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thomascgalvin on Jan 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

Two minutes multiplied by even a hundred people more than makes up for the time spent scripting this. That's just sort of how hackers do.

chaz6 on Jan 25, 2020 [–]

Quite; the latest trend of "Robotic Process Automation" is quite sad. Rather than automating a bad process, you should improve the process itself.

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