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Comment Post #291047 The question author is seeking a way to be notified of answers to their questions. The only current options for subscribing by email are for new questions and interesting questions. There is not yet an option to be emailed when you have a personal notification.
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18 days ago
Edit Post #291041 Initial revision 18 days ago
Answer A: Email alerts for notifications
This feature has not yet been implemented. However, there is a feature request on Codidact Meta that requests it for all communities. You (and anyone else who would like to see this) can add your vote and/or thoughts there. I would definitely use this feature myself if it were implemented.
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18 days ago
Edit Post #291040 Post edited:
Typo
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Edit Post #291040 Post edited:
Mention that 2 line breaks are required but 1 still causes a similar problem
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Edit Post #291040 Initial revision 18 days ago
Answer A: Issue with the Monospace font
What's wrong As Moshi's comment points out, single backticks only work for inline code (code that appears within a paragraph of other text, and contains no line breaks). The following raw text: > ```text > A paragraph with `inline code` showing. > ``` is rendered as: > A paragraph with...
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18 days ago
Comment Post #289261 No I doubt anyone is going to post an answer if they consider it dangerous, except perhaps on Code Golf...
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5 months ago
Comment Post #289831 > Certain operators like the && and || in C guarantee a left-to-right evaluation and also that the evaluation stops if it finds that the result cannot be true. It also stops if it finds that the result cannot be false (pedantic point since the sentence mentions `||`, not just `&&`).
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6 months ago
Edit Post #289698 Initial revision 7 months ago
Answer A: Tags are highlighting while my favourite tags is empty
The problem mentioned in the question The original problem mentioned in the question is now fixed. If several users share a computer (or one person has several user accounts), the user who is currently signed in will be the one whose preferences are used. Previously, preferences were stored in th...
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7 months ago
Comment Post #289694 See also [How to best ask about algorithmic problems](https://software.codidact.com/posts/285461). There the question of whether a programming language should be specified was a sub-question and didn't get much discussion. I'm glad it has now been asked as a separate question to allow more focused...
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7 months ago
Edit Post #289695 Initial revision 7 months ago
Answer A: codidact profile editing requires 30 characters but has no error message
This has now been indirectly fixed for all Codidact communities by removing the minimum character requirement altogether. See Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 30 characters? on Codidact Meta.
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7 months ago
Edit Post #289655 Post edited:
Formatting
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Suggested Edit Post #289655 Suggested edit:
Formatting
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helpful 7 months ago
Edit Post #289656 Initial revision 7 months ago
Answer A: Reaching to a directory in git-bash
You can narrow down the problem by using `cd` to navigate to the different nested directories in the path one at a time, starting from the one on the left. The first one that gives you an error tells you that this is the directory causing the problem. In this particular case, you could try the fol...
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7 months ago
Edit Post #289261 Initial revision 8 months ago
Answer A: On self-answered questions, is it inappropriate to mark my own answer "Works for me" immediately?
Bear in mind that unlike on some other question and answer sites, the "Works for me" reaction is not restricted to the author of the question. Anyone can add that reaction, whether they posted the question or not. You can also add that reaction to more than one answer to the same question. This la...
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8 months ago
Comment Post #288768 It's just an option since you mentioned wanting everyone to be free to voice their opinions. I agree it's more likely communities would choose a non-zero value for both, or a zero value for both. Another option would be to have downvotes giving negative rep in Meta but not as much (for example, -2...
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9 months ago
Comment Post #288768 Just for completeness: the system is already set up to allow changing the rep per upvote independently of the rep per downvote, so gaining rep for Meta upvotes but losing no rep for Meta downvotes is an option. Mentioning in case that affects your concern that people be free to express unpopular opin...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #288765 Post edited:
Typo, format table, remove redundant statement
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Suggested Edit Post #288765 Suggested edit:
Typo, format table, remove redundant statement
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helpful 9 months ago
Edit Post #288701 Post edited:
Use "<thead>" and "<th>" instead of manual "<b>"
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Comment Post #288698 Might be worth editing to mention the extra options that this example is not using: - above the dividing line of hyphens, you can include column headers between the vertical bars - you can add more hyphens in the dividing line to make the vertical bars line up with the vertical bars in the other ro...
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9 months ago
Edit Post #288701 Initial revision 9 months ago
Answer A: Best practices for posting tabular data
For most purposes, the easiest approach is probably Markdown tables, as described in Wicket's answer. If you have requirements that Markdown tables do not support, such as merged cells, you can resort to HTML tables, which can be included directly in the raw text of a post. For example, raw tex...
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9 months ago
Comment Post #288668 [A more recent answer](https://software.codidact.com/posts/288660/288698#answer-288698) suggests Markdown tables are already supported here.
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9 months ago
Comment Post #288060 I also like the fact that the question is not complaining about the difference in behaviour between `if` and `for`, but actively seeking understanding and asking about a potential explanation.
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288060 I don't see the question as asking why Python doesn't have the same syntax as JavaScript. The author understands that the parentheses are not required in Python. The question is why is it OK to add redundant parentheses to an `if` statement, but not to a `for` statement. Until the reason is unders...
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288464 I agree questions are useful at all levels. The answer might seem obvious after it is discovered, but it was not obvious before it was discovered, so it will not be obvious to the next person either.
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288321 Codidact is already set up to have multiple categories per community, so I think it just needs an admin to add it (if the community indicates support for it).
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288321 Would the community benefit from a separate category for software recommendations (like the code reviews category)?
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10 months ago
Edit Post #288173 Post edited:
Typo
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Edit Post #288173 Post edited:
Clarification
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Edit Post #288173 Post edited:
Typo
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Edit Post #288173 Initial revision 10 months ago
Answer A: Queries to count points lying on arbitrary line
Some answer-specific terminology to make describing things simpler: - I will refer to the N points as candidate points. - I will refer to the integer points inside the [bounding box] of the N points as lattice points. Two approaches There are two ways to approach this question: - Check w...
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288170 Are the N points known to be distinct, or can some of them be duplicates (several points with the same x and y values)?
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288170 When you use the notation `O(N)` are you looking for an improvement to the worst case performance or the average case performance? My first impression is that your suggestion of a quadtree (or even just a regular grid) is likely to improve the average case, but not necessarily the worst case. I ha...
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10 months ago
Edit Post #288152 Post edited:
Fix backticks so syntax highlighting will work, fix typo in title
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Edit Post #288154 Initial revision 10 months ago
Answer A: Are there other reasons why useEffect might not be defined apart from not importing it?
Including the full file in the question The question states that `useState` has been imported, but the codeblock does not include `import { useState } from 'react';`. Is this the full file or just an excerpt? It may be difficult to say for certain what is wrong from an excerpt, if the problem turns ...
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Suggested Edit Post #288152 Suggested edit:
Fix backticks so syntax highlighting will work, fix typo in title
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helpful 10 months ago
Comment Post #288098 One way would be to use singular `LogRecord` for the record type, and plural `log_records` for the dictionary variable name.
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10 months ago
Edit Post #288148 Initial revision 10 months ago
Answer A: How do I return ISO day of week in Redshift?
Quick answer ```sql (DATEPART(dayofweek, mydatetime) + 6) % 7 ``` Slow answer For avoidance of doubt, here is what I believe you currently have (assuming an input called `mydatetime`): ```sql DATEPART(dayofweek, mydatetime) ``` Or its abbreviated equivalent: ```sql DATEPART(dow...
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10 months ago
Comment Post #288062 Really glad to hear that you found it helpful. Thanks for the tip on using `export` to allow testing from another file.
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11 months ago
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Typos
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