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Git's interactive mode has a patch action. This is the shortcut for it: git add --patch <file> It will split the file into hunks and interactively ask which one's to add. It has a plethor...
Disclaimer: I am not a security expert nor a security professional. There is, of course, a relevant XKCD comic for this: The entropy numbers appear to be accurate based on this security.stackex...
RFC 3986 defines a suffix reference as follows (emphasis my own): 4.5. Suffix Reference The URI syntax is designed for unambiguous reference to resources and extensibility via the URI scheme. ...
This is intended to be a canonical post for this problem which is pretty common. Especially among beginners. I've heard that I should avoid using floating point variables for representing curren...
There is a well know trade-off between a site aiming for questions/answers that are of a high quality and useful for people who arrive from Google and a site being nice to new users who often only ...
Before doing any performance testing, I think you have already noticed that the payload is significantly smaller by missing those double quotes. However, what I think is more important, especially ...
Yes, it is generally good practice to always cast the return value of functions to (void) if not used. This is self-documenting code showing that you aren't using the return value on purpose and di...
I personally have several (10s) of Q&A where I posted the question and\or answer, on related SE sites. These Q&A are ones I go back to for reference for myself and others. I know and under...
My work tasks have recently started requiring me to use the type_traits header to restrict the classes that may be used in template functions, methods, and classes. And while I used it for a long t...
questions about software design, software architecture, or modeling questions related to software design/review - what item goes where when using a certain technology stack These seem redundant...
Consider the following posts which have essentially become canonical references in their own right within their respective communities on SE: The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List (viewed 2.5 mil...
questions about best practices as long as enough detail is provided to answer using external references or expertise consensus It's not a "detail" if it is essential, is it? Can we explicitly sta...
This looks like it's a slightly restricted version of the circular dilation minimization problem in the theory of graph drawing. See, for example, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207168808803629. Specif...
Oooops. You have discovered my little secret superpower. Just kidding of course. (Unfortunately) I closed the first question upon some flags. On the second post, there was a spam answer, which...
When I open the search, I can only search across all categories of this site. I'd like to filter down the search results to only Meta (or Code review).
I recently encountered a strange situation in javascript; if I have: let obj = { a: function() { return (this === obj) ? this.b : 'bye'; }, b: 'hello' }; I can call obj.a with this bound...
I often find it useful to arrange things so that each commit on master's first-parent is a discrete change. It allows git log --first-parent --oneline to be used as a concise, automatically-generat...
There is no fixed number of days in a MONTH interval. DATE_SUB is mostly just decrementing the number in the months position of the date provided. So DATE_SUB('2020-09-14', INTERVAL 3 MONTH) is '20...
I propose adding, at the top of the list: On-topic questions about writing software, where software is understood to include any means of specifying to a computer actions to be performed later. (...
I agree and I think it should be a separate category, with separate posting rules. There are several examples of how the rules for each category would likely be fundamentally different: Main Q&...
I think we have a UI problem with the "add link" dialog box in the editor: it doesn't capture enter keystrokes which then fall through to the submit button. I'm merrily typing a post when I real...
I'm experimenting with different operators and have a hard time understanding the outcome of certain expressions. I try to combine the ++ operators with other operators such as assignment in the sa...
I have found this nice library for parsing/writing .elf files as output by e.g. the GCC toolchain: ELFIO I have a bare metal embedded project with an ARM Cortex M target. My goal is to overwrite...
Firstly, the technology stack of a commercial project should be selected based on several different decision factors. Staff availability is paramount. The developers, QA and associated team m...
You are right, the on-topic page is confusing - trouble-shooting and general programming questions should obviously be on-topic! Perhaps we considered it so obvious that it fell between the lines ...
