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### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Suppose I wrote that I will be killed by a UFO falling from space in the year 2315 while I am lifting. Will the Note increase my lifespan? In other words, will I still be alive by then? ### Assistant: No. There are some rules that prevent this. From the Rules of t...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I have an Affa Protector enchanted with Unhallowed Pact ... My opponent kills my Affa with Dread Slaver ... Who will take control of the creature at the end? This is taking into consideration that my aura spell was cast 5 turns ago. Meaning my aura spell is NOT on ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I've found that some people call JavaScript a "dynamically, weakly typed" language, but some even say "untyped"? Which is it really? ### Assistant: strong/weak can be thought of in relation to how the compiler, if applicable, handles typing. * Weakly typed means...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I was fixing my laptop, and as you may know, laptops have a lot of small screws to take out when you are fixing it. One of the screws fell into the floor (the floor has carpet on it), and I was unable to follow the screw with my sight. If I don't follow the screw w...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What is the difference between mutex and critical section? Please explain from Linux, Windows perspectives? I am programming in C#, would these two terms make a difference. Please post as much as you can, with examples and such.... Thanks ### Assistant: From a ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What is the purpose of the single underscore "_" variable in Python? What is the meaning of ```_``` after ```for``` in this code? ```if tbh.bag: n = 0 for _ in tbh.bag.atom_set(): n += 1 ``` ### Assistant: ```_``` has 3 main conventional uses in Py...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What is the difference between doing: ```ptr = malloc (MAXELEMS * sizeof(char *)); ``` or: ```ptr = calloc (MAXELEMS, sizeof(char*)); ``` When is it a good idea to use calloc over malloc or vice versa? ### Assistant: ```calloc()``` gives you a zero-initialized buf...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why would I want to use Kotlin's coroutines? It seems that the RxKotlin library is much more versatile. Kotlin's coroutines look significantly less powerful and more cumbersome to use in comparison. I base my opinion on coroutines on this design talk by Andrey Bres...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: How do I get a ```PriorityQueue``` to sort on what I want it to sort on? Also, is there a difference between the ```offer``` and ```add``` methods? ### Assistant: ## Java 8 solution We can use ```lambda expression``` or ```method reference``` introduced in Java 8....
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I've looked in the Apex developer's guide and a saw the Naming Conventions section which has basically only has this: We recommend following Java standards for naming, that is, classes start with a capital letter, methods start with a lowercase verb, and variable...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: When learning some basic French, I was somewhat surprised to learn that phrases of the form "I have found the cat" generally translate almost word-for-word from English (J'ai trouvé le chat). To me, it's not immediately obvious that possession ("I have"/"J'ai") has...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I'm building a simple helper script for work that will copy a couple of template files in our code base to the current directory. I don't, however, have the absolute path to the directory where the templates are stored. I do have a relative path from the script but...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: How to send HTML-formatted email in C#? ### Assistant: Setting isBodyHtml to true allows you to use HTML tags in the message body: ``` msg = new MailMessage("xxxx@gmail.com", "yyyy@gmail.com", "Message from PSSP System", "This email...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I want to sum a list of Integers. It works as follows, but the syntax does not feel right. Could the code be optimized? ```Map integers; integers.values().stream().mapToInt(i -> i).sum(); ``` ### Assistant: This will work, but the `i -> i` is doing some automatic ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I am beginner of LaTeX. From many examples I found, I notice that it's very common to use command ```\leavevmode```. I can't find any information about this command. Could anyone tell me what's the function of it and how to use it? ### Assistant: The ```\leavevmod...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: In Python specifically, how do variables get shared between threads? Although I have used ```threading.Thread``` before I never really understood or saw examples of how variables got shared. Are they shared between the main thread and the children or only among th...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I grew up in a country where we were not allowed to leave/travel to an other country even when we were able to do so – we had the resources and dual nationality. After two decades I still can't figure out why dictators, like Kim Jong-un for example, ban people from...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why can't we kill ourselves by holding our breath? ### Assistant: ## Short answer Healthy people cannot hold their breaths until unconsciousness sets in, let alone commit suicide. ## Background According to Parkes (2005), a normal person cannot even hold their br...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Sometimes while driving in the traffic, I come across a car or two which would be dripping water-like drops from its exhaust steadily in 4-5 second intervals. I tried to ask a couple of people at the local workshops; they say, and I quote, "The car is giving a...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why can't MX records point to an IP address? ### Assistant: The whole idea behind the mail exchange (MX) record is to specify a host or hosts which can accept mail for a domain. As specified in RFC 1035, the MX record contains a domain name. It must therefore poin...