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Adam Crockett 🌀 • Edited

Despite the fact that humans can only remember 7 things in short term memory at a time. This is Twitter post is toxic, do not listen to such nonsense. You might find people appear to have the eye of sauron pointed towards a particular repo but honestly it's software like Jira and whatever else that allow them to consume information. As for fix in hours, that just means stem the bleading and do the work later.

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Aadi Bajpai

Yeah, I mean if you're not using the tools you have available just for appearing vainglorious then that's just plain stupid. Driving a nail into a wall using your bare hands when a hammer is available means you literally have no idea what you're doing.

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Thomas H Jones II

Despite the fact that humans can only remember 7 things in short term memory at a time

That's an average, not a maximum (and, according to some recent studies, that average is more like "4" than "7"). Different people have different effective working-memory capabilities ...and, even the ones that are stuck with the average MAX_ITEMS can increase the effective number of items they can juggle by strategic chunking.

There's a lot of interesting articles on short-term, long-term and working memory. Both in how you can improve them or completely undermine them (even to the point of erasing long-term memories with common pharmaceuticals like a couple different kinds of beta-blockers). One can quickly fall into a link-hole by reading about human memory. :)

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Adam Crockett 🌀

It would be quite difficult for my to list the memory of every human on earth and in space so I think an average is a lot more efficient in this post, that was my intent. Anyway are you sure you remembered that correctly 😂.

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Thomas H Jones II

I'm one of the people afflicted with the "remembers too much" problem.