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I have noticed that virtually any question containing an image of some code or error got a comment asking to replace it with the actual code, error text. Why is it so bad to include an image inste...
There are multiple reasons why using images of code, errors, logs and other text resources used in programming instead of the actual text is strongly discouraged. Shortly put, the question should ...
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...
After some more experience from this bot over a couple of months, I would say that we should ban it simply because: The answers it gives are often wrong. ChatGPT has been hyped up ridiculously. I...
"Subtle errors" understates the problem. For example, I asked it about uses for std::equal_to, and it tragicomically gave me a code sample passing std::equal_to as the comparison predicate to std::...
I heard rumours that the strcpy function is dangerous and shouldn't be used. Supposedly it can be exploited to create buffer overflows somehow. And indeed when I compile my C code in the admittedl...
A Zalgo Text is something like this: T̃͟͏̧̟͓̯̘͓͙͔o̤̫͋ͯͫ̂ ̥͍̫̻͚̦͖͇̌ͪ̇ͤ̑̐͋̾̕i̢͖̩͙͐͑ͬ̄̿̍̚ͅn̵̢̼̙̳̒̄ͥ̋̐v̡̟̗̹̻̜͕̲ͣ̐ͤͤ͒́oͫ͂̆͑ͩ҉͇̰͚̹̠̫͔̗k̷̭̬̭͙̹̺̯ͩ̌̾̒̋̓ͤ͛͘͠e̥͙̓̄̕ ̵̫͈ͪţ̱̺̺̑̿̉̌͛̂̇h͙̣̬̓̂͞ę̡̲̟͎͉̟͛̓̉̆̉͘ ͬ̒...
When you use the variable without any format specifier (print(f'{variable}')), internally its __str__ method is called. Considering your Test class, it already has this method: class Test: def...
Summary The location within a module where an import statement is found by the interpreter is not expected to cause differences in performance such as speed or memory usage. Modules are singleton ...
"Stack vs heap" is a common over-simplification and not really a meaningful one, since those two areas have quite different, specialized uses. And no, those are not the only memory regions used by ...
SQL is a declarative language, and the form of the query does not dictate the form of the query plan that actually retrieves the data. So these two queries might be not only the same speed, but act...
Not using braces is considered bad practice by widely recognized industry coding standards (MISRA-C:2012 rule, 15.6, CERT C EXP19-C and others). Once upon a time I liked to skip out braces too, bu...
Undefined behavior (informally "UB") is a formal term in the C language, defined in C17 3.4.3 undefined behavior behavior, upon use of a nonportable or erroneous program construct or of erroneous ...
I have a small new Python 3.8 Flask project with some relative import quirks. For the DB I use SQLAlchemy with Flask-Migrate. My project has the following general structure: controllers/ static/ te...
As with every other security-related question, the first step toward answering this is that you'll need to answer for yourself: what are you trying to protect against? Security isn't a binary quant...
It is not wrong to ask for changes or features or report problems, so long as you realize that the maintainer of the project is under no obligation to make those changes. You aren't paying them, so...
Some of you may know me from Stack Overflow or the broader network. In light of recent actions by the company, I finally decided to move over to Codidact. I am a subject matter expert on Google App...
It depends. Do you want to have autocomplete on the shell the program runs in, or do you want the program to intercept the TAB key and do the autocomplete by itself? Shell autocomplete If you'r...
This is absolutely undefined behavior. The C standard doesn't say anything about stacks or how they should behave or how local variables should be allocated on them. The word "stack" doesn't even ...
My recommended beginner setup for gcc-like compilers is: -std=c11 -pedantic-errors -Wall -Wextra -Werror Here is an explanation of what these options do: -std=c11. gcc & friends are by d...
The complete set of characters matched by the \s shorthand varies according to the language/API/tool/engine you're using. In addition to that, there might be configurations that change this behavi...
When reading questions about C programming from beginners, I very often see them describing peculiar run-time errors and crashes, segmentation faults and similar. They have spent a lot of time chas...
In light of another fiesta on a "competitor site", I poked my head in here again. Here's my twocents. When a ship starts going down, there's only three courses of action for every individual Fi...
When I have tried to read technical explanations of the syntax rules for programming languages, and when I am trying to decipher error messages, I often encounter the terms expression and statement...
sheets tag sounds a little bit too generic and I feel that it should be replaced with the more specific [google-sheets]. I know that we should avoid using company names as much as possible, but in ...