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why is ```SELECT *``` bad practice? Wouldn't it mean less code to change if you added a new column you wanted? I understand that ```SELECT COUNT(*)``` is a performance problem on some DBs, but what if you really wanted every column? ### Assistant: The asterisk ch...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I did my training around the Seattle area, and was told that landing at SeaTac Airport (the region's major International/Commercial airport), while not strictly forbidden, was definitely frowned upon because it can slow down and interfere with the big planes on sch...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I need a way to compare multiple strings to a test string and return the string that closely resembles it: ```TEST STRING: THE BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE RED COW CHOICE A : THE RED COW JUMPED OVER THE GREEN CHICKEN CHOICE B : THE RED COW JUMPED OVER THE RED COW ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Given the following code: ```var arr = [1,2,3,4,5]; var results: number[] = await arr.map(async (item): Promise => { await callAsynchronousOperation(item); return item + 1; }); ``` which produces the following error: TS2322: Type 'Promise[]' ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why don't helicopters use reaction wheels to counter the main rotor? ### Assistant: You're talking about a device (in helicopters the tail fan imparting horizontal thrust) that counteracts the torque imparted on the main rotor (and therefore on the helicopter) by ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: When configuring cron to run a command every other day using the "Day of Month" field, like so: ```1 22 */2 * * COMMAND ``` it runs every time the day of month is odd: 1,3,5,7,9 and so on. How can I configure cron to run on days of month that are even like 2,6,8,1...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Is there a way to have a private setter for a property in TypeScript? ```class Test { private _prop: string; public get prop() : string { return this._prop; } private set prop(val: string) { //can put breakpoints here ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: When learning vocabulary, especially with the use of SRS (Spaced Repetition System), it is interesting to use flashcards. A commonly encountered problem is how to formulate those for maximum efficiency. How does learning vocabulary through sentences, thus giving co...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Can I spend the night alone in a tent in a forest outside Stockholm in -20°C without risking my life? The backstory From the end of January, I'm starting my studies in a suburb of Stockholm. I've decided to, if it turns out plausible, not rent an apartment, but li...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why is the volt not identical to the full name Volta, unlike the other electrical units ohm, ampere, coulomb, tesla, weber and henry? Is there a historical explanation, was the volt introduced at a different time? ### Assistant: The volt, ohm and farad were introd...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: We can define cross products mathematically like if we take two vectors, we can find another vector with certain properties but why do we use it in physics, if we consider a hypothetical physical quantity like force which is equal to cross product of certain vector...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I have a web project in my solution file that is "unavailable" when I open the solution. When I right-click on the web project and reload the project, I get the following error: ``` The Web Application Project mycompany.myapp.mywebproject is configured to use IIS. ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why is it hard to draw people running in animes? ### Assistant: The walk cycle is considered to be one of the most basic aspects of animation. American animators and animation enthusiasts often times scorn the Japanese styles and methods of animation as lazy, whil...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Malachi 4:5: I will send you the prophet Elijah. He will come before the day of the Lord arrives. It will be a great and terrifying day Jesus says in Matthew 11:14 "and if you are willing to believe their message, John is Elijah, whose coming was predicted"...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I see hugely varied performance depending on how many newlines there are in the file I'm visiting. Here's an example. I have two JSON files: ```$ wget https://github.com/Wilfred/ReVo-utilities/blob/a4bdc40dd2656c496defc461fc19c403c8306d9f/revo-export/dictionary.jso...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Sooner or later we come across a task in our project, with which we are totally unfamiliar ('we' as in PM, but also possibly the staff assigned to do this particular task). How can we estimate amount of time/work/resources needed to complete such a task? What marg...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why is Nazi-Germany commonly referred to as "The Third Reich" in English? Why is reich not translated when Dritten ("third") is? And what is the English synonym of reich? Realm? Austria (Republik Österreich), Norway (Kongeriket Norge) and Sweden (Konungariket Sveri...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: If we fold a paper and then apply pressure on the newly formed crease, it seems that the paper's surface gets a permanent deformation but what exactly has happened to the paper at a molecular scale? ### Assistant: Basically, a fold or crease in paper will remain b...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: In general, there are two types of syntax of defining functions - Something like C, C++, C#, or Java (```int functionName(char arg)```) vs the ML (and others) tradition of defining the return type after the function (and using something like a ```fun``` keyword to ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I am new to TeX, working on it for about 2 months. Have not yet figured out how to script the 'curvy L' for Lagrangian and/or for Laplace Transforms. As of now I am using the 'L' - which is not good! :-( Any help? UPDATE The 2 best solutions are; ```\usepackage{ a...