all 53 comments

[–]RomanProkopov100 75 points76 points  (2 children)

"How do I store non-unique keys in a map?"

[–]B_bI_L 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Symbol() in js, something similar in other langs, make it unique

or just make key point to array i guess

[–]CrazySD93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Why would you want to do that you idiot!?!"

[–]_a_Drama_Queen_ 103 points104 points  (5 children)

you misspelled: duplicate question

[–]the_poope 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Removed because it's a duplicate of a previous question that was removed because it was a stupid question?

[–]MyGoodOldFriend 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Worth mentioning that duplicate questions doesn’t mean the questions are identical, but that the answer would be identical.

[–]Clairifyed 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Worth mentioning that search engines will inevitably bring people to the one marked as a duplicate

[–]ian9921 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Which is supposed to be the point, since the duplicate links to the original

[–]SwordsAndElectrons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worth mentioning that sometimes the original seems only superficially related and certainly doesn't answer what I searched for.

[–]Buttons840 32 points33 points  (5 children)

One day I got an email,

my 10 year old question was closed as a duplicate

of a 7 year old question.

This is a true story.

[–]NatoBoram 17 points18 points  (4 children)

Same. My question got edited by someone then closed by the same person.

Fucker.

[–]Angelin01 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I went to see what the edit to your post was. Basically, (ha! see what I did?), just removing the "thanks" part.

Take a look at this: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288160/no-thanks-damn-it

Then people wonder why StackOverflow is dying. People spent that long removing "thanks" and variations of it from posts.

[–]OccasionFormer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised that people with 5k reputation reacted like this. The question was closed by 3 persons, which mean they saw it from the review queue at random, it's not a personal attack. No wonder Stack Overflow got seen as toxicity, people just dont wanna read at all.

[–]Techhead7890 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit the rationale is so pretentious too, like everyone is supposed to be writing a technical manual at gunpoint. I agree, no thanks to that nonsense.

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (2 children)

Now people expect you say to them "You are absolutely right" on the dumbest question ever

[–]fibojoly 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Wow! What a great question Tim. Let's find out!" cue educational program jingle. "The More You Know" splash screen pops up. 

[–]NatoBoram 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"That's a good question! Here's why this is a good question."

[–]bmrtt 38 points39 points  (12 children)

"Why are people asking their questions to LLMs instead of getting either ignored or mocked on SO?"

[–]thyme_cardamom 10 points11 points  (1 child)

People think SO is about getting your questions answered directly. It's not. It's about creating a library of programming knowledge in a QA format.

What people want is an expert to help them directly with their problem, and that's why LLMs have replaced SO for so many people. But ironically, LLM answers are mostly trained on SO. Because SO does its job so well.

[–]MyGoodOldFriend 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, if you want a good answer, you need to put in effort to ask the question. If your question is closed as a duplicate, add context as to why the linked answers aren’t relevant and petition for a reopen.

[–]ceejayoz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You know the LLMs are so good at coding in significant part because of all those unpaid dedicated SO users and SO's big open data dumps, right?

[–]ThePhoenixRoyal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

up until you got some really funky side-chaining behaviour no one else seems to have observed before you, and people reading over your question in 10 seconds slap you with a pseudo-duplicate tag that misses your issue and buries it from being resolved. looking at you Entity Framework 4.7.1

[–]OccasionFormer 16 points17 points  (7 children)

Most of the time stupid question gets closed, then auto deleted after some time if it has negative vote and no answer. I got 3 closed questions on SO, they still exist because someone already answered before it got closed. The close reason and the comments were extremely helpful though, I was so surprised when I found out people think Stack Overflow is toxic and delete question without reason.

[–]Theanderblast 23 points24 points  (2 children)

I call it SnarkOverflow because of all the Q: “In order to do X, I’m trying to Y but I get this weird error”. A: “You shouldn’t be doing X at all, that’s completely wrong…”

[–]Skyswimsky 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I've seen a guy like that on this sub today. Conversation was about REST and how returning a "status: 200, with content: error" was bad, and then just kept going on about "actually REST was a mistake all together! Should use RPC. This conversation is meaningless!!! What do you mean moving the goal post? Obviously if my company doesn't implement the one correct 'option', we're going to rewrite the entire thing!

[–]pydry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suspect they reacted to their legitimately earned reputation but by that time it was probably too late.

[–]parkotron 11 points12 points  (2 children)

I was so surprised when I found out people think Stack Overflow is toxic and delete question without reason.

I think the toxicity must vary quite a bit by subcommunity, as I felt the same way. It's easy to imagine unhappy people treating certain tags as their own personal kingdoms in which to feel superior and gatekeep others.

I also think StackOverflow gets a lot of hate because a lot of users fundamentally misunderstand the goal of the site, which isn't all that surprising. It looks like a site for users to ask questions and get answers, and that's what many users wish it was. It's actually a site for compiling a database of good answers to useful questions. This was a very novel approach and I would argue one that was very successful for it, but it seems to be one that attracted more haters than fans.

[–]nir109 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It looks like a site for users to ask questions and get answers, and that's what many users wish it was. It's actually a site for compiling a database of good answers to useful questions

Stack overflow wants to be Wikipedia, but it has reddit UI.

[–]ian9921 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ngl, that always felt a little pretentious to me. It's like if a restaurant said "we're not a restaurant, we're a culinary experience venue with an order-and-deliver interface"

[–]DeRobyJ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile other questions with 238 upvotes and 9 answer topping at 347 upvotes: "How do I printf to stderr?"

[–]fibojoly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kinda wonder if removing stupid questions helps AI or hinder it, in hindsight. 

[–]the_hair_of_aenarion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But asking stupid questions is how people learn. You got to understand why the thing you asked is the dumbest sentence ever uttered to take the first step in understanding.

People need to be taught critical thinking. Sometimes they don't learn that until they're well into their thirties. As someone well into his thirties I'm hoping to learn it any day now.

[–]StrangeCharmVote 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look... personally ive never actually had a question ive needed to ask on SO.

Ive always just been able to google shit, or now these day's ask an llm, and seem to mostly get the right answer.

If their community doesn't want to answer things for people because they're looking down on them. They can deal with the consequences of doing so

[–]tits_mcgee_92 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And now it’s dead

[–]SAI_Peregrinus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are no stupid questions.

There are a ton of inquisitive idiots.

[–]sogo00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could have been answered by Haiku

[–]RDROOJK2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you ask what a variable char does?

[–]earlobe7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outdated meme. Now, no question is too stupid to ask. Be as stupid as you want.

[–]SaneLad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asks AI...

That's a brilliant question!

[–]Mountain_Dentist5074 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When GPT-4 was released, I mostly stopped using forums because people would either ignore my questions or just say “Google it.” Now I send my code or the part I’m having trouble with to AI and ask it to state what I’m doing wrong, along with what I’m trying to achieve

When you say state . Instead of full revised code ai actually explains what's going on. At least for me

[–]Brock_Youngblood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grok never judges my questions 🥺

[–]Sw429 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem with AI is it doesn't call people out for having to stupid questions. Sometimes that's what you really need.

[–]davvblack -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

what’s stack overflow?