development

[outer fjord]

well, that unfortunately only makes it worse

[nocturne galleon]

hey, i'm receiving this crash

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//                                                 //
//                     BTS Bot                     //
//                                                 //
//             File: restartProcess.js             //
//                                                 //
//         Written by: Thomas (439bananas)         //
//                                                 //
// Copyright 439bananas 2021. All rights reserved. //
//                                                 //
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

const log = require('./logHandler');
const Discord = require('discord.js')
const client = new Discord.Client()
const http = require('http')
const svrmgr = require('../server/serverManagerFunctions')

function restart() {
    log.info('Restarting...')
    // DESTROY DISCORD BOT SOMEWHERE
    svrmgr.closeServer()
    process.exit(2)
};

module.exports = restart;```

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//                                                 //
//                     BTS Bot                     //
//                                                 //
//         File: serverManagerFunctions.js         //
//                                                 //
//         Written by: Thomas (439bananas)         //
//                                                 //
// Copyright 439bananas 2021. All rights reserved. //
//                                                 //
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

const log = require('../core/logHandler')
const uniconf = require('../configs/uniconf.json')
const express = require('express')
const e = express()
const http = require('http')
const app = require('./serverListener')
const { response } = require('./serverListener')
const server = http.createServer(app)

function createServer() {
    server.listen(uniconf.port)
        .once('error', function (err) { // If port in use, crash
            if (err.code == 'EADDRINUSE') {
                log.fatal(`Couldn't start the server on port ${uniconf.port}! Is there another application running on that port?`) // Fatal function calls always end the process no matter what
            }
        })
}

function closeServer() {
    console.log('yeet')
    //server.close()
}

module.exports = { createServer, closeServer };```

[shrewd furnace]

#the-wan-show for my browser extension which adds a download button to github

it’s fully open source, you can modify, build it, etc however you like

[steep mauve]

can you describe the problem in more detail?

like what's the expected output vs the actual output

bc as far as I can see, the word gets replaced successfully

[icy viper]

does anyone know how to dynamically assign parameters in go?

cmd := exec.Command("MP4Box", "-dash", "5000", "-frag", "5000", "-segment-name", "'$RepresentationID$_$Number%03d$'", "-out", "output.mpd", "input1.mp4")

like here, we have one input parameter named input1.mp4, next time, I might have 3 inputs or 2, it dynamically changes, but how can I pass it in dynamically?

nvm, i found the answer. put all the flags inside an array and pass that to the command

cmd := exec.Command("MP4Box",commands...)

[outer fjord]

The expected output is just one sentence, with a word changed. But the output I get are multiple lines with some artifacting.

[hollow basalt]

Are you the one that wrote the code

[outer fjord]

Yeah, with the help of an online guide. I'm a beginner to C so I don't know a lot about programming

[hollow basalt]

Makes sense

What guide are you followig exactly

[outer fjord]

Let me see if I can find it.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/c-program-to-replace-a-word-in-a-text-by-another-given-word

This one

I've only had C lessons for 6 weeks now

[hollow basalt]

I don't want to give away yhe answer. So I'll simply hint that you re-read the part where he explains the printf

Nevermind, that's hardly a guide. That's just copy paste code

[outer fjord]

Yeah, like I said I don't know shit about C

[hollow basalt]

so?

[outer fjord]

I wanna learn, but I don't understand what is wrong. I tried multiple things in the malloc but everything I tried made it worse.

[hollow basalt]

you said 2 problems, what are you trying to solve first

[outer fjord]

I think that my memory allocation is wrong, but I don't understand what.

The first problem I want to solve is the output. This is it right now, but it has to be just one line without the artifacts.

So the first sentence means what word do you want to edit? and the second one is: What word do you want to replace it with?

[hollow basalt]

do you know how printf works

[outer fjord]

I only know the basics, that you define what you want to print, for example %d for int, and define which variable after the comma

[hollow basalt]

okay that works. do you know how while works

[outer fjord]

Yeah, it will keep doing something if some condition isn't met

not the best explanation

[hollow basalt]

okay now check where your printf is located

[outer fjord]

Oh damn you're right

[hollow basalt]

it will keep doing something if some condition isn't met as long as the condition is met*

[outer fjord]

So now I just have to fix the weird 2222.

Could that have something to do with this?

[hollow basalt]

@outer fjord it's a warning

you should always try to check if the index is within the bounds of the malloc

but since you're a "beginner"

[primal quarry]

Python or js

[hollow basalt]

or

[steep mauve]

Oh I thought the multi line output was in purpose

but looks like you already got some tips on that :)

[outer fjord]

No, but that was a stupid mistake I made but luckily with the help I fixed it.

Now I only have to fix the weird 2222

[night flame]

what does your malloc look like

[outer fjord]

char* newstring = (char *)malloc(i + cnt * (len1 - len2) + 1);

[night flame]

make sure that adds up to the length of the new string + 1

[outer fjord]

So could I do something with the original string + length word 2?

[steep mauve]

i've got some ideas on that but I'm not sure if those will actually fix it:

c type strings (the char* ) are "Null terminated", which basically means that at the end of a string there is one byte with only zeros.
My first thought was that this byte was lost during the copying process. You can try adding newstring += "\0" before your print

[outer fjord]

Hmmm, I will try that.

[steep mauve]

hmm maybe try with ' '

cant test it myself currently

[outer fjord]

Testing it now

doesn't fix it unfortunately

[steep mauve]

hmm ok

[outer fjord]

But could I do something like that in malloc?

[steep mauve]

you could double check if the amount you're allocating is right by printing it

[outer fjord]

So printf malloc?

[night flame]

print whats inside the malloc

i + cnt * (len1 - len2) + 1

[outer fjord]

ah right

[steep mauve]

I'm counting 43 chars in the final sentcence

[night flame]

it looks like youre allocating for 45 chars but only printing 44

43 + \0

[steep mauve]

+1 for the null terminator, so its off by one

[outer fjord]

So the malloc is fine?

[night flame]

remove the + 1 in it

[steep mauve]

What I don't get is why there are 5 additional chars (so 49) when only 45 bytes are allocated

[night flame]

hmmm

[outer fjord]

this is with the 1 removed

[steep mauve]

sure the null terminator didn't work?

[night flame]

I don't think you can append char pointers like that in C

[steep mauve]

oh mb

language chaos in my brain xD

[outer fjord]

Yeah doesn't work sadly

[steep mauve]

bc for me it looks like there is no null terminator so printf prints everything from memory until it finds a \0

[outer fjord]

But can I add the 0 pointer, with something like newstring[i]='\0' ?

[steep mauve]

That's currently the only thing that comes to mi mind

[outer fjord]

That also does nothing

[steep mauve]

something in this direction might actually work as the [i] just adds i to the pointer value of newstring

[night flame]

^ you just have to make sure the last character in the string is a '\0'

[outer fjord]

the last char in the string has to be \0, right. So if I know what the last char is I can set it to \0.

[steep mauve]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11919285/check-the-null-terminating-character-in-char

we could try checking for the null terminator like this maybe

[steep mauve]

i think so

in the case above this would be 43

[night flame]

strlen returns 54 because it's not null terminated I think. Where do you declare the initial string

[outer fjord]

In the main(void) I edit the string in a function

[night flame]

can you put a '\0' after dog

[outer fjord]

With the \0 after dog

[night flame]

hmmmm that is not good

the issue most definitely lies with the null character in the string. Are you declaring arrays anywhere for strings, make sure theyre + 1 in size to make room for the \0

[outer fjord]

{
    int a = stringreplace; 
    char search[100];
    char replace[30];
    char strzin[] = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\0";
    printf("%s",strzin);
    printf("\nWelk woord moet vervangen worden?\n");
    scanf("%s", search);
    printf("Welk woord moet er voor in plaats komen?\n");
    scanf("%s", replace); 
    stringreplace(strzin, search, replace); 
    return 0;
}

This is the main function, in which I get the word to change and replacement.

But the allocation size for replace and search should be big enough right?

[night flame]

yeah the problem is probably where you declare the new string that's printed. Whats the int a = stringreplace; line for

[outer fjord]

I have to print the number of words that were changed, so return value of the function has to be a number. but I don't do anything with that for now

But with that gone the problem still persists.

