Keyboard latency

I'm surprised the "humans don't notice 100 ms" argument is even made. That's trivially debunkable with a simple blind A/B test at the command line using `sleep 0.1` with and without `sleep` aliased to `true`. To my eyes, the delay is obvious at 100 ms, noticeable at 50 ms, barely perceptible at 20 ms, and unnoticeable at 10 ms. Not to mention that 100 ms is musically a 16th note at 150 bpm. Being off by a 16th note even…

> That establishes the fact that modern keyboards contribute to the latency bloat we’ve seen over the past forty years Sometimes I try to imagine what things would be like if people were still trying to optimize their stuff as if it were to be ran on a 16mhz machine with a few kb of ram. Then I get back to the 6 electron apps I gotta work with, where latency between a key showing up in the search box…

> Humans can’t notice 100ms or 200ms latency My gut is that there's a lot more to this, and that it's not broadly true. I live in the UK and have worked from Australia a few times, and the latency is around 220ms. When typing over SSH, the latency is very noticeable. Not in terms of pressing a key and feeling lag in it showing up, but in a feeling of sluggishness when typing more than a few words at…