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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.
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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
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I learned early in my software engineering career these two beautiful rules of debugging:
- Read all of the words
- Believe them
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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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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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