Even worse is when OP on the nine year old thread with the exact same technical problem announces “Solved!” without elaborating

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Or it’s your own post from 9 years ago.

    On the other hand, I stumbled upon one post with the exact same problem, turns out it was me from almost a decade ago and forgot about it. I provided a detailed walkthrough to fix it. Thanks younger me!

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      5 months ago

      It’s surreal when this happens. Once I was helping someone at work understand a “tutorial” they found online and it was my own reddit post from years past. So awkward.

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      5 months ago

      Now delete it so that no AI companies can potentially make a sliver of a penny from it.

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        5 months ago

        Unfortunately Reddit is still an incredibly useful archive of advice and help, and I care more about helping some poor soul avoid hours of frustration than chipping a spec of dust off of some training dataset.