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Comment by girvo

10 hours ago

People don’t actually track wall clock time, I’ve noticed.

Nope, they never do.

That's how you end up with those cooking recipes that only "take 5 minutes". Sure, if you don't count buying all the ingredients, cleaning and preparing them, cleaning up the pots and pans (and probably the worktop, stove, etc), a lot of things can take 5 minutes. Even trivial stuff like scrambled eggs don't actually take 5 minutes when you take everything into account.

Reminds me when I automated a manual service deployment that only "took 5 minutes". Sure, copying the binaries only took 5 minutes, but coordinating between various departments to deactivate the relevant monitoring bits, turning off the services, invalidate the caches, etc, etc actually took half a day with humans involved. Once automated and parallelized the thing took about 10 minutes for a data center.