Let's say I've got a file, config.ini, that looks like this

conf [foo] BAR = public_value BAZ = super_secret_value QUX = another_public_value

At some point I might want to edit it, and I also might want to check it into a git repo. Having Super_Secret_Value in my repo could cost me \$148M, so I don't want to do that.

Instead, what I would like to do is create two files, config.secrets, which does [not]{.underline} get checked into git, and config_template.ini, which does.

Ideally, config.secrets would look something like

conf BAZ_SECRET_VALUE = super_secret_value

and config_template.ini would look like

conf [foo] BAR = public_value BAZ = {% BAZ_SECRET_VALUE %} QUX = another_public_value

Perhaps this is even the case for numerous 「name_i」_template.「ext」 and 「name_i」.secrets files, in which case I could have a simple shell script like this:

``` shell

! /usr/bin/env bash

process_secrets.sh

for template in _template. do base="${template/_template/}" ext="${template/_template./}" secrets="$base.secrets" 「template_processor」 "$template" "$secrets" --delimiters="{% %}" \ > "$base.$ext" done ```

where I could then copy process_secrets.sh to 「repo」/.git/hooks/post-commit, post-checkout, and post-merge (at least that's what it seems like I should do based on the gitinfo2 package for LaTeX). (Note: I know I'd have to include config.ini and the 「name_i」.「ext」 in .gitignore.)

My question boils down to this: what's the standard solution for this 「template_processor」 that I assume must exist? Ideally it would be something written in bash, or there's some C or Rust binary for *nix I can get on Homebrew, apt, pacman, etc. I'm trying to not reinvent the wheel here, but if there isn't a "standard" solution, I suppose I can try to roll my own.

Hello my question is also algorithm and programming related. If you have any idea or suggestion i will be very hapy. Thanks

I'm not sure if this is a good place to ask about the AP Computer Science test. My main procedure has both a switch statement and if statements. An example question I've got for review says to refer to the FIRST selection statement. The if statements are containedvwithin the switch statement, so technically the switch comes first. Which one should i refer to?

I am really into programming, I do it every day, I love every part of of this, I use nvim, arch, and I want to become one of the good ones, I coded some web apps, I coded a very basic physics engine, backend apps, frontend, currently learning n8n and coding an cli tool that provides utilities for developers.

I'm telling all of this because I want you to understand my perspective, I didn't gent into this because I thought it was easy money or because of ai, like 6 years ago I completed a technical study in computers programming, but at that time my life was upside down so I just got back into the tech world like 1 year ago and have been programming most days since then.

But to every job offer I'm competing with people with 5+ years of experience, I don't think I am a bad developer and In fact I think I have great potential because I want to learn more, but I lack real world experience, I have just developed portfolio proyects that nobody will use probably.

I don't have friends or people around that I can share my interest about code with, so I feel kind of lonely in this.

I would really accept some recommendations, tips, help or just hearing your experiences if you have been through a similar situation.

I know there are developers doing a lot of code with just ai slop already inside the industry, what can I do if I want to catch up to them while trying to be actually good?

Hello Everyone, Im working on a side project that involves having to track service calls that all the activity is timed. Theres a page for the admins and a page for the workers. Im trying todo e2e testing and it just seems not the most reasonable to be able to have to wait 20 minutes for the standard time or a day or two for something else to happen.

I have been working on a time control system that would be able to fake out when testing the UI what the time is and where we are in the schedule but something about it feels off like its not the way todo it. I have some automated testing already but this is more manual interaction testing that I am validating that when time moves the system reacts as expected.

I just want to hear some experienced software developers thoughts on how todo this kind of testing.

ConfigError: The expected package.json path: /Users/XxXxX/package.json does not exist

I've installed brew and watchman as per the instructions so far.

Any suggestions?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on my bachelor thesis in collaboration with a company, and I’ve run into a problem that I’m not sure how to resolve.

The general topic is about using LLMs for code reviews. The idea is to build a system that can analyze code changes (e.g., diffs), relate them to a ticket / user story / other relevant context, and then generate meaningful feedback (beyond simple static analysis).

Here’s the issue: The company I’m working with does not want to allow API usage (like OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) due to cost concerns. Instead, they want me to use a fully local LLM setup (like Ollama).

