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This is not a bad idea. It's not dissimilar from an autocomplete engine. If reset per word and using a static probability table it will work its way into muscle memory. In practice fingers will only need to leave the home row for some initial letters.
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There were, for awhile, some security systems had on-screen keyboards that would change layout on every key press.
I think that this is an attempt to stop the “clean key” problem. Security system keypads (especially outdoor ones) tend not to be cleaned, so as time passes, it is easy to spot the dirty keys. Dirty keys are not being pressed and are therefore not in the passcode. So look for the clean keys and try combinations from there. In a 4 digit (0-9) keypad, knowing the clean numbers drops the possible codes from 9999 to 24 (…
I learned recently that there are way, way more alt-layouts than the ones you've heard of: Dvorak & Colemak. Not only that, people just change them to suit their needs! They use things like Hands Down [0] as a guide , and make up their own layout. Wild. [0]: https://sites.google.com/alanreiser.com/handsdown
(though really what I want is dabbrev/pabbrev to sort predictions by markov order at least 2 or even a tiny recurrent network)
I switch between English and German a lot. I wonder what that does to the algorithm.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2o4rkq/english_to_be...
> (…) In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. (…)
I switch between English and German a lot. I wonder what that does to the algorithm.
There is an old joke that seems approproate: https://old.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2o4rkq/english_to_be... > (…) In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. (…)
Yes! I have been wanting this forever. Keys are in too predictable a position
There were, for awhile, some security systems had on-screen keyboards that would change layout on every key press.
Or have a keyboard with oled or e-ink keys, like the Optimus Maximus [0] promised to deliver. It's kinda weird that nobody else seems to have picked up on this concept since then. Probably just impractical or too expensive.
I read that its patents expired in 2016; around 2015 there was a concept for an e-ink button keyboard, but that site is now a plain gambling ad. There's also https://www.nemeio.com/ that still works, but its buttons look like sunken screens under plastic domes.
What I don’t understand is why not go all the way. Why not also change the concept of what’s needed to enter a character? It would make sense that keys aren’t the ideal affordance to express a key every time.
Use a volume slider for a letter, use radio buttons, on/off toggles. What if I could draw the letter on my trackpad?
I hope this opens the door for a thriving ecosystem of expansions.