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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...
I want to let you know that today we (Codidact team) posted our default Gen-AI policy. As far as this community is concerned I think it's consistent with what you're already doing and nothing surp...
C23 will be a major revision, certainly the biggest one since C99. It contains lots of changes and new features, both big and small. The linked draft in the question contains a complete list of cha...
We have two teams, dev and doc, and I'd like them to have shared access (via git) to a common subset of content. Specifically, I would like the examples that are used in the doc and that are scrip...
Pros of CLI arguments/flags include: Easier to leverage the tool in another script or via other automation so that user interaction is not required If certain arguments are optional and/or have...
While [the Apple "goto fail bug"] is pretty interesting, it's anecdotal evidence. I understand that it's still possible to produce bugs like this. One could also reasonably argue that it could ha...
We can't go and shamelessly promote Codidact in SO comments etc just for the sake of it - that's regarded as spamming and might get you banned, plus it will give Codidact a nasty rep. Similarly, SE...
What exactly does the static keyword do in C? I have seen it used in several diverse contexts: 1) As a variable outside a function: #include <stdio.h> static int x = 5; int main (void) ...
What if a question is beginner level? I would say: Someone should answer it. Some of the beginner level questions on stackoverflow have received answers that explain things in wonderful ways. Be...
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...
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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::...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Search engine optimization? I thought this goes without saying, but apparently we aren't doing too well there for some reason. The other day I was having a discussion with someone at SO regarding...
