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by pixl97 1045 days ago
I almost never use people for fact checking either, they are horrifically bad at at. But if you're fact checking you tend to have a well formed idea already that can be searched in factual databases.

If you have a more abstract idea "I'm using X programming language and I want to accomplish Y but I have Z limitation how would I do that, can you explain it and show me in code", you can get actionable information much in the same way if I asked another person that had some knowledge of the problem. I don't get perfect answers from programmers either, but I get to a solution much faster than if I'm spinning the wheel of Google returning spam sites or sites telling me something I don't really want to do.