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[–] sznio 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Always skip the accepted answer and use the second or third one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, weirdly this is always what works for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ngl this made me laugh. Thanks for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah me too. GG WP OP.

[–] nepatriots32 4 points 2 years ago

Was trying to show one of my students some code on Stack Overflow a little while back to help them figure something out, and they caught hung up looking over the code in the question, and I was like "No, don't look at the code from the question! It's wrong, that's why they're asking about it! Just look at the top answer!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I have actually done this and it worked, i didn't have the same problem as the question but the question had the solution i seeked.

[–] PottedPlant 3 points 2 years ago

On the plus side there was a SO post with an answer out there for you.

[–] Xanvial 2 points 2 years ago

Their fault of showing answer with partial codes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I did that yesterday, the code seemed reasonable... Do you think I'm a programmer that could read, analyse and critically think about code?!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sometimes the solution to your problem is in the question. It is not unreasonable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Okay but sometimes it's a really good question so surely they have good code too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No worries! You can always ask chatGPT to fix it afterwards!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah but chatgpt was partially trained on the broken code