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livingcoder ,

It’s surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it’s a great general purpose search engine.

paraphrand ,

This is why Satya Nadella said he could make Google dance.

sheogorath ,

If your work is bleeding edge enough, even ChatGPT won’t be of help since it’s not in their training dataset.

locuester ,

Yeah and it won’t tell you that it hasn’t seen this pattern before. It will just make things up out of the blue which seem like they might be correct.

Stay away from ChatGPT for bleeding edge things.

livingcoder ,

It’s still useful when it’s wrong because it can give you the jist of what should be done. If it uses a library or function that doesn’t exist, you’ll still be informed as to what it was intending for the process at that point. I’ve often gone and just replaced the made-up code with custom code that does the same thing.

dantheclamman ,
@dantheclamman@lemmy.world avatar

It is nice to generate generalizable code examples, to give me clues how stuff works. I find that my work (marine biogeochemistry) is obscure enough that there’s a certain level where I am still on my own. Which is a good sign for my future employability!

Brkdncr ,

Hate it when I search an issue and the only other person with the same problem is me 5 years ago and I didn’t figure it out then either.

Omgboom ,

This issue has been closed as off topic

zurohki ,

Closed as a duplicate of another issue.

The other issue was closed as off topic.

eatham ,
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

They were both closed as duplicate

NaibofTabr ,

I think it’s worse when they say they found a solution and include a link which is now dead.

With Google dropping its archive I feel like dead links are going to be more and more common.

Manalith ,

I hate the ones that are just “open a case” and then they close the thread without saying what the fix ended up being, looking at you Veeam forums.

Shyfer , (edited )

So many of my searches lead to Microsoft forums where my exact issue is posted, MS asks for more information, then some auto-mod closes the issue because there wasn’t any further follow up and they can’t replicate it.

eerongal ,
@eerongal@ttrpg.network avatar

And it always marks the damn “thank you for contacting Microsoft” post as “the answer”

Shyfer ,

Every. Damn. Time.

rainynight65 ,

The worst is when they say they’ve found a solution, without adding any information or elaborating further. Makes me want to flip my desk.

Grunt4019 ,

Even worse in my opinion is when you find someone who had the same problem as you and the only person who replies says “use google.” It’s like that’s how I got to this page!

DeathbringerThoctar ,

Relevant XKCD

IrishBearHawk ,

Is it the denvercoder one?

checks

That's it.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

aww you beat me to it.

Naz ,

The answer was to disable FreeSync. FreeSync was causing the stuttering with SAM turned on.

Lith ,
@Lith@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

“I’ll upload a patch later this week” 12 years ago

sirico ,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Any one else getting this crash? Edit: Don’t worry guys I fixed it

hydroptic ,

I’ve had that happen to me in a couple of pretty obscure cases, fuck it’s irritating. “WHAT SECRET KNOWLEDGE DO YOU HOLD, YOU FUCK‽ TELL US”

FreshLight ,

You are not the only one, trust me. Google just went to shit in the last years, so it’s harder to find what you are looking for.

dan1101 ,

Yes that is what I thought too. Google is still good for looking up movies and games and such, but for tech stuff and shopping it has noticably declined.

Toldry ,
@Toldry@lemmy.world avatar

Kagi is a payed search engine service that has worked well for me so far

capital ,

I’m currently trying out the first 300 free searches with Kagi. It’s only been a day but it’s already looking like I’m going to subscribe.

Remember when you got good at Google and you started to notice that you could find what you needed better than most other people? It’s a bit like that and it’s refreshing.

FreshLight ,

How does it compare to other meta search engines that are free?

capital ,

You’ve just made me realize I haven’t really evaluated any others.

IIRC Startpage is one of them? I might have used that once a long while ago but I can’t say I’ve given the others a fair shake yet.

FreshLight ,

I like SearXNG

capital ,

For testing, do you just use one of the listed public instances? I guess ultimately it would be best to self-host.

FreshLight ,

Yes and yes!

Nithanim ,

This is currently happening to me and I hate it.

Something between linux kernel 6.2 (working) and 6.7 (broken) and all I have at best is a generic warning message that yields just a few results and all are unrelated.

