Could very well be that your language was the issue and writing a small proof of concept for the specific use case that's problematic in a battle tested language other people know is a standard trouble shooting step. Especially if it was a rare limiting error, that sounds like a trivial thing to be implemented in C with a simple for loop and some dummy data perhaps.
Same with the OS. Only because socket functionality is decades old doesn't mean that you can't hit a recently introduced bug, that could have been fixed in a new version. That also is a standard troubleshooting step.
It doesn't make for bad advice only because you're too lazy to do it.
Unclean uninstalled programs also don't impact performance. Unless it really isn't uninstalled and still runs in the background, but that can easily be fixed by a person competent enough to reinstall Windows once a year.
Settings you don't find, will still be not found after reinstalling Windows.
In my case it's not about performance, it's about usability and disk space. And again, that time I somehow started a WiFi access point and couldn't find anything online to turn it off. That laptop also at some point had the new folder option get removed from the right click menu. I had to copy/paste one. There are a lot of weird things that can happen over the years.
What's wrong with it? You're also buying bread from a baker who did all the hard work. The creators of GitHub also created a product and sold it, with the difference that their product was the entire company.
Hey man it's ok. The motivation to learn stuff should be intrinsic, not extrinsic. There no value learning something that you're not interested in, because it can only be applied to topics that you won't also be interested in. Don't stress it. If you're happy with what AI gives you, it's good enough
Dark pattern and dick move.
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