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I always find this percentages puzzling. I reckon people busy thinking are too busy, or simply never get requested to fill in surveys about how they spend their

I always find this percentages puzzling. I reckon people busy thinking are too busy, or simply never get requested to fill in surveys about how they spend their idle CPU brain time. Thinking is the last remaining freedom, as long as you don't say all the things you think of out loud. :)

hilbert42 6y ago
"Thinking is the last remaining freedom, as long as you don't say all the things you think of out loud." Absolutely, right on both accounts. (Occasionally swearing under my breath sometimes gives the game away.)
- chris_st 6y ago
  That's one of the unmentioned beauties of being a programmer... you can swear all you want, and people just think your code won't compile :-)
  - hilbert42 6y ago
    Hey, it's not only programming, how many other triggers would you like me to mention? ;-)
tharkun__ 6y ago
My mom really liked this song. She grew up in East Germany until the fled. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Gedanken_sind_frei https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Gedanken_sind_frei Also check out the author and what other things he wrote.