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Posts 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 ...
While any piece of software receiving input from an untrusted source is additional attack surface, generally speaking git pull is not a security threat. Three things happen when you git pull: a gi...
Well, to start, it is not an alternative to pip. It's built on top of pip and exclusively deals with applications. pip is more of a development tool, while pipx is aimed at end-users (who may also ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Use a static site generator. There are other possibilities, but they seem more complicated or worse for your use case. A static site generator takes in source data in some combination of markup fo...
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 ...
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...
The answer is "it depends". It depends on the language, how much buffering you're willing to allow, how much you're willing to accept some approximate/incorrect syntax highlighting, and whether you...
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...
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...
(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...
The point of VCL is to allow you to work with SIMD operations explicitly. OpenMP simd is more or less just a way to provide hints to the auto-vectorization the compiler is doing, so to some degree ...
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 ...
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...
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...
NotImplementedError should generally be viewed as indicating some design problem. You should not be reaching for it as a matter of course. Here are some potential times you might feel a desire to ...
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...
There are two issues here. A performance problem and a correctness problem. The approach you suggest seems like it will help mitigate the performance problem while doing nothing for the correctness...
I can't speak for the designers' motivations, but here are some possible reasons: It's simple. Having one tempdb for everything is likely simpler to implement and simpler to configure. It works...
One way of specifying what you want is that you want the equivalence classes of the equivalence relation generated by saying that pairs (a, b) and (x, y) are equal when either a = x or b = y. The f...
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...
Based on the source code which delegates to this implementation among others, base.diff((x, n)) means to compute the n-th derivative of base with respect to x. Any arguments to diff which aren't tu...
