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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by snowwrestler »

a_bonobo wrote: post #186
Gordonjcp wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 sk…

Well for this to work you also have to “feel” how big the parking space is, which is obviously not an extension of your body.

What’s happening here is that your eyes are connected to a very highly trained model of the physical world around you. And your subjective experience of vision occurs post-processing through that model. It’s the same model you use to physically navigate the world, so it has a similar subjective feel regardless of what you’re doing.

It’s not limited to cars and tools; pitchers can “feel” the strike zone, even though it’s 60 feet away. Like driving, this takes a lot of reps to develop (lots of training data).

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by scrollaway »

dustedcodes wrote: post #132
jevgeni wrote: post #118

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> I think if you equate "helping Ukraine defend itself against ethnic eradication" with "support an awful war" your judgement on what is a balanced debate is not reliable. I said I support the Ukraine, but I don't believe in everything that the mainstream media is telling us. What you said there is quite a jump from what I said and exactly the type of nonsense that people would say in order to silence any meaningful…

> I don't believe in everything that the mainstream media is telling us

You're being super vague. Just say what you don't believe, out loud.

You don't believe that there's people out there calling for eradication of ukrainians? Just go on Twitter, my dude. There's even american personalities calling for it. Do you see this shit? https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/164670071474641305...

You don't believe "what's happening" in Ukraine? I mean, why don't you go there; it's not inaccessible, and you don't have to take up arms to do so. But fine if you don't, just.. look at people who do. There's millions of people there right now, most of them with phones, and plenty of tourists and non-tourist foreigners.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by spoiler »

stavros wrote: post #158
spoiler wrote: post #142

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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…

Ah. These days I just use speech to text, with a combination of swiping sometimes and tapping for punctuation.

I also don't to use my phone much anymore (since I reduced social media usage and disabled notifications).

FWIW I think the reason I moved away from SwiftKey was because it kept having strange language issues in a multilingual setup, but I haven't used it in a while; probably 5+ years.

Maybe I'm just not a touchscreen keyboard power user any longer

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by sd9 »

toyg wrote: post #126
Gordonjcp wrote: post #107

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I'm not particularly "defensive" about units. I would however point out that I am not British, I'm Scottish.

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.

I recognise Gordonjcp's autonomy to choose their own preferred identity. Nationality is a social construct that can be perceived differently in various contexts. If someone prefers to identify as Scottish rather than British, at least in informal settings, I believe it's important to respect their perspective instead of insisting on a particular label.

Of course, they might _technically_ be British from a legal standpoint, which I'm sure Gordonjcp is aware of. It's entirely possible to be both British and not-British simultaneously in different contexts. This sort of thing isn't black and white.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by snowwrestler »

dustedcodes wrote: post #57
unpopularopp wrote: post #10

> 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.

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Matt Taibbi is hardly “far left,” and Twitter has implemented arbitrary suppression on his content because Twitter’s owner didn’t like something he said.

Twitter went from a business that moderated content based on policies, to a business that moderates content based on the day-to-day whims of an easily distracted Elon Musk. The idea that it’s somehow more open for balanced conversations now is directly contradicted by how it is actually operating.

Capricious, malicious, and selfish moderation is poisonous to a business that depends on free user-generated content.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by jwr »

Daneel_ wrote: post #29

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does swiftkey offer over the usual keyboard? A quick google seems to bring up "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

If you use a language with diacritics (like Polish), you can type without them and SwiftKey will do The Right Thing most of the time. It's a BIG DEAL.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by phpisthebest »

tokai wrote: post #177
phpisthebest wrote: post #174

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I think US Aid should exclusively come via NATO, and in proportion to what the other NATO nations are willing to contribute., hell I would even accept a 2:1 contribution (meaning for every $1 or every Missile other NATO members contribute the US gives 2... ) The world complains about the US being the "world police" until they want us to spend all of our resources to defend them...

Many nato members are already providing much more than the US per capita.

First I disagree with using per capita numbers, that is in improper way to judge this type of thing.

However even if we look at the percapita number, the US out spend all other nato nations. Between January 24 and November 20, 2022, NATO members committed at least 75.2 billion euros of that 47.8 came from the US.

Per Capita for that period breaks down as

US: 142 Euros / citizen

UK: 117 Euros / Citizen

Canada: 96 Euros / Citizen

Germany: 70 Euros / Citizen

France: 21 Euros / Citizen

Germany would have to 2 double their per capita contributions just to match the US.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by kroltan »

a_bonobo wrote: post #186
Gordonjcp wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 sk…

Maybe our monkey cousins carrying their offspring on their back? But yeah it's a very slight pressure.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

moose_man wrote: post #2

Are tech companies that desperate that they need to do this? Maybe if it was bigger company, but this can't be a threat to Microsoft....They're all acting like starving rats feeding on their children.

The people who can fix user complaints and business disparities like this in Fortune 500 companies do not care because 1) they can't see them, and 2) they are actively incentivized to not care about it.
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