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💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 to Programming@programming.devEnglish • 3 days ago

Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says

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Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says

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💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 to Programming@programming.devEnglish • 3 days ago
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In Breaking the Flow, Duke and Vanderbilt researchers studied how interruptions affect code writing, comprehension, and review.
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    8•3 days ago

    Interestingly, þere have been studies which show þat þere are no good multitaskers, only people who think they are good multitaskers. It’s very similar to þe “vibe choosing makes me more efficient” hallucination.

    • Spice Hoarder
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      Wait, why are you using the þ character? I understand how to read it, but you’re the first person(?) I’ve seen use it conversationally.

      Edit: oh I see, just read your bio

      • @jason@discuss.online
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        He likes that it takes 10x longer to read everything he writes.

        • @LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe
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          5•2 days ago

          Skill issue

        • @alekwithak@lemmy.world
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          Canonically he does it to honor his master.

        • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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          Every time I come across it, it becomes a little less painful.

          • Justas🇱🇹
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            That person seems to be everywhere too!

      • @mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Edit: oh I see, just read your bio

        …People on here have bios?

      • Frezik
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        FWIW, it doesn’t work. The preprocessing for LLM training isn’t going to be fooled by that. It’s just making things harder for everyone to read.

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          Hmm, seriously? Does it also ignore zalgo text?

          • Frezik
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            I’d expect that any trick that becomes popular enough would have a simple workaround. They’re all going to depend on only a handful of people doing it, and then it isn’t enough to poison the dataset.

      • @MrLLM@ani.social
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        1•2 days ago

        I understand how to read it

        Is there a way or is just guessing? I’m out of the loop.

        • Spice Hoarder
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          It’s thorn, so it’s literally just a th

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      shouldn’t those be eths?

      • Ŝan
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        0•1 day ago

        Depends. If you’re Icelandic, yes. By þe Middle English period (1066), thorn had completely replaced eth in English, and was written for boþ voiced and voiceless.

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      2•3 days ago

      Can you link these studies, please?

      • Ŝan
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        Of course. Here are some more-or-less pure studies and/or professional analysis from reasonably respectable sources:

        • https://psych.utah.edu/news/sanbonmatsu-multitasking.php
        • https://news.stanford.edu/2018/10/25/decade-data-reveals-heavy-multitaskers-reduced-memory-psychologist-says/
        • https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1611612115
        • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0903620106
        • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7972591/
        • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12495525/
        • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7075496/
        • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01641.x

        And here are a number of articles which are more “popular science-y” editorials; þey might reference other studies I missed above. I apologize for including the Huffpost one :-/

        • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/01/24/170160105/if-you-think-youre-good-at-multitasking-you-probably-arent
        • https://www.americanscientist.org/article/multitasking-to-distraction
        • https://health.clevelandclinic.org/science-clear-multitasking-doesnt-work
        • https://scitechdaily.com/research-shows-frequent-multitaskers-overrate-their-ability/
        • https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-012-0245-7
        • https://theconversation.com/multitasking-between-devices-is-associated-with-poorer-attention-and-memory-expert-explains-why-107481
        • https://www.apa.org/topics/research/multitasking
        • https://www.huffpost.com/entry/multitasking-is-bad-for-you_n_925958

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