Changing image size in Markdown

You could just use some HTML in your Markdown: Or via style attribute (not supported by GitHub) Or you could use a custom CSS file as described in this answer on Markdown and image alignment CSS in another file:

What does “dereferencing” a pointer mean?

Reviewing the basic terminology It’s usually good enough – unless you’re programming assembly – to envisage a pointer containing a numeric memory address, with 1 referring to the second byte in the process’s memory, 2 the third, 3 the fourth and so on…. What happened to 0 and the first byte? Well, we’ll get to … Read more

How do I append one string to another in Python?

If you only have one reference to a string and you concatenate another string to the end, CPython now special cases this and tries to extend the string in place. The end result is that the operation is amortized O(n). e.g. used to be O(n^2), but now it is O(n). From the source (bytesobject.c): It’s … Read more

What does “Changes not staged for commit” mean

when you change a file which is already in the repository, you have to git add it again if you want it to be staged. This allows you to commit only a subset of the changes you made since the last commit. For example, let’s say you have file a, file b and file c. … Read more