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This goes back to the various CPU architecture "wars" in the 1970s-1980s between the competitors Intel and Motorola (for example Intel 8086 vs Motorola 68000). For various reasons, CPUs from these ...
I assume "help my code isn't working"/troubleshooting posts - which make up much of SO questions - are allowed. However from reading the FAQ, it's not obvious to me that they are. The "on topic" bu...
Yes Questions about troubleshooting your non-working code are on-topic, provided that you include enough information for the community to understand the context (SO names this minimal reproducible...
I'm working on an API to respond some data about a bunch of orders and items. The order and item numbers are always an integer (it's the order.id and item.id value, respectively). Originally the re...
Generally speaking, if two groups of people collaborate on the same software, I'd recommend they put everything in a shared git repository: Documentation is intimately tied to the version of the ...
I have created this sensational program: #include <stdio.h> int* func (void) { int local=5; return &local; } int main (void) { printf("%d\n", *func()); } This prints 5 even thoug...
While Lundin has written a reasonably complete answer, I think it suffers a bit from the expert view: conflating core issues with implementation details related to modern hardware architecture. I'd...
These examples have undefined behavior and unspecified behavior all at once! Operator precedence has nothing to do with the order of execution, see What is the difference between operator precedenc...
As discussed on Meta, should Software.codidact allow reviewing working code as a question? Traffic is probably not high enough to warrant it's own Codereview community. The existing communities out...
tl;dr Although it can be done with regex (and work for "most" cases), I still prefer to use a parser. Long answer I'd use something such as DOMParser to do the job: let validTags = ['p', 'span', 'b...
When posting a lot of code on the site, the "code format window" is much too small: 1 I'm talking about this thing 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The scroll bar appears after...
Yes, the second line invokes undefined behavior. First of all, according to C17 6.5.2.1 regarding array subscripting, an expression E1[E2] is just "syntactic sugar" for *((E1)+(E2))). So what appli...
It's meant to include all programming and scripting. By calling it Software Development we wanted to convey that it's not just code but also those other things. I'll adjust the description of the...
I don't have a py command on my system; for purposes of this answer I assume it's an alias to the python executable. Running a script from a file is not quite the same as importing it. A script giv...
tl;dr I'd like to learn a compact, cross-compiler way of selectively suppressing compiler warnings. Consider the case where you really mean to make an exact floating-point comparison using ==, o...
Python doesn't support extending the mechanics of how f-strings are parsed; the reference doesn't give the specific mechanism, but it doesn't say that there's any connection between the parsing of ...
I was fooling around with the following C code on my trusty old x86 PC: #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> int main (void) { uint32_t u32 = 0xAABBCCDD; uint8_t* ptr = (u...
Is it correct to destroy a mutex which is referenced but not owned by an unique_lock as in this code? { std::unique_ptr<std::mutex> mutex = std::make_unique<std::mutex>(); std::u...
You cannot set text-align on a column element (Well, you can, but it won't have any effect) There are only a couple of properties that have an effect, namely border, background, width, and visibi...
This question featured a quite heated discussion in the comments which led to some of them being removed. This action was discussed here and I have realized that our community lacks a guide about p...
There is a fundamental misunderstanding at the root of this question. Websites do not store your password client-side When you login to a website, the website does NOT store your password in a co...
The term is cultural, not technical. From Wikipedia: There is no standard for defining the term, and some difference of opinion is possible as to the degree to which a given operating system or ...
When you do x=y=z=[], you're making x, y and z point to the same list. Example: x=y=z=[] # add element to x x.append(1) # add element to y y.append(2) # but x, y and z all point to the same l...
I've seen some regular expressions (regex) using \s when they want to match a space, but I noticed that it also matches line breaks. Example: the regex [a-z]\s[0-9] (lowercase ASCII letter, follow...
What you're asking is a very broad topic, and it'd require entire books to cover everything. For the sake of simplicify, I'll just stick to the basics. Inheritance Inheritance can be explai...
