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[–] 59 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years 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
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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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" 😂

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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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