[night flame]

you can remove the \0 from strzin, as ``` char strzin[] = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";

is the same thing as ``` char strzin[44] = {'T', 'h', 'e', ' ', 'q'......'d', 'o', 'g', '\0'}```

are you trying to modify strzin in place or are you declaring a new string then using strcpy

[outer fjord]

{
    int i = 0, cnt = 0;
    int len1 = strlen(with); 
    int len2 = strlen(what); 
        for (i = 0; str[i] != '\0'; i++)
        {
            if (strstr(&str[i], what) == &str[i])
            {
                cnt++;
                i += len2 - 1;
            }
        }
        char* newstring = (char*)malloc(i + cnt * (len1 - len2)+1);
        i = 0;
        while (*str)
        {
            if (strstr(str, what) == str)
            {
                strcpy(&newstring[i], with);
                i += len1;
                str += len2;
            }
            else
            {
                newstring[i++] = *str++;
            }
        }
        size_t newstrlen = strlen(newstring);
        printf(" str length %d\n", newstrlen);
        printf("%s\n", newstring);
        printf("malloc: %d", (i + cnt * (len1 - len2) + 1));
}```

I'm declaring a new string and printing that

[night flame]

it works for me lol

[outer fjord]

Now I'm just sad

[night flame]

how are you compiling

[outer fjord]

I use visual studio, In a C++ project with the source file named practicum7.c

[night flame]

i'd recommend using gcc to compile, https://www.guru99.com/c-gcc-install.html

[outer fjord]

I'll try gcc tomorrow, and I will definitely ask my teacher why I have this problem.

Thank you so much for your help!

[midnight wind]

building in linux is so much easier, give WSL a try

[night flame]

^ ubuntu in the windows store

[outer fjord]

Hmmmm, I'll look into that

I gave ubuntu a try once, but switched back to windows because of convenience

[night flame]

WSL just gives you the linux bash terminal

[midnight wind]

I run a flavor of ubuntu basically almost all the time because of just convenience

I have all my ssh keys

all my dev stuff works

[outer fjord]

It was a few years ago, and it also was the PC I used for gaming. But I might switch to linux in the future. Windows 11 doesn't look interesting to me.

[midnight wind]

I keep windows installed

only for games

proton/wine/lutris is pretty good these days

I can run basically most games on linux

[outer fjord]

I've heard great stuff about proton.

[midnight wind]

I mostly just keep windows installed cuz of storage

I have all my games already installed on ntfs formatted drives

[steep mauve]

working in WSL bash in Ubuntu

[steep mauve]

nvm you used wsl too

[tired juniper]

hey so why doesn't this work in SQL Server: ```Alter table Countries Drop Constraint CHK_Phone_code

I want to drop the check constarint

nvm fixed it

[last lance]

using the python Google-Images-Search i would like to chose a random image from a search, so like a random image in the top 1000 results for the search cat, how would i do this

[night flame]

You will want to start by storing the results from your search in some kind of data structure like an array, list, dictionary, etc. Say there are 1000 results, you will then want to generate a random number from 0-1000 and use that number to access that element of the data structure

[rare juniper]

Went from this to this

[storm cedar]

Seems like wasting memory. Might be enough to just generate number n=<0-999>, then do the search and pick the nth result

If its supposed to be repeated calls then it might be worth doing some storing. For 1000 results it couls be prefetching and storing all, but for larger numbers id go with a limited cache

[night flame]

Yeah but i figured an array would be easier for a beginner to grasp

[outer fjord]

@steep mauve @night flame I managed to fix my problem. These 2 simple lines fixed the weird artifacts after my string.

[last lance]

The problem is I don't know how to pick a specific result, I don't see anywhere in the limited documentation of the api where I could do that.

[storm cedar]

from what i see it seems that gis.search({'q': 'puppies', 'num': 3}).results() is an array/list, so to get the 50th result out of 100 you could probably do gis.search({'q': 'puppies', 'num': 100}).results()[49]
(just from having a quick look at the docs)

it does seem that it loads everything into memory, so you could optimize using for example the paging query - use a pagesize of 1 and get the Nth page -> you get a page with one element which is your wanted Nth result

[last lance]

Sorry if this is a really dumb question with an easy answer, but how would I download that image?

[storm cedar]

According to https://pypi.org/project/Google-Images-Search/#programmatic-usage it seems you thrn just do .download('/path/to/directory')

[steep mauve]

ah nice, so it actually was the null terminator

[outer fjord]

Yeah, luckily I didn't have to change everything

[solemn forge]

How to find the locator of web element inside script tag selenium java

[hollow basalt]

read the code

really feels like this is a google search than chat

[icy laurel]

I was wondering if anybody could help me, I am doing a school project for a Database and can't make sense of where I am supposed to place my function/trigger for a table

[steep mauve]

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=How+to+find+the+locator+of+web+element+inside+script+tag+selenium+java

[chilly prawn]

I’m wondering if i should learn C as my “first” language. i’ve dabbled in other languages ofc but I haven’t gone past loops and lists and if else statements and such yet

what do you guys think? people say it will teach me very valuable info but also i will instantly die upon starting to code (?)

[spring pond]

if you have a technical background then C is a good language to get started

be ready for a lot of headaches tho

[night flame]

C is definitely going to be more difficult but you would come out better than say starting with Python, in my opinion. If you stick with it I think C is great

[zenith plank]

Yeah C is kinda like the fundamental

[frail badge]

My university used to do C as the first language, and now they're switching to teaching both C and Python first. I think it's not a bad idea to do it that way. Python is great at just getting your foot in the door for programming, but C will be helpful for learning more fundamentals etc.

Personally when people ask me a question similar to yours, I tell them to try Python first, and if they get into it and are interested in learning more fundamentals, to try C as well. Otherwise I see many people get too discouraged by C right away

[fickle verge]

Btw does Ajax work in Java

Because I wanna link a MYSQL DB with a PHP server to java for a Minecraft plugin

[lucid pelican]

I write computer forensics software for a living, and just published a blog post documenting the latest capability I added on the open source side (The Volatility Framework). If you want to see how deep-dive memory forensics and malware analysis is done, then give it a read! Comments and feedback appreciated! https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2021/10/memory-forensics-r-illustrated.html

[rich trail]

If anyone is looking to make a quick $50 Im in need of an Excel macro/script (VBA, Python, whatever). I need to combine spreadsheets where col. A would be identifiers, and col. B would be the values attached to said identifiers.
After combining, there will be cols B,C,D,etc (B from each sheet gets appended as a new col). The values need to be properly matched, or just left blank(null/0/whatever) if they didnt have a corresponding value attached from their respective sheet it was imported from.

Not sure if this even makes sense.....

[pliant siren]

So you want a vlookup?

Or an ODBC query?

[rich trail]

I think VLookup because ive never heard of ODBC lol

[nocturne galleon]

Learn Python, then C

It's good to come into C with at least some idea of how a programming language works

Then you have a base to draw comparisons from

[midnight wind]

Nah c first

I like the way Harvard's cs50 teaches it

A little scratch to understand logic, then c

Then python

[hollow basalt]

C then python

[pliant siren]

holy hell please don't learn Python as a first language. You know how people talk about VB? Right, well Python is VB, 30 years on.

[gusty oak]

I learned Python as my first language

now I look at javascript code for 10+ hours a day https://staff.tnylnk.org/img/14383917102021.png

[gusty oak]

I-

I just-

[sick coral]

Python is a great first language. And is still very relevant in modern day as opposed to Visual Basic. It all depends on the application and field anyways; bashing on Python makes no sense.

[pliant siren]

I think you missed the point: python is the modern day equivalent of VB. It enables people without fundamental understandings the ability to do things they just shouldn't be capable of doing - and that leads to all kinds of fall-on effects.

In that context of course it's relevant in modern day development - just as VB was 30 years ago. It's become the drop-in replacement for development at that level.

[sick coral]

"It enables people without fundamental understandings the ability to do things they just shouldn't be capable of doing - and that leads to all kinds of fall-on effects."
Elaborate

This just sounds like "uhhh well unless you understand algorithmic complexity, complex memory management, data structures, etc. you shouldn't be writing code." Python is a very strong language to get tasks done in, has a strong ecosystem of packages, and is the defacto standard for machine learning and data processing right now. I think a language that empowers a user to get things done is absolutely a great beginner language. For someone struggling to learn programming, sometimes all that matters is getting to a working product which is valuable experience. And that's 90% of what matters in the real world anyways.

[hollow basalt]

I like python.
However I would still recommend c/c++.

That's what I've experienced

And i still recommend it

[sick coral]

I wouldn't recommend C or C++ for the vast majority of people learning to code. The barrier to entry is very high. Every time I return to writing C code, I spend hours just fighting with compiler issues because of convoluted complex rules about having headers and declarations just so. Nothing wrong with C/C++. It has its place in the world and its applications. But it's not beginner friendly, and its extremely unlikely that there isn't a different language that will serve a beginner much better.

In short, if you want to do web development, learn Javascript, maybe PHP. If you want to do game development, Unity uses C#, Unreal Engine uses C++ (iirc). If you want to do machine learning or data processing, use Python. If you want to do app development, I think Java is widely used, but Javascript can also be used; app development is a more complicated mess of things.

Start with what you want to accomplish, then pick the tool that will help you get going and stick with it. Once you build up fundamental programming skills your choice of language will matter less and less.

[pliant siren]

tensorflow.js. It's the only way 😄

[steep mauve]

From my experience, python is a great second language, but as @sick coral said, a programming language is just a tool and the programmer has to find the right tool for the job
In the end, I don't think it's that important which language you use first but more that you just start doing something

You will start learning concepts and patterns which will make it easier to learn new languages later on

[hollow basalt]

I thought you use python for work

[pliant siren]

Current project in on is Python/django. Not by choice. It's a turd.

