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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Hmmm command not found, let me just try the same command a couple more times, this time it will work right?

In IT teaching users to actually read and understand errors is always an uphill battle.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I learned early in my software engineering career these two beautiful rules of debugging:

  1. Read all of the words
  2. Believe them
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Until you write a compiler error in some deeply templated C++ code, in which case just reading every word takes all day

/s but not too much

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