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Old 06-07-2021, 12:41 AM   #304 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Excellent! A test case.

Try changing it up and note the results.
Update: The night this was proposed, I coldly stated "this problem is artificial", and my wife stormed away slamming the door.

I lack tact, but I don't lack a good sense for when a plan is suboptimal. Even worse, I don't usually have a better idea at the time I'm being critical of a bad plan.

Like clockwork, the next day the optimal strategy came to me, and I proposed it to my wife. I started off saying, "you won't like this initially, but here's how this plan optimizes all considerations".

She's a huge advocate of this plan now, and is even telling everyone our grand plan, sans my initial rejection of the original bad plan, and her anger towards me.
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