Message-ID: <697a8cfb@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: The Value of a 2nd Look At Code Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <6975f968$0$28050$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <3csdR.1398925$H7H.1265376@fx13.iad> <20260126081836.000048f9@gmail.com> <10l9r7r$o26j$1@news1.tnib.de> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 29 Jan 2026 08:26:03 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 43 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81652 Marc Haber wrote: > John Ames wrote: >>On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:52:08 -0500 >>c186282 wrote: >>> I suspect that stuff like programs may leave waking consciousness, >>> but somewhere deep down keep some little processes running. Then, >>> when you go back to it after awhile, new and better approaches and >>> tweaks seem to come easily. >> >>Absolutely. Our lead developer at $EMPLOYER has often related stories >>of working on a problem for hours or days, leaving off and going to >>bed, and waking up the next morning with the answer waiting for him. > > That often happens, yes. But I also have the situation when I go to > bed with an open issue that it takes me too long to get to sleep > because I keep pondering about the issue. I usually find the obvious answer while lying in bed, and go to sleep entirely satisfied. Then after working on it the next day I discover that in my tiredness I'd just forgotten most of the constraints that made the problem difficult in the first place. Good for sleep, bad for problem solving (especially if I don't remember in the morning either and start extensively redesigning things). > It also helps to explain the problem so someone. MIT used to have a > teddy bear in next to the door to the user helldesk, people had to > explain their problem to the bear before being allowed in. People tell > that many people stopped right in their explanation and went back to > their console. Most times I go to start a technical topic on Usenet I realise the answer by the time I've got to the end of writing it and just keep it as a private note. > In the last months I made the experience that is also helps to explain > the issue to an LLM. Well I guess that's the modern version of what I do. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#