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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...
Many older projects (i.e., older than 5 years) provide instructions to the Paket .NET dependency manager (e.g., Suave), so I started digging into it, got confused, then gave up for while because er...
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, ...
The fundamental problem here is that it is already ambiguous where the "end" of the data in the buffer is. Strings can be empty (have zero length as reported by strlen); as such, buffer could equal...
This question is inspired by If I have a char array containing strings with a null byte (\0) terminating each string, how would I add another string onto the end? on Stack Overflow. Suppose I have...
The obvious way would be to simply start with an empty list of lists, loop through the input, and for each item decide which sublist to put it in. It's not super dev-friendly to remember which lis...
No. Terms like "too generic", "unclear", "too broad", "off topic" are absolutely not euphemisms for "stupid question, go away". They mean what they say; and when they are used Somewhere Else, mult...
What would be the simplest (and most lightweight) way of getting email notifications of failures in kubernetes clusters. Mostly interested in failing pods, so notifying on certain kubernetes event ...
You could create a dictionary to map each attribute to its respective list of items. Then you get the dictionary values to create the final list. Something like this: import re pattern = re.comp...
Software design in itself has always been on-topic, as per https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic. As for system design for a given purpose, I think it is fine within reason. Contrary to popu...
Is software system design on topic for the software development site? For what I mean by system design, consider the "system design interview" commonly held these days when recruiting software eng...
No. Closing is an integral part of maintaining this knowledge repository. If a question isn't up to our standards, it doesn't belong here, and closing is the first step in ensuring that. If a quest...
tl;dr: When a question is unclear, don't close right away, especially if it's possible to discern what they are trying to ask. Instead, use comments and edit suggestions to work with the asker and ...
My team introduces lots of time measurements for various code sections that might take longer than expected in a real-life flow. These rely on initializing a StopWatch, getting the elapsed time an...
sudo apt install sdkmanager Solved it for me. And then I had to run this to fix the licensing issues: sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/lib/android-sdk/ sdkmanager --licenses ./gradlew build sudo chmo...
ChromeOS Linux: Debian, how do I install Android SDK manager via command line? I wanted to try this repo https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/tree/master/examples/imageviewer and I g...
I have a flat list where each item is the key and value for an attribute. I want to transform this into a nested list where each attribute is a sublist. Example input: [ "attr1 apple 1", "a...
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What's wrong As Moshi's comment points out, single backticks only work for inline code (code that appears within a paragraph of other text, and contains no line breaks). The following raw text: ...
Because execl's first argument isn't argv[0]. execl("/bin/sh", "-c", ...) runs the executable /bin/sh, but sets its argv[0] to "-c", as if one had created a link called -c pointing at it and run t...
When I do this in a shell: $ /bin/sh -c 'echo hello world' hello world it's my understanding that I'm running a process with argv = {"/bin/sh", "-c", "echo hello world"}. That is, the quotes c...
I was trying to ask a code review question but I have observed that it does not support the "Monospace font" for code excerpts properly. It is only considered partially and I see this particularly ...
The documentation seems to me to hint that WORD will be expanded whether I want it to be, or not. I don't agree, because as quoted: (1) If PARAMETER is unset or null, the expansion of WORD ...
Does GnuTLS support CA Name Constraints (RFC 5280, 4.2.1.10), so you can limit the valid domains directly in the root CA? I'm not aware of any CAs that self-limit this way,[1] except for when the ...
