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> You'll see reason for the hate, mainly with people not bothering to spend any time searching before posting.

As a beginner at anything it’s hard to search. It’s the “you don’t know what you don’t know problem”. I see this all the time both as the expert and the beginner.

On topics I understand, I can craft a google query that will drop exactly what I’m looking for as the first result. On new topics I have to query and scan over and over until I start to hone in on some key words.



usual answer before was get better.

get better at searching, read documentation, manuals, books, articles, etc.

When you are stuck with something non trivial usually other people will jump to help as they've likely spent time on it as well.

If someone fails to do that then it's on them. They lack basic grit or other skills that they should learn.


>utterly failing to understand that it's a bootstrapping problem

How does one know where to start? Which manual to read first?


search for "<topic x> tutorial"

read the right hand side section on each reddit group dedicated to begginers.

read some manuals/books...

what you said only fails for novel topics like quantum computing.


> search for "<topic x> tutorial"

As if that wouldn't be spammed with SEO slop.

> read some manuals/books

Knowing which ones are credible is part of the bootstrapping.

> right hand side section on each reddit group dedicated to begginers

That's probably a useful advice, as they'd likely list which books are good and which are even better but useless for beginners.




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