• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    This is my reaction anytime I Google virtually anything. Stop fucking recommending videos, Google. We’re not fucking interested.

    • Tja@programming.dev
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      You are not fucking interested. We, as Google’s customer base, want everything in video format because we are allergic to reading. If it pisses off 1% of users (which is ten of millions of people), so be it, still profit.

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      I’m with you. This shift over the last decade or so to everything being in video essay format is infuriating. Especially when I’m trying to look up instructions for something that could just be a five item bulleted list or a single image but instead is stretched out into a ten minute video.

      There have actually been a few times I’ve given up on finding some piece of information or instructions I wanted because I could only find video sources.

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        There are also the SEO sites, you search for how to write a file in python and you get 20 pages about file writing and why that is used, the history of python and more until you, maybe, get the simple one liner you forgot about.

        And I use an ad blocker.

        I know it’s so google thinks I’m enjoying myself on that site because I stay there “longer”, and thus thinks it’s a good site, but would it be so hard to have a search engine just straight out exclude large sites? I mean it does clearly not work well.

        Fuck, exclude all “dynamic” ones too. Back to pure html! 😺

  • kaffiene@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Oh hell yes! I also feel that people who can’t summarise their argument likely don’t understand it

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    19 hours ago

    Sometimes I back up my argument with entire books lmao. Its not usually for the person I am arguing with. Its for the people who see the argument and are curious

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      18 hours ago

      You should be able to explicate your own argument, though. “Read this book” isn’t convincing on its own.

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          Yeah, this happens way too often “it’s all in here (link), but I will not elaborate”

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        Yeah, you need to take specific portions of the book to support your argument. I won’t just say “read Fanon” but will give a a specific example from the book in addition to the more general example of the entire work, plus encourage them to read more.