I have this exact problem.
Edit: nvm, found the solution
You’re just the worst, you know that?
Found the answer to this here
Closed as a duplicate
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- 80% of Microsoft support page links
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 DenverCoder9Source
Thank you for your service o7
I rely on Internet archive a hell of a lot
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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.
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.
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.
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.
And it always marks the damn “thank you for contacting Microsoft” post as “the answer”
Every. Damn. Time.
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.
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!
aww you beat me to it.
This issue has been closed as off topic
Closed as a duplicate of another issue.
The other issue was closed as off topic.
“I’ll upload a patch later this week” 12 years ago
The answer was to disable FreeSync. FreeSync was causing the stuttering with SAM turned on.
Any one else getting this crash? Edit: Don’t worry guys I fixed it
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”
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
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.
It is usually this for me as well. I’m misunderstanding something or I completely looked over a basic thing.
Kinda relevant XKCD
thought about it, too!
(and… not sure if it’s Jerboa, but the image appears emoji-sized to me. a bite-sized comic, hehe)
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.
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Or you can ask on SO. Then close it with “nvm, fixed”.
Or you can explain it to a SO until you realise what’s wrong yourself
A pet or rubber duck will do if you don’t have a SO handy
Or you can explain it to a SO
Yeah that’s usually the expression they end up with by the end
I play the numbers… When this happens to me I assume I’m asking the wrong question
Sometimes asking the right question is the hard part
That’s actually good advice
My favorite is when you Google a problem and many, many people have the same problem but the company has never provided a solution.
Just post that the answer is simple:
can (root; split) for - 1 =sam if (all “null”) then (n = n+1)
Watch the rage answers roll in.
Somebody has to be the first one.
But have you tried askjeeves?
So so so much worse when the comment is deleted and OP replies “thanks!”
OP: “Nevermind, I figured it out on my own. Thanks anyway.” and doesn’t share what they did drives me up the wall.
for me when that happens, it usually turns out to be a simple but stupid mistake on my end
It’s surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it’s a great general purpose search engine.
If your work is bleeding edge enough, even ChatGPT won’t be of help since it’s not in their training dataset.
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.
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.
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!
