• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    Oh god yes, ran into this asking for a shell.nix file with a handful of tricky dependencies. It kept trying to do this insanely complicated temporary pull and build from git instead of just a 6 line file asking for the right packages.

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      4 hours ago

      “This code is giving me a return value of X instead of Y”

      “Ah the reason you’re having trouble is because you initialized this list with brackets instead of new().”

      “How would a syntax error give me an incorrect return”

      “You’re right, thanks for correcting me!”

      “Ok so like… The problem though.”