I guess now we finally know why Babbage never finished building the Analytical Engine.

  • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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    One time my boss asked me to basically solve the Travelling salesman problem.

    My first pass at ot was a simple grab closest neighbor solution, but that left a slightly unoptimal path and my boss asked me to “fix” it. I explained to him why, no, I can’t make it both fast amd accurate, pick one, while also showing him that wikipedia page. I was so mad when he said just make it more accurate ignoring now it takes hours to run sometimes only to save 10 seconds of a machine moving.