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Re:“That Won't Work” by analog31 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @10:33PM (#27410240)
I had that experience once. To make it more interesting, I was the lone physicist in the entire company, and a brand new employee in a huge meeting full of company brass. I told the product manager that something wouldn't work. He stood up from his chair and shouted at me.

He didn't know that I had some "trial by fire" experience in previous jobs, and I calmly stood my ground. What he was proposing violated the second law of thermodynamics.

Thankfully the person running the meeting proposed tabling the idea. But it remained in the product requirements document for the duration of the project.

I learned that sometimes math and physics are best discussed privately. ;-)

Re:“That Won't Work” by hutzlibu on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:27AM (#27411209)
"I learned that sometimes math and physics are best discussed privately. ;-) "

Would you have preferred to remained silent and afterwards having to implement a physical impossible concept?

Re:“That Won't Work” by analog31 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:19PM (#27417991)
Definitely not, but I've learned that some things are best done in meetings, and some things, not in meetings.
Re:“That Won't Work” by hef19898 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @07:02AM (#27412248)
I had the same experience with percentage calculation. In my case brass was two PhDs in Chemistry. Well, both were reaching retirement age, but still.