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[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 105 points 1 week ago

If at first you don’t succeed, try try again until you got a data point you can cherry pick.

[-] Baguette@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

The college special

Just a bit of minor data cleanup beforehand, totally legit

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Try again a little differently each time

[-] BalderSion@real.lemmy.fan 53 points 1 week ago

The scientific method is more about falsification than problem solving.

"If you ever succeed, devise and implement a test to see if it was a fluke."

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

send a rocket to the moon on your first attempt

Fuck we learned nothing

[-] don@lemm.ee 45 points 1 week ago

Sometimes it takes failing several times before you’ve learned enough to do it correctly. Not everything is “study the process fully and thoroughly, and do it perfectly the first time! 😤”

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 42 points 1 week ago

You cannot learn anything without failing. The fact we don't embrace this culturally is a tragedy.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

I teach a basic programming class. Third lesson is about inheritance and interfaces. I give them an execercise where they have to implement some interfaces and end up making a " diamond of death". The exercise is called the Kobayashi Maru

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

A lot of people take failure personally, and become scared to even try in the first place. Failure is seen as shameful, rather than a learning opportunity to better yourself.

[-] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The best lesson I learned in chemistry class was to not put a wet beaker on a pre-heated hot plate

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Sometimes the answer to "why did it go wrong" is "because I need to practice more".

Like, I know how to play the piano, I know how notes and keys work and in theory, I should be pretty good. In reality, I'm just shit at it because I never practiced.

[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

This is how I've learned to use Linux

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

If at first you don’t succeed skydiving isn’t for you

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

"If at first you dont succeed, try, try again" -> "The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting different results."

If at first you don't succeed,

its getting late and I'm tired, maybe I'll think about trying again next week...

few years later

...

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

If at first you don't succeed, avoid child endangerment charges and put your students in another irresponsible situation next week.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This show lied about how salmon spawned.

Also, her class cheated at that basketball game. I wonder what the Fritz was doing during the 1930s

Who even decides which kids get to go to her class?

[-] jack@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

this is literally Marxism-Leninism

[-] Kertyna@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

If at first you don't succeed.... BLAST THEM WITH YOUR BLUE EYES AGAIN!!!

[-] Litebit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why is not the right question it leads to ambiguous answers.

instead of why... find out how, when, and what.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

"If at first you don't succeed, blame immigrants." —Donald Musk

this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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