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As a chess player, I was considered to have good memory. It was indeed very good, but multi-branch version control sabotaged it. Now, I'm constantly thinking: "I know I fixed that code before... but on which branch ?"
Sounds like you need to merge more often.
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The word "screen" here is a poor choice. You could just as easily be "multi-screening" by watching a picture in picture video while reading a web-site. Or the reverse, in their frame of reference, web development where you have one display/ output screen and one code screen is not multi-screening. Poor word choice because it's not as catchy as saying "Trying to consume two types of media at once" which is what they s…
Exactly. I clicked through because I thought; "oh, shit. I cannot even get work done without two. Sometimes I use three!". I've been had!
[0]: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-05-23-desk-setup/
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Exactly. I clicked through because I thought; "oh, shit. I cannot even get work done without two. Sometimes I use three!". I've been had!
I've heard some anecdotes that multiple monitors do reduce focus though[0]. I'm still on the fence though, the alternative to multiple monitors is often lots of workspaces, and switching between those can often feel just as jarring as looking to my left or right. Using i3, I often forget which workspace I left something on and spend 2 or 3 seconds cycling through every open workspace. [0]: https://michael.stapelberg.…
1. Browser (sometimes two, one for docs the other for stack overflow / googlin') 2. Execution shell 3. Editor (also frequently doubled - if there are imports or more than one file involved) 4. (occasionally) utility shell - for traversing the project directory and assessing changes
...having these split up by workspace just feels super clunky. Having them 10deg of eye rotation away is way better.
While the article specifically points to the detriments how using multiple forms of digital media at the same time, does it also apply to using one form of digital media while performing analog tasks, like say listening to a podcast while working out.
So much of my life seems to be structured around interacting with digital media in some way while I go about my day. I'm aware the study only shows that a correlation does exist and that there isn't necessarily any hard evidence as yet, but it does seem something that will be hard to work out of my routine., if that ends up being the case.
Multi-screening? Maybe. It's a misnomer, though. Multi-crap apps open across multiple devices, I'll buy. It WILL kill your productivity. But take away my multi-monitor setup on my desktop or take away my virtual desktops and I'll go for your jugular.
Multi-screening? Maybe. It's a misnomer, though. Multi-crap apps open across multiple devices, I'll buy. It WILL kill your productivity. But take away my multi-monitor setup on my desktop or take away my virtual desktops and I'll go for your jugular.
Multi-screening? Maybe. It's a misnomer, though. Multi-crap apps open across multiple devices, I'll buy. It WILL kill your productivity. But take away my multi-monitor setup on my desktop or take away my virtual desktops and I'll go for your jugular.
Dude, it’s just a screen, you don’t have to channel your inner edgy teenager to look like an anime character. Chill.