I don’t think it is about needing a doctorate beforehand and I find your characterization of @[email protected]’s advice on social etiquette weirdly non-sequitur and white knighty. Would you walk into a religious place of worship, a strip club, a gun range, or Costco without at least knowing how to interact with that space? Wearing your magic underwear? Bring enough fives? Ear protection? Membership card?

The point being virtual spaces are weird and full of weird people that live in their head. And they make communities that have implicit and explicit rules like all communities. And if you’re wading neck deep into a pool of internet weirdos (their pool, mind you, you’re the outsider traipsing in wanting their knowledge and wisdom) and want your question answered, the lurk and learn advice from above is solid.

Does it suck? Maybe? I can see it from the community’s perspective where they set the barrier to entry.

A little bit dated, but it seems like it has been receiving updates. There is a whole section at the bottom now about how to answer questions (ie. don’t be an asshole). I really want to emphasize that idea. Lots of FOSS communities now have codes of conduct which I find useful in mitigating this behavior, too.

As for the tone, it definitely has an ivory tower, individualism, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, slanted view but I don’t think it unduly burdens a newbie to learn how to teach themselves by ensuring they’ve exhausted all the typical avenues of stored knowledge before bothering someone with a well-crafted question. It is a self-sufficiency that has very positive returns in the future.

Without more context, it is difficult to say how justified OP is in their read of the situation. Maybe the forum posters weren’t really out of line because the general topic was #random and OP asked in the wrong place?

“Have you asked the clanker yet?”

Most of my search process prior to LLM was querying google with keywords and specific phrases, clicking through several of the first page links that are from reputable sources, reading all of that, synthesizing an answer. Now that google has completed its enshittification of search, it’s index is gamed both from the SEO grifters and from inside with them making search worse because it ultimately leads to more ad impressions. The quality of those first page links is directly related to how much the stink of money the topic has.

I now pay for search with kagi (not an ad, swear) so that incentives are properly aligned. I get very useful first page links again because I can lens the search to exclude a lot of the SEO shit sites or only return academic sources. And I also use their robot assistant now for many searches because it can synthesize good summaries and good gists of topics from good source links. Prompted to always cite shit so I can always verify the clanker’s bullshit, but trust has been getting higher lately as the models get better.

At some point we will end up with a lmgtfy.com but lmpalfy.com (let me prompt an LLM for you)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html <-- this too

Nothing ever happens.

Creepy fake smile is creepy. Also very disappointed that all of those shapes ended up innocent. I see what you were doing there Hof

I’d like to understand your complaint a bit more. We’re in a community dedicated to Comic Strips. OP is posting comic strips. Can you actually spam on-topic content? And I guess you don’t like the rotating new accounts posting?

Yeah, because @[email protected] just told us about him!

What’s hilarious is that to muricans smarties are these guys:

🥁🐍

For games that allow that, yep

AVGN is such a classic

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That see-through shirt grabthar’d my eyes

Depends on the amount/quality of the weed, the alcohol content of the vodka, the preparation, and the soak time. I’ve found some papers that claim 1g/1ml in pure ethanol is your upper bound (but you’re likely looking at sludge). Most countries define 40ml at 40% ABV as a “shot” so you’d probably want to have a similar sized “dose” and aim for 10mg in 40ml or about 187.5mg for the bottle.

Yeah, was gonna say. Neat idea for the elderly and the not-quite-able

A very anti-“Eternal September” sentiment.

We would have never had all of the money blown on the infra that actually enabled the explosive growth after the dotcom bust. Probably would require a university account to access. And you’d probably be billed for all the bits

I think web 2.0 (ie. the internet after standards bodies had congealed around the browser stack of tech) would have been better off as a complete redesign. Sure we made SPAs work on top of the hodge-podge of shit that is HTML/CSS/JS, but at what cost? Before React and it’s ilk, there were many attempts to bring desktop GUI-like toolkits to the web which imo was a superior paradigm. Now, a browser is basically a shitty VM with horrible abstractions for web applications. If only we’d stopped and rethought that. WASM was also a chance for that to happen, but 1.0 is so limited (can’t challenge the browser too much! it makes google money!). And the fractured WASI nonsense that exists now means we’ll never get to the point where it could replace it.