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Fastly Engineer 1: Seems like a common error message. Can you check stackoverflow to see if there's an easy fix? Fastly Engineer 2: I have some very bad news..

Fastly Engineer 1: Seems like a common error message. Can you check stackoverflow to see if there's an easy fix? Fastly Engineer 2: I have some very bad news...

divs1210 5y ago
Haha! That sounds highly plausible!
amirhirsch 5y ago
Stack Overflow is down, can someone tell me how to declare a static multidimensional array in C++?
- vlovich123 5y ago
  Google and DDG surface SO results cached within their own page. Here’s the copied answer: int main() { int arr[100][200][100]; // allocate on the stack return 0; }
runawaybottle 5y ago
Oh man, how do we keep a pocket copy of SO? All of our jobs depend on it.
- detaro 5y ago
  no they don't, but if yours does you can download a complete datadump of SO from them.
- nephanth 5y ago
  You can use kiwix (https://www.kiwix.org/en/ https://www.kiwix.org/en/). It is an open-source software that allows you to keep and read offline static versions of websites in a specialized archive format (zim-files) It was originally designed to allow you to read wikipedia offline, but there are also dumps of stackoverflow available on the relevant page : https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
- namibj 5y ago
  Here, just pin the underlying IPFS object, or use this one hosted by cloudflare: https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com/ https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com/
- dharmab 5y ago
  You can download the database dump from https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange.
- Siira 5y ago
  https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash also has the ability to download offline archives of SO. Its interface is very good.
oefrha 5y ago
Well, with SO, at least you can search on Google and view the version cached by Google just fine. With Reddit however, these days almost all comments are locked behind “view entire discussion” or “continue this thread”. In fact, just now I searched for something for which the most relevant discussion was on Reddit; Reddit was down so I opened the cached version, and was literally greeted by five “continue this thread”s and nothing else. What a joke.
- ornornor 5y ago
  Try “site:old.Reddit.com”
  - oefrha 5y ago
    That's not going to work. $ curl https://old.reddit.com/robots.txt User-Agent: * Disallow: / Also, even if search engines are allowed, old.reddit.com pages are not canonical (<link rel="canonical"> points to the www.reddit.com version, which is actually reasonable behavior), so pages there would not be crawled as often or at all.
    - linuxfan2021 5y ago
      we need a search engine that doesn't parse robots.txt. NOW!
- southerntofu 5y ago
  Yeah it's crazy how bad user-hostile reddit.com has become. Fortunately old.reddit.com is still available, but for how long? If only Javascript did not exist, it would be impossible for UX people to come up with something that bad.
  - gpm 5y ago
    > only Javascript did not exist, it would be impossible for UX people to come up with something that bad. Arrange the html so that the list of comments is at the end (via css). Keep the http connection open, have the show more button send some of request, and when you receive that request send the rest of the page over the original http connection. As usual, solve people problems via people, not tech.
alvis 5y ago
Haha! That explains why the internet was down for a while!

Fastly Engineer 1: Seems like a common error message. Can you check stackoverflow to see if there's an easy fix? Fastly Engineer 2: I have some very bad news...

divs1210 5y ago

Haha! That sounds highly plausible!

amirhirsch 5y ago

Stack Overflow is down, can someone tell me how to declare a static multidimensional array in C++?

vlovich123 5y ago
Google and DDG surface SO results cached within their own page. Here’s the copied answer: int main() { int arr[100][200][100]; // allocate on the stack return 0; }

runawaybottle 5y ago

Oh man, how do we keep a pocket copy of SO? All of our jobs depend on it.

detaro 5y ago
no they don't, but if yours does you can download a complete datadump of SO from them.
nephanth 5y ago
You can use kiwix (https://www.kiwix.org/en/ https://www.kiwix.org/en/). It is an open-source software that allows you to keep and read offline static versions of websites in a specialized archive format (zim-files) It was originally designed to allow you to read wikipedia offline, but there are also dumps of stackoverflow available on the relevant page : https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
namibj 5y ago
Here, just pin the underlying IPFS object, or use this one hosted by cloudflare: https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com/ https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com/
dharmab 5y ago
You can download the database dump from https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange.
Siira 5y ago
https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash also has the ability to download offline archives of SO. Its interface is very good.

oefrha 5y ago

Well, with SO, at least you can search on Google and view the version cached by Google just fine. With Reddit however, these days almost all comments are locked behind “view entire discussion” or “continue this thread”. In fact, just now I searched for something for which the most relevant discussion was on Reddit; Reddit was down so I opened the cached version, and was literally greeted by five “continue this thread”s and nothing else. What a joke.

ornornor 5y ago
Try “site:old.Reddit.com”
- oefrha 5y ago
  That's not going to work. $ curl https://old.reddit.com/robots.txt User-Agent: * Disallow: / Also, even if search engines are allowed, old.reddit.com pages are not canonical (<link rel="canonical"> points to the www.reddit.com version, which is actually reasonable behavior), so pages there would not be crawled as often or at all.
  - linuxfan2021 5y ago
    we need a search engine that doesn't parse robots.txt. NOW!
southerntofu 5y ago
Yeah it's crazy how bad user-hostile reddit.com has become. Fortunately old.reddit.com is still available, but for how long? If only Javascript did not exist, it would be impossible for UX people to come up with something that bad.
- gpm 5y ago
  > only Javascript did not exist, it would be impossible for UX people to come up with something that bad. Arrange the html so that the list of comments is at the end (via css). Keep the http connection open, have the show more button send some of request, and when you receive that request send the rest of the page over the original http connection. As usual, solve people problems via people, not tech.

alvis 5y ago

Haha! That explains why the internet was down for a while!