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Activity for Peter Taylor
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #285490 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Conditionally ignore files in git Per man gitignore there are four sources of patterns for ignoring files. Command-line arguments are probably too much hassle; `.gitignore` is itself version-controlled (unless you include `.gitignore` in it), which creates complications. That leaves `$GITDIR/info/exclude` and the file listed in confi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281308 |
@#53177, in what way is "gamification" a relevant tag for this question? It's about a *game*, but that's not the same thing. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284964 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to align my content to the left? If you remove the `align="left"` then it works fine. My best guess is that you put those in because you didn't want the image in the text flow, affecting the vertical positioning on the text. The easiest solution to that is to float them: add `float: left;` to the CSS for `img`, and ```css hr ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284904 |
Code Golf would need two extra metadata fields: language and score. And even so it would continue to require following conventions in the post layout in order to extract a preview of the code for the custom widget. Not to mention that to really get the most out of extra metadata fields each site woul... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284806 |
I'm confused by the interaction with Excel and the issue of typing. Surely Excel would only store the leading 0s if it stores as a string? So is your code parsing a string to integers, splitting into smaller integers, and converting them back to strings? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284571 |
IMO talking about "correct use" introduces unnecessary risk of controversy. Taking your example, OOP purists will argue that at least 99% of setter/getter functions in Java are incorrect use. "Idiomatic use" isn't entirely free of controversy, but I think it's less controversial. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284378 |
I think that was my flag, and that I was so caught up in wondering whether it was technically possible that I overlooked the lack of motivation. The error message reported in the title is usually due to running a GUI program from a shell which doesn't know your X configuration. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284355 |
This "GOEMDAS" sounds like a nightmare. If I understand it correctly, `2/2*10/3` would evaluate to `3` (via `1*3`), but `0*1+2/2*10/3` would evaluate to `0` (via `0+2/20/3`). (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284322 |
Take a non-trivial example. If I tell you that base 57 can encode 5.83289 bits per symbol, what block size should you use? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284322 |
How do you find n and d without first calculating lg b? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284329 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Why comma is expected for auto_increment? Read the documentation for SQLite CREATE TABLE clauses, not questions about Netbeans JavaDB. In particular, if you expand `column-def` and `column-constraint` you'll see the correct syntax for what you're trying to do. However, note also that it's not recommended unless "strictly needed". (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284322 |
I'm not sure what your question is. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284322 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: What's the better way to store base64 in SQLite Database? The question seems to show a certain level of confusion about terminology. I shall address what I believe to be the underlying question: How can I store binary data in SQLite? SQLite supports 5 datatypes: NULL, INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, and BLOB. The natural datatype to use for binary data is BLOB. How... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284265 |
Are collisions other than bomb with submarine even possible? Although, sure, relying on that constrains future expansion.
I think that for incremental movement, a simple test would be whether the bounding box intersects the screen area. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284265 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: A simple game with pygame Overall the structure seems sensible. Style It's Python style to have two blank lines after a function or method, not just one. You seem to be trying to line wrap before 80 characters. Maybe you have a reason for that, but I don't think that's a sensible width in general any more. In fact, I... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284197 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Is this a good fit for Code Reviews, and if so, how to best post it? This should perhaps be a comment rather than an answer, but I want to allow people to vote to indicate agreement or disagreement. "Complete code" doesn't necessarily mean an entire project. It means that what you post should be self-contained, so that reviewers can test the code and any changes to... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284086 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Credentials for multiple tenants with Azure.Identity Situation: I have an Azure account which has management permissions for various subscriptions in various directories (tenants). I have a GUI tool to do various management tasks whose details are irrelevant, and I'm updating this tool to the latest and supposedly greatest Microsoft auth library. What ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283876 |
Adding two integers is also a basic task found in many programming languages, but a tag suitable for questions about that would probably be `arithmetic` rather than `integer-addition`. I'm not sure exactly what the right level of specificity is, but linewise input feels too specific to me. I would ha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283052 |
