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On 25th October 2020 in Europe/Berlin clocks where set back from 03:00 AM to 02:00 AM to change from summer time (CEDT) to winter time (CET). Which means there is a 1 hour separation between 02:30...
According to this answer, Codidact uses highlight.js for syntax highlight, and "support whatever languages are enabled by default in that package". And according to this table (in highlight.js Git...
While learning JavaScript, I started to see sometimes the <script> is placed in the <head> and sometimes it is placed in the <body>, What's difference between placing the <scri...
Assignment = = is the assignment operator. There's nothing much to say here. Abstract Equality == == is abstract equality - it will attempt to perform a type conversion before evaluating equalit...
Short version As you probably know SO offers Stack Overflow for Teams as a product for a knowledge management tool for private use (private teams). I am wondering if it is possible for Codidact t...
I wrote this HTML sanitizer for use in web scraping. The idea is to safely copy content from a site but apply my own style-sheet and remove any unsafe elements. This whitelist approach seems very d...
There are multiple questions/aspects in your posts, so I will go one by one: Stack Overflow which answers many questions While this is true, for many questions SO has an important drawback. I...
That's nice that you're provided your attempts but, as it was already mentioned in comments, it would be better to show us all the parts. Again, if you're not sure how to write it properly in C# th...
The standard for multi-line text input is to use a textarea. Don't use input type="text", it won't work. I'm not sure why you don't want to use a textarea, but after reading this answer, I hope you...
Power Users has just been launched and I remember that Software Development has some content related to office suite usage (example). Is it OK to migrate these questions to the Power Users communi...
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...
First of all, we need to understand what a JavaScript Date actually is. And surprisingly, it's not exactly a date (at least not in terms of having unique values for day, month, year, hour, minute a...
A simple way to deal with this is flex, wrap your 3 columns in a flex container: <div class="container"> <div class="formField"></div> <div class="formField"><...
NIST Special Publication 800-63 says that "strong" password requirements are not only useless but counterproductive. They recommend only a minimum length requirement and a small blacklist of common...
What are the differences between git apply and git am commands? Both seem to be used for applying patches to repositories. When should one be used over the other?
Each of them has an analog to another Git command. But instead of objects in the repository, these take text file(s) created either by you or someone else. git apply Think of this as Applying a g...
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...
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...
The other answer already provides the more straighforward solution (push with --delete option). But there's an older syntax that also works: git push <remote-name> :<branch-name> N...
Terminology "Mutable default argument" means exactly what the individual words would suggest: it's an argument which is supplied as the default value for that parameter, which also is mutable. To ...
How to move the main branch back to an earlier commit in git?
With git reset, but first, you may want to save the current state in another branch: $ git switch main $ git branch backup-of-main Now the (perhaps messed up) state is safely stored in branch ...
Arrays in Java are created with a fixed length, which cannot be changed in its lifetime. The only way to really change the length of the array is to create a new array with the intended length and ...
I have an array of struct: static struct basket baskets[MAX_ITEMLEN + 1]; struct basket { char *items; // malloc(itemlen * itemcount) int itemcount; }; char *items does all I nee...
Normally you ask a DNS server to resolve a domain like example.org to the corresponding IP address. The server either knows the answer right off the bat (cached or authoritative), or where it might...