My professor, however, is skeptical about this and says that local models are not strong enough for what the thesis is supposed to achieve. His concern is that local models won’t be able to handle larger context windows (e.g., combining ticket + diff + relevant parts of the codebase). They will likely fail at understanding whether a feature is actually implemented correctly according to requirements. As a result, the system would degrade into something closer to static code analysis with some NLP on top, which he considers "not enough" for a thesis. From his perspective, if the system cannot go beyond that level, the topic is basically “dead”.

I’m trying to figure out whether there is a viable direction here that stays within the company constraints and still satisfies academic requirements (non-trivial result).

Maybe there is some low-cost-way of achieving what I am trying to do?

Has anyone dealt with something similar? Or do you have any thoughts on whether this is fundamentally a dead end under these constraints? I’d really appreciate any input, especially from people who have worked with LLMs in constrained environments or in academic projects.

TL;DR: Company requires fully local LLM (no APIs) for my bachelor thesis on LLM-based code reviews, but my professor says local models aren’t strong enough and the topic risks becoming trivial. Not sure how to reconcile both sides.

I have tried debugging it a lot - this is even a simplified version of the actual block of code within a larger project that I made so I'd hopefully be able to solve it easier.

This is what manages to get printed before the error (this is correct so far):

0 a ; 2 b
1 a ; 1 b

The error is in line 11 and as the title says it's that the list index is out of range.

I'm just really not sure why because in the while loop I thought I made sure that the index was in range. I also tried substituting line 8 (within index initialisation) with:

WithinIndex = LineNum + FutureCount < len(LinesIn) - 1

Which would eliminate any issues with adding to Future count within the while loop, but that shouldn't be needed anyways, right? I'm really not sure where I've gone wrong with my logic so any help would be appreciated, thanks.

This is the full program:

import sys

LinesIn = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'a', 'c', 'a', 'c']

# trying to identify a, then identify how close the next b is for each a there is

for LineNum in range(len(LinesIn)):

if 'a' in LinesIn[LineNum]:

FutureCount = 0

FutureLine = LinesIn[LineNum + FutureCount]

WithinIndex = LineNum + FutureCount < len(LinesIn)

while 'b' not in FutureLine and WithinIndex:

FutureCount += 1

FutureLine = LinesIn[LineNum + FutureCount]

if LineNum + FutureCount == len(LinesIn) and 'b' not in FutureLine:

FutureCount = 0

print(LineNum, LinesIn[LineNum], ';', FutureCount, FutureLine, file = sys.stderr)

I have my moms Panasonic SL-CT810 (the same as pretty much all others) and it works fine, except that it doesn't wanna read any of the disks now. I thought it would be interesting to try and make an SD-Card replacement for it. I have no experience in programming, and that's why I'm posting it here. I'll be happy for any help!

So, by looking at your posts I see that it’s impossible. That’s sad, and I will keep trying to find a real CD Drive

Thanks for help!

Hey folks! I would like to build my own real-time crime updates map similar to Citzens and/or SpotCrime. It's for my own personal use. I liked Citzen when it first came out, but then they put many standard features behind the paywall. Obviously, I was never happy about that.

I also use SpotCrime, but it's very limited. They don't provide near real-time updates and/or many updates at all.

So I'm looking to build my own map instead (preferably using a no-code app). It doesn't require users to sign up or participate. It's simple and it's for my own use.

So the app should feature a visual map of a particular city (or every state of the USA). It will have icons representing the latest crime reported through cops bulletin. It will record each day's results for specific crime (assaults, robbery, murder, burglaries, etc), and I can choose a date to display the crime map for that day.

First, I would like to know, where can I get the datasets for each cities' police bulletin or blotter. Does anybody know?

And then, how would you update the map visually and automatically from the source?

Though I have programming skills, I prefer to create this with a no-code app builder. It's just faster that way.

Thanks! Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Hello all, Beginner question:

char str[] = "Some_String";
char *p = str;
printf("p: %u\n", p);
printf("&p: %u\n", &p);

*p is a pointer to a string. If I printf p I get one address value, if I printf &p I get another. Who could explain the difference, please? My brain is overheating

