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

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not since I was a teenager.

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  • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leave my mom out of this.

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• xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How many things does anyone do 50x a day, period? Apart from autonomic body functions I can’t think of anything. I probably don’t even stand up 50 times a day.

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  • ptrknvk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sending emails, opening files, checking the database. Those are quite mundane everyday tasks of every office clerk.

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  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Copy, cut, paste, undo. Use those keyboard shortcuts and if you work with documents for a notable part of the day you will save a half day a year or so.

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    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know some people who still do that with the right click menu. Then again, they don’t really copy-paste stuff very often. Maybe only once a week or so.

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  • sparr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m going to click the [-] thread collapse button on Lemmy 50 times in the next ten minutes.

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Type ; in JS or C.

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  • knatsch@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I click the left mouse button more often each day, also when you work in a production facility you have a bunch of repetitive tasks, automating them is pretty much was humanity did in the last century.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I click the left mouse button more often each day, also when you work in a production facility you have a bunch of repetitive tasks, automating them is pretty much was humanity did in the last century.

      How can we shave a second of the time it takes for you to click the left mouse button?

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      • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Automate it.

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My mouse seems to believe there is no use case for more than ten right clicks in a row, so it corrects them to left clicks. Sucks for minesweeper.

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• sparr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That area of the chart is for people with really repetitive jobs/hobbies. There are MANY jobs where you do the same 5-10 minute thing 50x a day.

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  • autokludge@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a lot of repetition in my job (CAD modeller). Even just knowing keyboard shortcuts & setting up shortcuts for frequently used operations can easily net me 5 seconds per operation. I want to spend my energy on solving the task at hand, not on how to use the tool in the moment. I don’t want to move the mouse away from the work area if I can help it.

    Maybe not as frequent 5 per day - but scripts for really bottom of the barrel stuff:

    • Cycle thru all currently open drawing documents, zoom to full page and force save.
      • zoom out ensures drawing can be identified from document thumbnail.
      • the software is known to crash, especially editing drawings.
      • easy 10mins duplicated work saved.
    • Printing all open drawings out to the office printer in order with a delay between them, so i don’t spend the next 20 minutes manually sorting the drawing prints.
      • printers don’t always print in incoming order, some documents take longer to process.
    • find/replace for text notes
      • the software doesn’t have that feature.

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lining up my indent levels.

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Space space space space

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  • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Consider using an auto formatter. I just barf my code into the editor, press a magic key combo and it’s all formatted better than I could do by hand.

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    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the point. I automate it so I don’t have to do it manually multiple times a day. I don’t even press keys, it autoformats on periodic save.

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• Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Write emails? At 250min, or 4 hours it’s either a major repetitive work task or a hobby.

  Or if you’re into wargaming or model making, assembly tasks or painting.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Write emails? At 250min, or 4 hours it’s either a major repetitive work task or a hobby.

    Remember though, this is the amount of time savings something has to represent.

    So you still have to accomplish the task.

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    • Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So doubling it: your entire repetitive job. Would have efficiency increased to halve the time. Pretty rare.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, there are some lower hanging fruit.

        For example, if it takes 10 minutes to poop, but you can get that down to say, 5, with a decent centerfuge, across an entire company (1000 people, assuming every one is pooping five times a day).

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I nolonger write emails chatgpt does that for me

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