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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 12:51:45 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Sometimes, you read the documentation, maybe a blog or random forum post, and get things working at work. You have no idea how it works. You just open the config file, set values, and boom, it starts working. Achievement unlocked, and so is the ignorance.

   • Roadskater, Ph.D. (roadskater@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 13:07:35 JST Roadskater, Ph.D.

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     @nixCraft I believe this is in the jargon file under "black magic".

   • Roadskater, Ph.D. (roadskater@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 13:08:03 JST Roadskater, Ph.D.

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     @nixCraft I believe this is in the jargon file under "black magic", although there are tones of "voodoo programming" in using something you pulled off a forum or blog.

   • bowmann (bowmann@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 14:39:48 JST bowmann

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     @nixCraft it's not a sin when you stumble upon an answer. It is if you don't backtrace and see why it worked and how future you will look back and thank you if you leave it documented properly.

     Problem is when you have to put up with a stack overflow/chatgpt abuser that was doing the bare minimum and you are in charge of the clean up.

   • rexi (rexi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 15:36:16 JST rexi

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     @nixCraft

     even better (worse) at home. clueless on half the digital reality I face daily, and reliant on the obviously unreliable help of fricking reddit or worse..