[hollow basalt]

you done with python/ai and now in python/django?

[vestal spire]

I'm doing flutter and I need some help

I want to make a feature where the user can change the video (background) by picking it. Currently, I have:

Home page:

Stack() in body calling the BackgroundVideoPlayer(bgPath): bgPath is the path of the video background and also en ElevatedButton to choose cycle through the background:

      Center(
              child: ElevatedButton(
                  onPressed: () {
                    print('pressed' + bgIndex.toString());
                    changeBg();
                  },
                  child: Text('1'))),

In BackgroundVideoPlayer I have this:

class _BackgroundVideoPlayerState extends State<BackgroundVideoPlayer> {
  late VideoPlayerController _controller;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _controller = VideoPlayerController.asset(widget.bgPath)
      ..setLooping(true)
      ..initialize().then((_) {
        // Ensure the first frame is shown after the video is initialized, even before the play button has been pressed.
        setState(() {});
      });

    _controller.play();
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    super.dispose();
    _controller.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return SizedBox.expand(
      child: FittedBox(
        fit: BoxFit.cover,
        child: SizedBox(
          width: _controller.value.size?.width ?? 0,
          height: _controller.value.size?.height ?? 0,
          child: _controller.value.isInitialized
              ? AspectRatio(
                  aspectRatio: _controller.value.aspectRatio,
                  child: VideoPlayer(_controller),
                )
              : Container(),
        ),
      ),
    );

How do I make it so that when the button is pressed, the background changes?

[dense otter]

Hi,I was wondering if someone here is very familiar with deep learning object detection, in particular video object detection. I grasp the concept of the backbone (e.g. resnet-50), however I am not sure when it comes to neck and head. How the pipeline differs in single stage vs 2 stage detectors. How and where to add methods such as optical flow (DFF, FGFA...), LSTM, tracking etc. I would really appreciate if someone could have a chat with me or point me the right way 🙂 (please mention me in reply, so I dont miss it. too many joined servers)

[valid light]

any other web developers in here?

o.o

[hollow basalt]

What is web

[valid light]

bruh

duh interwebs

[thin valve]

What do you recommend to learn programming, I just look at w3schools cause it has just enough

[pliant siren]

Harvard CS50.

[thin valve]

so their online resources?

[pliant siren]

Yeah. CS50x is the free, online version.

[nocturne galleon]

[full socket]

    display: flex;
    flex-direction: row;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
}```

Does this work for this?

I know its a basic thing lol but I'm just wanting to make sure I'm doing this right

Dunno if I need a wrapper

[icy viper]

Have anyone used mongodb's change stream before?

I can listen to changes in one database just fine, but I can't find any way to listen to all the database in the cluster :( the documentation doesn't have any examples

[unreal bluff]

Hey, I'm new here please take good care of him

[pliant siren]

Alrighty, just ordered myself a new dev ultrabook, figured I haven't bought a new one since my 15" Dell XPS i7 6700 which was too big for what I wanted.
So in a week or so I get myself a new birthday present -Yoga 7i 13.3" Carbon White, i7-1165G7 16GB/512 😄
Now the wait.

Hell, I just realised it's been over 2 years since I upgraded from a desktop 6770 to a 3700X.

[hollow basalt]

Tell me when you got it and you're satisfied

[unreal bluff]

this code is wrong 🤦‍♂️

unless some language other than Python has print and requires ;

[night flame]

its accurate in Dart

[gusty oak]

What the fuck is-

Hold on

oh it's for web and mobile apps

Well I guess it's accurate https://staff.tnylnk.org/img/18155420102021.png

I might learn this

looks cool

[hollow basalt]

imagine complaining about channel description

[unreal bluff]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/738549972105953340.png?size=64

[noble tide]

function print(val) {
  console.log(val);
}

Custom functions exist...

[valid light]

free cookies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

[noble tide]

Might be somewhat useful for some application but I've just been playing with the new EyeDropper API that's in the latest Chrome stable https://codepen.io/andrewhawkes/pen/rNzMGLv

[opaque wave]

Pro tip: test in prod

[plush valley]

Are you me

[opaque wave]

I do it all the time

I'd say it has a 40% success rate

[pliant siren]

If your test suites are good enough, you never need a dev/test/uat/preprod environment.

[opaque wave]

testing is never an option. always go straight to prod

[pliant siren]

always run your functional test suite as part of your checkin pre-commit hook.

post-commit has auto-deploy to prod.

also, pre-commit must fail unless the code-coverage percentage is not higher than in the previous checkin.

[plush valley]

I offload my test suites into dev-test CI/CD instead of precommit

That way I can do development anywhere without needing the extra toolkits

[pliant siren]

I really hope you realise I was joking and that what I said is a terrible idea.

Also, having you build only work in CI is terrible too

[plush valley]

Ok good, I was being nice by just responding in general instead of going "U fucking what"

[plush valley]

Ehhhhh Works for me and my lazy ass

[hollow basalt]

Just remove all tests, much easier

[gusty oak]

Alright I need help making something.

So my phone's reception is VERY bad in my room and my dad can't reach me whatsoever. I wanted to make something where he just presses a button on a website and I get a notification on my computer. Pretty sure this is possible but how hard would you guys say it is to make?

[opaque wave]

That would be much easier to do with Facebook Messenger or iMessage

[gusty oak]

Facebook sucks and I'm gonna get an android soon

• I like to go the hard way on everything

[obtuse night]

It's not too complicated, but if you are starting from the basics, it is a lot to learn - web frontend, APIs and desktop apps

[gusty oak]

frontend is easy, literally just gonna be a huge button and nothing else

tho I never worked with APIs before

other than making a call and recieving

[obtuse night]

Do you know how you would host it all? Would it all run on your computer?

[gusty oak]

I have a Raspberry Pi to host the API on

it also hosts my discord bot but shouldn't be a problem since both are pretty small

[obtuse night]

Ok. So it all sounds quite simple. Do you have any programming experience at all with Node/C# etc?

Or even Python

[gusty oak]

I know Python and Javascript(node)

[spring pond]

well you can use your js knowledge to make an express server or something to handle incoming requests

you can use the browser push system to get a notification

on your pc

[gusty oak]

[obtuse night]

Yeah, sounds like you can get the front end done quite easy. The API could have 2 routes (post and get request). Your desktop could (although not the best solution) periodically call the API and check for changes. Your Dad would send a POST request to the API.

[spring pond]

here are some good docs for the web push system https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/push-notifications/

[obtuse night]

There are more complicated solutions, but this is the simplest i can think of

[midnight wind]

I hate frontend

[gusty oak]

Me too buddy, me too

[midnight wind]

webpack? rollup? tf are those

[gusty oak]

Thanks for the help

[midnight wind]

scss all of a sudden? urgh

[gusty oak]

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

[midnight wind]

gotta save that

[gusty oak]

yes yes

[plush valley]

Actually you know Windows has the WNS now

@gusty oak https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/shell/tiles-and-notifications/windows-push-notification-services--wns--overview

[opaque wave]

Literally a waste of time

[gusty oak]

Doesn't that require me to use Windows tho?

[gusty oak]

I have alot of that.

[spring pond]

well the thing is that WNS requires an app client

[opaque wave]

You could also just use an automation to send an email

[gusty oak]

I don't check my email very often and why make website when my dad can just email me himself?

[plush valley]

You just do an HTTP POST to the WNS Endpoint with the Authentication Token and SID

[gusty oak]

Guys....

Won't WNS require me to use Windows 10?

[opaque wave]

I mean an iOS shortcuts automation

[plush valley]

Yes, but it was just an example

[spring pond]

but you need a desktop windows app for wns to work

i dont think he wants that

[gusty oak]

Either way I'm not switching OS just so my dad can contact me in an easier way

[spring pond]

yeah the browser stuff works across all platforms

because its browser standardized

[plush valley]

Edge gives you the Notification Toast Natively now

[spring pond]

not sure what you mean by that, so does chrome and firefox

they all support it afaik

[gusty oak]

I think he mean WNS

[plush valley]

I mean to WNS, You can just send to Edge a Toast

[spring pond]

oh

well something like that requires a win10 client, so i just dont think its the most portable solution

[plush valley]

Sadly not 😦

Was just the first thing to come to mind

[gusty oak]

It doesn't really need to be portable, my phone gets great service literally anywhere that isn't my room

[spring pond]

how i would do it is i would have an express server that would host a dispatcher page and a subscriber page

[gusty oak]

But again, I don't really want to switch OS for this

[spring pond]

the dispatcher page would have a button to send the alert

[plush valley]

I would just use VoIP and do an SMS with a cheap af VoIP Number

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[spring pond]

the subscriber page would prompt you to enable notifiactions for that page in your browser

[gusty oak]

Again, why do that when my dad can sms me directly?

