opendyslexic VS covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker

I changed the font on my kindle to open dyslexic & it made a huge difference in my ability to focus on what I’m reading. You’ll know pretty quickly if it will work for you.

Too bad the article is not open-access, as I would expect from JetBrains.

Extra cognitive load slows everyone. It's just that the effect is measurably distinct in people with executive function (distractability) issues, with respect to speed. The distinction between debugging and coding is not really active vs monotonous but driven by your own ideas vs chasing (a problem). The study isn't realistic, but it's designed to get a measurable result (and to showcase the "efficiency tracking" plugin).

Anecdotally, everyone adjusts their IDE, or accommodates what can't (easily) be changed. Too bad that wisdom is lost and hard to share.

I think the solution here is more configurable UI's, with the configuration being automated/scriptable so that once you've established your preferences, you can replicate them through upgrades, etc.

The most configurable IDE of course is Eclipse (which is in decline because no one gets paid directly to write for it, and it's cheaper to publish a language server for your new language than build an IDE). You can arrange views as you like, change menu and toolbar visibility, change key bindings, and of course add whatever plugins/features you need. You can save view configurations as a workspace and save various preferences. But because components come from everywhere, support for configuration capture varies.

People share their dotfiles for shell and vi/emacs configuration, but not their IDE configurations. It's too bad, because then there would be a configuration population to analyze when raising UI issues.

ADHD and ASD are a broad spectrum. It may help to join the tribe because it validates our experience, but then we can fail to recognize our brain's specific biases. Worse, anyone over 7 has been getting good at compensating, which hides the issue, and our culture of excellence/competition/success == good (therefore failure bad) further obscures with shame, defeat, and self-sabotage. Legal requirements for accommodation help set a global floor, but may also work as a local ceiling by supplanting ordinary fellow-feeling.

For reading fatigue, consider a dyslexia font, e.g., https://opendyslexic.org.

GitHub link Website link Source license SIL-OFL I've come across this font that aims to make reading easier for people with dyslexia and I've never seen it implemented before. I feel like it would be really cool if it got implemented into more things :)

I would really like to see OpenDyslexic as a font option in boosts

https://opendyslexic.org This is where it was made I think you can download an add on here to change all your fonts, as well as ‘most’ applications use open dyslexia or dyslexia open as the font name

The economist has been tracking this for a while: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

The claims about motorcycle deaths counting as covid deaths were what the deniers were spreading at the time.

We now look back at excess mortality to know how many extra people died: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

The economist has a detailed breakdown that might be easier to follow

Old/general tracker across several countries 2021: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker

Average of 16 years of life lost to covid: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3 Drop in life expectancy of nearly 2 years in the US: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1343 Countries with big outbreaks all have significantly increased mortality: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/excess-mortality-across-countries-in-2020/ and https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker US went from 2.85 million deaths to 3.35million deaths in one year: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm US has 5̶4̶0̶k̶+̶ ̶6̶3̶0̶k̶+̶ ̶7̶0̶0̶k̶+̶ 760k+ covid deaths with covid listed as the underlying cause on death certificates 90%+ of the time: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm Over 140,000 children have lost a caregiver due to covid19 in the US, 5+ million globally https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01253-8/fulltext

Might it be possible, just maybe, that the figures reported from other areas of the world are not quite accurate- either from lack of resources or willful manipulation of data? Here's an article from that renowned liberal bastion 'The Economist' about excess mortality rates worldwide: Excess mortality