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The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)

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Re: The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)

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Post by sjy »

yipbub wrote: post #276
sjy wrote: post #239

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I have an entrenched Anki habit – I picked it up while studying for an exam, and now it says I’ve been using it for an average of 17 minutes a day for 2 years. It’s a great tool and I recommend it. But I don’t think it helps to fix the phone addiction problem. Getting to an average of 17 minutes was hard work that required a lot of willpower. I’m sure most people with a phone addiction problem are spending much more…

What's your recommended Anki app?

After using the free desktop and web apps for a couple of weeks I shelled out for the official (expensive) iOS app.

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Post by nottorp »

gadabout wrote: post #75
DiffEq wrote: post #40

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I have had my office phone on Do Not Disturb for 5 years and my cell phone has all notifications turned off and the ringer is set to off. The only time i turn it on is if I am expecting a call - which is hardly ever. Same with my PC - no notifications...it helps a great deal to keep the tool a tool instead of letting it become your master.

Culling down notifications was a life-changing action for me. Like you, I turned off almost all notifications. My only notifications were texts/calls from people that depended upon me (my wife, my parents, my best friends). Interacting with apps and my phone in general after that became something either I chose or chose not to do. My phone was no longer an algorithm or other person controlling me, but instead a usefu…

> This is obviously a luxury that I am able to work and live like this, but I would encourage everyone to turn off any notifications they can and see how they feel after a week or month like that, then revisit and turn off more if possible.

Why is it a luxury?

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Post by qz2 »

hans1729 wrote: post #290
ascar wrote: post #281

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The flipped ctrl/alt keys is the worst part for me. I really wish there was a setting in MacOS to flip them around without causing weird issues. Unfortunately, while you can flip ctrl/alt system-wide some apps already use the Linux/windows shortcuts (like terminal ctrl+c/ctrl+d for stop and exit) and then these are flipped, which drives me even more insane. The best shot is overwriting menu commands one by one, which…

> I have high hopes for WSL2 replacing MacOS or Ubuntu VM's for me, especially because Darwin is simply not a linux system and you really feel the difference once you work on natively compiled code. That's exactly what I did two weeks ago, after years of working on macos I ditched it in favor of windows. I haven't looked back since. The native WSL-integration in windows' vscode is a blessing; you open vscode, it's al…

WSL integration love wears off pretty quickly I find. There are so many rough edges and broken things.

While debugging a UDP server recently I discovered that any attempt to capture anything via UDP was scuppered entirely by the networking abstraction. Also the bastardised lack of services is problematic.

Thus I’ve gone back to virtual box and Debian. You still can use VSCode but have to jump through some more hoops

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Post by 3np »

stevensawtelle wrote: post #130
apetresc wrote: post #23

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Specifically what functionality do you feel is so critical? The only thing I really struggled with at first was: - 2FA codes, but a self-hosted Bitwarden and a Yubikey solved that well enough - Maps. This is a legitimate sacrifice, especially for someone with as poor a sense of direction as I have. But between the mapping application in my car and looking things up before I leave somewhere on my laptop, it's not been…

I think music/podcasts would be a big sacrifice for me. I suppose I could do a dedicated MP3 player for music, but especially with podcasts the live-updating feed is something I really enjoy.

You could host this and couple it with whatever would be a good client/player for you: https://github.com/airsonic-advanced/airsonic-advanced

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Post by pas »

socalnate1 wrote: post #273
bonoboTP wrote: post #136

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Being a little offensive is fine. The question and argument should be whether it's a corre t assessment about the field, not whether it will hurt their feelings to read this. If it's false, argue that. It can be offensive to priests to say there's no god. It doesn't by itself make it false.

That’s fair. But you are just proving my point. This research was dismissed out of hand, it wasn’t actually engaged with to see if it’s a correct assessment or not. That seems to happen whenever any sort of soft science research is posted here. There is a contingent of folks that seems to believe soft science is an oxymoron and therefore shouldn’t even be tried.

It's not necessarily bad habit to kind of purge HN of these random "paper announcements". Wait until there's a meta-analysis and let's submit that and talk about that.

Regarding the folks who are militantly ignorant about the science of soft science, alas I have to agree, they are a bit of a problem.

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Post by pas »

abhayhegde wrote: post #297

How do you guys cope up with the lack of social media presence? I understand the drama and inattention it brings, but what about the urge to connect with people or learn from others? Also, is it beneficial not to have an online portfolio when it comes to jobs or opportunities?

Drama? Inattention? Could you explain that a bit? Do you mean twitter drama and FB racist uncle drama, and lack of faceless "happy birthdays" on FB? Or the lack of validating likes on instagram?

Because I found that to connect with people to learn FB is a complete nonstarter, instagram and twitter are both hopelessly trash due to their write-only nature. It's very hard to learn just by observing. (Sure, there are a few counter-examples, when you ask some expert/authority on some subject and they reply and many other folks too, and you might get some insight. But usually those are shallow, lacking detail, etc.)

Also, just being on these platforms doesn't mean you have to use them. (I mean I use FB Messenger all the time, but it's completely silent, I don't even get notifications - I have no idea why, I tried to somehow enable them, but they still don't show up, so if someone wants something they have to GSM call me.) So, just have a profile, fill out your about/bio, and so recruiters/HR will be at ease.

Focused, moderated subreddits are usually okay. Plus now thinking about it, reporting GitHub issues and trying to fix bugs helped the most with learning something. (Unfortunately it only works for code related things, but usually there are open communities for other domains where one can participate and learn from others.)

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Post by deadbunny »

wyclif wrote: post #291
ascar wrote: post #281

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The flipped ctrl/alt keys is the worst part for me. I really wish there was a setting in MacOS to flip them around without causing weird issues. Unfortunately, while you can flip ctrl/alt system-wide some apps already use the Linux/windows shortcuts (like terminal ctrl+c/ctrl+d for stop and exit) and then these are flipped, which drives me even more insane. The best shot is overwriting menu commands one by one, which…

It sounds like that instead of WSL2, you'd be a candidate for a power Linux distro (not Ubuntu) alone where you have rolling updates.

What is not available in Ubuntu that precludes it from "power" usage in your opinion?

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Post by dagaci »

Unable to read past the abstract here, so I'm guessing that the the mere presence of the smartphone causes an unconscious distraction because the phone might "do something".

Is it possible the that simply switching off the device will eliminate the distraction and impact on attention?

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Post by trevyn »

slothtrop wrote: post #146

New hot take: I'm addicted to my laptop. The phone barely registers in terms of interest because I work on my laptop anyway, which is less cumbersome to navigate. Notwithstanding the need to separate work from leisure life, much of leisure is just attached to this device. Even the less consumptive activities, like writing or playing music, benefit from it. And anything to do with innovation or research is absolutely…

>we'll be trying for a kid

Please consider this carefully. The coming decades will not be pleasant to live in.

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