I feel like there is no inbetween for tutorials. They ethier think you have only discovered computers and the internet today or that you know every programing language and have a CS PhD.
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Sometimes both in the same article!
They'll start by explaining what the internet is before descending into a dense conversation about how to use eBPF to do packet filtering and observability - just who is the audience that needs both halves of this?
Here‘s the kicker: some folks don't even question how cars work, how the lights work, how their microwave works, yet all ot them have tutorials.
Now ask Annie what she thinks I should wear, and watch how those neurons fire up.
I’m aware
it's satire.
But this a matter of selective bias. Like, who actually reads the tutorials on how to wash your clothes, and sunglasses ftm.
Are you seriously complaining about women?
Click the spoiler.
That only made it worse. I’ll add misogynist to your already long tag of bad stuff.
? Are you now DigVicŋ me right now, or are you really incapable of reading satire?
🤞your not “White Awakening”.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, and that link is explains nothing.
Based on your post history, everything you say is how you feel and nothing you say is satire. The tag stays.
What part of selective biasing information are you projecting on me, that washing clothes tutorials is considered “about women”? Or that of fashion?
Goodnight—or, afternoon I guess it is for you.
Afternoon. But thanks for the label, ig?
How’s the fash plankton in Michigan going?
I’ve never been to Michigan, so I don’t get the reference. 🤷♂️😴
Just some flamer trying to sidetrack their liberal “praxis.”
Read recently too that .world works with the IDF.
gn, labelista.
I think you might be mentally ill.
And what qualifications do you have to assess that from me in the internet?
I was a licensed social worker for almost a decade. And while that didn’t give me the ability to diagnose, I can (could) certainly make an assessment that your behavior online is consistent with antisocial traits—or antisocial personality disorder if you need a label.
What kind of social work, and why ASPD, out of all the neurotypical behaviour I exhibit, while attempting to empathize tf that has to do with tutorializing anything?
Not much of your behavior is neurotypical. I think going through your post history would show you. However, if you see nothing questionable—maybe a slice of narcissistic pd is on the table as well.
Why aren’t you answering which social work did you practice?
And why are you labeling me without proof?
My proof is for you to look at your behavior. Also, an assessment wouldn’t require you to accept the results.
Mobile crisis intervention. The person who shows up to decide if you are a danger to yourself or others and whether you get to spend 24 hours in observation.
What behavior?
Mobile crisis intervention. The person who shows up to decide if you are a danger to yourself or others and whether you get to spend 24 hours in observation.
So quick assessments to save lives, instead of long hard ones like that of a licensed neurologist in the internet trying to empathize how this relates to tutorial writing 101. Riddle me this, did you also write tutorials for common folks on how to do your job?
This is how I, a developer with 25 years' experience, still read many software tutorials. And I have a relatively high tolerance for technical detail. Often it seems the person writing the tutorial is in too deep, and they should have got a friend to write it with their help.
The annoying bit is that sharing a series of cryptic shell commands is typically the most efficient way of telling someone how to get things done and of keeping them from wandering off in the GUI and doing something else instead.
This...
# dos2unix your-file.ini | crunchmeister-cli frobulate -d 9 --exclude-preflight alpha,delta --wank > ~/.config/somethingd/frobulated.dat && systemctl --user restart somethingd
...could be the equivalent of this.
- Convert your raw data INI file to UNIX file endings using an appropriate tool (outside the scope of this tutorial)
- Launch CrunchMeister
- Enter the Frobulation section and navigate to Custom Frobulation
- In the Input Data tab, upload the UNIXified INI file and set the data level to Full, with semicolons
- In the Preflight tab, ensure that the Alpha and Delta packages are deselected. Starting with CrunchMeister 5.7, the Delta package is found under the Additional packages expander
- In the Frobulate tab, enable wankness and hit the Frobulate! button
- Save the resulting file to your disk
- Launch Something Service Manager (install first if nor present)
- Click New frobulated data file
- Select the file you saved in step 6
- Click Reload service
It's still cryptic, though. You can't have everything.
I appreciate comments like yours, and various others echoing the same sentiment in this thread and the HN thread. I'm far more proficient with techy stuff than the vast majority of people, but it's easy to feel incompetent if you're exposed to challenges outside of your primary domain (a feeling exacerbated by hanging out in spaces where most people seem to be super techy). It's validating to hear that even people far more experienced than me struggle with tutorials sometimes.
🤝🫂
Worst part is when some folks are too smart, and the mirror effect isolates them from normal folks from forming zeitgeist friendships. 😭
I still get slack for contracting plain English. Not even 70 years ago, Americans where contracting even script!
Like, everyone lost intelligence as tools advanced. Why can't scribes tier transpile my tutorials?
Hey guys, I’m having trouble with step number 4. Here’s the error:
Error: doodlewhompus error static non-binging 0xdde0826 ()()<<<>>>>[][]{###{##{}%%^#^>>>~]]: No file inserted manifold juncture pocket grinder - You can fix this with a rematch janktown topple matrix
Jeez, RTFM loser. And don't post again without including a full log, dump and stack trace that I'm not going to tell you how to create, or you'll be banned. You'll also be banned if you ask how to make those.
Have you tried reversing the polarity?
Oh, that yeah that just kinda happens just ignore it and continue(proceeds to Nuke Germany)
I felt like this trying to mod a game that wasn't working through nexus mods vortex thing. I did get it to work. I felt no joy.
Step 4. Boop!