Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools.

NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You appear to have completely misunderstood OP. There is no anger or correction of the original comic here.

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• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As Randall Munroe would put it, duty calls

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• maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ummm … are you ok?

  It’s a good point to make and interesting to see how the numbers shake out … both of which come together to make the broader point that many people probably have bad intuitions for what these numbers look like.

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• sparr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most of my motivation here was recurring conversations with friends and colleagues and strangers about how much time I put into making small contributions to open source projects.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you are having recurring conversations with everyone you know (… and apparently many you don’t?) about spending too much time “making small contributions”… you probably need better time management skills.

    And yeah. That is pretty much what I assume happened. You made a comment about how you spent twelve hours optimizing the way you read your email. Someone jokingly pasted an xkcd comic. You went “well ackshually” and decided you would argue that you are saving the world by saving everyone else time and blah blah blah.

    Which is how most of these go. Because people either seem to realize they are supposed to laugh along with xkcd in a “Well… uhm… Okay, you aren’t wrong but… I got nothing” kind of way or they laugh until they feel “called out” and get set off.

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    • sparr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How did you get from “People often ask” to “having recurring conversations with everyone you know”?

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• Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you seriously see an edit of an xkcd from 3 or so years ago and get so angry that you felt the need to run and post in a forum about how they are wrong and you are actually a massive douche?

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• crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No?

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• ISibboI@mastodon.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @NuXCOM_90Percent @sparr I don't think anyone got angry here?

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