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by rob74 437 days ago
The modern equivalent of this would be a one-line change in a codebase that fixes a significant issue. If you then log three days of effort on the ticket, people may also start questioning that, but:

Changing a line: 1 minute

Knowing which line to change (which includes making sure that the change doesn't break something else): 23 hours, 59 minutes