Post #1457363

2025-11-14 15:45 UTC

@mariyadelano It's because they aren't computer programmers and I define "computer programmers" to be "the laziest people on Planet Earth." No one else puts so much effort into automating something, to avoid a small amount of effort.

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@melindrea@beige.party 2025-11-14 15:53

@isaackuo @mariyadelano Meme of person turning away at option A, then pointing happily at option B: A: Spend three hours Doing The Thing B: Spend four hours writing a script to automate Doing The Thing

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@nxskok@cupoftea.social 2025-11-14 15:56

@isaackuo @mariyadelano Larry Wall (the inventor of Perl) said that programmers should have "laziness, impatience, and hubris". Cite: https://thethreevirtues.com

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@oddhack@mstdn.social 2025-11-14 17:04

@isaackuo @mariyadelano I have lost track of the number of times I thought about automating a throwaway task, did not, and then found myself repeating the throwaway task over and over and over...

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@desantis@mastodon.bida.im 2026-04-21 18:44

@isaackuo @mariyadelano LMFAO 🎯 I’m able to confirm I learned programming because of being lazy and not wanting to spend more than 20 minutes creating web server crash reports.

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