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by hasenj 3679 days ago
> People are just too lazy, SO became a replacement for many references, docs and trivial things.

That was its original purpose. It wasn't meant to be a place for answers to detailed questions. It was designed with the aim of being the first Google result for things like "How do I collapse border tables?". Trivial questions where the answer is buried deep inside technical documentation.

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This. So much easier than trawling through terribly structured docs. I find the CLI version even more useful for this purpose.