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This is why I like electronics, you can usually trust a datasheet, especially if it's something a lot of people use, whereas software documentation is usually almost useless

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debugging strategy: verify things people tell you

strategy: verify things people tell you

Sometimes the documentation or what people tell you conflicts with what you're actually seeing:

illustration:
very experienced person: "if you do X, Y will happen!"
reality: <does X> <Z happens instead>

When this happens, there are 2 options:
1. you made a mistake somewhere (95% of the time)
2. the information was wrong / outdated (5% of the time)

Verifying is important because outdated information can waste a LOT of your time if you assume it's true

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2:10 PM · Jul 15, 2022Twitter for Android

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of course you should still do your own measurements if you can