this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Xkcd could be considered a meme right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get what that's trying to show me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the graph title explains it pretty well, but here's an example from it. If you have a task you do 5 times a day, and you are able to optimize it to save 30 seconds each time you do the task, then you can spend up to 3 days doing that optimization before you've wasted more time than you'll save (over the course of 5 years).

Pretty helpful in the context of something like automation, you can figure out how long you should spend automating a task before you've wasted more time than you would have just doing the task manually every time.