Religious texts, philosophy, ethics, and even self-improvement books often don't provide a procedure to follow. They teach things like how to handle conflict, how to act fairly, how to navigate difficult situations, or how to reason about competing values.

People then take those ideas and apply them across many different situations in their daily lives. In a sense, they build a toolbox of reusable mental functions rather than memorizing a single algorithm.

That's also why many people finish a self-improvement book feeling like they didn't get much out of it. They were expecting a recipe. Instead, they absorbed a collection of abstractions that only reveal their value when applied later in real situations.

The fact that cookbooks are imperative mainly shows that procedural tasks are naturally expressed procedurally. It's not obvious that this generalizes to human reasoning as a whole.

Your example is valid, and I acknowledged that it’s correct in my first reply. I also added that, in these types of keyboards, there could be special logic to compensate for missing keys or provide additional features for comfort or ergonomic reasons. This means the keys need to communicate with each other and send the final keystroke afterward.

I also noted that almost all keyboards are not entirely "dumb" and include at least a processing unit to scan the matrix—something you agreed they should have—as well as to handle USB or Bluetooth communication. This processing unit can easily be used for the reasons I mentioned above, without requiring extra hardware or additional software/drivers on the OS side. This approach offers a modular, OS-agnostic way to create a custom solution for comfort or ergonomic needs.

However, before addressing that, like keyboards other HID peripherals are not directly part of the hardware. They connect to computers via USB or Bluetooth, and to do so, keyboards must have an internal chip, "a brain" even just for communication, let alone scanning keyboard matrix. This is similar to how a mouse processes sensor data internally rather than relying on the computer to interpret it. As a result, they can be used on almost any smart device with USB or Bluetooth.

Since we already have this extra chip, "brain", we can add personalized custom logic to simplify our lives and give our hands and wrists a break. This is similar to how gaming mice reduce DPI when the aim button is pressed or how old joysticks had an auto-fire button.

Shh! The computer doesn’t need to know ;)

But in my case, let's say I don't have any numbers on the keyboard. Instead, I use modifier keys to create a layer for numeric values. So, when I press a modifier on the left, the computer won't notice. Then, pressing what would normally be the U key on the right sends a 7 instead. The computer just sees a 7 being pressed.

Actually Stephen Fry claims that Douglas Adams told him. But it seems he is taking it to the grave to honor his vow.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27...?

After that maybe try to do same with AwesomeWM and that would be the ultimate navigation setup.

[0] https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator

Just because of this I prefer open source projects from smaller developers that are built with labor of love, instead of from big corporate businesses that will eventually try to use you for any kind of profit.

Since topic is similar, I would like to recommend onivim 2 [0] for who prefer vi bindings. It is almost out of alpha and in pretty usable stage. Currently they are integrating open-vsx. Project is open source with dual license and it is currently very cheap for who wants to support, or free to build from source to try.

[0] https://www.onivim.io/

Of course I cannot vouch for their respect for privacy.

[0] https://historysearch.com/

[0] https://www.pinboard.in/

> Changed in version 3.7: Dictionary order is guaranteed to be insertion order. This behavior was an implementation detail of CPython from 3.6. [0]

[0] https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/stdtypes.html#typesmappi...