Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?

Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by Y_Y on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:35AM (#33259263)

I agree and see Thumper's Law as a combination of the Principle of Least Surprise and the concept of Loss Aversion in the sense that a pleasant surprise, like a correctly guessing what you were going to type, is greatly outweighed by the pain of an unpleasant surprise, like when the phone changes "it's" to "it's" even though I typed and wanted the former.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by pja on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:07AM (#33259454)

I think the key insight here is that corrections you can trust are great - you can just let the autocorrect do its thing & stay in flow state. Corrections that you have to check every time because they’re not reliable enough are worse than useless because they force you to check every single correction, completely breaking flow.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by fragmede on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:08PM (#33266540)

The right amount of flow state is hard to achieve. I'll type two words wrong but the autocorrect actually gets it right, but by the time I've realized that, I've already hit delete several times or are on the third word, have lost the autocorrect, and lost my focus and flow. My brain's just not timed the right way for the auto correct's default settings

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Re:Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone be... by Mordisquitos on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:13AM (#33260410)

> [...] like when the phone changes "it's" to "it's" even though I typed and wanted the former.

A beautiful live example.

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