Comment on Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability. Who's joining?
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The idea that drinking helps has been around a lot longer than 2007. Since basically the discovery of alcohol. Yes, it can help with nerves a little bit, but none of your skills are improved, and most are impaired.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 month ago
Maybe it depends upon the person.
I have difficulty programming properly while listening to music so maybe I’d find it hard to do so with alcohol too.
In my case, it’s probably because I tend to keep as much of the context as possible into my current memory, which gets reduced if I’m distracted by sounds (whether music or noise). The ADHD Relief music tracks tend to work well though, since they aren’t very distracting and help get rid of other peoples’ noise.