[obtuse night]

Or self hosted PBX to call software phone on desktop

[plush valley]

You could program a big ass button to send a default defined SMS

[plush valley]

This is me.jpg

[gusty oak]

seems unnecceseary ngl

[plush valley]

but its a way to notify

[gusty oak]

true

[obtuse night]

Ngl, this all seems unnecessary

[gusty oak]

also true

[plush valley]

I have this stupid project I did with one of those Point of Sale Price Screen Poles that was attached to a GSM Modem, it would just read off the texts messages I got on that SIM's #

[obtuse night]

I would love to find out how places like Twilio send SMS messages... It just sounds cool

[plush valley]

Hmm? Its just a SMS Gateway

They are physically attached to the Mobile Carrier Networks/POTS Switching Units and offer the communication over Internet Services

This is my Home DID VoIP Number for example

SIP/VoIP has a native SMS Command

[plush valley]

https://www.bandwidth.com/ This is what a majority of these Tier 2/3 Providers are reselling/using

Bandwidth.com is quickly buying up POTS Termination Space when it becomes avail and tying in to modern telephony networks where avail (In the US, AT&T is holding a monopoly on the POTS System to charge the State and Fed Govt and fighting the change to a pure VoIP System while other countries have moved already)

[obtuse night]

In going to look into that. I don't want to rely on a 3rd party API like Twilio

[plush valley]

They are not a 3Rd party, they are a legit Telephony Termination Provider

Twilio is Tier 2, same Tier as like... T-Mobile, Verizon, etc

AT&T is Tier 1

its just Twilio offers both SIP, REST, and various other forms of API Access to the same endpoint terminations

[obtuse night]

Oh, really. I thought Twilio was just a wrapper

[plush valley]

They are more aligned for Internet Services Automation and IoT

Nope, they are legit holders of the Phone #'s they use

If you were to take like... VoIP.ms or some other SIP Trunk/VoIP Termination provider, you could do a wrapper similar to what they have but you would be Tier 3 Reseller

Bandwidth.com is offering the same

Their webRTC API Is fantastic

[sage robin]

anybody got time to look over some json newbi problems ^^;

[hollow basalt]

no

[midnight wind]

I was looking at voip.ms for a voip phone since 20bucks per month for landline verizon is too much

[night flame]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[plush valley]

Voip.ms is dirt cheap

[sturdy ingot]

Well, what OS do you use?

[gusty oak]

I use Linux

[sturdy ingot]

Build a minimal node frontend with just a button, have a TCP socket in that application, and use nc host port | notify-send.

[gusty oak]

[sturdy ingot]

The latter might need some read wrapping in a shell script, but the whole solution doesn't need a lot of code, as long as your fine with everything basically being hot glued together.

Maybe play around with notify-send before you tackle the rest though. It's sometimes a diva and needs special care. It also depends on your WM/DE and other stuff.

[nocturne galleon]

Hi guys, moved to linux, just wondering what IDE you guys would recommend for c++ stuff? I used visual studio on windows and like the project style setup

[rancid nimbus]

Vim?

[night flame]

QtCreator is pretty good

[rancid nimbus]

Gnome builder (most generic name ever)

[midnight wind]

Vscode

[rancid nimbus]

Why vs code?

[midnight wind]

Use cli for compiling with cmake

[night flame]

yeah personally i use vscode and g++

[midnight wind]

It's nice

[midnight wind]

Yeah, if it's a simple project just g++ works

Cmake for more complicated builds

[rancid nimbus]

Vs code might be a good option because of there similarity. They are also very much different.

[midnight wind]

Vs and vscode are not alike basically at all

[rancid nimbus]

There UI styling and key mapping are similar.

There programing languages in vs code has been supported more by the community than visual studio.

[midnight wind]

Vs is an ide

Vsc isn't

[pliant siren]

yeah, vsc still falls short for a lot of testing and debugging I'm finding.

[hollow basalt]

Yes, people should use good old notepad /s

[chrome rune]

i use notepad ++ for java and html and i use VS for c /C#

[hollow basalt]

not notepad++

just plain old notepad /s

[chrome rune]

oh wait u dont mean like pen and paper ?

do u ?

[chrome rune]

if u mean the og notepad program .... its in everyway inferior to notepad++ tho

atleast ++ knows when im coding or just writing an invoice

u may aswell be coding on sticky notes

lol

[gusty oak]

Do you even code bro https://staff.tnylnk.org/img/11262623102021.png

VSC is awesome

[chrome rune]

preference ... if im not building a form app i can code a command prompt app without the hand holding of an ide ... i prefer free form coding it gets the job done just fine in most cases

[chrome rune]

my answer to ur question

[obtuse night]

It's not free, but CLion by JetBrains is good

[nocturne galleon]

Yeah I've had a look at jetbrains and it does seem interesting

[midnight wind]

Idk, it's fine

You can control gdb from within vsc

[nocturne willow]

i know barely anything about developing AI but i want something that gets images from a dataset and compares if it belongs in that data set or not by a likelyness score where would i start with that?

[spring pond]

well first you should research how ai works to get a baseline understanding

[nocturne willow]

what part of ai and where should i start

what would you consider a baseline understanding

[opaque wave]

If you want to do shit quick with minimal coding this can help train your models https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/

[nocturne willow]

what do i do with this?

[opaque wave]

You can train your model there then export a tensorflow.js model

[nocturne willow]

what do i do with that

[opaque wave]

Whatever you want

[nocturne willow]

ok how do i do that

[opaque wave]

Google

[nocturne willow]

ok where do i upload a tensorflow.js model to google?

do i just put it in the search bar

[opaque wave]

Use a tutorial that already exists

[nocturne willow]

ok which tutorial do you suggest?

[opaque wave]

Google can suggest that

[nocturne willow]

which one do you suggest

[nocturne willow]

its not working

legit i ask where to start with ai and you tell me "google" you think i haven't tried that?

people don't understand that when you don't know something you don't know what to search or click

[rancid nimbus]

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/cloud-vision-api-python

I don't know what that is, but it looks promising.

[nocturne willow]

that's not really what i want

i need something that takes multiple images in a dataset and then compares that to a random image and gives it a score on how well it fits into that dataset

[rancid nimbus]

https://youtu.be/QfNvhPx5Px8

[opaque wave]

@nocturne willow this is true, Google " How does computer vision work"

[nocturne willow]

so lets say for example its a dataset of dogs and you have 5 dogs in one dataset with certain similarities id need it to take another picture and say how well it fits into that dataset

[rancid nimbus]

https://youtu.be/oXlwWbU8l2o

[nocturne willow]

ah thanks

[nocturne willow]

I don't really know what a base line understanding would be or how I'd get to that point there really isn't much resources for learning

I know about neural networks but not how to actually use them

[night flame]

https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/images/classification

this has everything you need. It tells you how to create and train a model based on a dataset and how to use that model to determine similarity with a new image

[thin valve]

corny joke: these c lions are really getting to me 😠 *

[hollow basalt]

I don't get it

[thin valve]

you don't have to

[hollow basalt]

That's what she said to you

[thin valve]

[sage robin]

i wasn't asking to ask i was asking for someone to look in real time, by time you even sent this irritating git of a reply i didn't have any time left to call out your call out

[hollow basalt]

what even

[night flame]

you're missing the point, if you were short on time you should have just asked the question instead of asking if you can ask a question

[frigid oxide]

To anyone who knows python how do I show my current version of python in my .py file?

do i use print(sys.version_info) ?

[night flame]

i think just print(sys.version)

make sure you import sys

[frigid oxide]

i tried that but the version didnt come up

i get name error

[frigid oxide]

so wait

ahhhhhh

yea i was about to ask

thanks

makes sense now thanks

[sage robin]

you're missing the point still because somehow you've mistaken me for asking a question TWICE what i was asking for, was eyes

[spark geode]

anyone have a preferred liveserver for vscode besides this one (the maintainer is a little busy)

[sturdy ingot]

Yeah, but "json newbi problems" is a little bit unspecific. JSON format problems? Those can get mentored or answered by most JS or WebAPI facing devs. JSON API problems? That might depend on the API, e.g. a foobar user might not know anything about the quux API. If you add a little bit more information, then maybe someone will step up to guide you through the process.

[hollow basalt]

Imagined if he simply asked. The world would be a better place

[gloomy merlin]

i'm trying to write a portion of a security script that will list users and present the user options to delete them, or change their account type (powershell)

im not that experienced with ps in general

[forest gull]

Wrote a new feature addition for my job. All of the unit tests I wrote for it, and previous ones, worked perfectly. No errors. Submitted it, it worked for my supervisor, but he wanted a function reformatted - no biggie. Clone the code back from GitHub a few hours later - all of the tests are failing. I've changed nothing. Thought it was my system, ran them on GitHub's service. Still failing.

[pliant siren]

is it transitive and/or determinitive?

does it utilise anything from the environment?

