch of changes to a file and would like to split those changes into two or more commits. Normal git add however stages the whole file in one go. So how to add only some of the ch...
I do need to create an email template using components where the wrapped text left side (td - 50%) is overlapping with the image ( td - 50%) like Venn Diagrams... Not exactly but somehow... I came...
I'm trying to flatten a repository of Python code into a Markdown file where each file is formatted like: relative/path/to/file1.py # contents of file1.py I'm using this command: find . -name...
Ansible's extract filter is supposedly made for use in map, but at the time of writing the documentation doesn't actually show how to use it together with the map filter. The following outputs VAR...
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 git repository with some submodules. When the submodule repos get new commits on the remote, how can I pull them all?
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...
I read posts (e.g., 1, 2, 3) that recommend triggering a CI build process by pushing an empty git commit. I don't understand how this is a good idea as the commit history will be peppered with mea...
I'm looking at the behaviour of Chrome and my test framework and trying to understand what the correct behaviour should be before raising an issue/ticket on one or the other (or revisiting how my t...
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...
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 like using NATURAL JOIN in Snowflake, because I find it more elegant than explicit join clauses. However, it appears that the natural join behaves similar to an inner join, in that null values o...
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'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...
I want my CLI Python program to schedule a task, and then exit. After some times has passed (say 10 minutes) the task should execute. The task can be a Python method or a shell command, whatever i...
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...
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...
