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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by masklinn on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:04PM (#34629546)
> I have a 3 year old. She hates going to bet

My brother in christ 3 years old is a bit young to hit the tables.

Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by wil421 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:53PM (#34630410)
Sigh. Not sure why it’s so difficult to comment on my phone vs a computer.
Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by masklinn on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:56PM (#34630460)
Small keyboard + autocorrect is just stupid. I have the same issue, and I still regularly miss typos even though I try to QC before posting. Either that or mini-strokes.

At least this was funny and easy to understand, sometimes I’m careless and it’s such complete gibberish if I come back to the comment an hour later I don’t understand what I wanted to write.

Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by mjevans on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:05PM (#34632257)
Autoincorrect can be bad enough, but speech to text can deliver some really concerning mistakes.
Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by masklinn on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:18PM (#34632387)
I don’t even try TTS, Siri is unable to grok even basic commands.
Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by efreak on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:06PM (#34658298)
Not sure about STT (TTS is reading out articles, etc) but when it comes to autocorrect, Google seems worse. Any time a seeming typo starts getting common, I nearly always recognize it as an Android thing. Maybe Apple's autocorrect doesn't try to change your words, but Google constantly does. Just a few weeks ago the big one was changing `lets` to `let's`, to the point that I changed my wording and just used `allows` to avoid making corrections. I will see a number of posts on Reddit and occasionally here on HN with this mistake. It seems to have stopped for me around last week, but I expect a different common word will be butchered soon.
Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by throwaway8689 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:22PM (#34633271)
Sooner you start logging those 10,000 hours of practice, sooner you can start making real money
Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by commandlinefan on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:49PM (#34634409)
> a bit young to hit the tables

I suspect it was a typo. What he meant to type was "she hates betting when she loses".