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Humans are never great at self-moderation.

How the making or breaking of the contact is related in terms of travel to the key press force doesn't have much to do with that.

The point I made was simply that on other kinds of keyboards the two are not related. On a rubber mat keyboard you can keep the dome depressed yet not actuate, for example. The collapse of the dome is also harder to control than the resistance against the spring. That makes preloading harder.

encoders: also much higher quality

There are infinitely many examples of this, from metallurgy to rolling bearings to gears (gear reduction has nothing to do with teeths), medicine, astronomy (humans have predicted the motion of the stars for thousands of years), ...

Cherry MX.

In tacticale switches the bump and the making of the contact are mechanically connected.

Using the moment of finger/key contact quite obviously selects for travel, among other things.

No, mechanical keys have some travel before actuation as well.

The CPU core has more bandwidth than the IMC anyway, so there would be no speed-up from adding this complexity to the IMC (it would not only need to perform the operation, but it would also need a way to maintain cache coherence and communicate with the issuing CPU, none of which is a problem if you just do it in the core). It might not even save power.

I think the idea of single-source attribution of relatively simple concepts is plain stupid. Any number of people could have made this up in a wide array of circumstances and for a similarly wide array of circumstances we may never know about it. For somewhat similar reasons a lower bar for patents has been established.

We see the gains in productivity and the reduction in cost – at least according to some measures –, but it has inherent inefficiencies. Inefficiencies like simple applications using far more CPU and memory than they're due to.

This perhaps makes people think again what would be possible if all the abstraction (analogous to general-purposeness of hardware) were wiped away and what has been possible in the past using far fewer resources.

Over serial? Physical serial is rare. SOL would work, but since it is connection-based you can't poll it.

This seems like a simple and reliable method to me.

Is it? GTK/Gnome was created over a historical footnote and to this day is more of a hindrance than helpful overall. It effectively bisected the entire Linux desktop community and caused so much time lost with downstream application developers.

GIMP is obtuse to use and provides an UX that has been out of touch for many years. It doesn't support features that are just bog-standard in other products, for years. (Like >8 bit colour). It is exactly the kind of amateurish project that gave FOSS GUIs their bad reputation.