the latter is much less prone to suffering an interrupt and forgetting the second half of the operation
*grin*
I find my subconscious and half-asleep brain is less determined than some people about finding ways to go back to sleep. I can generally trust my own short-term memory not to forget what I was doing in the thirty seconds between hitting alarm-off and getting physically out of bed. Neither am I one of those people who can put the alarm clock on the far side of the bedroom and then find they've got out of bed, turned it off, and returned to bed without ever waking up :-)
In general I don't have a problem. I'm really bad at actually getting up for a firm deadline, and basically have arranged a life where I don't have to :) So if I'm asleep enough to sleep through an alarm, I probably should.
However, just occasionally, I really am genuinely interrupted by something-or-other in that thirty seconds (going to the bathroom, or an interesting thought), and then go back to bed confident that my alarm will wake me...
So it's not actually a problem, but it's like a bit of code with a potential bug in. It makes me itch to fix it, just so that the code is more robust, and if something changes later, it doesn't accidentally create a bug there :)
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*grin*
I find my subconscious and half-asleep brain is less determined than some people about finding ways to go back to sleep. I can generally trust my own short-term memory not to forget what I was doing in the thirty seconds between hitting alarm-off and getting physically out of bed. Neither am I one of those people who can put the alarm clock on the far side of the bedroom and then find they've got out of bed, turned it off, and returned to bed without ever waking up :-)
In general I don't have a problem. I'm really bad at actually getting up for a firm deadline, and basically have arranged a life where I don't have to :) So if I'm asleep enough to sleep through an alarm, I probably should.
However, just occasionally, I really am genuinely interrupted by something-or-other in that thirty seconds (going to the bathroom, or an interesting thought), and then go back to bed confident that my alarm will wake me...
So it's not actually a problem, but it's like a bit of code with a potential bug in. It makes me itch to fix it, just so that the code is more robust, and if something changes later, it doesn't accidentally create a bug there :)