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That sounds absolutely exhausting to me. Perhaps, in a lab setting, doing straightforward, focused tasks like the ones they use in these productivity studies,

That sounds absolutely exhausting to me. Perhaps, in a lab setting, doing straightforward, focused tasks like the ones they use in these productivity studies, I could sustain a productivity boost long enough for the researcher to get a two-tailed p<0.05. Make me do it in real life, though, 40 hours a week, week after week after week, and I expect I would burn out very quickly. I like my work well enough, but I don't think I want to actually stick my whole head inside of it.

DangitBobby 4y ago
Maybe not all the time, but it would be great for me to be able to travel and not have to worry about taking a huge productivity hit without my desk and monitors.
- mumblemumble 4y ago
  I'd counter that with, why are you worried about computer-time productivity when traveling? If it's for vacation, just unplug. Mixing work and vacation makes both worse. If it's for business, your attention should be on whatever it is that prompted you to travel. Presumably that's face time with people, not grinding away in front of a computer.
  - DangitBobby 4y ago
    Because I'm not talking about vacation, I'm talking about the ability to travel and see family or go somewhere new at any point during the year without needing to take time off to do so. My work is programming, and travel has never been a part of the work equation for me. If workspace arrangements weren't an issue, I could go visit my friends from college this very weekend.
    - semi-extrinsic 4y ago
      Meh, this is mainly a bad excuse. Even when I'm doing CAD or manipulating large 3D datasets, I can get my work done with just a 14" laptop and a good trackball. There is some reduction in efficiency, but mainly due to scp'ing large files or waiting for the slower CPU. For coding it's not an issue at all, as long as you have your toolchain set up properly. I find that the high DPI trend has a tendency to limit us unneccesarily more than actually fix anything. It is still common to say max 80 characters per line. In the olden days where that comes from, it would require 640 pixels horizontally. So at 100% scaling you can fit 3 standard terminals side-by-side and fit 60+ lines vertically, what more do you need when you also have multiple workspaces to tab across?
      - DangitBobby 4y ago
        :thumbs_up: good for you. Doesn't work for me.

DangitBobby 4y ago

Maybe not all the time, but it would be great for me to be able to travel and not have to worry about taking a huge productivity hit without my desk and monitors.

mumblemumble 4y ago
I'd counter that with, why are you worried about computer-time productivity when traveling? If it's for vacation, just unplug. Mixing work and vacation makes both worse. If it's for business, your attention should be on whatever it is that prompted you to travel. Presumably that's face time with people, not grinding away in front of a computer.
- DangitBobby 4y ago
  Because I'm not talking about vacation, I'm talking about the ability to travel and see family or go somewhere new at any point during the year without needing to take time off to do so. My work is programming, and travel has never been a part of the work equation for me. If workspace arrangements weren't an issue, I could go visit my friends from college this very weekend.
  - semi-extrinsic 4y ago
    Meh, this is mainly a bad excuse. Even when I'm doing CAD or manipulating large 3D datasets, I can get my work done with just a 14" laptop and a good trackball. There is some reduction in efficiency, but mainly due to scp'ing large files or waiting for the slower CPU. For coding it's not an issue at all, as long as you have your toolchain set up properly. I find that the high DPI trend has a tendency to limit us unneccesarily more than actually fix anything. It is still common to say max 80 characters per line. In the olden days where that comes from, it would require 640 pixels horizontally. So at 100% scaling you can fit 3 standard terminals side-by-side and fit 60+ lines vertically, what more do you need when you also have multiple workspaces to tab across?
    - DangitBobby 4y ago
      :thumbs_up: good for you. Doesn't work for me.