> Heck people put google.com into the box and search for it rather then enter a url and hit ctrl-enter.
Not even that. They google directly from the address bar. Once you could google without going to google.com, anecdotally I started to notice most people would google everything, including URLs they obviously knew
remembering urls is not a trivial task. it's the reason why we have bookmarks and history functions in browsers. a good search engine like google abstracts that away. i couldn't remember the name stack overflow for quite some time(i always associated stack with hay in my mind)
just typing in "hay code questions" would get me to stackoverflow in google. not so in bing/yahoo search(at the time)
Indeed there are likely many good reasons for making the url bar become a search bar under certain circumstances
(I would bet the money google pays mozilla for these kinds defaults was actually touted as 'make things better for the users' )
and it certainly can make things better in some ways, and likely for a majority of people.
I for one however was appalled the first time I found not typing my url properly sent that data to google to find a suitable alternative.
(also disturbed when I see cell phone carrier give me a "you may be looking this-and-that list of links when a 404 or similar is detected - helpful maybe, doing it for the monetization? probably. Stealing privacy at the same time? Maybe.
Providing a curated version of available resources? Yes.
That is often censoring more and more these days. Google does not provide the internet options to end users that it did 7 years ago.
I have seen people go to the url bar type "google" and hit enter - which on many browsers default searches google for google.
Whatever the reasoning for these issues, the result seems to be that most people think they need to use google to get to parts of the internet and don't know any other way.
I do the same thing I think, but with Hammerspoon. The script I’m using in Hammerspoon automatically switches the Input Device back to Internal Microphone when a BT device is connected. Solves the issue for all BT devices w/speakers + mic. I haven’t used it, but I’m guessing ToothFairy does the same thing, although maybe it has some more bells and whistles.
Yup. And the NIH even has pretty reports to hit you over the head with just how depressing the situation actually is for researchers (especially if you're young).
Scientific / conference culture has a somewhat concerning relationship with alcohol, which was a contributing factor to my ultimately leaving science. The amount of pressure to go out to a pub with your colleagues was much higher for me than it was in my current job, in large part because serious discussions and informal deals that could directly impact your academic career tend to happen in these sorts of contexts. I suspected that a lot of my co-workers in science were high functioning alcoholics.
I have a friend (a programmer) whose employer decided to try shortening the work day to 6 hours as long as the work still got done at the same pace. The owner was under the assumption that work will expand to take the time allotted. The experiment worked, and they still have 6 hour work days a couple years later.
I think the theory that work will expand to take the time allotted is true, and I bet the motivation of getting done early is a big contributor as well.
The problem is really that I'm the one making the time-estimations. So if I can get the work done faster, I could (in theory) go home earlier, but if it takes more time than expected, then to be fair I'd have to do night-work.
