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I find it's a cruel trick people, usually inadvertently, play on me at work: "when you've got a sec can you look at x?" There's a portion of my brain that's im
by tills13 4y ago
I find it's a cruel trick people, usually inadvertently, play on me at work: "when you've got a sec can you look at x?"
There's a portion of my brain that's immediately hijacked and starts thinking about the problem whether I'm actively working on it or not.
Happens to me for work problems outside of work, too. I'll just be chilling in the shower or something and suddenly I'm thinking about a work problem.
Maybe one day I'll retire from programming and do something less theoretical e.g. driving a semi.
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- chris_overseas 4y agoThe obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/356/ https://xkcd.com/356/
- tpurves 4y agoDamn you! Now all I can think about is that xkcd problem.
- dekhn 4y agoThat's taken from the Google Labs Aptitude test, IIRC it's a simplification of https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9909120 https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9909120 with solution here https://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/ https://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/
- hgsgm 4y agoBad idea. Don't drive and derive. You'll be driven to distraction and crash.