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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • How do you sort through the trash though?

    The thing about SO is there really is a ton of poorly phrased or poorly researched questions asked each hour. So, how do you find quality questions to dedicate your time answering? How do you search QA when there’s a number of similar questions asked?

    That’s the thing StackOverflow was trying to solve.

    There’s millions of people with programming questions that think their problem is unique or they simply don’t understand how to research their issue, so you end up with a ton of bad or duplicated questions.


  • W h a t ? I couldn’t disagree with your comment more.

    StackOverflow, and the slew of substacks, are/were almost entirely volunteer run. From the questions, to the answers, to the moderation.

    Like yeah, there’s assholes everywhere, and yeah tech jockies are always snooty when they think they know better. I don’t think any of this is the fault of StackOverflow necessarily, it’s just a format that isn’t a forum. They were, and are, a QA site where they wanted answers from the people that knew. Not discussions. Not the same question asked a hundred times. Not quick homework answers.

    StackOverflow is one of the defacto ways I still get programming answers and knowledge from. So much so that I haven’t needed to ask a question in a long time. It’s robotic, it’s uniform, it’s boring, but it’s is/was such a useful website.

    IMO it’s downfall was not promoting more community and branching our beyond QA and into discussion based topics and chats. Not being able to see that people needed a space outside their QA model and not trying to harness that in their hay day cost them everything. Now AI has scrapped all their content.








  • lol you called dude a “Fucking retard” for posting a link on a 3 month old comment thread that you could have just ignored.

    I generally look at someone’s comment history before replying to them to see if it’s even worth a reply. The internet has been and always will be (without heavy authoritarian moderation) full of trolls, Bad Faith Actors, and idiots. Block everyone, cry victim, whatever makes you feel better. Maybe if you keep running into assholes and trolls you should reflect on your comment history and how you interact with people online. The kind of comments you feel the need to comment back to (because you don’t need to comment on anything, like ever) you don’t need to.

    It’s wild that you don’t have the self-reflection to realize that your comments calling people “retards” and “morons” perpetuate the same toxicity that you’re complaining about.

    Welcome to the Internet though.











  • Honestly, that was a solid debate from both candidates. They both did a good job dancing around direct answers. They both could throw and take jabs. The humbleness and relatability of both candidates was a breath of fresh air. I think they both did a good job trying to sway anyone on the fence, and overall, I think this benefits the Republican Party most. Vance is just a much more personable person than Trump. Democrats are really going to need to turn up if they want to win this election. I really think productive right-specific voters are going to show up from both sides and determine it.

    Here’s to hoping personal autonomy wins out. Govement rules over ones personal body is a slippery slope. Allowing one to choose, that’s freedom.


  • No good will come of this “Weekend at Bernie’s” farce of an election.

    Hard disagree.

    Anybody who has actually followed what Trump has done / is doing vs what Biden has done / is doing knows there’s a clear distinction between the two. One is clearly a worse choice. It reads like you’re just intoxicated by the smelling of your own farts.