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Re:Stop lying to yourself – you “fix it later” by adql on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:34AM (#33691431)
That's extra effort too, might as well fix it on the spot.

Also you might not have the data to trigger it in first place. If your todo is "optimize caching of this data" it's hard to see overall system hitratio to know when it might be worth it to start optimizing.

There are also dependency todos, "new version of the thing has that feature and this needs to be changed once we upgrade to it"

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Re:Stop lying to yourself – you “fix it later” by hutzlibu on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:22AM (#33694296)
"That's extra effort too, might as well fix it on the spot."

It depends on the problem. Some things you do not just "fix on the spot", they take longer and sometimes you do have other, more urgent problems. Those are times, when I do something like this.

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