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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh my mistake, I didn't mean to demean at all. Yeah I think even in your example there are baked in knowledge we've picked up that we don't realize, and that a very likely response from fully fresh eyes would seeing the synopsis is "oh this isn't for me."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    No worries, didn't feel demeaned but wanted to be clear that it was an attempt to try to ignore ~23 years of ssh muscle memory to try to guess what might trip up a new Linux user

    Very much true in my case - I couldn't explain what the, like.. "idiomatic" meaning of those brackets is, I only guess from context and experience, and it remains a minor peeve of mine that such symbology is widely used but rarely explained

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