• 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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      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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      “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