"Screwed" = spending hours sifting through poorly-written, vaguely-related documents to find a needle in a haystack. Why would I want to continue doing that?
Re:Study mode
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @03:49PM
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> "Screwed" = spending hours sifting through poorly-written, vaguely-related documents to find a needle in a haystack.
From the parent comment:
> it was pretty much impossible ... hope at some point, it'll make sense to you
Not sure where you are getting the additional context for what they meant by "screwed", but I am not seeing it.
Personal experience from researching stuff?
I do a lot of research and independent learning. The way I translated “screwed” was “4-6 hours to unravel the issue”. And half the time the issue is just a misunderstanding.
It’s exciting when I discover I can’t replicate something that is stated authoritatively… which turns out to be controversial. That’s rare, though. I bet ChatGPT knows it’s controversial, too, but that wouldn’t be as much fun.
Like a car can be "beyond economical repair", a problem can be not worth the time (and uncertainty) or fixing. Especially from subjective judgement with incomplete information etc
As you say, your experience isn't universal, and we all have different modes of learning that work best for us.
Re:Study mode
by fkyoureadthedoc on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:23PM
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They should have focused on social skills too I think
No, not really.
> Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible, and the only thing you can really do is keep paving forward and hope at some point, it'll make sense to you.
Your experience isn't universal. Some students learned how to do research in school.