[forest gull]

Ran it again this morning, no reboot or restarting the application. Turned my monitors off and went to bed, then turned tham back on this morning. All of the tests pass

[sage robin]

if i knew what i was trying to identify i would't be here asking for someone to look at something, i'd be solving it

you want me to provide more detail? great! i'd love to know what the details are too, can i be more specific? no, i havent got a clue, instead i have someone who expects me to know everything before i even ask

[sturdy ingot]

Feel free to DM me, maybe I can help identify it.

[sage robin]

thats fine, i only needed eyes not a lecture.
like i said from the start.

i'll have to put it off for now, only on here seeing i was pinged in my end of night routine again.
just glad theres been some understanding however slight it may be

:/ timezones suck. sorry i've gotta run along so quick

[versed onyx]

CSS issue
I'm using sliced images as a background for a table, looks like this, right

the issue is that when i resize the browser it looks like this

the middle parts overflows sides

#top-left {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_0_0.png");
    background-size: 50px;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;}
#top {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_0_1.png");
    background-size: contain;
    height: 50px;}
#top-right {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_0_2.png");
    background-size: 50px;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;}
#left {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_1_0.png");
    background-size: cover;
    width: 50px;}
#mid {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_1_1.png");
    background-size: contain;
    font-size: 25px;}
#right {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_1_2.png");
    background-size: cover;
    width: 50px;}
#bot-left {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_2_0.png");
    background-size: 50px;
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;}
#bot {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_2_1.png");
    background-size: contain;
    height: 50px;}
#bot-right {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_2_2.png");
    background-size: 50px;
    width: 50px; 
    height: 50px;}

<div id="main">
  <table cellpadding=0; cellspacing=0>
    <tr>
      <td id="top-left"></td>
      <td id="top"></td>
      <td id="top-right"></td>
     </tr>
      <tr>
        <td id="left"></td>
        <td id="mid">
          sgjdsgjdtyk<br>
          atjoisrjoinj<br>
          atpksrpnkpskmpokponkpoxfksgpnjdpfnpodkcgnkpfocnk
        </td>
        <td id="right"></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td id="bot-left"></td>
        <td id="bot"></td>
        <td id="bot-right"></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
</div>

@nocturne galleon here it is

[nocturne galleon]

i have no experience in this, I just asked you to ask your teacher since you have one. I guess you can try 100% as the width and height, other than that I am no help. :(

[versed onyx]

ah sorry then

[nocturne galleon]

its okay!

[midnight wind]

whyy

don't use images

[versed onyx]

i have to

[midnight wind]

why

[versed onyx]

dont question

well

school project

...

[midnight wind]

that's so stupid

literally the worst

[versed onyx]

i wouldnt know

dont know much about web development

anyway

[midnight wind]

don't use images for lines

[versed onyx]

i have to use images for the whole thing

[midnight wind]

just use a div and set a border corner radius

[versed onyx]

the point of this site project is using sliced images in a table

not my idea

ignore the fact that is is bad design

have you got an idea how to fix the overflow issue?

[forest gull]

I have a recurring dates unit test, but I need an alternative way of testing, compared to what I have currently...

Anyone have any ideas?

Above this section, I'm basically creating a recurring announcement using my system, and then this is just a test to confirm that it works. This kinda works, but I'm trying to clean up ugly code in several areas, and despite being fine with leaving this, I'm cleaning up other areas that prevents this specific test from working in it's current state...

[full socket]

Got 80/90 points on a coding assignment. Smfh. Because I messed up one word of code I got 10 points taken off

[grand shale]

is the @fervent orbit open source or??

[nocturne galleon]

Lol definitely not

[grand shale]

[hazy marsh]

setting sizes of elements in pixels usually ends up backfiring when trying to resize the window, i would try using relative size units, 'rem' for example or percentages. Also what the hell using only images, feel sorry for you :/

[versed onyx]

#top-left {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_0_0.png");
    background-size: 10rem;
    width: 10rem;
    height: 10rem;}
#top {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_0_1.png");
    background-size: contain;
    height: 10rem;}
#top-right {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_0_2.png");
    background-size: 10rem;
    width: 10rem;
    height: 10rem;}
#left {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_1_0.png");
    background-size: cover;
    width: 10rem;}
#mid {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_1_1.png");
    background-size: contain;
    font-size: 25px;}
#right {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_1_2.png");
    background-size: cover;
    width: 10rem;}
#bot-left {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_2_0.png");
    background-size: 10rem;
    width: 10rem;
    height: 10rem;}
#bot {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_2_1.png");
    background-size: contain;
    height: 10rem;}
#bot-right {
    background-image: url("slice/slice_2_2.png");
    background-size: 10rem;
    width: 10rem; 
    height: 10rem;}

does not fix the issue

[frail jewel]

out of curiosity does anyone know why directwrite for d2d1 have direct support for translating chinese?

https://i.imgur.com/5410P7H.png
https://i.imgur.com/LKPZE9k.png
https://i.imgur.com/FIV52Oi.png

i am just calling drawtextw, no idea why it is doing this on this project and not another one but pretty cool that it for some reason can translate everything to chinese.

nvm i am as blind as a bat, it is converting the text to chinese. i thought directwrite was doing some language pack shit somehow. well now this is just a generic annoying bug that needs fixing.

[nocturne galleon]

Hey, I am trying to implement Unity ads in a game I made, the test ads work perfectly when I am in editor but they dont work at all after publishing it on google play.. Any idea why?

[obsidian mirage]

Are you able to make a live usb with MacOS on it?

I can’t find any MacOS DMG or ISO to try it.. if anyone could point me to a reliable and preferably fast place to download some I’d appreciate that greatly also

[forest gull]

You typically need a Mac in the first place to get your hands on an ISO, although I have somehow managed to find one before. Google around for one and I remember there being a site having a bunch of options, I'm just not sure what you might need.

https://support.apple.com/en_AU/downloads/macos

Actually I just found it. Apple's site, I guess they changed it to allow older downloads

[obsidian mirage]

🙏

I would’ve never thought Apple would allow that.. even their documentation still says you need a Mac

[forest gull]

It's likely just newer images aren't on there, but anyone looking to rebuild an old MacBook would benefit from this

[grave jasper]

I've just replaced my MBP16" 2019 with i9 with a new one with M1 Max

and ran the test suite of my client's project

i9: Finished in 616.244299s
M1 Max: Finished in 256.930086s

also the fans weren't even noticeable on M1 Max

it's ridiculous how much better the ARM chips are for development, at least in my niche

(which is Ruby on Rails app development and profiling)

now I know that the i9 in MBP16" 2019 is an older intel 9th gen mobile chip, and I don't even have the fastest version (mine is 2.3Ghz base clock), but still - wow

[forest gull]

I wonder how the M1 config would stack up against a desktop i9-10900K. We see the different between what I presume is an i9-9850H, but that doesn't tell all of the story perse. In development, would it still be better to have a desktop over a macbook, or have macbook passed even what some might consider a high-end desktop by modern standards?

I wonder if it would ever be technically possible to have 100% efficiency on CPUs and GPUs. Imagine a world without needing heatsinks, fans, or coolers.

A world of perfect silence, 100% RAM compatibility, and 100% PCIe compatibility. Every PC case is suddenly following the height of the tallest consumer GPU, and that's the determining factor.

[valid light]

best way to learn C++ ?

[lament bridge]

Anyone knows JavaScript here?

[valid light]

I do

but I haven't touched it in a few months

so i'm pretty rusty

[lament bridge]

oh 😦

[midnight wind]

Don't ask to ask

Just ask

[hollow basalt]

The guy often asks to ask here

[lament bridge]

I figured out anyway. 🙂

[lament bridge]

https://codepen.io/sqpp/pen/gOxxepQ

Any clue why I only see the TLDs? Seems like my data still returns in objects, not arrays 😦

[sturdy ingot]

A book from this list https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list, or, if you're not a native English speaker, a well-reviewed book in your own language. If you want to use another book, check whether it shows or uses std::vector or malloc first. If malloc gets mentioned before std::vector then the book will focus too much on C instead of C++.

That's also a problem with many online tutorials, they will teach you C, then switch to C++ and in total give you a very strange "C with classes" variant. Many Udemy courses start that way, unfortunately.

I guess it's fine if you want to learn the language from the ground up, but with the overall complexity of C++, a top-bottom approach works better IMHO.

[manic moon]

c++ is a fairly deep language at this point. If you're looking to start out, I would recommend finding some challenges like advent of code ( https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/1 ) which start out pretty simple and build up in complexity over time. Use this as a platform for building some simple c++ solutions that only really need you to know about the basic c++ syntax, some containers like vectors, and how to read files with ifstream etc.

Once you've built up the muscle memory of how to define classes, methods, header files, etc etc., then you can start tackling other projects to learn how c++ handles inheritance, templates, garbage collection with shared/unique pointers, lambdas, etc.

