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Re: Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark

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Post by hilbert42 » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 7:35 AM UTC

skydhash wrote: post #157

hilbert42 wrote: post #129

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I agree. Kids don't need these types of concerns and distractions in their formative years. And computers are inherently distracting—as the intrinsic design of modern computers ensures that's the case. Thankfully, my primary education was before computer tech in schools or I'd have been sidetracked by the technology and it's pretty certain I'd have learned much less. Even by that age I was fascinated by electronic st…

When I was a teenager, my mom bought me a computer. By the end of the first year, you'd think I have a computer workshop in my bedroom, due to various part I was trying to add to the cases. I can't even remember the amount of gadgets I've destroyed trying to take them apart. If you're trying to teach IT to students, have a tech lab. If the students need to watch something, it can be done with a projector.

Yeah, right, I reckon we understand one another. As they say 'it takes one to know one'. ;-)

Re: Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark

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Post by hilbert42 » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 10:05 AM UTC

jon-wood wrote: post #162

hilbert42 wrote: post #146

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"...dyslexia (and it turns out undiagnosed ADHD) in school," "...for anything that involved writing it made the world of difference." No doubt what you say is true but it's odd as research has shown that using a keyboard requires additional cognition and thus usually more is learned when taking handwritten notes specifically because it's less mentally taxing. If I recall there was research to this effect on an HN sto…

The bit I forgot to mention here was that alongside all that my parents were incredibly diligent in making sure I learnt how to touch type at the same time, which I can't thank them enough for. That means that I can write without thinking about the mechanical action of doing so at all, which was never the case for handwriting. Possibly given sufficient focus on practicing handwriting that would have worked as well bu…

"...that my parents were incredibly diligent in making sure I learnt how to touch type at the same time, which I can't thank them enough for."

You're very lucky indeed that your parents encouraged you to type, clearly it's put you in good stead.

My mother had been a professional typist and stenographer and knew Pitman shorthand to a tee. She could type multiple pages without a single mistake for she learned in the days before wordprocessors and correction fluid—a single mistake would mean retyping the whole page. Also, she worked in a law firm where cross-outs and corrections were just not acceptable. Simply, she had to be accurate and word-perfect every time and she was.

Yet at no time did she take the time to teach me to type nor teach me shorthand. It's not as if she wouldn't have done so had she known better but it just wasn't acceptable to teach boys what was then considered women's work.

This is one big regret of my life as my typing is at best still scratchy and I do not know shorthand which in hindsight would have been a godsend.

I need to correct my point about handwriting and learning. I'm now not sure whether the story was linked from HN or not but it's definitely on Sabine Hossenfelder's Science News YouTube channel here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7PQbidoBPBc

Re: Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark

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Post by jongjong » Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 12:12 AM UTC

xigoi wrote: post #168

jongjong wrote: post #142

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GDPR is dumb. All government regulations are dumb. The only regulation that works is self-regulation. The way to ensure that companies self-regulate is by punishing them (directors and shareholders) harshly whenever they cause harm or damage.

Who is going to punish them if there are no regulations?

If a company causes harm, legal action can be taken against them.