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Meta Can regular users add tag wikis? And what are the guidelines for creating them?

Checking the list of tags, I noticed that all of the tag wikis are empty, like this: I also noticed that I can't edit those info. Will it be possible for regular users to add tag wikis?1 And if th...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Dye all label asterisks Red with vanilla JavaScript

In HTML, style information is applied to elements; it can't be applied to individual characters in a text node. Therefore, if you want to style the * differently, it needs a dedicated element. You...

posted 4y ago by meriton‭  ·  edited 4y ago by meriton‭

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Q&A How to read lines into an array in Bash

I wish to fill an array with strings, using Bash scripting. The strings are in a file, one per line. Here is what I've tried: declare -a my_array=() while read line; do my_array+=( "$line"...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by LVx0‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

Question array bash console stdin
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Q&A Is `uint8_t` always an alias for a character type if it exists?

Yes, it is in practice always a character type and you can safely assume as much, both in terms of (g)lvalue access and in terms of strict pointer aliasing. If not, the compiler would soon render i...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Update list based on presence of identifier in a second list

If you want to be more Linq-like without creating a ForEach method: vehicles = vehicles .Select( v => new Vehicle { Make = v.Make, ...

posted 4y ago by Andrew Shepherd‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Andrew Shepherd‭

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Q&A Python Regex to parse multiple "word. word. word."

As @ArtOfCode mentioned, it is not fully clear what you are trying to match. From the first line in your post, you are trying to extract THIS. THAT. out of THIS. THAT..OTHER . The following regex ...

posted 4y ago by Patol75‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Patol75‭

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Q&A Python Regex to parse multiple "word. word. word."

I'm trying to parse lines like "THIS. THAT..OTHER " so that "THIS. THAT." is found. There can be more than one <word><dot> separated by a space except no space after the last one. ...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A How to match standard email addresses with regex?

Matching a valid email address can be as complicated as you want it to be. If you want to be compliant with RFC 5322, the regex will be a monster (see below). But if you want a subset of it, with...

posted 4y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 4y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A Interpreted language: What is its benefit for being written in that way ?

Whenever I search in google why a specific language is interpreted language, I get differences between compiled languages and interpreted languages but nowhere the benefit for being interpreted rat...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by aditya98‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Interpreted language: What is its benefit for being written in that way ?

Interpreters are easier to write than compilers. For this reason esoteric and toy languages are often implemented by interpretation. But the dichotomy between interpreted and compiled languages is...

posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A Is migrating emails from one hosting provider to another a trouble?

I rent a shared-hosting environment with CentOS-Bash, Apache, PHP, MySQL and a web-based IMAP email client (Roundcube) and some more tools, on which I host my personal website; I don't have Cpanel...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Is it correct to run code inside a method whose object has been destroyed?

Yes, it's correct. An object's methods aren't things that exist in memory with the object. They're in a completely separate section of memory, and a method exists exactly once regardless of whethe...

posted 4y ago by Hyperlynx‭

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Meta Cannot close a question as a duplicate due to "Invalid input for other post" error

Codidact doesn't support cross-community duplicates, like closing a question in a per-community meta category as a duplicate of a question on main Meta. However, our messaging there could be, uh, ...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why is this symlink() call returning successfully while apparently failing to create the sym-link?

Summary I'm building an internal system (hardware simulator, using Rust) to help test some Python-based services that talk to hardware. (The services talk to hardware via TTYs.) To trick the Pytho...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ghost-in-the-zsh‭

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Q&A How can I make --reset-author the default?

You should be able to alias the string to something short. For example, I have git config --global alias.a 'add .' git config --global alias.ci commit and so instead of git add . git commi...

posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭

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Q&A Proper way of sending large amount of data from View to ViewModel

The problem I am working on a simple drawing app for Android. I have a custom view on which the user can draw. This means that a lot of data (a list of points) is generated in this View. I want t...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by nnlei‭

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Code Reviews PHP script to create a KML square centred on a point.

The objective here is to create a set of square kml coordinates centered on a point. I use this to create a square map centered on a mountain peak and then turn that into a STL that I can 3D print....

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Which abstraction should I choose for background services and why?

I will provide an answer from a pragmatic perspective, rather than a direct answer to your question. This is particularly important when working on a real project (as opposed to homework). Short an...

posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A For scripting what are the pros and cons of command line arguments versus capturing input at the start?

I'd like to move the frame out a little and use that as a discussion for how to make these decisions. Input models You've listed two input models, but I think we need to add a third before we begin...

posted 4y ago by dmckee‭

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Meta Autocompleting usernames in comments does not seem to work

Update: With the rollout of threaded comments, autocomplete has now been implemented. :) This feature doesn't currently exist. We're planning on revamping comments entirely at some point in the...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta Should we get rid of [formula] tag and use more meaningful tags like [excel-formula] or [google-sheets-formula]?

We currently have quite a few questions tagged with formula. However, [formula] seems so general that I am inclined to replace it to a more specific formula based on the context. Examples: [excel-...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Meta Are reference requests welcome here?

Just to stir the pot a little, on Physics SE we ended up allowing them within certain limits. Though I was against it I would say that the results were rather better than I expected. We did set u...

posted 4y ago by dmckee‭  ·  edited 4y ago by dmckee‭

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Q&A Fail to send DICOM C-Echo, although DICOM Association seems successful.

I am building an Android app to perform a DICOM C-Echo. (DICOM is a standard for storing and transferring medical images; the specification is at dicom.nema.org). My purpose is to learn more about ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  edited 4y ago by FractionalRadix‭

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Meta how to mention user in comment?

Right now, just type out the username, preceded by an @ sign. There is not currently any auto complete. Good news, though; a total rework of the comment system is in the works right now, including...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Scheme for cross-platform warning control?

Since C++11 the standard mandates the _Pragma operator which is intended for use inside macros. With this you can improve the situation by wrapping all this compiler switching into a central macro...

posted 4y ago by Someone‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Someone‭

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