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I know, I know, but this revision compiles (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] marcos 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, the knowledge that 6 hours of debugging can save you from 10 long and extenuating minutes of reading the documentation. That one you can only get by fixing the problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Docs can only really help you if your problem is "I have used X from the library Y, yet I do not understand the baseline definition of X sufficiently and this is causing issues". A lot of problems in practice are much more fundamental than that

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You sound like the guy who writes documentation in the form of:

// functionA = is function that does A