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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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QWERTY Keyboards on a touch screen are still the stupid! (lazysoci.al)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Whether you, like me, beleive that QAZWSX keyboards make far more sense, especially in a machine learning world, I think we all agree a layout designed to circumvent jamming typewriter keys doesn't make sense in modern society on modern devices.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You would get a selection of words, like autocorrect now. But if none of those were correct, you could fall back to legacy mode to put in the correct word and next time that word would be weighted so you're more likely to see it.

[–] TheCheddarCheese 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I see how this could kind of work... but I still think most people would want to use a regular keyboard. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems needlessly complicated, especially since most people use and are fine with the system we have now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I think that if you had a new keyboard enabled on every new phone, people would adapt. Unfortunately though, that would never happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

But if you do see a normal keyboard and can type each letter isn't that the same as what autocorrect is doing now? If I type "spmrthjng" my keyboard already autocorrects to "something". If you only see the keyboard after it's guessed wrong then that would just be autocorrect with more steps.