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minus-squareThorry84@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up50·21 hours agoHmmm 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.
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoNever dealt with an intermittent failure or race condition, eh?
minus-squareLepsea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·13 hours agoYou see they all different one use / the other use - and ~ /S
minus-squarethevoidzero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-29 hours agoYeah but those are arguments to cd, the error says command not found Edit: Sorry didn’t see /S
minus-squarekaboom36@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up71·21 hours agoTbh I’d try it multiple times too, just because the concept of cd not being there is horrifying and cannot possibly be the case
minus-squareThorry84@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up24·20 hours agoVery true, I would do the same and feel my stomach drop farther each time.
minus-squareskulbuny@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·20 hours agoI learned early in my software engineering career these two beautiful rules of debugging: Read all of the words Believe them
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoAddendum 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!
minus-squareskulbuny@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 hours agoI 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” 😂
minus-squareugo@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·15 hours agoUntil 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
minus-squareelvith@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-219 hours agoUnless you were the one writing the program and its error messages - then check, that you didn’t mess up there…
minus-squareFruitLips@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·20 hours agoWhere is the Windows ‘help’ button, did you try that?
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.
Never dealt with an intermittent failure or race condition, eh?
You see they all different one use / the other use - and ~
/S
Yeah but those are arguments to
cd, the error says command not foundEdit: Sorry didn’t see /S
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
Very true, I would do the same and feel my stomach drop farther each time.
I learned early in my software engineering career these two beautiful rules of debugging:
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!
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” 😂
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
Unless you were the one writing the program and its error messages - then check, that you didn’t mess up there…
Where is the Windows ‘help’ button, did you try that?