• grue@lemmy.world
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    The crazy thing is that sometimes it works (e.g. because your Makefile is wrong or you’ve got weird preprocessor stuff going on that takes a couple of iterations to fully compute).

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      or it could also be that you happen to be lucky enough the crash was just an occurrence that happens 1/20 times, in which case the problem still persists but… at least it sort of runs perfectly fine, 95% of the time

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      “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"

      The times when it works just reinforce the act of trying it again and again

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      Or because you must have been Hitler in a previous life and now have to use Delphi, which sometimes falls over with internal compiler errors that might resolve themselves, but sometimes needs an IDE restart, and sometimes a full machine reboot with no rhyme or fucking reason to any of it.

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    What freaks me out is that sometimes getting the error message more than once can reset parts of the programmer’s brain enough to be able to see the error that “wasn’t there” before. And what’s equally freaky is how often the programmer then forgets what the error even was once it’s fixed.

    This is personal experience of course. For me, being introspective about this is kind of like remembering Dr Who’s The Silence exist when they’re not right there, but somehow it can be done.