You’re right, I want thinking of the manager thermals as counting as another person for the purposes of “alone with”, but provided they can move back and forth simultaneously with their employee (or they’re always counted as part of the new team) then the puzzle is possible.
It’s not, the way it’s written, the asshole cannot coexist with either the bore or the idiot, which is pretty accurate.
Ideas can only be patented, not copyrighted. If a company designs something novel enough to qualify for a patent, and so good that people willingly pay for the feature, that’s impressive, and arguably still a good thing. If instead they design a better user experience, or an improvement in performance, the ideas can be used in open source, even when the code cannot be.
I’m bragging when I say this: A decade ago, I rewrote an indecipherable mess of code into an elegant and transparent procedure, nestled comfortably inside every sanity/insanity check I could think of for the situation. Today, that code (aside from an update for a vulnerable dependency) is still running just the way I wrote it.
Releases should be fast and rare.
I felt it was not immediately obvious that 314159 is a prime number, and wanted to remind people. It’s also a twin prime, but as the good twin… I try not to bring up 314161, unless there’s a compelling reason.
They only came out 10 years ago. If we optimize now, how will we integrate an AI chat agent feature next year?
Which industry do you work in?
I love the idea (and it’s definitely true) that there are irrational numbers which, when written in a suitable base, contain the sequence of characters, “This number is provably normal” and are simultaneously not normal.
Do a whole lot of research, then take control of the president, and pardon people for a minute. As far as I’m aware, it takes effect as long as someone hears, or I write it down or something.
Numbers smaller than 314159, surely.
We used to have good, strong open source tools made out of C (which is a lot like steel - it can only be worked by blue collar computer nerds with muscly brains). Now that steel core is corroding because of the influence of hackers and other white collar computer sorts with their creative problem solving, and unintended uses of memory.
That new corrosion is called rust, and it eventually appears on every C project that’s left outside, unless someone comes along to brush it off occasionally.