Re:An ode to that “coffee friend”
by abrookewood on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:39PM
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The other thing that's great about having friends like this, is that they've done all the hard work for you! You can just adopt their setup/approach (within reason) and can be fairly certain that you are going to get a good result without needing to put in months of research.
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That's most of the benefit of putting "Reddit" at the end of a Google search for an esoteric subject. I love when someone has outrageously strong opinions on things I know very little about.
And it works fine as long as they are not just parroting some strong opinnions to feel part of the group.
But those reddit threads often do include some research and references, so one has a jumping off point for one's own search with some keywords.
Absolutely, it's easy to think you're dealing with knowledge only to find out it was an uninformed yet strong opinion. It's also incredibly easy to game, so there's no way that'll last forever.