This answer correctly identifies the problem, but it would be improved by also stating that the solution is to merge the directives into a single policy as `Content-Security-Policy: style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://fonts.googleapis.com/; font-src 'self' https://fonts.gstatic.com/; default-src... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282732 |
Back in the day you could manipulate the DOM with a Java applet, but I don't think any modern browser still supports them. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282333 |
Post edited: The present participle of *scrape* has one *p*; two *p*s gives the present participle of *scrap*. |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282582 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Is this HTML sanitizer safe? > Is there any disadvantage of doing it this way that I should be aware of? In general whitelisting is the best way to sanitise, but it does create important error classes, especially missing items. I think that your list of `allowedNodeTypes` could be better ordered to allow manual checking (e.g.... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #282333 |
Suggested edit: The present participle of *scrape* has one *p*; two *p*s gives the present participle of *scrap*. (more) |
helpful | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281589 |
It would probably help to see how you're using the custom cell renderer. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281552 |
Re "which is a different letter (or the same letter, but with a different semantics...)": there isn't going to be a short clean way of explaining it, because it's very contextual. In Spanish, for example, *a* and *á* are officially the same letter, but *n* and *ñ* are different letters. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281448 |
Stored procedures might be a sensible compromise. I'm not aware of step-through debuggers, but they allow you to do the iterative part on the SQL server without network overhead each time round the loop. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281456 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: How to break infinite loop in CTE For small tables you can bound the recursion depth: WITH mycte(childId, parentId, depth, maxdepth) AS ( SELECT r.childId, r.parentId, 1, (SELECT COUNT() FROM MyTable) FROM MyTable r WHERE r.childId = 1 UNION ALL SELECT rel.childId, rel.parentId... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281347 |
It seems that the CommonMark parser used by this site deviates from the basic spec by turning CDATA blocks into comments, so the only workaround I can find to avoid the auto-linking is to use inline code: `dead.sh`, and that doesn't meet your requirement to display as normal text. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281309 |
@JohnDoea, I find that hard to believe and suspect that you're misdiagnosing the problem, but I don't think anyone can take this further unless you post at least some of the form handler (probably complete with logging statements and log output to show the formats before and after key steps). (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281304 |
If sessions include a random ID (probably not the session ID per se, because that creates potential security problems of its own) and that ID is always included as a log parameter, it allows distinguishing between the impersonated session and the real user in a separate session. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281309 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: yyyy/mm/dd instead expected dd/mm/yyyy format in PHP-created-HTML output The date is sent in the form submission in ISO 8601 format (year-month-day). You can reformat it in the form handler as follows: $inputdate = $REQUEST['cfinputdate']; if ($inputdate) { $inputdate = DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d", $inputdate)->format("d/m/Y"); } (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281288 |
What exactly do you mean by "*I printed this HTML as output to my email box (via PHP)*"? Do you actually mean that the form is submitted to a CGI script which e-mails the values to you, and the e-mail contains values in a format you didn't expect? (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281160 |
Post edited: Complete rewrite in light of changes to the question |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281160 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: How do I configure log4net from an arbitrary data structure? > My assumption is that, internally, log4net loads its XML file into some data structure (maybe not a dict, but some equivalent of cfgdict above) and then passes that structure to whatever code manages the configuration (the equivalent of dictConfig above). What's idiomatic in duck-typed Python is... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281095 |
Post edited: |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281095 |
@JohnDoea , I saw the proposed edit before the change to the question and it seemed to make the answer worse rather than better. I can apply the changes again though, fixing the typo. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281095 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Running remote scripts (cloud scripts) locally --- valid and securely as possible > An example for a current problem; the file downloaded can have a trivial name such as install.sh and collide with similar files (the rm is especially problematic here I think). This is why `tempfile` exists. FILENAME=`tempfile` cd DESTINATION && wget -O ${FILENAME} https://raw.g... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278907 |
`while(arr[index++] != 0);` does *not* accomplish the same thing, because it increments `index` one more time than `while(arr[index] != 0) index++;` (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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