Spyke
programming.dev

I literally skip SO results now. Most of them are so out of date it's often better to find an article or ask chatgpt

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lemmy.ml

Hey if you're like me and working on a project from the 90s the outdated info is great! I found a fucking Visual Basic 5 runtime in this project.

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Damagereply
feddit.it

Everybody knows that VB versions start at 6, like there's no Xbox 2

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lemm.ee

Didn't VB end at 6? Seems like that was the last version before the whole .NET nonsense.

Source: VB programmer in college many moons ago

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Didn't they got VB6 -> VB.NET -> VB (series no suffix)

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I do indeed. But at least my one is vb6 haha

But C# is the one SO seems gives bad results for.

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fer0nreply
lemm.ee

Tbf ChatGPT isn’t current either with its 2021 cut off date

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scorpionixreply
feddit.de

ChatGPT has been granted access to the internet. So it should give more up-to-date info in the near future.

Or turn into Ultron.

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fer0nreply
lemm.ee

Which version? The free 3.5 I’m using isn’t (at least for me)

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Keloreply
lemmy.world

I assume gpt 4, with internet access plugins

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Grimyreply
lemmy.world

I'm pretty sure that plugin was disabled. Also, from using Bing, it just reads like the first two links so it really wasn't that good.

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artemis.camp

You are talking like you can get anything out of Google these days. I seriously am using Bing at work. Everyone laugh but do you know who does have their first page full of paid links? This guy.

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Except that SO is complete shit now, out of date answers, rude know it all people that downvote anything they think is too easy, so it's horrible for newbies.

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programming.dev

And it's back again. Productivity is slowly approaching normal again

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ddhreply
lemmy.sdf.org

How did they get it back without Stack Overflow? 🤔

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They used Arch forum. The reason it took a while because someone just left a link to a long wiki without any comment on where exactly to look at

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I beleive SO recently switched from fastly to cloudflare, and some of the DNS records are taking time to catch up. If you having the same problem try flushing your DNS cache and the issue should be resolved.

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SO has been such a bad source of information for a long time and a toxic community that I've added it to my Google search results Blocklist altogether.

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txmyxreply
feddit.de

Same. But then I realized that LLMs are stupid and now I'm reading the docs.

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