Spyke

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

10

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

8

I came here to say this. I wouldn’t be doing it if it didn’t sometimes work, making me even more frustrated.

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

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

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lemmy.pub

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

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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.

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You reached the end

Stage 1: denial | Spyke