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by 3seashells 962 days ago
If you can search it in the docs, you already know the question well enough to answer. Stackoverflow has answers for people who still misunderstand the topic. That is why documentation is usually useless for beginners.

Documentation for pros by pros, often even with topic specific language. Thus useless for beginners.

Stackoverflow is concept error filter feeding.

Search -> Do you actually mean -> better Wikipedia -> duplicate of actual answer using specialist prose.