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: My son doesn't want to share anything with other kids, and if some kid even so much as touches his toy, he pushes the kid. He shouts and cries at the same time, and tries to express his anger by pushing and hitting the kid. I feel so embarrassed in front of other p...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What are the differences between the Strategy design pattern and the State design pattern? please explain the difference in layman's terms? ### Assistant: The difference simply lies in that they solve different problems: * The State pattern deals with what (sta...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why don't Tour de France riders always ride their TT bikes? ### Assistant: There are 2 good reasons for this. First, a TT bike is the most efficient machine for flat, fast course racing, where there are a minimum of hills. It is not the most efficient machine wh...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I remember when the Muslim holy book was the Koran when I was in middle school, but now it's the Quran. But it's always been Qatar and Iraq (but still Kuwait.) Who decided that 'Q' was going to be represent that sound instead of 'K', and why? ### Assistant: In Ara...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: How do you add Boost libraries in CMakeLists.txt? ### Assistant: Put this in your `CMakeLists.txt` file (change any options from OFF to ON if you want): ``` set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS OFF) set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON) set(Boost_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF) find_...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Quando devo fazer essa gravação direto no banco? Quais as situações? Eu sei que posso gravar no banco o caminho da imagem. ### Assistant: Além do custo ser mais alto como mencionado, deve-se levar em conta vários fatores: * Volume de dados: para um baixo volume ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I need a regular expression that validates a number, but doesn't require a digit after the decimal. ie. ```123 123. 123.4 ``` would all be valid ```123.. ``` would be invalid ### Assistant: Here is the regular expression you can use: ``` /^\d*\.?\d*$/ ``` * `^` ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: The year is 2109 C.E my friends and I were caught in a space disaster when the spacecraft we're in broke apart during a daring escape from a patrolling spacecraft. We stole an antique cellphone (from 1999, in good working condition) from a space museum but our esca...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Often I want to just point the camera to an object or a specific area in my scene to get an idea of how it'll look in the render. What's the most painless hassle-free way to do this in blender? A quick search on the blender wiki does not lend itself to easy look-up...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What are the general tactics of Krav Maga as opposed to Systema? For instance, the tactics of Silat are to hurt the other person so badly they can't hurt back. Another example would be that the tactics of boxing would be to knock out the other person first using o...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I understand that unlocking the bootloader will wipe my Android phone, but have been looking around for why. Seems to be by design, but what is the reasoning for that design? Is it some security concern, some obscure technical reason, or just for lulz? I'm looki...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: The original IBM PC and later variants used an Intel 8253 or 8254 as a sound chip. Why did users add sound cards such as the Adlib or Sound Blaster. I remember voice output with programs like telephone answering programs. The sound was wimpy but I attributed most o...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: According to the sources I have found, a lambda expression is essentially implemented by the compiler creating a class with overloaded function call operator and the referenced variables as members. This suggests that the size of lambda expressions varies, and give...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: So, I'm on vacation in Utah, and so I attended an LDS service. In the morning, I heard a reading from one of the Presidents of the church during the "Quorum of the Elders," then went to Sunday School, and finally witnessed the Sacrement of the bread and water. (I g...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: A partir de un String, ```"123-654321"```, lo que deseo es dividirlo en dos Strings: ```string1=123 string2=654321 ``` ### Assistant: Tres formas diferentes de hacerlo: 1. Utilizando la función ```String.split()``` : ``` String str = "123-654321"; String[] parts ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What’s the difference between ```\n``` (newline) and ```\r``` (carriage return)? In particular, are there any practical differences between ```\n``` and ```\r```? Are there places where one should be used instead of the other? ### Assistant: In terms of ascii code...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Assume that I am a programmer and I have an NP-complete problem that I need to solve it. What methods are available to deal with NPC problems? Is there a survey or something similar on this topic? ### Assistant: There are a number of well-studied strategies; which...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why are the lights inside commercial airplanes turned off during take off and landing? ### Assistant: This is for safety reasons. Take-off and landing are the two most critical phases of flight and thus, every additional step to ensure survivability, be it even ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: The default behaviour of ```LIKE``` and the other comparison operators, ```=``` etc is case-sensitive. Is it possible make them case-insensitive? ### Assistant: There are 3 main ways to perform a case-insensitive search in Oracle without using full-text indexes. ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I have a new SPA with a stateless authentication model using JWT. I am often asked to refer OAuth for authentication flows like asking me to send 'Bearer tokens' for every request instead of a simple token header but I do think that OAuth is a lot more complex than...