• @[email protected]
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    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]
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      Tbh I’d try it multiple times too, just because the concept of cd not being there is horrifying and cannot possibly be the case

      • @Ziglin
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        21 month ago

        Also muscle memory. I keep typing aliases I only have on my computer :(

    • @[email protected]
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      241 month ago

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

      1. Read all of the words
      2. Believe them
      • ich_iel
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        1 month ago

        Unless you were the one writing the program and its error messages - then check, that you didn’t mess up there…

      • @[email protected]
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        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

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        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]
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          31 month ago

          Having written some error messages in a godforsaken database frontend, an error message only means that something didn’t work correctly and may or may not correctly indicate what is actually wrong

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          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” 😂

          • Ethan
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            21 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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        Yeah but those are arguments to cd, the error says command not found

        Edit: Sorry didn’t see /S