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by lrschaeffer 669 days ago
As other commenters have said, you're just going to learn the decoder ring from context, but I'm also curious. If I take off the keycaps to clean the keyboard and then put them back, do I need to relearn the defects? If I rip out all the switches and rearrange them, do the defects follow the switches or is it more about the position of the key? Is there some resonance that could change if I move the keyboard onto a desk pad. If I switch to Dvorak in software, obviously the key presses mean something different, but also I'll type completely differently. How much does user cadence/timing matter? To what extent is user cadence/timing identifying?

Anyway, I assume the answers aren't known because it would be an ethics/privacy nightmare to run these kinds of experiments on anyone but yourself.