Month: April 2023

How I “love” Microsoft products. What kind of crap is this, Microsoft Update Assistant consumes 51 GB (gigabytes, Carl!) in memory (well, swap, of course)

Overall, I conducted a small test of on-screen keyboards from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yandex. Important – for the Russian language. Important – swipe mode.

The criterion is the matching of the desired word with the one guessed by the system assuming precise and accurate swipe-typing. Ideally, when there are no errors or almost none. Next, a tougher criterion is resistance to errors in “Swipe”. When you miss the path, but the system still guesses correctly.

The best turned out to be the keyboard from Yandex. Second — the keyboard from Google. Third — from Apple. For some reason, it did not complete words. Unfortunately, the Microsoft keyboard had the most errors. There, practically every second word was impossible to enter. Mik Chernomordikov, see what I’m doing wrong?

In the app – a screen recording for each of the keyboards.

Overall, I conducted a small test of on-screen keyboards from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yandex. Important – for the Russian language. Important – swipe mode.

The criterion is the matching of the desired word with the one guessed by the system assuming precise and accurate swipe-typing. Ideally, when there are no errors or almost none. Next, a tougher criterion is resistance to errors in “Swipe”. When you miss the path, but the system still guesses correctly.

The best turned out to be the keyboard from Yandex. Second — the keyboard from Google. Third — from Apple. For some reason, it did not complete words. Unfortunately, the Microsoft keyboard had the most errors. There, practically every second word was impossible to enter. Mik Chernomordikov, see what I’m doing wrong?

In the app – a screen recording for each of the keyboards.

Somehow, a ten-story banner and GitHub don’t quite mix in my head. Couldn’t just walk by

Somehow, a ten-story banner and GitHub don’t quite mix in my head. Couldn’t just walk by

Guess what connects these three items? Instead of an answer, write a hint from which I would understand that you know the answer, but it would be even more difficult for others 😉

The first costs $60.

Facebook recommends the first one to me, and I found the others on Amazon in the same category.

By the way, starting with iOS 16.4, which was recently released, swipe-input (“QuickPath”) is now supported for both Ukrainian and Russian keyboards. Previously, the only real option was Google gboard, which had its fair share of problems. Even so, I see that the iOS swipe is not perfect either. I’m testing it now, and it seems there are still some glitches for the Russian language. I can’t understand why, with such progress in the world of LLMs, swipe-keyboard screens (any) still can’t confidently put words into the correct form.

Reading Structures by J.E.Gordon. The soft cuticle of a pregnant locust is presented as the most elastic material, being 30 times more elastic than rubber. He also notes in the text that it is significantly more rigid in male individuals and virgin locusts. By the way, as I googled, graphene foam is more elastic than this locust cuticle according to some data by 200 times, and according to others, even by 80000 times (see comment). It is not in the table because the book is from 1978, and graphene was obtained only recently.

The government services, without a single punctuation mark, informed me that by writing a dictation, I would test my knowledge of Russian military history. Idiots! Dictation only tests knowledge of spelling and punctuation. Although in wartime, the number pi can reach four, and a right angle can reach the boiling temperature of water.

Well, at least it’s audible

Nathalie Stutzmann conducts Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven