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[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 58 points 11 months ago

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 Most of them are so out of date it's often better to find an article or ask chatgpt

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 61 points 11 months ago

Hey if you're like me and working on a project from the 90s the outdated info is great!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.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 15 points 11 months ago

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

[-] shiftymccool@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago
[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 11 months ago

Don't you guys have phones?

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

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

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 11 months ago

“How do I do XYZ in JavaScript?”

answer using jQuery

[-] fer0n@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

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

[-] scorpionix@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Too late. The entire web is infested with garbage GPT generated articles with outdated or false information.

[-] fer0n@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Kelo@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I assume gpt 4, with internet access plugins

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

the browse feature was restored recently

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 11 months ago

I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Just tell google to only show results from the past year.

[-] Awkwardparticle@artemis.camp 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Did you miss a "not" in there somewhere?

[-] i_am_hungry@meganice.online 31 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] alx@programming.dev 25 points 11 months ago

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

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago

Nature is healing.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 11 months ago

How did they get it back without Stack Overflow? 🤔

[-] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

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

[-] danieljoeblack@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] brunofin@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

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.

this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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