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by voidhorse 352 days ago
This is 100% true in my experience and I can only guess it's because they spend their time solving actual problems and considering ideas rather than going down the config and personalization rabbit hole.
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A counter argument: the people who spend most of their time doing nothing or playing with configs are that way because they finish their work very quickly and have loads of extra spare time.
Nah these people are often procrastinators- I am one of those myself
very anecdotally doubtful. it's why bike shedding is a term.

the nerd snipping cat nip of micro optimizations of a dev setup is too great.