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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 57 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.

[–] skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 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
[–] elvith 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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