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167 points jgrahamc | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 13:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | source

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fifticon ◴[02 Apr 25 14:42 UTC] No.43557266[source]▶

as a 30+y employed systems programmer, when I read a story like this, I get angry at the highly piled brittle system,not at the guy having sl installed. I am aware there exists a third option of not getting angry in the first place, but I hate opaque nonrobust crap. This smells like everything I hate about front-end tooling. ignorance and arrogance in perfect balance.

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1. Tractor8626 ◴[02 Apr 25 16:09 UTC] No.43558260[source]▶

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Totally happens in C code too. Maybe even more often.

Just today had proxmox not working because of invalid localhost line in /etc/hosts. Or had problem with logging in KDE because /etc/shadow was owned by root.

In both cases only incomprehensible error messages. Luckily solutions was googleable.

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