in general, the way to beat self-proclaimed geniuses in their own game of bragging (if your side of the story is correct and the genius in consideration is indeed arrogant instead of you simply making a malicious comment from a place of insecurity) is to level with their degree of knowledge and show a flaw in their methods of thinking or way of doing things, as in the case of the “geniuses” who developed the vulnerability. imagine being a mere, average bystander waiting decades for some other genius to come up with something before they can make up for their own insecurity.

Not inspired enough to hire him properly apparently...

Somewhat tangential: clicky switches, like Cherry Blues, tend to click twice for each stroke. I think this leads to people assuming there are twice as many strokes going on. Tactile switches tend to only click once (when they bottom out). So, fancy keyboards can make people sound faster than they are.

Add a guy that bottoms out the keys and you will have an additional "click".

I don't think that's quite right. Many switches including tactiles will make a sound when the switch tops out, from the stem hitting the housing.

As far as I know, Cherry blues only click once and the second sound you hear on a keypress is just the topping out sound.

https://cdn-blog.adafruit.com/uploads/2016/09/Blue.gif

And they make little o rings to dampen that if you're hardcore.

> it was like living on a gun range

Thanks for this metaphor. I know off at least one guy, to which this metaphor could be applied as well.