I told you: I glanced at it, saw that it was beyond my understanding or ability to figure out, and moved on. It's basically gobbledegook to someone who has barely used a compiler before. It's not much more complicated than that.

Hey, I got a real hot tip for you. Quantum computer programmers are in short supply. RTFM and you'll be rolling in the money in just a few days, I'm sure. It'll be the best 65 bucks you ever spend.

The point is, a manual is only as good as the person's ability to understand what the manual is saying. You can't hit 90 mph fast balls or even 70 mph fast balls when you can barely hit singles playing for the little league. And that's about where I'm at.

"The point is, a manual is only as good as the person's ability to understand what the manual is saying"

With anything in life there are likely to be things you don't understand. If you read a manual, or anything and you don't understand a term or concept it's up to the reader to go and do the required work in order to understand. Practice and research.

Look, I’m with you. Self sufficiency is a good thing. But if the answer to every problem is RTFM, what do we need SoPW for? And if there isn’t a manual, we could just direct people to go read the code. The answers are all there in the code if only people are willing to put in the effort, right?

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