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[–] [email protected] 59 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] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Addendum to 2: never believe that what they say is relevant to what's actually happening here. You have a lot of faith that the people writing error messages knew what they were doing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean, if the error says "variable foo is not defined" I don't think it's wise to go "I'm pretty sure it's defined, the compiler is just wrong" 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don’t know, have you ever used JavaScript? I’ve run into some really fucking weird bugs. I’ve also spent hours trying to find the source of an error message only to discover the error message was lying and caused by some other error.

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