• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Aside from “learning to spell hypnotized or just trusting your phone knows better than you,” there are a bunch of tricks we use.

    1. Staring at it and going over the code path
    2. Talking to a proverbial duck
    3. Going out for a proverbial cheeseburger
    4. Sleeping on it

    Half of these tricks force the brain to stop confirming and start seeing, which is our biggest error source. The rest of these tricks let the problem ruminate in our subconscious which is sometimes really good at solving shit.

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      5 months ago

      1, 3 and 4 (in that exact order) have almost always gotten things moving again. rubber ducking it just feels “forced” to me.

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      5 months ago

      Haven’t heard of the proverbial cheeseburger… gonna stare at this phrase for a bit.

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          5 months ago

          I dunno, I don’t like unnecessarily interacting with strangers. I’m gonna go sit in another room and tinker with something else for now.