Comment by Pistos on Sails.js upgrade to v1 reverse case sensitive queries
Having a blanket "replace _id with id" seems to have a fairly high risk of replacing more than intended.
View ArticleComment by Pistos on Setting focus to the address bar using a firefox extension
urlbar doesn't seem to be present any more (Firefox 66).
View ArticleComment by Pistos on Scoped CSS not being applied within the component
Use /deep/ (including slashes) when using SCSS instead of plain CSS, because the SCSS parser doesn't handle >>>.
View ArticleComment by Pistos on dynamic keys for object literals in Javascript
Thank you for the edit about [expression]: value. It's just the thing that's needed.
View ArticleComment by Pistos on nativescript - how set global variables
You can also set these global.* variables from within your webpack.config.js with the webpack DefinePlugin.
View ArticleComment by Pistos on Get mac address and ip in Nativescript
Note that I also needed android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE in my manifest before this worked. I was getting java.lang.SecurityException: WifiService: Neither user 10909 nor current process has...
View ArticleComment by Pistos on How to fix a locale setting warning from Perl
Fellow Gentoo users: I followed the advice of commenting out the SendEnv line in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. See also the (polarized) discussion at bugs.gentoo.org/367017 .
View ArticleComment by Pistos on How can I use Ruby to parse a time as though it is in a...
It's absurd to me that plain Ruby doesn't have a means of doing this. It would be nice not to have to rely on a chunky Rails library/gem. Not sure why the tzinfo gem wouldn't provide a way to parse.
View ArticleComment by Pistos on PostgreSQL issue: could not access file...
Gentoo slotting was exactly my problem; thanks. Somehow the currently-running version was removed when a higher version (slot) was installed. Too bad someone else downvoted your answer -- probably due...
View ArticleComment by Pistos on Exclude a directory from git diff
This works for me without needing any . after the --. Just git diff [..arguments...] -- ':!thing-to-exclude'
View ArticleComment by Pistos on gem cannot access rubygems.org
This worked for me (after temporarily adding some IPs in /etc/hosts for api.rubygems.org and rubygems.org).
View ArticleComment by Pistos on Set cookie with ramaze framework?
Can't just use session data? ramaze.net/documentation/file.sessions.html
View ArticleComment by Pistos on ImportError: libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot open shared...
dev-python/gssapi for those of us on Gentoo.
View ArticleAnswer by Pistos for Should I require explicitly all dependencies in every file?
I place the requires in the very files that are using the things that are being required. This sections off your code into portable modules. You can move files among directories/namespaces, and you can...
View ArticleAnswer by Pistos for ffmpeg speed up video - Windows
Use both setpts and atempo to speed up both video and audio:ffmpeg -i input-video.mp4 -vf "setpts=0.68*PTS" -filter:a "atempo=1.467" output-video.mp4From:...
View ArticleRails i18n coverage
Is there a tool (or built-in way) to see if a given translation entry is no longer referenced? Even a "mechanical" way would be helpful, meaning something which runs the test suite and reports which...
View ArticleHow can I check from Ruby whether a process with a certain pid is running?
If there is more than one way, please list them. I only know of one, but I'm wondering if there is a cleaner, in-Ruby way.
View Articlerspec: expect method call on instance of EXACT class (not subclasses)
I have code which calls two slightly different things. One which instantiates Foo explicitly, and another which uses a gem which instantiates Foo internally (i.e. not my code).I am trying to...
View ArticleHow to configure an existing git repo to be shared by a UNIX group
I have an existing git repo (a bare one) which has up to this point only been writable by me. I want to open it up to some UNIX user group, foo, so that all members of foo can push to it. I'm aware...
View ArticleAnswer by Pistos for HTML canvas: Rotating and translating an image to fix a...
I got it working: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/KoeoxdTurns out no trigonometry was needed at all.function draw() { const scene = document.getElementById('canvas-scene') const ctx1 =...
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