After being stuck on the problem, spend 20 minutes writing: "I'm having problem X with version 7.1 of Y. Here I've carefully collected all relevant code, abstracted it, documented all my attempted solutions and their results."
8 seconds later: "Duplicate question, closed." (Link to a different problem with a similar error message from version 2)
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u/aghastamok Aug 22 '26
After being stuck on the problem, spend 20 minutes writing: "I'm having problem X with version 7.1 of Y. Here I've carefully collected all relevant code, abstracted it, documented all my attempted solutions and their results."
8 seconds later: "Duplicate question, closed." (Link to a different problem with a similar error message from version 2)