tom_ 45 minutes ago
Amusingly, Chen's article refers to the Wikipedia page as evidence that Tony Krueger did the port. The article's evidence for that in its latest version? A link back to Chen's article...!
1f60c 43 minutes ago
Wait, that's illegal.
dhosek 14 minutes ago
There’s an xkcd for that but I’m on my phone and too lazy to look it up.
Feathercrown 4 minutes ago
Citogenesis!

https://xkcd.com/978/

Can't believe we got to see one in the wild, and with clear attribution to boot.

apparent 24 minutes ago
I wish there was a button on my keyboard that I could press when there's a red squiggle in the last N words, which would cause my computer to fix the underlined word to its best guess. It should wait until a few words later, to get more context. It should flash the new word as it's being inserted, so I can easily see what it's done.

Spell check used to be kind of lousy, but with AI I imagine it would have a very high rate of accuracy in context. I am greatly slowed down by having to delete a few words/chars every now and then, and if I could just smash a key and go on my way, it'd be much more efficient.

joeframbach 10 minutes ago
Most mobile keyboards will do autocorrect as you describe it, and show top-N alternatives when you go back and tap on the autocorrected word. I prefer this to it mocking my mistakes and making me pay penance by manually accepting the correction.
yzydserd 55 minutes ago
I wish stories like this would be published before the nominee exits the stage.
O-K 2 hours ago
F7 gang standup!

When did the squiggles disappear? I do miss the variety in text formatting. You used to be able to animate text in Word and have squiggly double underline in different colours. Everything now is sans serif, sans variety.