[strong star]

hey guys im new to php and im trying to replace some stuff in an SQL row

mysqli_query($con, 'UPDATE wledger SET usd = $newusd WHERE id = $tid ');```

$newusd is a decimal, $tid is a string

i printed them out before this statement and they look fine

I can put them into the sql table just fine directly through a command (using test values), but when I run my script, there aren't any errors or anything, but the sql table remains the same

the table has columns: id (varchar), utime (unix timestamp, largeint), amount(bitcoin withdrawal amount, decimal), usd(usd equivalent amount, decimal)

the table already has every value except usd

which I calculate to the variable $newusd

I also tried doing WHERE utime = $ttime, $ttime being a LARGEINT that exists in the table

[hybrid sky]

In PHP, when you use single quotes for your strings the content inside it is not interpreted. What this means is that your variables will not be replaced by their value. You need to use double quotes to achieve this behaviour

[strong star]

ohhhhhhhh thank you so much ill try that now

HELL YEAH it works now

thanks man, didnt know that

so if i have single quotes, variables inside dont get replaced

[hybrid sky]

My pleasure 🙂

[hybrid sky]

Exactly !

[strong star]

alright php bros

hello again

so i have this mysql table right

and one column is a BIGINT

say I want to re-organize said table, so that it sorts the rows descending according to their value for BIGINT

I know that there is ORDER BY colName DESC;

but that just returns an organized table

is there any way to just re-organize the existing one, or do I have to a) make a temporary, sorted table b) iterate through it c) replace the old values with the new?

[hybrid sky]

Why would you want to do that ?

[strong star]

the int values are time

and i want it to be sorted by time

its unix timestamps

its like a transaction ledger

just ease

point is can i do it?

[hybrid sky]

You could do it like so : ALTER TABLE tablename ORDER BY columnname ASC; even though I don't think it's a very good idea 😉

[strong star]

why not exactly?

oh, cause its a database, and order doesnt really matter?

[hybrid sky]

The order is only important to the part of your program in charge of processing the data

The database itself doesn't care about order

It is much more efficient to just use ORDER BY when querying your db

Otherwise you'd have to reorder your database any time you insert/remove data from it

[strong star]

Fair point

[hybrid sky]

In the end, you do what ever you feel is best for your application 😉

[strong star]

Thanks man, you clearly know your stuff and are eager to help

appreciate it

[hybrid sky]

Only helping a brother out, good luck with your project

[left ferry]

"faily deep" lol

[arctic tusk]

Youtube Channels:

• sentdex, neural network from scratch in python (the whole channel is about ai/python)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5dMEP_BbI&list=PLQVvvaa0QuDcjD5BAw2DxE6OF2tius3V3

• Jeff Heaton
  https://www.youtube.com/c/HeatonResearch/

• Aladdin Persson
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkzW5JSFwvKRjXABI-UTAkQ

@nocturne willow all of these are ai/machine learning channels with actual programming examples.

[obtuse night]

The only issue I have with Sentdex, is it seems he starts video series' but doesn't finish them

[sturdy ingot]

Please have a look at prepared statements. They will fix not only this issue, but also potential security issues with your current raw SQL syntax. See https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepared-statements.php.

[hollow basalt]

indeed, always prepare your statements

[nocturne galleon]

Any recommendations for vps hosting in Europe?

[hybrid sky]

OVH or Scaleway for me

[nocturne galleon]

Thanks, will go have a look

[strong star]

I know about prepared statements, but what's so much more secure about them?

this script is entirely internal btw, it runs on my server and is completely detached from anything else

[sturdy ingot]

Prepared statements prevent SQL injections, as they cannot accidentally contain unescaped SQL. For example, if $newusd was 1; -- then all usd cells in the wledger table would get set to 1. If you instead use a prepared statement and bind to :newusd (or whatever the syntax in PHP's library is), then 1; -- would get escaped and the WHERE is still part of the query.

See also the classic https://xkcd.com/327/

[strong star]

I see

[split rose]

ORMs.are very nice

[nocturne galleon]

ORMs might be overkill in certain cases

I don't really recommend them for smaller websites

it doesn't kill or doesn't harm but it's like using a sledgehamer to nail down a tiny nail

[strong star]

whats that

[nocturne galleon]

what's that what

a sledge hammer ? an ORM ?

[pliant siren]

ORMs CAN be nice. But they can also be incredibly restrictive.

For example I am currently working on a POC application using Django. One of the things I want to do is return all sections related to the version of a document having the highest revision number that matches a certain publication status. good luck pulling that in a django query/filter. I can easily write that query in SQL.

[versed onyx]

site basically is built like this, all out of divs, trying to make space between buttons with margin-top and margin-bottom makes white space above the header on the right container

like this

seems to only happen on firefox

[visual path]

Have you tried padding?

[versed onyx]

As in

[visual path]

padding with css?

.sidebar button {
  padding: .7rem 0;
} 

on the button elements

note that will target every button in the sidebar

[nocturne galleon]

https://codepen.io/yokeing/pen/XWazjKe
How do i put this on my wordpress?
The CSS and HTML doesn't seem to work out as intended
When in pratice

https://www.nicesnippets.com/tools/online-editor
Try pasteing the HTML in the HTML box and the CSS in the CSS box here
this is an online live preview tool

and you will see what i mean by "it dosent work out as intended"

[split rose]

One is scss, the other is css

[teal shore]

Should i use Keil or Gcc for assembly coding with the pi pico?

[split rose]

I used https://jsonformatter.org/scss-to-css to convert them but you should be fine putting the original sass code into your website with .scss extension @nocturne galleon

[split rose]

It doesn't matter much

Gcc is free software and you could get some experience setting up your own toolchain, tho

[teal shore]

So my tutorial which i bought is for Keil

[split rose]

You bought a tutorial?

[teal shore]

Ye

More a course

I wanted to learn assembly programming

So i bought a course

[split rose]

Rip

[teal shore]

No its quite good

I quite like it

And its worth it i think

[teal shore]

So i friend of mine who is a programmer got me a pi pico for my birthday

And i wanted to write for it

And i wasn’t sure

[split rose]

Well, if you want to explore, set up gcc, you will be fine either way

@teal shore Please don't purchase a tutorial or course for programming ever again

Just my advice

[teal shore]

Why not?

[split rose]

Because it is a waste of money

You could learn anything (especially programming) for free

Through the internet

[nocturne galleon]

Build your own curriculum, learn how to make your own knowledge system!

[teal shore]

Lmao

[nocturne galleon]

@split rose You are a life saver

Thank you so much

How do i make the code on the "Proceed" button actully "Proceed"?

[split rose]

Bind it to a js function

Alternatively, use a js framework like react

or, other small js frameworks actually

[nocturne galleon]

am i forced to use JS?

[midnight wind]

for what

[nocturne galleon]

To make the proceed button actully proceed

[midnight wind]

what proceed button

for what?

[nocturne galleon]

https://codepen.io/yokeing/pen/XWazjKe

[midnight wind]

to make it redirect?

or do what

[nocturne galleon]

well my intension was to use it as a "preloader

https://artbymiaklinke.com/

For this website

That i made for a client

or "client" / friend

[split rose]

Yes

You would need some kind of js to bind functionality to a button

[midnight wind]

no

[split rose]

That isn't a redirect

[midnight wind]

depends on what you want to happen, do you want a seamless animation thing, or a simple redirect

if you want an animation thing, I'm not your man, I have no clue with fancy frontend stuff

[nocturne galleon]

Seamless animation thing

no redirect

[nocturne galleon]

Can you help me with that perhabs? I'm the R-word at javascript

[midnight wind]

somehow hide the main website content and then make an animation, idk

[split rose]

Same bro

Lol

[nocturne galleon]

Disable scroll on the page while the animation goes on, display it on all pages no matter where you go

and bind that button to actully proceed (not redirect, just a seamless animation and then boom fades into website after clicking button)

now thats the dream

[midnight wind]

why I hate frontend

[nocturne galleon]

Sadge

[midnight wind]

I can do all sort of bgp routing, ospf, networking, all that jazz to make websites run, but the actual development, nope

[nocturne galleon]

front end development sucks

[split rose]

lel

[nocturne galleon]

Ok i have an idea

Can i make the "Proceed" button scroll down a single page?

[midnight wind]

Sure

Somehow in js, look it up

[split rose]

a scroll animation? you need js

You wouldn't with an anchor

[nocturne galleon]

Damn it

I just wanted to use anchor point

[split rose]

Css has smooth scroll, if thats what you are looking for?

[nocturne galleon]

Well can i force it to scroll down the page automatically after a certain amount of time (s/ms) ?

[split rose]

Idk

You can, I just don't know how

Tutorials def exist tho

[nocturne galleon]

Time to google/youtube this

ill make some popcorn

lol

Lets say i used JS then

can you give me some actual JS code i can paste

that will make the proceed button scroll down?

