segmentation fault 11 in C++ on Mac

You’ve exceeded your stack space given by the OS. If you need more memory, the easiest way is to allocate it dynamically: However, std::vector is preferred in this context, because the above requires you to free the memory by hand. If you can use C++11, you can possibly save some fraction of time by using unique_ptr array specialization, too: Both of … Read more

How to name and retrieve a stash by name in git?

I was always under the impression that you could give a stash a name by doing git stash save stashname, which you could later on apply by doing git stash apply stashname. But it seems that in this case all that happens is that stashname will be used as the stash description. Is there no way to actually name … Read more

What is __pycache__?

From what I understand, a cache is an encrypted file of similar files. What do we do with the __pycache__ folder? Is it what we give to people instead of our source code? Is it just my input data? This folder keeps getting created, what it is for?

How to change the font size on a matplotlib plot

From the matplotlib documentation, This sets the font of all items to the font specified by the kwargs object, font. Alternatively, you could also use the rcParams update method as suggested in this answer: or You can find a full list of available properties on the Customizing matplotlib page.