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I ran into this when I used to work for a living. My co-workers would spend half an hour trying to figure out how to make a fifteen minute job easier, instead of just doing the job the old-fashioned, unimproved way. By the time they were set up to save labor, I wasn finished.
>I ran into this when I used to work for a living. My co-workers would spend half an hour trying to figure out how to make a fifteen minute job easier, instead of just doing the job the old-fashioned, unimproved way.
Yeah well, if it's for a one shot moment/task it's not worth it to spend "half an hour trying to figure out how to make a fifteen minute job easier"
Now if those 30 minutes end up reducing every single future instance of similar 15 minutes jobs to a bunch of seconds.... Well you spared yourself countless hours of useless pain in the ass
I find it worthwhile to spend 30 minutes to automate away 15 minutes of work. Worth it to stay capable at that kind of ad hoc scripting because sometimes you need it and in a hurry.
>I find it worthwhile to spend 30 minutes to automate away 15 minutes of work.
As I said if that 15min task is going to comeback to bite you in the ass everyday, yeah it's worth it
If not, if it's never going to be the same 15min task you're going to deal with, then you wasted an additional 15 minutes on it by making that script that you'll never use again
Repetition is key here
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