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The short, broad strokes answer is that (modern) cabal-install uses a nix-style approach where there's a shared global cache, but you can have multiple versions of a package installed or even the s...
Types are often followed by exclamation marks in GraphQL schemas. What do they mean? type User { id: Int! email: String! name: String! updatedAt: String! createdAt: String...
It's a type modifier that means that the field is non-nullable. That is, when uploading these types you must provide values for these fields, and in turn the server promises to always populate the...
A recent answer on Software Development was correct, but was included spam / self promotion (unrelated to the question or the answer). The answer was edited to remove the spam, but it was suggeste...
GitHub seems to require that one of the branches on it be marked as the "primary" branch. I understand this (perhaps mistakenly) to be the origin/HEAD. Why would they make it compulsory? On forked...
In my opinion, there is a single appropriate response to any incident of obvious, commercial, off-topic spam: an immediate, unconditional, one-strike-and-you're-out, permanent ban of the user and t...
Since the tradition doesn't have any enforcement anywhere, we can't necessarily pinpoint a single reason, but it probably has a lot to do with the available technology of the early 1970s when Chamb...
It's a mistake to draw a general question based on this specific incident. The spam in question has been posted to Codidact dozens of times, often in AI-generated texts. There is no reason to assu...
Why are keywords in SQL usually written in capital letters? For example: SELECT * FROM person WHERE mood = 'happy'; My understanding is that SQL is case insensitive, so the case doesn't actuall...
Assigning the variable end to ']' gets the line number of every closing bracket To solve this, just set the last line number only if the first line number is already set. Like this: def readS...
I'm not exactly sure what you want with the whole of rd, but …programmatically get the name of the remote branch which my local branch is tracking… sounds very much like the @{upstream}/@{u} ...
Can I programmatically get the name of the remote branch which my local branch is tracking? I'm interested in scripting around git-range-diff(1), so that I could do something like this: [alias] ...
Purpose and use X macros is a design pattern used for the purpose of centralizing data & code maintenance to a single point in the program. Instead of maintaining code based on some data set i...
The main difference between Stack Exchange and Codidact is that SE loves to spawn off hundreds of sites with lots of overlapping scopes, whereas Codiact has the category system, which means that co...
Many programming languages either have keywords like or and and used for logic, or equivalent operators such as || or && - which are referred to as "logical or" and "logical and" respective...
We've had discussions before about the site's intended scope (range of permissible topics and questions), but for new users coming from the Stack Exchange network, I think it would be useful to dra...
Note: this is mostly a personal preference that I use when moderating the posts Generally, no While "Hello" and "Thank you" are noise (overhead) for the questions and answers, they are also part ...
I've been thinking about how the community might bring more contributors to software.codidact. One of the ways is to simply pitch codidact in questions, answers, and comments in stackoverflow. I'm ...
I have a PHP script that uses CURL to return a JSON result that looks //Curl set up code $result = curl_exec($ch); //Error checking code $json = json_decode($result, true); //Code to process r...
These are fine, IMO: Here is my specification of what the program should do /--/. I'm stuck at x, (optionally: here is my code), where do I go from here? Is this implementation of x (code follows)...
Which concept is best for managed background services? 1. RunAsync(CancellationToken): interface IWorker { Task RunAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default); } ... IWorker worker =...
The site is called Software Development, not "Applications". Meaning programming. On-topic: Questions about different behavior of web browsers in the context of web application programming. Questi...
I've been doing a lot of reading on implementing the repository pattern in C# projects and found controversy, or shall I say some strong criticism, made by seemingly very smart people with previous...
The question https://software.codidact.com/posts/281517 is currently voted at -3. I wrote several comments to explain why, so the author can hopefully ask better questions in the future. This morn...
tl;dr The purpose of addEventListener is to define what happens when an event is triggered at some element. But it also allows us to implement event delegation, due to the bubbling/propagation beh...
