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Although, to the grandparent's point, that's very much a "getting distracted while performing the task" video -- the first several steps didn't show Hal having
by kemayo 5y ago
Although, to the grandparent's point, that's very much a "getting distracted while performing the task" video -- the first several steps didn't show Hal having to divert, after all. He could have replaced the lightbulb and then gone back to fix the shelf, and fixed the shelf and then gone back to oil the drawer.
It's only oiling the drawer that demonstrates true yak-shaving, since he then has to buy more oil and fix the car.
- infogulch 5y agoSometimes I suspect that my current yak-shaving chain might have one step somewhere that isn't strictly necessary... but then I quickly dismiss that idea and start to write a report about why every step is needed, but then I notice how our wiki is disorganized should be split up into the four primary kinds of documentation as described by https://documentation.divio.com/ https://documentation.divio.com/, but then I noticed that our wiki service is running on an old server that hasn't been updated in 2 years and maybe it's time to switch to a saas provider, but wait does the provider I was looking at support the wiki syntax our current wiki uses? ...