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[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I suspect this attitude of “read the fucken manuel” comes from when tooling was simpler and you could actually read all the manuals (or buy a book) to learn every small bit of it. Today, I’d be surprised if someone actually read all the Windows, .Net, and Powershell docs before attempting to write a small script.

Heck, even simpler things like Python have massive docs beneath every layer of them. You don’t learn everything from the ground up anymore, only the relevant parts to your use case.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I miss the days when every package came with a man page.

Every respectable package; don't come at me, pendants.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

don’t come at me, pendants.

Did you do that on purpoise? :3