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by jancsika 953 days ago
Upshot: you are supposed to take out the trash using a realtime scheduler, and the common question means you have missed many deadlines!

It's as if you are forcing your spouse to somehow smell a janky web page.

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Of course, you only got into the situation where you're supposed to take out the trash with some fancy realtime scheduler because the impulse to spend 6 hours automating a 15 second task was too strong to resist....
You get into the situation because, in a relationship, a stench that lasts past a hard limit will get associated with a lot more than the garbage.