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> No, no, no, please don't. Almost all appliances I use ignore an estimated 60% of my usual button presses because they're polling in intervals just long enough to not recognise anything, and I absolutely hate it.

That's just sloppy design. "Periodically" has meant "every 20 milliseconds" for projects I've shipped in the past. Anything shorter than 100 ms or so should be imperceptible.

Part of the problem you're likely seeing is due to the rise of capacitive touch "buttons", which are terrible in so many ways. But, alas, they are cheap and give a smooth front face, so designers and product managers love them....

(About the only time they're actually a good solution is when you need a completely sealed button.)



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