alt Hacker NewsSeemed like for every other question, I received unsolicited advice telling me how I shouldn't be doing it this way, only for me to have to explain why I wanted to do it this way (with silence from them).
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jbreckmckye • last Sunday at 12:06 AM
Oh I love that game! (At least I think it's a game)
You ask how to do X.
Member M asks why you want to do X.
Because you want to do Y.
Well!? why do you want to do Y??
Because Y is on T and you can't do K so you need a Z
Well! Well! Why do you even use Z?? Clearly J is the way it is now recommended!
Because Z doesn't work on a FIPS environment.
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Can you help me?
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I just spent 15 minutes explaining X, Y and Z. Do you have any help?
...(crickets)
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econ • last Sunday at 12:13 AM
To avoid going insane the mindset should be to produce something useful for future readers.
This is called the XY problem https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378 . You ask for X, I tell you that what you really want is Y, I bully you, and I become more convinced that you and people that ask for X want Y.