1 yr. ago • 96%

The world came to a grinding halt

Let's play Minecraft instead.

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I literally skip SO results now. Most of them are so out of date it's often better to find an article or ask chatgpt

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- Hey if you're like me and working on a project from the 90s the outdated info is great! I found a fucking Visual Basic 5 runtime in this project.
  
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  Everybody knows that VB versions start at 6, like there's no Xbox 2
  
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  I do indeed. But at least my one is vb6 haha
  
  But C# is the one SO seems gives bad results for.
  
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- “How do I do XYZ in JavaScript?”
  
  answer using jQuery
  
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- Tbf ChatGPT isn’t current either with its 2021 cut off date
  
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  ChatGPT has been granted access to the internet. So it should give more up-to-date info in the near future.
  
  Or turn into Ultron.
  
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Except that SO is complete shit now, out of date answers, rude know it all people that downvote anything they think is too easy, so it's horrible for newbies.

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And it's back again. Productivity is slowly approaching normal again

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- Nature is healing.
  
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- How did they get it back without Stack Overflow? 🤔
  
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  They used Arch forum. The reason it took a while because someone just left a link to a long wiki without any comment on where exactly to look at
  
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  https://serverfault.com/
  
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SO has been such a bad source of information for a long time and a toxic community that I've added it to my Google search results Blocklist altogether.

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- Same. But then I realized that LLMs are stupid and now I'm reading the docs.
  
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