- tilcica ( @tilcica@lemm.ee ) 66•11 months ago
i do the same thing. its called Murphy’s law :D
- magic_lobster_party ( @magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ) 6•11 months ago
Ahem, it’s called Poe’s law
- Sotuanduso ( @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
Are you /srs or /j?
- CJOtheReal ( @CJOtheReal@ani.social ) 6•11 months ago
Nah thats called laws of thermodynamics! And they were made up by Elvis together with is homy Obama (the guy without last name) who were known for their contributions to biology
- moody ( @moody@lemmings.world ) 1•11 months ago
Are you talking about uncle Obama, well known for his banana?
- Sotuanduso ( @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ) English5•11 months ago
Is this Betteridge’s Law?
- Cwilliams ( @Cwilliams@beehaw.org ) 23•11 months ago
My coworkers had a hard time picking resturaunts, so I started recommending McDonald’s for work parties, and then everyone else started chiming in with actually good ideas.
- Dept ( @dept@lemmy.sdf.org ) 22•11 months ago
imo it’s not that correcting feels better than helping but rather it’s easier to correct someone than draft an answer of your own.
- suy ( @suy@programming.dev ) 16•11 months ago
Sometimes that’s part of the issue (or the whole deal), but sometimes it’s not even that.
Sometimes it’s that someone asked something difficult and elaborate to answer, which has been answered a ton of times, and it’s tedious to answer again and again. But if someone answers with misinformation or even straight FUD, then one needs to feel the urge to correct that to prevent misinformation.
I suffered that with questions in r/QtFramework. Tons of licensing questions, repeated over and over, from people who have not bothered to read a bit about such a well known and popular license as LGPL. Then someone who cares little for the nuance answers something heavy handed, and paints a wrong picture. Then I can’t let the question pass. I need to correct the shitty answer. :-(
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 10•11 months ago
Who post programming questions on Reddit? Are you looking for answers in meme format?
- tilcica ( @tilcica@lemm.ee ) 7•11 months ago
reddit was/is much more than a meme site
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English4•11 months ago
Honestly, meme communities’ comments could have some of the best in-depth discussions. Memes tend to provide a great launching point for discussions. A sort of prompt that everyone can coalesce around to talk in a serious manner about the subject.
/r/dndmemes and /r/programmerhumor were two great examples.
- swab148 ( @swab148@startrek.website ) 2•11 months ago
And they’re still pretty good on Lemmy!
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English2•11 months ago
Omg I didn’t even realise which community I was in as I made that comment!
But yeah, this one and !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network are both great.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
Where would you post them?
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 3•11 months ago
stack overflow
- haruki ( @h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev ) 6•11 months ago
DUPLICATED, CLOSED, etc.
Joke aside, for an open question I’d prefer posting on Reddit/Lemmy/forums to have an open answer.
SO is too strict on its policy.
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 1•11 months ago
for an open question
That’s clearly not the type of “programming question” mentioned in OP tho
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
Oh god
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 1•11 months ago
There there. I’m not quite god himself yet although I have over 1000 points on stack overflow.
- oce 🐆 ( @oce@jlai.lu ) 1•11 months ago
The validation system is extremely off-putting. I have been working on some specialized tools for years so I could have answered some very precise questions with good confidence. However, the system was always there to detrust me and I was not going to spend hours to go through their hoops for an answer that takes me 10 min to redact. So instead I’ll post it on Reddit or a gist hopping people will be able to discover it.
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 1•11 months ago
Off-putting it is. Still an important tool for finding actual answers I need for my work.
- oce 🐆 ( @oce@jlai.lu ) 1•11 months ago
Useful for me too. But I wish it was more opened for people who would just want to answer a couple of times a year, community can sort it out.
- lntl ( @lntl@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
for C and Python: libera.chat
- oce 🐆 ( @oce@jlai.lu ) 1•11 months ago
Niche professional subs under 100k members can be very good quality. That’s the only thing that is hard for me to find a replacement for.
- brothershamus ( @brothershamus@kbin.social ) 9•11 months ago
It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out. I was just about to upvote it.
- Snowplow8861 ( @Snowplow8861@lemmus.org ) English3•11 months ago
Almost like that xkcd joke…
- xoggy ( @xoggy@programming.dev ) 1•11 months ago
I was trying to remember where I read this originally. Thank you.