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So I am in the process of creating a voxel sandbox survival game (minecraft clone) in javaFX. I am at a point where I need to come up with a way to load the chunks in my surrounding given a render ...
Suppose I have some variables like: >>> count = 8 >>> status = 'off' I want to combine them with some hard-coded text, to get a single string like 'I have 8 cans of Spam®; b...
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...
Consider this code example: def example(param=[]): param.append('value') print(param) When example is repeatedly called with an existing list, it repeatedly appends to the list, as ...
I am migrating an application from Log4j1 to Log4j2 using the API bridge jar. All references to the log4j1.jar have already been removed. I set the system property in Websphere as a JVM argument -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Temporary notice: this is part of an ongoing project of transferring and splitting my canonical from Stack Overflow on common errors in Google Apps Script. As soon as the Q&As are finalized, ...
I have been trying to generate a random object on all three axis in different locations. However, Vector3 doesn't accept that many overloads e.g: Vector3 spawnPos = new Vector3(Random.Range(spawnL...
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...
Is there a way to add support for "move symbol" in Python code for VS Codium? PyCharm can do this, but I am looking for a VSC solution. PyLance can do this, but PyLance itself is closed source, a...
In a media manager I have database tables for files, media and collections. When a user is browsing a collection I want there to be links to see the metadata for single file media like books, movi...
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...
Why does git merge take the source branch rather than the destination branch as a parameter? The most common merge case by far for me is "Okay, this branch looks good, let's merge it into branch X...
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...
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 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...
I'm writing a library "MyLibrary". In there, I group code into sections that make sense. Let's say I have a folder "Reports" and a folder "Helpers". I would like to have my code separated while ...
For someone who was familiar with C++ in the past and is coming back to it after a long break, what are some useful books that won't waste time with basics but will cover the new features of the mo...
I noticed when attempting to generate random booleans that t and f are not treated in the same way: t random ! Error f random ! returns a value In the factor 0.98 and 0.99 documentation, t is ...
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...
On branch-x, I do git merge branch-y Now there are some conflicts, and git status shows Changes to be committed: new file: a new file: b Unmerged paths: (use "git a...
How to delete a local git branch which hasn't been pushed to anywhere, and only exists locally?
I am writing a todolist application in WPF with MVVM. I display the goals in a datagrid and the editing works fine. Changes made in the grid are saved to the DB when I click save. However, adding a...
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...
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...
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 am attempting to use the chartjs-zoom-plugin v2.0.1 with Chart.js v4.4.0. I have the plugin as the file chartjs-plugin-zoom-2.0.1.min.js, and I have imported it into my page using <script ty...
Suppose I have some code like: filename = "bad_dir" print(f"File not found: {filename}.") raise(FileNotFoundError) When the exception isn't caught, the stack trace is printed at the end of ...
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...
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...
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'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...
Can anyone explain to me why my Haskell function gives rise to a type-definition error? Originally, I wrote the following function to subtract one from the first n elements in a list: dec_first :...
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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...
I have a very simple source file -- HelloWorld.java public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("hello world"); } } I have th...
On a live boot of Ubuntu 20.04, I was trying to clone into a private GitHub repository. I went through the hassle of installing git, and then gh, and making sure I was signed in through the termina...
Getting the following error only when I call a post API through Nginx [0m[31m12:48:35,903 ERROR [io.acurio.hub.api.rest.impl.DesignsResource] (default task-16) Failed to invoke workflow: com.masha...
I've my go app the is running a web API and working smoothly at my laptop. I read this and completed the IIS setup using a config file: <configuration> <system.webServer> ...
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...
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...
The C language has gone through many iterations and the latest one not yet released is informally called "C23", supposedly because they hoped to release it in 2023. The latest draft version N3096 i...
I'd like to organize my Matlab packages into folders. However, if I try to lay out my code like this +MyPackage |---foo.m |---SubDir |---bar.m then I'm unable to reach bar. F...
I am writing a Python package where I have two classes in different files that (indirectly) depend on each other. If I wouldn't care about type-hints, there would be no problem, but unfortunately,...
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...
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...
So to preface I started a new JavaFX project in IntelliJ and all of this is from what was auto-generated out of the box. The modules I'm having trouble with are Edit to make this post more query...
