• Kaput@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Googling the question. top links is always, always the question being answered by : google it.

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    7 months ago

    Made the mistake of asking for help on a game’s discord (the developers had wiped my save data including premium currency because they migrated to a new account system and I didn’t catch it in time)

    Surprised how eager people are to shit on each other even when it’s on behalf of a company that will screw them over in a heartbeat

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      7 months ago

      Game forum is the worst, every game forum I’ve visited gives me a glimpse of the people who end up in hell

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        The type of people you encounter on game forums are not representative of the games because who tf spend their entire day waiting for one person to post about an issue just to shit on them

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      7 months ago

      I want to be able to say it is copium, where they want to do well but are just hiding the truth from themselves how predatory the game would be.

      But I cannot, bc some people in the world really truly are like that. Sometimes they make games and sometimes they merely play them.

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    I guess I’m just lucky, but I’ve gotten nothing but thoughtful support on Arch forums and Stackoverflow. If you read the article How do I ask a good question?, it works very well. It seems harsh but coming with poorly thought out questions without debugging details makes it impossible to help.

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      7 months ago

      jQuery is honestly underrated though. Just about the only JavaScript framework I can tolerate because it’s just abbreviated regular is

      That said if I can help it I try to do the bare minimum on the client and have the server deal with the problems in a grown up language anyway

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      That’s why sometimes if i don’t find the right answer i just re-install the whole linux or just ignore the problem

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        Should check out nixos, every time you update your config you’re effectively rebuilding most of your system from scratch anyway and if you check your config into git you can reinstall without having to re-setup everything

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    Some of the “duplicate” questions that I have seen on Stack Overflow are phrased entirely different than the supposedly “original” one. It’s like they expect me to brute-force their entire fucking search index before publishing a new question. I don’t have that much patience or time.

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      7 months ago

      Unless they’re being rude about it you shouldn’t take that personally, they’re doing exactly that job for you and it’s useful to make easier to find contents for other people

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      Stackoverflow gets quickly steamrolled by AI.

      We’re not 100% there yet, but the writing on the wall is there. Just my opinion, of course.

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        I’d still chose someone else’s stack overflow question every time over AI. AI is a last resort

        That said, I have never asked a question on stack overflow as it’s not exactly an inviting atmosphere

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          StackOverflow initially had an interesting idea of putting metrics on things, and unfortunately humanity’s penchant for “what gets measured is gamed” was amplified and devolved into a hive of HOA Karens looking for infractions of the rules.

          I’ll bet that if you “relaunched” a SO-like system and removed all human-visible “points” or “scores” you could achieve a less toxic environment. The only “ranking” is implicit based on your topical subscriptions.

          Then again, you could “relaunch” the “relaunch” and “AlphaGo-ify” a bunch of AI agents to compose the dialogs and threads without any human interaction at all. I guess we’re on our way already to building Culture minds.