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Look, this will make the git history look funny, but trimming unnecessary depth from the source tree is a very necessary sanity-preserving measure when dealing with a super-modularized codebase like this one. While it makes the project configuration a bit less conventional, it will save you several clicks every time you jump between modules. Which you'll do a lot, because it's *modul*ar. The src/main/java convention makes a lot of sense for a non-modular project though. This ain't that.
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<h1 id="1">The best ideas come AFK [ 2022-11-07 ]</h1>
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I get my best ideas when I'm not working.<br>
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This seems paradoxical, but past a point, the more I work on a project the slower it seems to go. I'll find changes to do, but lose any sort of vision. <br>
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If I'm not programming at all, I rarely get good ideas as well. <br>
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There appears to be some magic stoichiometric mixture where I work on a project for a while, then force myself to take a break somewhere far away from any keyword for a day or two, the ideas start to roll in at a pace where I can barely keep up to write them down. <br>
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It seems important that the break from work is a bit boring. Sometimes it takes a day or two to kick in. Too much entertainment appears to ruin the process. <br>
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When it works I'm a hazard in traffic and I'll struggle to keep up with a conversation, because my mind is so preoccupied with algorithms and designs I barely notice my surroundings. <br>
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[ I'm open to the fact this may also just be some weird brain damage from coding since I was 7... Is it normal to be able to move your visual focus -- eyes stationary -- like a mouse cursor, like even draw selection boxes and vividly imagine context menus ? ]<br>
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In many cases I'll come back and implement half a dozen new features in a few hours. Typing the code is never the hard part, it was just a matter of finding the clarity, of realizing it could be done. <br>
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The brain appears to do a lot of background work like this. <br>
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It is as though you can load it with a problem by working on it actively for a while, but if you overfeed it with information by working too long, it just stalls. It needs a period of no new active inputs to actually arrive at useful results, so you get the aha in the shower, or while taking a walk.<br>
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Given this is is how the mind appears to work, it would be interesting to know how to best spawn a "background task" like this on command or via some procedure, how to best curate the inputs to produce the most beneficial outputs. <br>
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<h2 id="1.1">See Also</h2>
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<a class="internal" href="/log/05-minds-field.gmi">/log/05-minds-field.gmi</a><br>
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<a href="#1" class="heading-1">1 The best ideas come AFK [ 2022-11-07 ]</a>
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<a href="#1.1" class="heading-2">1.1 See Also</a>
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