• @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    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).

    • Bob
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      329 months ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
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      119 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        89 months ago

        Oh, I feel for you… Delphi is a really nice language… for 1995. Last I saw it used in anger was back in 2004 or so, and even then it was a joke that it was still going…

    • Otter
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      119 months ago

      “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

    • Maeve
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      29 months ago

      Intermittent rewards are a hell of a drug.