SpeakinTelnet ,
@SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works avatar

Same, started having issue with a docking station on my laptop with 6.7. It’s so niche to my configuration that finding an answer has proven impossible. Now I need to reboot every time I plug in my dock or else I have no external monitors.

Nithanim ,

THAT is very shitty. My problem is that after using it for a bit apps start freezing for a split second all the time. Most notable is firefox. The frequency and duration of them increase steadily. Then opening a new program might freeze the system fully (or wait minutes/hours until it unfreezes). It has something to do with memory allocation “according to” dmesg.

cmhe ,

Git bisect?

KuroeNekoDemon ,

Or all the documentation/answers conflict with each other so now you have to play Russian Roulette with your project/system. Yes I am still salty about the hyprland nvidia page that kept me up between 2-6am EDT and confused for 13hrs. I trust the Arch and EndeavourOS wikis more for general OS stuff now tbh. For programming I like the specific documentation by the devs of their respective programming languages. If I need help: Google, Discord, Reddit, Forums or StackOverflow

For context go read: wiki.hyprland.org/Nvidia/

FractalsInfinite ,

Me when I was trying to figure out what the outputs in the Javascripts RSA key generation crypto api curruspond to so I can link it to a rust api to prevent Man in the middle attacks occurring on https traffic with false certificates installed (I figured out eventually)

MrShankles ,

Kinda relevant XKCD https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png

xkcd.com/979

toototabon ,
@toototabon@lemmy.ml avatar

thought about it, too!

(and… not sure if it’s Jerboa, but the image appears emoji-sized to me. a bite-sized comic, hehe)

wer2 ,

I have this exact problem.

Edit: nvm, found the solution

pythonoob ,

You’re just the worst, you know that?

fluxion ,

Found the answer to this here

Passerby6497 ,

404

  • 80% of Microsoft support page links
lud ,

404 - Page not found

MSDN TechNet has been retired and this article no longer exists. The following links have related information:

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The moment I find something even remotely useful for a problem I faced and solved, I am saving it on the Internet Archive.
And I try to not be DenverCoder9

Passerby6497 ,

Thank you for your service o7

I rely on Internet archive a hell of a lot

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Trying my best.
If you want to help save anything, maybe participate with the rest of us: warrior.archiveteam.org
If you have a spare PC/docker container you only require an internet connection and electricity. And it may save some picture or reddit post/guide/advice for the folks in the future. :)

red ,

Source https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/93827343-e351-4a75-adcf-fe35fc0ee0a1.webp

locuester ,

Closed as a duplicate

Baku ,

You forgot the snark!

Closed as duplicate. Learn how searching works you stupid, foolish clodpoll.

arudesalad ,

I am so tempted to buy the domain just to make it redirect to a rick roll

gunpachi , (edited )

Hah… I used to search up an issue and see my own unanswered question on reddit as the first result. ಠ_ಠ

druid74 ,

I find it more frustrating when someone has already had the issue and received an answer, but unfortunately the solution is a link to a Microsoft forum that no longer exists.

weeeeum ,

So so so much worse when the comment is deleted and OP replies “thanks!”

AgentGrimstone ,

OP: “Nevermind, I figured it out on my own. Thanks anyway.” and doesn’t share what they did drives me up the wall.

exanime ,

I play the numbers… When this happens to me I assume I’m asking the wrong question

Funkytom467 ,
@Funkytom467@lemmy.world avatar

Sometimes asking the right question is the hard part

v4ld1z ,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

That’s actually good advice

Kindness , (edited )

Anime source?

Edit: nvm, found it.

Actual edit: Apparently I’m slow with the joke. K-On! Manga about high school music club.

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

knowyourmeme.com/memes/anime-girl-punching-wall

Kindness ,

Thank you.

flashgnash ,

I find if I’m the only one on the internet having a problem unless it’s a very specific niche application I’m probably doing something fundamentally wrong in my approach and should try figure out how other people normally do it

InputZero ,

Neiche application like old industrial equipment. Sure 90% of it is well documented and properly sourced. Still there’s always that one piece of equipment purchasing got because it was cheap with no documentation and just a safety placard from the 90s. Regardless it needs to be integrated and you bet your ass no one has ever searched that. Then you’re back to basics, sometimes even BASIC.

Tebbie ,

It is usually this for me as well. I’m misunderstanding something or I completely looked over a basic thing.

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