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I saw at least one compiler (Codewarrior for HC12) warn me if I use a function without using it's return value. [...] Ye, for that's the right choice. [...] Other compilers (clang/gcc) do not is...
A very recently asked Q on Web Applications has no answer yet (and, in my opinion, is so badly written may not receive an answer at all promptly). However it does seem (in my interpretation) to rai...
A user of Web Applications gave the following as an example: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nPTBFXaIgpruPgNoWFSBUL2yKaibjeNJNExhnHVr8LE/edit#gid=0 and asked: How do I read a long ro...
A Q on Stack Overflow asks how to merge two columns where each row has only one populated cell. The example was from (on the left) to (on the right): a|b a 0| ...
A user of Web Applications asked "How should I fix the formula?" with reference to: =IF($K4<2,$K4) applied as a Conditional Formatting [CF] formula to J4:J8, where the desired (green fill) f...
For use in connection with conditional formatting with alternating coloured fills in OpenOffice Calc, several years ago a user of Super User was applying this Ruby script: f = File.readlines("sha...
On-topic questions about best practices as long as enough detail is provided to answer using external references or expertise consensus I propose that this should be re-phrased: On-topic non-...
Based on this proposal, I have created a designated section within the Help section: What type of questions can I ask here? This can evolve over time based on feedback provided by the community.
In an as yet unanswered Q from early this year a user of Stack Overflow asked: how to fill all non-empty cells of a column by 1 and the empty cells by 0. It's an xlsx file open with LibreOffice ...
Questions with artificial requirements that have no practical use, including code obfuscation and code golf Questions with no practical use can and have always existed in some way. I could be pro...
In response to a Q on Web Applications [WA] the asker self-answered with: =CONCATENATE("@ £/€ rate: ",text(J21,"0.00000")) The issue was that, with "in a cell J21 I have a set value 1.10000":. ...
How do I mock tempnam() with vfsStream for code that uses it to create temporary files (for example, in a PHPUnit test)?
In an STM32CubeIDE USB HID project for an STM32F103C8 board I can send data from the device to the host using the USBD_HID_SendReport() function, like so: USBD_HID_SendReport(&hUsbDeviceFS, (u...
I wouldn't try to create another single document from this. I'd rather create one document per version, store it along with the version date and provide means to show diffs between versions. Any W...
I don't see much duplication in your workflow file here. Is there a lot of boilerplate? Yes, but I believe that's expected for CI/CD workflow definitions and a result of using the workflow being d...
tl;dr: There's a few ways to bypass this: For all users on the machine: Get rid of /usr/lib/python3.foo/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED. To prevent your package manager from adding it back, replace it with a...
Hello, I am trying to build a docker image for contributing to the devdocs repository, however I am failing to get past the thor docs:download --all command. It fails with the below error: . is w...
I tried installing Python on an old computer running Windows 8[1]. I know for a fact that there was never any previous installation of Python on the machine. The installation appeared to be success...
I have Box drive on Windows. I use it as a regular folder on the computer. I can store images there. When I store a small number of images (on the order of a couple hundreds) and I do not wait lon...
A probable solution. I suspect, I have identified the culprit. It turns out that Box drive limits the number of characters the full file path can have. Note, not usual limit of 256 characters in t...
Use a collect_list collecting the values from all preceding rows up to the current row into a struct Then filter on that struct based on its value and the current row's threshold Use aggregate ...
It is currently not possible to autocomplete variable names in prompts in Cursor (source).
When I write and execute a prompt in Cursor IDE, what specific information is included in the context that gets sent to the underlying language model (such as GPT or Claude)? E.g., does it include ...
To fix this, create a table in the Lua file, add the function, and return the table: local M = {} function M.say_hello() return "Hello from lua/functions.lua!" end return M
I'm getting the following exception with deserializing a json file using jackson. Any tips on how to fix it? com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: No enum constants for class com.dp...
