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I've never understood why autocorrect is enabled by default on Macs, which have precise, physical keyboards.
by panic 9y ago
I've never understood why autocorrect is enabled by default on Macs, which have precise, physical keyboards.
- brianpan 9y agoThe answer is imprecise, erroneous humans.
- adjkant 9y agoAutocorrect is a huge feature for most users, myself included. I have bad typing, and it's often much faster than looking something up in the dictionary. For every miscorrect it get's dozens right.
- raverbashing 9y ago"it gets" I wonder how many common mistakes are due to autocorrect failing to do its (its, NOT it's - like my phone just "autocorrected" me even when I typed i-t-s) job.
- Fnoord 9y agoSome words, like this one, should be exempt/blacklisted from autocorrect.
- raverbashing 9y agoAgreed It seems autocorrect developers and models fail to model anything beyond the basic "word exists or not" in the dictionary (and even then it gets some things wrong).
- anonytrary 9y ago"Program" -> "Orgasm" (not auto-correct, but swype). I have to try very hard when I swype the word "program" because ~80% of the time it gets corrected to "orgasm".
- adjkant 9y agoThe irony is always present, lol. I use Grammarly for my spellcheck, so I'm amazed that made it through.
- cm2187 9y agoBut does auto-correct applies to all keyboard inputs (including command lines) or just in office-like applications? Clinics are more likely to enter the name of a medication in some application rather than a plain text editor.
- heisenbit 9y agoDefault auto-correct is industry standard (see Office software). Not that it is right to follow that lead. I wonder how people would react to an alert box "I've noticed you have terrible spelling. I may be able to help. Do you want me to auto-correct always and assume the small but real risk of me using the wrong word changing the meaning of what you wrote?" (yes | no | cry)