Sure, Notepad transfers to other GUI programs better than Nano transfers to Vim or EMacs. But that has little to do with Notepad and more to do with GUIs typically supporting similar shortcuts. Like I said, it’s an imperfect analogy.

I think you missed my original point. Most people wouldn’t describe themselves as “good” or “bad” at Notepad or Nano. They’re simple programs designed for simple editing. The learning curve is very low for both. Advanced editors have differing learning curves, but they’re all a lot more steep.

And my original point was that, because many people do only simple editing in a CLI and more advanced editing in a GUI, it makes sense that Nano became the most popular for CLI due to its shallow learning curve.

Nano is to EMacs/Vim as Notepad is to Notepad++ or VSCode (Nano has features Notepad doesn’t, but you get the point).

I don’t do a ton of code editing directly on the CLI. I do things like change parameters in config files or open a file to read it quickly. If I’m doing more heavy editing, I’ll use a GUI editor (with an SFTP extension if I’m working on a headless server). So programs like Vim and EMacs have never been useful for me.

To each their own (and I have all the respect for anyone who knows how to exit Vim without looking it up) but I’m guessing the majority of people have a similar experience.

My first thought as well. Accessibility in tech has always lagged behind.

I mean, it’s already the same noise.

Short answer: you’d be in a gay relationship (assuming you identify as male). Whether you take the label “homosexual” or not is up to you. The labels matter less than you and your partner communicating well.

Likely in a cartoon from the 1960s.

It’s okay, we all start somewhere. I believe you can make it onto that list, but you need to believe in yourself too.

Hell yeah, made the list. You know us Canadians and how abrasive we can be.

I used to take at least an hour to fall asleep. Then I had two kids. I can now fall asleep within a minute or two.

Worth it.

I went to a festival alone once. It was one of the most enjoyable times I’ve had, and weirdly freeing for someone who is otherwise a chronic people-pleaser.

Homestar Runner references will still surface when millenials are in retirement homes, the workers will assume we’ve lost our minds.

j/k, millenials won’t get to retire

It creates both a sense of expectation and suspense. As adults, we have a lot more (and more subtle) ways of doing the same thing, but kids are still figuring out the nuances of these things.

If you have pets or are otherwise cleaning up lots of spills, I recommend getting a handheld one for spot-cleaning.

If you’re doing whole rooms, I recommend renting one, as they work better than most of the consumer ones you can buy. I’ve rented from Home Depot before, many big hardware stores have them.

If you’re on a budget, ask around to friends and family to see if anyone owns one. Getting them a six pack of their favorite beer is cheaper than renting. The performance isn’t as good as commercial ones, but it’s still better than nothing.

I’ve considered looking into some sort of faraday bag to disrupt ones that can’t be easily isolated.

Husband tax.

Those discussions happened and people got tired of having them. It’s a bit like having prostelitizers come to your door–chances are, you know how that discussion is going to go and would rather not waste everyone’s time and energy.

The people who are in denial about what the government could do or has done are not going to be convinced of anything by having a discussion about it–they abandoned reason decades ago.

In the middle of a sentence, scream. Scream like you’re being murdered with a rusty spoon and you don’t like it. When they look at you, scream louder. Run into the woods, don’t stop screaming.

If you walk into someone’s home and it’s full of the latest and greatest tech, that’s a tech enthusiast. If you walk in and the most advanced piece of tech is a printer from 2005, that might be a senior software engineer.

As an engineer, I can understand your sentiment. Unfortunately, it’s a field that attracts a lot of smart and socially awkward people. Those whose heads enjoy engineering challenges often lack self awareness, and it results in either being really awkward or being obnoxious, or both. The “good ones” are less loud, so you don’t hear from them as much.