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[–] [email protected] 54 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 Most of them are so out of date it's often better to find an article or ask chatgpt

[–] [email protected] 60 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Hey if you're like me and working on a project from the 90s the outdated info is great!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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You never had the Xbox 2?

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

“How do I do XYZ in JavaScript?”

answer using jQuery

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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 The entire web is infested with garbage GPT generated articles with outdated or false information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kelo 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume gpt 4, with internet access plugins

[–] Grimy 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that plugin was disabled. Also, from using Bing, it just reads like the first two links so it really wasn't that good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the browse feature was restored recently

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Did you miss a "not" in there somewhere?