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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by gota on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:56AM (#48830765)
> Grant me the serenity to accept the bad code i shouldn't fix, the courage to change the code I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Well, It's really early in the morning and I've got the quote of the day already

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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by minitoar on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:20AM (#48830994)
This is a slightly modified version of the serenity prayer of AA fame.
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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by gota on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:37AM (#48831152)
Yes, I know, but I substituted that one in daily usage for just shouting "SERENITY NOW" at maximum volume.
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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by narag on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:03AM (#48831406)
That seems similar to the "God give me patience, but I need it RIGHT NOW" prayer.
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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by Terr_ on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @01:45PM (#48834915)
> shouting "SERENITY NOW" at maximum volume.

I'm imagining the Silicon Valley scene where the character Gilfoyle has set up a loud death-metal automated noise that plays whenever the price of Bitcoin meets certain conditions... except the trigger is some kind of code-quality metric, the effect is my machine shouting at me to become serene.

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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by douglee650 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:15AM (#48832268)
live, laugh, cruft
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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by cgriswald on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:36AM (#48832570)
Though I walk through the valley of technical debt I shall fear no eval
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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by BobbyTables2 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:36PM (#48840687)
Nor the CI test that fails each day
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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by RetroTechie on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:19AM (#48870285)
Ye who enter this cursed codebase, shall abandon all hope of fixing it.
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