toraritte‭

I read posts (e.g., 1, 2, 3) that recommend triggering a CI build process by pushing an empty git commit. I don't understand how this is a good idea as the commit history will be peppered with mea...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Found an article about starting a repo with an empty commit. Read the post a couple of times, but still don't understand the reasoning: 1. git log and other commands blow up with terrifying ...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Michael‭

Our organization (blindness non-profit in California) is obligated to submit reports to grant organizations (e.g., Department of Rehabilitation) on a regular basis. Most of the time, this means exp...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by toraritte‭

All of these projects use Microsoft's OpenXML SDK for Office behind the scenes: 1. .NET (F#, C#) The F# Guide recommends NPOI, which also seems to be the most popular and most up-to-date, but the...

posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 1y ago by toraritte‭

As far as I can tell, it is in part determined by the HTML spec's History API1, specifically the value of history.scrollRestoration. Quoting the HTML spec's scroll restoration mode paragraph: ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by toraritte‭

I would like to download the old-time radio show I Love a Mystery from the OTRR website. I figured out how to construct the list of right URLs, const urlStub = "https://otrr.org/OTRRLibrary/jukebo...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 1y ago by toraritte‭

Based on the SO comments, this is not a good general practice, and I believe the point of the posts mentioned in the question is that it can be done (but one probably shouldn't) this can be use...

posted 1y ago by toraritte‭

Found this old article at the bottom of the search results to be the best explanation to date: (The longer version is here, SSL Handshake (Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 R...

posted 1y ago by toraritte‭

For example, how to sort the output below by the values in "Column" in the psql shell itself? my_db=> \d auth_user Table "public.auth_user" Column ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 1y ago by MER‭

The Null Values article in the F# Language Reference show an example that uses it, but it does not explain what it does exactly. You can use the following code to check if an arbitrary value is ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by toraritte‭

box and unbox are operators documented in the F# Core API Reference; it tersely states that they box / unbox (respectively) a strongly typed value. box a returns value a "wrapped" in a .NET Sy...

posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 1y ago by toraritte‭

First, a reminder to future self (the figure RFC 3986, Section 3. Syntax Components complemented with Section 3.2. Authority): The following are two example URIs and their component parts: ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 1y ago by toraritte‭

At this point in my learning journey, I simply accepted that this function is called pure (both in Haskell and in PureScript), but it would have helped a lot if I had known the reasoning behind thi...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

Should I use the data-* attributes for this or is there a more idiomatic way? For context, I'm trying to convert annotated legal PDF documents to HTML. Certain parts of these documents are cross...

3 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

callPackage is a complex function (reasons include the Nix language being lazy, usage of fixed-point evaluation, overrides, etc.), and this complexity steals the spotlight from what this function a...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by toraritte‭