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So here is one: Compile error with designated initializers for members with a consteval ctor with msvc I don't personally have problem with it except for MSVC there is specific site where bugs can be ...
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I'm proposing to change the scope of SO and allow all questions about developer-adjacent software (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, IDEs/editors) and services (e.g AWS/GCP/Azure, authentication, hosting, ...
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I asked a question on Stack Overflow and it was closed for not being on-topic. I deleted it afterward and posted it on DBA: Is it safe to delete bolt-path and engine-path in InfluxDB? However, I found ...
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We allow questions about "software tools commonly used by programmers", with the added restriction that the question is about "a practical, answerable problem that is unique to software ...
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79896067/best-practice-for-c4-adr Is: Not in English Has a first comment that repeats the question by the question's author. Has content (based on my browser's ...
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I was referred to ask the question in meta-stack-overflow from here https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/417340/282861 . If I understand the reasons stated there,this question got moderator attention due ...
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I've been thinking a lot about how we use AI to help us write code (or, to be derogatory, to "vibe code."). It seems that it's going to be a real, ongoing thing, and that we should be able ...
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Would SO be a good place to ask which mistakes in the design of the RISC-V architecture Linus Torvalds means in the video at https://youtu.be/1Y82U450zcI?si=1CL-JmCjlvCoKpkJ when he claims all the ...
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By "system requirements", I mean things such as what OSes are supported, generally how much disk space is needed, how much memory is typically minimally needed to run the program, etc. My ...
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I recently solved a relatively niche problem with WSL and Docker and wanted to share it with the community. It was closed as: This question does not appear to be about a specific programming problem, ...
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Are questions about the theory behind MAP and SMPP allowed? I asked the question on Network Engineering SE and one moderator responded that: Protocols at or below OSI layer-4 are on-topic here So my ...
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I have an MRE (a minimalistic Maven project with a failing test). But to reproduce the issue, you need to add a non-public fork of a public artifact to the classpath. I can include the fork jar. Would ...
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I want to ask a question about why JavaScript behaves in a certain way. (Why does JavaScript use auto-boxing instead of keeping primitives as objects?) I suppose that’s not technically a question ...
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In an answer to a recent question we see mention of this problem: There are a bunch of highly voted, high traffic questions that are now considered off-topic. Many of those questions are good and ...
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When a question is closed with the "Not about programming or software development" reason, the following info message gets shown in the question: This question does not appear to be about a ...
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I asked this question (Monitoring Wildfly cluster with ElasticSearch and cron jobs [closed]) and it got closed for not being about programming or software development. I knew that it was not about ...
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My question here is prompted by the closure, as off-topic because it's not about programming, of How to center preface title?. It happens that I answered the question, but that's not important; I've ...
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I came across some questions about AI training recently (this and more for example). I flag these questions as “off-topic” mostly. Do these questions belong to Stack Overflow or some another site?
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I asked a question about IMAP behaviour, (How to change headers of an E-Mail inplace (via IMAP)) it was completely answered. Now it was closed for being unfocused (no clue why). My question was ...
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I recently asked this question, titled Is it possible to compose Dockerfiles to create multiple images with shared code?. The question has been closed with the close reason "not about programming ...
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I'm a C++ developer. I don't know how it is in other languages, but in C++ best practices are a big thing. Most of the books recommended in The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List are best-practice ...
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I regularly answer questions about accessibility. Since a few weeks, I have the impression that quite a lot of accessibility related questions are closed very quickly as "opinion-based". ...
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I don't understand. I want to RUN in a docker image that is a bit strange. That's a specific programming problem. Docker is a tool used by programmers. How to extend a Docker image that does not have ...
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I'm not sure why my question was closed, I believe it follows all the rules: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79652669/how-can-i-setup-a-remote-wordpress-database-on-slickstack Disclosure: I'm the ...
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The question's title is What aspects of a language design make copyability of an object possible or conditional to something? The reason I'm asking is that I'd like some feedback before moving it ...
