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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by AngryData on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:19PM (#46491770)
How does "give you the information you need" mesh with "The point is not to solve the problem"? They seem like mutually exclusive goals for 95% of cases.
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by zahlman on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:13PM (#46493818)
> How does "give you the information you need" mesh with "The point is not to solve the problem"?

The same way that a K-12 education does.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by n5NOJwkc7kRC on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:47PM (#46520580)
Oh, so... not at all? No, seriously, K-12 education is pretty infamously bad at giving you the information you need.
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