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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 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. :)



"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.)


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 :-)


Hey, it's not only programming, how many other triggers would you like me to mention? ;-)


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

Also check out the author and what other things he wrote.




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