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When documenting a struct with attributes, where does the docstring go? Before or after the attribute(s)? Option 1: /// Does it go here? #[derive(Deserialize, Debug)] pub struct Metadata { ...
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...
C offers two different styles when it comes to structs (and union/enum too). Either declare them using a struct tag only ("struct tag style"): struct my_type { ... }; struct my_type x; Or ...
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...
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" ...
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...
What I would like to do I would like to try to build a language model 100% from scratch if possible, for a learning experience. That means no external libraries and no pre-curated datasets. It ...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
My question relates to Spring-boot-loader v2.6.15. For the purposes of this question, I will refer to Spring's custom JarFile class as CustomJarFile to avoid confusion. Context I am reusing so...
To protect against dictionary and rainbow table attacks it is well known that passwords should be salted before hashing. The salt (unique to each password) gets stored with the hash, often in the s...
The last few years, PHP has basically exploded with lots of modern language constructs that makes the life easier. But local constants are still missing, and I find that very strange. I have found...
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 have a Python script that needs to access some data (or configuration) file in its very own folder. For example, say script.py does something like this: with open('data.txt') as file: data ...
For example, given a mergeErrors function where input is always a list of Error strings, let es = [ Error 1; Error 2; Error 3 ] let mergeErrors<'a> (errors: Result<'a,int> list) : R...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Null Values article in the F# Language Reference show an example that uses it, but it does not explain what it does exactly. You can use the following code to check if an arbitrary value is ...
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...
I ran some Python code and it crashed with ModuleNotFoundError. What is the general approach for dealing with these situations?
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 ...
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 ...
As far as I can tell (from F# at least), cell can only be colored using predefined NPOI.SS.UserModel.IndexedColors. From the available methods / properties, val it: ICellStyle = NPOI.XSSF.UserM...
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 ...
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...
--- Here is the error message. Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\19185\Documents\GitHub\Chatty\Chatty\one_.py", line 3, in import azure.cognitiveservices.speech as speechsdk Mo...
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 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 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 evaluating JetBrains Rider 2023.3 on Linux and almost immediately ran into a compiler warning that I don't understand. Attempting to isolate it, I created a new solution containing a .NET 6 cla...
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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...
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(): ...
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 ...
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 following list comprehension worked when I tried it: [num for num in hand if num != 11] But this doesn't work: [num for num in hand if num != 11 else 22] It gives a SyntaxError, highlightin...
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 loaded a binary into Ghidra for analysis. The decompiler says undefined8 main(void) { basic_ostream *pbVar1; char *pcVar2; [--snip--] pbVar1 = std::operator<<(pbVar1,"PXZ ");...
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...
What is the default port number of MariaDB database server? (Remembering defaults is surprisingly hard since usually you don't need to specify them..)
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 ...
What I would like to do: Set a cell value. Check with a program if cell values conform to data validation rules. I could extract all the information needed to create a validation function, b...
Are any of the popular Excel .NET projects have a functionality similar to Apache POI's DataValidationEvaluator class?
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...
