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Comment by fennecbutt | Hacker News Reader

You couldn't Google this?

I mean, even ChatGPT is capable of doing that.

> TFA most commonly refers to Trifluoroacetic acid, a highly persistent, mobile "forever chemical" (PFAS) found globally in water and soil, widely used in organic chemistry as a solvent.

When I searched for "its in the tfa meaning" this was my third result on Duck Duck Go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756

When I searched for "tfa internet meaning", The fifth result looked helpful so I clicked it, and it was:

https://www.noslang.com/search/tfa

Searching the internet wasn’t hard before AI, and it isn’t hard today.

I just googled "what is tfa", and none of the results on the first page were related to the current topic.

But surely your search engine must have given you the answer within your first three clicks, if not, perhaps you should consider a better search engine.

Try “TFA acronym Internet forums”.

"hackernews TFA" get better search skills.

You must be one of those “AI can’t possibly make anyone more productive” folks.

Don’t know about your parent, but I am certainly on of those “AI can’t make anyone more productive”.

Well, at least I would say that while being a bit hyperbolic. But folks like us who prefer to see claims by corporations trying to sell you stuff backed by behavioral research before we start taking the corporation’s word for it.

The irony is that web searches for an explanation of something often lead to a discussion thread where the poster is downvoted and berated for daring to ask people instead of Google. And then there's one commenter who actually actually explains the thing you were wondering about.

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