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Showerthoughts

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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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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] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why does this not work with a QWERTY layout?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because reasons ok!?! Just trust me bro.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're being incredibly toxic for a shower thought. Have a word with yourself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I had a word with myself, I said I don't like my attitude but unfortunately I can't get rid of me because no one wants to work these days. I had to settle for giving myself a slap on the wrist which won't change anything.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It does. But it doesn't need to. Besides, utilizing such algorithms in a QWERTY keyboard produces needless complexity to the algorithm, putting additional load on the processor

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why does it produce such extra load on a QWERTY keyboard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because the additional axis. It's like the difference between normal chess and 3D chess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What additional axis? Swiping is always done on a 2D board?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The vertical axis