Derek Elkins‭

As you have worded it, for most open source project, particularly small ones, I would say "yes", it is "wrong" to demand features. Or rather, it's extremely rude. Most of the time open source soft...

posted 2y ago by Derek Elkins‭

This is absolutely undefined behavior. The C standard doesn't say anything about stacks or how they should behave or how local variables should be allocated on them. The word "stack" doesn't even ...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

Short answer: No, it's not dangerous. Short of bugs in the implementation or monkey-patching, there's no reason it would or should allow executing of anything other than the JSON parsing code. Thi...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭  ·  edited 1y ago by hkotsubo‭

If you've committed, then the commit is in the git repo regardless. All git reset does is change what commit the HEAD references. If you find the hash corresponding to the commit you'd like HEAD to...

posted 8mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

The Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) is a mutex in the primary Python implementation (CPython) that is acquired whenever Python (byte)code is executing. This means within a single (OS) process ...

posted 6mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

tl;dr Just use a POST. There's likely literally no reason not to in your situation. REST is not a standard. Being RESTful in and of itself is not a virtue. I strongly suspect that your current...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

In your situation, the most obvious thing to do is use a for loop over the Iterable or the Iterable.forEach extension method depending on your preference, and directly put floats into the FloatBuff...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

Your question is a bit ambiguous. Usually when one talks about something being "completely abstract", one means the details of the representation are opaque. This is the sense of "abstract" in "abs...

posted 2y ago by Derek Elkins‭

(This answer became more ORM v. "direct" SQL. If you're very narrowly focused on just stored procedures, then it's not super important to me that the logic be packaged up in stored procedures. That...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

tl;dr If you don't have a reason otherwise, you should use get. More precisely, if you will be done with the future, you should use get. You should use wait only if there is some separation between...

posted 2y ago by Derek Elkins‭

You are correct in your analysis (though I would not call new_b a "parameter" but a captured variable). What you want is for the closure (anonymous function) to take responsibility for new_b and n...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

Your first diagram illustrates a pattern that doesn't really make sense and most likely doesn't reflect what you're actually doing. Specifically, it illustrates a pattern where the feature branch n...

posted 1y ago by Derek Elkins‭

It depends on why you have a large switch statement. I'm going to assume it's because you have a large enum. If not, then you probably have some complicated logic, and you should endeavor to break ...

posted 12mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

I assume the built-in definition you're referring to is pmat. That illustrates how to solve your problem near the bottom. The idea is simply if σ is a permutation of length N and A is an array of l...

posted 2y ago by Derek Elkins‭

From simple subtyping concerns, you want the arguments of your methods to be as abstract/imprecise as possible while still allowing you to efficiently accomplish your goals. This allows your method...

posted 1mo ago by Derek Elkins‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Derek Elkins‭