My $10 says the cause for the decision to renew work on iOS SwiftKey wasn't "customer feedback", but Bing/LLM part of Microsoft realizing that their bean counters have just shut down the only system-wide text-based touchpoint Microsoft ever had on iOS, just as they want to start integrating Bing/LLM everywhere.
Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
#182> This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.
I don't use my phone keyboard much, but as a programmer my keyboard definitely feels like an extension of my body, one that literally allows me to get my work done. Many craftspeople care deeply about the tools they use. I can totally see how someone would feel similarly about something like this.
Of course the keyboard is an important tool, but first of all, in this case it's not even a real keyboard, the second thing is how a lot of people constantly feel the need to behave like someone was hurting them if someone closes a bloody website. I mean, of course an keyboard can be an important tool for you, but feeling like an extension of your body is just overdramatic language, go to any construction site and ask the guys if they think their hammer or saw fells like an extension of their body, they probably look at you like you're from Mars. This whole techszene just likes to overdramtize things.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being Scottish technically makes you British, at least until independence comes. I'd argue that, even then, it will remain the case - as long as we accept that Scotland will continue to be part of the British Isles, and in particular of the island of Britain.
Scotland and Britain are separate countries in the UK with separate histories. No-one means the island when they talk about being British, they mean the descendants of the Britons.
The irony of a comment trying to riff on the usual "Britain isn't England" trope while getting it completely and utterly wrong, is... remarkable. You are GPT and I claim my devalued £1.
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If a keyboard app feels like an extension of your body, it means you write a lot. It doesn't mean that you are "terminally online", and even if you were online all the time, that's a personal choice and not being online all the time doesn't even solve the problem shared here. I'd even say, perhaps it's best not to tell people that their problems aren't problems to begin with. I'm not saying one should care, it'd be e…
why would you develop such dependency on a proprietary piece of code? > I'd even say, perhaps it's best not to tell people that their problems aren't problems to begin with. I'm not saying one should care, it'd be enough just not to explicitly dismiss on their face. generally speaking, the opposite is true - people need to take some accountability for their problems, thanks to the disintegration of conversation peopl…
The open source keyboard space on Android is weirdly incredibly deficient
No way to type Chinese with an open source keyboard. And no way to do local speak-to-text (even English) with an open source keyboard
Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey
#185In case you wonder why we need FOSS.
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The same shit happens when driving. Our internal understanding of our own bodies seems to adapt to take the tools we're using into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_schema https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=related:5uSissKo6EgJ:...
> The same shit happens when driving. In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughl…
What really blows my mind about driving is that with a little bit of training, we get a feel for how big the car is. You can squeeze into a tight parking lot and you won't scratch your or the other car! By feel! We can somehow transfer our feeling for how big our body is to avoid running into obstacles, to feel how big our car is.
There is nothing in the history of mankind that would need for this to be a possible skill; no conceivable evolutionary pressure lead to being able to transfer the feeling for the size of our body onto other objects, while being inside those objects. We can just do that!
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I'm someone who switched from SwiftKey (paid plan) to GBoard, and never looked back. I much prefer GBoard to SwiftKey. So it might be a matter of preference
Really? I hope you're right, I'm looking for a better alternative than SwiftKey, but I haven't found any yet. I'll try GBoard again now, thanks. EDIT: It's good, but not as good as Swiftkey in its UX. Swiping for punctuation doesn't work, you need to long press and swipe. Pressing space to insert the prediction and then pressing comma doesn't remove the space, so it requires an awkward dance to insert a comma and a p…
My biggest gripe with GBoard is the word prediction for swipes that are ambiguous.
It consistently gives me "sine" over "some" and never learns. I type "sine" maybe a couple of times a day and type "some" dozens of times a day. I imagine getting the weighting right is tricky but it just seems to be wrong most of the time.
I don't remember SwiftKey being any better but I might give it another try just in case.
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A lot of France and Belgium is about one 4 hour drive away from England ;)
You don't drive in the Eurotunnel
Not really, but it's not very different. You just drive to the train, park on the train and drive off the train when it stops. I haven't been to England for a long time but when I did I was simply calling it driving to England.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? I hope you're right, I'm looking for a better alternative than SwiftKey, but I haven't found any yet. I'll try GBoard again now, thanks. EDIT: It's good, but not as good as Swiftkey in its UX. Swiping for punctuation doesn't work, you need to long press and swipe. Pressing space to insert the prediction and then pressing comma doesn't remove the space, so it requires an awkward dance to insert a comma and a p…
My biggest gripe with GBoard is the word prediction for swipes that are ambiguous. It consistently gives me "sine" over "some" and never learns. I type "sine" maybe a couple of times a day and type "some" dozens of times a day. I imagine getting the weighting right is tricky but it just seems to be wrong most of the time. I don't remember SwiftKey being any better but I might give it another try just in case.
In that department, it's not. It often corrects "my" to "NY", which is ridiculous. It's the best I've found overall, though.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same shit happens when driving. Our internal understanding of our own bodies seems to adapt to take the tools we're using into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_schema https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=related:5uSissKo6EgJ:...
> The same shit happens when driving. In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughl…
> How do we do this with a brain that evolved to cope with a couple of miles of hills and forest?
That’s where your misunderstanding is. A lot of animals are migratory, including us. We _did_ evolve to understand how to cross continents.