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[-] saplyng@kbin.social 10 points 3 years ago

This also applies to coding! And I'm not currently dreading the fact I keep thinking of more and more convoluted solutions to my problem at work at all!

[-] physcx@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago

The overlap of things tried with logical reasons is far too great for programming. Have you tried speaking to your duck about it?

[-] saplyng@kbin.social 1 points 3 years ago

I might need to, because right now the lengths I'm going to avoid a small amount of javascript for a UI is getting ridiculous...

[-] Minion3665@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago

I have spent the last two days on a networking issue. Certain images weren't being transmitted over the network, even though they were being generated.

It turns out that the image generation was actually silently failing because I was missing fonts.

You're not alone, we weep together

this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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