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by pydry 1255 days ago
Onboarding is hard even as a senior.

On the one hand interruption is expensive: https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png

On the other hand, spinning your wheels trying to figure out something for an hour is expensive.

I've never really found a solution to maximizing my "interruption budget". Inevitably I end up both spinning my wheels too long sometimes and interrupting too much at other times.

Meanwhile trying to solve this problem also consumes way too many brain CPU cycles.