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ono@lemmy.ca 9 months agoThis answer makes me so angry like revisiting trauma from learning programming.
If you bothered to read the documentation, which exists in abundance on the web, in many books, and in the built-in manuals of various operating systems, and which I also linked in my answer, you would see a full explanation with clear examples.
But you can’t be bothered with any of that, and instead expect other people to spend their time writing custom tutorials just for you?
Your anger is misplaced. Please consider taking a walk.
I just remember asking questions early on and getting answers more confusing that are even harder to parse
When you ask people questions about their field of knowledge, and they don’t know you, it’s reasonable for them to assume you know the rudimentary basics. (Just as it would be reasonable for a fourth-year group to assume a that a stranger asking them questions has at least taken the first-year class.) Asking beyond your level of experience is not necessarily bad, but you should be ready to describe what you don’t understand, so that people can either elaborate with a helpful level of detail or send you to a forum more appropriate for your needs. For example:
!learn_programming@programming.dev
instead expect other people to spend their time writing custom tutorials just for you?
Nobody asked you to spend your time helping people out on Lemmy, if you don’t want to do it, then don’t do it. There’s plenty of people here who are happy to do that.
And I don’t think it is reasonable to expect people to understand the basics.
If we assumed everyone asking a question knows nothing at all of the surrounding topic, and responded at length addressing every related detail instead of what was asked, our answers would be tedious, and often annoying. It’s called overexplaining (among other things). It’s usually better to tailor the answer to the cues given by the person asking, and let them ask more questions if necessary.
If they did, then they wouldn’t have asked.
OP didn’t ask about the basics. They clearly know them already, as we can see from the language and specificity of their question. I was happy to answer and provide a link for deeper detail.
But then someone else came along who apparently knew less than OP did, and decided express anger at me for not preemptively guessing and catering to their unstated special needs, in an answer that wasn’t intended for them in the first place. That was incredibly entitled and rude.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m even angrier now.
BitsOfBeard@programming.dev 9 months ago
Go touch some gr… Oh, you are touching grass already??
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just touching some Poaceae