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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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Everything you need to know about dry-aging duck at home
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Erling Haaland became the Bundesliga's second-youngest hat-trick scorer, and the first substitute to score three times
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Denmark to finally allow gay and bisexual men to give blood – but only after four month abstinence period
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The other dark matter candidate
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Is France still at the center of the French-language literary world? Or, to ask a broader question, is there a center at all?
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In 2017, Iceland had the lowest number of prisoners per inhabitants (thirty-nine per 100,000) among European countries, according to Eurostat
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Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic – only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is unmistakably his work
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FreeBSD is an amazing operating system
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You must time-travel to any time before 1799 and never come back. Where do you go?
The time-travel is mandatory, and you must go to any point in Earth history before 1799. You cannot time-travel back. When do you go to, and why? Inspired by a similar post.
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Stockholm street just became the first in Sweden to ban old diesel cars – 4,000 of the 24,000 cars that use Hornsgatan every day will now be forced to take a detour
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If you could experience anything in the past what would it be?
If you had a time machine that would let you experience the past, but not change it, what would you do?
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The internet of beefs
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Designing Manifold Garden's believably unbelievable world and puzzles
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The Radiohead Public Library, an online resource launched today containing videos, music, artwork, websites, merchandise, and assorted ephemera
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Wuhan virus: China confirms human-to-human transmission, says medical workers infected
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Norway's right-wing Progress Party is quitting the government over a decision to bring home from Syria a woman suspected of affiliation to the Islamic State
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Darkside - Paper Trails [Live] (2013)
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Boeing is in talks to borrow $10 billion or more as 737 Max crisis wears on in the US
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Accordion Synthesizer Project
I've been posting about this in various topics but now that it's on Github, I thought maybe it's time to give it a topic of its own. From the README: My goal is to eventually replicate the...
I've been posting about this in various topics but now that it's on Github, I thought maybe it's time to give it a topic of its own. From the README:
My goal is to eventually replicate the keyboard and sound of the bass side of an accordion in an electronic device that accordion players will find easy to adapt to. So far I've built three prototypes:
- Prototype 1 was trying out a Teensy 4 with an audio shield on a breadboard, with 4 bass buttons.
- For prototype 2, I put the buttons on two double-decker circuit boards (9 bass buttons). Here's the Video. You can see the remains of prototype 1 in the background.
- For prototype 3, I built a real case out of wood and laser-cut acrylic panels, to make a desktop device that's more easily portable. This one uses a Teensy 3.6. Here's the Video. I designed it in Onshape and you can look at the CAD model online.
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
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Rethinking the meaning of success through the stories of Phil Campbell, co-founder of Quantic Dream and former creative director on major franchises like Tomb Raider
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Andrew Gallant (burntsushi, author of ripgrep) discusses his personal history and relationship with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
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The US pesticide industry's playbook for avoiding neonicotinoid bans
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Martin Luther King Jr: "Why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam", April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York
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The plant ecology of the Los Angeles River
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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MNT Reform open source, modular laptop crowdfunding campaign launches in February
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What are you doing this week?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week. If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week.
If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work related, I'd love to hear about them. This is a place for casual discussion about your week, past, present, and future.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this week?
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A software engineer's advice for saving social media: keep it small
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Denmark's DR reveals entries for Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2020 pre-qualifying round – nine songs, only three qualifiers
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Amtrak asks two people who use wheelchairs to pay $25,000 for a ride
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David Gunnlaugsson – Iceland's melting glaciers are nothing to panic about
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Castle in the clouds: Celebrating the eclectic, DIY designs of Ukraine's status symbol balconies
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Finland has expressed interest in a new high-speed train that would connect its capital Helsinki to Moscow in just six hours
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In a break with convention, the New York Times editorial board has chosen to endorse two separate Democratic candidates for president: Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren
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Coronavirus spreads to Beijing as China confirms 139 new cases
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Gender neutral toilets in use for first time at Australian Open
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Doctor Who S12E04: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
What did you think of this week's episode of 'Doctor Who'? Previous discussions: Doctor Who S12E03 'Orphan 55' Doctor Who S12E01 'Spyfall'
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Exit, voice, or loyalty… what should we do when things go wrong?
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The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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Dad builds custom Xbox adaptive controller so daughter can play Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Is it really just sexism? An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
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Why are drink coasters flat?
A drink coaster goes under a glass or cup, and is intended to catch any condensation or spillage from the glass, to protect the tabletop underneath. But most coasters are flat.* Any liquid that...
A drink coaster goes under a glass or cup, and is intended to catch any condensation or spillage from the glass, to protect the tabletop underneath.
But most coasters are flat.* Any liquid that gathers on them can roll off the edges onto the table. Some coasters are made of a water-absorbing material, like cardboard or cork, but some are made of materials that repel water, like metal or ceramic or plastic.
I ask this because I recently discovered a small coaster-like tray with an upraised lip around the edge. Strictly speaking, it's not a coaster, but it's exactly the right size to be used as a coaster - and, with the upraised lip around the edge, it actually prevents liquid from escaping onto the table.
So why are coasters flat?
(I bought some of the lipped not-coasters to use as coasters. This design makes sense to me. And they happen to look nice as well.)
* It was only while researching coasters online prior to making this post that I discovered that some coasters have lips. Every coaster I've seen in real life is flat.
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New UNSW research calls for national action to minimise the risk of the platypus vanishing due to habitat destruction, dams and weirs
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The polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo
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The closing walls around China’s independent game developers
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Luanda Leaks: How Africa’s richest woman exploited family ties, shell companies and inside deals to build an empire
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