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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 qz2 »

shaklee3 wrote: post #362
qz2 wrote: post #303

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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

Are you on wsl1 or 2?

2

There are too many weird compromises and bugs with it. Better to stick with a tidier abstraction.

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Post by qz2 »

anthonygd wrote: post #366
qz2 wrote: post #303

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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

Personally the more I use WSL the less inclined I am to ever use either direct Linux or MacOS again. Of course, that's WSL 2, there are definitely rough edges on WSL 1.

My point was regarding WSL2. I will never use macOS again though. That is completely dead for me but that’s a whole another story.

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Post by nottorp »

gadabout wrote: post #351
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> 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?

I mean, my boss - who is the central hub for a lot of communication - can not live his life this way unless he finds a new job. Obviously that is a choice he has made but either way, I count myself lucky.

But his job is ... to communicate? Even then he could tone it down outside business hours.

Most HNers' job is to write code :)

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Post by fragmede »

silon42 wrote: post #330
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've used a Mac, but would never consider it without swapping those keys (to make proper Ctrl/Alt for most apps, ... manually configuring the others). Also, a proper Alt+Tab app that works on window level is essential.

Windows is a bit more well behaved than OS X in this regard so swap them on Windows instead since the point is to not have to fight muscle memory. It'll take a bit of training to swap over, but then at least you're not having to swap between the two orderings unless you're frequently on other people's Windows computers.

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Post by SamBam »

beefield wrote: post #133
SamBam wrote: post #118

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For me: Maps and WhatsApp. I could probably ditch Maps (by using my spouse's when needed, not sure if that counts...), but I have family abroad and other family here), and kid photos to send etc etc. It's true I could do most of that via email, but the rest of the family is on WhatsApp and I would genuinely feel more disconnected from them then I already do.

You can install whatsapp on a virtual android machine on your desktop/laptop. I did that for a while and used a dumb phone (new nokia 8110) as my main phone and hotspot for a while. I kind of enjoyed it, but a couple of things made me give up for now.: First, abysmally bad battery life when using it as a hotspot (and no auto wifi disable when no devices connected). Second, laughably slow charging. Like, not even net…

I thought WhatsApp needed to verify the device using a phone number? Does that work with the virtual Android?

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Post by [deleted] »

socalnate1 wrote: post #91
joshe wrote: post #74

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Scanned the paper too with sci hub. Nothing remarkable. But we should be dismissive of any new results from psychology, it just doesn't have systems in place to validate claims. There is some cool stuff in psychology that has been replicated 20 times, across different cultures, and over time. But the chances of a headline psychology paper being true are, generously, 5%. To be far to the authors, they are in a bit of…

I think skepticism is warranted, but dismissiveness is not. Honestly it's a little offensive. Also, in this case their findings aren't even counter intuitive or that surprising. They are just measuring something that most of use believe already (judging by the rest of these comment threads).

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Post by trevyn »

rainsil wrote: post #354
kabanossen wrote: post #322

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On the contrary, they will be awesome, possibly the best thing you ever do!

Seriously, the lack of awareness that pretty much every year is the best year in human history* is rather depressing. Pair that with the coming end of extreme poverty, extraterrestrial habitation, and a non-infinitesimal chance of experiencing radical life-extension (whether through neurotechnological methods such as WBE, or cell-targeting microbiology), it's clear that Gen A/B (is generation naming modular?) will be…

Narrowing your perspective leads to a narrow perspective.

Open your eyes to everything, and see everything.

When your body feels a hint that something is wrong, following that hint will teach you something.

How does your body react when you see a child cry?

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Post by loco5niner »

volkk wrote: post #142
nobody9999 wrote: post #128

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>You have interpreted the parent exceedingly uncharitably. Perhaps I have. However, I don't see how much more "charitably" I can interpret what they wrote. Or do you think that I'm wrong in my assertion? >If one partner in a monogamous relationship suddenly announces that from that day forth there shall be no more sex, the other partner is certainly within their rights to be upset. I don't disagree with that statemen…

> I don't disagree with that statement at all. But I stand by my assertion that no one is obligated to sexually satisfy anyone else. i would argue that no one is obligated to do anything at all thanks to free will. culturally, societally, or otherwise, well--that's a different story

Yes, but free will gives you the right to enter into agreements/contracts, which if you later refuse to honor, you are then forsaking an obligation.

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Post by iib »

jacobmoe wrote: post #147
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Gah, I need to do this so bad. Lately I've admitted to myself that I'm truly addicted to my phone. I go through phases of blocking safari, deleting all my non-essential apps, etc, but they always find a way to slowly creep back into my life ("5 minutes of reddit won't hurt while my kids are playing on their own...."). I'm realizing that I am just one of those people who can't handle even having it as an option. Thank…

Something I realized recently is that I'm not addicted to social media or any apps in particular, but I am addicted to my phone. I managed to give up pretty much all social media, save for an occasional peek at reddit and this site, but still take out my phone about as often as I did before. Mostly I just check the news for the umpteenth time in a day. My current plan is to keep using my phone, but switch to using it…

What sight-reading apps are you using? I am looking into improving my music sheet reading as well.
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