WhatsTheHoldup

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[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

it's just a sign that the people who did it have no idea what they are doing.

We're in no shortage of those signs

[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There really isn't any. It's just a huge nitpick. * is commonly used for multiplication, especially in online contexts in order to avoid confusing multiplication with the letter x when wider symbols aren't available.

[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think that's true. Half of his kids have disowned him. He has a trans child he says was "killed by wokeness" who hates his guts.

[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 48 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Do people read this and fail to realize that the "calling everyone I disagree with is a Nazi" rhetoric is the exact same thing?

Like how Elon can do a full Nazi salute multiple times but then throw out some rhetoric about how "they call everyone Nazis" and everyone just buys it?

Yeah I can see how they're similar.

[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Then again, isn't that what people used to do with StackOverflow?

Yes, one of the major issues with StackOverflow that answerers complained about a lot was the "XY problem.".

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem

Where you're trying to do X, but because you're inexperienced you erroneously decide Y must be the solution even though it is a dead end, and then ask people how to do Y instead of X.

ChatGPT drives that problem up to 11 because it has no problems enabling you to focusing on Y far longer than you should be.