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When looking at this, we might pretty soon note that storing strings in the same buffer by using null terminators as separator is quite clunky. It blocks us from using handy functions like strtok, ...
A lot of people who maintain FOSS projects would like to get more contributions. What can the maintainer do to ensure that potential contributors are converted into actual contributors? There are...
How to delete a branch from a remote in git? E.g. maybe you had this branch locally too, but you deleted it already according to this question. Now you want to get rid of the corresponding remote ...
We rolled out a fairly major update this morning - implementing our new Abilities system. However, it... didn't go as smoothly as planned; the database apparently didn't update properly with new co...
@BruceAlderman gave a good answer with different aspects that covers the most. I'm not very good at SQL, so my answer is more general. When I have to choose between two different things that are e...
#NotABugForOnce This is down to language guessing. If you don't tell the highlighter what language your code is in, it guesses. Sometimes, it guesses wrong, like here. I've edited the post and ad...
I created subscription to new questions that should emailed every 7 days but I receieved every day. here is my setting: here is my mail inbox: and unfortunately, I got emails with same quest...
tl;dr If you don't have a reason otherwise, you should use get. More precisely, if you will be done with the future, you should use get. You should use wait only if there is some separation between...
I'm trying to understand the purpose of the wait() function in Class future<> for C++. At the moment I don't see any purpose for calling wait() instead of get(). What I have tried in code: i...
Reasons to use the construct #define FOO(x) do{...} while(0);: As mentioned above, doing so solves the problem of if (...) FOO(y); You can declare variables inside the block, and they ...
<Window x:Class="Login_App.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns...
One of the fonts available (to me) on Google Docs is Caveat. The following is in 18-point Caveat on Google Docs: I found that Caveat is available at https://github.com/googlefonts/caveat/tree/ma...
I am using MediatR in an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application and I want use a generic query and a generic request that deals with getting lists of some standard items I am using in drop-downs and similar:...
These questions boil down to "what are do the people who curate the site want to maintain?" The higher the percentage of people who do that curation (and that includes closing and deleting content ...
JSON is a standard. Performance is implementation specific and dependent on what is being done with the data. The answer really depends on what your environment is. Some languages may have slight p...
How does the community feel about resource requests? For example: I have been working on a project recently. By which I mean: mostly stumbling through by trial-and-error. The particular open source...
I was told by my professor/book that computer programs use two kinds of memory and that all variables get allocated either on the stack or on the heap. Is this true? How can I tell where a variable...
This is a small bug (cosmetic) that I have noticed while adding some code in a post: I have artificially added some whitespace here and there, otherwise the line would have been way longer.
Note: This is not an official Codidact staff answer; this is my personal opinion. Let's try to build up a bit of an original base before we work on imports. Based on other sites where content was ...
A cancellation token doesn't inherently do anything. It's up to the code which does the work to call ThrowIfCancellationRequested. If the token isn't passed on and isn't explicitly checked then the...
One solution would be to catch a more generic base class, like std::exception. If all your exceptions derive from that, you should be safe. Another solution I like better is using destructors to d...
There is no universal accessibility standard for how tall your buttons should be. Consider that when you're using a simple link, users have to click on the text itself to follow the link; as long a...
C# language version 8.0 introduces limited support for static methods, operators, etc. in interfaces. However, there are still limitations. I was hoping to use the new language features to try a ge...
I want to match standard email syntax (lowercased English, numbers and perhaps also some hyphens and underscores) with regex for a sed operation that matches and changes a single email address insi...
How about this for bash: #!/bin/bash echo "What is your web application root?" read web_application_root web_application_root="$(envsubst <<< "$web_application_root")" echo web_...
