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It's an unfortunate analogy. Apart from being confusing, it does indeed assume some basic electronics knowledge. In electronics a short circuit (or the common jargon "a short") does not necessarily...
You can use the carriage return control character "\r" to return to the beginning of the line and overwrite text. When using the print function you additionally have to make sure not to write the ...
The solution proposed by the other answer works, but there's a corner case. If the last message is shorter than the previous one, you might not get what you want. Example: print("this is some text...
<set> does seem to be a bit finicky for this case, doesn't it? You can use <animateTransform> if you set the values attribute on it instead of the to attribute, like this: <animate...
I have a few different projects that rely on open source technology that I wish to make modifications to (say, to add key features for business or personal use) that will vary between upstreamable ...
Background This is inspired to some extent by https://software.codidact.com/posts/289597 . I'm trying to provide a large amount of content (gradually!) that novices (mainly to Python) will find u...
As the author, this is my defense. Design and modeling are on-topic The site topicality documentation explicitly includes "Software design, architecture, or modeling" as on topic. There doesn't s...
This has now been indirectly fixed for all Codidact communities by removing the minimum character requirement altogether. See Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 3...
I just noticed this question about data structures in the Q&A. Although algorithms and data structures are often (part of) a solution to a problem when writing software, this question is const...
Frame challenge, the "bubbles" aren't useless First off, I'll challenge the premise of the question: the "merge bubbles" are not useless, because they represent meaningful development history. In ...
Well, ain't this fun hehe Turns out I failed to see .reader launches its own job, which resulted in multiple coroutines contending for the zip stream, each trying to write an entry... 🤦 The solut...
You can try to break up the query into CTEs, and then see if any of the individual CTEs are unusually slow. I am guessing the query is not just one select, but probably has subqueries, window func...
Possible justifications It may make sense to use a mutable default argument in the following situations: For simplicity Consider for example an argument that should be some kind of mapping, wher...
Working with dbt version 2 I'm trying to set up source checks but I'm running into an issue where the column names I'm setting tests for have dashes (e.g. my_table.some-field-with-dash). I current...
As the walk documentation describes: When an array is encountered, f is first applied to its elements and then to the array itself In other words, walk is bottom-up. So when you apply your fi...
What is the best way to convert Dos paths to Posix paths in Powershell? eg given: C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules\ I want something like: /Program\ Files/PowerShell/Modules/ Is the only so...
Categories should be used when the posting rules for certain types of question differ. For example a debugging question posted below Q&A should have a minimal, relevant example. Whereas a code ...
You can narrow down the problem by using cd to navigate to the different nested directories in the path one at a time, starting from the one on the left. The first one that gives you an error tells...
Is it possible for a Python program to send itself in the background? For example, on Linux you can do nohup some_cmd & and any program will run in the background. Some programs also support s...
TL;DR: How to pass a interpolated double vector, such as a dvec2, from the vertex shader to the fragment shader? I have a vertex shader. In this the output variable out vec2 uv; is set. And i have...
The basics of good vs bad program design All programs are divided in classes. (Or modules/abstract data types/interfaces etc - a rose by any other name.) Each class should only be concerned with i...
I'd like to write a TCP client in Rust that can receive the entire message sent by a server, but I have no information about the length of a message. I'm aware that TCP doesn't preserve message bo...
I will provide an answer to this question in the context of this, now deleted question which included this relevant text before being edited and removed: How to implement a variable trust-based ...
I don't think it is inappropriate for someone to mark their own answer "Works for me" on self-answered questions, but it feels a little bit redundant since the answer is expected to work for the po...
I don't think there are any formal names for the various versions you list. First of all, please note that output in a programming context most often refers to printing something on a screen or to...
