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They Need To Stop Doing This (kerala.party)
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[–] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But you could also do a mean time analysis on specific tasks and have it cut off at a standard deviation or two (90-98% of task times covered), and have a checkbox or something for when the user expects longer times.

You could probably even make this adaptive, with a cutoff at 2x the standard time, and updating the median estimate after each run.