• db2@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Someone’s never read instructions autotranslated from Chinese and not checked for accuracy.

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      7 months ago

      Well, sometimes I ask questions to the AI and makes the same sense.

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    Absolutely not. I’d rather have no documentation and start from scratch than be gaslit by an entire team of people telling me that the very obviously wrong documentation is correct and has been correct for 30 years

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      I think there’s a difference between bad and wrong. Wrong documentation is incorrect. Bad documentation isn’t really incorrect, it’s just poorly executedb and mostly unhelpful.

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      In general it’s supposed to be something good so it shouldn’t be harmful, but ofc exceptions exist, especially with sex, sadly…

      Bad often equals “not super good” in this context

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    7 months ago

    Bad documentation could land you in prison.

    Bad sex is just horrible all around.

    not sure what this post is on about

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    Respectfully disagree. Sometimes the documentation is so bad that you have more questions than answers and even then, what they provide still doesn’t really explain how to do something with enough details. It’s all literally shot in the dark and you’re just left with leap of faith. * cough * Sonicwall * cough *

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      Last week I spent a day trying to figure out why the thing in the damn documentation doesn’t work.

      Turns out, for that project “latest” doesn’t point to their latest release, but to what they currently have on their dev branch. And apparently they changed the whole module around since the last release.

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    I’ve had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse. So I guess bad documentation is like bad, unprotected sex with a lot lizard that leaves you with an itching or burning sensation.