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by thu2111 6y ago
There's another scenario that matters here: an ordinary phishing website. Yes, about 15-20% of users never look at the URL bar and will type their password into any site that looks like the login screen regardless of how obviously bogu
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's tricky. Although this is being justified with references to phishing (which may well be the case) it's also an issue for spambots that need to sign in to a Google account in order to e.g. post spam links to YouTube comments.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody said you can't count those deaths as COVID deaths when they actually were, that's not the argument at all. The argument is that (a) not all excess deaths were caused by COVID, only some and (b) excess deaths are very low co
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by thu2111 6y ago
In Swing, yeah. Swing focuses very much on boring business-type UI. Not in JavaFX where such shaders are pre-canned and there's a CSS dialect too. I wrote my web-like app in JavaFX. It was no big deal.
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by thu2111 6y ago
My point is, I don't see the problems. Anti-aliasing works fine. The text looks good to me, always did. Looking out of place ... well, on macOS at least you can pick a mac-like theme. I don't because I prefer the IntelliJ theme bu
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by thu2111 6y ago
Eh, maybe. Familiarity breeds contempt. I think they feel like they're sort of out on their own with Swing and the cool kids are moving on to new things. They like the DSL aspect of Compose. Could the advantages of Compose be brought t
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by thu2111 6y ago
There's always been low hanging fruit. There were video games from the dawn of computing. I played games and did programming, sometimes more gaming, sometimes more coding. My mother worried generically about 'computer time'.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Parents always worry like this. Mine used to worry I was "addicted" to programming on the home PC. I'd say, no mum. I don't go outside and frolic in the fields like a Victorian-era child because we live in the middle of
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by thu2111 6y ago
Shading excess deaths isn't weird, that's fine. However it's misleading because they don't compute the reverse integral. This article does: https://www.aier.org/article/swedens-dry-tinder-accounts-fo
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by thu2111 6y ago
Sweden had an unusually low number of excess deaths between Jan 2019 and March 2020, much lower than its neighbours. That's very likely the reason it did "worse" than e.g. Denmark - simply because it did "better" th
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by thu2111 6y ago
The rest of the world was NOT a bloodbath with overflowing hospitals. Look at the UK. Excess death once of the worst in Europe but not actually bad at all, lower than 1999/2000 in fact. Hospitals were ghost towns during these periods,
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by thu2111 6y ago
What? Sweden didn't mobilize the entire country, they did the exact opposite, which is what this whole discussion is about?! Are you thinking of somewhere else?
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by thu2111 6y ago
What's your point? That there was a wave of excess deaths? That happens in most countries in Europe, most years, just due to flu and other winter issues. Not every year: Sweden was running 10% lower excess deaths than the 5 year aver
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by thu2111 6y ago
A bit of context may help. The author of the blog post works for JetBrains (I think). JetBrains are interested in moving away from Swing for their product line. Their intended replacement is a port of JetPack Compose to the desktop, perhaps
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by thu2111 6y ago
It has actually. It starts a lot faster, and has a "lite" mode where it's more like a text editor. As for how it looks, well, it's an IDE. It looks fine to me. There's a dark mode if you want it, the look is modern
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by thu2111 6y ago
No, desktop accessibility APIs are basically about exporting a labelled semantic tree to screen readers. As long as your dropdown is still semantically a dropdown with items, etc, and responds to basic commands, it doesn't matter what
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by thu2111 6y ago
JVM apps can start in <100 msec, and IDEA has a 'lite' mode now where it's more like a text editor. That starts very fast. IDEA is slow(ish) to start because it's an IDE so it's loading tons of plugins, a project
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by thu2111 6y ago
HTML isn't designed for good looking. The default stylesheet for HTML is impossibly ugly. Heck look at HN, hardly a thing of beauty. However, most people do a lot of work to make web sites and apps attractive. You can do that work with
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by thu2111 6y ago
Then the FT estimate is wrong, because the actual statistics in "deaths so far this year for Sweden" are what's linked to and you can clearly see that they're currently below prior years, not above. A short wave in April
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by thu2111 6y ago
The post title is not a wild claim, it's a factual claim based on the data so far. Of course Sweden may well have more than the 1000 excess deaths/week needed to catch up with a normal year, we'll have to wait and see. But as
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by thu2111 6y ago
However COVID was described as being like none of those. It was described as "panic right now, exponential growth will overwhelm hospitals within days". If COVID was really a disaster that should have been apparent in Sweden withi
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by thu2111 6y ago
Point is, that even assuming winter deaths, Sweden's excess mortality for the year can't at this point get high enough that it'd have been noticed in any normal year. Normality+some winter deaths does not make for a disaster.
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by thu2111 6y ago
The correct response to that statistic is to wonder why COVID appears to have so neatly replaced deaths from other respiratory viruses, and to wonder - given the relatively vague symptoms - if there's some reclassification going on. Th
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by thu2111 6y ago
Until the cloud or datacenter operator makes the same call. Or the ISP. Or the software provider. Or the Chrome team. This trend is bad because it's a declaration of open warfare by leftists on anyone who disagrees with them. The notio
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by thu2111 6y ago
Apple is actually bigger by employee count, however about half (I think) are retail employees in the stores. So yes - a very large organisation. However Apple's chip design teams are much, much smaller than that. And because Apple mo
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes, that comes from an essay written in 1955 by Parkinson: http://doc.cat-v.org/economics/parkinsons-law/the-economist-... What we have to note is that the 2,000 Admiralty officials of 1914 had become the 3,569
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by thu2111 6y ago
Um, no it doesn't. JavaFX/OpenJFX doesn't use Cairo anywhere. Some references appear in the codebase but only via the WebKit import. Neither JavaFX nor OpenJDK use Cairo for drawing and AFAIK never have. I don't know whe
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes, but the list of criteria they use for controls is pretty reasonable and more importantly, unbiased by woke ideology. We all know many firms have a very strong bias towards women that grades them as more well qualified (desirable to hir
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by thu2111 6y ago
By saying nothing years ago when "diversity" became popular and people started arguing there weren't enough women in computing. I'm as guilty as anyone, in the beginning it all seemed harmless enough. It wasn't, it
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's the opposite of what happens. My own experience has been that women benefit dramatically from a "being a woman" bias that makes them much more likely to be hired - exactly what this study now quantifies - and in additi

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