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.
Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m just trying to think of anything that I do 50x a day that takes five minutes.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ptrknvk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sending emails, opening files, checking the database. Those are quite mundane everyday tasks of every office clerk.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 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.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 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.
sparr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m going to click the [-] thread collapse button on Lemmy 50 times in the next ten minutes.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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;in JS or C.knatsch@feddit.de 5 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.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 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?
psud@lemmy.world 5 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.
sparr@lemmy.world 5 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.
autokludge@programming.dev 5 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.
- Cycle thru all currently open drawing documents, zoom to full page and force save.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 months ago
Lining up my indent levels.
psud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Space space space space
bamboo@lemm.ee 5 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.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 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.
Neato@ttrpg.network 5 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.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 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.
Neato@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
So doubling it: your entire repetitive job. Would have efficiency increased to halve the time. Pretty rare.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 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).
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I nolonger write emails chatgpt does that for me
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not since I was a teenager.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Leave my mom out of this.