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My question, How do I request a CSV of email activity from SendGrid without emailing our administrator?, was closed as being "not about programming or software development", and I am ...
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I was hoping to get some leads on how to modify a WordPress Gutenberg editor that had become orphaned after I rewrote my entire website in it. My question How do we maintain a Cwicly website given we ...
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Are questions such as (version 1 of) Redis Database Vs Redis Cache asking about use cases of a specific application acceptable for Stack Overflow? If not which is the best suited site?
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I want to implement a debugger for SQL Server. From what I understood, this means that one have to make some magic DCOM RPC calls, but I haven't been able to find any sort of specifications or ...
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Would it be on topic to ask how a library does, typically does, or may implement a function(ality) that is exposed to the user? Not how it is used, but how the underlying algorithm works. Note: A ...
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A year ago I wrote a question on Stack Overflow about an issue I had with parameters in C++, after a long discussion in the comment section of the question, someone commented an explanation of what ...
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https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/78990140 I am asking about a crash dump error in macos that doesn't exist in documentation. So this is also off-topic: EXC_BAD_ACCESS signal received , isn't ...
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I have a package in the Conan C++ package management system. I've been having trouble getting the Conan people to notice/work on a new version of my package. I thought I might ask on SO for advice on ...
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There are more than 20k questions related to terraform on Stack Overflow. Terraform isn't a programming language strictly speaking and many questions could be quite dev-opsy. So, should Terraform ...
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I would love to know the answer to this question: Is there any recognized good design scheme for inter-process synchronization of desktop applications written in PySide? That is to say, for example, ...
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The question in question: https://stackoverflow.com/review/triage/36516901 It doesn't have any code and only uses Apple's permission stuff. Although I believe this question is off-topic for other ...
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I asked this this question about the existence of a specific Google API which was closed with the reason "We don’t allow questions seeking recommendations for software libraries, tutorials, tools,...
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I submitted a question asking the difference between two content types used in HTTP requests and the when/why to use one over the other. My question was closed as off-topic, as it is allegedly "...
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I've seen multiple people (including mods) imply that the reason for many terminal questions being closed as off-topic is that they are not "software tools primarily used by programmers". (...
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Recently, I asked a question on Stack Overflow about the implementation details of Last-Level Cache found in today's typical mainstream GPUs made by Intel, AMD, and Nvidia - "Which GPU ...
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Using keypad in guest virtual machine OpenVMS EDIT/EDT KEYPAD on a Linux host? Stack Overflow > Help center > Asking: software tools commonly used by programmers; and is a practical, answerable ...
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I'm trying to understand how and where a library implements a specific functionality on Stack Overflow. I'm a beginner in that language and got stuck at tracing back the flow of control based on the ...
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My question that I'm trying to find an answer to is, in a broad sense, How to use Google Drive/Form's authentication process. I would provide more details such as what I'm trying to do, what I have so ...
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I've seen a few questions on this topic and I'd like the community's opinion. Here's my analysis of a recent question that asks about LLM hallucinations interfering with their program behavior: The C#...
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I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: using salt to upgrade Linux Mint OS This post was closed without any specific explanation. According to the boilerplate, This question does not appear ...
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I'm going to post a question about how to solve a programming issue about the sieve filters by Proton Mail. Searching for similar questions I didn't find anything that talks about this programming ...
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I had a theory concerning the promise returned by fetch, and I wanted to verify if I am correct on the matter or not, since there aren't many good web resources on the topic. However, the response I ...
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Many people have been surprised to find out that a top-tier programming language, PHP (#2-7 depending on metric), suddenly has an extra year of support, since sometime after March 2024. When I posted ...
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Is answering a question that asks to do something with a specific tool or library off topic if another way to solve the problem without the tool is shown? How to change some columns name when using pd....
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There has been previous discussion of the cytoscape tag which establishes why there might be on-topic questions about this platform. For reference, the tag description: Cytoscape is an open source ...
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