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Sometimes there are empty files named .gitkeep sprinkled around a repository. What are these files?
when I look at the type signatures, it is not supposed to work. The types work because they're parameterized. The types of the combinators involved are (renaming all parameters to be unique fo...
Theory Relative paths are relative to the current working directory of the Python process. This can be checked from within Python using the os.getcwd function and set using the os.chdir function. ...
General/program design: I would have expected a public header file with the API for the whole thing, rather than having some main() test case calling static functions from the same file. Sure,...
I have an Android 10 device where the OS is unlocked but the bootloader is not. I can't obtain the unlock code through the normal channels because of bureaucratic incompetence. Given that the devi...
You're very much on the right track. std::iter::FromIterator trait This trait is indeed what makes it work. In particular, both functions' return types implement the trait: std::result::Result&l...
I tried to check info bash but only got a copy of the man page. This is when I learned that I could apt install bash-doc to get the "full" Bash manual. After checking both the info pages and the m...
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...
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...
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: ...
Matthew's list is pretty good, although I don't think one has to do all the things on it as a "minimum." I offer one minimum and a couple nice-to-haves. Some of these I have learned as a contributo...
I am trying to generate my own root CA certificate. Context My goal is to sign an intermediate CA with this certificate, and then install the intermediate CA on my own client machines. The interm...
box and unbox are operators documented in the F# Core API Reference; it tersely states that they box / unbox (respectively) a strongly typed value. box a returns value a "wrapped" in a .NET Sy...
S.E.O. - Stack Overflow has fantastic SEO, and this is a self-feeding cycle. Currently codidact isn't adding json-ld or oembed information so that these posts won't show up neatly in search engin...
The Null Values article in the F# Language Reference show an example that uses it, but it does not explain what it does exactly. You can use the following code to check if an arbitrary value is ...
PEP20 aka the Zen of Python has a statement: Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! What exactly are we supposed to "do" according to this? Is it saying we should h...
It doesn't change commit data when you push. You have to set your local email address to the noreply one. About commit email addresses […] If you'd like to keep your personal email address pri...
Setting up 2FA now produces a recovery code (with instructions to save it). If you later sign in using that recovery code, it disables 2FA until you re-enable it, getting a new code in the process...
Root cause ModuleNotFoundError is a kind of ImportError. It occurs when Python code tries to use an absolute import, but can't find the named module - just as the name suggests. (Failed relative i...
TL;DR If we allow answers to be tagged with technologies and version numbers, people can more easily check if an answer is applicable to their technology stack. A few days ago, I had a problem in ...
Use --add/-a to add a folder code <file> -n -a <folder>
I am writing some scripts that operate on emails in Maildir format. A lot of things are easy in this format, but the filenames are absolutely incomprehensible. For example, one script moves mails ...
The following expression should capture the {dp|gp}/$ID part: https://www\.amazon\.com/([gd]p/[A-z0-9]{10}) A quick explanation: the \. are there to match periods only (otherwise it would ma...
When you do: cd /some/path code . VS Code opens with that location shown in the "Explorer" sidebar. However, the state of the file tree and the currently open files will be the same as what wa...
VS Code supports regex search, but the search/replace is UI is just a tiny dialog box. It's okay if you know regex well and the expression is not complex, but when trying to apply complicated expre...
