Usually that's about when I strace
the process before running it through gdb...
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for me when that happens, it usually turns out to be a simple but stupid mistake on my end
Im finding this more prevalent now as ai can answer a lot of the questions hence other people are getting solutions without the need to ask. Then my ai has problems cos it googles the answer and has to make shit up and idk if its hallucinating or not.
But have you tried askjeeves?
You describe your problem in the forum.
Moderator: "use Google, there is an answer to your question"
Google only gives you a link to your own thread in the forum.
They had the answer on Yahoo! Answers. 😢
Usually it means you're doing something terribly wrong.
Or: Plenty of people have the problem, but nobody has figured it out.
And: Stack Overflow agrees that this is a dumb thing to want to do, anyway.
Or it's a bug that was reported 5 years ago with 165 votes and somehow still not fixed
time to learn assembly *cracks knuckles*
Or the only person who phrases your issue this way) so many times I’ve found out that I just state my problem in an unusual way
That's one area where LLMs can come in handy. If you describe something, they can usually come out with what you were thinking about in another, maybe more correct way, then you search what they gave you
You just need to spend a few hours trying weirder and unique ways to frame the issue and you might find the answer.
Remember kids: If you find a solution to a problem nobody on Google (or your search engine of choice) seems to has, put it as a blog post on your site!
Or you can ask on SO. Then close it with "nvm, fixed".
This is the way
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When you search*
The worst is windows always giving "unknown error" with a code, and when you google the code you try stuff for like an hour just for every website you check to be useless, and at the end you just needed to put a password on the other computers file share, but why would it tell you that?
Or when you're having a problem with a piece of accounting software that nobody has ever had, so you call in for phone support, and they've never had it, but they can reproduce it on their side, find a solution, and thank you very much for letting them know.
Ohh I had a similar experience with a quite big open source project (~10k stars on GitHub). Posted an issue, it's obscure enough even the lead maintainer comes in to help and still got stuck unable to fix the issue.
True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…
Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It's obnoxious.
This happens to me more than I care to admit. I told a coworker about a Gitlab CI issue that I’d seen a few years back and hadn’t had any action. I looked up the link to share it. Me; I opened it. Brain failing me, I had forgotten it was my issue.
It's surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it's a great general purpose search engine.
If your work is bleeding edge enough, even ChatGPT won't be of help since it's not in their training dataset.
Yeah and it won’t tell you that it hasn’t seen this pattern before. It will just make things up out of the blue which seem like they might be correct.
Stay away from ChatGPT for bleeding edge things.
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What's worse is googling a specific thing and having the results be just chock full of generic copy pasted thing with similar name
You are not the only one, trust me. Google just went to shit in the last years, so it's harder to find what you are looking for.
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User error
What if the answer is there but google refused to include it in your search results until you saw enough ads?
Stfu! Don't give them ideas!
Someone patent this so we can sue anyone who tries this shit
'Drink verification can'
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Worse. "Hey I have your problem ... ... nevermind I figured it out"
True story. x3
The most cathartic moment of my entire life was when I encountered that exact thing in a thread from over a decade ago expecting that to be it and lost all hope, only to find somebody replied calling them out and telling them to share their solution or future googlers were gonna be very upset. They posted their solution and it did, indeed, work.
Don't even remember what the issue was, but the wave of relief was amazing enough that I still remember the feeling to this day.
I have this exact problem.
Edit: nvm, found the solution
You're just the worst, you know that?
Found the answer to this here
I am so tempted to buy the domain just to make it redirect to a rick roll