The lost meme in question was like this: A post on r/notinteresting saying “I don’t know anything about programming, ask me anything.” A comment asked “How to kill the child process?” Then replied to himself: Who reported me 💀
For my FBI agents, I always add “linux” or the programming language name to the start. Except for “Go”, which I still search as “golang”.
As an aside, fuck everyone that names things without thinking about the search results. “R” is especially terrible. “Go” is saved by “golang”. “Python” with programming. “R” is not saved by anything.
i actually have a script that kills all unattached tmux sessions, named kill-orphans, because its funny (even if the name may be technically wrong idk)
Most of the code I write alone is full of jokes and puns that no one would ever get. But then when I go back to it much later, I smile and go “yep, I know exactly how I most have been looking at the system when I wrote this”
When you Google a technical thing you could use the whole sentence like “in a bash session how would you pipe the output from cat to something else?” But that is long winded and can be constraining for the search engine so you boil it down to just the essential words". Start with “how to” then add “bash Cat pipe”, and insert “with” because that is the desired adjective.
I’ve just woken up and I’m wondering if I missed an implied /s. Anyway.
Googling and binging programming stuff really shows how much the instant answers, AI stuff and other “optimizatioms” have degraded search results. Every time I have to skip all that bullshit on the top to the actual results. Often, I even have to switch on verbatim mode. And even then it says “There don’t appear to be a lot of good results…” or whatever, but the good result is right there, after I had to dance around all their hoops.
The search giants just don’t understand that often there is just one good source for an information and it doesn’t get repeated all the time, because it perfectly explains it, is brand new or just not something the kids on youtube or reddit would enjoy. They think people want to find things the web is plastered with. So weird.
Speaking of degrading search results, people have begun phrasing questions like they would search queries so much that now when you search “how to X” it seems more likely to find a person posting a question worded “how to X” than it is to find actual answers.
The ads Google must have personalised for you based on that would have been interesting. But everyone on Lemmy uses ad blockers so you prolly wouldn’t even have noticed xD
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