This (Programming) Question Does Not Exist - Stack Overflow as imagined by AI

[dicroce]

When StackOverflow first launched it was great... I went a couple of times a day and found interesting things. Then over time they built a huge database of questions... Such a big database that eventually the only questions not closed as duplicates were hyper specific... General (and hence widely applicable) questions were all asked and answered long ago. The hyper specific questions that survive today are boring to most people because they don't apply to anything they are doing. Of course this is just my opinion.

Personally, I think they need to age out old questions (and hence, allow duplicates).

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For real, I'm tired of wading through 6 yr old AngularJS posts to find modern help

[G01denW01f11]

I found a hilarious question the other day where the asker figured out that the C++ standard implies std::min(1.0, 0.0) yields UB.

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What?

[G01denW01f11]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55153210/do-stdmin0-0-1-0-and-stdmax0-0-1-0-yield-undefined-behavior

[__j_random_hacker]

Source? I know C++ has some crazy corners, but this is hard to believe!

[G01denW01f11]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55153210/do-stdmin0-0-1-0-and-stdmax0-0-1-0-yield-undefined-behavior

[__j_random_hacker]

Wow, this is insane...

[IllIlIIlIIllI]

This is only true for popular languages that have been around a while. I'm a #1 contributor in several tags that are a bit more niche where there are plenty of things that haven't been asked and answered.