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From a Calvin & Hobbes strip: [DAD] It used to be that if a client wanted something in a week, it was considered a rush job, and he was lucky to get it. Now, w
by notpachet 5y ago
From a Calvin & Hobbes strip:
[DAD] It used to be that if a client wanted something in a week, it was considered a rush job, and he was lucky to get it. Now, with modems, faxes, and car phones, everybody wants everything instantly! Improved technology just increases expectations. These machines don't make life easier -- they make like more harassed. If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently.
[CALVIN] Six minutes to microwave this?? Who's got that kind of time?!
- TecoAndJix 5y agoLink to the strip - https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/08/17 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/08/17
- ByThyGrace 5y agoIs C&H text searchable? Great find otherwise!
- dxbydt 5y agoThe fuck. Its actually searchable! I tried googling this - summer is butter on your chin site:https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ found it instantly.
- TecoAndJix 5y agoIt is! https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/ https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoLooks like every strip has a transcript embedded in the markup right under the image, which is very thoughtful of them.
- ThinkingGuy 5y agoOr as Scott Adams expressed it in chapter 1 of "The Dilbert Future": Good trend: Computers allow us to work 100% faster Unexpected bad thing: Computers generate 300 percent more work
- em-bee 5y agoyup, computers help us solve problems that we would not have without them
- agumonkey 5y agoHere's a sad anecdote: This is from a courthouse, they have a web application to register and edit formal requests from lawyers. Decent computers, ok network and printers. From: - listening to the lawyer, - (potentially reloging due to session timeouts), - accessing the right case through a long ID, - re asking the lawyer about the case ID because half the time they confuse with another ID system, - retrying to fetch the case, - selecting a bunch of options (most are direct mapping from ID to value, ID is actually concatenation of these values) - clicking a few more times, - reinputing some the already redundant values and waiting for the system to generate the .odt. - If that does not fail, you get an activex embed view of the document, - which is 10-15% of the time incorrect in a few places, so manual edit here we go. - You can now print it x2 You spent 5 full minutes on this. One day, network failed so no more web app. Girls told me they have a stash of old printed templates to fill manually. So I took the piece of paper, and while talking to the lawyer I could write things on the fly. It took 30 seconds, no wait, no uncertainty, no redundancy, no last minute error correction. Middle age monks > 2000s technology (when implemented in absurdia)
- indigochill 5y ago> If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently. Relevant XKCD? https://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/
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- aidenn0 5y agoOf course! Rust was designed by the head of the chair-jousting advocacy committee. It all makes sense now!
- Jtsummers 5y ago> If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently. This is actually why I still use a French press for my coffee every morning. I don't need to be hyper efficient all the time. That 15-20 minutes of my morning is relaxing, leisurely.
- potatoman22 5y agoYou brew your coffee for 15-20 minutes?? French presses are nice though :)
- Jtsummers 5y agoGrinding, boiling, to adding water to the grounds, then it takes 5 minutes. So ~10 minutes to boil the water, 5 for the actual brewing, and then 5+ minutes of just, whatever time.
- InitialLastName 5y ago5 minutes alone outside in the morning air, alone with your thoughts, sipping a cup of freshly brewed coffee.
- Jtsummers 5y agoOn good weather days, it was -15C or so this morning (so I ended up shoveling snow instead of relaxing like normal, got some exercise in though).
- bitwize 5y agoGarfield puts a tray of heat-up lasagna into the microwave, which turns on for one second, then shuts off. Garfield: These microwaves take forever.