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Gostaria de saber se existe alguma forma simples de realizar um upload de arquivos via AJAX + JSON. Se houver, qual seria? ### Assistant: Você pode fazer uploads de arquivos utilizando o método ```POST``` porém deve incluir o FormData com a propriedade ```enctype`...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Did the ancients or other pre-industrial civilisations engage in unsustainable practices? ### Assistant: Most ancient agricultural practices deplete soil to some degree, but are just fine when population does not exceed certain limits. There are some examples of a...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: When reading my Bible, I've noticed Joesph's name listed in both the Old and New Testaments; is it the same person or is there more than one Joseph in the Bible? ### Assistant: There are 3 distinct (fairly) well-known Josephs in the Bible, firstly in the Old Testa...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Para que serve o "with" no Python? ### Assistant: Ele é usado para garantir finalização de recursos adquiridos. Um arquivo, por exemplo é aberto. Quem garante que ele será fechado? Mesmo que você coloque no código de forma explícita que ele deve ser fechado, se o...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: The question bothers me since February 2022. Why (legally) are Russian combatants in Ukraine considered soldiers (thus POWs when captured) rather than terrorists? * There is no formal declaration of war. * They are members an organization (Russian military) that...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What are the major branches of philosophy? ### Assistant: The traditional branches of philosophy generally include * Aesthetics * Epistemology * Ethics * Logic * Metaphysics / Ontology We can go ahead and add a few contemporary branches on to this (more examples...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Are there any advantages while backpacking to hike during the night and sleep during the day? ### Assistant: There are several reasons, though not all of them would apply for one's usual holiday trip. 1. Remaining unseen: Obviously, during night its dark and this...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I have been cautioned against blending: * Traditional fantasy elements Such as magic systems and exotic, less plausible creatures (on a scientific level - magic tends to explain away these beasts) * Traditional sci-fi elements Such as advanced technology and ci...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why are prions in animal diets not destroyed by the digestive system? ### Assistant: Proteases are enzymes in your digestive system that help break down food, acting like molecular-sized scissors that cut up proteins. Proteases have clefts, or subpockets, into wh...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: How slicing in Python works? Please include references where appropriate. ### Assistant: The syntax is: ``` a[start:stop] # items start through stop-1 a[start:] # items start through the rest of the array a[:stop] # items from the beginning through st...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I am writing a story where a species undergoes devolution. Is there any scientific or plausible way to do this? The process can be instantaneous or may take ages, I do not mind which as I need to weigh my options at this stage. To be clear, the devolution I am thi...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I've used GEDCOM to transfer data between desktop software and websites, but it all seems a bit old hat. Is there anything better that will mangle* my data less. * For example, GEDCOM can lose some data where the two ends of the system understand a concept which G...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Is it ever possible that ```(a== 1 && a ==2 && a==3)``` could evaluate to true in JavaScript? ### Assistant: If you take advantage of how == works, you could simply create an object with a custom ```toString``` (or ```valueOf```) function that changes what it retu...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Gostaria de saber qual é a real diferença entre o ```String``` (s maiúsculo) e o ```string``` (s minúsculo). Aparentemente os dois têm os mesmos objetivos, porém qual é "melhor" para ser utilizado? ### Assistant: Já foi dito que ```string``` é apenas um alias para...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I'm working on a project solo and have to maintain my own code. Usually code review is done not by the code author, so the reviewer can look at the code with the fresh eyes — however, I don't have such luxury. What practices can I employ to more effectively review ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Assume an environment with a puppet-managed cluster of different servers - various hardware, software, operating systems, virtual/dedicated, etc. Would you choose meaningful hostnames (mysqlmaster01..99, mysqlslave001..999, vpnprimary, vpnbackup, etc.) or would you...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Best way to start investing, for a young person just starting their career? ### Assistant: First off, I highly recommend the book Get a Financial Life. The basics of personal finance and money management are pretty straightforward, and this book does a great job w...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Quantum state teleportation is the quantum information protocol where a qubit is transferred between two parties using an initial shared entangled state, Bell measurement, classical communication and local rotation. Apparently, there is also something called quantu...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What does it mean for an album to be remastered? ### Assistant: Mastering is a separate art from recording or mixing. According to the Wikipedia article, the principle processes of mastering are: * Editing minor flaws. * Applying noise reduction to eliminate clic...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: What's the best way to iterate over the items in a ```HashMap```? ### Assistant: Extracted from the reference How to Iterate Over a Map in Java: There are several ways of iterating over a ```Map``` in Java. Let's go over the most common methods and review their ad...