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New comment by dhimes in "Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid"

dhimes — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:49:15 +0000

What a cool idea! Nice job.

New comment by dhimes in "Firefox on the brink?"

dhimes — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:35:20 +0000

We don't move on until Google lets us protect our privacy. Containers would be a good start.

New comment by dhimes in "Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for power users"

dhimes — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 14:07:14 +0000

That's not exactly a cakewalk either. But you do get control.

New comment by dhimes in "Ask HN: I can't find a job. What do I do?"

dhimes — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:41:30 +0000

Good context. The point GP was making was that toxic manager went out of their way to trash them.

New comment by dhimes in "Apple files legal challenge to EU's Digital Markets Act"

dhimes — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:05:27 +0000

Apparently it's not public yet.

New comment by dhimes in "Never Event"

dhimes — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:50:59 +0000

My friend is a surgeon. When he went in for knee surgery he wrote "Wrong Knee" on the good knee. He knows.

New comment by dhimes in "The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)"

dhimes — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:11:07 +0000

As a user, I've found self promotion via comments way more helpful and relevant than their terrible ads...

As both a user and an advertiser I agree. The communities I visit, if not the whole site, are faithfully anti-ad. But if I answer some questions occasionally somebody will get curious about my profile and check stuff out.

New comment by dhimes in "Running Speeds"

dhimes — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:27:52 +0000

Excellent news- thank you for sharing.

New comment by dhimes in "Show HN: Hyphen – an elegant custom element base class with good ergonomics"

dhimes — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:33:43 +0000

Thank you. That would be a great leading paragraph on their web page if anyone from the project is reading this.

New comment by dhimes in "Running Speeds"

dhimes — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:23:06 +0000

Do you happen to know how Garmin compares to Fitbit in terms of performance analysis? Fitbit made some changes that I'm unhappy with and they refuse to offer us a way out. I'm thinking of talking to Santa Clause about this.

New comment by dhimes in "Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google"

dhimes — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:51:17 +0000

I'm not even sure it has to be registered. In at least one court case I know of (a local landlord case) the court assumed that a mailed letter was delivered properly.

New comment by dhimes in "Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty"

dhimes — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:11:17 +0000

I wonder if it's effective for their intended audience, though?

New comment by dhimes in "Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease"

dhimes — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:19:12 +0000

Thank you. My neighbor planted bamboo! Twice a year I have to dig the frickn roots/shoots out of my yard.

New comment by dhimes in "Wegovy, other weight-loss drugs scrutinized over reports of suicidal thoughts"

dhimes — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:01:45 +0000

I exercise quite a bit, and have struggled with my weight when I exercise. It's kind of a paradox: I could lose weight or exercise, but not both.

Recently I accepted a $500 challenge to get down to a certain weight by a certain date, so I started taking the calorie in- calorie out bit seriously. I won the challenge of losing 30+ pounds and in so doing became very suspicious of the low-carb mentality I had adopted 25 years ago or so when the problem really surfaced.

To get through cardio I need carbs, and suspect that I would increase my overall calorie intake to get them as I was keeping my carb percentage low. Stop the exercise and I could take the weight off.

So I'm definitely back to the opinion that calorie balance is the real key (short of some metabolic disease). I'm 61 years old.

New comment by dhimes in "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power"

dhimes — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:07:33 +0000

IIRC Microsoft lost in Europe, not in the US.

New comment by dhimes in "The myth of the myth of learning styles"

dhimes — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:22:22 +0000

This sounds like an interesting book. When I looked at the learning style research I found that most "debunking" reviews pointed to a couple of meta-studies by, for example, Pascher, that found no evidence of learning styles. As I looked deeper I saw that most studies were very limited, and mostly compared visual to verbal memory recall efficacy.

There were a few that tried reading comprehension, etc, but often at an age of student where memory is not that different from comprehension in testing for it.

The other thing that I found was that nobody was testing for learning styles. They determined "Learning Styles" by giving questionnaire about preferences. It seems to me you need to at least develop a possible test for learning styles before you see if there are differences in learning. I may prefer to look at pictures, but I may actually learn more from text.

But I do side with Bjork in that teachers focusing on learning styles at this point is a distraction from things we know that help education. I just think more research needs to be done before we dismiss it.

New comment by dhimes in "The myth of the myth of learning styles"

dhimes — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:13:01 +0000

I don't believe the learning style antagonists would disagree with this. They argue that variations do exist, but they are due to prior knowledge background, talent and IQ (or g or whatever).

I certainly see some truth in their argument. If you and I were each to read a text of something that, say, you are familiar with and I am not, then you would probably score higher in the "verbal" learning category and I would have to draw pictures to understand the text. But a big part of the difference is that I would have to learn a lot more than you in order to parse the text- you have a better background. This is easily seen in reading research papers for example, with a novice vs an expert.

My argument is that we simply haven't studied it enough to know if there are fundamental differences in the way people learn.

New comment by dhimes in "The myth of the myth of learning styles"

dhimes — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:01:12 +0000

There's also an idea that some people like to jump in and try things and others like to think about them first. The learning style antagonist camp would say (if I understand them correctly) that these differences are due to a difference in talent, experience with the subject, or IQ.

New comment by dhimes in "The myth of the myth of learning styles"

dhimes — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:58:21 +0000

Great point. They haven't really looked at it much outside of memory.

New comment by dhimes in "The myth of the myth of learning styles"

dhimes — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:02:37 +0000

I agree burdening the teachers with individualized instruction is too much. But students learning about themselves seems like a good thing.

My only point is that I believe the situation has not been studied well, and it should be.