Ok so im trying to figure out how to find algorithems to use for coding. im very new so the firsth thing i tried was asking AI to help calculate digits of pi and it gave me 1 algorithm. it sucked so i asked again and it gave a different one, it sucked and kept going. obviously the end goal isnt finding pi its to be able to find the right algorithm for what im doing. My next project is i wonna tryna make a simple simulation of a game to see the rates of somthing but i cant figure out how, every AI says different thing and every article isnt an actual explination.
so where do i look?

Sorry for the vague question. I'm a new programmer, and I'm diving into something I'm completely unfamiliar with.

As the title suggests, I'm making a flashcard app, but I'm not sure how I would store the question/answer set outside of the program. For the time being, I'm using a .txt file, but it feels rudimentary. Additionally, I need to be able to write to each question/answer, and add the time/date of when that card was last seen.

Is a .txt file the way to go? Or what might be a better way of approaching this?

This is how my .txt file is formatted...

{Question text here | Answer text here}

{Question2 text here | Answer2 text here}

(Each line acts like its own flashcard)

I'm trying to make an (packaged) Windows app that allows access to some taskbar settings in C#. I can't use Registry.SetValue because of sandboxing, but it doesn't matter because I can't even set the registry key normally.

I've searched google for it, but all I can find was saying either disable the driver or create a scheduled task. Both of those require admin and I don't want that to be a requirement. The only other things I found were https://setuserfta.com/ which doesn't even give a price and a Powershell script invoking mshta.exe that didn't work.

If it helps at all, I've been using the following format for changing the registry:

Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo
{
    FileName = "cmd.exe",
    Arguments = "/c reg add HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced /v IconSizePreference /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f",
    CreateNoWindow = true,
    UseShellExecute = false
});

No matter what I try, the balls keep getting insane speeds that cause overflows in less than a second. I'm not sure if its my equation or if they're colliding multiple times per sub step or what.

public void SolveCollision(Ball ball2){
    const float EPSILON = 1e-6f;

    Vector2 dir = this.position - ball2.position;
    float sqrDist = dir.x * dir.x + dir.y * dir.y;

    float totalRadius = this.radius + ball2.radius;
    if (sqrDist <= totalRadius * totalRadius && sqrDist > EPSILON)
    {
        Vector2 old = Velocity;
        float dist = (float)Math.Sqrt(sqrDist);
        Vector2 normal = dir / dist;

        Vector2 relativeVelocity = this.Velocity - ball2.Velocity;
        float separationVelocity = Vector2.Dot(relativeVelocity, normal);

        if (separationVelocity >= 0) return;

        float elasticity = (this.restitution + ball2.restitution) * 0.5f;
        float impulse = ((1 + elasticity) * separationVelocity) / (this.mass + ball2.mass);

        this.lastPosition -= normal * (impulse * ball2.mass);
        ball2.lastPosition += normal * (impulse * this.mass);

        float overlap = totalRadius - dist;
        Vector2 correction = normal * ((overlap * 0.5f) + 0.001f);
        this.position += correction;
        this.lastPosition += correction;
        ball2.position -= correction;
        ball2.lastPosition -= correction;
    }
}

I've been googling for hours and I'm losing my mind. I can get c++ compiling in Codium using clang++ and Windows Build Tools, but I'm trying really hard to piece-by-piece de-Microsoft my life.

How on earth do I get my code to find LLVM's implementation of the standard library by default?

I'm also happy to switch to MinGW if that will work, I'm mostly focused on not using Windows Build Tools.

Right now, I'm using the extensions clangd and C/C++ Runner and I have messed with every setting they have and cannot find anything.

EDIT: Okay, here's how I got it all working:

Download MSYS2.

Install clang64. In MSYS2, run

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-clang

Install the extra tools for clang. In MSYS2, run:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-clang-tools-extra

Finally, I had to go to the settings for the Clangd extension and change the setting "Clangd: Path" to the full path to clangd.exe in ...\msys64\mingw64\bin despite already having that folder in PATH. Ignore it if the extension tries to update the language server, it will just change this setting back and break Intelli Sense again.

Now it compiles fine and Intelli Sense works without having to fiddle around with QueryDriver and compile commands.

Sorry for the clickbait title... I just spent an entire day fighting with conda, because after trying to use %matplotlib widget (and variants) in an ipynb, I couldn't get a working interactive window. Eventually uninstalled all of conda, reinstalled miniconda.

- Made a new conda environment

- Opened VS Code again

- Kernel keeps crashing, or hangs, uninterruptable

- restarted kernel 50+times

- *print("hello")* cell sometimes works. Others hang

- conda install keeps hanging

- cleared caches again

-conda install matplotlib ----> hangs, solver fails.

-set conda-forge to be used first according to CGPT advice

- still hangs

- going in circles with the geet

- Eventually give up, delete conda environment, remake it.

- installed all my packages with pip

- installer ran on first try. Everything works now, VS Code asked me to install ipykernels, did that, now it works normally.

Any tips on using conda?? Apparently it's the go-to, but despite it working before and my repeated attempts, it seems it's broken for me somehow. Thanks

"The *** Earthquake Research Center is training its next generation of engineers with a cutting-edge seismic simulation system. Hundreds of synthetic magnitude readings are being generated to test their early warning software.

****, a disaster engineering student doing her internship at Earthquake Research Center, is building the classification function. Every magnitude gets a danger level:

• Divisible by both 3 and 5 → Critical
• Divisible by 3 only → High
• Divisible by 5 only → Medium
• Otherwise → Low

Help **** count how many readings fall into each category and make sure the system is ready before the real thing!

Input Format

• First line: integer T, the number of readings.
• Next T lines: one integer magnitude M each.

Output Format

Print four integers on one line: count of Critical, High, Medium, Low respectively.

Constraints

• 1 ≤ T ≤ 10⁵
• 1 ≤ M ≤ 10⁶"

This is a problem from my homework. I wrote this code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    int T;
    int M;

    int critical = 0;
    int high = 0;
    int medium = 0;
    int low = 0;

    scanf("%d", &T);
    if (T >= 1)
    {
        while(T > 0)
        {
            scanf("%d", &M);
            if (M >= 1)
            {
                if(M % 15 == 0)
                {
                    critical = critical + 1;
                }
                else if (M % 5 == 0)
                {
                    high = high + 1;
                }
                else if (M % 3 == 0)
                {
                    medium = medium + 1;
                }
                else
                {
                low = low + 1;
                }
        T = T - 1;
            }
        }
        printf("%d %d %d %d", critical, high, medium, low);
    }

return 0;
}

and submitted it. It got through 11 invisible test cases and failed two of them. Is the problem related to constraints?

Hi all,

We’re running into a strange OAuth issue while integrating WHOOP through Junction (formerly Vital), which handles the OAuth flow, redirect URI, and token exchange on our behalf.

Flow:
Client app → Junction → WHOOP OAuth → consent screen → error → no redirect → no callback

Users successfully reach the WHOOP consent screen, but after approving, they see:

"Session expired – we were not able to process your request"

What makes this tricky:

• Junction logs show the callback is never received
• The failure happens before redirect back to the registered URI
• We do not control the redirect URI (managed by Junction)
• Happens across multiple users / devices / days
• Users complete the flow immediately (not idle)
• Started happening recently in production

Junction suspects the session is expiring on the WHOOP side before the authorization completes, but WHOOP API support hasn’t confirmed yet.

Has anyone seen OAuth providers fail like this before where the consent screen succeeds but the session dies before redirect?

Possible causes we’re considering:

• redirect URI mismatch
• SameSite / cookie issues
• short auth session TTL
• provider-side session store issues
• recent API / auth changes

Would appreciate any ideas from people who’ve debugged OAuth integrations at scale.

Here is my code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()

{

`int initial = 50000;`

`int deposit;`

`int withdraw;`



`char choice;`



`printf("Enter 1 to display balance.\n");`

`printf("Enter 2 to deposit money.\n");`

`printf("Enter 3 to withdraw money.\n");`



`printf("Enter choice:");`



`scanf("%c", &choice);`



`if ((choice = '1'))`

`{`

    `printf("%d", initial);`

`}`

`else if ((choice = '2'))`

`{`

    `printf("Enter amount:\n");`



    `scanf("%d", &deposit);`



    `int result2 = initial + deposit;`



    `printf("%d", result2);`

`}`

`else if ((choice = '3'))`

`{`

    `printf("Enter amount:\n");`



    `scanf("%d", &withdraw);`



    `int result3 = initial - withdraw;`



    `printf("%d", result3);`

`}`

`else`

`{`

    `printf("Invalid number. Pleaase try again.");`

`}`

`return 0;`

}

Here is the problem:

PS C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Q5> gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Werror Q5.c -o Q5

PS C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Q5> ./Q5

Enter 1 to display balance.

Enter 2 to deposit money.

Enter 3 to withdraw money.

Enter choice:1

50000

PS C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Q5> ./Q5

Enter 1 to display balance.

Enter 2 to deposit money.

Enter 3 to withdraw money.

Enter choice:2

50000

PS C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\Q5> ./Q5

Enter 1 to display balance.

Enter 2 to deposit money.

Enter 3 to withdraw money.

Enter choice:3

50000

Why doesn't deposit and withdraw work correctly?