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I mean I already heard comments about myself when I went and RTFM'd "You read manuals?!?" "... Yeah? (pause) Wait, you don't?!?!?"
by fao_ 1y ago
I mean I already heard comments about myself when I went and RTFM'd
"You read manuals?!?"
"... Yeah? (pause) Wait, you don't?!?!?"
- vbezhenar 1y agoImagine reading in 2025, when you can just watch tiktok about it! /s
- johnisgood 1y agoPretty much. The hesitancy to read documentation was there long before TikTok and LLMs. "Teach me how to use Linux [but I hate reading documentation]". It infuriated me.
- lukan 1y agoTo be honest, I do find most manuals (man pages) horrible to quickly get information how to do something and here LLMs do shine for me (as long as they don't mix up version numbers).
- johnisgood 1y agoI love manual pages, at least on/from OpenBSD.
- skydhash 1y agoFor man pages, you have to already know what you wants to do and just want information on how exactly to do it. They're not for learning about the domain. You don't read the find manual to learn the basics of filesystems.
- Avicebron 1y ago(Anecdote) Best job I ever had, I walked in and they were like "yeah, we don't have any training or anything like that", but we've got a fully setup lab and a rotating library of literature. <My Boss> "Yeah I'm not going to be around, but here are the office keys" don't blow up the company pretty much.
- lukan 1y agoI don't really see the connection here, but it was a nice anecdote of a trusting environment.