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The irony (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago

IMO, this would be more ironic if the post was closed automatically by a bot. But that's not the vibe I'm getting from this.

[-] [email protected] 110 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think the same people who run stackoverflow must run a ton of subs on reddit.

"Your post was removed because it uses "the" too much and doesn't contain enough w's and because the moon is in Pisces and it's Saturday. If you think this was done in error please message the moderators."

[-] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

messages moderator about it, banned from subreddit for no reason given. Or at least that is how i imagine how it would go

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

That's hilarious. I do hope it gets evaluated at run time. That way you could have a program that works most of the time but if some rare circumstance caused it to execute commands in a sequence where the correct level of politeness was not maintained it would get the hump and crash

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[-] [email protected] 185 points 1 day ago

In my time we didn't paste LLM-generated code we barely understand and hoped it compiled, let alone work. We pasted code from stack overflow we barely understood and hoped it compiled and let alone work, as god intended.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

You're young. Back in my day, we bought a book called "Advanced Algorithms for C vol. 3", and we manually typed the code from it if it didn't come with a CD.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

When I was a kid I remember copying entire games in BASIC printed in popular science magazines. They never worked because my dads computer had a slightly different BASIC dialect.

Good times.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I remember on the C64 they used to have 'pokes' which were written in assembler.

You'd have to manually typing 500 lines of it. Of course, it almost never worked. The times it did work I used to save it to a tape, I think I had about 9 cheats on it :)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

As a teen, on my zx81 I remember typing line after line of hex numbers.

If the rampack didn't wobble and fail and I hadn't missed a line or entered one twice then I'd play something new.

I must have saved the thing somehow, but I can't remember...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

On C64 you could just type rundot save I think, stick a tape in and press record. I had a little inlay with the counter numbers for each cheat on the tape written on it.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago

God has no hand in programming. He's just as confused as us.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

I am a better programmer than God, peace be upon Him. This implementation of knees is Exhibit 1.

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago

Thanks Cloudflare for giving me a moment of reflection on why the fuck I am heading to Stack Overflow so I can close the tab before I get there.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

CF: We defended your website from 69,420 bots today!

The 65,000 users: 👁️L👁️

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[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago

Stack overflow has always been ego and arrogance. Personally I'd love to see a federated version, we all host shards

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

You are correct. But without defending Stack Overflow, I feel the need to point out that the arrogance and condescension is by no means limited to their platform. I’ve been on several “support” pages that were the same or worse. For example Evernote’s “support”. It wasn’t “officially” hosted by Evernote, but had the Evernote logo everywhere . The most common phrases I remember from there are the equivalent of:

  • “The Evernote devs don’t read this site, so you’re wasting your time trying to appeal to them here.”
  • “That’s stupid, why do you have that problem?”
  • “No, you don’t want to do that.”
  • “No, you don’t want that feature and neither does anyone else.”
  • etc.

I can only guess that asking moderators deal with the internet public for no pay is more than reasonable people are willing to do. So we wind up with unpaid people with people skills equivalent to 13 y.o. boys put in charge. Their only compensation being allowed to troll users and feel they have power over some small portion of other people. My guess is they eventually grow older and move on to being in charge of a homeowner association.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes please. I tried participating in some StackExchange communities many years ago, but they felt so hostile to new contributors. Like I asked an immigration-related question about my personal situation, and multiple people edited my question to change the grammar and take out the thanks and smiley at the end 🤦 Oh no, we can't have a bit of humanity in there... Multiple similar experiences left such a bitter taste, that I ended up deleting most of my sub-profiles. I found Reddit-style communities much more helpful. Even wikis are typically nowhere near this hostile.

SE seems too heavily focusing on helping a "generic public" rather than the actual people asking the questions. (Or even answering them, with all the reputation restrictions on accounts.) I'm sure I'm not the only contributor they pushed away :/

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[-] [email protected] 110 points 1 day ago

well yeah they went all in on ai.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

Good riddance. Whenever I search for a programming question I'd always hope for a) an official documentation page or, failing that, b) a page on a dedicated forum for the tool that I was using that covered the problem. I'd only ever click on SO links if I had no other choice.

And, of course, I'd never search for a problem on SO itself.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hate that so many projects are moving from public support forums to fucking Discord channels. God forbid a tech project be expected to maintain a public indexable forum and website. You can't search it unless you join the channel, it's not well organized at all, and the invite link probably expired 3 months ago. Fuck you if you didn't join while it still worked I guess.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I almost always prefer SO answers because there was chance someone had the same issue I was seeing. Documentation only shows how things should work and dedicated forums are very hit or miss.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Eh, I hate its culture, but I regularly find useful excel or regex answers on StackExchange.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

The LaTeX SE is also very useful. The official documentation of LaTeX and especially of third party packages, is often hard to read and it's hard to find what you're looking for. You can end up on the documentation on Overleaf,but they don't go I to depth too much.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't call stackoverflow reliable. It is only partly reliable, if you are lucky.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

Thread closed because that's a stupid question and you should feel bad about yourself.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mods be thinking that if they dig SO's grave deep enough it will emerge on the other side of the world.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not necessarily about stack overflow. But i just got myself in a situation where the first search result I found for a problem was clearly AI generated. And the solution it provided was not at all technically possible. The AI decline is really terrible...

That said, does anyone know of an extension or block list for those terrible AI slob websites? Or a way to filter it from duckduckgo?

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Anybody remember what it was like 16+ years ago when "most questions" hadn't already been asked yet?

PS: lol https://web.archive.org/web/20090330211513/http://stackoverflow.com/

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I spent a lot of time there the first couple of years, mostly answering questions. I was in the top 20 or so of users for a while - I remember when Jon Skeet was right below me in the rankings and I thought "huh, I'll show this guy". I did not in fact show that guy. I'm still in the top .1% but I haven't done anything there in almost a decade.

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