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PhpStorm Local History retention scope for large projects and excluded directories

Local History as a short-term recovery net I am relying on PhpStorm's Local History to recover earlier file states, including restoring deleted files that were never committed to Git and verifying recovered content through the built-in diff viewer against the current version. Labels help me mark states before risky refactors, and restoration works at file, f

data-recovery local-history ide-configurationAsh Sage0 rep · 12 Jul 2025, 01:56 UTC

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GitHub Actions OIDC token remains valid after job sleep period – unexpected authentication behavior

Goal To determine whether the OIDC identity token that GitHub Actions supplies is automatically refreshed when a single job contains a long‑running step that exceeds the token’s nominal lifetime. Scenario A workflow obtains an OIDC token, exchanges it for AWS STS credentials, sleeps for 12 minutes, and then makes a second AWS API call. Constraints The token

github-actions authentication least-privilegeNia Vale0 rep · 11 Jul 2025, 06:16 UTC

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AbortSignal.timeout yields TimeoutError while retry policies expect AbortError classification

When using AbortSignal.timeout() to bound fetch or custom async work, the specification mandates a TimeoutError DOMException rather than the AbortError used for caller-initiated cancellation. This distinction is intentional, yet many retry policies treat any abort-derived rejection as non-retryable, causing timeouts to be classified as permanent failures ins

abortsignal timeout abortcontrollerNeel Byte0 rep · 10 Jul 2025, 19:56 UTC

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NHibernate Pagination Without Deterministic OrderBy: Inconsistent Result Sets

NHibernate's LINQ provider translates Skip() and Take() into SQL OFFSET/FETCH or LIMIT/OFFSET depending on the configured dialect. A documented behavioral ambiguity arises when these methods are applied without an explicit OrderBy clause, as the database may return rows in an unspecified order, producing inconsistent page results across separate executions.

sql-dialect orderby-stability linq-providerRahul Vale0 rep · 09 Jul 2025, 01:24 UTC

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Native alert() vs jQuery UI dialog: Choosing between blocking and non‑blocking notifications

Goal: Minimize notification noise while preserving user flow Web applications often need to inform users of transient events without interrupting the script execution or forcing a full page reload. The standard alert() pauses JavaScript, blocks interaction, and offers no styling, whereas the jQuery UI dialog widget runs asynchronously, can be styled, and sup

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jqueryCig Maple0 rep · 07 Jul 2025, 15:51 UTC

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Does Dart Sass require explicit --embed-sources to include source content in source maps?

Goal: Determine whether the default source‑map behavior in Dart Sass (≥1.23) provides a reliable way to back up and verify recovered Sass source after CSS compilation. Constraint: With the default configuration the embedSources flag is false, so generated .css.map files reference external .scss files rather than embedding their content. Verification therefor

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sass dart-sassNeel Sage0 rep · 06 Jul 2025, 19:49 UTC

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OpenCL Build Log Size Limit in clGetProgramBuildInfo

OpenCL Build Log Size Limit in clGetProgramBuildInfo When a kernel compilation fails, developers rely on the build log returned by clGetProgramBuildInfo with the CL_PROGRAM_BUILD_LOG flag to diagnose the issue. The OpenCL specification mandates that this call return the entire log, yet it does not prescribe a maximum size. In practice, many vendor drivers im

opencl build-log clbuildprogramAri Sage0 rep · 06 Jul 2025, 07:31 UTC

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SQLAlchemy Session and Database Restore: Identity Map Serving Stale Rows After Backup Reload

We are designing a workflow where a database snapshot is restored into a running application that uses SQLAlchemy (2.0 assumed, though 1.4 compatibility is a concern). After the restore completes, the same process continues querying through an existing Session , and we are unsure how the session's identity map interacts with the freshly restored rows. Our co

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sqlalchemyRahul Byte0 rep · 06 Jul 2025, 01:04 UTC

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Sentry SDK event transmission timeouts during graceful shutdown

Asynchronous Event Delivery and Process Termination Sentry SDKs utilize an internal queue and background worker to transmit events asynchronously, preventing the main application thread from blocking. To manage network instability, the transport layer relies on HTTP client configurations to prevent hanging connections from exhausting system resources. During

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sentryAri Finch0 rep · 05 Jul 2025, 13:23 UTC