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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This meme was made by someone who has never had truly bad sex/documentation.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yup, op has never had the joy of the docs lying to them.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Is getting a face full of pussy that stinks like a litter box better than no pussy at all? 🤔

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Good example! My point exactly!

[-] [email protected] 110 points 3 days ago

"Documentation is like sex: You're not getting any"

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Damn haha, this made me laugh out loud

[-] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago

I've had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse. So I guess bad documentation is like bad, unprotected sex with a lot lizard that leaves you with an itching or burning sensation.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I've been there... (In a work/corporate context, at least)

I'll leave 'the night work' out of it, however (damn, the glitter gets everywhere!)

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[-] [email protected] 68 points 3 days ago

Someone's never read instructions autotranslated from Chinese and not checked for accuracy.

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

Well, sometimes I ask questions to the AI and makes the same sense.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Literally me yesterday trying to decipher Baidu’s PaddleOCR docs. Have half a mind to aim Claude Code at the URL and just be like ‘plz help’

[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

Respectfully disagree. Sometimes the documentation is so bad that you have more questions than answers and even then, what they provide still doesn't really explain how to do something with enough details. It's all literally shot in the dark and you're just left with leap of faith. * cough * Sonicwall * cough *

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

Last week I spent a day trying to figure out why the thing in the damn documentation doesn't work.

Turns out, for that project "latest" doesn't point to their latest release, but to what they currently have on their dev branch. And apparently they changed the whole module around since the last release.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's fine, babe, the doctor said I've got a standard.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago

Absolutely not. I'd rather have no documentation and start from scratch than be gaslit by an entire team of people telling me that the very obviously wrong documentation is correct and has been correct for 30 years

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I think there's a difference between bad and wrong. Wrong documentation is incorrect. Bad documentation isn't really incorrect, it's just poorly executedb and mostly unhelpful.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I mean, incorrect documentation is clearly bad, so...

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I can name a few examples of this

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

Completely incorrect - bad documentation can be actively harmful, wasting your time with its inaccuracies.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

Then you haven’t seen bad documentation (or had that sex you regret).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In general it’s supposed to be something good so it shouldn’t be harmful, but ofc exceptions exist, especially with sex, sadly…

Bad often equals "not super good" in this context

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

Bad documentation could land you in prison.

Bad sex is just horrible all around.

not sure what this post is on about

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

I would say bad sex can land you in a prison too.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

When it’s really bad, it can be far worse than nothing.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

What about when the sex is ... wrong?

[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

When it's bad, it's life changing in a traumatic way.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

When it's bad you think "Fuck this, I can do it better by myself."

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Bad sex is not better than no sex.... Wtf... :)

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

As an asexual person this anology is very confusing

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

As an asexual person, you get just as much sex as most developers get documentation.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Maybe it can be translated into something else, like, "Documentation is like toilet paper, when it's good it's good, when it's bad it's better than nothing"? Or, "Documentation is like clothes, even if they are bad it's better than nothing", or "Documentation is like having something you need, it's better to have the thing you need even if is not good, than to not have the thing you need at all"?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I like the analogy with toilet paper. Because when its bad, the very thing that was supposed to help you, got you covered in shit with no back out plan, making it that much worse.

Very fitting

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also asexual.

Just consider most people really like sex, and some experience it as a very intense physical want to the point it makes sense that a bad version of it is better than none at all. Sort of similar to food. Better to have bad-tasting food and at least sate your hunger than to have nothing and starve.

Although, of course, it breaks down. The comments talk about actively harmful sex people wouldn't want as well as harmful documentation; bad sex and documentation is not actually always better than no sex or no documentation. In the analogy, this would be sex that gives you an STD, or documentation that sends you running in circles and misleads you.

I've found a lot of understanding sex comes with just understanding a lot of people really really want it and experience it as a nigh-on need. Maybe liken it to some intense desires you have, things you need to be happy that you nonetheless don't need to survive. (Of course, this is a generalization, I understand not all people with sexual desires have them this intensely. Some don't need it to be happy but would sure like it a lot. And some might even get it more mildly. But for the purpose of understanding more mainstream jokes, analogies, etc. about sex…)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

As a sexual person, I agree

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Bro has never been at /moma

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Documentation: use x function Reality: x function depreciated

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Don't be virgins, document things

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