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Q&A How would I fix my IntelliJ IDE? It cannot open and re-installing does not work.

While I removed the -javaagent argument from the vmoptions file within my Program Files, it persisted in my roaming AppData folder and that seems to be what the IDE was referencing, not the main bi...

posted 2y ago by cuzzo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by cuzzo‭

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Meta Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?

As someone who spent a lot of time trying to get this to work on Stack Overflow, I would advise against it. Some background story of my merry adventures with book lists: The story starts around...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta The size of the code format window is much too small.

I apologize for the long delay in getting such a small change made and deployed. Someday I would like the blocks to be resizable, but in the meantime, a code block now shows 40 lines before the sc...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?

Are we talking about questions asking for book recommendations, or for a way to share/compile book recommendations? A question doesn't have to be the vehicle for the latter. A question like "what...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I provide additional information when raising an exception?

Suppose I have some code like: filename = "bad_dir" print(f"File not found: {filename}.") raise(FileNotFoundError) When the exception isn't caught, the stack trace is printed at the end of ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Meta Are questions about language design on-topic?

The ambition of this site was always to give more room for subjective and big picture questions compared with Someplace Else. However, I believe programming language design falls under the topic of...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Can I repost here the answers to questions I get answered elsewhere?

I've thought that since I sometimes ask questions on chats and they are like black holes for information, whenever I get an answer I should post the question and answer here so that other people ha...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by ShadowsRanger‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Are AI prompt engineering questions on topic?

Recently, AI models like ChatGPT have shown themselves capable of generating content and even source code. Just like with human helpers, clear and precise communication is key (especially when aski...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How do I find disjoint sets in a dataset

One way of specifying what you want is that you want the equivalence classes of the equivalence relation generated by saying that pairs (a, b) and (x, y) are equal when either a = x or b = y. The f...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Meta Self answered questions about an unclear quickstart

I had problems following the directions of a Google Apps Script API quickstart. I think that the quickstart instructions and code is incomplete. After a while, I finally realized that there was mis...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to use function composition for applying a function to first elements of a list?

Recall that . (composition) is defined as: f . g = \x -> f (g x) That is, it composes two functions of one argument each. The result (another function of one argument) passes its argument x ...

posted 1y ago by mauke‭

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Meta To transfer, or not to, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler to let it stay or to take arms against Stack Overflow's dominance of FAQ canonicals

I would recommend to post it anew here as a self-answered Q&A and update it if needed. You can use the "works for me" reaction to label your own answer the "official" one. As an example of how...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A How do I add functionality to the back button?

TL;DR : end your callback with a call to finish(). According to this article, addCallback really does add a callback. However, the way Android handles these callbacks is this: Iterator<OnBack...

posted 1y ago by FractionalRadix‭  ·  edited 1y ago by FractionalRadix‭

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Q&A Possible drawbacks for having duplicate local sources of the project tracking the same Git remote

This is definitely an intended use case of Git. You will need to make sure your .gitignore files don't include any artifacts of your build environment. GitHub has a canonical set of .gitignore fil...

posted 1y ago by pyrex‭

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Q&A Slicing a dictionary using a string variable

Assuming that dynamicmodel and uncertainlibrary are just (nested) dictionaries and value = '["SCD"]["CL0"]' is actually supposed to be a string (note the single quotes here), your code would at...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

After a few years of casually using stack-exchange sites and wandering around on coda-dict, I feel there are mainly three components to the quality of the content on each of these sites: the kno...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Meta Should we disallow ChatGPT-User crawler (and others) from scraping Software Codidact?

A few thoughts from my side (as a ML researcher, without experience in LLMs): I am not sure if it is really useful to block ChatGPT specifically. ChatGPT is only one of many LLMs out there. ...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Meta Should we disallow ChatGPT-User crawler (and others) from scraping Software Codidact?

Stack Overflow has recently announced OverflowAI and I think this video summarises pretty well this. The main drawback is that the users are less incentivized to put effort into answering questions...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Q&A How to resolve the mypy error "Returning Any from function declared to return 'Dict[str, Any]'" in Python?

You can cast the result of the expression to the desired type def load_json_data(filepath: str) -> Dict[str, Any]: with open(filepath) as json_data: return cast(Dict[str, Any], js...

posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Prevent vscode from inserting new lines in the middle of my code on format.

It sounds like you have a Java formatter configured (by default?) and VSC is applying it to your code automatically (on save?). How code is formatted If your only gripe is these specific stylisti...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Can pandas be used as a database backend for persistent storage?

You can use Pandas to_sql method to upload records to a relational database. However, be aware this functionality is aimed at using Pandas for its original purpose (data analytics and transformati...

posted 1y ago by marquii‭

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Q&A How do I pull new changes in git submodules?

I have a git repository with some submodules. When the submodule repos get new commits on the remote, how can I pull them all?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A Postgres command-line variable substitution error

According to the psql (version 14) man page, it's possible to set variables using the -v command-line parameter, then use the variable in a query, automatically quoted correctly, with :'variable_na...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andrew‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A DocuSign eSignature API SDK: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError errors.

I am trying to implement DocuSign's eSignature REST API by using Java SDK. I am following instructions here: https://developers.docusign.com/docs/esign-rest-api/sdks/java/setup-and-configuration/ ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭

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Q&A DocuSign eSignature API SDK: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError errors.

I am new to Maven so I did not know that I have to "Update Project". If you are using Eclipse editor then you can right click on the project --> "Maven" --> "Update Project" to install depen...

posted 1y ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Vanity Slug ❤️‭

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