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[–] archonet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

"Could it be that I'm shit at programming? ...No, it's the computer who must be wrong."

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then something terrible happens. It works, underscoring your lack of understanding.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's always a good idea to confirm the error in case it was just a glitch in the matrix.

[–] mainaccount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

So true. LOL

[–] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And then it suddenly works because I built a russian roulette using the random function

[–] gravistar@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Welcome to selenium. Hopefully your automation ran during a check in.....

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those Dell D series latitudes were ahead of their time in build quality. Especially when compared to what came later.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And you could upgrade them too. Back when socketed CPUs existed on laptops along with expansion slots, and batteries were removable with a thumb latch (and most laptops could run on the power adapter without the battery being installed, which prevented trickle charging related battery degradation, perfect for a "desktop replacement" that would spend a lot of its time hooked up to power before that category of laptops even really existed). Good times.

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

They even had a super compact version. Something like a d400. Was awesome for datacenter/console work. Had a serial port, vga and was like 12.3 inches and only a few pounds despite being stout.

I think I used a d6xx for a while longer than I should have just because of that serial port and how bad usb to serial adapters were back then.

Unfortunately the d420 had a slower processor and would struggle as a desktop replacement.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Stage 2: necro a two year old post as a form of procrastination

[–] Little8Lost@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

And then the floasing poin number got differently calculated on your machine to the machine your collegue is running

[–] sznio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Stage 2: it works and you feel the dread that you won't hunt that bug down until it crashes prod.

[–] WhosMansIsThis@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I just need the error message to prove to me that it's real.

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