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I can touch-type with flow typing in GBoard at this point.

That's to say, I'm writing this comment on my Android phone without looking at the keyboard.

QWERTY is in my muscle memory in such a way that words have become writable as single stroke characters.

I really, really doubt this Keybee thing can be an improvement over that in any way.


I really want to see the visualization of words as the swipe typing patterns. I tried doing it on paper and realized I couldn't understand it just by looking but once I started visualizing it and swiping in my head I could start to get a feel for it. The tricky part is figuring out where in the keyboard the stroke begins

I also would like to implement all those texting algorithms but I need the help of the open source community at this moment. Cheers!.

People riding horse buggies probably thought the same when powered vehicles first came about, and look at the world now. You won't know unless you give it a honest try.

QWERTY won't be replaced on phones until there is a full phase change in how people interact with their phones that absolves us of keyboards entirely. Anybody here who thinks otherwise is welcome to make an offer to buy my two decades of notes on the topic.

>People riding horse buggies probably thought the same when powered vehicles first came about, and look at the world now. You won't know unless you give it a honest try.

This is a ridiculous non-analogy.

I'm flying a jet airplane, and you're telling me to give Ford Model T a try because you don't understand flight as a concept.

Or, in this case, Flow typing.

From Keybee's website:

>Some syllables and some words can be inserted through a simple combination of tap & swipe (we call it twipe) greatly reducing the number of touches for typing a text. For now the twipe is limited to the adjacent keys. Keybee Keyboard is swipe friendly.

I am typing an entire word with one "twipe" on GBoard.

Each word.

I'm done with touchscreen input methods that require me to think about tapping letters. I don't think in individual characters, and I don't type in them either.

Let me know if I can make it any clearer.


Also gboard is the best keyboard for that. Nothing else implements a prediction model over a number of words as far as I can tell. Or if they do, they fail really badly at it.

Swipe keyboard on Microsoft Lumias was better.

I think Android is only catching up to it in the past 2-3 years.

Sadly, Lumias went the way of the dodo, and I don't have a need for that sort of input on something that's not a phone.

Whatever Microsoft put out as a keyboard app for Android is different, they didn't implement the same UX.

Out of the swipe keyboards I tried for Android, GBoard worked the best.


Weird thing to say, why would a random port be peak efficiency that can’t be improved?

I hate that I understand what "pelican guy" refers to.

Weird for a random guy that I've met a half dozen times at conferences to be setting taste for effectively my whole professional world.

We never know...

That was before Delphi 2.0 even :)

>I have bad news for you: LLMs are not reading llms.txt

...Which is why this is posted as blog post.

They'll scrape and read that.


> is the site just hugged to death

This one. Works for me now. Good luck.


> Is it binary? Are we talking utilitarianism?

Is the Nile just a river in Egypt? Are we asking bad-faith questions?


Bad faith is using sentences like this:

> one of the most evil people in America

I want to know what this sentence means besides “I don’t like this person”

I also think selectively associating everything with palantir because the same VC participates is dishonest.


>Bad faith is using sentences like this:

> one of the most evil people in America

That's not bad faith under any meaningful definition of that term.

>I want to know what this sentence means besides “I don’t like this person”(

It means that Peter Thiel's goals, if fulfilled, will bring immense harm to others, and the extent to which he was able to attain goals of that sort is hardly rivaled by any other person in the US.

Now, nobody is under any obligation to break down clearly written English sentences for you, but if you have difficulty understanding them, the right thing to do would be to simply ask questions like "Why do you say this?", or "What do you mean exactly?".

Not "Is it binary? Are we talking utilitarianism?".

>I also think selectively associating everything with palantir because the same VC participates is dishonest.*

The association is not just because "the same VC" participates, but because "the same VC" is Peter Thiel (a very influential individual, huge contributor to the Heritage foundation and Project 2025, mentor of VP J.D. Vance, and someone seen as one of the most evil people and America), and Palantir is Peter Thiel's mass surveillance company which is the foundation on which Peter Thiel has built his fortune (not just a company in which he's a VC, it's a company he founded and got immensely rich off of).

Ignoring these facts - now, that's dishonest.


> Heritage foundation and Project 2025, mentor of VP J.D. Vance

Left wing boogie man words. You’re telling me he’s Soros backed and studies Frankfurt school rn.

> and Palantir is Peter Thiel's mass surveillance company

It’s a company he invested in which does surveillance for the government. It doesn’t do surveillance for him. Does PayPal manage his money?

But once again, what’s the connection here? He once invested in palantir, and his fund (of which there are many managers) once invested in this company.

Are you going to be consistent? Have you stayed in Thiel backed housing in the past year? Are you using Thiel’s internet or taxis?

> It means that Peter Thiel's goals, if fulfilled, will bring immense harm to others

Ok then let’s hear arguments against those. Don’t hide behind moralism.

There is no way in which discord using this company for identity leads to Peter thiel taking over the world or getting all your information.


>Left wing boogie man words. You’re telling me he’s Soros backed and studies Frankfurt school rn.

No, I am telling you that he is actively involved in global politics at the highest levels, and wields influence over both the executive branch of the US government as well as the Congress.

>[Palantir] is a company he invested in which does surveillance for the government.

No, it's not a company he "invested in".

It's a company in which Peter Thiel is a central co-founder, the chairman of the board, and a major shareholder.

You are deliberately downplaying his involvement in Palantir here. You won't say that Meta is a company that Zuckerberg has "invested in", or that Google was a company Page and Brin "invested in". It's silly.

>Does PayPal manage his money

No, because:

1. He's not involved with PayPal anymore, and

2. PayPal has never been a money management company. They're a money transfer company.

When he was involved in a money transfer company, however, it would be in his interest for every money transfer in the world to be take place via PayPal.

Now that he is in surveillance business, it is in best interest that everyone person in the world would be surveilled by his company.

>It doesn’t do surveillance for him

You're funny. It does surveillance for whoever has access to the data. Which he does.

>Have you stayed in Thiel backed housing in the past year? Are you using Thiel’s internet or taxis?

No, no, and no. (Own house, own car, and Comcast has no connection to Thiel).

I am consistent.

>Ok then let’s hear arguments against those.

Google is your friend, nobody here owes you an argument. You asked what the parent comment meant, and I explained this to you clearly enough.


Meta, the famously ethical, privacy-first, "move slow and make sure you do right by the people" company.

...yeah. We're aware.


Well glad we are honest here. I personally would find an article talking about meta as a “thiel backed entity” as something trying to prey on fear

Which police? Can you provide more details?

Opens fine in the US. FWIW, it's an archive website. The link goes to a mirrored copy of the WSJ article to make it available without the paywall.


> Example 364023 of high prevalence of autism

Excuse me!

As an autistic/ADHD[1], I can assure you that we do get sarcasm, and it's not autism that hinders that ability. In fact, this very post is peak autistic humor. (Deadpan comedy is trademark autism[2]).

>accompanied by an arrogant need to weigh in aggressively

Ding-ding, that's the winner! A necessary and sufficient condition for comments of that sort to appear.

Not exclusive to people on the spectrum either, mind you.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd

[2] https://autisticamber.substack.com/p/deadpan-literal-and-loy...


Impenetrable?

Ain't no such thing.

The only question is what kind of threat is mitigated, and for how long.

And that's assuming they'll have the manpower to defend those fortresses. Which, given their belief we're moving towards the societal collapse (of their making), isn't a given.

Quote[1]: What I came to realise was that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

In the end, who'd want to stick up for those losers?

Tsar Nicholas II had great fortresses. So did Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Worked out swimmingly for both of them.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...


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