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My sister, who is a pretty technical kinesiology PhD student, does not know how to input Alt+F4 and insists that is esoteric knowledge. There's a litmus test for how out of touch HN users may be with the way normal people use computers.





Exactly, and of course there's a relevant xkcd (Average Familiarity) https://xkcd.com/2501/



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