This meme was made by someone who has never had truly bad sex/documentation.
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Yup, op has never had the joy of the docs lying to them.
Is getting a face full of pussy that stinks like a litter box better than no pussy at all? 🤔
Good example! My point exactly!
"Documentation is like sex: You're not getting any"
Damn haha, this made me laugh out loud
I've had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse. So I guess bad documentation is like bad, unprotected sex with a lot lizard that leaves you with an itching or burning sensation.
I've been there... (In a work/corporate context, at least)
I'll leave 'the night work' out of it, however (damn, the glitter gets everywhere!)
When it’s really bad, it can be far worse than nothing.
Respectfully disagree. Sometimes the documentation is so bad that you have more questions than answers and even then, what they provide still doesn't really explain how to do something with enough details. It's all literally shot in the dark and you're just left with leap of faith. * cough * Sonicwall * cough *
Someone's never read instructions autotranslated from Chinese and not checked for accuracy.
Well, sometimes I ask questions to the AI and makes the same sense.
Literally me yesterday trying to decipher Baidu’s PaddleOCR docs. Have half a mind to aim Claude Code at the URL and just be like ‘plz help’
Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.
It's fine, babe, the doctor said I've got a standard.
Absolutely not. I'd rather have no documentation and start from scratch than be gaslit by an entire team of people telling me that the very obviously wrong documentation is correct and has been correct for 30 years
I think there's a difference between bad and wrong. Wrong documentation is incorrect. Bad documentation isn't really incorrect, it's just poorly executedb and mostly unhelpful.
I can name a few examples of this
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Completely incorrect - bad documentation can be actively harmful, wasting your time with its inaccuracies.
What about when the sex is ... wrong?
Then you haven’t seen bad documentation (or had that sex you regret).
In general it’s supposed to be something good so it shouldn’t be harmful, but ofc exceptions exist, especially with sex, sadly…
Bad often equals "not super good" in this context
When it's bad, it's life changing in a traumatic way.
Bad documentation could land you in prison.
Bad sex is just horrible all around.
not sure what this post is on about
I would say bad sex can land you in a prison too.
good point
no.
When it's bad you think "Fuck this, I can do it better by myself."
Bad sex is not better than no sex.... Wtf... :)
the person who wrote this hasn't had bad sex yet
I guess its also our culture where sex is seen as the most important thing in life. So everyone is convinced their entire value consists of how much mating they are doing. Maybe that would be true if we were breeding animals but we are not.
weird, i do not know of this culture and I'm glad cuz I'd be worthless
It's different from person to person. The most consistent thing I've found is people trying to fit each other into a cultural box
Bro has never been at /moma
As an asexual person this anology is very confusing
Maybe it can be translated into something else, like, "Documentation is like toilet paper, when it's good it's good, when it's bad it's better than nothing"? Or, "Documentation is like clothes, even if they are bad it's better than nothing", or "Documentation is like having something you need, it's better to have the thing you need even if is not good, than to not have the thing you need at all"?
I like the analogy with toilet paper. Because when its bad, the very thing that was supposed to help you, got you covered in shit with no back out plan, making it that much worse.
Very fitting
Also asexual.
Just consider most people really like sex, and some experience it as a very intense physical want to the point it makes sense that a bad version of it is better than none at all. Sort of similar to food. Better to have bad-tasting food and at least sate your hunger than to have nothing and starve.
Although, of course, it breaks down. The comments talk about actively harmful sex people wouldn't want as well as harmful documentation; bad sex and documentation is not actually always better than no sex or no documentation. In the analogy, this would be sex that gives you an STD, or documentation that sends you running in circles and misleads you.
I've found a lot of understanding sex comes with just understanding a lot of people really really want it and experience it as a nigh-on need. Maybe liken it to some intense desires you have, things you need to be happy that you nonetheless don't need to survive. (Of course, this is a generalization, I understand not all people with sexual desires have them this intensely. Some don't need it to be happy but would sure like it a lot. And some might even get it more mildly. But for the purpose of understanding more mainstream jokes, analogies, etc. about sex…)
As a sexual person, I agree
Documentation: use x function Reality: x function depreciated
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