Fixedness in a sentence as a noun

I imagine it could have something to do with the physical fixedness of a book.

It uses the sidereal zodiac which is based on the fixedness of the stars and is moon sign based rather than sun signs.

It's a bug related to fixed positioning that loses its fixedness.

Because that's the only way to parse the durability of glass being mooted by the fixedness of the battery.

> But electricity costs are not fixed,It's not network fixedness, it's network neutrality.

There are some academics who study functional fixedness in literature under the name "Thing Theory".

I wouldn't be surprised if it also inspired creativity and diminished functional fixedness as well.

There's a psychological concept of functional fixedness, where you view an object only as its traditional use. I think a similar concept exists in technology.

> equates to what the DOM _should_ look like is must easier to grep then defining them as literal code, imoIt's a common view but really quite a funny form of path dependence / mental fixedness.

Apple, on the other hand, exists almost entirely on the backs of the iPhone and the iPad, neither of which have much structural fixedness at all. If the iPhone 6 is a dud for any reason, or the supply lines of either of those face any issues...boom, Apple's profits evaporate.

There are tons of cognitive biases you can attribute to a lack of critical thinking applied to oneself:The status-quo bias, functional fixedness, anchoring, the endowment effect etc.

So before you get all hyped up about how you want to think outside the box because my gosh imagine what awesomeness functional fixedness is preventing you from seeing, stop to consider that noone's got any clue what's really going on inside the mind, and you're probably just as likely to screw yourself by trying to manipulate yourself this way as you are to benefit yourself.

It's incredibly common among people and it seriously infects thinking, to the point some seem to believe objects have little tags attached to atoms that say "this can be used only for X", and they'll act as if you're breaking the laws of nature if you use the object for something else than its "intended purpose".Current society itself also seems to encourage functional fixedness.

The overhead and complexity of a dozen different IDEs, JS frameworks, 4 browsers, 2 mobile phone platforms, etc etc is less complex?In a day to day engineering perspective it’s all a mess of abstraction and indirection anyway?If we’re going to optimize ONE stack, I’d prefer the one with all the optimized rendering and input mapping, rather than hacking that all into a bloated document parser like we’re hacking into a browser?IMO that is textbook functional fixedness.

Fixedness definitions

noun

remaining in place

See also: stationariness immobility

noun

the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

See also: fastness fixity fixture secureness

noun

the quality of being fixed and unchangeable; "the fixedness of his gaze upset her"

See also: unalterability