I think that perhaps the responses to questions like this one are too “friendly” here, on the Julia Discourse. FWIW on Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange a vague question like this one would receive comments asking for clarification, prompting the asker to fix the question, with mods standing by ready to…

Encouraging clearer questions on discourse?

stevengj January 19, 2023, 12:54am 2

Sometimes we steer people towards this post: Please read: make it easier to help you

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