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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

All you needed to do was get up off your arse, travel to a library, (business hours only), and dig through a card catalog for outdated information on the subject you were interested in. Bonus difficulty: Needing to wait a week for your library to get the outdated book you needed because it was in a different town.

Today all information is available at any time-- 24/7365. Bonus difficulty: Sorting through all the AI bullshit to glean the correct information on a subject you know very little about.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Don’t you know the Dewey decimal system?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Y’all heard of librarians right? They do a little more than stack books. Most are accredited professional researchers who can find what you’re looking for, or try to get it for you.

Talk to more humans and kindly please support your local libraries.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I mean I'm not gonna go ask a librarian how big of a laser I'd need to destroy the moon or why "1"+" 1" is "11" but "1"-" 1" is 0 in JavaScript

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd appreciate those questions as a librarian. Problem is finding a publisher who was willing to print that information.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It blows my mind that people don’t know you need a master of library science to be a librarian. I still remember some reddit chucklefuck talking shit about librarians and literally stating that it’s not like they even need college degrees.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

And you still have to go to a university library if you want any scientific papers and research knowledge, because most of it is behind a paywall and only universities can afford to subscribe to the journals.

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