My plebeian mind finds it interesting the process quality itself is still the same, only the speed changes. This changes the problem from “change fundamental quality of the process” to “change the speed of the process”, which, again to my unwashed and illiterate eyes, seems like an useful and possibly exciting distinction.

But it might not be that simple. Perhaps it's 'faster' because it's doing less error checking.

My understanding of how the development of cancer works is that all the error-checking mechanisms in a cell have to become damaged, before a cell can be damaged in such a way that it mutates into a cancer cell, because if they aren't all damaged before that, then one of them will find the "error" going on, and self-destruct the cell.

Cancer itself, then, is a constructive proof that DNA damage can disable DNA-transcription-time error-checking mechanisms.

The question in my mind, then, is whether those safety mechanisms are "blocking" / "synchronous" steps done during DNA transcription, such that disabling them would make DNA transcription occur faster. If they are, that would neatly explain the observed effect.

Not really, a lot of cancer mitigation is done by the immune system.

Plus the whole point of touch typing is that seeing the keyboard doesn’t matter…

Even as a touch typist, while I don't look at the keyboard I still make typos here and there so I need to look at the computer screen. I think that's what they were going for.

I find that as a touch typist, I tend to be able to tell if I've made a mistake as I made it, I don't really need to see the screen

Same, but I don't always know where my mistake was. Once I start deleting I need to look. Or with a password just delete it all and start again.

same. my modus operandi is to press ctrl+backspace to delete the typoed word and start anew. on a cli it is ctrl+w instead, to delete a word/command. force of habit sometimes has me do ctrl+w in a browser and we are back at the topic at hand: making mistakes.

>force of habit sometimes has me do ctrl+w in a browser and we are back at the topic at hand

ctrl + shift + t should fix that for you

The "like bacon around eight stalks of asparagus" was particularly ham-fisted.