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Posts by 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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: ...
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...
More specifically: Is there a dedicated docs page listing "properties" that are idiosyncratic to F# .fsproj project files? Why am I asking? Started learning F# a couple of days ago, but just now ...
For example, given a mergeErrors function where input is always a list of Error strings, let es = [ Error 1; Error 2; Error 3 ] let mergeErrors<'a> (errors: Result<'a,int> list) : R...
Many older projects (i.e., older than 5 years) provide instructions to the Paket .NET dependency manager (e.g., Suave), so I started digging into it, got confused, then gave up for while because er...
Based on what I know so far, there is no difference. Paket has been created more than 10 years ago to address (perceived?) shortcomings of NuGet. (Reading the .NET history made my head spin, and l...
Found the example below in a book teaching logical database design, but I'm stuck on how one would implement this in PostreSQL: The diagram reflects the following business rule: An instructor...
What I would like to do: Set a cell value. Check with a program if cell values conform to data validation rules. I could extract all the information needed to create a validation function, b...
From PureScript's Data.Functor.Invariant documentation (emphasis mine): A type of functor that can be used to adapt the type of a wrapped function where the parameterised type occurs in both the...
Just getting into F#, finally figured out how to add .NET packages to projects, but the way I managed to get it to work doesn't make sense. Once the package is installed (either with nuget or paket...
Quoting an answer from SO: Perhaps there was an advantage years ago prior to version 1.17.12 which added the --root option to rebase. Nowadays though, I can't think of any reason to start with a...
For the record, this write-up is not better than any of the resources listed in the question; writing it simply helped me better understand callPackage. Level 0. Poor, but short callPackage f att...