[split rose]

Redirect to an anchor prob

With setinterval

idk

[split rose]

there is prob some on the internet bro

Best to learn it

[nocturne galleon]

Sadge

Okay

Thanks tho

[vestal spire]

in flutter,

is there a way to use didChangeAppLifecycleState ? I'm using it with AssetsAudioPlayer() and the player won't resume when I come back into the app. Here's my code

  @override
  void didChangeAppLifecycleState(AppLifecycleState state) {
    if (state == AppLifecycleState.resumed) {
      if (audioPlayer.isPlaying.value == false) {
        // isPaused = false;
        audioPlayer.play();
      }
    }
  }

[peak acorn]

Does anyone know the correct way to scale-translate in css for any scaling

for instance:

scale: 1;
transform: translateX(100%) translateY(100%);
and:
scale: 2;
transform: translateX(25%) translateY(25%);```

[nocturne galleon]

How to make a button go to an anchor in HTML?

[nocturne galleon]

https://codepen.io/yokeing/pen/XWazjKe

Can someone code this button to jump to an anchor tag on my website?

[frozen jacinth]

Anyone have suggestions for entry level pythons projects to test my skills/knowledge with? I want something outside of the guided coursework

[sturdy ingot]

Make an anchor tag instead and style it as button.

[full socket]

This college I'm looking at has an entire class for CSS.

Holy shit.

I can't see how that would be necessary

It's an elective so thank god

But weird

I feel like its not THAT hard to learn that you need to somehow stretch it out over a like four month period

Unless it goes incredibly in-depth somehow

[full socket]

I can look at it. Letting you know though that the opening animation looks a bit rough and it'd be good to slow it down a bit and make it less jagged when it expands into white.

Besides that, I like it. It looks pretty nice

[hazy marsh]

oh boy how many times i've asked myself "why is it so stretched out?" in college

[midnight wind]

college programming classes suck

[hazy marsh]

sadly i have to agree, most were bad, though it's more of the educational approach in a whole in my country

[full socket]

With the one I'm taking rn all the website designs look disgusting and extremely outdated. Been times where I was deducted points because I followed what I was supposed to do and assumed I fucked up somehow because it looked gross so I fixed it a bit. But it was just supposed to look bad

In community college lol

[hazy marsh]

ye outdated technology is an issue, when we got classes that would be useful then the teachers would screw it up

at least we learned how to look for info on the internet

[full socket]

</div>```

There u go

[full socket]

Used Javascript on a project and my teacher said "thats a bit advanced for this class, be careful"

[hazy marsh]

whoa, slowdown there

[full socket]

Lol

[hazy marsh]

i didn't have these types of issues, the main issue was along the lines of "you need to look for an answer yourself, i can't guide you like a child...but if your idea is not what i thought of then you fail"

[full socket]

Oh jesus. I hate that lol

When they're really vague, yet theres actually a specific way they want you to do it. They just don't tell you

[hazy marsh]

i understand learning to think of ideas, sure most of the time you won't be reinventing the wheel, but you should develop some critical thinking and understanding of certain concepts, but that should come with accepting different ideas, not grading you based on how close you were to the one "proper" result

[midnight wind]

I'm lucky and my profs so far don't care how I did it

as long as the output is correct whatever

[hazy marsh]

i envy you

[full socket]

Yeah. There can be so many ways to do one thing and have it work, makes no sense to me to not just say the way you want that thing done

or better yet, let people actually think about it and solve it on their own instead of doing it that specific way

Lol

[hazy marsh]

then at the end tell them why it's bad/good, if it's unoptimal show where and a way to fix it

[full socket]

It's more frustrating for me to work within specific boundaries my teacher gives than it is to just figure it out all on my own

[full socket]

Thats a good idea lol

Theres been times where my teacher or textbook was wrong about the way to do something and I realized and corrected it

[midnight wind]

you use textbooks...

[full socket]

Yes.

Had to pay $100.

[hazy marsh]

oh boy

i mean don't get me wrong, there are some good books out there

[midnight wind]

technically required for us, but I don't use it at all

[full socket]

Lol

Every single assignment we do is from the textbook

[midnight wind]

libgen

[full socket]

Its a digital interactive one or whatever

Would've done libgen if I could

[midnight wind]

rip

[full socket]

Textbook prices are ridiculous

[hazy marsh]

we had some textbooks in first and second year, but those were for more theoretical subjects (discrete maths, physics, basic of electronics etc) and were available in the library

no wait, we had to buy one textbook for english classes

[full socket]

hey, with CSS, if it says to "align something to the right", is it fine to do float: right;

Half asleep

Lol

[visual path]

you could also do right: 0;

really up to you

[mystic birch]

guys what programming language would u recommend to start with

i have no idea what i want to do with yet

or anything

[obtuse night]

It depends on what you are looking for. If it's just general programming, I would say Python is always a good place to start. If you are looking for game development, maybe C#.

[mystic birch]

not game development i want like general programming which i can use for many things

[midnight wind]

C and C++

[obtuse night]

If that's the case, the ones I would suggest (although many have different opinions) are the following:

• Python
• GoLang
• C#
• HTML/CSS (obviously)
• JavaScript/Typescript

[midnight wind]

HTML and CSS aren't programming langs

[mystic birch]

but they are building blocks to it

[obtuse night]

But you need them for most development

[obtuse night]

Do you suggest these as a first language? Imo, they are the most difficult, so get the basics sorted first?

[midnight wind]

Yes, well C is good to start

It's how I started

Lower level, very basic

I started with Arduino which is basically c/c++

[midnight wind]

Well not really

They are markup languages

And only useful for webdev

[obtuse night]

I only suggested them as you can't do much/any web development without them, so they are necessary.

[midnight wind]

Yeah, but still it's not html/css, it's the whole bundle, js/html/css

[mystic birch]

any good resources to learn golang

[midnight wind]

I highly recommend learning C

https://youtu.be/zYierUhIFNQ

[mystic birch]

aint C rlly hard

[midnight wind]

no

only if you make it hard

it may be hard to do something complex, but fundametals are pretty easy

anything with a GUI will be a bit harder

but basic cli programs, nah

[obtuse night]

Finally!!!

[full socket]

It's a great start for beginners though. Easy stuff and can start to introduce them to more complicated concepts as they go and learn further

[midnight wind]

it's not a programming language

literally has no logic

doesn't run

[full socket]

I didn't say it was

Lol

Its a good place for beginners who are completely new to any aspect of coding

[midnight wind]

I disagree

[full socket]

?

[midnight wind]

html doesn't teach much

just how html works

doesn't translate to anything else, maybe markdown but that's it

[full socket]

Can get them interested in learning further and learning programming languages. I dunno, I started with HTML/CSS/Javascript and then went on to Python

For me it worked that way

[midnight wind]

I started with arduino, C is simple

[forest gull]

just cycling through Code's color schemes.

wtf

[nocturne galleon]

Can someone help me what exactly is this?

[obtuse night]

You need to create an MX record with your DNS provider, and point that to the A record (hostname) of the mail server

Who is your DNS provider?

[nocturne galleon]

Where i run my server?

[obtuse night]

Is this for internal use or external? I highly recommend not exposing this to the internet.

[nocturne galleon]

External it's an email server

[obtuse night]

I will continue to help, but just so you know, you almost never have a good reason to run your own mail server for external use...
Do you have your own domain?

[nocturne galleon]

Jup

[obtuse night]

Ok. Who did you buy that domain with?

[nocturne galleon]

Yeah, ik just thought it would be a fun project

[nocturne galleon]

IONOS, the same place where i got my server

[obtuse night]

If you go to your DNS management console within IONOS, you should be able to set A records and MX records

[nocturne galleon]

And this is under my server management, correct?

[obtuse night]

probably not server. is there domain management anywhere? I haven't used IONOS before, so dont know how its set out

[nocturne galleon]

There is domain management

[obtuse night]

Ok. if you go there, does it say anything about DNS?

[nocturne galleon]

DNS settings found em

[obtuse night]

So, you're going to want to create an A record, and set that to the hostname of your server

[nocturne galleon]

Wait the hostname being the IP address correct?

[obtuse night]

hostname should be whatever you entered when you put "hostnamectl set-hostname {{hostname}}"

[nocturne galleon]

Ahh

[obtuse night]

it may not like you entering the domain with it. e.g. if the hostname is abc.xyz.com, you may need to enter just "abc"

[nocturne galleon]

And then

Points to is the server ip

[obtuse night]

Ok... that IP doesn't look correct...

[nocturne galleon]

No

It isnt

[obtuse night]

but as long as you put the correct IP, that's right

[nocturne galleon]

TTL is?

[obtuse night]

If you leave it as Auto, it should be fine. It won't matter too much

[nocturne galleon]

Jup done

[obtuse night]

Now create an MX record, and set the value to the A record (such as abc.xyz.com)

[nocturne galleon]

Hostname now?

[obtuse night]

the same as the A record + domain. e.g. abc.xyz.com

[nocturne galleon]

Ah, okay

It says it conflicts with something?

Should i just say okay and let it deactivate the defaults?

[obtuse night]

ummm.. are you using IONOS for emails already?

