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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Found a solution, thanks everyone!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait what was the solution?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED BECAUSE YOU DARED TO COMMENT WITHOUT PROVIDING THE EXACT SOLUTION FOR OP's PROBLEM (shame on you)

[–] SuddenDownpour 13 points 1 month ago

Ok, I'll open another thread, then.

REMOVED, DUPLICATE.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, the Arch forum/stack experience. Along with

"Problem still exists like 2 years later."

"DON'T NECRO. CLOSED."

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even worse is they reply to themselves figured it out and say nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain." https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books/fermat.htm#:%7E:text=When%20reviewing%20his%20copy%20of,to%20fit%20in%20the%20margin

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The new version of this is coming across a reddit post where it seems like OP replies “Thanks, that worked!” to “In protest of Reddit's API changes, I have removed my comment history. Fuck u/Spez”

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Repair forum version:

  • Here are the exact bolts you need to loosen:
  • After that make sure you note this gasket:
  • The replacement part is very hard to find but they carry it here: <404>
  • You'll find the torque spec here:

Bonus points if the only schematic you can find is a 256 resolution jpg on pinterest that leads to a wordpress site were a bot only posts random schematics to farm pinterest engagement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

you have to login to see picture

registration closed

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

And people wonder why I have hundreds of PDFs for shit I don't own.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

archive.org pleeeeeease

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

what about when you stumble upon an old post of yours?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll do you one worse and I've posted this before: when you make a post looking for help on an esoteric problem, and then solve it and just reply 'nvm fixed it', and then years later have the same problem but when you go looking for the solution only find your old posts.

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

One day Shizuo Kakutani . . . was teaching a class at Yale. He wrote down a lemma on the blackboard and announced that the proof was obvious. One student timidly raised his hand and said that it wasn’t obvious to him. Could Kakutani explain? After several moments’ thought, Kakutani realized that he could not himself prove the lemma. He apologized, and said that he would report back at their next class meeting.

After class, Kakutani went straight to his office. He labored for quite a time and found that he could not prove the pesky lemma. He skipped lunch and went to the library to track down the lemma. After much work, he finally found the original paper. The lemma was stated clearly and succinctly. For the proof, the author had written, “Exercise for the reader.” The author of this 1941 paper was Kakutani.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I've had that happen before lol

I was like wait this sounds familiar

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

This has happened a few times were I find a solution on stack overflow, I go to upvote the answer and I get the error message “you can’t upvote your own post”

Yep, that was my answer to my own question from 5 years ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

you curse the past you for being so selfish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I have stumbled upon myself being the only person who asked, who asked years ago, and still got no answer.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What did you see DenverCoder9

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't worry, there's a 12 yr old with a heavy Hindi accent on YouTube with the answer.

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

So long as you're willing to skip the first 8 minutes and play the next 20 seconds at 0.25 speed, where he very quickly glances over the problem, then goes on for another 10 minutes to talk about something unrelated in minute detail

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I love it when people link to such posts as if they're a solution as well

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Another variation of this is when you used Google, and the responses to the post say "Use Google", or links to lmgtfy.

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

Where's the original artwork from?

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

looks AI generated to me

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Maybe AI can help here, since it is trained on stack overflow and co. ;)