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Why did people start using CO2 (instead of e.g. oxygen) for carbonated drinks? ### Assistant: CO2 tastes good! Carbonated water is actually a weak carbonic acid solution; this is what you taste. It's like "salt and pepper", but for water. Slightly acidic water is...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Say I have a file ```/templates/apple``` and I want to * put it in two different places and then * remove the original. So, ```/templates/apple``` will be copied to ```/templates/used``` AND ```/templates/inuse``` and then after that I’d like to remove the origin...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: When are Decision Diagrams the right way to model and solve a problem? ### Assistant: Decision diagrams (DDs) are most effective when they can compactly represent a large (perhaps exponential) set of solutions. This is done by merging equivalent states in each lay...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Essentially, I have a protagonist who I set up as a 'main' good guy in one of my series. However, in my final series, I intend to make him turn to the dark side and oppose my other protagonists (from my other series). It's clear in his series that the protagonist-t...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I'd never heard of anycast until a few seconds ago when I read "What are some cool or useful server/networking tricks?". The wikipedia "Anycast" article on it is quite formal and doesn't really evoke a mental picture of how it would be used. Can someone explain in ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: $A$ and $B$ are $n \times n$ matrices and $v$ is a vector with $n$ elements. $Av$ has $\approx 2n^2$ flops and $A+B$ has $n^2$ flops. Following this logic, $(A+B)v$ should be faster than $Av+Bv$. Yet, when I run the following code in matlab ```A = rand(2000,2000); ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I came across a piece of code ```void *p = &&abc;```. What is the significance of ```&&``` here? I know about rvalue references but I think ```&&``` used in this context is different. What does ```&&``` indicate in ```void *p = &&abc;``` ? ### Assistant: ## How to...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: When I execute "```python```" from the terminal with no arguments it brings up the Python interactive shell. When I execute "```cat | python```" from the terminal it doesn't launch the interactive mode. Somehow, without getting any input, it has detected that it is...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: "The video of Pythom Space's first rocket test has raised a few eyebrows The video prompted hundreds of replies on Twitter, including some from rather horrified rocket scientists. "We knew better as untrained college students," said Jordan Noone, the co-...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: When should I use wp_register_script() with wp_enqueue_script() vs just wp_enqueue_script()? ### Assistant: The ```wp_register_script()``` Codex page literally says: A safe way of registering javascripts in WordPress for later use with ```wp_enqueue_script()```...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: When encoding a logic into a proof assistant such as Coq or Isabelle, a choice needs to be made between using a shallow and a deep embedding. In a shallow embedding logical formulas are written directly in the logic of the theorem prover, whereas in a deep embeddin...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Prove that the union of countably many countable sets is countable. ### Assistant: Let's start with a quick review of "countable". A set is countable if we can set up a 1-1 correspondence between the set and the natural numbers. As an example, let's take $\mathbb{...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Você encontra na internet a afirmação que Singletons são ruins. Isto é verdade? Por quê? O problema seria generalizado para quaisquer objetos com instância única? Ou para qualquer coisa que tenha estado global? Se é tão ruim, pra que foi inventado? Ou seja, que pro...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: The construction of Solomon's temple includes a piece of furnishing described in 1 Kings 7:23 (ESV): Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. So...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: With PHP 7.2, ```each``` is deprecated. The documentation says: Warning This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 7.2.0. Relying on this function is highly discouraged. How can I update my code to avoid using it? Here are some examples: * ```$ar = $o->me; res...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: Can someone please give an explanation of different egg preparations? ### Assistant: Sure, here are different preparations of eggs: 1. Fried Eggs: * Sunny Side Up -- Not flipped, unbroken yolk. The top of the egg is just barely set. * Basted -- Sunny Side Up, hot...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: I'm running a relatively small one-man business in the software sector. I just started and am trying to create a larger portfolio. For that, I offer some friends free services. I found a few reasons to send these clients €0,- invoices, mostly similar to the reason...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: In regards to Error handling in PHP -- As far I know there are 3 styles: * ```die()```or ```exit()``` style: ```$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","password"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } ``` * ```throw Exception``` style: ``` ...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: How do I change the author and committer name/email for multiple commits? ### Assistant: Here is the solution, but be careful if you have a multi-user repository - this will change all commits to have the same (new) author and committer. ``` git filter-branch -f -...
### System: You are a helpful AI assistant. ### User: This summer I will be taking a rather inherently dangerous multi-day hike by myself. I was considering buying a flare gun since I will be out of cellular range unless there is something more modern and equally reliable. Any suggestions? ### Assistant: In increas...