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It's always seemed strange to me that it's so common for people to feel the need to have continuous ... radio/podcasts/tv. It turns out there is a fair amount
by ideasman42 1mo ago
It's always seemed strange to me that it's so common for people to feel the need to have continuous ... radio/podcasts/tv.
It turns out there is a fair amount of research done on this, look into:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_partial_attention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_partial_attention
- dr_dshiv 1mo agoThat’s how Von Neumann did his thang, with a tv blaring in the background
- Cthulhu_ 1mo agoThe more things change the more they stay the same I suppose
- tayo42 1mo agoI have this thought everytime I'm at the beach...
- inigyou 1mo agoI used to have the MSDN Library installed on my computer, from a CD, and it was reasonable to program offline. We should bring that model back. (Not for Windows - Windows sucks now. But for whatever we're doing)