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I have this exact problem.
Edit: nvm, found the solution
You’re just the worst, you know that?
Found the answer to this here
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- 80% of Microsoft support page links
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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
Trying my best.
If you want to help save anything, maybe participate with the rest of us: http://warrior.archiveteam.org/
If you have a spare PC/docker container you only require an internet connection and electricity. And it may save some picture or reddit post/guide/advice for the folks in the future. :)
Closed as a duplicate
You forgot the snark!
Closed as duplicate. Learn how searching works you stupid, foolish clodpoll.
I am so tempted to buy the domain just to make it redirect to a rick roll
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!
Is it the denvercoder one?
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That’s it.
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.
They were both closed as duplicate
“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.
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.
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.
How does it compare to other meta search engines that are free?
You’ve just made me realize I haven’t really evaluated any others.
IIRC Startpage is one of them? I might have used that once a long while ago but I can’t say I’ve given the others a fair shake yet.
I like SearXNG
For testing, do you just use one of the listed public instances? I guess ultimately it would be best to self-host.
Yes and yes!
Kagi is a payed search engine service that has worked well for me so far
Yes that is what I thought too. Google is still good for looking up movies and games and such, but for tech stuff and shopping it has noticably declined.
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)
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.
This happens to me more than I care to admit. I told a coworker about a Gitlab CI issue that I’d seen a few years back and hadn’t had any action. I looked up the link to share it. Me; I opened it. Brain failing me, I had forgotten it was my issue.
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
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.
Don’t worry, this just means your job is safe from being replaced by AI. No search results means no training data.
What if the answer is there but google refused to include it in your search results until you saw enough ads?
Stfu! Don’t give them ideas!
Someone patent this so we can sue anyone who tries this shit
‘Drink verification can’
I have a strong suspicion that’s already happening.
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!
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
This is the way
My favorite is when you Google a problem and many, many people have the same problem but the company has never provided a solution.
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!
This is why Satya Nadella said he could make Google dance.
Or the only person who phrases your issue this way) so many times I’ve found out that I just state my problem in an unusual way
That’s one area where LLMs can come in handy. If you describe something, they can usually come out with what you were thinking about in another, maybe more correct way, then you search what they gave you
You just need to spend a few hours trying weirder and unique ways to frame the issue and you might find the answer.
Worse. “Hey I have your problem … … nevermind I figured it out”
True story. x3
The most cathartic moment of my entire life was when I encountered that exact thing in a thread from over a decade ago expecting that to be it and lost all hope, only to find somebody replied calling them out and telling them to share their solution or future googlers were gonna be very upset. They posted their solution and it did, indeed, work.
Don’t even remember what the issue was, but the wave of relief was amazing enough that I still remember the feeling to this day.
