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

submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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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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[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al -1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

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

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago

The vertical axis

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