dotfiles VS hyperfine

Folks enjoy citing XKCD 1205 in automation discussions because it does a great job illustrating the opportunity time cost of automation. The time spent to code a new solution for an already solved problem doesn't help solve business goals until after the investment pays off.

as framed in the introduction of this article, https://xkcd.com/1205 is hard to ignore whenever i'm spending time configuring a tool in the name of "productivity"

but i just got nushell properly set up and i've realised that the table doesn't capture the whole dynamic: there's more to work than time trade-offs when new tools enable entirely new types of tasks.

nushell makes working with structured data fun and so i've started benchmarking my code and quickly doing performance analysis - something i was rarely doing before.

you can still ultimately reduce this down to time saved, i suppose, but as a person who's generally skeptical of terminal tweaking as procrastination in disguise, i can highly recommend giving nushell a go.

I believe most of us sleep fewer than 3 times per day, so writing down times and doing a few subtractions and a little data entry once a week should be under 1 min/day to have everything digitised. (that said, https://xkcd.com/1205/ suggests it'd be worth spending up to 21 hours to fully automate)

There are no more obvious or easy gains here. Any more work is likely to yield small returns. Go outside, have a life or at the least consult the relevant chart.

It isn't as polished as whatever first-party solution Apple has the potential to develop, but I just use OneDrive to restore my personal data + chezmoi to reprovision my dotfiles and it works pretty well.

About every six months I do a fire drill and completely factory reset my macbook. Takes about 20 minutes (with only 5 minutes of actual keyboard attention required) for me to go from a fresh device to one that has all my apps and developer tools ready to roll.

https://github.com/eh8/dotfiles

Check out the official hyperfine Github repo

And then I used hyperfine to run the benchmarks on my MacBook Pro 14 M2 Max, and here are the results:

Search "benchmarking tools for linux" and decide that hyperfine is good for what I'm doing. Run Jennifer's new python script against my refactored perl and find that the python is 1.26 times faster for k=3 and 1.47 times faster for k=4. For the Covid-19 sequence, these are both on the order of hundreds of milliseconds.

> It is very possible to write sub 100ms procedures in TS, […]

I will not disagree with this statement because I don’t have a way to test inshellisense right now. Could you (or anyone with a working Node + NPM installation) please install inshellisense and post the actual numbers? Perhaps using a tool like hyperfine (https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine).

Yeah, while it's not as thorough as these tools, the method is at least reproducible and sane, and with ~10 or so samples, you get an interval with a nice confidence.

Another through method will be hyperfine[0], yet I wanted to provide a method which requires no installation and can be done in a whim, without jumps and hoops, with the tools already at hand.

[0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

That is native and inbuild but I would suggest below options instead 1. Using lazy's Profile tab instead https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim 2. Using a dedicated plugin to do this https://github.com/dstein64/vim-startuptime. 3. Using an external program hyperfine is one that I use https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

Fair enough, although might I recommend using hyperfine for your testing? ;p