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What a cool idea! Nice job.

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

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

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

Apparently it's not public yet.

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

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.

Excellent news- thank you for sharing.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

IIRC Microsoft lost in Europe, not in the US.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Here's a quick response as I have to get to a sailboat race.

    *  Most research is limited; most test memory of pictures vs words (pictures win for most).  Most educators of higher levels believe that there is more to learning than memory, but this is largely not addressed by the researchers.
    *  Most "learning styles" are established via questionnaire, not actually testing how people learn best
    *  Even the "Learning Styles is BS" crowd is starting to weasel out of the implication of their conclusion that everybody learns the same.  They are saying things like "talent" and "context" etc. give differences in how people learn, not learning styles.  A distinction without a difference IMHO- with the possible exception that you could argue that you are, for example, verbal for math and visual for history or something (because of context or whatever).  
    *  I don't have a dog in the fight.  I only want what's best for students, which means to learn how they learn.  If they are all the same, so be it (but I would be surprised).
    *  More of my thoughts here:  https://studyswami.com/are-learning-styles-bs/ and my conceptual take on how we should measure learning styles if we really want to research them (don't take the actual results too seriously).

This is an underrated comment.

They actually haven't been debunked IMHO. They've done a handful of tests that tend to show that people remember pictures better than words. They have not tested, as far as I have seen, Active vs Reflective, Inductive vs Deductive (or Sequential vs Global), etc.

I don't think it's been studied in a long time because of the influence of the "Learning Styles is Bullshit" gang.

I disagree that the context post is almost useless. I bet there were a lot of people reading that who didn't know that myocarditis is a possible side-effect of Covid itself without the community pointing it out to them right there.

I've stayed (edit: with Firefox) because of (1) containers and (2) password storage. I have to use Chrome for some things, and every now and then it prompts me for a password and refuses to use the auto-fill. Totally torques me off because my passwords are not easy.

But I completely trust Firefox on the password issue, to the point that I let it generate them for me.

haha that would be perfect. Receding hairline, expanding waistline...

I have no problems with FF mobile on iPhone.

My wife's vision is to have the patients control their medical data, and opt-in share it with the researchers who recruit them for studies. I don't know what the answer is, but I think it's going to change. You are correct in that it is a huge driver of costs.

I don't think your anger at that is irrational at all.

I get you, but I'm a sailor and a race-committee co-chair. Weather is a good chunk of my life!