Perceived Difficulty of Tasks

Four-panel comic: a bearded programmer in a red shirt at his computer. In the top panels, 'The Seemingly Hard Task' takes only ten minutes after finding the answer on StackOverflow. In the bottom panels, 'The Seemingly Easy Task' should take five minutes, but years later a balding older version says it's still not fixed after 23 years, 4 months, and 8 days. Expresses programmer self-mockery and underestimating difficulty.

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