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renloyesterday at 6:03 PM3 repliesview on HN

The key is to work around the text input. If you want to say "kill myself", you input "kill my" then complete the "self" portion by pressing delete (remove space), then s-e-l-f. I feel like most of my typing time is spent making these corrections, as it's very quick to swipe but corrections are almost always necessary and they are an order of magnitude slower. Yesterday for example I tried to swipe "succession" but it really wanted to output "secession", so I change my strategy to "success" (it really liked this word), then delete (remove space), i-o-n.

I think every time I swipe I need to do at least one correction like this, where I type one similarly spelled word with as minimum an edit distance as I can think of in the moment, then do a manual correction.


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haaroleanyesterday at 7:25 PM

it's kinda bleak realizing I've been running the same cursed workflow for way too long. brb gonna disable that autocomplete

0cf8612b2e1eyesterday at 6:23 PM

Except sometimes the autocorrection will “helpfully” replace the prior word to jive with its model of the universe. Incredibly frustrating.

engineer_22yesterday at 6:31 PM

Horrifying.