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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Great, now consulting a search engine on questions about vim the text editor will yield equally awkward results as consulting a search engine on matters concerning latex the typesetting system.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Other examples that are horrible to search for:

matrix/element (yields html coding and other unrelated info)

Signal (pretty common term for anything but the secure messenger)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Shit, I remember googling "How to kill a child", my next search was "How to kill a child process." I'm probably on a list somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I think we've all been at a point like this

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