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Re:Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards by nvoid on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:23AM (#26991349)
I still love the patent name for it: "Catastrophically buckling compression column switch and actuator". Still wondering what is catastrophic about it.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3699296A/en

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Re:Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards by rjsw on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:32AM (#26993230)
> Still wondering what is catastrophic about it.

The behaviour is described by catastrophe theory [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory

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