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A Q on Stack Exchange from a very long time ago included: I have first names in one column and second names in another, I want to create a third column that contains the first character from the...
In order to assign a variable to the global environment from within a function, there are two ways to proceed: either using the assign operator <<- or using assign(). <<- comes with the...
A good start would be the most popular tags from Stack Overflow. Another approach is to start from scratch and search for tags on Stack Overflow whenever needed. Those tags are already curated and ...
I have recently upgraded Angular CLI from version 9 to version 10 and I simply installed it again. npm install -g @angular/cli Existing version λ ng version Angular CLI: 9.1.8 Node: 12.18.0 OS: w...
The site is called "Software Development", and the subtitle on the homepage is "General Q&A about software development -- code, design, process, tools, testing, and more". Am I to understand, t...
Editing tag descriptions is a privilege, currently based on reputation. (Changes to the privilege system are coming, but not yet.) The threshold is currently set at 250 rep. I recognize the boot...
In a new tab, type A1 in cell A1, Type A2 in Cell A2 Use fill series to complete the values in column A Type A1 in cell B1 Use this formula in cell B2 =B1&","&A2 Copy the formul...
In a stored procedure let's say I have a VARCHAR variable, DECLARE example_variable VARCHAR(100); how much memory is allocated to it and is that independent of the length of the data in the var...
I follow a principle of only including in version control source code. If I can reliably generate the same output from the same input from that source code then there is no need to also store the f...
I am using tf.keras.preprocessing.image_dataset_from_directory. According to the documentation, the related image_size parameter is the Size to resize images to after they are read from disk. How...
My notification list includes the following entry: New answer to your question 'How many votes are required for special actions...' However, there is no answer for that question. I imagine that ...
Comments from this question reveal that there is some aggressive caching related to question tags (what tags are used for a question). Unfortunately, after changing tags for several questions I ha...
@laserkittens and @dmckee has already provided good answers, and I will not copy what's there. Personally, I treat cli arguments as the default choice because of the flexibility it gives to scrip...
After removing two tags and adding another one for this question I have noticed that the tag list is not the same between view mode and edit: View mode: stack-memory + heap-memory + ram + memory-m...
I have found an improvement that is worth posting as an answer to my question. One thing that I was not comfortable with was coming up with test cases and figuring out how many assignments a forma...
Do you need to write this yourself? That is, are you sure there is no library that could do this for you? After all, the angular services generated by the typescript-angular language binding of the...
Right now, there is no auto completion feature for comments. If you want to notify users, you have to write their names by yourself, e.g "Thank you @user". Spaces in usernames should be written tog...
Can a Go package name validly contain a hyphen and/or an underscore? The godocs say that By convention, packages are given lower case, single-word names; there should be no need for underscores or...
1. What type of tags will we allow? (Should specific tags like UrlRewrite be allowed?) I would argue that urlrewrite (or perhaps more appropriately since Microsoft renders it as URL Rewrite, url-...
In SQL Server 2022+, there's a dedicated binning function called DATE_BUCKET. Each of these statements increments DATE_BUCKET with a bucket width of 1 from the origin time: DECLARE @date DATETI...
I have a project I normally build with nix and cabal, however I also want to publish my documentation onto gitlab pages. It's impractical to run my nix on the gitlab CI, so I've just been using cab...
Is there a "cleaner" implementation similar to map's? Yes: let map f = id >=> switch f This follows from two of your other equations: map f = bind (switch f) g >=> h = g >...
Since Matrix messenger offers only a protocol,[1] as a software engineer I can choose to: Write my own client or use an existing client Write my own server with my own server logic or join an e...
The documentation for git stash list says list [<log-options>] List the stash entries that you currently have. Each stash entry is listed with its name (e.g. stash@{0} is the latest entry...
I'm trying to build a proper understanding of what an OLAP[1] datastore vs an OLAP data engine is. I tend to put too much value on keywords like "engine" vs "data store." If it has "engine," I thin...
