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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I literally skip SO results now. Most of them are so out of date it's often better to find an article or ask chatgpt

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey if you're like me and working on a project from the 90s the outdated info is great! I found a fucking Visual Basic 5 runtime in this project.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everybody knows that VB versions start at 6, like there's no Xbox 2

[–] shiftymccool@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't VB end at 6? Seems like that was the last version before the whole .NET nonsense.

Source: VB programmer in college many moons ago

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Didn't they got VB6 -> VB.NET -> VB (~~series~~ no suffix)

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

You never had the Xbox 2?

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do indeed. But at least my one is vb6 haha

But C# is the one SO seems gives bad results for.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago

“How do I do XYZ in JavaScript?”

answer using jQuery

[–] fer0n@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf ChatGPT isn’t current either with its 2021 cut off date

[–] scorpionix@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ChatGPT has been granted access to the internet. So it should give more up-to-date info in the near future.

Or turn into Ultron.

Too late. The entire web is infested with garbage GPT generated articles with outdated or false information.

[–] fer0n@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Which version? The free 3.5 I’m using isn’t (at least for me)

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just tell google to only show results from the past year.

[–] Awkwardparticle@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

You are talking like you can get anything out of Google these days. I seriously am using Bing at work. Everyone laugh but do you know who does have their first page full of paid links? This guy.