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I did not know how to do X so I Y. It would be interesting to know what kinds of responses humans offer across different values of Y such as: 1) looked on sta
by heddycrow 11mo ago
I did not know how to do X so I Y.
It would be interesting to know what kinds of responses humans offer across different values of Y such as:
1) looked on stack overflow
2) googled it
3) consulted the manual
4) asked an LLM
5) asked a friend
For each of these, does the learner somehow learn something more or better?
Is there some means of learning that doesn't degrade us as human beings according to those in the know?
I ask as someone who listens to audiobooks and answers yes when someone asks me if I've read the book. And that's hardly the extent of my transgressions.
- hrimfaxi 11mo agoAt least if you're copy/pasting from stack overflow you presumably glanced at the change you are copying if only to ensure you select the correct text.
- heddycrow 11mo agoGood point. We also sometimes leave comments in code noting the thread we referenced.
- sroussey 11mo agoYeah because the code on stack overflow has a license.
- simonw 11mo agoYeah, it's CC BY-SA 4.0: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
- heddycrow 11mo agoThat would be a great reason to include the link. Would have been good idea for me to think about that 5-10 years ago. I just did it because I thought it might be helpful and it's cheap. Woops!
- sroussey 11mo agoYou forgot to read the readme
- heddycrow 11mo agoI did! How could I forget that and RTFM? The code is self-documenting! Lol.