{"id":230793,"date":"2024-08-26T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230793"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T04:25:14","slug":"typing-fast-is-about-latency-not-throughput-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230793","title":{"rendered":"Typing fast is about latency, not throughput | Hacker News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It occurs to me that because we use both hands, the way we type is inherently &#8216;asynchronous&#8217;. For example, when trying to type(&#8216;the&#8217;), the individual &#8216;function calls&#8217;, typechar(&#8216;t&#8217;), typechar(&#8216;h&#8217;), typechar(&#8216;e&#8217;) may be initiated (i.e. fingers begin moving towards their target keys) in that order, but there&#8217;s no guarantee they are terminated (i.e. fingers hitting their target keys) in that order, because typechar(&#8216;h&#8217;) is performed with the right hand whereas typechar(&#8216;e&#8217;) is performed with left, so typechar(<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I\u2018ve been playing the guitar for very long, and it occurred to me that physical health correlates with my ability to synchronize both hands. Having a steady hand helps tremendously with that IME. I noticed e.g. when I quit drinking (even occasionally) that I got way better at this. While typing, I also started stumbling way less over complicated words at that time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=38213158\">Typing fast is about latency, not throughput | Hacker News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that because we use both hands, the way we type is inherently &#8216;asynchronous&#8217;. For example, when trying to type(&#8216;the&#8217;), the individual &#8216;function calls&#8217;, typechar(&#8216;t&#8217;), typechar(&#8216;h&#8217;), typechar(&#8216;e&#8217;) may be initiated (i.e. fingers begin moving towards their target keys) in that order, but there&#8217;s no guarantee they are terminated (i.e. fingers hitting their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230795,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230793\/revisions\/230795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}