• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      2 years ago

      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@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • capital@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    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@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Gunpachi@lemmings.world
    1·
    2 years ago

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

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    Remember kids: If you find a solution to a problem nobody on Google (or your search engine of choice) seems to has, put it as a blog post on your site!

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      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!

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

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

      • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        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@programming.dev
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…

    Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It’s obnoxious.

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    My favorite is when you Google a problem and many, many people have the same problem but the company has never provided a solution.