“Could it be that I’m shit at programming? …No, it’s the computer who must be wrong.”

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

It’s always a good idea to confirm the error in case it was just a glitch in the matrix.

So true. LOL

Stage 2: necro a two year old post as a form of procrastination

Welcome to selenium. Hopefully your automation ran during a check in…

I just need the error message to prove to me that it’s real.

And then it suddenly works because I built a russian roulette using the random function

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

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

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