[nocturne galleon]

Nope, this is pretty much out of the box

[obtuse night]

If not, make a note of the defaults and press ok

[nocturne galleon]

Okay, done

[obtuse night]

now, from your own PC (not in IONOS), you should be able to open "cmd", and type "nslookup abc.xyz.com"

it should return the IP address of the IONOS server

[nocturne galleon]

Well don't have access to a terminal rn, am working of an ipad in a bus

[obtuse night]

there are some online nslookup websites. try one of them?

[nocturne galleon]

Wure give me a sec

Yes that works 🔥

[obtuse night]

cool. Thats the bit that you highlighted done. Just to reiterate. I do not recommend using this externally...

[nocturne galleon]

Why not?

[obtuse night]

it will not be anywhere near as secure as something like Outlook etc

SPAM filters are much worse, and could be hacked

[nocturne galleon]

Wdym? There are spam filters for something like iredmail

But obviously I'm not gonna use this as my main email

[obtuse night]

Making it secure initially is quite a lot of work, then the maintenance is very time-consuming. By all means, try it out, but I would not leave it exposed for long

[nocturne galleon]

It's too much of a hassle to keep up to date?

[obtuse night]

I mean... Places like Microsoft and Google have teams of people working on their mail servers, to keep them secure.

[nocturne galleon]

Yes, obviously, and this definitely won't be as good in any way, and i have been a customer of them until now, and will continue after this. This is just for fun

[obtuse night]

That's fine then

[nocturne galleon]

Yeah, i actually intended on buying an outofthebox solution with my custom domain, but i couldn't find anything cheap enough

And anyways i have like 6 hours left in this bus, its 10 pm now and i really don't think I'll be able to fall asleep ever so I'll just be doing this over the night

[rich trail]

Hey all, Im looking for someone that would be able/willing to write something that will pull data from an excel and insert it into pre-determined spots in a pdf. I have $75 I can pay with (cash or crypto). DM if youd like more details

[night flame]

you probably don't need to pay someone for this. Adobe and Excel have tools for this

[chrome gale]

Hi guys. I don't know if it's the right place. I just started learning Python two days ago in school. I'm in an intensive school program (meaning we have less time to learn than other regular program). I also suffer from ADHD-I, so it's kind of hardcore sometimes. I was wondering if I could ask for someone to help me during the semester (probably several times a week). I feel bad if I have to ask a thousand question here. Thank you.

[chrome gale]

No I don't think so, but I have to learn differently than a regular student. Like sometimes I need to be told what to do and how, take notes to have a how-to structure. I have a really hard time "discovering by myself". It's hard to describe. The regular school system is more like "discover it alone by yourself"

[rich trail]

I know and have used them. The issue is needing to do this automatically through just running the script in a folder, get the pdf. and then repeat 100x

[forest gull]

"Why do you love software development as a job so much?"
Why I love software development so much:

[jolly notch]

[grizzled steeple]

I love how descriptive those Commit Messages are xD

At least more descriptive then those of my colleagues...

[midnight wind]

gotta love the random a, b, or other random character when starting a project and no clue what you are doing

[raven sky]

why do i do this to myself

[forest gull]

I was given a style guide for the code and comments, and a guide for the pull requests, but was given no guidance on commit messages except no more than 30 characters or whatever the max is

So a large percentage are usually "Update Commit" which I know is mostly useless, but I'm also a solo dev on this project with my supervisor mainly doing code review

Also a large majority of my commits are either "sending" them to him to check why something is broken, essentially quick help, and me switching between computers, so usually I'll comment something like "Update Commit - Broken" especially if it's in the middle of revisions

But other than that, I really have no idea how you're intended to use oil request comments. There's not enough space for actual useful information, but also it's there and I always have to put something

[forest gull]

These are some of the "better" ones, but I don't even know if this is good enough.

[grizzled steeple]

I mostly work in a Team of 3 and both of my colleagues always just write "Update" and never describe what they did in a commit. If you're working on a project alone, it's fine, but not when the team has like 6 or 7 people in it...

[vague vector]

I guess it is rare to find people explaining with paragraphcs in the commit message why a one line change was made, and why it is the correct change.

[last lance]

In python, how would I take a string, then make another string that is the first string with just numbers, no space, no characters.

In preferably the simplest way possible

[night flame]

say you have a string named str

you can use str.replace('a', '') to replace a with nothing

do that for every character

dont forget uppercase

[vague vector]

might be easier to just copy all the numbers to a new string , there are fewer numbers than characters

[night flame]

no make him do every character

[forest gull]

Another "issue" for me is when I have to shift from different computers, between my work/school laptop and my home desktop. A lot of those commits are purely that use, simply to move my update to the "cloud" so I can work on it elsewhere

[humble hemlock]

I'm not super familiar with python but I assume it supports regular expressions (regex) for that kind of string manipulation

[pearl heath]

mystring = 'h3110 23 nofloat 444.4 foobar 11 2 dog'

[int(s) for s in mystring.split() if s.isdigit()]
[23, 11, 2]

[grizzled steeple]

Yeah, with regex you'd just do [^0-9]+ and replace that with nothing

[gusty oak]

Github copilot amazin

[ivory bear]

https://therecord.media/malware-found-in-coa-and-rc-two-npm-packages-with-23m-weekly-downloads/

[thin valve]

Is this what they call a d*** move?

[ivory bear]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[thin valve]

I'm assuming they either removed the malware or uninstalled the packages because password yoinkers are a no go

also prob changed passwords for good mesure

[gusty oak]

Which lang

Request the page, store the json, and format it

isn't that an API?

well you need to get the API's response

or you can't edit it

you can get the json with response.json

and use the json package to only get the value

the API returns a json

yes

I fail to understand your problem

ok, make a request to the API, store the response and write that in a json file

oh wait I read your message wrong

Just make a variable that has code to get every line in the json file

and then use a for i in range loop with that to sort through the entire list

https://duck.com

[hasty bison]

Hi, any JavaScript developer that knows why I can't access a variable from the parent class? I know that I need to use this. But that won't work.

[nocturne galleon]

Hi y’all 👋

[cosmic turtle]

Did you ever call super to run the parent class constructor? That’s the only thing I got off the top of my head.

[sturdy ingot]

Are you asking how to replace the url parameter in the request, or rather how to keep the URL part in the string flexible?

Nvm, just saw your final screenshot.

[wild delta]

Yo why doesn't this work :) I haven't used C# in a while and I wasn't even that good at it when I made this so I don't know why it isn't working. It's supposed to take in a sentence aND dO tHiS rAndOmLy

[night flame]

what about it doesnt work?

[wild delta]

The returned sentence doesn't change

But I don't get any errors or anything

I guess the first letter goes lower case

Does the code make sense?

[night flame]

you're only changing a letter to uppercase if the random number is 0

[night flame]

if(r.Next() == 0)

change to

if(r.Next() % 2 == 0)

If the random number is even, change the letter to uppercase

[wild delta]

It works :D

There was actually another file in the solution that had to do with it but from what I remembered that file made absolutely no sense so I deleted it. And now it's all just one file

Aight gn

[thin valve]

what if i just started programing in music theroy

[steep mauve]

This did not work as expected because you did not specify the interval borders for random.Next()

Per default it's between 0 and 2147483647, so the probability for getting 0 was just really really low

you could have used random.Next(2) or random.Next(0,2) instead (2 because the upper border is exclusive) to get a 50/50 split

More info here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.random.next?view=net-5.0

[vague vector]

are the directories in question able to be read and written by the owning group?

You can either run you script as the apache user or add your user to the same group

yes, but no. Using sudo without flags will run it as root and not the apache user.

there is a flag you need to give sudo to change the user to run as

[midnight wind]

www?

Look it up

[vague vector]

ls -la will tell you ownership info

[midnight wind]

Well just -l will

-a just lists all files

[vague vector]

just in case something is hidden

[rough bear]

does anyone know how to help me? i'm not getting audio when i run this code

gives me this error

[vague vector]

This would have been so much easier to read in a gist or something

[rough bear]

have resolved the issue now

[versed dust]

@cedar portal ask here

[night flame]

@cedar portal im good with C i can help

[tough hill]

what subject should 1 do for a levels i want be a game delvoloper?

[brave spade]

What's subjects do you have which can be associated to game development? Each school has different a level options

[loud kelp]

TOMORROW, 11/11 11AM EST... https://youtu.be/sOkBoPQqObs

Join us for the release of what my gf and I have been developing all year!

[thin valve]

woah

[deft sigil]

what sort of a joke is this ? since when does a string need to be referenced?

[hollow basalt]

what theme is that

[fickle verge]

Im wondering, will a certificate from Cisco , python institute help with my university application?

[spring pond]

that would help more with getting a job, for uni you want a lot of projects

or a few very big projects

[fickle verge]

sorry if this is a dumb question whats an example of a big project?

I have passion projects

[spring pond]

making some sort of web or mobile app with a backend, making a game with a reasonably large amount of content, lots of different things