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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That also goes to show why to not waste 3 days to shave 2 seconds off a program that gets run once a week.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Agreed. Or look at the manual effort, is it worth coding it, or just do it manually for one offs. A coworker would code a bunch of mundane tasks for single problems, where I would check if it actually will save time or I just manually manipulate the data myself.